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journal Wi Sports ime scomisiM Sports 17 MADISON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1941 20 Razz 27 Badgers, se yracu Mr. Riewer Goes to Town in One of Game's Most Sensational Runs State Journal Staff Photo bv Robert C. Oetklne 1 remained for a sophomore substitute halfback to provide Wis consin fans with their major thrills against Syracuse Saturday afternoon Miserable Tackling and this series of three photos shoWs that sophomore, Frankie Riewer, Trailing 27-3, the Badgers mooed a third-period kickoff to tackle, a play which did well all afternoon. After some excellent block from would-be tacklers, lost his headguard in the melee, and scamper hippocket. (Riewer in the first photo is No.

44, third from the right.) on the way to one of the season's most sensational runs. the 25-yard line in seven plays. There Riewer took the ball off his right ing to start him off, Riewer danced along the sidelines, pivoted away ed over the goal line with a Syracuse defender as stowaway at his Gophers Change Shift on One Play; Nip Wildcats, 8-7 Army Staves Off Late Irish Rush to Gain Tie, 0-0 Leads to Riewer Gains 98 By HENRY J. McCORMICK (State Journal Sports Editor) The damage that Madison escaped on. Halloween night was dealt out with a stern hand the next afternoon when Syracuse handed the Wisconsin football team a 27-20 defeat at Camp Randall before 19,000.

Those weren't Halloween hobgoblins working on an overtime assignment who rammed past the boys in Cardinal Saturday afternoon; they were hard-driving Syracuse backs who played with rare spirit. Had Friday night not been dark and rainy, it may be that some might have seen such evil portents as a witch riding a i ii in ii ii 1 Mi itP'Wi 1 vw.wXOoXK'YW broom-stick across the face of the moon. Whether or not a witch rods abroad Friday night, it is eer tain that Syracuse rode Saturday afternoon. "They Just Beat Us" Syracuse outplayed Wisconsin from here to yonder, and the Badgers might have lost by an even bigger margin. Sure, Wisconsin might have won, too, but it didn't deserve to win the way this game was played.

"They just beat us and brat us Rood," said Coach Harry Stuhl-dreher of Wisconsin. "We couldn't handle them." Over in the Syracuse dressing room Coach Ossis Solem was supremely happy. "We played our best tame and beat a great team," he said. That's what the coaches said. Coach Solem was gilding the lily, for that wasn't a great Wiscon- BIO TEN STANDINGS W.

L. T. Pet. Pts. P.

Minnesota Michigan Wisconsin Northwestern Ohio State 3 3 2 2 0 1.000 49 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .750 40 64 69 23 21 19 32 6 14 43 28 22 43 40 34 .667 .500 .500 .500 .250 .000 1 Purdue 1 Iowa 1 Indiana 0 Illinois 0 0 .000 Results Saturday Syracuse, 27; Wisconsin, 20. Minnesota, 8- Northwestern, 7. Michigan, 20; Illinois, 0. Iowa. 13; Indiana, 7.

Fordham, 17; Purdue, 0. Ohio State. 21; Pittsburgh. 14. Games This Week Wisconsin at Ohio State.

Indiana at Northwestern. Michigan State at Purdue. Iowa at Illinois. Nebraska at Minnesota. sin team Saturday afternoon.

No team that tackled as atrociously as the Badgers did can dare to claim such a designation. Wisconsin was fairly effective offensively, but the Badgers wer just plain awful on defense. Syra-cvuse used side blocking on the Wisconsin guards, and opened holes 'that a Mack truck could have been drivea through with plenty of room. Outgained Too Maybe things came too easy for the Badgers when they took th opening kickoff and marched straight to a touchdown. But Syra cuse gave prompt warning that things were to be no breeze whea it scored about three minutes later, and the Orangemen emphasized the point by scoring again in another three minutes.

Anyway you figure it, Syracuse was. a much better football team on this Saturday afternoon. You have only to take a glance at the figures tha-t represent yards gain' ed rushing to figure that out. Syracuse made 373 yards to 163 for Wisconsin. Wisconsin made 14 first downj to 12 for Syracuse, but it didn'J mean anything.

The Badgers had Fordham Rolls Over Purdue By GEORGE KIRKSEY NEW YORK (U.R) Neither mud, nor rain, nor Purdue could stop the onward march of the Fordham Rams who slithered to a 17-0 triumph over the Western conference invaders Saturday and remained one of the nation's selece unbeaten and united football teams. Playing in a sea of mud, Ford-ham's rip-roaring Rams smashed to their fifth straight victory with i second period field goal and two juick third period touchdowns. trocious weather held the crowd 20,500. Line Halts Purdue Fordham's big line finally won its spurs Saturday. The Ram line didn't allow purdue a single first down.

Because of the continuous rain both teams resorted to punting and playing for the breaks. Fordham punted 16 times and Purdue 15, ach averaging 39-yards. Alert Fordham got its break late in the first period. Steve Hudacek, Fordham's left tackle, smacked through to block Quarterback Ha-jzyk's punt and the Rams took the ball on the Purdue 26. The Rams drove to Purdue's two as the first period ended, with Fullback Steve Filipowicz leading (Continued on page 19.) Hillenbrand Stars, But Iowa Wins IOWA CITY, la.

(U.R) The University of Iowa exploded with two well earned touchdowns in the third period Saturday to come from behind and to defeat Indiana, 13 to 7. It was the Hawkeyes' first Western conference victory this season and the outcome helped greatly to counteract the raw northwest wind that chilled 28,000 homecomers. Almost as thrilling to the hometown crowd as the Iowa victory was the play of bustling Billy Hillenbrand, Indiana's sophomore halfback. He performed his football chores with great skill and when he was taken out after playing all but a few seconds of the game the crowd stood up to cheer. He scored Indiana's touchdown with a 23-yard run after apparently having been hopelessly trapped behind the line of scrimmage.

He caught a pass a few minutes later from Charley Jacoby but was a yard behind the end zone when he wrapped the ball into his arms, so the play didn't count. He returned a punt 40 yards and tore off another run of 24 yards, altogether gaining 84 yards by running in 20 attempts. But the real story of the ball game must be in what happened to Iowa between halves. The Hawkeyes, shoved around early in the game, came back to take the lead with straight, powerful drives of 55 and 64 yards respectively. Bill Green, who played Saturday like he had been expected to play all season, scored both touchdowns, one after taking a lateral from Al Couppee and the other with a drive through the line.

Quick opening plays enabled Iowa to make most of its gains during the touchdown drives, with Buz Mertes and Green doing most of the ball carrying. Indiana was inside Iowa's 20-yard line three times in the final period but on each occasion lost the ball on downs. Iowa made 13 first downs to Indiana's seven. The lineups: Indiana Hasapes L. Trimble L.

Steele L. Iowa Parker Walker Curran Dichl Jurkiewics Bragalone R. Anderson Zimmy R. T. Otto Smith R.

Burkett Hillenbrand Farmer Jacoby R. Mertes Saban Q. B. Couppee White F. Green 9core by Periods Iowa 0 0 13 013 Indiana 7 0 0 0 7 Touchdowns Hillenbrand, Green 2.

Points after touchdowns R. White, Farmer. Iowa substitutions Tackles, Staak; guards. Dirkerhoof, Penaluna; center, Frye; backs, Trickey, Youel. Stauss.

Indiana substitutions Ends, Nash, Ricketts; tackles, G. White, Bell. Ia-cino; guards. Deal; center, Moeller; backs, Herbert, Doloway. Officials Fred Gardner, Cornell, referee; Ernie Vick.

Michigan, umpire; Stuart Wilson. Minnesota, headlines-man; Rollie Barnum, Wisconsin, field judge. IDAHO LOSES, 33-0 CORVALLIS, Ore. (U.R) Oregon State college scored in every quarter on a slippery field here Saturday to defeat Idaho, 33-0. By STEVE SNIDER MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.

(U.R) Minnesota's Western Conference football champions, trailing for the first time this season, abandoned their traditional Minnesota shift for one spectacular play Saturday and a surprised Northwestern eleven went the way of the last 14 Gopher opponents, 8 to 7, before a record crowd of 64,464. Actually, the scoring difference was a first period safety for Minnesota, result of a bad pass of a soggy ball by Northwestern's center but the Wildcats completely dominated the second period and left the field at half time with a 7 to 2 lead. Then came a third period break in which Minnesota proved beyond all question that these boys can rank with the great Minnesota teams of all time. Here's That Play! A 9-yard punt by Northwestern's Bill De Correvont bounded out of bounds on Northwestern's 41. A first down pass failed and in a split second, as if by prearranged signal, Minnesota backs failed to shift and little Bud Hig-gins, a 145-pound dervish, lashed toward his right end, cut straight down the side lines and sprinted into the end zone with the bewildered Wildcats dogging his steps.

Bill Garnaas missed the try for extra point but that 8 to 7 lead was more than enough for Minnesota's giant line. Northwestern never again threatened and at the end Minnesota was pounding back toward the goal after being halted at the 4-yard line on the previous series of downs. Thus for the second straight year Minnesota swept a round robin between Minnesota, Michigan and Northwestern, which again may settle the Western Conference championship. Minnesota pulled off its comeback without the services of Capt. Bruce Smith, who was carried off the field with a wrenched knee for the second week in a row.

Smith was injured in the second period while Minnesota still led, 2 to 0. Bad Pass Costly Although the playing field was protected from a heavy early morning snow, considerable water had seeped through the tar-caulin and the wet field produced Minnesota's first scoring break. On the third play after Northwestern had halted a 47-yard drive with a pass interception on its 10 near the end of the first period, Center Gene Mundy sailed the mud-splattered ball out of De Correvont's reach. As De Correvont sprinted after the ball it bounded through the end zone for a safety and Minnesota led, 2 to 0. From then until midway through the second period, Minnesota was in complete command.

At that point, Northwestern became alive. In possession on his own 27, Sophomore Otto Graham of Northwestern threw a 28-yard pass to Bob Motl who completed a gain of 73 yards for a touchdown. The play was called back, however, because Tackle Leon Cook had stepped two strides across the line of scrimmage be- (Continued on page 18.) Edgewoods Homecoming Set Today Edegewood high school's football team meets St. Mary's of Menasha at 2 p. m.

today at Breese Stevens field in the feature of the school's annual homecoming celebration. Hampered by injuries recently, Edgewood is expected to be in much better shape. Dick Riesen, right halfback, who suffered a head cut last week, probably will start. Jack Schillinger, veteran guard who injured his shoulder several weeks ago, may also get back into action today. This is the semi-windup game on Edgewood's schedule.

It closes its season a week from today against Campion here. Santa Clara Fails Against Stanford, 27-7 PALO ALTO. Calif. (U.R) Stanford's formation proved efficient in the mud Saturday as Stanford scored a 27-7 victory over Santa Clara before 60,000 fans. It was the T's second test in the mud this year and this time Clark Shaughnessy's system mastered the heavy going, springing Kme-tovic and Buck Fawcett loose on long touchdown runs and opening the way for two other touchdowns.

Santa Clara's Notre Dame attack, taught by Buck Shaw, produced one scoring play" and a number of sensational drives. But Stanford's defense was too stubborn Saturday and Santa Clara went down to its second straight defeat. Wehrle Reaches Mexico's Finals MEXICO CITY (U.R) Wilfred Wehrle, Racine, and darkhorse Verne Stewart, Roswell, N. reached the finals of the Mexican amateur golf championship Saturday after Stewart upset favorite Marvin (Bud) Ward, Spokane, Wash. Bears Slash Out 27-7 Victory LOS ANGELES (U.R) The University of California Golden Bears whose slashing play was featured by Al Derian, pounded out at 27 to 7 victory over U.

C. L. A. before 50,000 spectators Saturday. Coach Leonard P.

(Stub) Allison of the Bears played the 165-pound Derian only during the first half of the ball game, but he scored three of the Bears four touchdowns. HOCKEY RESULTS Detroit 3. Montreal Canadiens 2. New York Rangers 4, Toronto 3. Ohio State Starts Fast to Down Pitt, 21-14 the Irish however, and at this stage there was time for only one more play seven seconds.

Three flankers moved out to the right side of the Notre Dame line and Evans was back. He got a bad pass from center that went over his head, but he whirled, picked up the ball and tried to run. A swarm of Army tacklers downed him and the game was over. Rain fell during most of the game and made the ball slick and treacherous. Hank Mazur, halfback who played brilliantly for 60 minutes, helped Army out many holes by making beautiful punts with a soggy, heavy ball.

The rain also handicapped Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame's classy passer, and toward the end of the game the Irish had given up all attempts to move through the air and were hacking away at the Army line. All Bids Fail Army made a great bid for a touchdown early in the second period, but an offside penalty stopped the Cadets' rally and Notre Dame took the ball on downs. Mazur, Johnny Hatch and Ralph Hill carried the ball down to the Notre Dame 17. They Hill got off a sure-footed end run in the mud that put the ball on the Notre Dame 10. There the Irish dug in, took the ball and Evans punted out of danger.

Early in the third period it looked as though the Notre Dame second team was going to turn the trick. Bill Earley and Creigh-ton Miller, second string backs for the Irish, began to find holes in the Army line and smashed their way down to the Army 27. With fourth down and two yards to go, Miller hurled himself off tackle in an attempt to make it, but he was inches short and the Army took over. Army Has Edge Midway through the final period Notre Dame braced on its own 25, threw back Mazur's attempt to make the needed yardage on fourth down and took the ball. That was Army's last bid.

Army had a slight edge in statistics. The Cadets made five first downs to Notre Dame's four and gained 187 yards rushing to the Irish's 107. Notre Dame completed three of nine attempted passes and Army failed to complete either of the two it tried. The lineups: Army Notre Dame Farrell L. Dove R.

J. White L. Brutz Murphy L. G. Maddock Evans Ziemba M.

Hatch R. Crimmlns Olds R. Lillis Seip R. Murphy Jarrell Q. Wright Mazur L.

Bertelli Hill R. H. Juzwik J. Hatch F. Evans Score by Periods Army 0 0 0 0 0 Notre Dame 0 0 0 0 0 Army substitutes Ends, Kelleher, Hardy; tackles.

Whitlow, Mesereau; guards, Romanek, Michel, Tallant, Buckner. McKinney; backs, E. J. White, Roberts, Lutzrykowski. Notre Dame substitutes Ends, Bol-ger, Kovatch; tackles.

Ebli. Sullivan; guards. Laiber, Riordan, McBride; cen-er. Brock; backs, Hargrave, Warner, Earley, C. E.

Miller, Ashbaugh. Officials Referee. W. D. Maginnes, Lehigh; umpire, CV L.

Bolster; linesman, J. J. Ailinger. Buffalo; field Judge, Ray Barbuti, Syracuse. By HARRY FERGUSON (United Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK (U.R) With the rain beating in their faces and their feet mired in mud, an underdog Army football team made a gallant stand in the dying seconds of the game Saturday and earned a scoreless tie with Notre Dame before 76,000 at Yankee stadium.

The Irish from South Bend, held in check most of the way and badly outplayed at times, came on with a rush as the clock ticked away the precious seconds of the final period. The great crowd that gathered in the rain and gloom to see this historic gridiron rivalry was on its feet as Notre Dame took the ball on the 46-yard line with two minutes to go and started its best bid for victory. Bad Pass Hurts Dippy Evans and Steve Juzwik took the task of trying to bring about an Irish victory. Juzwik broke through the line, splashing water like a hippopotamus, and reached the army 38 before he was downed. Evans whirled off tackle, slipped, regained his feet and ran to the 23.

Juzwik slashed the Army line again for five. The clock was moving against tackle smash but Ohio braced and took the ball on downs on its 15. Five plays after the half-time kickoff, Ohio State had its third touchdown. Fisher made 10 yards, then passed to Bob Shaw, the left end, for 32 yards. Fisher covered the remaining 35 in a touchdown sprint after cutting back through a hole at left tackle.

The Panthers scored in the third period when Jones intercepted an Ohio pass and ran 44 yards to cross the goal. Fife converted. The Buckeyes kept the Panthers bottled in their own territory and added two points on a safety in the fourth period when George Cheroke, sub guard, broke through to block Jones' punt behind the goal. Pitt Ohio State Ger veils L. Fox Durishan L.

T. Daniell Mitchell L. Howard Allshouse Rosen Fife R. Houston Benghouser Stephenson Stahl R. Shaw West Q.

Hallabrln Jones L. Kinkade Dutton R. Fisher Saksa F. Burgett Score by Periods Pitt 0 7 7 014 Ohio State 6 6 7 221 Touchdowns Kinkade. Burgett, Fisher, Saska, Jones.

Points after touchdowns Schoenbaum, Fife 2. Safety-Jones on a blocked kick by Cheroke. Pitt substitutes Ends, Sotak, Hinte, Rosepink; tackles, Kindleberger; guards, Dillon, Broudy, Antonelli; backs, Hammond, Stetler, Connell. Ohio State substitutes Tackles, Czuri, Dixon; guards, Bruckner, Cheroke; backs. Schoenbaum, Lynn, Sar-ringhaus, Horvath.

Officials Referee, W. T. Halloran, Providence; umpire, J. E. Coogan, Navy; linesman, E.

J. Kearney, Syracuse; field judge, A. W. Palmer, Colby. Michigan Outpowers ini.

20-0 CHAMPAIGN, 111. (U.R) Michigan's superior and versatile offense, spearheaded by the leg-sturdy Bob Westfall and Tom Kuzma, swept through a defenseless Illinois eleven Saturday for its third Western Conference football triumph, 20 to 0, before solemn homecomers. Operating at full efficiency after its loss to Minnesota last week, the Michigan team riddled the Illini with a powerized ground game, scoring touchdowns in the first, second and fourth periods. Westphall's Work Helps Michigan spurned the use of deception in its scoring drives, relying mainly upon the explosive spinners inside the guards by Capt. Westfall and smashes off the tackles and flanks by the sophomore Kuzma, who almost marred his running brilliance with an epidemic of fumbles in the second half.

Michigan wasted neither time nor motion in blasting its first touchdown. In the opening period Illinois had turned back an initial drive of 41 yards to its own 14, and had kicked out to its 47. Kuzma skirted end for 22 yards, West-fall added 8 over center, and then Kuzma legged it around left end, bullying his way past two Illini tackles to complete the 16 yards for a score. Midway in the second period, Michigan again squandered yardage, marching 40 yards to the Illinois 39, only to have Kuzma kick to the Illini 6. Jimmy Smith kicked out to the Illinois 31 and in five plays Westfall plunged less than a yard for the touchdown.

Illini Threaten Michigan's third touchdown grew out of Don Griffin's fumble on his own 40. In the subsequent (Continued on page 19.) Duquesne Beats Villanova, 7-0 PITTSBURGH (U.R) Duquesne university's undefeated and untied football team kept its record clean Saturday night with a 7-0 victory over a scrappy Villanova eleven from Philadelphia. The Dukes only score came in the first period on a quarter-back sneak by Eugene Ball from the one-foot line to climax a march of 80 yards featuring runs of 24. 2 and 17 yards by Fullback Johnny Binotto. PITTSBURGH (U.R) Ohio State chalked up its fourth football triumph of the season Saturday, defeating the victoryless Pitt Panthers, 21 to 14, before a homecoming crowd of 50,000 fans at Pitt stadium.

The Ohio backs ran Pitt's ends into the ground to roll up 330 yards and 15 first downs as the Panthers, in the ball game up to the final period, fought back stubbornly. Twodashing halfbacks, Dick Fisher and Tom Kinkade, put over two touchdowns on long jaunts around the terminals. Dick Bur-gett, the sophomore fullback, accounted for the other on a slash over right tackle from the one-yard line. Pitt Snaps Back Ohio State went into a 6-0 lead in the first period after recovering a Pitt fumble on the Buckeye 40-yard line. Fisher dashed off 27 yards around right end and Kinkade came around the left wing for the remaining 33 yards and a touchdown.

Burgett made it 12-0 in the second period on a yard lunge to climax a 43-yard drive. Pitt snapped back in the second quarter with Edgar Jones featuring an 82-yard drive. Jones made runs of 15 and 35 yards and after he put the ball on the one-yard line, Frank Saksa put it over for a touchdown. Pitt threatened again after Ralph Fife, Pitt guard, recovered a fumble by Kinkade on the Ohio 43. Jones made 29 yards in a.