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Journal Sports i C0IUS1M Sports MADISON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1941 Me i a mi a Harder Takes a DiveThe Kind That Really Counts 33,000 Homecoming Fans Thrilled by Savage Battle By HENRY J. McCORMICK (State Journal Sports Editor) Wisconsin continued its trek up the glory trail Saturday afternoon when it won a mad football scramble from Indiana, 27-25, before a Homecoming crowd of 33,000 at Camp Randall. This was a wild battle in which there was enough collective glory to furnish the loser with a big slice. It was a heart-stopping battle from start to finish, a game in which victor' hung in the balance as long as even a second showed on the clock. The Badgers won gallantly from a great team.

This was a rugged battle but a clean one. The contact was savage from the first tackle to the last, and neither team showed the slightest sign of wilting Tavener Badly Hurt; Fear Skull Fracture Dr. John Bentley, team physician, said that it wasn't likely be serious. John Tavener, Indiana's starting center, was injured severely in the third quarter while tacking Halfback Don Miller, and he was taken to Wisconsin General hospital where he is under close observation. He suffered a fractured face bone and had a possible skull fracture, but his condition Saturday night was favorable.

Wisconsin came through without any crippling injuries. Left-Halfback Leonard "Bud" See-linger had his weak knee banked in the second half and had to be helped to the dressing room, but 4 1 VP Central Upset, 6-0; East Tips Beloit, Takes Big-8 Lead Yon can stop Marlin "Pat" Harder once or twice, but not three times, Indiana learned to its regret Saturday afternoon. With the ball on the Indiana 3-yard line in the second period and the score 7-0 in favor of Wisconsin, Harder hit the line once and was stopped on the 2-foot mark. The sensational Badger soph cracked the line again, but it only bulged another 1 2 feet. For the third time Harder tried, and this time he dived over the pileup and landed on his neck in a sommersault with another touchdown to his credit as the official indicates here.

Indiana players are Earl Dolloway (33), James Trimble (79), Lou Saban (22) and John Tavener (57 far right). Gophers 'Pass and Pray Wins, 7-0; Wildcats Teach Bucks Lesson, 14-7; Purdue Comeback Edges Iowa, 7-6 Coach Alvin Nueent "Bo McMillin of Indiana, a heartsick man but a sportsman even in his bitter disappointment, came into the Wisconsin dress-sing room and told the Badgers: "Boys, I hope you go on and win 'em all. We ave you all we had today. We gave you all we had, but it wasn't enough." Coach Harry Stuhldreher of Wisconsin paid the Indiana dress- BIG TEN STANDINGS W. L.

T. Pet. T.P.O.P Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan Northwestern Ohio State Purdue Indiana Illinois 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 000 .67 67 .867 .500 .500 .000 .000 .000 41 64 30 62 23 21 25 0 14 33 2 22 27 34 36 6 0 Iowa 3 0 RKsn.TS sati no WISCONSIN 27. Indiana 2S. Minnesota 7, Mlclnsiun 0 Northwestern 14.

Ohio State 7. Purdue 7, Iowa 6. Notre Dame 49. Illiiols It. GAMES THIS WEEK Syracuse at WISCONSIN.

Northwestern at Minnesota. Ohio State at Pittsburgh. Illinois at Princeton. Indiana at Iowa. Michigan at Illlnoin.

ing room a visit and praised them for playing a great game. Of his own team, Coach Stuhldreher said: "Wisconsin beat a fine team in Indiana. I liked the way the boys came back after Indiana had taken a 19-11 lead. That BUly Hillenbrand is a great back. He's liable to score on you any time.

I certainly was proud of our boys. They've got the right stuff, and I'm glad they have begun to find themselves." The Badgers got away to a fast start and took a 14-0 lead, but Indiana had shaved that to 14-12 at the half. Indiana went ahead, 19-14, early in the second half only to have the Badgers regain the lead immediately afterwards and hold it to the finish. Harder's Toe Helps In the end, the difference between the Badgers and Hoosiers lay in converting the point after touchdown. Each team scored four touchdowns, but the Badgers converted the extra point after three of them while Indiana was successful on only one.

Marlin "Pat" Harder, Wisconsin's brilliant fullback, added 14 points to his total with two touch-, downs and two conversions. Dave Schreiner and Teddy Damos also scored touchdowns for Wisconsin and Damos added an extra point. Indiana's touchdowns were well distributed, one each being scored by Charles Jacoby, Hillenbrand, Ken Smith, and Lou Saban. Capt. Gene White, injured Indiana leader, booted one extra point.

Hillenbrand, Harder Tops Hillenbrand and Harder went into this game touted as two of the greatest sophomore backs in the country, and they lived up to their press notices. They were a couple of hell roaring ball players, and they're going to cross a lot of chalk lines before they finish their college careers. Six Wisconsin players went the full route in this game, and it took a man's man to stand 60 minutes of the kind of bruising football that Indiana and Wisconsin were playing on this day. The Badgers' 60-minute men were Acting Capt. Tommy Farris at quarter, Dick Thornally at center, Schreiner and "Pat" Lyons at the ends, and Pat Boyle and George Makris at the guards.

When you're dishing out credit for the Wisconsin victory you have to hand a bushel of it to Farris. He called a well nigh perfect game, he threw two touchdown passes, and he blocked and tackled with joyous savagery. Wisconsin's pass attack in this game was deadly. The Badgers attempted only five passes, but iAJ T9 BILL HILLENBRAND all-around star a if TAVENER SEELING KR RACINE! Madison Central and its high scoring back, Paul Romano, were stopped by Washington Park Saturday night at Hor-lick athletic field, and Park rushed over a touchdown in the last minute of play to score a 6-0 victory. The defeat was the first for Central, marked the first time the Big Eight champions had their goal line crossed, and also was the first tame in which Romano failed to score.

Madison East now holds the undisputed lead. Park's touchdown came after Chuck Collins threw a wild lateral pass which was recovered by Clarence Johnson for Park on Central's 33. Joe Bobeck slipped the ball to Gordon Taylor on a reverse and Taylor lateraled to Chuck Schoenherr for nine yards. Schoenherr then ploughed off left tackle for seven more and a first down. Park drew five yards penalty for offside and Bobeck picked up a yard off tackle.

A pass to Joe Csipkes was incomplete, but on third down Csipkes got behind Allen, the defending back, and took a pass from Schoenherr. He ran sx yards for the touchdown. Bobeck's place kick for the point was blocked. Park kicked off out of bounds and then took the ball when Taylor intercepted Romano's pass on Park's 30. Central got to Park's 14 once in the first quarter.

Best Central chance after that was the fourth period when Romano's drop kick from the Park 40-yard line was high enough but wide of the uprights. Each team made eight first downs. Central completed one pass in seven attempts and had one intercepted. Park completed three in eight tries and had one intercepted. Summaries: Racine Park Madison Central Orwig L.

Hickman Henkes L. Statz Moody L. Mathews Larson Carow Shelstad R. Gandolph Constantine Esser Miller R. Schiro Csipkes Q.

Allen Fuller Tomano Taylor R. H. Sanders Schoenherr F. Collins Score by Quarters Park 0 0 0 6 6 Central 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring: Touchdowns Csipkes. First downs Park, 8: Central, 8.

Passes Park attempted 8. completed 3, had 1 intercepted; Central attempted 7, completed 7, had 1 intercepted. Penalties Park. for 25 yards; Central, 4 for 20 yards Substitutes: Park Ugdas, Bobeck, Kimple, Mertins, Johnson. Central Erickson.

Officials Referee, Falk; umpire, Kaczmarek; head linesman, Sawicki. California Upsets USC.14-0 BERKELEY, Calif (U.R) University of California snapped out of its losing streak with a bang and a bounce Saturday, defeating University of Southern California1, 14-0 before 40,000 fans. Coming back after three straight defeats, California pushed over a touchdown late in the second period and added the clinching touchdown late in the fourth for an unexpected victory. By MONTE MACK Madison East's football team kept its feet firmly planted in first place in the Big Eight conference Saturday night by romping over Beloit, 19-6, at Breese Stevens field. The victory was East's fifth straight and only two games stand between the Purple and Gold and an undefeated Big Eight campaign.

They are against Racine Park next week and Madison Central on Armistice day. Strander's Punts Useful East played the percentage game again, utilizing Gerhardt Strander's exceptional punting to get Beloit back in its own territory, and then applying the pressure. East scored one touchdown in each of the last three periods. Beloit scored in the third quarter when a pass play gained 56 yards and placed the ball on East's nine-yard line. Tom Boyle set up East's first touchdown after Strander's punting had gained position by returning a punt 16 yards to Beloit's 25.

He made a first down in two plays, and Tom added another on the one. Wallace Randall crashed over for the score and Strander placekicked the point. Strander's quick kick to Beloit's 12 gained position early in the third quarter and Harold Buckley returned a punt to the 33 to start East's second scoring drive. Randall ran to the 19, and after two plays gained four, Buckley passed to Strander for the score, Beloit scored a few plays after taking the next kickoff. Jerry De-vine took the kickoff back to the Beloit 32, Duane Hopper gained three and a pass, Hopper to Jim Finley, brought the ball to East's nine.

Dave Churches went over on third down. East put the game on ice in the fourth when Boyle went over from the two. Buckley set up the score by returning a punt 37 yards to Beloit's nine. The East ends and Frank Thompson looked the best in the line, and Buckley and Boyle shared honors running the ball. Strander blocked well and punted brilliantly.

Summaries: Madison East Beloit Paltz L. 2 Sweeney McDaniels L. Ross Zeigler L. Martin Cunenschloss Knutson F. Thompson G.

Kraemer R. T. Kurth R. R. Strander Q.

B. Stier Carlson Finley Devine Hopper Griesman Churches Boyle L. L. Larson R. Randall F.

Score by Quarters Madison East 0 7 6 619 Beloit 0 0 6 0 6 Scoring: Touchdowns Boyle, Strander, Randall, Churches. Point alter touchdown Strander. Substitutions: East Carman re, He.HsIing rt. Harrison lh, Buckley lh, Hildebrandt fb. Kvammen re.

LeRoy rh, Lottes rg, Martinson Ig, Nolan It, Olson le, Rooney rh, Schmook rt, Smith It, J. Thompson le, E. Vitense It, G. Vitense fb. DeVoe c.

Beloit Uovell lg. Meyer rh, Harris fb, Rosenthal lh, Zickert rt. Means lh. Officials Fred DeVinney, Columbus, referee: Andy Dyer, Whitewater, umpire; Eddie Gibson, Wisconsin, head-linesman. UCLA Ignores Dope, Dumps Oregon, 14-7 LOS ANGELES (U.R) Two touchdown drives in the second half Saturday gave the UCLA Bruins a 14-7 victory over a favored Oregon team in a Pacific coast conference football game before 45,000 spectators.

Smith Punts, Then Hurls for Victory By STEVE SNIDER ANN ARBOR, Mich. (U.R) Minnesota hurled all its might at Michigan's inspired line Saturday and when all else failed borrowed "a punt, a pass and a prayer from its ancient Western Conference rival to score a 7 to 0 victory before a record crowd of S5.753. It was a battle of the conference's undefeated giants and just as last year the golden bone-crusher from the north emerged with a perfect record, Michigan was the last of Minnesoat's foes who could wrest its title although the Gophers still must whip three more conference teams before clinching an undisputed championship. Michigan's superb defense threw back Minnesota carriers for one full period and half of another before Capt. Bruce Smith kicked the punt and passed the pass that helped plunge Michigan from the ranks of the undefeated.

Here's the Score Smith's 70-yard kick gained 35 yards on an exchange with Michigan's Tom Kuzma. On second down, with the ball on Michigan's 43, Smith feinted a run around his own left end, halted suddenly and whipped a long pass to Herman Frickey, who was run out of bounds by Kuzma on Michigan's five. Then came the Minnesota prayer. After Smith had failed to gain, the Gophers gambled with Frickey the sophomore and in just two plays the 21-year-old youngster from Billings, hurtled into the end zone for the only touchdown of the game. Bill Gar-naas, later to star in a defensive role by intercepting two Michigan passes inside his own 5-yard line, placekicked the extra point.

For all the heralded power of Minnesota's supposedly impregnable line, it was Garnaas who preserved the Gophers' winning streak at 13 games. Wolve Threat Fizzles Rebounding from that unexpected touchdown, Michigan roared 90 yards with the subsequent kirk-cff, roost of it on a 43-yard kickoff return by Capt. Bob Westfall and a 31 yard pass from Kuzma to Paul White. White, apparently in (Continued on Page 11) Zup Boys Fade; Irish Win, 49-14 By BOYD LEWIS SOUTH BEND, Ind (U.R) A fighting Irish team aroused to scoring frenzy by injury of the star Notre Dame halfback, Steve Juzwik, crashed over four touchdowns in the fourth quarter to smother a game Illinois eleven 49 to 14 Saturday. A crowd of 40,000 sitting in brilliant sunshine saw the Irish snap out of a lethargy which had threatened to cost them the game up to the fourth period when Juzwik suffered his injury.

Intercepting passes, smashing the tackles, firing long touchdown passes, the Notre Dame team lengthened its touchdown lead to an overwhelming five-touchdown margin. Three times the great Irish passer, Angelo Bertelli, heaved paydirt passes to teammates in the Illinois end zone and in the closing minute of the game Dick Creevy duplicated the pattern for a 40-yard touchdown pass to Tom Miller. Three Irish scores were over the ground route, by Bill Earley, Fred Evans and Juzwik but it was Bertelli's lethal passing that spelled the great margin between the teams. He completed 11 out of 21 passes for 178 yards. Illinois was outweighed, and outmaneuvered, but never outfought.

Coach Bob.Zuppke's boys stopped the Irish running attack cold most of the game but had no answer for the terrific passing of Bertelli. The Illini tallied first on a 43-yard march in the first period after Don Griffin had run back an interception 16 yards. Liz As-troth passed to Griffin from the 16 for the score and McCarthy converted. Juzwik ran around end for 16 to even the score and in the next period the Irish ran Tip two more touchdowns, one on a 27-yard pass, Bertelli to Juzwik, and the other on a one-yard line plunge by Dippy Evans. A weak kick from the end zone by Evans set up a touchdown by Jim Smith in the third period from 1-yard out.

Then came the terrific fourth period. Ohio State Loses First Under Brown COLUMBUS, Ohio (U.R) An alert Northwestern football team converted a fumble into a touchdown in the second half Saturday to break a 10-year jinx and to give Ohio State its first defeat of the season, 14 to 7, before a Capacity crowd of 71,896. End Robert Motl pounced on the loose ball early in the third period on the Ohio 17-yard stripe and Sophomore Otto Graham shot a beautiful pass to Bud Hasse in the end zone for the touchdown that broke a string of 36 straight coaching victories for Paul Brown, new Ohio State coach. The teams battled on even terms in a wide-open offensive display the first half which ended 7 to 7. But the last half was all Northwestern and the Buckeyes never held the ball beyond midfield.

Wide Open First Half Northwestern's elusive backs twice drove inside the Ohio10 in the fourth quarter only to lose the ball on downs. Graham raced back a punt 34 yards to the Ohio 6 at the final gun. Rebounding from its first defeat of the season by Michigan last week, Northwestern opened up on the initial kickoff Saturday. Sparked by pretty running and passing by Graham, the Wildcats drove to the one-yard line once and the 13-yard stripe again before the third march cashed in a touchdown. It took four plays from their own 46.

Graham heaved a long pass to Hasse from the Ohio 43. Hasse snared the ball on the five and scampered over the goal. The aroused Buckeyes came right back with the next kickoff and evened the score in nine plays. Sophomore Bob Shaw snagged a 30-yard pass from Dick Fisher on thp Northwestern 14. Bob Heck-linger, a sophomore starting his first game, rammed the final two yards over guard for the touchdown.

Statistics Favor Wildcats The half time gun smothered Ohio's only other scoring threat. With only a. few minutes left, Fisher tossed another aerial to Shaw this time for 39 yards on the Northwestern 8. Ohio was unable to advance the ball in three tries. Bill De Correvont, who left a hospital only Friday morning recovering from aold.

r' away several times for another (Continued on Page 11) Duquesne Trounces Hilltops, 31-14 MILWAUKEE (U.R) Du-quesne's speedy backs worked the formation with devastating effect here Saturday in a 31-14 victory over Marquette university. An estimated 22,000 persons, the largest home crowd in Marquette history, watched the Pittsburgh eleven outplay Marquette in every department. Joe Chadonic, John Binotto, George Gonda, and Phil Ahwesh reeled off repeated gains as the Duquesne line cooperated in quick opening plays through the Marquette forward wall When their running attack lagged, Chadonic and Ahwesh passed with equal effectiveness. Jimmy Richardson, Marquette's star passer, connected with a short toss to Ray Kuffel for Marquette's first touchdown in the second quarter. Richardson passed 10 yards to John Harrington for Marquette's second touchdown late in the fourth period.

Maryland Fights But Penn Wins by 55-6 Score PHILADELPHIA The undefeated Pennsylvania powerhouse crushed a scrappy, but out-manned, Maryland football team, 55 to 6, before 45,000 persons at Franklin field Saturday for its fourth triumph of the season. Fullback Bert Stiff crashed across for three touchdowns to lead the Penn juggernaut as it hurled an eight touchdown barrage at the little band of southerners. Penn racked up 21 first downs compared with nine for Maryland. The Quakers gained 480 yards, 381 on the ground and 99 in the air. Maryland, meanwhile, gained 55 yards by rushing and 188 by passing for a total of 243 yards.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. U.P.) Stifled by a stubbornly defensive Iowa team for three periods, Purdue pasied and drove 50 yards to a touchdown late in the game for a 7-6 Western Conference victory over the Hawkeyes before 22,000 spectators. Sophomore Jack Andretich plunged over from the 1-yard line after Purdue produced a scoring punch that carried the Boilermakers from midfield. Fullback John Petty's accurate place-kick gave Purdue its margin of victory over a Hawkeye team that scored in the third period on a blocked Purdue punt. The Purdue drive began when Francis Meakim raced 12 yards for a first down on the Iowa 32.

Chester went to the 20 running from a pass formation, lost eight yards on the next play and then flipped a pass to Combs on the five. Andretich scored three plays later. Jimmy Walker, Iowa's great left tackle who was the standout performer of the game, sent his team in the lead when he scooped up a Purdue punt blocked by Parker on the Boilermaker 25 and raced over the goal standing up. Late in the final period Purdue was threatening Petty, Andretich and Cook alternated with the ball, moving from the Iowa 39 to the 10 as the game ended. Purdue's offense had been bottled up in a colorless first half in which neither team threatened.

The lineups: Purdue Iowa Rush L. E. Parker Warren L. r. Miller L.

Curren Johnson Diehl Powers R. Anderson Tlmperman Staak Combs R. Burkett Hajzyk Q. Couppee Smock Ij. Farmer Meakim R.

H. Vollenweider Petty F. Stauss Score by Periods Purdue 0 0 0 7 7 Iowa 0 0 6 0 6 Scorning: Touchdowns Andretich, Walker. Point after touchdown-Petty. Substitutes: Purdue Ends, King, Shimer; tackles, French, Rossi; guards, Ehrlick, Vech; backs.

Cook, Smerke, Chester, Andretitch, Cater. Iowa Ends, Maher. Miller: tackles. Otto, Knowl-ton: guards, Curran, Twedell, Dickers-off; backs. Green, Mertes, Bender, Youell.

Officials Referee. James Masker, Northwestern; umpire, G. Simnson, Wisconsin: field judge, A. A. Seha-binger, Springfield: linesman, Ray Eichentaub, Notre Dame..