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rann MS 13 au ifranrisro Examtnrr 22 r.WAW'.v. Sundy, Sept. 28, 1947 CCCC i J.v' iH: V'I v-" ivix'' VW s4 A STRIKE! This second pass from Bob Celari to Frank Van Deren gained 16 yards and helped establish the I the heads of Navy's linesmen (ranel Two) and to its final resting place in Van Deren's arms (Panel Three). Bay- that California has a attack after all. Dotted line traces flight of ball from Celari (Panel One), over singer and McCully of Navy were tricked by this sudden stroke but Baysinger brought Van Deren down.

period passing period passing fact One Man Gang Corrals Broncs, 22-6 Vandals Come From Bear Fullback's 63 Yard Run Decisive Behind in 2nd Half By Prescott Sullivan MEMORIAL STADIUM, BERKELEY, Sept. A couple of broadsides fired by Bob Celeri, 160-pound quarterback from Fort Brasg: and Jackie Jensen, 190-pound fullback from nearby Oak land, sank the Navy here today. I l-f 1 xv 44 a Before a roarinij, overflow crowd of 82,000, including some 20,000 bluejackets from the First Task Fleet, and more b'gr brass than you could shake the admiral's toupee at, Celeri and Jensen, taking their shots in the order named, drove home the blows which gave California's Golden Bears a 14-7 victory over the United States Naval Academy's Midshipmen. Celeri ran 22 yards for the first of California's two- touch By Walter Gamage STANFORD STADIUM, Sept. 27.

Idaho's Vandals stunned a crowd of 15,000 partisan fans today with an amazing 19-16 victory over the heavily favored Stanford eleven. The winners, who lost, 45-0, here In the opener last year, achieved the startling reversal with a new coach, Dixie' Howell, a Notre Dame box offense and a tremendous spirit. Making their victory the more spectacular, the Vandals spotted the Farm eleven a 13-0 lead in the first quarter and at half time trailed by 13-6. After a field goal by Marty Feldman put Stanford out in front, 16-6, in the third quaaer, the Cards appeared a cinch. But the northerners, spcrked by a slicl: triole threat by the name of Bill Williams, drove to a touchdown after recovering a Stanford fumble.

Two passes by Williams, and Idaho had the scoreboard reading Stanford 16, Idaho 12. Idaho was back in the game. Shortly after the start of the fourth quarter, Vandal Guard Ken McCormack recovered Al Morris' fumble on the Stanford 20 yard line. And the brilliant Williams passed to William Diehl in. the end zone for the touchdown that gave the Vandals their first conference win over Stanford.

A hard driving Idaho line, led by McCormack, Wil Ovcrgaard, Carl Killsgaard, Ralph Paasch, Orville Barnes, John Dana and Ed McFaul, stopped the touted Stanford running game when the downs. Jensen scampered 63 yards for the clincher. Together, and with the help of a tremendous California defense, they con trived to salvage a large part of the Pacific coast football prestige which had all but reached the vanishing point after a series of larrupings in intersectional games. Navy, rated one of the top teams in the east, had been a 2-1 favorite. But California's rock 'em, sock 'em line play quickly changed that estimate of the struggle and at the end it was only a blocked kick which saved the Middies from a whitewashing, The outcome was a terrific shot in the arm for California's gridiron revival.

Under their new coach, Lynn Waldorf, the Bears now have won as many games as they won all last year namely two and off their play today they figure to win quite a few more before their 1947 labors are completed. Ca? Scoring Plays Deceptive It wasn't that the Bears were too impressive offensively. They found yardage tough to make most of the afternoon. But those two touchdown shots, backed by a superb defense, were enough, and more, to send California's huge rooting section out into the right howling, "We've got a team!" Nor was California's triumph strictly a power job. Both of Cal's touchdowns had some guile and deception to them.

True, the first might have been deceptive by force of circumstance, but the second was planned to catch the Navy flat footed and that it did. Cal's first score came within forty seconds from the end of the second quarter, Before" that it had been a defensive contest, with Navy having a slight edge. Then Navy's formation quarterback, Reaves Baysinger, kicked the ball out of bounds in midfield. The next three plays brought roars from California's packed stands-groans from the Navy's side of the stadium. On the first of these, Celeri, a second stringer until today, whipped a pass to John Cunningham, which Cal's potential All-American end caught for a 13 yard gain.

On the second, Celeri tried another pass, but was rushed savagely by Navy's charging forwards. He couldn't pass. So he had to run. He went around risht end and he ran 15 to the Navy 22, where Baysinger brought! him down. Celeri attempted a third pass.

Again he was rushed and again he was forced to run with the ball. This time he knifed through left tackle, cut to his left and behind a beautiful cleanup block by Doug Duncan which rubbed out the last, vestige of Navy's defense, he dashed the full 22 to pay dirt. Paul Keckley added the seventh point. Navy Decoyed for Jensen Run MUSTANG RUNS AWAY FROM BRONCOS! Fullback Dick McKissack (38) of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, led the Santa Clara Broncos a merry chase on this play in Kezar Stadium yesterday. Observe the Broncos who have fallen in their efforts to bring dowi the Mustang runner.

They include Perucci (63), House (60) and Hock (72). Then, there's the unidentified player on the left who was really sent sprawling. SMU won, 22-6. Examiner Photo by Pat Petrishln. Utah Upsets IisMIani Waldorf Praises Feiag Beavers, 7-6 Walker Has Great Day By Don Selby chips were down in the second half to turn the tide for the Vandals.

Besides getting Stanford off to a poor start, the game was costly for the Cards from the standpoint of injuries. Bob Anderson suffered a shoulder separation in the first quarter and sat out the rest of the game. It is doubtful if he will be ready for Michigan next week. Tackle Al Rau came up with a possible leg fracture and will be lost an indefinite period. To add to the gloom on the Farm, it was announced before the game that Right Half George Quist will be out for two weeks with a chip bone in his right ankle.

Stanford Fumbles Seven Times. One of the reasons for the upset can be found in the statistics which show seven fumbles by Stanford. Five of them were recovered by the ball-hawking Idahoans. Stanford held an edge in the ground gaining department with 211 yards to 118, but the forward passing of Williams offset this advantage. The Diehl brothers, Gerald and William, also played a big part in the Idaho triumph.

Gerald skirted left end for ten yards for the first Vandal tally, and Bill caught Williams' pass in the end zone for the winning score. Stanford supporters' few opportunities to cheer came in the opening period when End Gene Martin, a converted fullback, made two fine catches of two long passes by Bell for touchdowns. On both plays Martin used his backfield training to fake the defenders after catching the ball. Bob Anderson, in his brief appearance, got the Indians off to a great start on the first play from scrimmage by going 33 yards around right end. Fullback Marty Anderson led the Stanford backs in yards gained with a net yardage of 74 for a 9 yard average.

His successor, Jim Nafziger, also had his moments with several neat power runs. Williams Passes lor, 2 Scores. The Stanford scoring was done in this manner: 1 Shortly after the opening period Martin took a long pass from Bell on the Idaho 30 yard line and outran two defenders to the goal. The play was good for 60 yards. Marty Feldman's kick was wide.

2 A few minutes before the end of the first quarter, the Bell-Martin combination was good for another touchdown. This play covered 54 yard with Martin pulling the ball out of the air on the 25 and faking past two Idahoans. Feldman made good the try for extra point. 3 A few miitutes after the opening of the second half, Stanford marched from their own 22 to the visitor's At this point their attack bogged down and Feldman stepped back and booted a field goal. The winners scored like this: 1 Idaho captured a Stanford fumble by Chuck Coker in the second quarter on the Stanford 15.

With Williams eating up most of the yardage with his running and passing, the payoff play came with Gerald Diehl skirting left end untouched for a score. 2 Overgaard recovered Bell's lateral that slipped off Don Zappetini's fingers on the Stanford 35 midway in third quarter. Williams threw three passes, with the last going to End Orville Barnes for 30 yards and a touchdown. 3 A few minutes after the start of the final quarter, McCormack got the ball for Idaho by grabbing Morris' fumble on the Stanford 20. After one incomplete pass, Williams found his mark when he hit.Bill Diehl in the end zone for the score.

i By Harry M. Hayward SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 27 (AP) An underdog University KEZAR STADIUM, Sept. 27. MEMORIAL STADIUM, BERKELEY, Sept.

27. Happy days of Utah team staged a stunning are here again If young Mr. Doak Walker, a fair Ahead, 7-0, at the half, the Bears made it 14-0 midway in the fourth quarter when Jensen got away for his touchdown gallop. If the first was somewhat flukey in its deception, thi3 one was a legiti One couldn't help but remember the old song: as he listened to haired boy both literally and figuratively, Is not a great football tli orations of Lynn "Pappy1 mate part of California's strategy. Waldorf and his California foot squad, our captain for today George Fong," player, you'll have a difficult time Cal set it up just right.

From his own 34, Jensen had hit left end for three. Then Celeri had thrown a pass which fell incomplete. The ball captain George Fong, from the balcony outside the Rear George stammered a few words of appreciation of his teammates Middies were thus decoyed into expecting another pass and they deployed their defense accordingly. Celeri didn't miss the oppor and thanked the fans. FONG FLUSTERED.

dressing rooms late this after-nooH. The scene was the same but the atmosphere the characters tunity. He shot Jensen through a wide hole at rieht ei'ird and the latter, after stepping over a fallen Middie secondary defender, easily was nervous, not so outran sll pursuit. much over the ball game but be and the spirit so different from Gene Frassette accompanied Jensen on the later stages of upset tonight when it defeated the Oregon State College Beavers, 7-6, before 22,175. The Beavers, playing listlessly for much of the contest, ran into stubborn opposition on their plays on the ground, and were unable to make their passes click.

The Redskins, after an almost even first period, pushed the game to the visitors' side of the center stripe hard and often. Utah's winning score came in the third quarter with halfback ace Allen going over from seven yards out on fourth down after a march from the Utah 28 yard line. Guard Bud Gleave put his placekik squarely between the uprights for the extra point that cause of what happened just be the run, shouldering Navy's Harrison Frasier out of the chase fore he stepped on the balcony. He was stark naked when he was called for and he almost reached But Jensen really didn't need any escort. He wasn't within hailing distance of the closest Midshipman from the 20 yard line what they have been in the past ten years.

Some 15,000 Bear rooters gathered beneath that balcony, huge grins on their faces, cheering loudly. We remember the heckling with the balcony that way. A team on in. Jim Cullom kicked the extra point. Frasier, an end from Washington, D.

couldn't catch Jen mate helped him don a pair of grid trousers and shirt at the sen. But he did get back at the fast stepping Bear in the closing 31i minutes of action. Jensen, whose towering punts helped keep last moment. This San Francisco which such crowds greeted poor old Stub Allison as he reiterated it was all my fault, don't blame the boys, blame me." so convincing the 5,000 spectators who saw "Okey Doakie" cany Southern Methodist to a 22-6 triumph over Santa Clara this afternoon. And I do mean "carry." Noted more for his passing than for his running, Walker switched roles today to score all of Southern Methodist's points, except two Santa Clara donated via the safety route, with jaunts of one (1) inch, 44 yards and 93 yards and with two placekicks for points after touchdowns.

In short, what SMU did offensively was done by Walker, who hails from SMU's own home' town of Dallas, Texas. GAINS 104 YARDS. All told, Doak, a 20 year old halfback who performed here in the 1946 East-West game, rambled 104 yards net for the 14 times he lugged the leather on running plays from scrimmage. That does not include his 93 yard TD sprint, which came on a kickoff return and which was the final slap in the face to a Bronco eleven that, was receipting for its second straight defeat in the young 1947 gridiron campaign. The way the Broncos started out, things looked as.

bad as the weather for the visitors. But as won the contest. i Two passes by Ken Carpenter, O. S. C.

halfback, one of them to Bob Grove for thirty-six yards to the Utah 12 yard stripe, set up the Beaver touchdown in the final period. Fullback Dick Twenge hit the center of the line for six yards and the score. Chinese boy nearly lost face. Capt. Tom Hamilton.

Navy coach, insists the football renaissance is just about complete at Berkeley. "California has one the best football teams in the Nation right now," said Hamilton. "We met all of the good ones last year. We're a team now, and California measures right up to any foe we have met." But Hamilton wasn't quite convinced California was a better team than his own, "I thought we'd win before the game. And I think we would still win, by gosh.

Sure, we'd like to play Cal again. And I don't mean to tak anything Navy bottled up, attempted a kick from his own 22. Frasier broke through and blocked it. Not only that but he recovered the ball on the Bear 12 and ran 10 to the 2, where Jensen crashed him out of bounds. In two more plays Navy had its TD.

Bill Hawkins, Navy's good fullback, hit the middle for 1 yard. Then Baysinger took it over on a sneak. Hawkins' try for point clicked and with the score 14-7 Navy still had a chance of tying it up, although time was running short. Jensen's Interception Bars Door Navy tried to make the most of what time remained. On the kick-off, it got away with an on side kick, Dick Scott, the Middies' All America center, kicking the ball and falling on.

it as it rolled to Cal's 49 yard line. Here was a last chance which the crowd hadn't counted on. It failed because little Bill Earl's deperation pass was intercepted by the highly useful Jensen. After that, Navy got the ball for only one more play. It was a pass, of course, and it lost 10 ynrds from Navy's 47 when Cunningham, probably the best of four fine California ends Hirschler, Agler and Van Deran being the Others collared Navy's passer far behind the line of scrimmage.

Th gama was replete with near misses. In the first quarter, the (Continued on Page 25, Col. 1) O. S. C.

sent Warren Simas into We Were Flat: Schwartz PAPPY HAPPY. It was a relief to hear the Berkeley crowd chanting: "We want Pappy! We want Pappy!" And It was a relief to hear Waldorf, the coach who so quickly produced a 33-7 win over Santa Clara last week, and today's startling 14-7 triumph over mighty Navy, say: "I'm doggone happy. I just want to say for all of my boys and the coaches that we're proud. Our boys played a real ball game, kept the pressure on all the time and I'm proud of you. "Now I want to Introduce the most Improved player of our STANFORD STADIUM, Sept.

27. "Idaho was good. We were the contest for the extra point, but the leather was blocked. Irish Beat Frosh SOUTH BEND (Ind.l, Sept. 27.

(AP) Notre Dame's varsity, winding up for its opener against Pittsburgh next Saturday, paddled the Irish freshman squad today, 48 to 7. flat." This was about all Marchie Cards' loss to Idaho today, 1916. It was half an hour before the mentor would speak to reporters at all. He was asked if the upset came because the Indians were looking (Continued on Page 25, Col. 3) Schwartz had to say after leav ing a grim and silent Stanford dressinz room following the (Continued on Page 25, Col.

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