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IS) (p) I I .2 4 Little Big flame Today! Broncos Favored, But Gaels Hopeful St. Mary's 'Cinderella' Team to Shoot For the Moon in 29th Annual Classic Spcedin' 0n (he Main Line cccc SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1948 23 SMMMMMMMMMMSSMSMSMSMSMSMSmm I By Curley Grieve The flame of football rivalry lit more than half a century ago blazes anew today when St. Mary's and Santa Clara clash In their twenty-ninth annual Little Big Game at Kezar Stadium.

The kickoff is at 2 p. m. It was on a "stagnant lake" in old Central Park back in 1892 Vf-j is that Gael and Bronc first flexed their gridiron muscles. Since that time, by feats of speed and brawn and deeds of valor, the game has been richly endowed with a heritage that will lure upwards of 45,000 through the portals today. Bears Roll 500 Yards In 13th Straight Win Pappy Preps Passes for Big Game; Swaner, Jensen Both Have Big Day By Harry Borba MEMORIAL STADIUM, BERKELEY, Nov.

powerful Bears moved inexorably, almost imper-turbably, toward the Rose Bowl by defeating a gambling and darting Washington State Cougar eleven, 44-14, before 52,000 expectant customers here this warm afternoon. California stacked up its thirteenth straight victory to extend its record until it now approaches the record of eighteen straight made by the great Wonder teams of lft20 and 1021. To the complete amazement of the supporters of the old Bear, "Pappy" Waldorf had his prized backs, Jackie Jensen and Jack Swaner, in there grinding for the sixth touchdown after the Bears were definitely on top, 37-7. Waldorf was taking a chance on a mishap. But Jensen and Swaner, the double bolt of California's grinding ground offense, escaped injury.

Meantime old Pappy demonstrated that his Bears can progress a little bit by air as well as by land. The Bears in one stretch threw five passes in eleven plays that Each clash of arms in the long and ivy-clad senes seems to have taken on an individuality. There was the Game of '27. In it Norman "Red" Strader --2 ground out 211 yards from scrimmage. He was a one-man steamroller.

In that same conflict Len Casanova, now Santa Clara coach, gained an equal share of immortality with a mighty 105-yard punt. There was the Battle of Lake Kezar (1934) and the Battle of the Fog (1931). Cinderella Gaels Shooting at Moon Today. And today's contest could well turn out to be the Cinderella Game. It has a "rags to riches," a magic, unbelievable aspect A Cinderella team of sophomores, a Cinderella coach and a Cinderella quarterback- that's the St.

Mary's picture. It an inexperienced, thinly manned, underdog team shooting A W. at the moon. propelled them 53 yards. They ran over the goal line, but still they showed they have a semblance of a passing attack to throw against the Stanford Reds in the annual titanic next Saturday In this concrete bowl.

When he let his aces face possible knocked knees and busted shoulders these things are always frequent in easy games- Pappy was taking out Rose Bowl insurance. Williams Runs Klckolf to Score Oregon, still unbeaten and still much in the race for the Roses, beat these Cougars, 33-7, a month ago. If the Bear third stringers hadn't been caught unawares during a flashing 88-yard return of a kickoff by Jerry Williams with tjvo and a half minutes 4f left to play, Cal would have beaten the Oregon score with a 44-7 win. 7 Pappy should have left some of his first string linemen his new eight-man platoon around for that kickoff. But how was he to know that Williams could outrun Sarver? Santa Clara is a solid choice.

It has a hard-charging, aggressive line anchored by John Payne and John Hock at tackle, and Vera Sterling and John Justice at guard. It has a double-barrelled attack engineered by Quarterbacks Bill Sheridan in the air and Al Martin on the ground. And it has swift, slashing backs in Hall Haynes, Vern Hare, Gene Defilippis and Saxon Wraith. The Broncos have experience and poise. They have two stunning victories, over Oklahoma and Nevada, to give them confidence.

The Cinderella angles to the game spring from this: The St. Mary's team, wracked and split asunder by dissension and disaster last year, has been rebuilt around six sophomores and five juniors, with only one senior Dick Piedmonte on the entire squad. New Coach, Suprise Star Head St. Mary's. The coach, Jde Verducci, was picked off San Francisco's Poly high campus to serve as architect in the football renaissance at Moraga.

And a Philadelphia youth, Tom Byron, leaped off the bench only eight days ago to pitch three touchdown passes and earn a starting berth in today's climactic game. Byron, of course, is the Cinderella Kid, a fourth stringer at the start of the season and now in the driver's seat. But the Gaels are not to be scorned because a triumph today would be a major upset. They have a great linebacker and defensive genius in Packard Harrington. They have as fleet and clever a back as will be on the field in little Spike Cordeiro, a driving runner in Fullback Dave Haffner and a stout, inspiring lineman in Tackle R.

V. Johnson. Fundamentally, the Gaels are sound. They proved an ability to rise to heights by nearly knocking off University of Oregon at Portland, losing only by one point in the last three minutes, 1413. They have not dropped a game they were supposed to win.

Any story of today's Little Big Game would be incomplete if (Continued on rage 26, Col. 1) Until the closing moments when, perhaps, the distraught Cougars were beside themselves with frustration. Cal's passing game wasn anything you would mention twice. It was Jensen up the middle, smashing, writhing, twisting and divmg for undeniable yardage, or it was Jack Swaner busting the tackles for substantial gains. The quarterbacks then couldn't have made a pass with loaded dice.

8 A Washington State was so aware of it that very often it stuck an eight man line against Jensen and Swaner. Occasionally it was a nine with only two men back there to watch, and perhaps knock down, the very errant pitches by Dick Erickson and Bob Celerl. Finally the Cougars got packed in so tightly on the goal' line stantial yardage. Here he is going for eighteen yards on a second quarter end run that set up a touchdown. Ray Hobbs, WSC fullback, is making a vain attempt to stop the COUGARS NO CATCH HIM! Billy Main of California, who is used mostly as a blocking back, also can pack that pigskin.

Pappy Waldorf turned him loose against Washington State's Cougars yesterday and he ripped off sub- that Celeri leaped and threw to John Cunningham for a touchdown and not a Cougar was near the spot The Cougars had been asking for it. flying Bear. All Chuck Eckert (43) can do is look on. AModtfd Prm Photo. Aside from a couple of occasionally dominant characters like Don Paul, Lauri Niemi and Dean Rumberg, there was nobody COP Wins.

around in the Cougar line who could stop those smashes by Jensen and Swaner that started deep after the ball had been flipped back New Star in Stakes Win 1 4 ,4 (it 4 6. I 1 i 3 4 I 5 A 1 .3 4 i i '3 Hm 37 Trinumpla Dons Dazed By LeBaron By Abe Kemp Dinner Gong, a strapping son of By Bob Brachman STANFORD STADIUM, Nov. 13. Four prying California scouts, bent on gaining valuable information on Stanford's Indians, learned nothing except the names of a few hitherto unknown sub Eight Thirty, sounded the sweet' est note yesterday at Tanforan that his owner, Abe "Murphy" stitutes today as a I Men's and Young Men's By Bill Mulligan KEZAR STADIUM, Nov. 13.

Excellent Eddie LeBaron is everything they say about him as a master of deception. It was Eddie's superb generalship, his perfect faking and great defensive ability that sparked an aroused College of Pacific football team to a 32-14 triumph over University of San Francisco today before 10,000 sun drenched spectators. The fact that USF was flat, listless and lethargic detracts nothing from the LeBaron Bengals who were higher than Hal-ley's comet for this one. Proof of Eddie's mastery of wizardy was given on the first scrimmage play when he went back to throw a pass and Referee Phillip Hempler, looking for the ball, was knocked down by LeBaron. The officials inability to keep track of the pigskins was surpassed by the Dons and most of the spectators.

FAST BACKS. LeBaron's direction was devastating its effectiveness. He mixed passes with a running attack that shook loose the COP sprinting backs, Don Brown, Bruce Orvis, Don Hardy and Wilbur Sites. LeBaron passed ten times and to them by the quarterbacks. Jensen Gains 122 Yards, Swaner 135 Jensen went for 122 yards on 18 plays for a 6.7 average.

Swaner did more work, carrying 24 times for 135 yards and a 5.5 average. California warped the poor Cougars for 353 yards on the ground and a surprising 147 via the ether for a total of exactly 500 yards. The striving Cougars gained only 73 yards net rushing and they were outgained in the air, their best attacking department, when they neted only 129 yards. Williams had a 5.3 average for six carries. California blocked today.

Criticized for varying efforts against the Bruins, the Bears settled down to knock 'em down, particularly in the line. Several of Jensen's gallops were self -conducted, so maybe Pappy will have something to say about down field blocking as the Bears start tomorrow dreaming about Red Indians. One Swaner sweep was entirely self-produced but Billy Main had fine downfield blocking when he went for 32 yards to the Cougar three to set up the first touchdown. California was completely satisfactory today to its large i clientele in all the skills except that of throwing accurately. Jensen still is the surest Bear thrower with his long shots and Bear protection for the passer was one of several improvements that Pappy will talk about.

Besides the new modern California record of thirteen straight game victories, the Bears' big booter of points, Jim 'Truck" Cullom grabbed a new conference mark and extended it. Cullom kicked extra points after all six touchdowns as neatly as you please. The first one tied the conference record of 15 in a single season, made by Tommy Walker of USC last year. Jim now has 20 and has successfully booted 61 out of 76 in two years of leg swinging. Swaner Scores First Two lor Cal If your coffee is cooling and you want to know quick-like how went the scoring, here it is: Swaner scored No.

1 in the first quarter. Swaner scored No. 2 in the second quarter. Fran Polsfoot made a circus catch on the end zone line to put the Cougars into the game. The Bears rumbled back to score with Jensen and the half time score was 21-7.

Cal got only one in the third, Celeri crossing up the enemy with a quick pass to Cunningham. Cal got a quickie early in the fourth period, when Doug Duncan intercepted a flat pass and raced 15 yards into the end zone. Another Bear touchdown, the sixth and last, was tallied as Charlie Sarver fumbled and Celeri fell on the ball in the end zone. This followed a safety forced upon the Cougars, who tried to pass in their end zone and saw the ball knocked down. Any pass that is incomplete in the end zone and upon which the throwing team has to fall is a safety.

Washington State's last touchdown was that 88-yard gallop by Jerry Williams with the last California kickoff. The second time Cal had the ball, Jensen tried to pass to Main (Continued on Tape 24, Col. 1) STURDY COVERTS HUSKY TWEEDS LUXURIOUS FLEECES Regularly Priced at Hirschberg of San Francisco, has heard in months. It was not only sweet music to Hirschberg's ears, but a warning to all three year olds presently quartered on the premises that a new champion is in the making. Dinner Gong played his medley by snagging easily the Yerba Buena Stakes, fashioned for three year olds.

He won the six-furlong event by three and one half lengths over M'Dearsy, with Gold Gallant third and Henpecker fourth. Had it been necessary, Jack Westrope, who rode him, could have won by ten lengths. As it was, Jack eased him up once he gained command, and was looking back at his trailers the last sixteenth of a mile. Westrope, ordinarily calm and not given to exuberant outbursts, was excited when he dismounted. GREAT COLT.

He credited Dinner Gong with being "a great colt," which his performance proved. The Hirschberg colt, purchased at the C. V. Whitney vendue for $34,000, raced the six furlongs in 1:11, eased up. Only See-Tee-See has equaled that time.

Hirschberg has been seeking a good horse. since Occupy raced in his colors, and Dinner Gong could be the answer. Westrope made but one move with him and one move was all that was required. This occurred past the half the ground, Montana piled up a surprising total of 221 yards on fourteen completions out of twenty-six passes. That's how the Grizzlies got their balm-providing touchdown in the first quarter to deadlock the count at 7-7.

The Grizzly scoring foray covered 48 yards including reclaimed ground for an offside penalty, and on forty-one of them the Montanas moved through the air. HELDING ACCURATE. The activity started with Johnny Helding, a pretty accurate throwing quarterback, lat-eralling to his hard working fullback sidekick, Jack O'Loughlin, and the latter passing to End Bill Reynolds for a total gain of 26 yards. Four plays later Helding whistled one over the middle from the 17 yard line to Ray Bauer, who went high in the air in front of Don Campbell for an end zone catch and 6 points. Bill Preuninger converted and that was the sum total of the Grizzly's threatening except for a fourth period 43 yard aerial shot, Helding to Dan Radakovich, who let the pigskin squirt out of his arms when he was hit by Hart Cook.

The ball rolled free and Jack Barnes, Stanford center, managed to outfoot Montana's Frank Semansky for recovery on the Indian 7. Before, after and in between, Schwartz' troops frolicked to a 39-7 win over the not-so-grizily Montana Grizzlies before a crowd of less than 10,000. Even the victory hungry Stanford rooters had difficulty swallowing the exhibition. When the Indians, bending backwards to hold the score down, started kicking on second down in the third period, their followers took to booing so that the Redshirts had to go out and get another touchdown. There was another happenstance that forced the Indians to get that sixth touchdown early in the fourth period on a 61 yard pass play from Tom Shaw to Bob White, who dashed the last '9 yards by himself after the catch.

Well aware of what Indians were doing to them with the second down punting and after it had yappened four times, the Grizzlies went the Indians one better by kicking the ball back on first down. That put an end to that kind of petty activity and six plays later the Indians put across the TD which gave them their highest point total of the season. It was their third conference victory and their fourth 1948 triumph. If there is one the thing four Bear scouts could be taking back to "Pappy" Waldorf for Big Game planning, it's additional evidence that Indians are vulnerable from the air. Held to a net of 27 yards on completed five for one touchdown and a total of 80 yards.

He punted for an average of 45.4 yards. He was in every minute of defense and paired with Jack Ross to knock down most of the USF incompletions. ciX Credit for much of LeBaron's (Continued on Page 25, Col. 1) (Continued on Page 27, Col. 6) (Continued on Tage 26, Col.

4) Notre IDamc Mallies to EDeficat Northwestern, 12-7! Open to 9 p. m. Thursdays Sine J87S stripe and in position to put the ball game on ice. There appeared no reed for them to take chances, but. on second down, after a running play had lost them four yards, Tripucka gambled on a dangerously flat and unprotected pass to Gay.

Only a few minutes earlier, just such a pass had backfired and all but scared the wits out of the Irish. They had good reason to fear the worst. Murakowski. having seen his teammate, Tom Worth-ington. intercept Tripucka's earlier effort and miss a prob- frantic Tripucka on the Notre Dame 30, Murakowski was beyond all pursuit.

With the Northwestern stands still roaring, a specialist by the name of Jim Farrar came off the Wildcat bench, carefully stretched a tape along his intended approach to the ball and kicked the conversion which put his team ahead, 7-6. It was a sudden, and to Notre Dame, an alarming turn of events. The Irish, cashing in or, a pass interception and 11 yards run by Bill Gay, and benefitting further by a 15 yard Northwestern unnecessary roughness penalty, had been on Northwestern's nine yard here this dark and wintry afternoon. Felled by a 90-yard touchdown run, and trailing 7 to 6, in the final quarter, the Irish rose determinedly from the soggy turf to pound out a 12-7 victory over the Big Nine's probable Rose Bowl representatives, the Wildcats of Northwestern. The game closed a 59-year-old series between the two schools in a manner a near record and shivering crowd of 59,305 will not soon forget.

Notre Dame won, but so close did it come to defeat that its claim to another mythical championship was weakened rather than enhanced. Murakowski, hardhitting 195-pound fullback froc East Chicago. Easily, the standout among Northwestern backs, if, indeed he wasn't the most valuable back on the field, Murakowski blew the contest wide open with 4 minutes of the third period remaining. He picked off a pass by Notre Dame's Francis Tri-pucka on the Wildcat 10-yard line and went 90 yards to a touchdown. ALMOST THE GAME.

A smashing block by George Maddock, 230-pound tackle, helped Murakowski reach midfield. After he had brushed past the Prtscott Sullivan makes all the big one! In Cleveland early yesterday to report on the Ohio tity's reaction to today's Browns-49ers game, Sully sensed a terrific strug-gle impending in South Bend, and hopped over to Notre Dame's stadium to tell you about the Irish-Northwestern contest. He returned to Cleveland last night for the pro grid classic. By Prescott Sullivan SOUTH BEND (Ind), Nov. 13.

Notre Dame's fighting Irish, unbeaten since 1945, made a dramatic recovery from what to be a knockout blow Comparative scores can be, and often are, misleading. Football filberts throughout the land are bound to recall the mighty Michigan, a winner today over Indiana, 54-0 beat this same Northwestern eleven, 28 0, not so long ago. Notre Dame couldn't approach that job today. IRISH GRATEFUL. Fact is, the Irish: while they were obviously the superior force, must have been grateful for any sort of victory at all.

Northwestern fought them tooth and nail from the start and late in the third quarter seized what seemed to be a telling advantage on a tremendous run by Art KEARNY ATy SUTTER STREET (Continued on Page 26, Col. 7).