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fr. ff. foamtttr CCCC Sun fry, Qcf. 24, 1943-Sport 1 3 Bruce Smith Runs Wild Against Bears Former Gopher All-American Speeds to Three Touchdowns for Air Devils By Prescott Sullivan MEMORIAL STADIUM, BERKELEY, Oct. ,23.

That wasn't Tommy Harmon of Michigan out there today. was Cadet Bruce Smith of St. Mary's Naval but Stub Allison, the Uni versity of California football coach and those of his boys whose memories go back to 1940, scarcely knew the difference. The fact of the matter is there VT'V A I TWO'DOWN! Joe Wright of St. Mary's Pre- I f' flight left, who was carrying the ball, hit the 1 'i5; ground as did Bob Frisbee (43) of California a after the Bear tacWer had stopped his foward rf progress in the game yesterday.

xmx 1 Photo by Sao Francisco Bsamtner. sm 3 f. lv JrV- xss I I II I II I I. I I I II 1 Mustangs March Madigans Iowans Battle Unbeaten Purdue Even Until Final Period, Then Retreat, 28-7 Lincoln Vanquishes Stubborn Wildcats LAFAYETTE Oct 23. (INS) Purdue's unbeaten Boilermakers turned on a late burst of steam today in defeating a game Iowa team, 28 to 7, before 17,000 fans.

For three quarters the-underdog llawkeyes, coached by "Slip" Madigan, held their own. They held 7 to 0 load in the first period and going into the fourth quarter clung to a 7 to 7 tie. But rui due crashed through Yale Falls By Bob Brachman Li a battle so tense the slightest untoward Incident would have turned the place into turmoil, Lincoln Higli'g power laden Mustangs yesterday won signal honors as this town's highest accredited prep football team by whipping an inspired St. Ignatius eleven, 14-7. Not until the game ending gun; lgf ml.f C.

TflkllW sounded was the decision reached 1 Middies Co, 28-14 BALTIMORE, Oct 23 (AP) Navy came back with a surge after being held on even terms by the Georgia Tech football team tonight and with two touchdowns in the final period vanquished the Engi neers, 28 to 14. A crowd of 56,223 watched the contest which saw Hal Hamberg, stocky little back, throw three touchdown passes and plunge for the fourth score for the Middies. High School Statistics The aiarting lineup: I.lnraln (14) Feat. Irnal Kiit Hrnclci l.KR Ritbarriaon Kurrer. LftK.

Ahrn tlelibir M'-Cufrrev hohrer iladlRan Ravrtil flrallah O'ConiwII Kelly Stewart Hallin Wood worl 1 Garcovuh Hcore by periods: Linroln 0 7 0 14 El, tKiifttlug 7 Touchdowni acored by DiPietro, Rich ardson. titone. Points after touchdown by Riley 2, Ulonnell. WBSTITTTIONS. Lincoln nd: McCnrmirk.

Van Kout lex. Stone. Tacklca: Weekn. J. While.

liuarrla: Lane. Oliver. Center: Mclmyde Barks: Srhaumleffel, Berg-fried. St. lanatiu Endu: Rosenthal.

Kennedy, Tacklea: Smilh, Hickey. tiiiarrf: Kane. Supnle. Ceniev: F.gan. Rarka: Ali-Inernj-Clyrt.

Slattery. Official Referee. T.ee Eiaan. Vmptre. Leonard Elder.

Bead Lineaman, Pope una. The Martini lineuna: Pols (.11) Poe. Parneaa. LER. LTR.

Dodds LOR. K'hwarli, Tkactyk l'lasa IVterson. EEL. (J Peacock Feyock RHL. Whltehorn I' Score by perioda: Miaainn (A) Owen Dutto Me.kiiuch Slrro Skiada i Ghilarri Kit it Siml alatteon Borovkoff Poly MiFKion .12 0 0 1331 0 0 0 Touchdowna acored by Feyock 2.

White- horn 2. Peterson. Point after touc-hdowna by Peteraon, Feyock. Substitution, Polyi End. Doll, Wyatt, Jaynea.

Thum- ton Bra- O'Reilly: tai fcie. Tucker. Axell, Casey, Wind. Maloney, Rudolph, Chllda Oreck: ruards, RMchle, Mahoney, Elcliner; center. Rosrera: hark.

Kermnlam. McN'il-ty. Barry, LanKlon, Caatillo. I'hronis, Ra-mo Fromm. 1 vMisaion Ends, KoatrU-ken.

Tenroae; taHtlea, B. Okkne. Miller. Carlson: guard. Mvera: center, Euinr; nacka, Evan Fora-man.

Colling. Officiala Referee. Rnaa Sweet: umpire. RichireM Vaecaro; head Carl Mitchel. STATISTICS Poly Mi's.

Flrat down from crimmaK 4 tlrai down from paaaea First downs from Total first downs 8 Yards gained from scrimmage 67 1 7 in 47 23 lards gained from passes Total yarda gained. 351 54 JO 1 1 60 yards lost Passes attempted Taeses completed Passes had intercepted Fumbles Fumhles recovered 5 4 10 Tarda lost from STATISTICS Line. R. 1 rust ntm-ns from strmimaRa Pirst downs from paMs A 1 1 5 1.15 1HI "(I Toml tirst downs Varda Rained from scrimmage-, Yards gained from parses. Tola yards sained 1HH Passes auemiued Passes completed 1 Passes had intercepied Fumbles 2 Fumbles recovered 2 Yards lost from pensltiee.

66 Bruce Smith Even in Pre CALIFORNIA MEMORIAL STA- DIUM Oct. 23. "Here come the gentlemen of the pres (he With that inauspicious introduction from one of a hundred 10 year olds who swarmed before the door, we enterede the St. Mary's Pre-Flight dressing room here today. And immediately learned a les- son on what it takes to be an All American.

We saw Bruce Smith in action OFF the football field and winnint? the friendship of his own team- to Army Attack, 39-7 46-6 Walkover Sea Lions Pilejf On Coast Guard Air Shots Beat Gobs By Harry Borba Alameda Sealions who had left their watery habitat to crawl out upon terra firnia suddenly and completely abandon the earth to flit through the air like so many men on so many trapezes yesterday afternoon in Kezar Stadium. Frolicking in the ether, the V. S. Coast Guard Sealions completely dive bombed and shelled a snarl-lng, slashing Pleasanton Navy team, 46 to 6, before a well entertained crowd of about 3,500 fans. "For two whole weeks we worked on pass defense but you saw it to day, moaned Lieut.

Jim Bausch, one of America's great athletes of a decade ago and the coach of the unhappy Pleasantons. "But they didn't run our Une. I'm proud of our line. Even when Morales loped those 62 yards it wasn't the line's fault. The secondary should have nailed Morales, "Tomorrow I'm roinr fishinr after black bass." THIRD IX ROW.

Morales romped for 157 yards averaging 21 per carry but Wimpy Wilborn, his relief, was the better pitcher. Lieut Joe yerducct, the little giant who coaches the big Coast Guard, went home quickly. It was his third victory in a row, a record unparalleled in Coast Guard athletic history. The contest started peaceably enough with the Pleasanton lads choking the ground game presented by the Coast Guard unit for soma 8 minutes. The Bluejackets drove the Sealions upstairs and then re gretted it.

Things, principally footballs and touchdowns, began to drop on them and they were helpless to defend themselves. Chronologically, the Navy boys were blasted like this: (1) Eddie Ballati Intercepted a Jerry Rice pass on the Pleasanton 49. A few minutes later Wilborn passed to Johnson, who caught the ball in the end zone 12 yards away. Gonzales kicked the extra point. Seanons 7, Coait Guard 0.

(2) Tony Bilotti. guard and cousin of Eddie Ballati, intercepted Waviors pass after six minutes of the second period on the Pleasanton 28. Morales pitched squsrely into the mitts of Laverne Merritt for the touchdown. Morales also converted. Sealions 14, Pleasanton 0.

(3) Bilotti grabbed a Jerry Rice pass on the Sealions 15. Morales, fleeing behind Billy Russo's deadly block, raced 22 yards. Gonzales then pitched to Dale Halbert, Wio ran 55 yards to complete a train of 66 yards for the third score. Morales kicked well again and the halftime total was: Sealions 21, Pleasanton 0. Just as the gun was being raised to fire, Morales slid off the Pleasanton right tackle behind three blockers, tiptoed down the sidelines for 60 yards.

Bill Schroeder caught him from behind on the seven. (4) The third quarter had barely begun when Dan Benedettl inters cepted a "Jake" Jacobson pass for the Sealions on the Pleasanton 42. On third down, Wilborn hurled down the center to Johnny Johnson, who wrested the ball from Jacobson and scooted 12 yards to complete a 46 yard touchdown thrust. Freddie Shew missed the conversion. Score: Sealona 27.

Pleasanton 0. PLEASANTON SCORES. (6) Lieut. Verducci began send ing in the third and fourtn stringers. The game was stsle- mated until Jerry Rice and Pat Mtfitano started putting things together aground and above.

A tricky forward pass from Jacobson to Schmees tied to a lateral to Militano bothered the Coast Guard kids. Thev got to the Sealions 11 when Schroeder mpde a yard. Referee Bill Fischer said that Johnny Russo Jumped on Schroeder unnecessarily and put the ball on the Sealions i. On the fourth down Rice flipped a short pass to Mili tano who got outside Farnham to catch the ball for the only Pleasanton touchdown. Schueler's ooint kick was no good.

Pleasanton 6, Sealions 27. (6) The Seallon first unit returned to action. Just 49 seconds afterward Morales slid off left tackle, got kev block from Laverne Merritt and ran 62 yards to score standing up. Coast Guard 33. Pleasanton 6.

(7) The next Sealion touchdown was a gift. Rice flipped a long pass backward to Schroeder, who was supposed to pitch forward. Schroeder bobbled the ball and Howard Taft fell on it behind the goal line for the sixth score. Coast Gusrd 39, Pleasanton 6. FINAL TALLY.

8 Morales sped off right tackle for 19 to the Pleasanton 37 to set up the last marker. Wilborn flipped a 28 yard pass to Andre Chicourat and he had to sten only four yards to pay off. Farnham kicked this last point, leaving the final score Coast Gusrd 46. Pleasanton 6. Lieut.

Jim Buasch. if he had thought of it. might have said the Sealion lines plaved well. Pleasan ton netted only 45 yards aground. but did better upstairs with 63 yards on 12 out of 35 chucks.

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ial -W-'t r-ar. rr: rnrtnl Bmm' Hl NEW HAVEN" Oct. wasn't much difference and what there was of it was of no comfort to Allison and his brave little band. Cadet Smith scored three touchdowns against them in leading the Preflight team to a 39 to 0 victory. The defeat was vthe worst the Bears have suffered since Harmon of Michigan beat them, 41 to 0.

Cadet Smith wasn't quite that good today, but as we aay, he was so near to it that Allison for one, couldn't help but think back to that terrible afternoon of three years ago and say to himself "there's that man again." Cadet Smith was somewhat less spectacular than the Harmon of 1940 but possibly only for the rea son that he didn't have so far to go. He made one touchdown on a 10 yard run. another on a 26 yard gallop and a third on a 30 yard sprint after he had intercepted a California pass. Harmon's runs were longer but no more profitable. They were worth six points a piece, the same as Cadet Smith's.

FURTHER INSULT SPARED. What Cadet Smith, former Minnesota All American whom his old coach, Bernie Bierman, once rated among the great halfbacks of all time, wbould have done to the Bears had he been permitted the time to do it in must remain a matter of speculation. It Is possible he would have exceeded Harmon's memorable performance had not Lieut. Spike Nelson, the Pre-Fiight coach, called him off as a merciful gesture toward a stricken foe. The young man did not play after the opening minutes of the third period although when he left the field he appeared to have plenty of touchdowns left -in his 195 pound frame.

Indeed, we had the impression that he was just warming up his work when Lieutenant Nelson, charitable man, signaled him out of there along with the rest of Pre-Flight's better troops. It was only after that, and not to soon afterward, either, that, alifornia its first string lineup all but wrecked by military orders which whisked two regular tackles and a regular fullback off the squad succeeded in making its first down. While Cadet Smith was on the job, the Bears rarely got the ball, and when they did get it they were so startled by the newness of it all that they couldn't do anything with it. But we do not mean to suggest that Cadet Smith's was a one man job. He had plenty of help from Preflight's big, hardhitting line, and.

some of his backf ield asociates. notably Cadet Joe Wright, a 175 pounder out of Pontiac, Michigan; Lieut. Roy Engle, once of USC, and Cadet John Rosetto, a 185 pound defensive demon from Bakersfield, were almost as effective as he in their respective jobs. WRIGHT SCORES TWICE. Indeed, Cadet Smith beat Cadet Wright by only one touchdown, the latter scoring two on runs of 24 and 23 yards.

Lieutenant Engle, a tough customer to deal with on reverses which, as a rule, originated with Ensign Ray McCarthy, the old Santa Clara back, scored the other Preflight touchdown on a 24 yard dash around right end. Possibly in deference to his rank, the Preflighters let Lieutenant Engle score the first touchdown, the Bears having little or nothing to say about it. That was after 10 minutes of play in the first quarter, the Air Devils having previously been stopped on the California three yard line. Coming right back, they sprung Lieutenant Engle loose around the right side and with gathering speed he outran the Bear secondary to score with consummate ease. Cadet Henry Urban, a citizen of Cleveland, Ohio, kicked the extra point Well, that was just the starter.

A few minutes later Cadet Smith, a heads-up fellow at all times, intercepted a pass by Art Honegger and ran it back 15 to the California 30. Then Cadet Smith crashed right tackle for 15 and in a couple of more plays he went over the left side 10 yards for the touchdown, burying his noggin into Little Joe Stuart's mid-section as he crossed the goal line. We couldn't hear It from press oox aisiance Dut we can well imagine that Little Joe went "oomph." It looked like it hurt. SMITH'S MASTERPIECE. Be that as it may, the Air Devils got to the Bear 5.

yard line in the second quarter but didn't again until the last minute of the first half when Cadet Smith fielded a pass by Cal's Bob Weeks and ran it back 30 yards to pay dirt. This was Cadet Smith's masterpiece. A half dozen Bears had shots at him but he slithered away from some, straightarmed others and continued on his merry way, nice as you piease. The touchdown run came directly after a fumsle had robbed Pre- Flight of a score. The Air Devils had only a yard to go when Cadet Rosetto dropped the ball just short of the goal line.

Bill Hatchen. Bear tackle, fell on the bide in the end cone and the officials ruled it a touchback. On the next play, Cali fornia tried a pass from its own 20 with the aforesaid painful result. Cadet Smith was on the job. The half ended with the score 19 to 0, but the worst was yet to come.

The Pre-Flighters punched out three quick touchdowns in the third period, then called it a day and gave the poor Bears a chance to look good against the lesser members of their iquad. Cadet Smith registered the first of these, on a 26 yard cutback through left fuard, a mighty pretty piece of usiness, we might add. The boy from Minnesota seemed to breeze past Bear defenders. When he got to Honegger on the 10 yard stripe he stuck out his richt arm and established contact with Honegger's beezer. Verily.

Cadet Smith peeks a mean straight rm. We trust the Bears learned something from it With the score to 0 for his side, Cadet Smith (Continued on Page 4, Col 7.) its cadets along: to the Yale Bowl but there was an Army parade The all-victorious Cadet football- era staged this one with all the trimmings, displaying their gridiron equivalents of heavy tanks. big guns and an assortment of block busters as they walloped Yale's very-blucs, 39-7, and ran their winning string to five straight for the season. Before a crowd of 33,000 the West Pointers pushed four touchdowns over In the first half and waltzed to another pair in the last two quarters as they completely outclassed the home club, except for a few brief moments in the second half. One of these moments came the third period, when Ray Scus sell blasted through the middle 1 I of the Army line, to galop 73 yards which was strictly soft pick-to the West Point eight.

Fourjin's for the Army forwards plays Inter, Scussell passed to AljGeorgie Maxon, a hard-running Mahoney down the alley for Yale's Texan, went over his left guard for lone score. seven yards to count one of the On. 14-7 1S(1IIII1 lit HI IP PITTSBURGH. Oct. 23.

UNS) After a scoreless first half, Pittsburgh University scowd once in the third quarter and twice In the last to defeat Bethany College, 18 to 0. A strong Bethany line held Coach Clark Shaughnessy's Panthers scoreless until the third period, when Johnny Itzel broke through for the first appreciable yardage to enable Kalmanir of Pitt to make the first score of the game. The second Tltt touchdown came in the final quarter with a long pass from Joe Mocha to Joe Pierre. A few minutes later Kalmanir bucked the Bethany line for the third Pitt tally. A fourth Pitt score was nullified by a penalty.

down. But he Wildcats were offside on the play and it gave the Mustangs the first down. The payoff followed. After another five yard offside penalty, this time against Lincoln, Bob Wood-worth threw an incomplete pass and then Di Pietro's number was called. He threw in the left flat.

The defending halfback, Tom Kelly. stumbled momentarily as he tried to cover, then made a leaping one handed stab. But he couldn't get to the pigskin and it sailed true to End Hal Stone. Picking up block ers, he toured down the sideline to the decisive touchdown. Riley again converted and, from then on.

the Mustangs set everything to stopping Martin's passes. One got to the Lincoln thirty-one, but the Mustangs, who spread men allover the field and left only four men up front, stopped the threat when Di Pietro snared a Martin throw right out of Jack Grealish's hands in the end lone for a touch-back. Line stars' were numerous, par ticularly St. Ignatius' Tackle Sil Ravetti. Guard Lloyd Madigan and Center Jim McCaffrey.

But they contributed no more than did the Mustangs' captain and center, Bill Gebbie, "Chick' Kelly and uon Rooker. The last named provided a strong punting game. Itesults W. Virginia S3, Carnegie Tech 9. Carson-Newman 17, Howard Tulane 12, Southern Methodist 8.

Xnvier 8. Alabama State 6. Louisiana State 27. Georgia 6. orln arolina State 7, Green- ijp rmy g.

Arkansas A.iM. 61, Camp Robin- son 0. Camp' Lejeune 20, Jacksonville XWake Forest 21. Virginia Military n. Vanderbllt 40, Camp Campbell Bombers 14.

MnnvEST. Indiana 31. Wisconsin 0. Michigan 49, Minnesota Notre Dame 47, Illinois 9. Northwestern 18, Ohio State D.

Purd-ie 28. Iowa 7. Miami (Ohio) 35, Ohio Wesleyan 0. Oberlin 46. Wooster 0.

Missouri Mines 18, Missouri 0. Oklahoma 37. Kansas State Elmhurst 19. heaton 19. Cornell (Iowa) 27, Luther 8.

Concordia 2. Minot Teachers 12. Farlham It. Franklin 6. Bunker Hill Navy Air Station ST.

Alma S. SOUTHWEST. Rich 0. Texas Ales 8, Texas A. M.

0 (tie). Tul 55, Utah 0. This marked the first time this coring. Joe Busceml's recovery of an Iowa fumble on the Iowa 26 set up the next score. Four plays later Butkovlch cracked over from the three.

In the closing minute, Nate Luskin tell on an Iowa pas from center that went wild in the end cone and Purdue scored again. The Iowan'i drove 44 yards to their score after recovering a Butkovirh fumble, Paul Glasen-er climaxed the effort with a 19-yard touchdown gallop. 3 fission Protests Poly Routs Bears, 31-0 By Bob Brachman Pending further investigation, Poly's Parrots are claimants to a 31-0 victory over Mission's Bears scored in a pre-noon prep pridiron battle at Kezar yesterday. But if the evidence presented by the Bears Coach Pop Elder can be substantiated, league officials will have no choice but to declare the Bears 1-0 winners on forfeit Elder charges that Hal McNulty, who scored one of the Parrots' five touchdowns, was not eligible be cause he was not officially registered. Coach Milt Axt of Poly ssys he had turned in a pink- slip for the reserve half at the start of the season and that Robert W.

Dock! the league registrar, was given ad ditional information on McNulty when it was asked for. Uldrr claimed McNulty never was approved and consequently Mission should be declared the vic tor although a club never was less deserving. The Parrots Bill Wrhltehorn and Duke Marlowe passed the Bears to death, covering 293 yards on ten pitches, among them single long gainers of 80, 41, 45 and 47 yards Poly scored twice in the first pe riod, once in the second and twice in the fourth. TWO FIGHTS. Maybe it was the crisp morning air that had everybody roiled but after Elder insisted, under a league ruling, that the Parrots tape on numhers rront and oack, tempers flared all over the place.

Right after Whitehorn had pitched 22 yards to Jack Feyock who rap another 58 to score in the first period Poly's Tackle Don Tucker was tossed out of the game for slugging I i 'a Ernie Skiadas. Two minutes later. Werner Plagge. the Parrots' other tackle, and Halfback Ray Fassler of the Bears put on an honest to good ness punching show. Fassler didn't like the way Plagge blocked him and when Werner called him a little so and so, Ray.

who had to spot his man something like forty pounds. started swinging. Half a dozen punches were thrown when Plagge suddenly brought over a right hand that sat Rsy right on his britches. Both were run off the field and the PRrrot downpour resumed in earnest. MORE SCORES.

The Parrots went seventv-two yards for their next score, White-horn passing to Bob Peacock for forty-one in one sweep and scoring from the one. In the second period, the Parrots went sixty-three yards. Peacock tossing to Bob Peterson for forty-five and McNulty throwing to Peterson for the last fifteen. The final period wasn't two minutes old when Marlowe threw to Dave Johnson for forty-seven, then to Bill Parness for seventeen and the fourth touchdown. Elder was fit to be tied when Ast put over the Insult of insults.

He inserted little Rock Castillo, the smallest player In the history of the league, and Rock, whose four foot ten inch frsme holds a heart just as bie. took the Parrots over from thirty-one yards out. Feyock accounting for the final yard. with three touchdowns In the final stanza, ihe Holler makers, as usual, were, paced by Tony Butkovlch, the high scorer of the Big Ten. He crossed the Iowa line three times.

Early in the second period, Butkovlch tied the count when he climaxed a personally ronducte.d 48-vard drive by scoring from the eight. With 12 minutes to go, Butkovlch raced S8 yards and one play later ate up SO more yards in Before 23. (AP) Army didn't bring to inarch before the game today, just the same. season Army has been scored on, but that only gave 'the Yales a little something to write home about, because by that time Army had the thing all iced up and ready to be served. The military marches were good for 48, 48, S3, 49, 65 and 60 yards in their scoring drives.

Three touchdowns came via the air waves, with Tom Lombardo heaving 30 yards to Carl Anderson for one of them and Glenn Davis, the California Cyclone, pitching to Dob Mackinnon for 24 and to Ed Ra- falko for 33 for the other two. IniLINE DBIYES. These air trips were alternated with three tallies through the Yale 'ground tnllies. in the first quarter. would just as soon rorget.

"Harmon, it must he remem bered, was a great football player in said the Bear boss. "He had the advantage of playing with Michigan team mates for years. They knew his every move, were prepared to help him and did. "Smith was an All American In college, ton. But here lie is still starring out of college and with a group of men with whnul he has been playing for but.

two-weeks. And he's still great-will be greater as he goes along." We walked awav from there thinking of that-thinking that here in Bruce F-nifi is not only the ideal footUill player but the idcal leader of rr.cn who will make a great navsl ofiicer tome day, a great flyer if that is the role In w'lich he is to be cast, for he will have the hearty co-operation of everyone with whom he comes in contact. So we went back again to see Smith. And we asked him about his return to football. "You know, sir," politely answered this unassuming ace, "I feel lucky to be back in the game.

I was an apprentice seaman at Great Lakes and had given up football but I went to see the All Star game In Chicago and that ruined any intent. So here I am again. And happy. Oil boy am I happy." Tops in Table Tennis ST. LOUIS, Oct 3.

(AP)-Wll-liam Holzrichter of Chicago, petty officer at Great Lakes Navsl Training Ststion, today was rsnked the Nation's top table tennis plsyer by the United States Tabls Tennis Association. Proves All American Flight Dressing Room By Harry M. Hayward And Bruce Smith has seen to iUmon of Michigan, a man Allison and 4,000 spectators who jammed u. s. ricia Dicacners ten dbck utterly exhausted as the weary gridders dragged themselves away, Blocks and tackles were so sav age it sounded as if someone were firing a series of cannon shots.

Every time Ptomaine Tommy Mar tin, the Ignatian flame, wound up and let go a 50-yarder he made the weak of heart weaker. But Ptomaine Tommy and his mates, who had to give away weight, just couldn match the talents of the charging Lincoln forward wall. Nor could thev stoD the bull-like rushes of Bob DiPietro who tore at the Wildcat forwards like a man possessed. DIPIETRO STARS. DiPietro it was who swayed the pendulum in Lincoln's favor.

Almost single handedly he battered through, over and around the Ignatius line 60 yards for the first Lin coln touchdown. The drive started in the first period and was climaxed early in the second when the 165 pound battering ram Jammed through left guard from the six inch line. Mike Riley con verted and Coach Neil Sheridan of the Mustangs started turning cart wheels. He had barely completed one end and was starting another when Ptomaine Tommy sent him spin ning for fair. Richt after little Billv Slatterv had returned the next kickoff 13 yards to the Ignatius 24, Martin spread his mates across the field and wound up.

ar downneia went the ball with end Johnny Richardson racing along the sideline. Almost as if worked by strings, the ball nestled in Johnny's arms Just a's he looked up on the Mustang 40 and he sped the remainder of the distance to the goal line witn rtaipn Schaumfleffel in futile pursuit The play covered 67 yards. Ptomaine Tommy played it smart by passing to Mike O'Connell for the extra point and the game settled into gruelling defensive struggle with Martin pitching and Di Pietro smashing. It went that way until dame Tor- tune smiled on the Mustanss late in the third period. Lincoln had moved twenty yards to the Ignatius thirty-five, where Dl Pietro was stopped shoi-t of yardage on fourth Football WEST T.

R. C. Pacific 0. Washington 27, March Field 7. St.

Mary's Pre-Flight Call forma (I, Coast Guard 46, Plcasanfon avy 6. Colorado College 10, Colorado b. Diego -Navy So, Compton J. C. 0, EAST.

C. S. Coast Guard J7, Bates Colgate 20. Cornell 7. Franklin and Marshal 28, Muhlen berg 6.

Lafayette 39. Lehigh 7. Penn State 45, Slarytond 0. Pittsburgh 18, Bethany 0. Swarthmore 79, CCNY 0.

Tufts 18, Camp Edwards 7. Army 39, Yale 7. Pennsylvania 83, Columbia 0. Brown 62, Camp Kilmer S. Sampson Naval Training, Station 7, R.P.I.

0. Phillips Andover Academy 20, I. of Maine 6. Georgia Tech II, Navy 28. Navy 28, Georgia Tech 14.

SOUTH. Camp Davis 27, Davidson Curtis Bay Coast Guard 13. Fort Monroe 9. N. Carolina Georgia Preflight SB, Preflight 7.

Camp Grant 13, Fort Riley 13 (tie). mates a friendship' which ch- wmi. Joe has a game of football to: take along with him. He's an All American with his mates, men! "What a said Ensign Ray McCarthy, former Bronc who is; team quarterback. "It's a pleasure.

play with him. He inspires you. 'He's the most unassuming fellow ever met, always the frame1 and always sincere." I Tnose sentiments were echoed byj CoBph Npison. Athletic Director; u)c ui. vvaa'Ui.

ri iiiid i i.iiiiv i Assistant Coach Lieut. Bailey, and the whole Air Devil dressing room. And by Coach "Stub" Allison as well. STIB I.Al'DS SMITH. "You know why the boy an AH American?" queried Allison.

"Well, only because he's a great fothall player but because he's a great guy as well. "Remember that fourth touchdown which he made in the third quarter when he reversed his en tire field twice and ran 26 yards to score? Well, did you see what he did Immediately after he planted the ball behind the goal line? He ran among his team mates and picked out each and every guy who blocked for him on the play and hurled and thanked him for the help tht blocker gave. "No wonder he's an AU American!" "Can yon Imagine how team nme of his felt when they saw All American Bruce standing there actually thankirg THEM for making it possible for him to score! They'll go to places for him from now on tn! -HE great" Tes Allison thinkt he's greet, possibly greater than Tommy Har- dividends when those teammates do the blocking for him on Saturday afternoons. Having seen that we'll wager that Smith gets better as the season progresses better despite the fact that he scored three touchdowns to feature the Pre-Flight defeat of California today. He'll get better because he's already the most popular man on the Navy squad and he'll hf 'em all fighting and blocking for him from now in.

We entered just as a teammate came into the room with the gam Dan ana tossea it to Smith saying. "Here, Bruce, Its aU "Oh, no it that ball belongs to Joe, please give it to quickly replied the game tar. JOE GETS BALL. "Joe" was Joe Wright, former prep school star from Pontiac. and a fine halfback in his own right.

Joe scored two touchdowns Vimself against those Bears and merited that football if Smith didn't take it And Smith wouldn't. No. Joe Wright hss but one more game to play for Pre-Fllght, against the Fourth Air Force eleven next Sunday at Kezar Stadium. And then Joe will graduated to further Navy flying Instruction along with six other members of Coach "Spike" Nelson's squad..