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1 1 TO rn There If Goes-Field Goal That Downed Ducks! 4th Period FG Beats Back Bid By Game Foe Fumbles Won It: Hayes By BOB McKINNEY -Sec. II cccc THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1958 PASADENA, Jan. 1. By PRESCOTT SULLIVAN ROSE BOWL, PASADENA, Jan.

1. The Big Ten Woody Hayes, the Ohio won the game as it almost always docs, but backers of Pacific Coast Conference football collected all bets mighty Ohio State barely turned back "little" Oregon, 10 to 7, in the 44th Rose Bowl classic this golden bright afternoon. A fourth quarter field goal was all that saved the day for the National championship Buckeyes who entered the con- est as 20 point favorites and were generally expected to mop up the gridiron with the underrated Webfoots from the Willamette Valley. Don Sutherin, a senior specialist from Toronto, Ohio, kicked the tiebreaker from the 24 yard line on the third play of the final period only a few minutes after a similar attempt by Oregon had failed from the same position on the field. The big boot was the only significant difference between the two teams in an amazing contest which right up to the very end could have veered the other way.

Even when it was all over, none of the 98,202 persons who witnessed the battle could be sure the better team had State coach, had it figured out this way: "We won because they gave us the ball four times, twice on fumbles and twice on pass interceptions. We had no fumbles and no intercepted passes. "Oregon played a tremendous game. It moved as well as any team we've met all season. But if we can take the ball away four times like we did, we figure we're going to win." The coast team was finally turned back when the Buckeyes' Leo Brown hit Oregon's Ron Stover so hard he fumbled away the pass he had just caught and carried to the Ohio State 24 in the fourth quarter.

DEFENSE TOUGH. In the dressing room, after Oregon's gallant game against the heaviest favorite in modern Rose Bowl history, Hayes was asked to explain why the victory margin had shriveled to a three-pointer. "Mainly," Woody replied, "it was because Oregon had a tougher defense than we thought they'd have. "The passing was great, but we knew they could throw the ball. Everyone passes on us, but only one team (Michigan, 1956) has ever beaten us badly in the last seven years." NEW PLAY.

won. Actually, Oregon had the edge in the statistics and might have given the Big Ten kingpins even more of a scare had it not been for three tough breaks. Oregon Line Star Injured Early These consisted of a pair of fumbles within the Ohio State 30 yard line and the early loss by the Webfoots of one of their finest linemen Co-captain Harry Mondale. The squat, 200 pound guard and team leader wrecked a knee while breaking up Ohio's State's fourth running, play of the game. His replacement, Joe carried on limp- If 33333-3i 3 33 f' 3i II 3 Zl dp 0 1 1 --6 'o- o- fi 3 cV; vf7 "its' mgly under the disadvantage of an injured ankle.

At that, the scrappy Oregon line gave Ohio States vaunted forward wall about all the fight it could handle as the inspired play of Jim Linden, Jerry Kershner, Bob Peter son and Darrcl Aschbacker, among other Webfoot linemen, served to neutralize Buckeye power. That's as far as Hayes could go in his analysis of a nearly Crabtree Named Standout Player Oregon's Jack Crabtree, a veteran quarterback from Lakewood, was named the game's outstanding player by the Helms Award Committee. Crabtree earned the honor but there would have been no complaint had it been voted to either of two teammates Ron Stover, a rangy end from Vallejo, or Jack Morris, a 195 pound fullback from Medford, Ore. i Morris turned in a terrific all-around performancTwhile Stover set a new Rose Bowl record, at least for a coast player, by catching 10 passes for 144 yards. The 6-3, 197 pound junior wingman nabbed everything thrown within his reach and also latched on to some pitches which appeared "impossible" to grab.

Ironically, one of his greatest catches was followed by tragedy. After taking a Crabtree pass and running it to the Ohio State 23, Stover dropped the ball when hit hard by alert Joe Cannavino, a tough Buckeye halfback from Cleveland. Fast Moving Drive Broken Up That was in the fourth quarter when the Webfoots were monstrous upset. "The main new play they pulled was that belly shot to their left, with Jim Shanlcy taking the pitch out," he said. "But like I say, Oregon's defense was the surprise.

Their offense was good, but it only brought them one touchdown. Hayes was asked about Crabtree, who was voted the player of the game. "He's right up there with Randy Duncan of Iowa or any of them in the Big Ten. (See BUCKEYES, UP THE MIDDLE Ohio State and Oregon tween the uprights to decide rugged Rose quarter to break 7-7 tie just after Oregon's nlavcrs watch as 24-vard field iroal kicked Bowl came vesterdav. Sutherin.

a special- Ducks had missed a similar effort. -Aflsoctalfd Ptpsj Wirfin Jto. I C7 by Don Sutherin (circle) sails straight be- ist, got off his winning kick early in fourth Page 6, Col. 3) DRESSING ROOM Ducks in Tears; They COTTON BOWL Navy Conquers trying desperately to overcome the effects of Sutherin's field goal and seemingly succeeding, as well. The bobble broke up a fast moving Oregon drive which had started on the Webfoot 20 and had clicked for three successive first downs.

Crabtree was responsible for the other costly Oregon fumble. On the strength of two big plays by Willie West, a sophomore halfback from San Diego, who ran for 14 yards and passed to the glue-fingered Stover for another 17, the Webfoots were going great guns in the closing stages of the second quarter when Crabtree lost the ball on the Ohio State 29 while attempting a pitchout to Halfback Jim Shanley. Great Job By Oregon Coach West's halfback passes were part of a variegated play pattern cooked up for this game by grey-maned Len Casa Sooners Explode to Rout Duke ted a Win! Inlad Expec ice, 20 to 7 By DAN HAFNER By SHELBY SCATES DALLAS, Jan. 1. (INS) Navy's Midshipmen, By BEN FUNK PASADENA, Jan.

1. Ohio State won the football game, but scrappy little MIAMI Jan. 1. (AP) Oklahoma's alert Sooners champions of eastern football, kept their undefeated post-season record intact today with an explosive 20-7 victory over Rice before 75,504 fans in the Cotton Bowl. with generous help from Lady Oregon won all the other honors in today's thrilling Rose Bowl classic, including the lasting respect of those who came to scoff.

The tears flowed freely as the Webfoots, slowly, almost reluctantly started to peel off their jerseys and head for the showers after a heartbreaking 10-7 loss. Almost to a man, the players felt they should have won. They didn't act as Luck, turned six Duke, mistakes into touchdowns today Guided bv Quarterback Tom Forrestal, who and smashed the Blue Devils 48-21 in the 24th annual coupled precision signal calling with accurate passing, nova. The Oregon coach did a great job himself and he had reason to be wonderfully proud of the players who carried out his strategy. In the locker room after the game, Casanova described the team "the most amazing" he ever coached and called the players "the greatest bunch of kids in the country." He added a note of dubious praise for Los Angeles sports writers who helped build up Oregon's fighting spirit by insisting that Ohio State was the biggest cinch ever to play in Pasadena.

Far from a cinch, as things turned out, the possibly overconfident Buckeyes narrowly averted what would have been one of the greatest upsets in Rose Bowl history. The means of their final success was reminiscent of their 1714 victory over California in the Rose Bowl of 1950. Ohio State also won that one on a field goal by Joe Hague. the missile-swift Middies though they were especially Orange Bowl football game dominated the nationally televised contest with touchdown Quarterback David Baker's the Owls muster the sustained offense to prevent a shutout. With starting Quarterback King Hill, professional foot 94 yard runback of an inter ccpted pass the longest sprint in Orange Bowl history ball's bonus draft choice, got Oklahoma first score.

stopped cold, the Owls ab "I think the turning point in the game came when Ron Stover fumbled after catching a pass on the Ohio Slate 24. But my heavens, allow that boy one mistake, he was great." Casanova thought Quarterback Jack Crabtree deserved MVP honors. He also was high in his praise of Jack Morris, Thereafter the hustling sorbed their first loss in five With today's game, the Pacific Coast Conference suffered Sooners converted two Duke Cotton Bowl appearances. its 11th Rose Bowl defeat in 12 starts against Big Ten opposi- marches in the first, second and third quarters. It was the first win for an eastern team in five Cotton Bowl starts.

Rice, Southwest Conference titleholdcrs, collapsed under the pressure of a steel-riveted sailor line bulwarked by Guard Tony Stremic, who was not supposed to play because of an injured leg, Tackle Bob ning us out of the bowl in the last quarter like they were supposed to, though. "At halftime I told the kids we were fresher and there was no reason hy we should wilt. We had substituted more in the first half. "When we lost Mondalc (Harry) on the fourth play of the game it really hurt us. His sub Schaffeld (Joe), was limping all day from an injury in practice.

We had to use a third string right guard (Bob Heard) in there at left guard much of the fumbles, a blocked punt, a wild snap from center and (See SULLIVAN, Page 6, Col. 1) another pass interception into Navy previously had a Rose Bowl tie and a Sugar Bowl win in its post-season record book. The Middies opened the scoring late in the first quarter with their second unit under the control of Quarterback touchdowns to win by almost Jim Shanley and Tackle Jerry three times the margin the ROBERT KIRS, Ltd. Kershner, oddsmakers had predicted. Casanova said the fact that proud of the way they had played, but, instead, they felt they played just as they expected.

The only thing wrong was they expected to win. "This is the best team in the country," remarked the crestfallen Coach Len Casanova in a voice scarcely above a whisper. "These kids aren't endowed with the greatest natural ability, but they've outgutted everyone they've played. "They've been derided by everyone, but it didn't matter. They played their hearts out.

I'm just sorry they didn't get the victory they deserved. "I think you LA writers can be credited in part for these kids playing one of their best games." Except for Duke's miscues, his team had been installed Reifsnvder aiid End Pete the 76,318 fans who sat out in (See WEBFOOTS, hot sunshine might have seen a hard, close battle, for Duke's time, 1 Paqc 6, Col. 4) KEENSBRITISH Vi4 1 morale remained unshaken Joe Tranchini. Cracking off tackle slants and over center plunges carried the ball to the one vard line, where Tranchini bucked across for the tally. Brandquist missed the extra (See COTTON BOWL, Page 6.

Col. 7) Jokanovich. Stremic, who injured his leg in practice Saturday, earned the sports writers' vote as the "game's outstanding lineman." Not until the third quarter, with alternate field general Frank Ryan at the helm, did throughout the heart break ing run of misfortune. A) Bowl Games Scoring hat with the versatile snap Three times the rugged Blue Devils from the Atlantic Coast Conference showed they could move with authority i Some men prefer a short map to the brim other a longer, more ROSE BOWL Ohio St. 7 0 0 310 Oregon 0 7 0 07 COTTON' BOVL avy 6 7 7 020 Rice 0 0 7 07 ORANGE BOWL SUN BOWL Louisville 7 14 7 634 Drake 7 7 0 6-20 TANGERINE BOWL E.

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Try a Keens British and whichever you prefer, this hat will through the defense of the Nation's No. 4 team by driving 65, 70 and 85 yards for touchdowns. And when the third period ended it was still very much a ball game, with Oklahoma leading just 21-14. In the final quarter, the roof 'Asked if it was the best game his Ducks played all vear. Casanova said he thought I- 3 abide by your choice.

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