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IN THIS CORNER; By JACK CUDDY (United Press Correspondent) NEW YORK, Nov. 23. Picking the football winners maybe Marmajell came slinking into our office today. This attractive, golden brown dancing gal from the island of Bali wore a white bandage about the upper part of her noggin. Before we could Inquire about her accident, Marmajell said sheepishly, "I am so sorr-ee about las' week.

Zee seven dwarfs let us down with their football winnairs." "Let us down!" we declared tartly. "They ruined us. That list of selections they gave you was one of the worst of the season. They had 32 right, 14 wrong and four ties, for a right and wrong average of .686." Marmajell reiterated, "I am so sorr-ee. But zees time I will have zee winnairs very good, I peecked zem myself In a dream.

When I am working at zee Jessjames nightclub, dancing you know, my feet sleeped out and I fall down on my head boom! When I wake oop in zee hospit-al, I have had zee beautiful dream in wheech all zee football winnairs come to me just like zat." So here are Marmajell's dream winners: 1 East Duquesne over Carnegie Tech apparently stronger offense. Cornell over Pennsylvania the "Big Reds" roll on. Princeton over Navy but too close for comfort. Also Columbia over Colgate, Harvard over Yale, Pittsburgh over Penn State, Villanova over Manhattan, George Washington over Bucknell, Boston college over Kansas State. Mississippi Midwest Southern California over Dame by one touchdown.

Ohio State over Michigan rlor power. Oklahoma over Nebraska Inni this is a tough one. Notre -supe-- but hold your breath. Also Iowa over Northwestern, Minnesota over Wisconsin, Purdue over Indiana, Missouri over Kansas, Temple over Michigan State, and Illinois over Chicago. 1 South State over Missis- Auburn over Georgia anything can happen here, also.

Duke over North Carolina State should be easy. Also Tulane over Sewanee, Georgia Tech over Florida, Clem-son over Furman, Miami over South Carolina. 0 Pacific Coast J) Oregon State over U.C.L.A., Oregon over Washington, and Stanford over California. Southwest Southern Methodist over Baylor, Texas Christian over Klce ana Texas Tech over Montana. I Mountain Big Seven Brlgham Young over Wyoming.

Arizona to Permit Hunting of Buffalo mv Associated Press) PHOENIX, Nov. 23. Growth of the state's buffalo herd to the size where it exceeds its water and food sources resulted to- Hav in the Arizona game depart snt'i ripnision to conduct two hunts during 1940. TTiftv of the herd's 243 will be lain during the hunts, scheduled for Jan. 12.

13, 14 and 15 and Feb 16, 17, 18 and 19. Out of state hunters are eligible. rritoaw with a pass interception Texans Have Floor-Shout for Aggie Eleven! By ROBERT MYERS (Associated Press Sports Writer) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23. When 50 or more big, brawny, ex-Texas Aggies ask for the floor, it I a very wise idea to give it to them because they can be most persuasive.

The former farmers, it appeared, wanted to sound a few gentle tom-toms for Southwestern conference football in general and the unbeaten Texas Aggies in par-ticular, and they called a meeting for the purpose. It began last night and was still going strong at last reports. Chairman and keynoter of the FEE GAME ENDS AS STUDENTS RIOT Wild Spartan Crowd Swarms on Field, Tears Down Goal Posts and Hides Ball By ROBERT FAHS (United Press Correspondent) FRESNO. Nov. 23.

The San Jose State Spartans scored in every period to run rough-shod over the Fresno State Bulldogs 42-7 today in the breakfast bowl football game to become the only undefeated untied team on the Pacific Coast and take the championship of the new California Collegiate Athletic association. San Jose State completely outplayed a nervous, over-anxious Fresno team playing before a record breaking sell-out crowd of 14,000 fans in this Raisin city. The game was called a few seconds before the final gun sounded when wild San Jose students and supporters swarmed onto the field, tore down one goal post and hid the Via 11 frnrn the referee. STUDENTS nuni aHirie.nts were injured, UC viw none seriously, in fiat ngnts i started when Fresno State supporters attempted to prevent goal posts from being torn down. It was the first meeting in nv years Detween me untied teams Decauae severed atheltic reiationsnip rough play in.

games. The game to- day was hard iougni, only three or four times was there a penalty for unnecessary roughness. Fresno suffered a sef-back in the third period when they were penalized 15 yards each on two consecu tive plays when linesmen ruled to have caught illegally partially blocked passes. OPEN suumrtu San Jose State opened the scoring in the rout with a loucnauwii ho first nerind that was to be come the first in a game that totaled more points than had been scored on Fresno State in eigni previous games. The San Jose State score came on a run around right end from the Fresno 10 yard line after the Spartans faked a field goal attempt on fourth down.

Herman Set- tcrquist, halfbacK, wno pmyeu Unnt hall all the time ne was the game, made the touchdown and Guard Ken Cook converted. Tn.tha second period San Jose State End George Terry recovered one of Fresno State's numerous fnmhies throughout the game. The hall uroa taken nn the Fresno 29 vard line and Leroy Zimmerman halfback, smashed over left tackle, reversed his field and ran to (Continued on Page Nineteen Alert College of Pacific Trims Chico Staters (By United Press) STOCKTON, Nov. 23. An alert College of Pacific football team took the advantage of all the breaks here today and defeated the Chico State Wildcats 31-6.

The Tigers displayed a tricky passing attack, and excelled in every department of play. They scored three of their five touchdowns in the final quarter, all on breaks. Pacific scored early In the opening period when the line broke through to block a punt by Chico Halfback Alan Carmak. The Tiger left halfback, Dale Halbert, came up to fall on the ball in the end rone. Another Pacific touchdown came early in the second, when Halbert caught a 12-yard pass from Halfback Bob Kicntz over the goal line.

The score followed a 41-yard drive. A 49-yard pass from Halfback Ron Lan to End Ron Farley accounted for the only tally made by Chico. The Bengals scored three times In final minutes as Chico desperately attempted to complete passes. Half Bob Adnmlna passed six yards tn End Eric Jacobscn to score, and two minutes later Halfback Stan Vaueban. nut the Tigers in scoring on the Chico 15.

On the next play Vaughan skirted end to score. On the following kickoff, Chico fumbled and Pacific recovered on the Chico 17. Bill Thomas scam pered outside tackle for the final score. affair was Mr. Victor M.

(Choc taw) Kelly, a man who once as-tounded the football world with a 245-yard run for a touchdown for A. and M. against Louisiana State. The keynote, said Mr. Kelly, admitting aside that his famous run may have gathered a few yards In the retelling since he made it In 1907, was this: "The Aggies will smell roses for the next three years!" There was a slight Interruption at this point when a listener, later Identified as a University of Texas man, muttered, "You may have to delete the roses from that 42 SOMETHING DIFFERENT NEW YORK- Teaching a back how to use a change of pace is one of the most difficult things in football, says Dr.

Mai Stevens, N. Y. U. coach, BUCK HANSON OF THE BADGERS line after Texas gets through with you next week." But there was a dull thud, silence, and the chairman resumed: "As I was saying, we will smell roses. But any team picked by the grid experts of the nation as the finest in the land, any team that goes through a schedule like A.

and M. has done, well, that team doesn't have to beg for a rose or a bowl to put it In. We didn't play The Citadel, Chatta-nooga, Sewanee "Huh! Sewanee," growled grey-haired Frank Sheridan, class of about '98, A. and "last time we played Sewanee we beat 'em 69-0. Used our fourth string and FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1939 Caltech Grid Player Dies Of Injuries (By Associated Press) PASADENA, Nov.

23 Nineteen- year-old Paul Becker, Z47-pouna center on the California Institute of Technology football team, died at a hospital today without regaining consciousness after his skull was fractured in a Caltech game with LaVerne college here last night. Imprints of shoe cleats wero found on his head, ne was in-jured in a pile-up of players in the third quarter of the game, which Caltech won 13-7. Becker was the son of Paul Becker, Los Angeles postal em-ploye and was considered one of the outstanding centers ot ino Southern California footoaii con ference. Catholic Ends Season With Grid Victory (By United Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 23.

Catholic university closed a highly successful season today by administering a 35-14 defeat to Long Island unl-versity before a crowd of 7,300 persons at Ebbets field. Catholic scored five touchdowns and had the game well under control at all times. C. Pirro converted after each touchdown, making his season's record 18 conversions out of 21. By virtue of today's victory Catholic finished the season with a record of eight victories and one defeat.

still couldn't hold down the score." AN JOSE RUINS TO PRT Beauttmo 7 PAGE 17 Sourdough Nuggets in Alaskan Grid Win By AL ANDERSON JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 23. The Sourdough Nuggets won the first football game here in 23 years today with a 6-0 victory over the Baronof Bears as the early Alaskan ingnt iibiu More than 1.000 persons saw the first annual Gold Bowl game, ana for many of them it was the first of their lives. Laid out in the gulch where Joe Juneau and Dick Harris first discovered trnld. the field was as niB'D'ed as the Dlav of the teams collected from mines and construe tion camrjs.

Rain swamped the field as tem- nfii-atures hovered around 40 ae a "warm fall day," and the Nuggets pounded to the lone tally in the last minute of the first half through a sea of mud. Most of the players had been high school and college gridders "out side" in the states, and snowed their long stretch out of uniform. Max Lewis, 175-pound naiiDacn, carried the ball over for the score. Trappers and miners came over the snow-covered hills for miles on dogsled and snowshoes, and argu-j ments waxed hot tonight as points of the game were debated on city corners. Helen Troy Bender, daughter of Alaska's governor, dedicated the field as she cracked a bottle of champagne on a goal post between halves.

The 50 men on the two squads had worked out for a month under Coach Tom Dyer of the Bears, former professional athlete, and Con rad Puhr, who learned his technique (Continued on Page Nineteen) "We "don't have to make any apologies for our schedule, and we don't have to kneel down for a post season game. "Naturally," Kelly wound up, "we would like to see A. and M. play out here. We know that the sight of that big team, those 6,000 cadets of the rooting section, who think enough of that team to stand on their feet the entire game, and that 250 piece band "It's 265 pieces," he was correct' ed.

"Well, we know the college, founded in 1876, would provide all the color anybody could want. We would also provide the best football team in the United States." FOOTBALL SCORES Pomona high 14, San Bernardino high 6. Santa Ana J.C. 14, Fullerton J.C. 7.

Weber J.C. 21, Riverside J.C. 19. Chaffey J.C. 14, Idaho Southern Branch 13.

San Jose State 42, Fresno State 7. Oregon 13, Washington 20. Tempe Teachers 0, San Diego Marines 18. Idaho 0, Denver 23. Whitman 8, Willamette 7.

California Ramblers 25, Sacra mento J.C. 0. Baldwin Wallace 22, Ohio Wesley an 7. Syracuse 10, Maryland 7. Western Reserve 18, Mass 0.

Army Jayvees 46, Dartmouth Jay. vee 14. Cape Girardeau (Mo.) Tchrs. 24, Carbondale Tchrs. 0.

Bradley 0, Illinois Wesleyan 6. Utah State 0, Utah 27. Georgia Tchrs. 7, Armstrong Jun ior College 0. L.S.U.

Northeast Center 0, Arkan sas Tech 27. Wayne 7, Western (Mich.) State 6. Missouri Valley 8, Warrensburg Tchrs. 7. Marvville 13.

Newberry 40. Missouri School of Mines 0, Wash ington U. 32. West Virginia Wesleyan 13, Mar shall 47. Toledo 20, Xavier 0.

Catholic U. 35. Lona Island U. 14. La Salle 20, Pennslvania Military College 0.

Gettysburg 49, Dickinson 7. Ursinus 0, Franklin and Marshall 40. Springhill 7, Loyola 13. Erskine 0, The Citadel 34. Miami 0, Cincinnati 13.

Salem 0, West Liberty Tchrs. 19. Peru Neb. Tchrs. 18, Tarkio 0.

Sourdoughs 6, Baronof Bears 0 (Gold Bowl), William Jewell 20, Central 7. Hastings College 21, Springfield Teachers 25. Davey O'Brien Stars As Eagles Triumph (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23-Davey O'Brien and Franny Murray pitched and. kicked the Philadelphia Eagles to Iheir first national professional football league victory of the season today, Davey firing two touchdown passes and Murray kicking a 31-yard field goal for a 17 to 14 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates before a crowd of 20,000.

QUITE A CROWD GLASGOW Hampden park soccer stadium is capable of accom modating 183,388 fans when all seating facilities are utilized to fullest extent. UTAH WINS, REMAINS IN BIG SEVEN RACE (By United Press) SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 23. University of Utah remained in the running for at least a tie for the Big Seven conference championship hv swamning Utah State 27 to 0 before 17,000 fans in Ute stadium here today. The game was razzle dazzle all the way with both teams passing and fumbling freely.

Utah scored when the game was four minutes young on a straight march down the field after taking the kickoff. Tom Pace and Izzy Spector, star Utah backs, packed the mail most of the way. Spector went over from the four standing up. His attempted conversion was low. Three minutes after the second quarter started Utah tallied again, taking the ball on the Utah 20, the Redskins went down the field fast.

The drive included a 38 yard run by Spector on a reverse from Turner. Turner made the score from the three and Spector converted. Seven minutes later, after the Aggies had been allowed only three plays, Utah started a march on their 21, and on passes and reverses went to the Aggie seven. Here, Pete Bogden came around left end and over the goal standing up. Spector converted.

After 10 minutes in the second half, after the Aggies had threatened but failed to gain when the chips were down, Utah went 52 yards and Pace reversed to Spector who scored standing up. Jack Mc-Kissick drop-kicked the conversion. LIUVUWULV (By United Press) WALLA WALLA, Nov. 23. The Bearcats of Willamette university were knocked out of the Pacific Northwest conference championship race for the first time in seven years today when Whitman college upset the Salem, eleven 8-7.

It was the first Whitman victory over Willamette since 1928 and marked the end of the Bearcats' conference domination, unbroken since 1932: The loss gave the conference title to Pacific university of Forest Grove, which tied for the title last year with Willamette. 4 DiMaggio, Bride in Arizona Honeymoon (By Associated Press) TUCSON, Nov. 23. Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees outfield star, and his bride, the former Dorothy Arnold of the movies, continued their honeymoon today under southern Arizona skies. Married in San Francisco Sunday, they arrived last night and planned leave for the east later today by car.

Scores for Washington pi- harkfield star, who scored the Huskies' first touchdown yesterday as his team scored a 20-13 upset victory over Ore gon. DENVER DRUBS IDAHO VANDALS fRv Aaqnnlatpd PreBS DENVER, Nov. 23. Denver university smothered Idaho 23 to 0 here today in the Vandal's first football appearance in Colorado. After a scoreless initial period, the Big Seven conference team rolled up 16 points in the second quarter.

The first touchdown was counted by Sam Sugarman, half back, on a 65-yard pass and run. Fred Powers, Denver end, place-kicked a 46-yard field goal, one of the longest in mountain sports history, and Walsmith counted after a 37-yard Denver drive. Denver's final counter came when Butch Scheitl intercepted an Idaho pass in the third and raced 21 yards to the goal. Idaho didn't threaten seriously. Willamette Upset 8-7 by Whitman OLYMPUS NABS $10,000 EVENT (By Associated Press) BOWIE, Nov.

23. Olympus, handsome English stakes winner, saved his speed for a final sprint and came on to win handily by two lengths in the Bryan and O'Hara Memorial handicap, feature race on the Thanksgiving day program today. William Woodward's chestnut colt, by Gallant Fox out of Perl winkle II, was second choice In the betting and naid $10.60, 5.90 and 4.50 for $2. Aluminio, a rank out sider, took the place from War Minstrel by a head. Challephen, the W.

L. Brann favorite, was fourth, an other head back. The winner's time was 2:02. Aluminio paid $37 and 15.90. War Minstrel returned $8.80.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. wing, A. Cowards six-year-old son of Ariel, today won the Thanksgiving handicap, $2,000 feature race opening the Thanksgiving winter season here, by a half length over Jumping Jill. Supreme Sir was third. The winner, favorite in the race, paid $4.20 in the $2 mutuels.

L. A. Bulldogs Win By Husky 65-0 Score (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23. The Los Angeles Bulldogs burled the Davton Bombers under an avalanche of touchdowns today, 65 to 0, in an American professional league football game before 6,000 fans at Gil-more stadium.

MM WASHINGTON IN UPSET VICTORY OVER FAVORITE Jay Graybeal Scores AH Points For Webfoots but Unable to Carry Full Burden Alone By GEORGE E. JONES (United Press Correspondent) SEATTLE, Nov. 23. The University of Washington upset a highly favored University of Oregon football team with a slashing 20-13 Pacific Coast conference victory before 25,000 persons today. Washington outclassed the sup- posedly strong Oregon squad with a triple-offense that ripped through the Webfoot defenses with little It was a heartbreaking game ior Jay Graybeal, who scored all Ore gon's points in the imai game oi his collegiate gridiron career, running his string of scores to mora than half of the Oregon total for the season.

SWEET FOR PHELAN For Coach Jimmy Phelan, it wai a sweet victory, giving him lour straight wins after dropping four straight In the season's opening. Graybeal marked up the first score of the game with a difficult angle field goal from the Washington 20-yard line in the second period. On the kickoff, Washington; began a downfield drive that ended only when Jones drove through from the one-foot line for a touchdown. Mizen converted to put tha Huskies in front 7-3. Before the half ended, Graybeal was over, the goal, clutching a 26- yard pass from Smith, and then converted his own touchdown at the half ended with Oregon leading 10-7.

In the third period Washington took the kick on its 35, and aided by an Interference penalty, went down to the 16 where Steele took it over on a surprise play from T-for-mation. TIES SCORE, 13-13 Graybeal's field goal tied up th score at 13-13 a few plays later, and then Washington took the kickoff and passed and ran to the nine yard line, where Stackpool went over center for the winning tally. Berg converted. Washington completed 12 out of (Continued on Page Nineteen) Clarcarole Cops Holiday Turf Feature (Bv Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23.

Clarcarole, owned by Mrs. R. E. Cooper, Los Angeles, won the Thanksgiving day feature at Tan-foran today, nosing out Black Highbrow and Millrose in a photo finish. The time for the six furlongs was 1:1215.

Clarcarole, named after Clark Gable and Carole Lombard of the films, paid $13.20, $6.60 and $4.60. Black Highbrow paid $11.40 and $8.20 and Millrose paid $6.60. San Diego Marines Upset Tempe Teachers, 18-0 (By Associated Press) SAN DIEGO, Nov. 23. A versatile, hard-hitting San Diego Marine football team continued its march among the unbeaten, untied outfits of the nation by conquering the vaunted Tempe State college Bulldogs, 18 to 0, before 6,000 Thanks- By John Lardner and Grant Powers I ssCK- Wf I aEAwc hi 1 1 1 sSr umon's down mm 1N tub UNEUp WW, Ml sgfzr- -( FOOTBALL Jf DON'T-KNOv ffk SOITAINLV Otff wo He is Jf 00 you know Wtzi He's mv nephew JlillINg-V r( giving day fans.

Maj. Elmer Hall's Devil Dogi, after being checked within striking: distance of the goal line twice la tha flraf half hoirnn rollingr 111 earnest during the two closing; quarters and punched their way the end zone three times. At no time did Tempe threaten, the clo est Dixie Howell's Bulldogs wer able to get being the Marine 23-yard line late in the opening haH, The Devil Dogs garnered weir first touchdown midway in mm third session, going 6T yards, wltbi Jackie Rawls cutting off tackle low the last two yards. AI Montriof failed to convert. Soon after the fourth quartoi' started, the Marines went to tha air and recorded another toucV down, Cecil Cook taking a pa from Don Gibson to completa 47-yard play.

Bob Hughey missed th try for point. Four plays after the next kickoff Ed Toos, Marine end, broke through and blocked a punt by Darwood Fanning, and Bob Tromotter, Devil Dog, scooped up the ball and ip4 10 yards across tha goal. Anal Hughcy's placement attempt wl bad. The Marines ran up 14 first dwn to 10 for the Border confnrenra champions and completed seven out of nine passea whlla tha Bulldo.a ollcked on four out ot lfi.

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