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Army .......21 Georgia ...435 Mich. State .26 Holy Cross ..13 Auburn .47 S.M.U. ......30 L.S.U. .......41 U.C.L.A. .4.18 Navy.

GavTech. Wash. State 20 Boston Coll. 6 Florida ......12 T.C.U. ......13 Tulane .....7 'Nebraska I.

0 CLASSIFIED ADS. NEWS SECTION THREE SOUTH BEND, INDIANASUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1946. SECTION THREE. GREAT ARMY MACHINE NICKS NA VY, 21-18 Defeats USC, 26-6, To Remain Unbeaten McGee Off on Start of 77-Yard Touchdown Run. I I "i in nuiinm jj i .1 1 1.

1. jmJfmM, 1 i. 1 "Z-Z' Truman Sees Cadets Squeeze Past Tars BT JIM COSTIX. Tribune Sporti Editor. Notre Dame's tremendous football aquad won its right, to be rated the 1916 national Intercollegiate champion yesterday afternoon when It wound up lta aeason by defeating Southern' California, 26-6, By Aeaodatad Preaa.

MUNICIPAL STADIUM, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. for the Irish a first unbeaten season In five yeara as a sellout ifowd of 56,000 roared approval In the Notre Dame stadium. The gams was played under perfect weather conditions. Army's careening Cadets wound up, their three-year-run unbeaten to- day but only by the squeaky margin of three extra pointa, as tha iiuu Aajnv -vnrv Navy picked itself off the floor from ita worst season in history to VITAL, STATISTICS. XOTBE DAME, I battle the mightiest gridiron machine of a generation to a standstill.

I i r.s.r, los 6 si 4 rmt yards reihlnf rt yard, passing Forwards attempted Forwards 'Forwards Intercepted The score was 21 to and the only reason the impossible didn't happen was because the "monster and his play-mate," Doc i Blanch-ard and Glenn Davis, set off all 1st from an eight-times-beaten Navy team In Its season long battle to gain the No. 1 rating in all polls when the Middies held the vaunted Army team to a t21-18 score, and all but won the game. The final gun found the Sailors on the Cadeta' four yard line after a march from their own 40. Army tied Notre Dame on Nov. 9 by 0-0 score, and.

no other team has come close to holding: the powerful thre-deep Irish quad even, ai the Green Shirts wound up the -season aa the nation's best offensive and defensive! 2 BIT ioa 1 XI 7 ft ifl I I I jfSA GARZON14JSC 1 their sizzling fireworks In the VITAL STATISTICS. AK.MT. KAVT 8 Ftnt Sawn 20 185 Tardi ralnad rwmhlng (net 163 10 Forward sum attempted. 18 Forward pactea ranplrted 11 lOS Tard br forward 1 38 3 Forward pa tarcrcptd 1 Yds. sata.

rnbk. tat. pua J4 30 Pant. ticrhnraafej. 33 It Total yard kirks rrtaracd OppMNt fontbftpa Tarda lM by SS first half, and the middle kicking amber (t( Mil 'Ave.

distaste of pants. 49 rmhtr Ban Umt hmMM A ytmlWf BtWaltlee Tare pesalltH 10 toes couldn't hit tha bullseye. From the start of the second half it was Navy's ball game. It waa a alashing smashing battle Tfimi Mil. of mn Imnwif.

unit to match its unbeaten record rne of the most beautiful ball these fiercely fighting future ad handling and faking by Quarter mirals put up, a fight that saw them dug in on Army'a five-yard back Ratterman that any Irish field general haa ever displayed. The lanky Cincinnati blond, faked CENTRAL FIVE to John Fanelli; then spun and handed the ball to who waa cutting behind him. The play waa so perfectly executed by Ratterman and the SUFFERS LOSS line and still rolling when tha clock ran out of time to put an end to what appeared the makings of one of the most amazing upsets this game of moleskin mayhem has ever seen, Truman Watches Battle. It left the 102,000 eustomera who had this huge south Philadelphia concrete horseshoe bulging at the. seams, among them other Notre Dame backs that it not only fooled the Trojans completely, but practically everybody else in the house.

No one knew where the ball was, or who had it, TO HAMMOND and claim for the national title. Fifth National Title. It waa Notre Dame's 13th urn beaten season, its second national championship in three years, and ita fifth In 22 with the 1941 team, unbeaten but tied by Army exactly the same record as this year'a team made. Including the tie with Army rated the equal of any eleven. Head Coach Frank Leahy didn't ee his charges climax one of the most brilliant years In the history of Notre Dame football.

He has "been confined to his home at Long Beach, near Michigan City, since Monday with an attack of flu and laryngitis, aggravated by a recurrence of the spinal arthritis that sent" him to the Mayo clinic during the football season of 1942. Leahy habeen ordered to take until McGee came out of nowhere and sprinted over the Trojan goal President JTruman. gasping as the Middies stopped B. and iD. to a Bears Tripped First all by himself.

The run covered only yards, but it waa so perfectly executed that it could Time; Game Is Won in Four Seconds. have covered 10R '3 All all, McGee carried thfr ball six times for a total gain of slow walk in the final two periods and sailed down-field for two touchdowns on their own. President. Truman aat in hia 50-yard line box ort the! Navy side of the field through the first half which ended 21-6, and saw the Black Knights of the Hudson pull the customers out i of their seats as Davis dashed 13 yards for the first score. Blanchard bulled his way 52 yards or a The Tribune' Special Service.

146 yards, or an average of slight ly better than 24. i Lead In Everything i 'J FANELLI- ND I 1 1 a complete rest by his doctor, and HAMMOND, Nov. 30. will probably remain away from hla office until after the holidays Central High school's invading Bruin basketball players were re at least. Ed (Moose) Krause was in charge of the team In the head pelled here tonight for the first Notre Dame, national leader in total offense, total defense and in rushing the ball, clearly i established its claim to those crowns, aa well as the national team titje, by the manner in which it man Coy McGee, Notre Dame's sophomore halfback from Longview, Texas, whose spectacular running highlighted Notre Dame's 26-6 victory over Southern California in the atadium yesterday afternoon, is shown at the start of his 77-yard run, that gave Notre Dame ita first touchdown, esrly in the second quarter.

Cutting around Jiia own right end after, taking a shovel pass from Quarterback George Ratterman, McGee first received help from Fullback John Panelli, who blocked out Don Doll, USC halfback. Then Tackle Jack Fallon wheeled and went downfleld to take out another Trojan aa McGee eluded one man after another to complete his brilliant scoring run. No. 49 of Southern California ia Tony Linehan, left end, who had been blocked in as McGee started his run. Photo by Trlbun Staff Photographer.

time this season, after two straight triumphs, by a hard-to- coach a 'absence. Leahy's 'Best Medicine. second and then Davis hit get-along with Hammond team Blanchard with a 27-yard! paaa in the end "zone for a third. that won the contest in the final handled a bigger USC linejj The Fallowing the game, Krause Called Leahy on the telephone and 1 thai ailing head coach was In high Irish piled up zs nrst oowns to nine for the losers; gained 517 clans Brush Nebraska spirits at the great showing of his team. "That's the best medicine I've yards by running the ball to' USCs 108, and added 106 yards on forward passing for a total net Ihadjall week." the head coach Aside for Unbeaten Year The Last Weep Ends (An ought-to-cry-ography of a football coach's 1946 season featuring direct quotes by Notre Dame's Frank Leahy.) said.

"and tell the boys they Jack Ray, the Texan with the thread-a-needle toe, booted the point after each one of these tallies. I That was enough to put on ice this third unbeaten season of the Black Knights, lny which they piled up 27 victories in 28 tript to the post, with only their scoreless standoff with Notre Dame three weeks ago marring the run. Middies Drive 82 Tarda. yards gained of 623. to a.

grand total of -167 by the Trojans, who picked up 59 yards in the air. four 38-36. Hero of the affair, as far as Hammond is concerned, is Jack Blair, flashy forward. It was who proved the Central nemesis in the last ticking seconds of play by arching a one-handed shot from the sidecourt, 20 feet from the hoop's rim, that slipped through the netting for the game-winning points. Iron-man Court Battle.

It was an iron-man game with substitutions seeing little action. I founded great over the radio. My sincere congratulatlona to them By United PrM. Notre Dame thus finished the LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30.

UCLA tucked away its first season with a total offense of undefeated season todsy, barging like a champion through the Big and all of you for a Job very well done." Leahy's record aa head coach at Notre Dame now Is 32 victories. CHAPTER ONE HE HEARS AN ILL NOISE. ore lucky enough to get bu the IMnoia dhme, ire might Six Nebraska Cornhuskers, 18 to 0, before 52,558 fans and a scatter ing of Illinois Rose Bowl scouts at, go onlo a highly successful season. Even if niinoia does beat us, three defeata and four ties in four 1 A MM Memorial coliseum. There was; little for either fans or scouts to xiie jmiaoica arove ei Be eru be a better team as the season progresses." seasons as head coach.

He served five of the Hammond regulars tween Army's first and second see as the Bruins broke loose only in the navy In the Tacific during loucnaowra tor one or tneir own, that out them behind onlv 7-. NOTRE DAME, 26; ILLINOIS, 6. in three spurts, reluctantly giving their oft beaten intersections! the aeasons of 1944-45. McGee Thrills Crowd. with the second quarter started.

scored and the same thing was duplicated by the Central cast. Four minutes remained in the game when the action became torrid. The score waa tied at. apiece. Milan Metikosh and Frank Then they clawed and dug and guests a glimpse of the grid wizardry that scourged the Pacific 972 yards for an average of 441 per game, the highest in the nation, while on total defense the Green Shirts wound up by' yielding only an average of 141 23 yarda, the lowest in the country.

Not only that, but they ended the season hy having gained 3,061 yards on the ground alone, for an average of 340 per game, also the highest among the nation's college elevens, large or small. pt 'What else is needed to establish their supremacy aa the best college eleven in the country? Penal tie Coat 90 Tarda. Notre Dame's record for' ground CHAPTER TWO YOU, TOO, MUST PITY US. "With to gain and nothing to lose, the Pitt players inched their way 78 yards more coast this year and won 10 Coy (Scooter) McGee, a 20-year-eld sophomore from Longview, Texas, who not only wasn't on the varsity squad at all until the Iowa tame, but who didn't even make in the third period, and finally, capitalizing on a queer quarter- straight games. vriU be relaxed, loosened up, and will play aggressively this could be very easily the spot for one of those thundering upsets." Sobeck contributed a free throw and a tip-in respectively to edge The statistics showed UCLA backintr stunt bv the usuallv er with a whooping 19 first downs to the trio to New York for the Fenger Is Winner of Chicago Title By Aaeoctated Pre.

CHICAGO, Nov. 80. Fenger High school, public leevgue rhampions, defeated Weber of the Catholic league 13-7 today before an eatimated fans in Soldier fild to win ttte Chicago prep football title. The 1S annual -Kelly bowl-game marked the third victory for Fetigor In four "Kelly bowl" appearance, the other finding In a tie. rorless Arnold Tucker late in the third period, they clicked for 35 a meager four for the Huskers.

NOTRE DAME, 33; PITT, 0. Army game, waa the day's hero, doubled in- spades? for the Irish. The Uclans had a tough time yarda in a hurry for their last marker early in the fourth. The little 170 pounder was inserted getting started against a Nebraska line that refused to be moved Hammond in front three Ernie Bond tipped one in for Central but. Blair's free throw made it 35-33 for Hammond.

The margin was short-lived, Jerome Perkins pushing in a one-hander to tie the score. Bond and Sobeck traded free throws and the score was still 36-36. In Reaves (Base) Baysinger, CHAPTER THREE THERE'S NO PURR DUE US. "Purdue li potentially a good team and sooner or later it's lntq the backfield at the start of the second period, and on the very rained would have been even more around the goal line. On woj initial sweeps the Bruins were' tall, slim quarterback who never did any signal-calling before the bound to explode.

Saturday might be that very day. I hope toe got all of the bad playing out of our system, against Pitt." Notre Dame clash three weeks twice within the Cornhuskers' ltk, yard line but the efforts were un sgo, and Bill Hawkins, fresh off productive, Impressive yesterday had it not been for the eagle eyed officials, who called eight penalties on the Irish that cost them 90 yards. Only two penaltiea were called on the Trojans. One penalty -called against Notre Dame was for in NOTRE DAME, 49; PURDUE, 6. within 40 aeconds of the second Ring Miftnea Foul Shot.

Blair then fouled Ring but Gene the hospital list, they had the scoring punch. Base scored the first marker on a one-yard sneak through the line, and Hawkins period the Bruins moved aside the' missed his attempt, Sobeck cap turing the rebound for Hammond Huskers' obstacle and in six plays that netted 58 yards the first score first play ran 49 yards to the USC IT. before Walt McCormick finally dragged him down from behind a McGee waa dodging, squirming, sidestepping and pulling away from one tackier after another. Notre Dame fumbled and USC recovered on the next play, then Vert Llllywhlte, Trojan quarter-back, pulled an old Southern Cal trick he quick kicked. The late Knute Rockne used to like to have hla opponents use tha quick kick on him, his idea, being that as CHAPTER FOUR CRY AWAY FOR IOWA.

TJieir (Ixnva) line outweighs ours by about JO pounds to the terference with a piss receiver hit the jackpot for the second Scjseck slipped and fell to the FOOTBALL was recorded. the Nebras over the goal line when the Irish onet from two yards out. floor but managed to pass to mid man. They have more speed the line and the backfxeld court to Metikosh who in turn than we do and if tee irin ire'JJ be about the luckiest team ka 25-yard line, Quarterback Ernie Case passed to End Burr Baldwin And for the final one, they un defender knocked the bait to the ground from behind the USC man's shoulder. That placed the in the passed to Blair at sidecourt.

The in the end zone for the start of. a touchdown parade. Hammond sniper then iced the issue with his game-winning heroics. furled Bill Earl, a tiny 360-pound pitcher. Bill tossed a short one which Leon Bramlett, the Navy captain, caught in the end zone.

NOTRE DAME, 41; IOWA, 6. Late in the second period, the ball half a yard from the goal line and led to USC's touchdown; Most of the penalties were called on Notre Dame around the goal lines. long as the other fellow waa will Bruins struck again on a 29-yard drive in aeven plays. Fullback ing to give him the ball, he'd take Metikosh and Sobeck, each totaled 10 points for the victors but Bond's four baskets and four free throws for 12 pointa gave him scoring honors for Central and the After the first touchdown. Bob Van Summern's place-kick waa blocked.

Hawkins tried the other two but he was wide on one and when thev hurt most Jack Myers crashed center for the CHAPTER FIVE SALT IN HIS TEARS. "We are in a perfect spot to get knocked off by Navy but if 1 afreM'O point like that they'U my I'm moaning; that I don't ap it, no matter wnere. Well, LUlywhite'a kick waa one final two yards. Jhe Irish, too, handled the ball ut as poorly as any -Notre After that the Bruins settled of tiie most tremendous ever leen in the atadium. The line of scrim- preciate the fine playing our lads have done this fall." down to a routine of split bucks evening.

The box score: HAMMOND 1181. I CENTRAL 1361 Dame team in recent years, being guilty of no less than eight funv- mi re waa at the 17, and Lilly and end dashes that rolled up yardage but no further scores un B.F.P. SCORES LOCAL. Notre Dame, 38; Southern California, S. COLLEGE.

Army, 21; Navy, 18. Southern Methodlet, 30: Tezai Christian, 13. North Carolina. 49; Virginia. 14, Alabama.

24; If tulMlppl State, f. Teiinesaee, 7: Vanderbllt, S. North Carolina State, 28; Maryland. 7. Michigan State, Waihing-ton Bute, 20.

Auburn, 4T; Florida. .12. Georgia, 39; Georgia Tech. 7. Holy Crow, 13; Boeton College.

8. Louisiana State, 41; Tulane, 2T. Hardin-Simmons. 21 Texas Tech. S.

Oklahoma, 73: Oklahoma A. 12. Rice, 3S; Baylor, S. U. C.

L. IS; Nebraska. 0. Oreaoa State. 21; Washington.

12. bles.i They lost the ball on four NOTRE DAME, 28; NAVY, 0. hadhe other partly blocked. Game's Biggest Thrill. Then in the fading momenta came the biggest thrill of alL An Army kick caTied only to the Navy Pete Williams picked i a A.

of them and had two passes in til the opening of the fourth pe BlalT.f Sobeck. Morfas.c riod. Halfback Al Hoisch reeled terceptedone right near the end B.T.f. 4 1,1 4 4 2 1 1 8 0 0 5 2 1 3 3 12 0 0 0 Mettkosh.g 3 2 3 Clausen, 2 4 Bond. 2 3 1 1 Jensen, 3 4 ljWinston.e 1 1 2 Ring.

Perkins, of the rune which waa run oac off five-yirds fr th touch McCan.g down. Ernie Case missed three to within a yard of the goal une. Because of fumbles 'and in kicks for extra pointa. CHAPTER SIX WHO GETS THE POINT! "The West Point football team has the type of experience that Kotrei Dame can not match. A great many of the nation's experts have rated Army as being one tiro touchdowns superior.

In view of the many unfortunate injuries of the past week, our chances of victory have been lessened considerably." white's kick just barely roiled over the Notre Dame goal line S3 yarda away. But in a few seconds, Medea had. retrieved those 83 yards. McGee Does It Again. Notre Dame scrimmaged on ita own 20, and Floyd Simmons got three on the first play.

Then George Ratterman, No. 2 quarterback who was directing the Notre Dame offense on each of the win up nine yarus in iwo tries. xay-singer passed 18 yarda to Phil Ryan. Lynn Chewning went to work then, and his last lope waa 14 8 18 Totals Notre Dame, punted only once, Iwhereaa USC I punted MICHIGANSTATE Totals 11 IS 11( Score by quarters: Hammond Central 38 nine times, for the brilliant aver- 17 20 27 27 11 8 NUDGES WESTERN are of ber kick. Aside from McGee spectacular NOTRE DAME, ARMY, 0.

RIVAL BY 26 TO 20 runs, ana tne iremenaous anen' The witn the ciocK ticking off the final seconds, stopped Chewning twice more, then Navy drew i a five-yard penalty for delaying the gameJ College of Paclflc, 19; San Diego State, sive play of all Notre Dame line By United Prw. EAST LANSING, Nov ners' four touchdowns, called the same play on which McGee had run 49 yarda a few momenta be SET BIG NINE NET CLINIC. By Associated Press. CHICAGO, Nov. 30.

Basketball coaches of the Western conference and offlciala will meet here tomorrow for their annual rules interpretation session. CHAPTER PASSAGE. men, the feature or tnp game was the exoert quarterbacklng- of 13. rao POOTBALU Cesifeeence1. San fraiielsco 49ers, 14; Chicago Rock' ets.

0. George Ratterman, who directed "Northwestern has the best team in the Big Nine conference when it comes to riishing the ball. They have scored on every end to bring it back to the four; fore. It is a ahovel pass from 30. Michigan State college came from behind in a ding-dong fourth period today to defeat Washington State college, 26 to 20, in an Ratterman to McGee aa the lat CaotJaac Page Eight.

Coin the team to all four of its toucn-downs and whose ball handling team they have played. I dont know why anybody takes any of Lynn Waldorf's teams lightly; most surely, I do not." ter cuta around his own right end and faking were aa fine as ever behind a' couple of blockers. McGee evaded one tackier after aeen in the local stadium. ij Truman Throws Presidential Dignity Aside NOTRE DAME, 27; NORTHWESTERN, 0. another as he received tha help of Pj Thn Cbmef McGee some rreat downfleld blocking from The first team piled up six first downs in the opening quarter, and to Cheer Wildly at Army -Navy Grid Classic CHAPTER EIGHT TWO LANES TO DEFEAT.

his mates, and shook off tackier after tackier who had a shot at him. He reversed, sidestepped. appeared headed for pay a to resume, he munched a hot dog By International News Service. "I'm more afraid. of this Tulane game than any other one on our schedule except Army.

Unless we shake off our lethargy couple of times, but aomeuung- a faked, dodged, ran crary lega fash and ate an apple: in company with. ana really go to work, Tulane might emerge triumphant over us." intersectional football game that kept 14.941 fans on their feet with its brilliant runs and looping aerials. Michigan State ended a .500 season with five wins and five losses, while Washington State suffered its sixth defeat against one win and a tie. Most of the action was jammed into a thrill-packed last half after the teams battled evenly, 6 to 6, in the first, Basketball ion, but always toward tha Trojan Mrs. Truman and Jnembers of hia ways happened and tha first period ended In a scoreless deadlock.

The so-called No. 1 team had worked tha ball tip to ita own 34 vard Una aa the teriod 1 ended. goal, finally, when he had about 20 yards to go, ha broke into the clear and raced over standing up NOTRE DAME, 41; TULANE, 0. Bias. 1 i Still excited by the stirring contest when he wsjj about to en- train for the white house, Mr.

i tie fought at Soldier'a field, Chi-' cago, in 1926. The president was thwarted from seeing the final seconds of the game. His secret service guards importuned him to leave slightly ahead of the main crowd. With a mild protest and a lingering backward look he left his box on the Army side of the field and got out of the stadium ahead of the final whistle. He wss told whereunon tha ao-called PHILADELPHIA, Nov.

30. President. Truman cheered Just aa wildly as any of the other football fans when Navy made ita gallant drive for victory in the final momenta of today's game with unbeaten Army. Whether he waa yelling or Army tq hold or for Navy lo put over the winning scores couldn't be told and the president shrewdly stayed on thf fence after the for one of tha most brilliant touch' down runs ever aeen in tha sta diura. Truman characterized it aa "one CHAPTER NINE U.

S. C. AND MORE TEARS. Frank Loany, confined to hia bod all woak bocaoao of a heavy cold and nrrr team took over, with Johnny Lu lack still directing, mm exhaust loa. abandoned hla anuaual pre-f ime atatrawnt but Marty Brill, one McGee started the second pe 1 hla aaalatanu, picked up the crytng towel tor the Irian roach and eald: "We haven't better than an even chance against them.

Tva seen Southern Cal at its best, and if they play against us as they riod with his 49 yard run' to the Trojan 17, but Lujack fumbled on the next play and USC recovered CORES of Navy's breathtaking failure to did in their last two games, we're no better than an even shot i He dropped out of tha game then to let Fred Earley try for the extra point, and received a tremendous ovation from tha crowd, including all his own teammates on the bench. Faking Help McGee. McGee, back in tha gama in the fourth quarter, scored tha third game. He said impartially, "It of the hef had ever He recalled he was a county judge when he saw the famous tie game in Chicago- and in carrying out his comparison between the two games said as he remembered it. Navy! was the favorite that day- i 41 -r.

i The two he said, stand out equally as the "greatest and most thrilling ever saw. against them." score, before he boarded his train for Washington. on tha 17. At thia point, Lilly-white got off hia tremendous 83 yard quick kick over the Iriah waa a thrilling and Inspiring spec Mr. Truman sat on Navy's sice for the first half, marching across NOTRE DAME, 26; tJ.S.0.

6. LOCAL. Hammond, 31; Central. SS. B.

B. Catholic, 24; Centra) Catholic, IS. i OISTSICT. Michigan City, 43: Braxll, 42. Plymouth.

SS; AJaxaodrU. 35. goal. Simmons, whose great run fling was exceeded only -by Me to the Cadet side at the internals like many another football follower he quickly compared it to the Immortal Army-Navy 21-21 Slon. While waiting for the game Notre Dame touchdown, aided by Caatlaaad aa Faa Oit.