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31 KECK Form Reverioi Will Be Many Tis Grid Season SiTui.Oir,S(r immi PITTSBURGH SUN-TELEGRAPH ucs Play Reds In Benefit By HARRY KECK, SporU Editor For reversals of form and stunning upsets the college football season which gets under way this week-end can't fail to be the greatest in the history of the game. Virtually all of the big colleges and universities and Help a Worthy Cause By attending the Pirates Reds benefit game at Forbes Field tonight. You'll see major league baseball game, preceded by an elaborate floor show and athletic events. You'll be helping to curb Juvenile delinquency by attending. many of the smaller ones are joaaea with talent.

Returning GIs make for more mature squads than ever before and that means harder, smarter FT! playing. The balance of power will be more evenly distributed and it is doubtful if any of the top teams will go through the season undefeated. At the moment, a handful of big name teams stand out as contenders for the mythical National championship. They include Army, Notre Dame, Illinois, which opens against Pitt here today: Alabama, Southern California and Texas. The Bitr Three.

Harvard, Yale Oh WES FESLER. and Princeton, will be out of the doldrums and will be top drawer again. Bo McMillin's Indiana team, which won its first Big Nine championship last year, is not figured to repeat. Next to Illinois, Michigan is considered the strongest team in the Western Conference. Uatltv Gain Ahead for Pitt As for Pitt, all it hopes for is to be able to set a good foundation under its plans for the future, with Wes Fesler on hand as the new head coach.

The going will be rocky with West Virginia, Notre Dame (away), Temple, Marquette, Purdue, Indiana (away), Ohio State (away) and Perm State to be met in addition to Illinois. If the Panthers win three or four of these games they will be doing well. Even West Virginia, which will be played next Saturday, hopes to end its losing habit against the Panthers this year, and Marquette and Temple pose threats. Carnegie Tech, which does not open until Oct. 12 against Oberlin, is scheduled for only six games, the others being with Geneva, Wash-Jeff, Case, Buffalo and Grove City.

The three home games, with Oberlin, W. J. and Buffalo, will be played at Forbes Field. The Duquesne Dukes will play only practice games and will return with a regular schedule next year A Football to Remember Football fans of Pittsburgh will remember for a long time the opening game of the Steelers at Forbes Field last night for the rain that fell constantly throughout the play, the tightness of the battle, with the Steelers getting a 14-0 lead In the first half and narrowly preventing the Chicago Cardinals from tieing it up, the sellout crowd and the jamming to get inside, with many missing the kickoff in the last-minute push caused by the elements. Coach Jock Sutherland came In for deserved congratulations at the finish, for his team played headsup football to capitalize on Its opportunities.

It knew what to do when It got within scoring distance, and Bill Dudley played smart football both offensively and defensively to first win and then save the contest. His punting, especially his one low quick kick which caught the enemy completely by surprise, was one of the high spots. The Steelers looked like the best first game team In their history, and they could have looked bad on the wet field. It was a good 14-7 win for Jock and a tough defeat for Jimmy Conzelman, coach of the Cards, who later said he didn't want to alibi, but he just wished there had been a dry field so his Ray Mallouf and Paul Christman could have cut loose more with their forward passing. He had only words of praise for Dudley.

And his own or rather, Pittsburgh's own Marshal Goldberg played a whale of a game in addition to scoring his team's touchdown. Pickups Along tht Sports Trail t4 iui Wes Fesler Makes Bow As Coach Pitt Lineup PITT ILLINOIS Kkladany (ton) Valrk (180) Kurlsl.au (JIS Kasaa (331) Barkouskla I lu) Prymuskl (Its) Ward (1131 VYenskunua (183) (oury (118) Agate (IU1) Plots (187) Franks 1318) MrPrak (180) Bauman Itll) DePasqua (187) Moss (110) I' (110) Rjkovlrh (3031 Abraham (188) Young (183) lauro (300) Integer (304) Weight la brackets. Referee Ruksrll Rupp (lhanon Valley), 1 mplre R. W. Flnsleruald (Ohio Field Judge 4ay Rerwanger (I hlrago), Llnsman John McFhee (Oberlin), Kickoff 3 p.

m. By JACK HENRY The national football spotlight was focused on Pittsburgh this afternoon when Wes Fesler's inexperienced Pllt Panthers opened the campaign against Ray Eliot's Illinl on a wet field at the Stadium. A crowd of 30,000 was expected. The visitors, selected to cop Western Conference honors and finish high in the running for the National title were favored to win by a scoring margin ranging from 26 and 33 points. For Fesler the occasion marked his debut as successor to Clark Shaughnessy in the head coaching role here.

ELIOT PERTURBED The lllini, 36 strong, breezed into the Stadium yesterday a few hours after arrival by plane and train and Indulged in a brisk workout. After announcing that ends Joe Buscemi and Bill Huber, tackle John Genis, center Lou Levant! and fullback Ray Florek had been left behind in Champaign because of injuries, Eliot admitted he was perturbed over the ballyhoo given his team. In typical Gloomy Gil Dobie fashion, he pointed out: "He are the most overrated team in the United States. There are 30 teams around who can knock us off." DRILL WITH WET BALL After that blast he joined his assistants, Burt Ingwersen and Tony Blazine, in supervising the 20-minute workout. Fearing rain, he ordered student managers to soak the footballs so that his kicking specialists would get practice at slippery handling.

He also reaveled that if Pitt kicks off his starter at left end will be Lou Valek. If Illinois kicks off, Valek will remain on Jhe4 sidelines and his place will be taken by Don Maechtle, 198- pound freshman. Most interest centers in how successful Pitt will be in halting the runs of Buddy Young, Illinois' great Negro halfback. An hour after the Mid-Westerners finished their drill, Fesler and his aides sent the Panthers through their final session. CAPTAINS HONORED The Pitt captaincy this afternoon has been entrusted to two veterans, Jack Durishan and Cili McPeak.

The former, was a tackle here under Charley Bowser and McPeak is one of the few Shaughnessy holdovers to retain a starting position in the new coaching dynasty. Mae Wenskunas, voted most valuable player by the lllini in '45, cap tains the visitors. Pitt's 120-piece band, making (Continued on Page 10.) mtT; rx ti tTaan nr. lii.fTJ.iiiaa i Tirttitfi bur-i mvnMM, ruvtif BILL ABRAHAM, LH BOBBY LEE, RH CARL DE PASQUA, QB BILL BRUNO, FB of the attack in the opening game of the Pitt Stadium this afternoon. Bruno alternates with the University of Illinois at the with Lindy Lauro at the fullback position.

Four of the University of Pittsburgh players who are expected to bear the Buddy Komar, tne Moveespori neavyweigm, uuikku uV knuckle of the index finger of his right hand in his bout with Erv Sarlin, which explains why he has been on the sidelines since that bout. He hopes for a rematch this winter Jim McGirr is going to return to professional boxing in his McKeesport Palisades arena shortly Coach Herb Kopf of the Boston Yankees pro football team has equipped his backfield men with white shoes so the fans will be able to spot them easier in the pileups Could it be that Art Fletcher did not receive enough, credit for his work as assistant to the manager of the New York Yankees? Most of their troubles date back to the time illness forced his resignation. There's a Joe DiMagglo on the NYU football team, but he's not related to the other Joe The current pennant victory Is the seventh for the Boston Red Sox and they've never lost a Bucs Play Reds In Benefit Game Steelers Win, 14-7, in Mud By TOM BIRKS Returning to the scene of his many triumphs after an absence of seven years, Dr. John Bain (Jock) Sutherland, coach of the new Pittsburgh Steelers, was the toast of the football fans today. Battling through a constant and promptly moved 36 yards to By CHARLES J.

DOYLE A doubled force of Forbes Field groundkeepers went into action early today to ready it for tonight's Juvenile Delinquency Fund benefit baseball game after the cutting up it got from the Steelers' football game in the rain last night. world series. There was no series In 1904 and they won the other five in which they participated Don't let anyone trip you up on the real name of Johnny Pesky, the crack shortstop of the Sox. It's John Michael Paveskovich In these days of inflation, the biggest Job of deflation was accomplished In the case of Walker Cooper, the catcher, for whom the Giants paid the Cardinals $175,000. He has been out.

most of the season with injuries. After having broken two fingers he now has water on the elbow. Bob Feller and Hal Newhouser, leading pitchers of the year, ill be the attraction at Cleveland tomorrow, with Feller striving to rat'ch up with Newhouser in victories and gradually closing in on Rube Waddeli's all-time strikeout record of 343 Owner Bill deck's latest is a free day for the fans at the final home game of the year, next Wednesday, when the entire Stadium will be thrown spen to the fans for a 35-cent tax and service charge in appreci-utinn of thpir natrnnaee throughout the season If the Cards should wind up beating the Dodgers by six games it will represent a true margin of their superiority, for they have won 14 games jvhile losing eight to the Flatbushers during the season. Jackie Hunt, who led the nation's college scorers with 170 points In 1940, is now a 195-pound halfback with the Detroit IJons, who obtained him from the Chicago Bears Leo Houck son of the famous former middlwelght boxer, who for a quarter of a century has been the boxing coach at Penn State College, Is an end candidate for Spike Harding's University of Miami eleven and Eddie Bouzomberka of Pittsburgh, regular quarterback in 1941 and '42, Is back on the job. Carl Mosso of East Orange, N.

who was a corking halfback candidate at Pitt a few years ago, also Is on the Miami squad. Fine Start! Poa. I.E. L.T. L.O.

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STEELERS CARDINALS Hlisl Campbell Ramsey Banonla Arms Maudlin lv.v f'uff Onldhrrg Menu Blackburn Mehelleh roomer Mattoll C'hernndola Rueek Me.Calfrey Davis Sea bright Dudley (undlt Laeh F. Score by auartera: Steelers Cardinals 814 Steelers' raring: Touchduwna Seabrignt, Camnagno. Goals alter touchdown Dudley 3 (placements). Cardinal's scoring: Touchdown 4inldberx. tioal after touchdown Cuff (placement).

Htetelera substitutionsEnds, Bova. Jan. ante tackles, Wiley, Repko) guards, Perko. gkorlch; renter, Titus; backs, rampagno, Dntton, Clement, Patrick, Rodgers, Oorinskl. Cardinal's substitutions finds, Parker, Da- well, Kulner, Rurlnsld: tackles, Foster, Hearns, Zlmmyt guards, Maddnck, Col-hauer, Cnmily; center.

Anolsklai hacks, Stitch, Straiisbaugh, Johnston, Harder, Chrlstrnan, Angsman, Sarrtnghaoa, Mallouf, Rankin. Referee Carl K. Rebele, Penn fltate. Umpire Carl H. Rrubaker, Ohio Wes- le.van.

Field Judge Charles Nweeney, Notre Dame, Linesman Dan Tehan, Cincinnati U. Pro Statistics Steelers 8 Cardinals 10 Total first downs 4 First downs rushing A 1 First downs forward passlnf 4 Flrat downs on penalties 1 II yards gained rushing 10? 28 yards from forward paae 19 8 Net yards from lateral passes 8 131 Net yards from offensive plays 188 37 Yardage of Intercepted passes 0 4S Yardage; of punt retnrna 0 88 Vardage of kickoff returns 83 348 yards gained 348 4 Forward passes thrown 14 1 Forward passea completed 8 1 Forward passea Intercepted 8 8 Number of penalties 8 53 Tards lost on penalties 84 Number of pnnts 8 11 Average distance of punta 35 Ii 8 Ball Inst on downs a 8 rumbles 3 Own fumbles recovered 8 1 Opponents urn hies recovered t. -4 brunt season lonignts rrogram At Forbes Field 6 O'clock Gates open. 6 to 7 Baseball practice. 7 to 8 Stage show.

8 to 8:25 Field meet. 8:30 Pirates vs. Reds. Friclc Sets Playoff Date Associated Press What was mere conjecture a week ago has taken on aspects of probability as National League President Ford Frick announced today that in the event the Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals finish the regular sea son in a tie for first place, there will be a three-game post sea son playoff between the two contenders.

Not until the deadlock becomes a fact, however, will Frick name a playing site, which in all likli-hood, will be a neutral field. Naturally such a situation would involve the settin back of the world series, perhaps a full week. Scheduled to start Wednesday, Oct. 2, in a National League park, the fall classic probably will be pushed back to Oct. 9, with the Oct.

2 date given to the Cards and Dodgers. Hanging on for dear life, the battling Brooks today were only one game behind the Cards, confident that they can catch the Redbirds at the final pole. Following yesterday's playoff of the recent Dodgers-Reds 19-inning scoreless tie, both clubs are even so far as the schedule is concerned. Each has only eight games left and each has five more at home. The Dodgers move to Boston today for a series of three games, culminating in tomorrow's doubleheader.

Then they shift back to Ebbets field for a final week of play against the Phila delphia Phillies and the Braves, with Thursday and Friday off. The Cards idle yesterday, be gin a three-game series in Chi cago today, ana return to St. Louis to tackle the Reds twice before closing nut the season with a three-game set with the Cubs. With typical Dodger pluck, Brooklyn came from behind to defeat the Reds, 5-3, yesterday. rain and treacherous mUO.

niS Steelers launched their National Leaeue season In a blaze of glory under the lights at r'oroes iem last night, coming through with well-earned, 14-7 decision over the Chicago Cardinals before a capacity seating crowd of 32,811. The Steelers didn overpower the band of All-Americans gath ered together by Coach Jimmy Conzelman, but they took advantage of the breaks they forced and once ahead nursed the lead. BREAKS BRING SCORES All three touchdowns followed "breaks." The Steelers recovered a fumble in the first period to tally the first marker and a blocked kick set the stage for the second in the second period to give Capt. Bill Dudley and his teammates a 140 lead at the half. In the third quarter, the Cardinals gathered in a fumble VST scuie aim mcmc uie The losing, Cardinals chalked up 10 first downs to six for the Steelers and gained 249 yards against 245.

The Sutherland team picked up 112 net yards from rushing to 107 for their opponents, but the Chicagoans completed six out of 14 passes for 79 yards, while the Steelers completed two out of four for 25 yards. Frank Seno fumbled in the Cards' first series of plays following the opening kickoff and Bob Davis, former Penn State end, making his first appearance here with the pros, fell on the ball on the Cards' 45-yard line. Steve Lach made a first down on the 33, Dudley picked up nine yards and an offside gave the Steelers a first down on the 18. Dudley lugged the oval for a flrst down on the eight and then, after Mehelich had dropped (Continued on Page Ten.) Social, philanthropic, mismessi and industrial leaders of Allegheny County have done a grand job in disposing of thousands of tickets lor the meeting between the Pirates and Reds, but they still have many more to sell. SHOW WITH GAME Celebrities from a dozen walks of life will be in attendance.

The worthiness of the cause transcends the fact that Pirates and Reds are removed from pennant objectives. Almost six hours of diversified entertain-will begin at 7 6'clock with an hour-long stage show. Shortly after 8 o'clock the field will be cleared and given over to the speedsters of the two clubs who will participate for $500 worth of cash prizes donated by six leading sportsmen. Pittsburgh's own John Deni, a national heel-and-toe walking champion, will compete against the Pittsburgh and Clncy run nerson the bases. Denl, still In the Shore Patrol, will stop off on his way from Philadelphia to Cincinnati, where tomorrow he will defend his ti tle.

VETS TO ATTEND William S. Haddock and members of the Officials' Club will supervise the atheletic competition. More than 200 injured veterans from the Veterans' Hospital in Aspinwall will be brought to the game in Red Cross buses. They will be In charge of Ath letic Director Jack Englemohr and his assistant, Stu Quailey. The game Itself may decide whether the Pirates or Reds will finish in sixth Two contests tomorrow between the rivals will drop the curtain on Pittsburgh baseball for the year.

OFFICIALS NAMED Haddock's aides in running off the competitions will be Ralph V. Shinton, starter; Nate Kauf-mann, Bob Clark, Englemohr and Quailey, judges, and J. Ziggy Kahn, Elmer Heinlein and Earl Fisher, timers. Joe Hiller arranged and will be in charge of the stage show, which will include two leading orchestras. Major SATURDAY.

SEPT. II, GAMES TODAY NATIONAL 1.KAOIK CINCINNATI AT PITTSBURGH (Nlltht) Wi)ttrt (9-7 or Bpre 10-10 v. Hal-Kit o'clock. St. Iui at Chicago Dlckaon (13-8) va.

Scnmiu tiu-io) Brooklyn at Boaton Hatten (12-10) va. Ipnnn (). New York at hlladelphla. pogtponed, rain. AMERICAN l.KAIHE Ptalladplphfa at Npw York Savagf 13-M) va.

BtvtTU (IB-13). Boston at Washington (Night) Ferrii (Z.i-it) Nfwsom (14-izi. at Cleveland Trout (H-13) va. Kur.ava, (0-11). ChlcaRO at St.

Louis (2) Lnpat 1 1-13) tnd Smith (8-11) va. Johnson (0-0) and Ealehousa (8-11). STANDING OF THE CLUBS MATIIlfctai WAtit i sua 1 St. tnnla 3 Bronkbn 1 Chlraio i Boston 8 PhMadrlphla 1 Cincinnati 4 riTTsRi Rr.H i Knr lark AMEB1 im a notion 1 ntrnl 4 Vnrif WavhlnvUm 8 Chlraan 8 levrland 3 St. tonU 1 rhlladrlnhla Hon l.nt 'r.

BI, 83 114 .830 81 .838 1 71 88 .8,18 11 88 .831 Ui 88 81 .448 81 84 .421 no', 88 84 .413 3IVi 88 88 .388 34 'j AN I.EAM Hon iat I'rt. HiBL 88 48 .813 88 88 .888 12' Hi 83 .388 11 II 18 .488 S7V4 88 18 .488 38a 88 81 .448 81 83 88 .441 34 4 81 .338 Leagues hree (3), Gaaeaway (8), Lemon (81, and Weiirel. Jordan. Chicago at HI. Louis, pontponed, rain.

Only gamea acheduled. GAMES TOMORROW NATIONAL l.EAni'K CINCINNATI AT PITTSBURGH (2f, 1 p. m. Brooklyn at Boston. New York at Philadelphia (2).

St. Loula at Chicane AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago at St. Loula it. Tietrolt at Cleveland. Philadelphia at New York.

Boston at Washington. MuddyRuelNamed Manager of Browns ST. LOUIS, Sept. D. (Muddy) Ruel, former American League catcher, signed a contract today to manage the St.

Louis Browns In 1947 and 1948. Ruel will succeed Zach Taylor, veteran coach, who was named temporary manager last month following the resignation of Luke Sewell. Taylor and Sewell also were former catchers. National League Race at Glance Auorlated Prrsa to W. L.

Prt. tt St. tiula i 04 Play 8 Brooklyn 81 68 ..823 REMAINING GAMES St. Louis: Home Cincinnati 2. Chicago 3: total 3.

Away Chicago total 3 Brooklyn: Home -Philadelphia 3 Boston total 5. Away Boston total a. (iames kehlni trader, BESITI.TS YESTERDAY NATIONAL l.rAdl'E (PTavoff of 18-innln tia me. At Brooklyn R. H.

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Only gam scheduled. AMERICAN I.EAnt'K 41 Cleveland T. kelrnM .3508000 113 22 A II ft A (I 1 7 pelterles Wt'TCFINFON Orny Hi and renuetia: REYNOLDS. Flaniican (Si, Era- Kun-Trlegraph Phot by Kdsrarf Mama. to give hit team the lead in the first period of the opening game of the National League season with the Chicago Cardinals at Forbes Field last night Play was from the eight-yard line.

(Other pictures of game on page C) FIRST Steeleri quarterback, formerly of West Virginia University, falling over goal line after catching a forward pass from Bill Dudley.