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Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 4

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Miami News-Recordi
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4 t' I i SUNDAY OCTOBER 16 1927 MIAMI NEWS RECORD PAGE OUR Si jt 7 la 1 RATED BEST HAL BACK BY ZLPPKE 1 7 1 ST HASKINS HUES SOOIIIHTH i JUD Walter Johnson 80 ID RUN HIKES COMMERCE SCORE 5 1 ftCGIES VANQUISH kick IIIDIIETIE 1 COLLEGIANS LOSE RICHER SWAMPS GROVE 45 TOO 2 ootball Results I' 400? (Continued on Page ive) ami umpire Pigg Skiatook 1 (Contiuued on Page ive) a 2 6 0 3 0 8 enough play follow War Dogs recovering to Moore as the whistle 4 Total 0 19 0 0 Sensational Tackle by McDun ner Safeguards Wildcats Goal Uncrossed This Year Captain Sandmire Scores Af ter Lugging Ball in Series of Spectacular Plunges Veteran Pitcher Requests Un conditional Release Be cause He Not Want to Be in Oklahomans Upset Dope Winning Brilliant Game Bowman Crosses Goal Held went up alter 7 'i jr "7 i 3 Stocky hard toupset Jud Timm may not be another Red Grange to Illinois' this year but Coach' Bob Zuppke expects the youngster who is faster than the average runner and who also passes a bit to prove mighty troublesome to rival teams on the Illini scehdule this season But Miamians Make Consis tent Gains Against Arkansas Score Is 25 6 4 Lone Dash Adds inal Touch to Easy Victory Over Welch 31 0 tougnt game ever ptayea Detween tne two teams The Miners faced nearly every man on the Porker squad and made a much better showing than in previous years a Coach Williams seemed well pleased with the showing the Miners made against the Arkansawers con sidering the fact that the Miamians were playing against a team averag ing 200 pounds to the man and that they played against 29 men The coaching staff at ayetteville stated that the squad is the strong est they have had in years Twice in the early periods of the game the Miners threatened to go through the line for markers but failed once due to a 15 yard penalty and once to their inability to pierce the "frosh" linesmen who had their back WELCH Parkhurst 1 Hood Headier Hall Dugger Dodds Hillghasts Barron WMBDGSDEEAT UNIT! IN 5IBBNT OWEN IELD NORMAN Okla Oct 15 (AP) It took Bus Haskins stellar University of Oklahoma half back just two plays after he was sent in at the opening of the fourth quarter to make a touchdown that gave the Sooners a 13 13 tie with a fighting bunch of Bluejays from Cieighton university or three periods Haskins had watched the spectacular contest from the Red and White dugout due to an injury he (suffered in practice soon after the Oklahoma victory over Chi cago for which he was largely re sponsible Haskins had a remarkable setting for his plays Just before the third period ended Mooney caught a Creigh ton kickoff and raced down the field for 63 yards placing the ball on the Creighton 37 yard line On the first play Haskins passed to Brown Soon er end for 14 yards and on the next play he skirted an end for the touch down But his attempted kick for goal was wide Oklahoma Scored irst The Oklahoma eleven scored from the initial kickoff without losing pos session of the ball It took the Soon ers but nine plays one a 20 yard pass from Mayhew to Roy Lecrone to take the ball acr ssothe line line bucks and end runs aided in the march down the field After Crider had raced 10 yards on a cutback placing the ball on the Creighton five yard line Ray Lecrone plunged over and Ward kicked goal The Bluejays came back the second period with a beautiful offensive drive with John Scott Diminuitive quarterback and 'Beha ripping through the Oklahoma line and around the ends for repeated Beha went through the Sooner line for 17 yards to put the ball in scoring po sition on the Oklahoma four yard line where he went over after three punches at the Sooner line had failed to gain but three of the needed four yards Somers' kick was good After an exchange of punts at the opening of the second half the Blue jays took the ball in midfield and and went for another marketr Hunt made the second touchdown for Creighton on a four yard plunge through the Oklahoma lines kick was blocked Sooner Air Attack ailed The fourth quarter was spent with both teams see sawing back and forth while both were attempting to get away with a pass However the highly touted Sooner attack by way of the air route failed to function and the Oklahoma defense was tight enough to set the Bluejays threats back GALENA DEEATS SENECA GALENA Kas Oct 15 The Ga lena high school football team did not find It difficult to defeat the team from Seneca Mo here yester day afternoon The final score was 31 to Otw In spite of the fact that the score was one sided the game was an interesting one and it was witnessed by a large crowd the ball lads had Then the Called rom Dugout in ourth Quarter Halfback Scores on Two Plays to the goal line Miners Gained via Air i In the first quarter the Miamians the kickoff and marched down their performance of last week when they defeated the Salina eleven Locke men are looking better every game and their pros pects of finishing the season unde feated are bright at present The Tigers were badly outplayed at every turn The local team simp ly knew more about the game of football and played accordingly The invaders chalked up four first downs while icher counted 14 Coach Mounger of Grove faces'a great han dicap by not having a large enough squad to scrimmaged Only 18 men are trying for the team and not all of these are eligible to play Big Baker tackle for the Miners showed up well in the line it was through the wide holes Baker opened that several of the long Picher gains were made two of them netting touchodwns Leffler Ingram and Nance all did well in the backfield or the Grove team the two Graham brothers in the backfield and Roadcape at end bore the brunt Clabough Started Scoring Clabough fleet Miner halfback started the scoring early in the first stanza when he took a 20 yard for ward pass from Leffler and sprinted the remaining 25 yards to the goal line Nance intercepted a Grove flip for the next tally and did some good broken field work for the 25 yard dash The' second quarter' off much like the first but more so After only a few minutes of play 'Ingraham a promising 180 pounder who Is play ing his first year as an understudy to Irwin plunged the line 19 yards and a marker The wearers of rhb Ihb Bi DelawareMoreland Carroll (Capt) Munsinger Cunningham Montgomery Porter Miller Highfield Wilson 'j Overman West Price took the field with a series of split bucks and passes to the Arkansas 30 yard line before they were stopped The Williams men were a decided success at the aerial game and made many good gains through the line on split bucks The entire first period was played in Arkansas territory neither team registered In the second the baby Razor backs passed 37 yards to the three yard line and t'after two at tempted through' the line without gain finally carried the oval over for the first marker The second 'Ar kansas score came late in period when they circled the end for 35 yards At the beginning of 'tbe second half the Miners againtook the ball on the kickoff and carried it the length of the field this time to the Arkan sas eight yard line bef'e they sur rendered the ball on downs The play was about even until the clos ing moments of the quarter when an Arkansas back intercepted a pass and raced to the goal line tor 'the third touchdown a Early in the stanw the made a long end run to place the ball on the Miner one yard line The Miner" forward wall held for three downs wth yielding an inch but finally Weakened before the heavier men and the home team tatU ed on the fourth dowp QUAPAW Oct Another victory was registered by the Quapaw Wildcats riday when they defeated the strong Delaware team of the Verdigris Valley conference on the local gridiron The score was: Quapaw 19 Delaware 0 contest marked the third consecutive win and provided a real thrill when a sensational running tackle by McDunner brought down a Delaware back after he had intercept ed a Wildcat pass and galloped 75 yards toward the Quapaw goal line feat saved the day for the Wildcats when it looked as though their goal line was to be crossed for t0 1 the first time this year PICHER Oct 15 Special) gridiron stock took a sudden slump riday when the Picher Min ers trimmed them 45 to 0 on the local gridiron The showing of tne Baxter Springs Wins rom Oswego 6 to 0 BAXTER SPRINGS' Oct The Baxter Springs high school football team won an exciting game here yes terday by defeating Oswego Kas 5 to 0 The local eleven scored its touchdown near the close of the first half after several gains had been made by end runs and passes They threatened again near the end of the game but the visitors were able to WASHINGTON Oct 15 MAP) Walter Perry Johnson veteranpitcher of the Washingto American league baseball club Has resigned from the team and President Griffith has accepted the resignation Johnson who celebrated his twentieh anniversary as a major league player this year will be given an unconditional release at his own request provided wavers are obtain ed from other clubs of the league Unlike other stars of baseball who reached the heights of stardom only to pass their declining athletic years in the uniform of a minor leaguer the has decid ed to quit and go into business at a time when he thinks he still has a few victories left in arm In a letter requesting his uncon ditional release the Washington twirler expressed great regret at hav ing to leave the team with which he has been associated during his en tire score of years in major league baseball but realizing he may not longer be rated as a star he said he id not want to be in the way nevt season'1 Replying to his letter President Griffith said he and the public could not imagine the Washington team appearing without Ualter but felt it his duty to grant the re quest especially in view of the busi ness offers he had under considera tion Johnson said tonight he woulii like to continue in baseball as an investor and added he had several! minor league propositions under considera tion addition to or two op portunities in the business world OOTBALL TO 0 OU REPULSES DELAWAREJ9T00 TIAIA A Coach Vail has six of his ten sched uled games yet to play but eems op timistic when the chances of keeping the quapaw goal line intact are dis cussed To the generalship of uzzell vet eran signalman for the Wildcats be longs a considerable part of the credit for victory Although lead ing a team well sprinkled with sub stitutes headwork was al ways backed up with speed and per fect team play showing that all of good grid material been used in the first eleven Ehrhart star Wildcat fullback was out of the game on account of in juries The extent to which the Wildcats outplayed the Delawares is clearly shown by the fact that Quapaw reel ed off 23 first downs while the vis itors were making four Quapaw completed six forward passes for 100 yards in eight attempts while Delaware finished two out of five tries for 23 yards An unusual feature of the game was the fact that Quapaw never punted during the en tire four quarters The visitors were forced to boot frequently and averag ed 2 yards Score by quarters: Quapaw 7 Delaware' 0 Quapaw Baker le Wheeling (Capt) It Hingham Taulman Griffith Crawford Holt Aadms McDunner uzell JLUUllg 1U Officials Hamlet referee: umpire Wright headlinesman Mc Collum timekeeper The Wildcats will meet the McCune Kas high school team at McCune next riday 20 yard line Sandy carry the Miners Outplay Opponents at All Angles and Use Substitutes hold them until the final whistle The Baxter Springs team Is expect ing the best game of the season next riday when the Picher eleven comes '7 k': When Red departed from "the University of Illinois he left record behind him that has made the going tough for ambitious halfbacks' ever since Recalling the deeds of' Grange Illinois supporters are in dined to expect too much from the ball carriers of Coach Bob Zuppke 'f 1 Among the candidates for the back field at Illinois this year is a young man by the name of Jud Timm who has made quite an impression hails from Twin alls Idaho where( men are men etc Coach Zuppke was counting strong ly on Young Timm last fall In the early training work he broke an arm and was out of school for the resfr of the season 1 When he looked over his squad a few weeks ago Coach Zuppke dis covered the name of Timm in the 'f long list of athletes anxious to make the varsity He is huskier in every i way stronger and is suffering no ill effects from the injury of last fall sure to make trouble in Big Ten 1 circles a LE LT LG rg RT QB 'LH Morrison RH 3 Walker 7 1 Stevens Straight football with Captain Sandmire bearing the brunt of the ball lugging and scoring only tv touchdown extracted the Vinita stinger riday afternoon at League park the Blue and White winning 6 to 0 The victory placed the War Dogs in the running tor the Verdigris Val ley title It was the second conter ence game ot the season for Coach charges the f'rst which was 'with Nowata the previous week re sulting in a scoreless tie Scored In Third Quarter The lone counter came in the third quarter after Sandmire had carried the ball deep within enemy territory from near the middle of the field on what may or may not have been a fake play The rangy back dropped back as it to pass Hut he Tucking the pigskin under his arm he tore 'loose making a prettybroken field run to place the ball on pleaded the touchdown praying crowd Quarterback Grayson did our successive line plunges by the hard hitting back ate up the remainings distance to the goal line Sandmire plowing through for three to seven yards on each drive for the extra point was blocked The rest of the game was less in teresting Outside of Sandmire's touchdown campaign the War Dogs were able to make few substantial gains the Vinita line The Hornets punctured the Miami line for frequent advances but ijever menaced the Blue and White goal dangerously On exchange of punts Miami benefitted Threatened at irst Vinita started off in the first quar ter with an offense that looked threatening for a time Vinita kicked off but the locals' fumbled on a subsequent play Vinita recovering The Hornets fumbled in turn and the ball was again Sandmire got away for a 30 but thenthe War Dogs lost the ball when a pass by Sandmire was intercepted Vinita was on 30 yard line as the quarter ended but the open ing of the next period saw the visit ors fumble and recover for a loss ot several yards 'The Blue and White warriors werepressing as the half ended The home boys had driven to within scoring distance but was thrown for a loss blew Miami Line The Hornet's stock the second halt opened but line held satisfactorily ward off danger In a ing the kick off the fumbled again' Vinita The visitors attempted a place kick after getting the ballon7the 30 yara line but toe failed him An exchange of punts followed and then Miami covered after the Craig county fumbled on a fake play drive opened up that sent Sandmire across with the touchdown Vinita ripped the War Dog defense for several substantial gains in the last few minutes ot play after Men tor Pugh had inserted a halt dozen second stringers but the Blue and White machine soon was in order checking the bid for a touch down Grayson's Work Good "Crab" work at' safety was "one of the Aright spots in playing Dresla handled himself well at tackle and Prim flashed at end getting down under punts in a hurry or Vinita the work of Sippey back and luke center stood out Slppey's speed was a big cog in the offense The Lineups: 'STILLWATER Okla? Oct (AP) Displaying unexpected fight ing spirit the Oklahoma Aggies re vised eleven upset Marquette univer Golden Avalanche onLewis': field here today winning by 8 Marquette was the favorite after last 12 to 21 showing against the Army whereas the Maulbetsch team had taken drubbing from Washington and Minnesota universities A safety in the second quarter and a touchdown in the fourth accounted for the scoring by the Aggies cham pions of the Missouri Valley confer ence last year Each team had three opportunities to tally touchdowns the Aggies capi talizing their last one Six times one team was on the 10 yard line Marquette tried a placement goal in the fourth period on its last down Radick a tackle failed at the hick The A1 and safety came when Gauckler substitute center passed the ball over the head of Dunn who was behind the goal Radnich Aggie end downed' Dunn Captain Bowman crippled Aggie" fullback was sent in the fray to scire the touchdown on the third opportuni 7 ty after inexperienced players had': 3 failed on earlier chances With one yard to go Bowman crashed over right tackle Shacker another sub' stitute back missed goal umbles by both teams! marred an otherwise brilliant game COLUMBUS NINE WILL' PLAY LEAGUE ALL STAKS COLUMBUS Kas Oct The Columbus baseball team will close the season with game Oct "IB with an all star team from the Am erlcan league All of the teams ot the league with the exception ot th Yanks will be represented on tne team and the game is expected to at tract the fans 1from entire COMMERCE Okla' 15 (Special) lashing a defense that would not yield in the pinches and using an overhead attack for consistent gains the Commerce Tigers pounced on the invading Welch eleven here yester day and sent them home with a 31 to 0 defeat in a game featured by an 80 yard broken field run by Haynes for a touchdown The conflict' was a 'dean affair with several brilliant plays on the part of both aggregations Only a few fouls were committed The invaders were plainly outclass ed' at 'the start and after the Tigers had run wild in the early stages for a touchdown ihere was little doubt as to the final verdict The Wild cats were a heavy green machine and only in a few instances handled the ball with ease They were erratic which lost them their only chance to cross the goal The Commerce combinationgain ed only two more first downs th'an its foe the count being nine and seven But first downs mean much in a battle like that as the Tigers let up In the final chapter and three re serves were rushed to the attack for experience Ideal ootball Day initial period started off with Commerce kicking at the visitors de fending the north goal A bright sun and a gentle breeze made it an ideal day for football and the sidelines were well packed with spectators A small delegation came from Welch The pigskin landed Squarely in the arms of a Welch back who was downed in his tracks Three plays and a punt gave the ball to the Tigers who went for a first and ten with a stop The Wildcats were sad ly outplayed in the next few minutes and the ball was within striking dis tance ot the goal A passfrom1 Hendricks to Chambers ac counted for the first touchdown The try for the extra tally failed Clary went over for the second touchdown and an aerial attack connected for the lone point At the start ot the second quarter it was ball in territory The Tigers opened with an air attack which caught the foe sleeping and the oval was rushed toward the goal Haynes raced across the last white line a few seconds lat er for another six pointer It was the same old story when Haynes fell on the ball for the second touchdown of the stanza Haynes set the crowd to howling when he snatched a pass from the air and then raced through the ene my 80 yards for a touchdown at the beginning of the second half The game could have ended there as far as the score was concerned But in fairness to invaders it must be said that they were fighting as hard when the final whistle sounded as when the fracas opened Lineup: COMMERCE Stricker Grim Searcy Zagortz Mosier Chestnut Chambers Clary Hendricks Haynes Officials Pierce and Dopking Okmulgee 20 Muskogee 0Georgia Tech 13 Alabama 0 lorida 27 Kentucky 6 Ixjuisiana State 9 Auburn Harvard reshmen 13 Exeter 0 Haverford 0 John Hopkins 20 Army 27 Davis and Elkins 6 Colgate 13 Columbia 7 Christian 20 Austin College 13 Northern Teachers 6 Northwest ern Teachers 6 (tie) Harvard 14 Holy Cross 6 i Allegheny 0 Westminister 0 Dakota State 33 Dakota Ag gies 0 South Dakota 61 Dakota 0 Oklahoma 13 Creighton 13 (tie) Minnesota 14 Indiana 14 (tie) Kansas Aggies 13 Kansas 2 Depauw 14 Earlham 7 Butler 7 ranklin 7 (tie) Chicago 7 Purdue 6 v' St Louis 19 Loyola 0 Mississippi Aggies 13 Tulane 6 Georgia 32 urman 0 Emporia Teachers 20 of Wichi ta 0 Dickinson 0 Maryland 45 Missouri 13 Washington 0 Tennessee 21 Mississippi 7 lentral Teachers 19 East Cen tral Teachers 0 Texas 13 Vanderbilt 6 Texas Aggies 19 Arkansas 6 Bacone Indians 36 St Gregory (Shawnee) 0 Syracuse 19 Georgetown 6 Iowa State 12 Illinois 12 (tie) Northwestern 19 Ohio State 13 Rutgers 0 George Washington 6 Yale 19 Brown I Princeton 13 Washington Lee 0 1 Notre Dame 19 Navy 6 'Michigan 14 Wisconsin Dartmouth 47 Temple 7 Nebraska 58 Grinnell 0 1 Iowa 38 Wabash 0 Marquette 0 Oklahoma Aggies 8 iijf A1! In the cold desert in Kashgar there are no reptiles and not even a( fly r' English is being taught over the radio Japgn AYETTEVILLE Ark Oct (Special) The University of Arkan sas reshmen were held to a 25 to 6 victory over the Northeastern Okla homa Junior college Miners ot Miami Okla here today in: the hardest Tigers was a decided contrast with fnn trhf va mo ovor nln vofl hot wo An A i i Walter Johnson Resigns rom Senators to Go Into Business If DOBBS HATS 'it 'i a ft Have No $8 I I am IIBL RtfES I Acnp treat Hetel Miaaat 'ili f'toaia 2 to 4 7 1 I 6 0 Barlow LE Pfannukuke Dresla LT Sooter Luckey LG Sooter Taylor luke Jenkins RG Keller Ramay RT Vf Giles Prim RE GooSpasture Grayson QB Page i Sandmiro LHB Updegraff Gordon RHB 'Sippey Moore Edmonson Officials: Referee McIntosh Mi 4.

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