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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1937 THE BIRMINGHAM NEW A GE-H ERALD The South's Greatest Newspaper THREE 1 North Carolina Dumps Duke From Unbeaten Ranks, 14-6 SUB JECT IS DOG SlMlill MATCH WII I ITT MP PflRKFDQ UIM flUFP I Coach Wants To Keep Team Record Secret Due To Overconfidence Ed Neill Paces Phillips In i Easy Victory Over Hindu-Style Wrestling Tilt Billed By Jordan For EDITOR'S NOTE Thin I (he elev. 1 Razzle-Dazzle Plays Give The Razorbacks Early Lead On Rebel Eleven Friday, Nov. 26 But Tar Heels Come Back With Scoring Display And Upset Foe BY JACK HOUSE There is one pretty good high i school football team in the state whose coach is taking no chance on I overconfidence on the eve of its big game of the year. Said coach Phillips High School's still-power-writes in and gives the complete ful Crimsons found a lighter Hume-record of his team, along with the Fog8 eleven no trouble at all Sat- enth in a scries of articles on football. The series has dealt with positional play, scout inK.

punting, passing, training and officiating. Harris Moriarty. vice president of the First National Bank, explained in detail the duties of the referee last week Today he explains the duties of the umpire and the field judge The duties of the officials are interlocking and nried. Its not a one-man show of officiating. No one can understand the duties of football officials without appreciating the part they play in the great game.

A well officiated game Is a well played game. Zipp Newman. MEMPHIS (INS I In one of the wildest exhibitions of razzle-dazzle football ever seen in this section the Razorbacks from the University of Arkansas Saturday smothered an Oh- Miss eleven, 32 to 6 Though they had been forewarned to expect a dazzling aerial attack, Coach Walcer's Rebels could not cope with the situation. All of Arkansas five touchdowns and the Rebel's lone marker came as the result of passes. The Porkers wasted no time in launching an aerial attack that netted a touchdown in the first eight minutes of the game.

Five completed passes, from Sloan to Robbins and Benton took the ball to the Ole Miss 20. Off tackle plunges pire is to be responsible for the I ad Sloan conduct of the players and for com- a bullet pass to Robbins on plction or interference on short forward passes and short kicks. Consistently the umpires get the BY HARRIS MORIARTY LISTED in rather complete detail the duties of the referee. In listing the duties of the umpire and other officials 1 do not wish to leave the impression that they have few duties and few responsibilities, and that the game is run entirely by the referee. Each official has his distinct duties and responsibilities primary and secondary.

The primary duty of the um- the one-yard line, and Sloan went over on the next play. Ole Miss lone tally came near the end of the first quarter when the request that the record not be published because "It might give my players overconfidence before i blank game, more especially (blanki. And, while rambling over the state, you'll also find. About the biggest score made in Alabama this year was the 109-0 margin Palmetto made against Liberty. Mayor N.

C. Floyd, of Dc-mopolis. has announced that WPA funds will be used to improve the athletic field there and to install lights suitable for baseball. Paul Martin, former Walker County deputy sheriff, has been named game warden in said county. Fans around Sylaeauga don't want to miss the Sylacauga-Mignon tester Friday.

Huntsville may not be such a hot market for football stars, but when it comes to producing cheer leaders, oh, boy! Ralph Ford is head cVeer leader of Alabama's Crimson Tide and Charley O'Reilley is rah-rah chief at Auburn. Both are from Huntsville. poorest ratings, as so much of their work is a matter of judgment. Only about 25 per cent of the holding penalties that are called can be seen rom Die coaches hunch on Wrestling is admittedly the oldest of all sports, and the Hindu grapplers had their own style of doing it. Years have passed since the Hindu-style wrestling match, but the old-fashioned way of grappling is coming back.

Introduced in the United States at San Francisco several weeks ago, the Hindu style, or mud style, fad has swept through the United States. The second match of this kind was held at New Orleans two weeks ago and it attracted 6.000 people. Pictures of the New Orleans match have been flashed on the screen here and throughout the country, and at present the "mud match is the talk of the game. Chris Jordan, promoter for the Disabled American Veterans, who is one of the first promoters to offer anything new to his followers, will present the first Hindu-style, or "mud match. in Birmingham on Friday, Nov.

26, he announced Sat-urday. Just who the contestants will be in this unusual battle are not known, but Jordan is scanning a list of star grapplers for the 1 Battle of Centuries night. Nov. 26, at the Municipal Auditorium. Introduces "Hits" It was Jordan who introduced feminine wrestling in Alabama.

He was the first promoter in the South to offer a rasslc royal," and now he comes along as the first Southern promoter to offer a mud match. He and Martin Burke staged the one in New Orleans, and now he offers one to Birmingham fans Nov. 26. With the match coming on the night after Thanksgiving, the fans and the other four wrestlers on the card will have one thing to be thankful for. They won't be out in the trough of grime like two of the contestants will be.

And that's a whole lot, if you ask Sloppy Joe Dillman, or anybody else who has been in a Hindu-style battle. A trough of soggy mud, eight inches deep, will be placed in the auditorium ring. The rest is up to the wrestlers and the mud. It will be a splashing good time Friday night, Nov. 26.

at the auditorium. Rebels recovered a fumble on Arkansas' 22. Off tackle plunges carried the ball to the 13. and then Hall passed to Murphy over the goal him. but KintiriTs kick was blocked.

Resorting to the air again in the second quarter. Arkansas crossed the Rebel goal line to lead 13 to 6 at the half-time. Then Dwight Sloan and his two sta rreceivers. Benton and Hamilton, accounted for two markers in the third stanza. The first came when a double pass.

Sloan to Bcn- from the stands. Then again, football is a rough game. The penalty is for unnecessary roughness. How rough does a play have to get before it is unnecessary roughness? The writer has called a penalty for unnecessary roughness when earlier in the game urday night at Legion Field, banging out an easy 39 to 0 victory over the Nashville team. Paced by little Ed Neill, back in a Phillips lineup for the first time in two weeks, the hefty Red outfit tallied two touchdowns in the first half, and four in a wild last half spree to register the win.

Neill scored both of the first half tallies. The first came on a 16-yard sweep around end early in the opening quarter. Neill took the ball on a lateral from Jake Long and went across untouched. The second marker opened the second quarter. A 37-yard dash off-tackle brought the counter.

Hurst and Pierce added the points on placements. Dick Hites plunged over from the Humc-Fogg one-yard line midway of the third quarter to run the Phillips total to 20. and Harris blocked Groom's kick behind the invaders goal to make it 26 shortly afterward. Booker's 35-yard pass to Shelby and the sub end's nine-yard run and Friths one-yard plunge, which climaxed a fairly long drive, closed out tiie scoring in the fourth quarter. With second-stringers in most of the way.

the Reds marked up 17 first downs to Hume-Fogg's three, were forced to kick but once during the entire game. Lineup and summary: Phillips (39 Ctcmer left end: Walton, left tackle: Stlth. left guard; Pierce, center: Grimes, right guard; Ferrell, right tackle; Hurst, right end: Neill, quarter-(ck; Long, left halfback; Hites, right halfbacn; Jeffries, fullback. Hume-Fogg (0) Groom, left end; Wilkinson, left tackle; Alexander, left guard; Moore, center; West, right guard; Ragsdale. right tackle; Umlauf.

right end; Sanders, quarterback; B. White, left half-brk; P. Green, right halfback; Wright, fullback. Score by periods: ShiUipt 7 7 12 1339 Humc-kogg 0 0 0 0 0 Scoring Phillips Touchdowns. Neill 2.

Hites. Harris. Shelby, Frith. Points after touchdown. Hurst (from placement).

Pierce (from placement), Booker (run). Substitutes Phillips. Shelby, Phelps. Booker, Frith, Jones. Cerravelo, Harris.

Shaw, Culley, Bacon Johnson. Harwell. Orlines, McCauley Edwards, Schuler. Hume Furr, Smith, Kosenbloom. Weakley.

Oiiicials Laney (Alabama). referee; Chapman, umpire; Webb Birmingham-southern head linesman. Etheridge (Birmingham-Southern). Held judge. Alabama Hound Finishes Second In National Hunt a similar play was not penalized-the difference being that the spirit ln to Robbins, advanced the ball of the game had probably gotten to Mississippi's 10 Sloan sent an- DURHAM, C.

() A brilliantly lighting University ol North Carolina football team outplayed a favored Duke University eleven here Saturday afternoon to dump the Blue Devils from the undefeated column, 14 to 6. Duke opened the game by pushing the Tar Heels deep into their own territory and scored midway the first period on a 13-yard sweep at left end by Honey Hackney, fleet Devil quarterback. Hackney failed in his try for point from placement. The overflow crowd of 45,000 seemed to have reason to believe the pre-game favor given Duke was correct, but the Heels proved otherwise with Handy Andy Bershak, George Watson, Tom Burnette and Crowell Little leading the victory play. Special Kicking Shoe Little, gritty little quarterback of the Heels, smashed a half-yard over right tackle to score in the early minutes of the second quarter at the end of a 63-yard march.

Tom Burnette put on a special kicking shoe and with a perfect placement put the Heels ahead. Three minutes before the game ended, after Duke had played most of the second half deep in its own territory, Burnette dropped back as if to try a placement. Instead he tossed a pass to Watson, who took one stride into the end zone for a nine-yard gam and a touchdown. Burnette added another point by placement. Little had run a punt back 23 yards and short line smashes got two first downs.

Duke advanced to North Carolina's 13-yard line in the first quarter before the Devils scored and got to the North Carolina 20 in the second quarter after Hackney spectacularly returned a punt 70 yards In the only non-scoring threats the defending Southern Conference champs made. Lineup find summary: North Carolina (Hi-Kline, left end; Martfnio, left tackier. Woodson, left guard; Adam, cerner; Wrenn. right guard; Bart of, right tackle; Bershak. right end; Little, quarterback.

Watson, left half; Burnette, right half; Ditt. fullback. Duke (6 -Hudgins. left end; Brunansky, left tackle; Bad get t. left guard; Hill, cen- ir: Lipscomb, right guard; Yorke.

right tackle; Edwards. right end; Hackney, quarterback: Spangler left half; Tipton, right ball Sindh, fullback. Score by North Carolina 0 7 0 7-14 Duke (i 0 Scoring: North Carolina, touchdowns. Little, Watson pass from Burnette Points after touchdown. Burnette 2.

(placements). Duke: touchdown. Hackney. Officials: Eberts (Catholic U. referee; Mcrdon (Loyola), umpire Frew W.

A bead besman; Bagiev (W. A L. field Judge. Penn State Grabs Last Minute Win From Maryland MR. AND MRS.

J. R. PARKER, of New Albany, are shown above with the great champion, Jane McClure, fox hound, owned jointly by Parker and J. W. Elliot, of Mexia, Tex.

Jane McClure last week won the bench show at the National Foxhunters Association at Jackson, Tenn. In 1936 this fine hound bitch won out over more than 100 hounds at Birmingham Kennel Club all-breeds show. Dog Parade On Nov. 26 Is To Be Part Of Christmas Carnival Menu othcr to Benton on the four-yard line. Then Robbins went through the line for two yards, after which Sloan passed to Hamilton over the goal line.

Owens kick failed A 20-vard pass from Sloan to Hamilton made the second marker possible. Hamilton was stopped on the Rebel two-yard marker, but another pass. Sloan to Benton, who was over the goal line, counted. Again Owen's kick failed. Ole Miss launched an offensive in the final quarter, but the Arkansas line held at crucial moments.

Then a Mississippi fumble in her own territory placed Arkansas in scoring position. A long pass, from Sloan to Benton, put the ball on Ole Miss one-yard line, and qn the next play Sloan carried it over, and then converted. Ole Miss muffed a chance to score in the closing minutes as Waid recovered a fumble on the Arkansas 15. Massingale tried three passes over the goal line, but none clicked, and the game ended with Arkansas in possession of the ball. Starting lineup: Ole Minx Murphy, If ft end; Kinard.

left tackle; White, left guard; Hart, center; Bilbo, right guard William, right tackle; Kincade. right end; Bradley, quarterback; Hall, left halfback: Hapes. right halfback; rough and the intent of a player was probably not only to tackle but also to rough a man. Then again, the defense has every right to knock down a forward pass. There is a very close line of demarcation between breaking up a pass and interfering with a pass.

Probably the hardest of this type of play is one in which the pass is completed, everyone, including the officials, knowing that the pass receiver would have held the ball when just at that moment he is tackled by a defensive player, the ball flies out of his hand and is I ruled an incomplete pass. There is I plenty of ground for calling a play of this type a fumble and there is ground for calling it interference. It is purely a matter of judgment and the line gets very close. I shall quickly run through the duties of the umpire on different! formations. Kickoff On the kickoff the umpire stands on and checks the restraining line for offside by the receiving team The Boys Industrial School drifts down the field, keeping in racked up its fifteenth straight win mind short kicks, out of bounds on Friday afternoon by trouncing his side, holding, clipping watches Hanceville, 7 to 0, in a thrilling game played on a soggy gridiron.

The Industrial School scored the lone tally in the first period on a Boys Industrial School Wins Over Hanceville To 0 for muffs, fumbles or laterals and above all if he calls a penalty, has I to know whether the ball was u- possession or was free when ihe Techs: It was everything the name implies when it was "Alabama-Tech week-end in Birmingham. Two teams from Tuscaloosa played a Tech team here. The other one was the Tuscaloosa Black Bears, who played Ramsay Tech. Then, too, if you count the Crimson Tide more than one team, you've got still more. Whether you like Howard or not, you'd better have the Crimson and Blue on your auto plates from now on.

The deadline's gone now and it's a Howard year, in color, at least. And, speaking about deadlines, a deadline on time saved Auburn High from a possible defeat by Handley's Tigers. The whistle sounded as a Handley player smashed the line from the four-yard marker. Handley players thought they had won, but the ball wasnt across and Auburn took the game, 13-12. Whew! What a game.

Rest: Some people call hunting but others don't Tom Calvert, assistant manager of the Veterans Hospital at Tuscaloosa, is in Jasper on a hunting rest cure. so lie does. Coaches don't stay at one place very long these days but M. L. Vines is serving his eighth season as coach at Athens High.

Yep. here 'tis. folks. The cage season has begun. The Pell City Independentslicked Ragland.

24-22, the other night and backet ball is officially here, like it or not. Birmingham's Kid Lott, former Phillips High School football star, wrestled Frank Stojack. former Washington State football star, in the Hollywood arena last week. Fob James had to send his Lanett Panthers against LaGrange Friday with seven of his players ill with the flu. Sorry: If you go to a prep game these days and see a "Sorry, game postponed until tomorrow" sign on the gate, think nothing of it They've finally stopped trying to fight the elements and are waiting for better conditions The Sheffield-Hohenwald.

game, set for Thursday, was postponed to Friday afternoon due to rain and cold When the Atlanta-Birmingham motorcade passed through Anniston Saturday morning, half of Anniston, it seemed, joined the caravan. If every dog has its day then it is only fitting that a dogs day be inserted in the gala Christmas Carnival program in the Magic City. And that is just what the carnival association has announced it will do. Maurice Walsh, president of the Christmas Carnival A sociation, has designated Friday, Nov. 2G, as dog day in the program and at 2 oclock on that aft-! ernoon the dogs will parade through the streets of the busi-I ness district.

Birmingham Kennel Club will serve as committee on arrange-; ments for the parade and probably will draw up plans for the event at its semi-monthly meeting Monday night at 8 o'clock at Tutwiler Hotel. It is likely that the age limit on Green W3ve Loses, 7 To 6, the entrants will be from 8 to 14 years and there will be $50 in prize money split up among the young-: sters for various branches of competition. These details will be handled by the Birmingham Kennel Club but it is probable that the i money will be spread out so that many youngsters can carry off Leiihhiir'dt. rutibaek. Bentnn.

end; Laiman. left itkle; Saliba, left guard; Wood ell. en- pr, Martin, right guard; May? right foul occurred. tackle; Hamilton right end; Bobbin. Kicks From Scrimmage I quarter hark; Eakln, left, halfback; Sloan On kicks from scrimmage the tirrr some Christmas monev.

STATE COLLEGE. Pa. States fighting Lions snatched a ATHENS. Ga. iP) Tulane won thrill-packed last-minute victory the statistics but Georgia won the from Maryland's sure-shot pasing ball game.

7-6, Saturday before here Saturday, 21 to 14. 1 000 apoplectic customers. blocked punt. Woodie Holmes blocked a Hanceville punt on the 40-yard line and ran the distance to the goal line for the score. Ihe try for point was good.

The outstanding feature of the game was the great punting exhibi-i lion turned in by Leroy Thompson, who punted 14 times for an average of 47 yards per try. His punts kept the Hanceville boys deep in their own territory most of the game. The Boys Industrial School plays the strong Lamar County 1 team at Vernon next Saturday. JACKSON, Tenn. i.P' Bobbie Crowe, an 18-months old female, lemon and white hound from the O.

C. Flowers Kennels at Ocala, Fla won the all-age championship of the National Fox Hunters Association here Saturday in a surprising finish in which she scored a high general average of 450. The young champion won the prized title for fox hounds after six days of hard running. Her owner had entered her in the Futurity stake during the first three davs of the week-long trials. Nattie Dempsey, owned by Stone J.

Craze, of Hamilton. won second honors while third place went to Flying Handy, the entry of Ray Cassell of Willoughby, Ohio. Tough Time, entered by John H. Allen, of Iuka. placed fourth.

The new champion is by Tom Crowe out of Nellie Hall. pire should take a position on the Hxton (Sewuneei. umpire opposite side from the head lines- within three to five yards be- Judce. hind the defensive tackle or end. wherever he can better keep out of oie the way, and as soon as the first I group of linemen have gone down REMEMBER? under the kick he should follow Way back when well-to-do folks and be reasonably close to this had elaborate chandeliers in Ihe group of linemen in order to pre- I ceilings and mud scrapers on the 1 vent clipping.

Or if he has to call front steps. and reformers tried a penalty he should be close enough to have us substitute Rugby for I to be in a better position of au-j football? It was Windy Wear and Harry Harrison, pony backfield stars, who combined to upset th? tricky Marylanders on a muddy field Held to a net gain of four yards from scrimmage, the battered Bulldogs scrambled through to an upset victory on a 37-yard punt return by With the score at 14 and 14 and Sophomore Vassa Cate and a dead less than two minutes to go. Mary- shot placement by Billy Mims, taLed everything on fourth othcr first year man. One of Charley Weidinger land down. Two Long Runs Give Oglethorpe JJanfiattan Beats N.

C. State 15-0, thonty than if he were 35 or 40 yards down the field. The referee, of course, must go down slowly un-I der punts. Running Plays The umpire may best observe running plays from scrimmage from ''V running plays from scrimmage from passes, a deadly weapon throughout the game, flunked and it was Penn i ATI ANT4 ijpi Two lnnn State's ball on the Maryland 35-I but was able to cross the ATLANTA (JPi Tv. long runs yard stripe.

'ultimate barrier only on a 12-yard I the first half gave Oglethorpe a 12 Harrison reeled off tackle for frcm Buddy Banker to John; to 0 victory over Mississippi Col-j yards and then Wear flipped a re-! PlnT1.aPn t1? f0UI tl1 period. 'Dub jege saturtjav verse to Harrison, who went wide Mattis pacekick jfas low. R. around left end for 24 yards, and Capt. Bill Hartman, shifted from I Halfback MurpnY caught a touchdown.

Yl To 0 Victory i fullback to half in the injury-rid-j 3o-yard pass from Quarterback Ax- to the nature of the penalty and had laced the goal of the offending team, 90 yards of running and considerable tune would have been saved, and all of ihe ot-ficials would have appeared a Uttle smarter on their job. Also it you see a foul and another of 1 1 rt I i (jfiicsa.1 has tailed it, call it. Two horns; I ffl a I re more convincing than one. Again, do I Un Muddy tield oncs BiUk behind the defensive team, and it Time Out I den Georgia lineup, set the stage clberg to run 20 yards for one tally i for the Georgia score early in the while Schwabc interccoted a Mis-1 ciacK niufl norses, Jsci irtrisi tvnn' first period when he punted 44 yards and Jake Koptcki, conspired on out of bounds on the Tulane two. I SISslppl pass on hls own 4j to runl? rain-soaked gridiron Saturday to Harvard Defeats Davidson, 15 To 0, is tremendously difficult to stay out of the way even then.

Preferably, he stands behind the defensive tackle on the opposite of the field behind the head linesman. But if he is suspicious of roughness or illegal use of the hands, he changes his position. I always tell the defensive halfbacks not to be polite if I am obstructing their vision but to Signal time-out. using therm signal. Be prepared to check in substitutes who MUST report to the umpire On anv time-out.

incomplete paxs. pen-alty or like play the umpire muxt be on the alert to check in substitutes. On measuring (or first down the umpire has no dcilnite assignment except to check in substitutes. After The Ball Game Is Over The duties of all officials are the same. Head Linesman In my opening paragraph relative to the ii 1 1 indicated mat his primary mduct of the players lead Manhattan's Green Clad Jas- 55 yards for the other.

Mississippi College was within the t0 sJfPpePr, berly 15 to 0 10-yard line three times in the third lrlersCCtional victory over North Among those falling in line were tt -j -i nt the Highland Bulldogs, sandlot VV OOCllailQ LOSGS 21-0 champs of Talladega, who were Alabama's guests at the Tech game here Not many years ago, in fact, only one or two, a high diver at Cullman missed the tank and, of course, was killed. But this holds no horror for Shin Son-ger, Jasper boy athlete. Songer has just finished a successful season with an outstanding circus, making 75-foot leaps Into a portable tank. The names of Suth-er and Deal will appear in print at the Capstone again before many seasons pass Tuscaloosa High has a Suther and a Deal, brothers of the former Tide greats, coming up and you can bet your income tax they'll enter the university. Scribes: Stuart X.

(Marks Ihe Spot) Stephenson. Montgomery Advertiser, wrote some glowing reports on Auburn's win over Tenness And down at Dothan, Game To Lineville L1NEVILLE Coach Troy Barkers Aggies defeated Woodland High. 21-0, and remained undefeated. Griffin, McCollough and Watts gave as fine an exhibition of broken field running as has been seen here this season. if the Aggies tumble Clay County High in their homecoming game Nov.

23. they will win the championship of East Alabama, having taken the measure of Ranburne, Roanoke, Talladega, Alexander City, Sylaeauga and Lanett in the hardest schedule an Aggie team has had to confront. built on the river. And, speaking of rivers and water, one of the most unusual catches in the state this year was the 30-pound redfish Maston landed with a pole and line by Miss Carolina State's Wolfpack. Despite the gloominess of the day and the fact that Ebbets Field was I I 1 Stanley Nyhan's kick sailed only tit1 -i i -n 35 yards out into the face of a brisk T1 Winn Anri nflin breeze and Cate snatched it near ill TYlilU XlliU iUOifil (he sjdeline on the Grecn cut infield to his right, emerged from CAMBRIDGE.

Mass. (JPi Wind a pile of white shifted tacklers and and rain were the deciding factors scampered untouched down the Saturday as a spasmodic Harvard boundary to score standing up. attack punched out two touchdowns. Georgia's alert defense cnoked off a point after and a safety to beat all Tulane threats until the tinal Davidson, 15-0, in an intersectional minutes of the first half, when game. Buddy Banker and Mattis passed A crowd of 4.000 shivering spec- and ran the ball to the Georgia tators cheered the gallant defense four, only to lose it on downs.

of the North Carolinians, who held1 All through the second half. Mat- Mississippi high-powered Harvard scoreless for tis tore Georgia's line for repeated OKiethorre 6 012 I holding the ball 'dropped back to the first period, then grudgingly gains and Banker skirted the ends oincmif" BnvurprAerfoC; "sinston. um- the 13 and kicked the ball between yielded two touchdowns by rank; and passed for still more yards. But, pire; O'Sullivan, head linesman, Woodall, I the uprights for three points Foley, left halfback. I one Olive was killed on the one-yard iwd Before the period was over.

Daly The first came in the second pe- stripe when End Marvin Gillespie 1 At IT burst through State's defense to riod after a long, slow march and rlasned through and dropped Ma'- MclSKGQ UGlierDil IS block Loziers punt and Pomccter Us iM. a three-yard loss on the fell on it on the 15. lourth down. Another push bugged on the Georgia 20 and Troutmans pass interception stopped anothar the other in the third on a brilliant 63-yard run. WINS GRID PRIZE Spisak and Dpnfp-n A -j- UpTTTip Kopicki reeled off a first down and JJOaiUOLl xlu UJ WiOj Kopicki bobbed through center for four yards and a touchdown.

O'Neal, of the Dothan Journal, is Lucille Hotte and Dick Oldemoppcn keeping his readers well informed at Mobile recently. on Dothan do Fiat of Gadsden; P. I. Pruitt. Huntsville; i Farmer Scale, Selma: Marshall Johnson, Anniston; Jay Thornton, Tuscaloosa and all the othcr Johnson boys scattered over the state also have been kept busy keeping up with this groggy football season.

Thirteen Montgomery Lions-have formed a hunting and I fishing club and a den is to be Krin-gle's attempted placement was wide. Manhattan uncorked a 56-yard drive late in the third period to push over their second touchdown that ended the scoring for the day. Md. (Pi Brandywine Masked General, the horse nearly beat War Admiral at was a badly beaten Saturday, finishing fifth yell out, "Get out of the way! The'pr'imary "responsibility of the head Do not follow or handle the ball, i linesman IS keeping irack of the 10 yards Watr-h rnnHnot nf thp nlavprs Re to be made by the offensive team, offside Walcn conduct or tne piaytis. and Inmotkm plays.

He has his secondary prepared for a fumble or to assist the referee if he wants help on the ruling. It is a very difficult play if a ball carrier runs straight at the umpire. About all he can do if the ball carrier is very close to him. is to stand still. If he backs off.

trying to get out of the way, he might take out the last defensive player. In eight games this ycar up to this time I have not been run into thank goodness. In the Alabama-Kenlucky game, however, the writer had something happen to him that he had never seen before. A pass was completed to a Kentucky player. As the player turned to get started running he was tackled hard by two Alabama players.

His forward progress, of course, was very effectively stopped. I took two steps forward, held out my hands at the point of the forward progress of the ball, using the customary gesture the ball popped out of the Kentucky player's arm and dropped in my extended hands. Quite a few of my friends have kidded me since as to why we did not penalize Kentucky for having 12 men on the field Forward P.ixxet Cover line play ax In any other scrim-DiaKe. Know the eligible receiver on your end of the line. Watch lor Interference bv offensive players, on passes and particularly for holding by the defensive players of eligible receivers.

If a pass is completed cover the receiver quickly. If Interference is called indicate the Interference and get on the spot immediately. If pax is incomplete rule It incomplete, using the arm signal, at once, and help to get the hall hack to the referee quicklv for ihe next play. Goal Line Plays Cover line play as in any other scrimmage. Be prepared to signal referee in case of touchdown only if he aks for it.

Be ready to catch forward point of ball on quick thrust through center of line. Be prepared for forward pass into the end zone anywhere behind you. On a fumble or If you call a foul, koov Lincoln Clark Receives $250 In Football Contest Those Birmingham football fans to whom pre-game dope" would prove valuable, are advised to seek a conference with Lincoln Clark. 130 Avenue B. West.

Clark received word Saturday morning that he has just won $250 as second prize in the Gillette fourth week national football contest for "excellence of pre-analysis and selection of winners in leading collegiate football games. ponti which comprises three-fourths of hi work. Kick-Off He takes his position on the opposite ldf ol the Held Hum the rtleree end tx coot for blowing (he ball dead when the runner ia stopped after the kick-off. his duties are exactly the same as those of the referee. Kicks From Scrimmage As mentioned in the discussion of the referee's duties, when the referee is standing deep on a punt formation the head linesman must check quick line ploys the referee is 2 to 15 yards behind the line of scrimmage.

He must watch for any muff or fumble and out of bounds on his xivje of the field. He must team up with the umpire on holding or clipping play that occur between the safety man and line ol scrimmage. At the same time be sure that the box man does not leave the spot of the previous down until he is positive there are no fouls or any other reason that might bring the ball bat k. The head linesman must be physically xnd mentally alert and above all cooperative and willing to call a holding or interference penalty, and not feel that his duty ends with offside and chasing a few kicked bail down his sideline. Running Plays The Manual of Football Officiating gives a page and a half to ihe duties oi the head linesman in plays of this character, but except for having the primary responsibility tor of fixed his duiies are exactly the same as those of the referee and umpire.

He should be quick to call holding nr roughnesa penalties and it ia tremendously convincing when the referee, umpire and head linesman all three cull unnecessary luughness penally at Ihe same time. Forward Passes Again the duties ol the head linesman are familiar to those ot the reieree and umpire that It Is useless to repeat them. Distinctly ttiere Is a resiatnsibilit on ihe head linesman that no pais should he completed on hls side of the field on which tnc pass received Is out of bounds or had gone out of bounds and come bacK. Also on forward passes in the end sone or punts going out of bounds tn the corners the official must know whether the hall crossed the sideline, goal line or the end line. There Is a tremendous difference in I the rulings These decisions call for h-! esolute certainty not for the oflicials opinion as to how close.

The official must think ahead of the play and sense plays, which mav occur Involving one of these corners arid get into position propertly to rule on it. Goal Line Plays Again the dunes of the head linesmen I are erv similar to thoae of the field judge and umpire, except that he checks offside on the line of scrimmage with sec ondarv responsibilities as to a fumble or lateral pass and the forward point of the 1 responsibilities which i win list below and BOWIE. Stable's lhat Pimlico, favorite behind A G. Vanderbilts Chance- view in Bowie's feature stake race. Masked General broke second but i faded rapidly in the muddy going 1 of the Prince George's Au- i tumn Handicap, barely managing a head margin over the sixth-place horse at the wire.

Chanceview. booted in by Charlie Kurtsinger. made the fifteenth run- ning of the 'Cap his first victory since Vanderbilt bought him last Winter. The five-year-old bay Indiana Defeats Iowa 3-0, Using Stout Defenses IOWA CITY, Iowa (INSI-Of-fenng a stone wall defense gelding did the mile and a sixteenth crucial moments, Indiana defeated advance at the same point just before the game ended. Mattis plowed through from the Bullldog 40 to a first down on the Georgia three in a series of charges early in the fourth period.

Tncn a fumble lost nine yards and another hope seemed blasted, but. Banker proved equal to the occasion by firing a deft cross-field pass to Dirmann that savej Tulane irom a whitewashing. On the last kickoff after one Tulane touchdown. Georgia tried a trick return. Hunnycutt caught it on the 170, the team ran together in a circular huddle at the 15, Hunny-cutt handed the ball to Center Milner in this circle then all scattered, most of the players faking that they had the ball.

Milner was downed on the 25. The lineups: Tulane (6) Goodell, left end; kirchem. left tackle; Bucknei cc), left guard; Smith, center; Hall (c, right guard. Miller, rignt tackle, Dalovisco. right end; Nyhan, quarterback: Flowers, left halfback; Payn.

right halfback; Andrews, fallback. Georgia (7) Maffett. left end; Davis, left tackle; Tinsley, left guard; Milner, center; Johnson, right guard; Haygood. right tackle; Gillespie, right end; Hartman i(c), quarterback; Mims, left halfback; I Cate, right halfback; F. B.

Fordham. fullback. Score by periods: Tulane 0 0 0 6-6 Georgia 7 0 0 7 Scoring summary: Georgia Touchdown, Cates; point after touchdown. Mims. Tulane Touchdown, Dirmann (sub for Substitutions: Cfeorgia- Backs.

Young. Cavan, Hunnycutt. Matthews; ends. Towns. Kidredge; tackles.

Badgett; guard, Troutman; center, Lumpkin. Tulane- -Backs. Banker. Krueger, Mattis, Bond; ends. Wenzel.

Firmann. Referee. Foster (Hampton Sydney); um- of heavv track in 1:50 and paid $11, $6.90 and $3.80. A length and a half behind the bay son of Chance Shot, Araho Stable's Mucho Gusto captured second money wilh a final stretch dash and paid $10.10 and $4.60 B. M.

Byer's Thorson made a stout closing bid for third, paying $3.20. Worried About Debts? When his best backs and ends were declared ineligible. Coach Charley Havens converted Rada-tovich, a tackle, into an end. and Balish. a tackle, into a fullback, at Western Maryland College.

Personal Banking Applied to Automobile Financing Do you wont to buy a new car Buy me cor Buy or sell to on individual Ua your cor os colloterai tor loan? The amount ot the down payment, amount you with to pay monthly, number of months you wish to pay, ore ail arranged to your complete satisfaction. Your signature ond agreement are all we require. Enjoy the satisfaction of handling that car purchase on your own terms. (No Co-makers I Bay That Car the New A.A.C. Way! whether it was before or after touchdown haj or "touchdown nod, should' the referee was made.

ask for help After trv-for-point there is nothing else The head linesman must know tf a for- Wouldnt it be a marvelous relief to get all those debts paid? If worrying about debts keeps you awake nights, see Trustees about a loan. Chances ore we con get you straightened out. $100 to $1,000. Iowa. 3 to 0.

here Saturday, the last conference game of the year for the losers. A place-kick by George Miller early in the fourth quarter brought victory to the Hoosiers while disappointed fans looked on. Not since 1933 has Iowa defeated a Big Ten foe on its home grounds. The scoring drive started on an interception of a toss from Nile Kinnick, advanced to the four-yard line on thrusts by Olmstead, Hei-sland and Corby Davis, and there ran into a stone wall. Miller dropped back to the 13 for the winning place-kick.

Iowa outgained and outpassed the Hoosiers. twice advancing to within scaring range, and twice being repulsed. The half-time gun ended one attack, and the other failed when an attempted placekiek was wide of the goal posts. The drive was put together with two long passes from Kinninck, good for a total of 52 yards. Indiana made but five first downs to a dozen for Iowa and was held to a net gain of 67 yards compared to the 259 collected by the Hawks.

Score by quarters: Indiana 0 0 (1 33 1 Iowa 0 0 0 0 0 pire. Perrv (Sewanee); linesman. Severance (Oberlint; field judge. Slate (Atlanta A. is completed on his side of field of this type and if the pass feet are in bounds or out of the time the ball was caught.

the air, the play ia ruled where struck the ground after the jump. every attempted field goal and it ia (he duty of the bend to get the ball and pus up to the judge for the next khkotf. up the game. Calling FoulS technique in calling fouls Is the each official. Particularly in the offside penalties it is of oensidern-ble to the referee if the head after calling an offside penalty in, mark the spot ot the foul the goal ol the offending team all seen the referee make a false the wrong direction in enforcing If the linesman had faced in nf tqe offending team he prevented this.

It is a small all of these help to make football game. for the umpire do. so he should on double quick up to the middle of the field and watch both benches for Incoming substitutes. Enforcement Of Penalties When you see a foul, sound your horn instantly, note number of player and give arm signal for the foul. The sportswrlt-ers and announcers for broadcast want the nature of the foul Immediately.

Also It aids the officials with the spectators by his quickness and hls sureness If the play goes on down the field throw your handkerchief down at the spot and occur or a fumble which would cause your previous penalty to be declined or offset, continue officiating A second foul may In a gome a short while ago I saw the referee neve to run 45 yards over to the head linesman to find but about an offside penalty. hen run 45 yards ba where the ball was In nlav to cot th' captains deckrtnn then pick the hall up. snd run 45 yards hack to the snif of the could ha' linesmans penaltv If this particular of- thing, hut ficial had given the referee an arm aigna! ward pass on a play receivers bounds at If he is in his ieet Alter trv-for-point linesman the tield This speeds The same fr of assistance linesman, will come and face We have start in penaltv the direction well-officiated Tulane-Georgia Figures ATHENS. Ga. (API Statistics on the Georgia -Tulane football game Firet downs Yards gained rushing (net) Forward pa axes attempted Forward passes completed Yards gained forward passe Yards lost, attempted forward passes Passes intercepted by Yards run back intercepted passes Punting average (from scrimmage Total yard kick returns (including kiekoffxi i Opponents fumbles recovers Yards lost penalties 38 Trustees LOAN DISCOUNT 2010 Second Avenue ALABAMA ACCEPTANCE CO Woodward Bldg 3-4469 3-9628 Firestone Super-Pyro ANTI-FREEZE $1 Per Gallon FIKESTONE AUTO SUPPLY SERVICE STORES.

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