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She Birmingham -Nietsaa SPORTS, LOC AL and STATE NEWS SECTION SUNDAY November 6, 1949 John Thompson, Page 3 Jin) Von Hoose, Page -4 THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD Rea Schuesskr, Page 5 Auburn Homecoming, Page 6 The Plains: Auburn State 20,000 JHIomecoming Fans See Trayis Tidwell Lead Tigers Out Of Loop Cellar BY ZIPP NEWMAN News-Age-Herald Sports Editor CLIFF HARE STADIUM, Auburn, Nov. 5 Sparked by Travis Tidwell, in All-American forth. Auburn roared, stormed and passed to its first Southeastern Conference victory since 1947 Saturday before a homecoming crowd of 20,000. The alert, scrapping Tigers clipped Mississippi State, 25 to 6 and three touchdowns were called back because 'of penalties and a fourth failed to mm mm mmm mm mm DUSTING 'EM OFF BY ZIPP NEWMAN Editor, Tke Birmiaxham Now Auburn Holds Maroons To 20 Yards Rushing Vi 5 -Aside from breaking into the win column, H.bur treatSd the Maroons ground game Saturday was a caution. The Tigers held the Maroons to 20 yards, rushing the ball and thats far below par.

Auburn churned under 17 first downs, with a net yardage of 214 m-m A RECORD BY ZIPP NEWMAN STATE INTERCEPTS AUBURN PASS Jack Rucker (No. 33), Mississippi State back, is shown intercepting a pass from Auburn's Billy Tucker (No. 10) right on the State goal line in the Homecoming Day game Saturday that saw the Tigers rise up and smack the Staters, 25-6. Rucker ran the ball back to his own 23-yard line before being stopped. Other Auburn players in the action are Tackles John Adcock (No.

70) and Max Autrey (No. 71). Mississippi Stata men are Guard Louis Williams (No. 62) and Tackle Jim Champion (No. 70).

(News-Age-Herald staff photo.) Nonchalant Notre Dame Puts Michigan State Down, 34 To Texas Ags Rise To Tie Mustangs BY WILBUR MARTIN COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Nov. 5 (JP) Texas A. M. rose from the depths of ridicule and defeat Saturday to tie mighty Southern Methodist University, 27-27. It was a pounding fullback, Bob Smith, and a spirit that burned as bright as the sun overhead that smashed the Mustangs Southwestern Conference title hopes and national ranking.

Smith scored three touchdowns to bring the Aggies from behind, then left the final glory to little Billy Tidwell and Bob Shaeffer. Tidwell scored the last Aggie touchdown late in the final quarter and Schaeffer kicked the extra point that gave A. M. moral victory in the biggest upset of the Southwest Conference season. A.

M.s tie came after five straight lickings and six defeats in its first seven games this year. In 22 games it has won only one and tied three. All-America Doak Walker and his touchdown twin, Kyle Rote, set a blistering early pace for Southern Methodist one that seemed to make the three-touchdown edge S. M. U.

had been given aeem small. Walker scored two touchdowns and passed to Rote for another to give the Mustangs a 20-6 lead at the half. The Mustangs made it look easy, with the Aggies matching first quarter touchdown just one of these things the 31,000 fans could expect. But those things happened in rapid fire succession In the second half, with Sniith smashing over for two touchdowns that tied the score. They kept on happening after Rote had returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown that put the Mustangs ahead as the third quarter ended.

Walker kicked three extra points for S. M. U. and Schaeffer three for A. M.

yards for rushing the ball and 159 yards in throwing the ball. It would have been no contest but for the Maroons having a net yardage of 156 in the air. Auburn ran with the ball 72 times and attempted 25 passes. Mississippi State ran 31 times and passed 17. So one can readily see that Auburn had possession of the ball most of the game.

Auburn returned only one punt for 12 yards. Mississippi State returned only two for nine yards. It must have been a record for careful punting. Auburn declined all Mississippi State penalties, while Auburn drew 75 yards three annulling touchdowns, two by the unlucky Charlie Langner. Langner was high yardage man with a net of 61.

Tidwell was second with 45. He took orders to run Saturday. Briggs was third with 41 and Waddail was fourth with 34. O'Connor had the best average for the Maroons, 20 yards in two tries. Beech picked up 23 and Pittman 21, Travis Tidwell became the first Auburn player to win the Outstanding Auburn Player Award at homecoming three times.

And he richly deserves all the honors. No player has staged a more successful comeback, after being struck down with a broken ankle. The win today should inspire the Tigers to win another down the home stretch. Earl Brown has said all along that what Auburn needed most, was to win a conference game, and this one they won, going away. )fe Auburn's Win Over Maroons First Since 1939 It was not only Auburns first conference win since 1947 but Auburns first win over Mississippi State since 1939.

It has been a long lane without a turning for the Tigers. But now that they have found daylight, surely better things are ahead. The Maroons and Tigers tied, 7-7, in 1940 and Mississippi State won in 1941-42-44-45-46-47-48. There was no game in- 1943 because of the war. Auburn won its last S.

E. C. game, up until today, from Florida, 20 to 14, in Montgomery in 1947. The Tigers lost 14 straight S. E.

C. games, before tying Florida in Mobile this year. They dropped three more S. E. C.

games Georgia Tech, Tulane and Vanderbilt, making it 16 conference losses and one tie before getting out of the cellar Saturday. It was a great day in the Village of the Plains. The victory meant much to all the old grads and more to the Tigers who have taken the bumps, coming back with a real scrapping team this year. Coach Earl Brown is the coach of the week to his players. He was carried off the field by Ralph Pyburn and Coker Barton, co-captains of the Tigers.

The moon was full over Tigerland Saturday. There was celebration. Its wonderful to win especially after a drouth. Bob Williams Sets Brilliant Pace For Irish BY JERRY LISKA EAST LANSING, Nov. 5 (JP) Unbeaten Notre Dame got its stiffest argument of the season, but unleashed the versatility of Quarterback Bob Williams for a 34-21 triumph over Michigan State here Saturday before 51,277 upset-hopeful fans.

In a game that was expected to menace seriously the Notre Dame string of .33 straight games without defeat, the Irish nonchalantly punched across two touchdowns in the second period, another in the third and two more in the fourth for their sixth win of the season. Michigan State, an inspired but outplayed team today, pushed across two touchdowns on desperation passes in the closing minutes to score the most points Notre click because the receiver stepped out of the end zone. Auburn was geared to take Mississippi State in the battle to leave the conference cellar. There never was much doubt about Auburn winning. after the Tigers went 58 yards in 12 plays to score in the first period.

Tucker Kicks Field Goal THE TIGERS second score wai a field goal kicked from the 31-yard line by Billy Tucker. The drive had swept 35 and with fourth down coming up. Tucker rushed in to put some insurance on the game. He did with one of the longest field goals kicked in many a blue moon by a Tiger back. Mississippi State put some ginger and soda in the game in the last minute of the first half.

Rucker intercepted Tuckers pass In the end zone, getting back to States 22. Maroons Get Touchdown IT TOOK one punch for the Maroons to knock out a touchdown. Don Robinson passed 43 to Cooley and he went 35 more to score. Two fumbles set up Auburns last two touchdowns in the last minute and a half of the third period and the first two seconds of the fourth period. Jim Brooks recovered Cooleys fumble at the 18.

Auburn scored in six plays. Foots Bauer recovered Simmons fumble on Mississippi States 37 and the Tigers went to the two on the last play of the third period. Tidwell scored on the first play of the fourth period. Cooley was tackled by Ralph Pyburn for a safety enabling Auburn to score its 24th and 25th points. It also gave the Tigers points on ali three ways to score.

Tidwell Great Back Travis Tidwell was tha great back on the field. He carried the ball 23 times for a net of 45 yards. He completed seven out of 17 passes for 144 yards. Tidwell was aided end abetted by Plumber Briggs, Johnny Wallis, Charlie Langner, and Bill Waddail. The line heroes for Auburn were Max Autrey, Jim Brooks, John Adcock, Tom Banks, Ralph Pyburn and Homer Williams.

Jack Rucker was marvelous backing up a leaking Maroon line, making 13 tackles. Lewis Wjlliams had 13 tackles and Pinson Corley had nine. Jerry Taylor, who played so well against Alabama, had eight tackles. Auburn simply unmasked Mississippi States offense. The Tigers were piling In, as if they knew all of the Maroons signals.

Auburn Was Confident Auburn was confident of victory and showed it all the way by never once letting down. The Maroons scrapped but they were outclassed. JAMES PITTMAN boomed the opening kickoff 55 yards. Bill Davio returned to Auburns 22. Jim McGowan had to punt on third down, getting off a 55-yard beauty.

Autrey dropped Stainbrook after a four yard return. Autrey and Brook jammed the Maroons attack and Robinson, rushed, got off a 27-yard punt. Jeffers downed the ball on Auburns 42. Hungry Tigers Strike THE HUNGRY TIGERS struck touchdown gold In 12 plays on a sustained drive featured by hard running Wallis, Tidwell and Langner. Wallis got the drive started with a seven-yard dash through left Just An Ideal Day For Football Irish-Spartan Statistics BAST LANSING, Nov.

5 (AP) Michigan State-Notre Dam football statistics: Michigan Notre Stats Dame First downs 10 IS Net yards gained rushing 81 2B1 Passes attempted 10 16 Passes completed 7 13 Yards passing 190 177 Passes intercepted by 1 1 Yards gained run-bach interceptions 2 1 Punting average 37 43 Total yards all kicks returned 75 83 Opponents fumbles recovered 2 Yards lost by penalties 17 35 TVV A line in the first quarter, a kick that gave the Engineers a lead they never yielded to the Volunteers. North scored a touchdown for Tech later in the game. The final score was Tech 30, Tennessee 13. (AP wirephoto.) FIELD GOAL FOR TECH Bobby North was a big man for the Georgia Tech footballers Saturday afternoon at Knoxville and in the picture above the Tech back is shown kicking a field goal from the Tennessee 19-yard Azure skies and a dash of low temperature greeted the homecoming crowd to many the day recalled when Dean Cliff Hare was one of the most outstanding men in Southern collegiate athletics. The stadium was dedicated to Clifford Leroy Hare who organized and played on Auburns first team 1891.

The Tigers defeated Georgia in Piedmont Park in Atlanta in the Spring of 1892. The Mississippi State Maroons came out dressed in mdroon jerseys, white helmets and white pants. Auburn dressed out in white jerseys, orange pants and blue helmets with orange stripes. Mississippi State brought only 38 players two of them Alabama boys Fred Dreyspring, Woodlawn High, and Jack Rucker, Montgomery. There are four Mississippi boys on the Auburn team.

Dave Ridgeway, Allen Parks and Dwight Hitt, all of Jackson, and Bill Davis, Corinth. Up until todays game the Maroons had scored only four touchdowns Don Robinson scored three against Baylor, Clemson and Tulane and Stainbrook scored the fourth, intercepting an Alabama pass and running 60 yards. Auburn had scored eight touchdowns four on passes. Tucker hit Briggs with three touchdown passes and Tidwell hit Davis. Ben Enis was the lone Alabama scout in the stands.

Ed Walker, who played a great end for Stanford in the Alabama-Stanford seven-all-tie in the 1927 Rose Bowl game, scouted for Louisiana State. Dr. John Sherrill, D. O. Nichols and Eddie Glennon, Baronial biftiness manager, were here for their first football game.

They were a little late in getting in on Wilbur Hutsells basket of sandwiches. The traffic from Birmingham to Auburn was congested all the way down. Screams of war eagle began after the Auburn band played the national anthem. The Sphinx must get a kick out df war eagle. An Auburn alumnus carved the words war eagle on the Sphinxs face during World War II.

Never have seen a game in Auburn without George Mattison present. Youll always find George and Bill Streit, Jr wherever the Tigers roam. First game ever played on this field was the Auburn-Florida game in 1939 ending in a seven-all tie Georgia Tech Overpowers Vols To Take 30-13 Upset Victory when Tennessee got off a short kick from its 20 after the Jackets were awarded a safety on a pass intentionally grounded by Hank Lauricella. This last scoring march covered 38 yards, with Morris Harrison plunging over from the two. GA.

TECH (30) Lsft end. Griffin, Anderson, Ferris, Snyder; left tackles. Brad-ach, Spriggs. Wheat; left guards. Pope, Langstaff; centers, Bossons, Brown; right guards, Doyal, Beck.

Bethea; right tackles, Coleman. Lupton; right ends, Harvin; quarterbacks, Crawford: left half. Humphreys. Jordan, Sykes. Patton; right halfa.

McCoy, ONeil. Sheffer, Maloof; fullbacks, North, Harrison, Thompson, Jenkins, Mulheim. TENNESSEE (13) Left ends, Sherrod. Cummins, Kaseta; left tackles, Stroud, Brlxey; left guards. Daffer, Elkas, Smith; center.

Jasper, Huneycutt, Davis. Feity; right guards, Vugrin, Baker; right tackles, Meseroll, Pearman, Donahue, Haslam; right ends, Flora, Stupar; quarterbacks, Hahn, Hill, Coggins, Johnson; left half. Cooper, Littlefora. Payne, Lauricella; right hairs, Rechichar, Sherrill, Bergmeir; fullbacks, Sizemore. Polofsky.

Georgia Tech Touchdowns, Crawford, North (2), Harrison. Field goal. North. Points after touchdown, North. Safety, Tech team.

Tennessee Touchdowns, Polofsky 2. Points after touchdown, Rechichar. goal by Bobby North which culminated- a 41-yard march. Crawford sneaked over from the ont-yard line for Techs first touchdown midway the second period after leading the Jackets in 55-yard drive. The march started when Halfback Jimmy Jordan recovered Bernie Sizemores fumble.

This was the first of three straight Tennessee fumbles the Jackets recovered and turned into touchdowns. The second came in the third stanza, with Guard Buck Deyal grabbing Hal Littlefords bobble on Tennessees 46. Tech drove to the one and North dived over. EARLY IN THE final period, Lauricella dropped the ball and again Tech grabbed it, this time Dick Harvin pouncing on the oval. The Jackets drove to the one-foot line with North again smashing over.

Techs fourth touchdown came KNOXVILLE, Nov. 5 (IP) A hopped-up band of Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets unloosed an amazing display of power and razzle-dazzle Saturday to sting Tennessee, 30 to 13. About 48,000 fans saw the Southeastern Conference football game. With Sophomore Darrell Crawford of Kingsport, in the Tech drivers seat in place of the injured Quarterback Jimmy Southard, the Jackets smothered Tennessee with a thunderous offensive that rolled for 405 yards and 23 first downs. Tech not only outplayed Tennessee both offensively and defensively but took a page from Tennessees book and turped the Vols miscues into touchdowns of their own.

The Jackets first three touchdowns resulted from drives initiated after recovering Tennessee, fumbles. TECH BROKE into the scoring column first with a 19-yard field Tech Will See These Tidemen tm Deacons Devour Devils BY KEN ALYTA DURHAM, N. Nov. 5 (JP) An alert, hard-hitting Wake Forest football team whipped Duke, 27-7, Saturday to hand the Blue Devils their worst defeat by a Wake Forest team in 25 years. Wake Forest rugged line, operating in front of fast backs, simply wore down the Blue Devils.

The Deacons hopped into a 13-7 lead in the second quarter after a scoreless opener and then added two more in the final period to win going away. THE SCORING ice was broken In the second period as Wake Forest rolled 57 yards, the last 17 being covered by Bill Gregus. A Duke fumble led to Wake Forests second score seconda later. Tailback Billy Cox fumbled and Jim Station recovered on the four for the Deacs. Bill Miller powered through from the two.

Then Soph Tailback Glenn Wild came into the game for Duke in electrifying fashion. In four plays with Wild passing, three were com- pleted for 75 yards and a score. He we11 Zrd to Flournoy and it was first down on Mississippi State's 45. Langner was held to a yard at left guard. Tidwell, never running harder, slashed off 13 yards at right end.

Tidwell Hits Pay Dirt WALLIS CRACKED THE LINE twice for eight yards. Langner ripped left guard for 11. Tidwell, cornered, got loose for three. Corley threw Langner for two yards. Langner carried to the one on a quarterback sneak, Tidwell crashed over.

Tucker converted and Auburn had taken the lead in eight minutes and a half. Don Robinson ran Tuckers 58-yard kickoff back for 27 yards before Adcock hit him. RobinsonS 38-yard punt rolled dead on Auburns 37. The Tigers hit back, going to Mississippi States 38. Plumber Briggs cut loose around right end for 23 yards.

Tiger TO Called Back CHARLIE LANGNER WENT through tackle for 33 yards and touchdown, but the Tigers wer offside. Tidwell kicked over the goal line. The Maroons finally got their offense started. Beech got three at left tackle. Robinson passed 12 yards to Murray Alexander.

Pittman made eight and Beech mads one. Pittman made it a first down on Mississippi States 48. Pittman again hit left guard fo five. A pass from Robinson to Alexander was good for five and firrf down on Auburns 42. Pittman hit left tackle for a yard on the lasf play of the period.

The Maroon drive played out on Auburns 38 with Robinson puntinf over the goal line. BRIGGS. GOLDEN AND TIDWELL knocked off 12 yards through the guards. Tidwells pass to Plum her Briggs was good for 27 yard. With the ball at Miss States 47.

Langner made two through left guard. Williams smeared Briggs fop a seven-yard loss. Tidwell picked up four and then punted over tho Dame nas yielded in a single after-noon since the 28-27 squeak past Purdue in the 1948 season opener. Williams, a daring prformer with 13 of 16 passes completed in a perfect football afternoon, ran 40 yards to one touchdown and passed to two others as the Irish hammered another crisp triumph into their bid for an unsullied season. Played To Hilt THE ROUGH, tough Spartans played to the hilt, but the Irish had a brilliant all-around attack which could not be denied.

Michigan State was an inspired team. But after playing a scoreless first quarter and failing to tally from the one-yard line, the Spartans just couldnt cope with the knifing sharpness of the Irish attack. It was the first defeat for the Spartans since they 'bowed, 7-3 to Michigan in their first game of the season. Since then they had won five straight games, beating Marquette, Maryland, William and Mary, Penn. State and Templd.

Williams was a bold quarterback for Notra Dame from start to finish. His 19-yard touchdown shot to Ernie Zalejski for a touchdown in the second period gave the Irish a 7-0 lead and sounded the tempo for the attack. Spartans Rally MICHIGAN State rallied to tie the score at 7-7 when Sonny Gran-delius plunged foot for a touchdown in the second period, but that only served to goad the Irish on to their telling clean-up. Still in the second quarter, the Irish marched 95 yards in 17 plays with Larry Coutre plunging over from the two-foot line. Steve Oracko booted his second conversion and Notre Dame led 14-7 at the intermission.

The ball game really was sewed up in the third quarter when Williams, who had been baiting the Spartans with decoy plunges through the middle, suddenly kept the ball himself instead of handing it off, and scooted 40 yards to pay dirt The fourth period produced two touchdowns by each team, but it was Notre Dame which got its pair first to settle the issue. Stubby Emil Sitko, who led the Irish ball carriers with 88 yards in 18 tries, scurried 12 yards for a touchdown that capped a 59-yard Notre Dame march in nine plays. That put the Irish in front 27-7 at the outset of the final quarter. Another Notre Dame strike over 63 yards climaxed by a 12-yard touchdown pass from Williams to end Leon Hart gave Notre Dame a 34-7 lead and that put the game on ice. MICHIGAN STATE WENT to its aerial attack and pumped across two more touchdowns, with Quarterback Gene Gliek flipping scoring shots to Ends Bob Carey and Dome Dibble from six and seven yards out, respectively, with time running out Notre Dame's Steve Oracle Verted on four of his five extra mm a i uiiMinniiM II iiiii.j HIM NO MISSES LATELY Alabama's extra-point team of Jack Brown (holding) and Eddie Salem, haven't missed a try after the last 14 Alabama touchdowns.

They have missed only one of 18 kicks this year and hope that they'll have plenty of extra-point business against Tech at Legion Field Saturday. 3o pliers Rout Iowa, 55 To 7 MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 5 (JP) innesota, counted a dead duck ir as Big Ten title chances and ose Bowl consideration go, proved screaming, fighting Eagle Satur-iy by blasting Iowa. 55-7. Minnesota exhibited a far dif-reftt brand of football from that Sainst Purdue just a week ago.

it Gophers struck quickly with a tricky, hard-driving offense to get their first score in the first fourj minutes of the game. They dominated the game the rest of the way and held Iowa, well away from scoring territory until late in the third period. That fired the Minnesotar players and they slammed over four touch' downs in rapid players on the action are Tockle James Martin (No. 38) and Back Emil Sitko (No. 14).

Spartan players are End Henry Minarik (No. 80), Halfback John Poloncak (No. 41) and End James Gilman (No. 83). Notre Dame chalked up another win in its long victory stringy 35-21.

(AP wirephoto.) goal line. Turn to Page Column 1 COUTRE SCORES FOR NOTRE DAME Notre Dome's great running bock. Lorry Coutre, plunges over his own right.