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TWO THI BIRMINGHAM NKWS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, IBS Bulldogs never in game EH Gatos -bound Tech lays it oni Georgia, 35 to 0 Statistics BY ALF VAN HOOSE, Newt sports writer SANFORD STADIUM, Athens, Go Dec. 1 Gator Bowl-bound Georgia Tech stuck its- excellent passing game in the cupboard for 57 minutes here Saturday but unmercifully used grass-root stuff to flog a fighting Georgia team which wanted oh, so dreadfully to win this one for "Coach' carries represented daring, gritty advancing. Until the score was 28-0. Tech tried one pass, ll was no good. Tech quarterbacks jifst aimed their carriers straight ahead and took off the halters.

Tlie Gator Bowl invitation was officially awaiting the final whistle. The vote to Jacksonville was unanimous. ROTEN BERRYS- H-DOWN as just about the only exciting attacking event of the first 30 minutes. Otherwise, both clubs just reared back and made ball-carrying a most, most unhealthy occupation. Georgia's redshirted defenders were fighting like Marines holding the fort.

And the Bulldogs were getting excellent kicking, too. Rotenberrys i y-a burst capped an 86-yard drive. It took 13 plays. Dickie Mattison was the wheel-horse of it, rolling, driving and stabbing 46 yards of the march in eight carries. Wade Mitchell added another 36 yards on one keeper scamper.

Thompson got one other yard, and Rotenberry advanced 15 yards before he exploded tackle Tor the final eight. Tech got across midfield only one other time, Rotenberry fumbled the ball away then, on the Bulldog 41. tempt to lift the whip hand. THE FIRST' of these final quarter touchdowns was a 50-yard march which consumed seven minutes. Mattison got-the last yard, diving over the mass of fighting red and white.

The second was a 48-v ai expedition, aided by 20 yards of tax against Georgia. Matti-'un got 13. then eight, and Mitchell five From the two. Flowers broke through guar I and well into touchdown land. The third all-the-vvav movement was an aerial bombing from 62 yards out.

Vann pegged to Flowers for 33. to Paul Vickers for '12. ran four, then whipped a shot to Flowers from the 13 for the score. GEORGIA TECH 15 1 I. eft ends.

Nabors. Hose Green left tackles Vereen. Christy, Henry: left luards, Johnson, Miller, Dodd, tenters, sie phenson Wiley. Watkins riarht guards. Kckei.

Askew. Glazier: right tackles, Anderson Thtash. Ellis: nuartnrbacks Mitchell, Vann, Maynard, left halfbacks Rolen berry. J-lowers. Mottaer, ritht halfbacks.

Thompson. Volkcrt. Delanv. Dover fullbacks. Owen.

Mattison, Gookin Thomason GEORGIA 0) Left ends. Wilkins. Monti: lett tackles Luck. Gunnels, MacDonald: lett suards. Cushenbeny.

Lucas Gilbert; centers Brown Cook: right guards Dye. Anderson. Vinesett: right tackles Modeller. Mejitheringham. Dye Sedlock; ends.

Roberts. Cooper Watkins; quarterbacks Byars Nunlev Schulte; left halfbacks, Tarleton, Whitton. Littleton, Bishop: right halfbacks. Davis, Manning. Bush.

Dukes fullbacks. Culpepper, 1 on, Strtimka, Sapp Ga Tech 0 7 7 21 55 Ga Tech scoring Touchdowns; Rotenberry 1, runt: Mitchell 1, sneak); Mattison 1. sneak'; Flower 2 (2. -un; 13, pass-run from Vann. Conversions: Mitchell 3.

Vann 2 This Tech may be the best once-beaten Dixie team of all-time. It's a much superior outfit than the one which whipped Pitt in New Orleans 11 months ago. THE SHUTOUT was Techs third straight. The only touchdown off the Jackets in their last 27 quarters was that bitter one which Tennessee copped and won with. 6-0.

Ten foes eot 33 points off these white-shirted defenders. The longest of those five tds was two yards. Dodd called the Georgia conquest a 'real, workmanship He wasn't kidding. Rotenberry, one of the 19 seniors, was the running hero of the beautiful day. His 94 yards of rushing in nine carries was tops.

MATTISON, VOTED the game's No. 1 man by sports-writers, got 88 yards in 18 hauls. Ken Owen added another 64 yards in 15 tries. Gene Littleton was Georgia's top runner. His 41 yards in six The whipping, was 35-0.

Georgia never had a chance. Tech's savage, cruel defense deserved as large a hand from the capacity 50,000 crowd as its offense. and that's, saying something. The Bulldogs never edged closer than the Jacket 32. Their runners were punished all day.

First Techman across was Paul Rotenberry. in the second quarter, from eight yards out. Next it was Wade Mitchell, snaking in from the one. early in the third period. Then, fast and furiously, in the last eight minutes.

Dickie Mattison leaped in from the one, and large Stan Flowers crashed over twice, from the two first, then carrying a 13-jard pass from Toppy Vann. Mitchell kicked the first four extra points, Vann the last one. GEORGIA CAME out to play, came out to show the vast throng that Wally Butts was its man. A slightly less skilled gang than Tech the Bulldogs might have ambushed but not Bobbv Dodd Tech. biing favor two first downs later, on the Tech 32.

The manner in which George Whit-ton. and Carl Manning were running, it appeared serious for Mr. Dodd and Col LOFTON FUMBLED though, and when big Carl Vereen recovered. Georgia had had it. They had really had it when Tech went right in after the intermission kickoff.

This was a 72-yard push, in three plays. It took 43 seconds Rotenberry nearly did the distance in one run. From the 28. he shook loose aroung right end for 53 yards to the Georgia 19. Manning made the tackle, escaping Vereen who was escorting.

From the 39. Thompson wriggled 14. Georgia was penalized to the one, and Mitchell snaked over. Tech's last quarter touchdowns wer off a beaten team, a team whose barks were bleeding. There was no at Associated Press wirepnot MIAMI'S DON BOSSELER CLIMBS FLORIDA WALL TO-SCORE Touchdown came in second period of Gainesville game 1 Final SEC standings CONFERENCE W.

L. T. Pc Bosseler powers 20-7 Miami win 1 Btcchia 'I, intak; Bosatler 1 1, piunr 73. run 1 Conversions: Oliver 2. Florida ironnr --ToucJidown Pel ham 35, punt return, (oil version: Spears MIAMI '20 -Left ends J.

Johnson, Bennett. Hildebrandt. left tackles, Devore. Diamond, left guards. Cunio.

Wallace centers, Hu dock, Newcomb, right guards. Pratt, Vasiloff Detroia right tackles Hutchings. Greaves right ends, D. Johnson. Geatz.

Poole; quarterba cks. Scarneochia. Yar brough left halfbacks. Bookman Sel-bel. Pievel; right halfbacks.

Oliver, a rone, fullbacks Bosseler Sandie. FLORIDA 7 Lett etuis. Burford, Fleming. Ayers; left taclRes Wesley. Heckman; left guards.

Yosloh. Bone' centers Bolton. Graves right guard-. Barrow, Johnson, right tackles, Mitchell. Midden; right ends.

Pelham, Yeats, quarterbacks, Speais Dunn. May left halfbacks. Symank, Rooke right halfbacks. Rountree. Parrish; fullbacks.

Brodsky. Sears. Hergert. Si Jkk Pet. GAINESVILLf, Fla.

Dec. 1 (P Don Bosseler. bread and butter fullback of the unbeaten Miami Hurricanes, powered two touehdow'n drives and scooted 73 yards for a third as he led Miami to a 20-7 football victory over Florida Saturday. Bosseler ran from left halfback as veil as fullback the first scoring drive of 42 yards. He operated solely from his regular fullback slot in the second drive and ran the entire 37 rds himself on four jaunts up the middle LATE IN THE game from the Miami 27 he smashed over guard, cut to the sidelines and outran Florida's speedy Jim Rountcee to the goal.

The strongly partisan crowd of 40,000 groaned when the Florida Gators committed the same type errors that helped Dusting em bq Sports Editor ZiPP NEWMAN 9 is m. Ik Tommy Lorino breaks SEC per-try record Tommy Lorino, the pride of Bessemer and the most sought after prep star in the South in 1954, ended up his sophomore year with Auburn, setting a new SEC record for average yardage per try -8 44 He broke Lowell Tew record of 8.13, set in 1945 for Alabama. Lorino ended up with a total of 693 yards for the season the individual rushing star of the conference After going into the third period with a minus-two yards, he gained 47 yards on nine tries for an average of 5.2. Bobby Hoppe had his best day grinding out yardage. He ran eight times for an average of 14 yards.

Auburn closed out the season with eight new school records: Most first downs (season 182. Old record (1954 74. Most net yards, rushing and passing, 3749. Old record 1 1954) Associated Press wirephete TECH FULLBACK DICKIE MATT ISDN (41) PLOWS UP AND OVER And gains a second-quarter yard against late-wilting Georgia Against underdog Army 3491. back Na vy to gain 7-7 tie fell or.

a loose ball at the Cadet 27. Dagampat, a 165-pounder from Los Angeles who shared game honors with Army Senior Bob Kyasky, carried for five of the seven plays it took to score. Ned Oldham kicked the tie-clinching point in his farewell contribution to Middie football. Dagampat, who had just smashed a yard on fourth down for the needed inches, which spelled renewed life, piled over his right tackle for the touchdown at 7:35 of the final period. DAGAMPATS big play en route was a dancing darting maneuver down the sideline for 12 yards to the 11.

With the line of scrimmage on the 29, Army made one last desperate try to recapture the umph which earlier had appeared within its grasp but BY BOB HOOBING PHILADELPHIA, Dec. l-f7P) Favored Navy, stunned by a ferocious Army defense, sent Sophomore Fullback Dick Da-gampat for Jhe fourth period touchdown that provided a 7-7 comeback tie with the Cadets today and led to a Cotton Bowl invitation which quickly was declined by the Middies. Navy received an official invitation to meet Texas Christian in Dallas Jan, 1 but turned it down in a dressing room announcement moments after the final gun. The indication was that Navy' officials decided the. teams performance was not bowl-worthy.

It was a fumble, one of several costly errors by the battling underdogs which launched Navys late attack as third string End John Kanuch percentages. Houston rips by Detroit for 39-7 win HOUSTON. Tex Dec. 1 Fullback Donnie Caraway scored two touchdowns and Quarterback Don Flynn ran for one score and passed for another Saturday as the University of Houston defeated the Iniversity of Detroit. 39-7, in Missouri Valley Conference The victory left Houston with a 7-2-1 season record, its second best football campaign in jhistory.

The Cougars won the Missouri Valley title three weeks ago, their second in four years. Houston jumped into a 20-0 lead before yielding a touchdown to Detroit in the third period and closing with three more scores in the final quarter. FYLNN SCORED on a 19-jard left end sweep and threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to Halfback Joe Bob i h. Caraway broke through the middle from the 22 for one score and plunged over for another from 4he one. i End Webb Bishop grabbed a deflected pass thrown by Quarterback Sammy Blount and raced for a 52-yard touchdown while End Bob Borah intercepted a late Detroit pass and ran 11 yards for the Cougar's final score.

Detroit saw a penalty, a fumble and a pa interception stop early threats before Halfback Billy Russell moved around right end from the 13 on the first play after a Houston punt was partially blocked in the third quarter. Kr r-t ods: Detroit aton 15 I- 11 scorn -I ou nrtow Russell 113. lun (nufriion Korpsk. Ho istoB lo'rin- touchdowns -imp 53-ard pan from Blount; a a a 2 raa; 1. ph nse Smith 64-yard pa from U-nr4 return1 Pitt happy to meet Tech again OXFORD.

Dec 1 Pittsburgh is happv to meet Georgia Tech in a re-match as the Oator Bowl attraction Young Vi alter Cumminga, coacn of oe. uers for the Panther- dei -red this sentiment here Saturday. HE Ak or a scouting Mrnment Hemingway Sta dium The Pantherv were rot pa'-'ing up the possibility that Ole Miss might be their opponent at We have just about the same sort of team a- la-' rear It eem we alwav have to have one ban gamp. had this ved! against California a year it was Navy. We kiiow more about Tech thi ear and feel we have a good chance to win.

Another upset BALTIMORE. Dec I VP Little Pache from Ellis Stable. Saturday added another upset to Pimlico meeting of upsets hv winning the S'. 5. 000-ad Gallorette Stages tha tur-prist of 18,424, huge Municipal Stadium that the fired up Cadets would use ball cont and a hard-charging line to knock Navy out of a Cotton Bowl trip for the second successive year.

Quarterback Dave Bourland, a junior quarterback who had been in only three varsity plays team, Georgia Tech, whip them a week ago. Sixth ranked Miami was just as capable of taking advantage of the opportunities. The Hur-ricances covered 42 yards in the first payoff march after Bosseler intercepted a pass. AFTER BOSSELER four smashes to a second TD Miami sat on its 14-0 lead until later in the game when Florida's Dan Pelham blocked a Jack Johnson punt and ran 3.5 yards for the Gators score. Bosseler then quickly restored Miami's safe lead wnth his 73-yard jaunt.

Miami 0 14 0 1- 20 Florida 0 0 6 7 7 Miami aeon ns Touchdowns -Scar- present UT players have ever been in a bowl competition. Today's game was my biggest thrill, a real homecoming," Majors grinned as he grabbed for one of his three younger brothers. lluntlaiid. Tenn population 300 and home of the now-f ambus Majors family, was almost here en masse. THE MAJORS family, all but Brother Joe now at Florida State, led the hometown cheers at the dressing room door.

Three brothers. a sister. Mom and Dad. coach at HiintlatTd High, stood by for the celebration. Wyatt was still shaking long after the game and his assistant poaches were Jetting the tears flow.

Vanderbilt played us a real tough first half. said Bowden. But, I thought all along we wernT equipped to beat 'em. It was a team victory, as have been the last four. Tennessee's finishing march of beating Georgia Tech, Ole Miss.

Kentucky, and Vandy on successive Saturday's took team play right down the line VANDY COACH Art Guepe was the first visitor in the Tennessee dressing room. You boys piaved a great game and I wish you all success in the world in the Sugar BowL Guepe told the Vols. Back in his own dressing room. Guepe admitted that tiie fumble on their first play was. the back-breaker.

We -larted good, with Majors losing four on that first play, Guepe said And we were ready for the quick-kick on second down But. then the fumble just ruined us You can't give Tennessee the ball on your 38 like that and expect to hold them off long Coach Wyatt has a fine Guepe added And that Majors and Cruze make it go Brown aid quits PITTSBURGH. Dec Doug lalom-, assistant to General Manager Joe Brown of the Pittsburgh Pirates, resigned Saturday and Joe O'Toole was named to wicceed him. Most yards average per game, 374.9. Old record 1954 365.2.

Best team rushing average. 276. Old record (1954). 249.6. Most rushing plays (season.

515. Old record 1954 507. Most total yards, rushing. 2760. Old record 1954'.

2491 Best rushing (per try, 8.44. Old record, Monk Gafford 1942, 7.65. Tennessee, Georiga Tech, TCU, Iowa Tennessee will be the favorite to beat Baylor in the Sugar. Georgia Tech will be the favorite over Pittsburgh in a re match in the Gator Bowl. TCU will be the favorite to beat Syracuse a surprise pick over Georgia Tech in the Cotton Bowl.

Clemson. if picked, will be the favorite to beat Colorado in the Orange Bowl. Iowa, a winner over Oregon State, should repeat over Tommy Protbros Oregon State It's P.c thros second year as head coach He learned his football coaching under Wallace Wade at Duke and Red Sanders at Vanderbilt and LLCA. Bowden Wyatt will be taking his third team from a third conference to a bowl game. He won a championship with Wyoming in the Gator Bowl.

He won he Southwest title wi'h Arkansas and lost to Bobby Dodd in the Cotton Bowl. Nov Tennessee fair-haired coach is taking one of the SEC greatest teams to the Sugar Bowl. And Bdwden Wyatt ill not consider it a successful season, if he doesn't beat Baylor a rugged team. Bowden pulled the Vols out of the swamps in his second year. He stuck to the things he knew best the old Tennessee defense and the old Tennessee offense.

Hes not a coach to quick-change to new ideas, sticking to Bob Neylands football the winningest kind. Which goes to prove that it does not make any difference what type of ofiense or defense, if the material and coaching are available. The Sugar Bowl has the No. 1 pairing The Sugar Bowl ges the bes. because the Sugar Bowl is open to selection The rematch of SEC and Southwest teams after a lapse of eight years should bring back the old thrills of the Sugar Bow 1 games.

The Southwest teams are noted for their wide open games throwing a lot of passes, which will be matched against Tennessee. which has the top star of college football in Johnnv Majotv The Gator Bowl has a fine game in Georgia Tech vs. Pittsburgh- two hard-driving teams. Auburn ends up another good season Shi. told hv placers before the Alabama gar e.

that if they went out and played (he. football they were capable of playing Auburn would have had a fine season. Atui the Tigers, with old pro Howell Tubb directing the attack, went out and played their finest game of the yeai a far cry from the start against Tennessee at Legion Field. From the time Howell Tubbs took over the direc ion of Tigers thev growled. The Ole Duster has noticed that when Tubbs has a good day the Tigers get the full potentia from their football team, Auburn lost five great key players in Fob James.

Joe CH -dress. M. L. Brackett. Frank Agostino and Bob Scarbrough Bobby Hoppe and Tommy Lorino did much to offset the losses of James and Childress.

Auburns end play began to improve tremendouslv af er the Tennessee and Georgia Tech games. No SEC school pined with four finer ends. Auburn was never supposed to beat Tennessee and Geoigia Tech's experience and class Florida was an explosive te-m the day thi? Gators played the Tigris. So in the final analysis Auburn beaf the teams A -burn was supposed to beat, ending up the seaso with seven wins and three losses. last year.

Intercepted a Tom Forrestal pass on the Navy 32 early in the third period and ran it down to the four. Kyasky, brilliant at his fullback post this chilly day, needed just one piav to plow behind Loren Reid and Dick Fadel through his left side for the touchdown. KY.iSKY, THE much-injured senior from Ansonia, who was playing his first full season for the Cadets, set up the interception with a quick kick into the Middie end zone and later pu. out of bounds on the Navy four. Scor by Army 9 0 7 0 7 Navy O' 0 0 7 7 Army scorinc -Touchdown Kvasky (4.

plunge); Conversion. Murtland Navy scorini! Touchdown; Datum-pal ii yard plunge); Conversion, Old a Vo Is call Wyatt best in world BY GRANTLAND RICE II News sports writer NASHVILLE. Dee 1 Words won't express it he's just the greatest, shouted Tennessees All-American Tailback Johnny Majors as he led the undefeated Vols in their dressing room salute to Coach Bowden Wyatt. It was obvious what these Volunteers thought of their coach, who has guided them to a perfect season and a Sugar Bowl bid in just his second year at UT When the final whistle ended the Vols' 27-7 'victory over Vanderbilt. the Orangemen rushed to the sidelines, grabbed Wyatt and shouldered him to the dressing room.

THERE ISNT another coach in the country like Coach Wyatt. added Majors "He's tops in our book. I'd play for him another 10 years if I could. The Vol ate anxiously looking forward to the Sugar BowL For non of th Associated Press wirephoto VOLS SUGAR BOWL-BOUND AND HAPPY ABOUT IT Jubilant players whopped it up around Coach Wyatt Saturday ot Nashville.