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NINE THE BJRMIHjSffAM NEWS SATURDAY, JANUARY 1955 LED BY CHILDRESS, MOST VALUABLE Fiery Auburn lashes Baylor, 33-13, as Tigers storm to hew Gator records Offensive explosion, great line play thrills BY ZIPP NEWMAN, News sports editor JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 1 It took Auburn 44 years ana 10 tries to beat a Texas football team. But it was well worth waiting to see this Auburn tebm tear a fast, game, fighting Baylor to shreds, 33-13, before 34,408 thrilled Gator Bowl spectators in an explosion of offensive football and superb line play. It was a complete reversal of form shown by a determined and ruthless driving team from the one that lost here Dave Middleton and the Tiger ings in the line, Childress was the games busiest back. Ie scored two touchdowns through the Baylor line, kicked three conversions and reeled off 134 yards in 20 carries.

Auburns starting four sparked a rushing attack that set a new Gator Bowl record, the Tigers grinding out 423 yards and a record 25 first downs. IT WAS STRICTLY an offensive game. Auburn showed its superiority on offense in converting five out of its first six scoring chances into touch-downs. Not only was the South- Statistics line from end to end. Billy Hooper was a hero in defeat, no player on a losing team ever left a gridiron with more applause.

Take it from the shoulder, he was the nearest in this game ever to a Babe Parilli king of the fakers. In Baylors line there was Capt. Charles Smith, a fine pass receiver, and Bill Parsley, a tackle, who just wouldnt give up. Auburn didnt play any better against Baylor than against Miami, Georgia, Clemson or Alabama, but Auburn never played. all year a more dangerous team on of.ense.

It was inside the Baylor tackles that Auburn hit and smashed and it never made any difference where Bobby Freeman wanted to send James, Middleton and Joe Childress. Childress looked like the best fullback in college football today, showing more stuff, perhaps than Wisconsins great Alan Ameche. With all his speed C. on Jan. 1, 1954, to Texas Tech, 35 to 13, This time Auburn took the lead, and then came back from a deadlocked game at seven-all to win going away.

This was an Auburn team on the griddle. Auburn had to win to convince the fobtball world that Auburn was the football team thousands claimed the Tigers were at the end of the season. Never did an Auburn team go into battle with more determination to win and uphold the verdict of wise old football critics who said that here was an Auburn team as good at the close of the season in winning six consecutive victories as the SEC had seen in its 21 years. THERE WERE many great players in the game. The No.

1 for knocking off yardage was Joe Childress: Bobby Freeman, who ended his career as Auburns No. 1 quarterback through the years; Fob James, hand tackle. Delbert Shofner (27), Baylor halfback, closed in too late to stop this second-period play. Auburn went on to win, 33-13. (Associated Press wirephoto) Piggyback touchdown Jimmy Long, Auburn end, with a pass from Quarterback Bobby Freeman went six yards qnd over the goal line in a piggyback fashion as Baylor Quarterback Bobby Jones (12) tried to make a back- and ability to hit on quick open- Shr Birmingham Neros Dusting em Do Beauty and the bas 'ball player Dixie Ann Sarchet, 20, "Miss Wisconsin of 1954," may get an engagement ring "in the near future" from Detroit Tiger shortstoo Harvey Kuenn, he said.

Miss Sarchet of Stevens Point, met Kuenn while both were students at the University of bt Sports Editor 2UPP NEWMAN If I klO eastern Conferences second team on offense better than the Southwests best on offense, but much better than the Southwests first team on defense. The key to Auburns slashing, pounding victory came in the first half when alert Aui urn ball hawks stole two Baylor fumbles. The first Baylor fumble was rehcovered by Hoppy Middle-ton, a ball A1 Shofner turned loose on Baylors 27. In three minutes Auburn had scored in five plays with the great star of theh game, Chilling Joe Childress, going over from the seven. Baylor struck back in nine plays on a 63-yard drive with Rueten Saage gmg over.

It was a tied ball game within eight minutes of play. Billy Hooper, as near as one will see to a Kentucky Babe Parilli, threw two passes one to Charles Smith for 27 and one for 11 to A1 Shofner that put the ball on the one. AUBURN CAME BACK 61 yards, with Fob James corkscrewing the last 43 yards to take the lead in the first five minutes of the second period. And there never will be a greater run than little Fob James streak of lightning that broke through right tackle. James was strictly on his own after the first ten, running through the big Bears as though he might have been a field mouse hunting a cabbage leaf to hide under only it was Baylors goal line.

Baylor got started on its 38 and there was no stopping the drive until Allen Jones fumbled after hitting right tackle at Auburns ten. Jim Hall, an unsung but fine defensive end, fell on the ball at Auburn's eight. The Auburn sighs reached from the Atlantic to the Pacific, for sure Jim Halls fine ballhawking saved a touchdown. With time fading out. Auburn scored and locked up the game on a 92-yard sv irl that started with Hurricane Joe Childress 33-yard burst of speed and ended with Bobby Freeman throwing four yards to Capt.

Jimmy Long for a touchdown. There couldnt have been a more poised quarterback than Freeman under this pressure. Within 10 yards of tying the score, Baylor was now two touchdowns behind within 10 plays. It was the ball game. BOB WOODRUFF, Floridas coach who won with Baylor in a Dixie Bowl in Birmingham, said at the half: You see what Continued on Page 10 in the first quarter of yesterday's Jacksonville Gator Bowl game won by the Plainsmen, 33-13.

(Associated Press wirephoto) Tigers lower boom L. Dupre, Baylor halfback, tackled hard by Joe Childress, Auburn fullback, and a moment later was hit by Jim Hall (81), Tiger right end. Downing LaSalle Duquesne keeps Holiday crown If only Sheep Lamb was looking down There's a legend that Sheep Lamb, 240-pounds of the most colorful lineman ever to play at Auburn, shook his brawny fist as the Auburn team crossed the Mississippi River in 1910 bound to play Texas, and roared "Auburn is the champion East of the Mississippi and will be the ehampior West of the Mississippi." Texas beat Mike Donahues Tigers, 9-0- Coming back across the Mississippi, the Big Sheep in manner mild said Auburn is still champion East of the Mississippi. Sheep never lived to see Auburn win against a Texas team, and after Texas Tech beat Aabrun, for the ninth victory for a Texas team, many of Sheeps aging cronies never thought they would live to see the day the Tigers could beat a Texas team, and so handsomely. So Dec.

31 will not only go down as the day Auburn won the big clutch game in its comeback but the day Auburn finally prevailed over a Texas football team. And now the spell has been broken bring on more Texas teams for the Tigers still have a lot of getting even to do. There are stars and there are pros The greatest compliment that can be paid an amateur athlete is for coaches to call him cn old pro not an All-Star. The All-Star catches the fancy and the headlines the old pro comes to be known as the athlete who comes through the little something that makes for the difference between winning and losing. Maybe not the sensational stuff but the play that takes all the know-how and the last ounce of effort to execute under pressure.

Auburn was blessed this yar with good material good coach- but above all with several old pros lobby Freeman, Jo' Childress, Jack Locklear, Jim Pyburn, George Atkins and Joe DAgostino. To cur way of thinking Bobby Freeman one of the finest competitors ever seen on the gridiron. He was in Vince Dooleys shadow last year. Once given the reins in 1954 he never failed. A triple threat back he might have become one of the all-time greUr in Southern football.

He can do everything, a bearcat on defense. Thery have been few quarterbacks since Ray Morrison's days at Vanderbilt who could do all the things Freeman did down through the last seven games Auburn won. No, no one will ever replace Bcbty Freeman when all is taken into account at Auburn. Jim Pyburn and Joe Childress have another year and if they nan be as good in 1955 as in 1954 they will be All-Americas. They ire fearless competitors.

Jack Locklvar ended up an Auburn great at center fast, powerful and aggressive. George Atkins came into his own, and the boy to watch next Fall is Joe DAgostino. And heres a salute to Capt. Jimmy Long one of Auburns, finest leaders who cant miss in the business world. Gator Bowl can't ask for a better show The Gator Bowl has come through with fulfilling the prophecy of producing one of the finest of all the postseason offensive shows.

It was a moving bn.iie, full of great runs, marvelous thrown passes and beguiling catches a hard fought but clean game. The Gator Bowl committee is to be congratulated. Its hard to play around four faowV with much larger seating capacities and more prestige. in every staging of extra events the Gator Bowlers do well with what little they get out of the games for show purposes. The half time show was beautiful and the hospitality was warm and gracious.

Moving away from New Years Day should be the beginning of a bigger Gator Bowl with the kind of help the other bowls get from home folks. In four bowls now. Auburn has won the Orange and Gator lost in the Gator and tied in the one-time Havana Rum Gup. Cisco says he'll catch Dupas Collier, Ram official enjoy social huddle LOUISVILLE, Jan. 1 (P) Kentucky Football Coach Blanton Collier, often mentioned for the Los Angeles Rams coaching vacancy, was discovered lunching with a Ram official yesterday.

Fred Levy former Louisville business man and part owner of the Rams, explained immediately that his meeting with Collier was a social one. Were after the best coach we czn get, and were talking to a number of people, he said. He ado i with a chuckle: Im just hone for the holidays, thats ah'. Blanton am) I have merely been talking football. Co.lier himself said he would stand on what he said when "e-ports first connected him with the Ram job.

He said at that time he was happy Kentucky and intended to serv out his contract, which has two years to run. Collier and Levy were detected in a hotel dining room by a Courier-Joi nal photographer who was another assignment. Harlan Hil) to be honored FLORENCE, Jen. l(fP) Florence will celebrate Harlan Hill Day Jan. 6 in honor of the outstanding National Football League rookie who was a star Florence State end.

Plans for the celebration were announced by Chamber of Commerce officials. Hill is a member of the Chicago Bear team. Members of the Bear coaching staff and several national sports celebrities have been invited to take part in the program. Hills most outstanding game was the day he caught five touchdown passes to give the Bears a victory over the San Francisco 49ers. The 6-3 athlete lives at Rog ersville, near here.

BASKETBALL By The Associated Press ECAC HOLIDAY FESTIVAL Duquesne 67. LaSalle 65 (champtoo ihU). UCLA 104. 92 (foi third). Niagara 79.

SI. Johns (Brooklyn) Tt) for fifth). NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INVITATION Mississippi College 91. Louisiana College 72. Northeast Lonisisna 94.

Central Oklahoma 67. FAR WESTERN CONFERENCE Chico State 69. San Francisco State 59 (championship). Nevada 75. Humboldt State 51 (lor third).

Sacramento State 69. Cvlifornia Aggies 58 (for fifth). OTHER GAMES Marquette 66, Louisville 62. Northwestern 93. Princeton 83.

Seton Hal! 92. Gonzaga 70. Marietta 92, Eairleigh Dickinson DC. St. Marys (Calif.) 87.

Arizona State (Tempe) 2. in this weeks Associated Press poll. In other major games Seton Hall overwhelmed GOnzaga 92-70. Northwestern drubbed Princeton 93-83 and St. Marys (Calif.) humbled Arizona State (Tempe) 87-82.

Kentuckys unbeaten Wildcats, the No. 1 ranked quintet in the AP poll, go after their 32nd straight against Temple tonight in the feature of a double-header at Philadelphia. Also on tap tonight is the final of the Queen City Tournament at Buffalo, N. between Canisius and S. Bonaventure.

ments outstanding player with 30 points for three games. UCLA TOOK third place in the tourney by trouncing Day-ton 104-92. thereby setting a Madison Square Garden team record for one me. Niagara beat St. Johns, of oklyn 79-70 for iifth place.

The festival triple-header topped the New Years Eve activities on the college courts. Marquette, beaten only in its opening game by Michigan State, won its eighth straight by defeating Louisville 66-62. Louisville had been ranked 13th routing Bradley in thu finals at Kansas City in March. LaSALLE NOW has been beaten three times (by Utah, Kentucky, Duquesne). In December, 1953, the Explorers from Philadelphia also were beaten three times (by Niagara twice and Kentucky), a record that bears out their contention that these December defeats dont mean a thing.

Oddly LaSalle currently has the same record, 8-3. as at the end of December, 1953. Tho Dukes from Pittsburgh, playing without a substitution, had a tussle on their hands until, with six minutes left, they went ahead at 58-57 and stayed in front the rest of the way. Dick Ricketts, playing the second half with a sore ankle, and Si Gr en paced the Dukes. Each tallied 23 points.

Between them they overcame the brilliant efforts of LaSalles All-America, Tom Gola, who tossed in 30 points on nine field goals and 12 free throws. Gola also was voted the tourna BY TED MEIER Associated Press sports writer Here are a couple New Year's resolutions for the debonair Dukes from Duquesne and LaSalles national collegiate basketball champions: For the Dukes: Were going to make 1955 different from 1854. For LaSalle: These December defeats dont mean a thing. Well win the NCAA title again." These vows stem from the Dukes 67-65 victory over LaSalle last night in the final of New Yorks ECAC Holiday Festival Tournament before a New Years Eve turnout of 12,135. A year ago the Dukes also won the Festival crown.

They went on to win 22 in a row before losing to Cincinnati and Dayton. But last March in the finals of the NIT they were upset by Holy Cross. LaSalle, on the other band, was beaten in the ECAC semifinals a year ago, but came on to win the NCAA title by Miami cracks door in new bowl setup NEW ORLEANS, Jan.l P) Cisco Andrade, undefeated lightweight sensation from Comptou, predicted he could catch Ralph Dupas and defeat 3 ranking contender tonight in their 10-rounder here. "I know all about how Dupas runs, Andrade slid, and I know how to catch him. I know he cant hurt mv and I knew I an hurt him.

Dupas was expected to be FOR RENT Jan 1 (P) The Orange Bowl has taken action to protect itself against the possibility of NCAA action affecting its football games. In a new three-year contract with the Big Seven and Atlantic Coast inferences, signed here yesterday, was a clause providing that If the NCAA makes one of the Orange Bowl teams ineligible to compete in any game, the bowl can either pick anothesr team from the same conference or go into the open nurket. Van C. Kussrow, Orange Bowl schedule chairman, said the bowls became NCAA conscious after the University of Miami was placed on a one-year probation in the middle of the last football season for conducing illegal tryouts and paying the way of prospective athletes to its campus. The effect of the aotinn was to bar Miami from playing in a bowl game today.

The powerful Hurricanes would have been prime prospects for either the Sugar or Cotton Bowl. Recently, the NCAA made an investigation of athletic policies at the University of Oklahoma. The Sooners are favored to win the Big Seven championship and that conferences Orange Bowl berth next year. OKLAHOMA SOURCES said the school was given a clean bill of health but the NCAA denied that any decis.on had been made. The new contract, carrying the Big Seven-Atlantic Coast tieup through the 1958 New Years game, Includes a huge pay hike for the conferences.

Each will receive about starting with the next game, compared with $131,000 for todays game between Duke and Nebraska. favored by more than 6 to 5 at right time, LOCAL EXPERTS THINK Dupas is too fast for Andrade. They believe the young New Orleanian can dodge Andrades punches and land enough of his own to take the match. Japs blank Filipinos MANILA, Jan. 1 (iP) Japans Yawata baseball team blanked the Philippines, 2-0, today for the visitors second straight victory over the Asian baseball tourney champions.

Each team got five hits, but the Filipinos were charged with five errors. Sadao Kawai was the winning pitcher. Docs your business need a new bldg, with offstreet parking at a prominent location We have a number of sites on the south-side and northsidc that the owners will build and rent to established businesses. Call Henry Graham, 3-5141. OPIN MONDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS Happy Gator stars Halfback Fob James (left) and Quarterback Bobby Freeman (right) gave a postgame pat to Auburn Fullback Joe Childress who was voted the outstanding player in the Gator Bowl game at Jacksonville yesterday.

James and Freeman also played important roles in Auburn's 33-13 victory over Baylor. (Associated Press wirephoto) JEMISON in diamonds, watches, tmmjf. JEWELRY CO. M. 19th St.

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