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7 31 Tenn. 35, Texas A-M 7, Arkansas 6 Page 2 I Miss. St. 27, 9 Tulane 6 Page 2 riririiiriTiiiH''TiiiiiiiBiTiMwi'rii Page 2. I Howard 19, S'western 0 I Page 7 SECTION SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1957 Birmingham Netxra COMPLETE SPORTS Tigers strike down tough Gators Bama ends jinx with 14-13 win Auburn tames 'em, 13-0 BY ZIPP NEWMAN News sports editor CLIFF HARE STADIUM, Nov.

2 Auburn came up with its finest offense and the nation's greatest defense to strike down a rugged and resourceful Florida, 13 to 0, Saturday before the largest crowd ever to see the Tigers at home a gala homecom-ina crowd of 36.000. It was Auburns finest team ever, winning its tenth straight and its 17th straight game at home. Now rolling in high gear for Mississippi State, Georgia, and Alabama ahead in the race for Auburn's first SEC title. Oncfe Jimmy Phillips, Tommy Lorino. Bobby Hoppt Jackie Burkett.

Ben Prestui. and Jerfy Wilson began clicking together with Sophomore Bryant Harvard, coming of age there never was much doubt about the outcome. Auburn went out in the lead late in the second period, after failing to cash in on a 77-drive that faded out at the Statistics FLA. AUB. First downs 4 16 Rushing yardage 37 301 Passes attempted 14 14 Passes completed 6 3 Passing yardage 46 80 Passes inter, by 2 2 Punts 9 7 Punting average 36.0 36.6 Fumbles lost 0 1 Yards penalized 25 55 Total No.

plays 57 78 Florida two. A short Florida punt gave the Tigers their second chance and they went 31 yards in two plays to score with Billy Atkins, going over from the five. A great run by Bobby Hoppe for 26 yards set up the touchdown. Never a finer clutch throw by the Lefthanded Lloyd Nix and never a more beautiful catch and runby Jimmy Phillips, wrapped up Auburn's second touchdown on a 63-Turn to Page 6 Results SOUTH Alabama 14, Georgia 13 Auburn 13, Florida 0 Kentucky 53, Memphis State Georgia Tech 13, 0 Mississippi State 27, Tulane News staff photo Ed Jones BY BENNY MARSHALL Ass'stant spotrs editor ATHENS, Ga.f Nov. 2 Alabama's sons of misfortune struck off the shackles of defeat Saturday afternoon, came from behind and got Georgia, 14 to 13, for their first football victory of 1957.

Fourteen to thirteen The margin of two balls set carefully down by Brewton Bobby Smith and two booted sweet and beautifully true by two young men whove kicked precious few extra points in their college lives. Marshall Brown got the first, to overcome a first quarter Bulldog touchdown and make it 7-6, Alabama. Mobile's Bobby Jackson hit the second (the first of his Alabama career to make it a 14-6 Crimson Tide ball game, and leave it up to Georgia to bring it back. Georgia couldn't. GEORGIA TRIED manfully to overcome the lead that grew in the second quarter on Smith passes to Charlie Tom Gray for 46 yards and to Willie Beck for 36.

But Billy Rains and Carl ALA. GA. First downs 11 11 Rushing yardage 74 191 Passing yardage 150 39 Passes 1 1-23 5-12 Passes inteed by 0 Punts Fumbles lost 1 Yards penalized 5 60 Valletto and Baxter Booth, Benny Dempsey and Ken Roberts and a mighty band of young folks weren't taking no for an answer this balmy Autumn afternoon. Rose up like men They rose up like men, and they brought it in. And, actually, 14 to 13.

doesn't quite tell it. Alabama was controlling this one through the agonizing last minutes for a homecoming Georgia crowd of more than 30,000. Alabama wanted it, and after Georgia came close on a third-quarter touchdown, the Tide never let that magnificently tremendously vital point be endangered. GEORGIA GOT to the 37 halfway through the last quarter, and needed three yards on 'fourth down to keep moving toward a touchdown that would win it. Charlie Britt, the great Bulldog sophomore quarterback, went for this distance.

It was now or never, and Annistons Gary O'Steen made it never. Britt had gone three yards Turn to Page 6 Nix hurls 20 yards to Phillips who sped 43 for final Auburn TD in third quarter Explains statement Rose clarifies 'false reports' LEXINGTON, Nov. 2 (P) The University of Alabama's president elect Saturday branded as false reports that Alabama Football Coach J. B. Whitworth had been fired but confirmed plans hot to renew Whitworth's contract.

i i a reed in the two mC 'j'W fX'i 'W--' 1 Wk jjfjilHr 1 I 1 PfCsp -rV :5 .4 fZV" Mmt 1L 4HHRE21 tlJM' JL J0 ft that a It rrhcr atalemet i ahouhi 'carding On Rose said a six-point statement by the athletic com- mittee aymg it had not asked Whitworth to resign but would not recommend his contract be renewed when it expires Dec. carried the coach's approval for publica- He added that Whitworth, before his quarterback club statement, had announced to his team and coaching staff he would not be at Alabama after aroused by these statements the athletic committee felt both Coach Whitworth and the News staff photo Roy Carter committee shouid make a fur- ALABAMA'S BOBBY JACKSON BOOTED MARGIN OF VICTORY, ABOVE, AFTER SECOND TIDE TOUCHDOWN Turn lo Page 6 Kick made if 14-6, Georgia scoring again but losing by this point Dr. Frank A. Rose, who will leave the presidency of Transylvania College to (assume the Alabama post Jan. 1, issued a formal statement after returning here from an Eastern trip.

The fact is that Coach J. B. Whitworth has not been fired the statement said. Two weeks ago Coach Whitworth, in a speech before the Quarterback Club of Birmingham, announced that he did not expect the athletic committee of the University of Alabama to renew his contract and that he was not asking the committee to do so. DR.

JAMES H. Newman, acting president of the University. talked with Coach Whitworth about this statement 12 I Vanderbilt 7, LSU 0 William Mary 14, Citadel N. C. State 19.

Wake Forest 0 Maryland 10, South Carolina Jackets win near-perfect game, 13-0 Vandy Engineers roll over Duke with Ted Smith on the two and on fourth down Benson leaped over from the one. Braseltons conversion attempt was blocked. There was 1:06 left in the half when Tech got its 6-0 lead. The Jackets romped out front 13-0 six minutes into the second half. Simerville returned the kickoff 43 yards and Duke was in trouble again.

Braselton's trusty arm was the big weapon in this 56-yard with a screen pass and Simerville knew what to do once he grabbed the ball. The hard-running Tech fullback got the pass onthe 12. dodged in and out and barrelled over the last Turn to Page 6 march. He got home to Alabamians Cal James for 11 yards and Floyd Faucette for five. WITH A FIRST on the 15, Braselton crossed up Duke BY GRANTLAND RICE II, News sports writer ATLANTA, Nov.

2 That one near-perfect game was bound to come for Georgia Tech and Duke happened to be the unfortunate victim at Grant Field, Saturday afternoon. Tech combined a masterful defensive performance with a well balanced of- Statistics Ga. Tech. Duke VPI 42. Richmond 7 VMI 20.

Virginia 7 Howard 17, Southwestern 0. Alabama State 13, Alabama 7. Fort Valley State 18, Tuske-gee 14. Centre (Ky.) 7, Sewanee 0. Florepce State 41, Troy 14.

Carson-Newman 28, Jacksonville State 0. Delta State 28, Livingston State 0. INTERSECTIONAL Mississippi 20, Houston 7. Tennessee 35, N. Carolina 0 College of Pacific 21, Mar-quett 7 Navy 20, Notre Dame 6 Oklahoma 13, Texas.

Tech 0 Penn State 27, W. Virginia 6 Clemson 20. Rice 7. EAST Army 53, Colgate 7 Princeton 7, Brown 0 Cornell 8, Columbia 0 Lehigh 27, Bucknell 0 Harvard 13, Pennsylvania 6 Syracuse 24, Pittsburgh 21 Yale 14, Dartmouth 14 (tie) Delaware 23, Rutgers 19. MIDWEST Detroit 20, Cincinnati 12 Purdue 21, Illinois 6 Oklahoma 13, Kansas State 0 Michigan 21, Iowa 21 (tie) Minnesota 34, Indiana 0 Kansas 14, Nebraska 12 Ohio State 47, Northwestern 6 Michigan State 21, Wiscon-n 7 Missouri 9, Colorado 6.

SOUTHWEST Texas A 7, Arkansas 6 TCU 19, Baylor 6 SMU 19, Texas 12 Hardin-Simmons 33, Texas 'estern 20. WEST Brigham Young 14, Utah 0. Denver 19, New Mexico t. Oregon State 39, Washington State 25. Oregon 27, Stanford 26.

UCLA 16, California 14. Southern Cal 19, Washington 12. Utah 55, Colo. State U. 0.

Wyoming 7, Air Force Academy 7 (tie). (More results, Page 3) NASHVILLE. Nov. 2 (P) Junior Qu arterback Boyce Smith passed and directed the underdog Vanderbilt Commodores to a hair-raising 7-0 victory over Louisiana State University Saturday i before a Homecoming Day crowd of 19,522. Smithshog rifle arm pitched a three-yard touchdown pass to Sophomore Fullback Tom Moore in the opening period Tor the game's only score.

Third string Quarterback Jim Travis booted the extra point, arid that was the ball game. The victory gave the Commodores a 3-1-2 record for the season and left the Bayou with a 4-3 record. The game was one of the most thrilling of the season here and LSU fought desper-. ately for the tying touchdown in the fourth quarter before a stubborn Commodore defense i halted the drive on the three. I VANDERBILT threatened in the final seconds when Travis tried a field goal from the LSU 30.

but it fell short. Fumbles marred the first part of the game, but neither team could take advantage of opposing errors. Vanderbilt drove to its touchdown from the opening kickoff, which Halfback Phil King ran back to his own 23. In 11 plays the Commodores passed and ran the 77 yards. Smith, whose passing beat Penn State two weeks ago Turn to Page 6 fense to whip Duke, the nation's seventh ranking team, 13-0, and it could have been much worse.

THE BLUE DEVILS showed no offense, gaining only 66 yards on the ground, while Tech scored twice in the space of seven minutes after failing to capitalize on two early scoring chances. Dukes first mistake carhe when the Blue Devils elected to kick off after winning the toss. Techs sophomores proved that strategy move to be a disastrous one. Lester Simerville. workhorse 175-pound sophomore fullback, kept the 40.000 homecoming fans on their feet as he returned the opening kickoff 31 yards to the 32.

IN EIGHT PLAYS the Jackets had moved it to Dukes 10 with Simerville picking up 29 of those yards. Dukes famed defense finally woke up then and End Bill Thompson blocked Fred Braseltons fourth down field goal attempt from the eight. The Blue Devils, undefeated but tied last week by North Carolina State, had to punt out and the Jackets went goal-ward again. COACH BOBBY DODDS men drove down to the four this time before Eddie Rush-ton intercepted Braselton's third down pass in the end zone. The first period ended 0-0 and the two clubs swapped punts until midway in the second period.

Duke made its only first down of the opening half when the North Carolina team got out to their own 31 after Joe Delany had quick-kicked 42 yards for Tech. But, the Blue Devils could go no farther, punted out and this time Tech was not to be denied. Braselton hit Taz Anderson twice for 10 and eight yards to help get Tech to the Duke 18. At that spot rough, ready Jim Benson, a 210-pound sophomore from Charleston, took charge. BENSON carried the ball five straight times to the Duke seven.

Braselton connected i Associated Press wirephoto TECH FULLBACK JIM BENSON (ARROW) CRACKS DUKE LINE FOR SCORE Crashed ever right guard for yard and first TD in second quarter.