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ALTOONA TRIBUNE. Wednesday, January 1I5J 9 stLAlB COUNTY'S OLDEST DATLT KXWIPAPCB Oops Ram End Is Only Unanimous Choice On AP All-Pro Team Five Seconds To Go Bruce Fox Makes Foul Shot Good College Presidents' Proposed De-Emphasis Draws Criticism CINCINNATI Criticism 1 this wk to act on proposed legal the college presidents' drastic I Illation to stabilize sport. Chief THE DAILY Sportscast provisions call for a year's study program for deemnhasiring ath of bowl games, reduced spring Bruce Fox mads good his foul shot with five seconds to go in the game Tuesday night to give the undefeated Hollldaysburg Tigers their sixth straight victory, as they nipped the Marauders of Altoona Catholic high 40-39. After Fox had hit with the foul, Altoona Catholic started practice and strict university eon trol of athletic scholarships. By DON DILLMAN A special presidents' commit L.

tee, meeting Monday in ashing' ton, called for far sterner mess $8 ures in a list of recommenda tions to the American council. The presidents called for abol O. J. Vogel, Hollldaysburg, has given us some more yarn lo spin bout E. E.

(Shorty) MUler, former Penn State AU-Amerlran who it going to speak at the annual Quarterback club banquet, Jan, 17. Vogel, along with MUler, entered Penn State in 1910 and graduated in 1914. Vogel, topping six- ishment of bowl games, athletic scholarships and out-of-season NEW YORK Elroy (Crazy Legs) Hirsch. a former halfback who hit the jackpot as an end. Juesday was the only unanimous selection on The Associated Pret All-Pro football team.

The 27-year-old left end from Berea, a sensation for the National Football league championship Los Angeles Rams during a long season, drew a vote from AP sports writers in all 10 league cities. The former collegiate star as a halfback with Michigan and Wisconsin and a back with the defunct Chicago Rockets was the only to gain this honor. The All Pro team, selected after every game had been played, included 22 players or two platoons in view of the fact that coaches no longer expect their aces to play both offense and defense. The two platoon team comprised players from eight of the 12 NFL squRds. letics swelled Tuesday, and university heads were warned they May be doominf the NCAA to a alow death.

"I think lt' wonderful the presidents are taking this interest in sports," laid Adm. Tom Hamilton, athletic director at the University of Pittsburgh, "But if they want to make changes they hould do it through the NCAA. 'This is their body for governing athletics. Every delegate here has the endorsement of hir president Let the presidents work through the NCAA. "If they attempt to set up and enforce a program Independently through the American council of education they might as well discard the NCAA." practices and tournament.

They also urged the coaches' salaries be made to conform with those driving down the floor, but Bill Sailer of Altoona was fouled. With two seconds to go, the heartbreaker happened to Bill aa his missed. Hollldaysburg took the rebound. That was the finish. Hollldaysburg jumped off to a 12-9 lead in the first quarter and led 25-21 at halftime.

In the third period, the upset minded Marauders came back to tie the contest at 33-33. Though he missed the foul, Bailer was otherwise terrific, rebounding throughout, and leading the Marauders with 16 points. Pat Felllnger tallied 12 for the locals. Jack Nash led the victorious Tigers with 9 points. The loss gave Altoona a 5-2 record.

The Altoona Catholic JV'a won the preliminary 31-29. Hollldaysburg O. 1. Pts. Fox, 2 4 8 Coho.

0 11 Griffith, 2 7 Soyster, 0 0 0 Crjste, 3 2 8 Nash, 3 9 Watson, 2 7 of regular faculty members ELROY HIRSCII "Craiy-Legs" OFFENSIVE ELEVEN End Elroy Hirsch Rams foot played the line while Shorty did baekfleld chores and the two did very well together both on Most of the men who direct the nation's athletic programs and coach its football teams were almost unanimous in agreement that such a broad program as presented by the presidents could and off the field. Vogel, reliving the game against Tackle George Connor Bears Guard Lou Creekmur Lions Center Vic Lindsskog Eagles Guard Dick Barwegan Bears Tackle Leo Nomellini 49ers Ohio State In 1912, recalls The National Collegiate Athlet- not be put into force Association is meeting here ly. End Leon Hart Lions Back Otto Graham -Browns Backr-Doak Walker Lions diagonal pass te a receiver en the light sideline. But Clark's pass from center was bad. Shorty picked up the ball on the bounce, and unable to pass, put his head down nad plowed through the surging Buckeye for 40 yards before being tackled.

"He was very shifty and fast," says Vogel. "He had a habit of running right at you, then suddenly darting sideways." Then there was the game agalnat Penn, when Leroy Mercer, Fenn'a great punter made high booming punt downfleld thus giving "Dummy' Marks, giant Penn end and far from a "dummy" plenty of chance to hover over Shorty while the ball was still In the stratosphere. Marks, as he told Vogel years later, planned to hit Shorty high hoping for a fumble. Shorty caught the ball. Marks made a dive and landed, as Vogel says, "on his belly on the ground." Shorty meanwhile was steamroll-ing down the Held.

Marks, when talking with Vogel later said, "the only thing we. can figure is that Shorty went right under my legs." He probsbly did. The crowning tale related by Vogel, however, takes place In the spring "after football season or we wouldn't have bothered the rake," says Vogel. "We were sitting there on the steps of the old wooden track house, Just across from the ladles cottage," says Vogel. "We ceuld Back Dub Jones Browns Sunday School Teacher Will Lead Southern Methodist Next Season Back Eddie Price Giants The Detroit Lions, who by losing their fl.ial missed the National conference divisional title, placed three men on the offensive eleven.

They were guard Lou Creekmur of Woodbridge, N. end Leon Hart of Turtle Creek. and Doak Walker' of Dallas. The Cleveland Browns, beaten Shorty's making the most of tough break while working a certain spread formation The ball was near the left sideline, In fart Vogel at left guard was at the sideline, with the rest of the team spread clear across the field. John Clark, at renter, was supposed to center the ball bark to Shorty who stood alone quite a few yards behind.

The entire Buckeye line stood ready to pour forth unchecked. In an effort to smother him. Needless to DEFENSIVE ELEVEN End Larry Brink Rams Tackle Arnie Weinmeister Giants 18 40 r. Pta. Guard Bill Willis Browns Totals 12 Altoona Catholic G.

Fellinger, 5 Smith, 1 Guard Les Bingaman Lions by the Rams, 24-17, in the playoff. Tackle Al Derogatis Giants End Len Ford Browns oy tne Kams, 24-17, in the playoff, placed quarterback Otto Graham of Cleveland and halfback Dub Linebacker Chuck Bednank Eagles 12 4 16 3 0 0 4 0 0 2 2 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 2 0 0 Sailer, Kelley. Aigner, Engelman, Tomlinson, Carnicella, Eckenrode, Linebacker Paul Younger. Rams Halfback Jerry Shipkey, Steelers Halfback Otto Schnellbacher Giants Stuhldrehei: Speaks At Meet Of Engineers Harry Stuhldreher, one of the legendary "Four Horsemen" and now an assistant to the vice president of the United States Steel company, spoke to the members and friends of the Altoona Engineering society in their meeting Tuesday evening. His subject was "Safety in Football" in the meet at the Forty and Eight club President Frank Clark Introduced in Altoona.

Nearly 65 were present when Stuhldreher to the group. Harry spent the first minutes of his talk in reminiscing over his experiences in the three years (1922, 1923 and 1924) of play at Notre Dame. He then went on to tell of his times in coaching the Wildcats of Villanova. He pointed out that a smart quarterback is a necessity in playing good football. Many were the tales of Jim Thorpe told by the speaker.

In Ms experience, Stuhldreher rated Jim as one of the all-time greats. Swinging into his subject matter, Harry pointed out some of the steps that have been taken to prevent Injury to the modern player. Two of the things cited by the speaker were the movins of the goal posts the end of the end zone, and the making of chalk marked yard lines to replace the old rubber borders. He then went on to show how many, of the essentials of football, including the important teamwork, could be carried over in actual practice in many industries. One of the comments made by Mr.

Stuhldreher was that modern athletes in the same quality of the old timers still are around, but in much greater quantity so that they do not have the pub-licity given to them that the older stars were handed. The lack of an abundance of stars helped to create many of the stories about the last generation. Mr. Stuhldreher's appearance was due in the main to the efforts of C. B.

Seely of the Altoona Pipe and Steel Supply company. 11 39 7-40 Totals 14 Hollldaysburg 12 13 9 12 12 6-39 Altoona F. Pts. see the girls busily icing cakes in the kitchen." Ssrs Shorty: "Oliver, I was just thinking the girls senior high School team his father finished his army duties and returned to Dallas to teach at Woodrow Wilson High. Bill was in all the sports-basketball, baseball, football and track.

He made the all-State and all-Southern teams as a high school fullback. Bill was a star as a freshman and in his sophomore year played 167 minutes at fullback. But last fall, SMU came up with few defensive tackles with experience. Just before the opening game, one of those. Harry Dean, was injured.

So Forester played fullback on offense and tackle on defense. Then I. D. Russell, the star linebacker, was injured. So Bill began to play linebacker since Dean had returned to the lineup.

Alternating as tackle and linebacker in the Texas game. Forester was credited -with 13 assisted tackles and six unassisted. In the Arkansas game he was named national lineman of the week by The Associated Press. He took a pass for a touchdown and smashed through the line for a touchdown and smashed through the line for another. Defensively, Forester was credited with seven assisted tackles and nine unassisted.

In this day of two-platoon football. Forester likes to play both offense and defense. "I think I can go at top speed for shouldn't keep all the cake 14 4 1 2 0 2 6 4. 0 1 0 0 0 2 7 BILL FORESTER Versatile Captain sayt the play' called for a long vote-getter was Walker with eight. Then came Graham, Jones and Weinmeister, each with seven experts favoring their selection.

Hirsch led the pass receivers with 66 catches for 1,495 yards and also paced the league's scorers with 102 tallies, the result of 17 touchdown passes. He gained 2S4 yards more than the record total made in 1942 by Green Bay's great Don Hutson. Hirsch broke Hutson's mark with two games remaining on the schedule. Hirsch was the big man the day the Rams clinched the National Conference crown. In a 42-14 victory over Green Bay he scored touchdowns on pass plays that stretched "3, 37 and 19 yards.

In Chicago against the Bea In Chicago against the Bears, Crazy Legs scored on a 91-yard pass play. Against the 49ers he scored on a 76-yard play. After making a circus catch of a 45-yard pass shook off two tacklers and went the remaining 31 yards unmolested. In Detroit, Hirsch ran 70 yards with a Bob Waterfield pass in a 27-21 win over the Lions. Hart, at the other offensive end.

shook off tackier after tackier in catching 35 aerials. On 12 of them he went for TD's. He and Jones both made 72 points, seventh best figure in the league. they mlghtget Indigestion." Vogel agreed. They strolled over to the cottage but Vogels six feet were net enough te reach the kitchen window, and.

Shorty reached hardly half as high but with Shorty on Vogels shoulder Several days later, Vogel, walking Innocently across the campus, Jones, of Ruston, La, on the offensive squad. The- Chicago Bears also had a pair on the attacking team tackle George Connor and guard Dick Barwegan. The remaining offensive men are center Vic Lindskog of the Philadelphia Eagles, tackle Leo Nomellini of the San Francisco 49ers and fullback Eddie Price of the New York Giants, The Giants, regarded by many coaches as football's defensive giant, placed four men on the defensive array tackles Arnie Weinmeister and Al DeRogatis. halfback Otto Schnellbacher and safety Emlen Tunnell. Other defensive All Pros are end Larry Brink and linebacker Paul (Tank) Younger of the Rams, guard Bill Willis and end Len Ford of the Browns, guard Les Bingaman of the Lions, linebacker Charles (Chuck) Bednarik of the Eagles and halfback Jerry Shipkey ofc the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Repeaters from the 1954 All-Pro team are Connor. Barwegan, Weinmeister, Bednarik and Walker. For Barwegan, a former member of Baltimore Colts, it marked his fourth straight year as All-Pro. Weinmeister, a former Yank, has made it three seasons in succession. Graham has been voted to the team four times in the last five campaigns.

Following Hirsch as the best Hollldaysburg JV G. Stare, 5 Leaner, 2 Snowberger, 0 Graham, 1 Brennan, 0 Horner, 1 Ratchford, 2 Totals 11 Altoona Catholic G. Strobaugh, 0 Burns, 0 Bettwy, 6 Reilly. 0 Long, 0 O'Donell. 0 Kiesewelter, 4 Farabaugh, 3 Mack, 0 Safety Emlen Tunnel Giants HONORABLE MENTION OFFENSIVE Ends Francis Polsfoot, Cardinals: Bob Mann, Packers; Dante Lavelli.

Browns; Bob Walston, Eagles; Tackles Bill Fischer, Cardinals; Paul Lipscomb. Redskins; Lou Groza. Browns. Guards Abe Gibron. Browns: Bruno Banducci.

49ers; Casimir Witucki, Redskins. Center Frank Gatski, Browns. Backs Bob Waterfield, Rams; Bob Hoernschemcyer. Lions; Dan Towler. Rams Rob Goode, Redskins; Joe Geri.

Steelers John Dottley, Bears; Bob Celeri, Yanks. DEFENSIVE Ends Ed Sprinkle. Bears: Ray Poole. Giants. Tackles John Kis-sell.

Browns; Mike McCormack, Yanks. Guards Visco Grgich, 49ers: Alex Agase. Browns. LinebackersTony Adamle, Browns; Tommy Thompson. Browns.

HalfbacksHoward Hartley. Steelers; Don Doll, Lions; Harry Gilmer, Redskins; Jack Christiansen, Lions; Lowell Wagner. 49ers. Safety, Buddy Young. Yanks.

met one of the girls. "We don't r. 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 mind you and Shorty having the rake but could we have the pan 29 Pts. 0 0 14 0 0 0 10 6 1 31 she said, trying to suppress a smile. 5 4 12- -29 Totals 13 Hollidaysburg 5 8 Altoona 6 15 "I happily obliged." said Vogel.

Then after a pause he added, "The girls were supposed te practice on the rake, but it was good just the same." When I concluded my Interesting chat with Vogel he said, "I know you'll enjoy Shorty's talk at the banquft." But I had already decided that without the 6 4-31 about 40 minutes, he says. In the fall of 1950 Bill became a Sunday School teacher in the DALLAS A Baptist Sunday School teacher will lead Southern Methodist university on the foot-tball field next fall. This really isn't so unusual; a lot of Baptists go to SMU. This one. Bill (The Bull) Forester, 220-pound tackle, linebacker and fullback, went to SMU because a brother, Herschel, did.

And so the Southwest Conference last season had its first brother combination on the all-conference team. Herschel made It at guard and Bill at tackle. Usually SMU players elect two e-r three captains, but this time Bill Forester got so many votes he was the No. 1 man. Three players the next largest number of votes were named sub-captains.

Forester is one of the few teen-agers ever named to lead a major college football team he 1 19. Bill started his football career at Brownwood. where his father as in the Army. He played in the Brownwood grade schools but never was on the First Baptist church of Dallas Bob Lowell, 195-pound Navy guard from Los Angeles, spears fish and dives for lobsters as a hobby. Another teacher in the same department is Herschel.

who was co-captain of SMU last season. BRADLEY UPSETS ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS A free ttrew by Dick Petersen ia the last two minute of the seooad overtime period gave Bradlejr'i aroused Brave a 7-M upset victory Tutedey night over St Louis UnHee-sity. fifth-ranked ia thll week's Associated Pre poll.

wmmm SPORTSMAWS CORJSER NEW YORK The big game hunting season is under way in many states, while in some ethers it is over and gone. Deer leads the popularity parade in most states and, with a record number of hunters on the prowl, the total kill for the entire country is expected to be unusually heavy. Deer hunting is a strange sport in which veterans sometimes prowl wilderness tracts in vain while women and boys with borrowed guns bag magnificent trophies in pastures and back yards. All that is necessary to be a successful deer hunter is to be at a certain spot where there is a deer. It's as easy as that.

Some hunters, even raw novices, shoot their deer and get them to their homes with no effort at all while others, including old timers of the trail, have to go all the way. I've known hunters to bag big bucks ten minutes after entering the woods and within a few yards of their parked Others don't score until they are far back in the tangled forest and must drag and tug for hours to get the limp carcasses WWwW www WBWW sV Below is a statement of The Altoona Trust Co. Look back of the cold figures: "Caih and due from banks;" "United States Government Securities;" "Capital Surplus and Undivided Profits." All these give cashability and security, for your savings and checking accounts, even without the $10,000 Federal Deposit Insurance guarantee. "Loans and discounts" are made for businesses, and individuals, to meet payrolls, to finance homes, cars, operations. Our business is to keep money working for our community for you.

NEW YORK It must be admitted the movie of the 1951 the side by a pitched ball: another shows on the receiving end of Stanky's kick, and still another World Series followed the orig inal story very closely, although there were some National Leaguers present at the preview who thought Director Lew Fonseca could have improved upon th fcackneved ending. The Yankees, as usual, win the gal, the gold and the glory, but, as one guy suggested, what could you expect from an old American Leaguer like Fonseca? Would he have the Giants winning just to ut It's proof of the mighty role trovide a surprise ending? It's a grand presentation of ell lt -t i 1 the annual fall classic, and as an appetizer, which is just about an that luck plays. Nicholas Martini of Brooklyn, N. stationed at Dow Field Air Base in Bangor, hunted in luck for a time one day recently then suddenly ran out of it It happened in a -sprawling woods bog several miles from the base. entree in itself, it includes the final two innings of the final National League playoff game.

It getting conked by a thrown ball as he scooted into third base. He really was the whipping boy. And we had forgotten Joe Di-Maggio's final play of his career, a futile slide into third base which finds him picking himself up with a rather wan grin and exchanging quips with the umpire who called him out. So many little things, including bobbles by Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson, playing a lonely game of soccer as they tried to pick up elusive balls. And Irvin 's erratic, stumbling, backward trek after Hank Bauer's triple.

The pictures give the Giants a pretty good break, though, and show how a hit here or a catch there might have changed the situation entirely. As an accompanying feature for the World Series film Fonseca has prepared a more or less documentary picture to show the place of baseball in the American scene, and although it's a little on the whoopla order it is highly entertaining. Entertaining, and bringing more than a touch of nostalgia, too. Its flashbacks bring into view such immortals as Babe Ruth, The Brooklyn hunter had luck enough to find a deer in the hard-hunted area but he was strictly on his own and bagged his trophy the hard way. vv ith a pal.

Set Al Littlefield, he took off bright and early. He had only two cartridges. The hunters separated and soon Lady Luck led Martini to a spot where a fine large buck w-as feeding. The hunter took aim and fired. The bullet broke one- of the deer's shows Bobby Thomson hippity-hopping around the bases in sheer ecstasy after rapping his pen-rant-winning home run and Eddie Stanley, moving faster than he ever did going down to first base, galloping from the bench to third base to rassle and maul Leo Du-rocher in a frenzy of excitement.

The series film brings back many forgotten incidents, or details of incidents, that seem so noteworthy at the time. Where the ball went on Stanley's rousing field goal, for instance. It traveled clean out to center-field, and if that play was one of Eddie's intangibles it was the most intangible kick- on record Incidentally, whether or not Stanky touched second base still is his secret, as the film fails to dear up that moot point. We'd forgotten about Phil Rii-tuto's home run into the right field stands, too. It was a slice hind legs.

Martini followed the tracks and caught up with the deer. With but one cartridge left he debated the chances of a hit through the frees and decided the So, K4ltoona Trust down the foul line, and if the ww" ompamp Lou Gehrig. Tris Speaker, Dizzy-Dean, Carl HubbelL Jimmy Foxx, Lefty Grove and Walter Johnson with startling reality. The capacity crowd at the preview included quite a few players who participated in the series and playoff. There were Yogi Berra and Rizzuto, seated close together and guffawing at their own misadventures on the screen.

There was Ralph Branca, gulping like he was swallowing the. ball as he watched his home run pitch to Thomson. And there was Thomson, reliving that glorious moment And -Gil McDougald, the only rookie ever to hit a grand slam home run in a serin. Fonseca's Job ia a masterpieoe, except for that trite ending. If he just had Bauer dropping that ball he caught for the final out the National Leaguers would vote him a share of their series cut lith Avenue Office 12th Ave.

and 12th St FX EE PARKING 8th Avenue Office th Ave. and 12th St DRIVE-IN BANKING odds were against it. Then the buck vanished. He reappeared on a knolL Martini fired and missed. That was the end of the ammunition.

Although almost exhausted the soldier followed the deer and caught up with it Leaping out of the bushes he grabbed the animal by the horns. He spun the deer around and clubbed it with the rifle stock until the stock broke. The deer ran. Martini, in hot pursuit, clubbed at its legs with what remained of the gun. Finally pulling a length of stout rope from his hunting coat Martini took Couple of half hitches around the antlers and tied the deer fast to a tree.

His friend appeared shortly afterward and assisted the proud Brooklyn hunter TWO CONVENIENT OFFICES 1901Our Fiftieth Anniversary Year 195X. MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION ball had been a foot more to the right he would have been penalized stroke and distance as It would haw been A flash of a fan slapping his hands to his face in a "I don't believe it; now I've seen everything" gesture aividly pictures the reaction of the crowd to that tremendous blast. We'd also forgotten the punish, stent little Phil took in the series. One scene shows him doubled up hi pain after being plunked in.