Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 7

t- 7- -4iti'i'll-igJ 9 I -d" i tMt dfW1 1 ivr i BRISTOL HERALD COURIER SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 17 1948 Page 7-A Yols Smash Alabama 21-6 Before Big Homecoming Crowd -v j- Fabulous Michigan Machine Grinds To 28-0 Win Over Northwestern mFv SsVNp i i X' Bristol's Hal Littleford Sparkles As ennessee Snaps Out Of Doldrums By Escar Thompson KNOXVILLE Tenn Oct 16 Tennessee thrilled a record-breaking home-coming crowd of 48000 persons today by coming out of the doldrums and smashing Alabama 21 to 6 The largest crowd ever to see a football game in Tennessee saw the inspired Vols unleash a slashing running attack that ripped fl)e huge Crimson Mighty Wolverines Hang Up 18th Straight Victory To Smash Wildcat Record -s By Frank Kenesson ANN ARBOR Mich Oct 16 (AP) fabulous football powerhouse grinding with no wasted motion in the second half churned out an impressive 28 to 0 victory over Northwestern before an awed throng of 85938 fans here today as sophomore Leo Kosecki of Canonsburg Pa personally acocunted for the first three touchdowns It was 18th succes- 'HUfJ 1 I'-- ipppr Jzr 'Army-Navy' Game To Have Plenty Color Colorful halftime festivities are being lined up by the football game committee Lt Charles Howard co-chairman announced yesterday Howard said that Municipal S'adium would be presented a flag pole and flag by Patton-Cross-white Veterans of Foreign Wars Post at the half Rev Ben Lacy Rose 9th District VFW chaplain is also scheduled to give a brief memorial service then Plenty of is also on the intermission program with Tennessee and Virginia High bands scheduled to march Date of the game has been set for Saturday November 13 in order not to conflict with the two high regular season schedules Howard said The committee is again asking former Army and Navy veterana to stick with their respective teams Navy Marine and Coast Guardsmen will play only for the Middies while the Army eleven will be composed only of the boys who wore the Coaches Pierce of the Navy and Adrian (Pete) Shumaker of the Army are asked to check carefully on their players Buckeyes Run Over Indiana' Hoosiers 17-0 5 I Vt A "BRISTOL Hal Littleford former all-East Tennessee tailback at Tennessee Bristol High School sparkled brilliantly yesterday as Vols smashed Alabama 21-6 Littleford took up wher Gene McEver and Beattie Feathers former All-America stars from Virginia High left off in routing the Crimson Tide Cooper and Jack Beeler did yeoman work however After third quarter the Tide and the were a dogfight around mid-field Then Littleford put Alabama in a hole with a neat out-of-bounds punt 0on the Tide four After two plays Brown kicked and Littleford returned it 20 yards to the Tide 86 Two plays later Littleford raced 24 yards around right end to the Alabama nine Cooper made eight at center and Balitsaris opened the fourth quarter with the second touchdown Littleford was never backed up to pijnt but averaged 34 yards to 36 in kicking He had other punt returns of 35 and 25 yards and accounted for practically all of 97 yards of punt returns Alabama: Left end Steiner Lary Left tackle Therla Miller Hauahal-ter Left Franko Mixerany May Lauer Sullivan Lockrldfe High guard Rlcheson Fortunate Bight tacklea Flowera Hannah Right Hook Cain Quarterback Brown Avlnger Left Salem Pettua Right half Cadenhead Davla Weigh Noonan Calvin Taylor Tenneaaee: Left end Powell Sherrod Gruble Cummlna Left Stroud Dobelatein Donahue Brtxey Left Ilkas Smith Tanner Center Sivert Honeycutt Hueaer Rlgh Baker vugrin Howard Right tackle Meatroil Gearing Thomae Rlgh Miner Flora Flelden Rue-sag Quarterback A a trong Cogglna Pruett Left hall Cooper Littleford Beeler Right Lund SherrlU Bergmeler Hill Chancey Hill Balltarala Miller ALABAMA 8 0- TENNESSEE 7 Alabama acortng: Touchodwn Davla Tenneaaee scoring Touchdowns Lund Balitsaris Cooper Points after PoweU (31 (placements) Tide forewall to smithereens With their ace passer Proctor side-lined by an injury Ten- nessee elected to battle it out on the ground with and won going away Vol Power Develops The brightest star in a hqet of Vol luminaries was Hal Littleford fleet-footed 165-pound tailback Vom Bristol who -was subbing for I "t'octor power developed midway of the first period when the Vols drove 41 yards to score Littleford started it by passing 14 yards to Bob Lund on 25 Cooper another tailback who gave a brilliant account of himself replaced Littleford and passed to Bob Lund in the end zone for the touchdown Alabama came back after the half to march 65 yards for its touchdown without relinquishing the ball Charley Davis and Ed Salem sparked the drive with Davis scoring from the four Balitsarls Scores Thereafter it was all Tennessee with the fullback George Balitsaris plunging over from the one-yard stripe on the first play of the last period final tally came late In the final stanza when Cooper smashed over Tennessee reeled off 16 first downs to 12 completed five or 10 passes to seven completions out of 16 tosses by Alabama Littleford was spark today And he earned the postgame plaudits of Coach Bob Ney-land "It was easily the finest performance Littleford ever turned in for Tennessee" Neyland said running passing and kicking were excellent" The junior tailback from Bristol did all of punting was v1 eel in returning punts Jv much of the passing and Mfither in passing or running was instrumental in all Tennessee BLOOMINGTON Ind Oct 16 Ohio Buckeyes ran aver and around Indiana's linemen today as if they were sacks of wet sawdust in a 17-0 victory The loss knocked the Hoosiers out of a tie for first place in the Western Conference Alex Verdova Joe Whlsler and Jim Clark ground out long gains and quarterback Pandel Savlc mixed in a few passes Indiana only once was inside Ohio 45-yard line and then nnlv by about a foot Ohio State scored two touchdowns in the first quarter lost another In the second period because of a penalty and was stopped 5 and 15-yard stripes on two other occasions The Buckeyes tallied the first time they got the ball Whisler scored in his fourth straight game with a one-foot plunge at the end of a 63-yard march Clark got Ohio second marker on the 10-yard climax run of a 58-yard Buckeye parade James Hjue place-kicked both extra points He place-kicked a field goal from the 11-yard mark as time was running out in the fourth quarter Citadel Wins 14-6 CHARLESTON Oct 16 (P) Wildcats unleash ed a powerful running and passing ittack after a shaky start ana rnme from behind to defeat the Citadel Bulldogs 14-6 In a Southern Conference grid tussle before 10 000 fans ifi new Johnson Ilagood Memorial Stad mm today Vandy Scores At Will Over Kentucky 26-7 By Kyle Vance LEXINGTON Ky Oct 16 (iP) Vanderbilt uncorked a sharpened offensive here today and crashed the victory column for the first time with a comparatively easy 26-7 football decision over collapsing Wildcats A shirt-sleeved crowd of 25000 persons that took to umbrellas when rain started falling at half time watched Bobby Berry and Herb Rich pace the Commodores to their frist triumph in four starts It was third straight setback The injury-riddled Wildcats went into the third quarter with a 7-6 lead but their defensive buckled under the -BeirpRich blows in the last two periods 84-Yard Punt Raturn -After-a scoreless first quarter Lee Nalley put the Commodores on top with an 84-yard punt return He was protected by a solid wall of blockers and scored without being touched Clinard missed the placement 'Kentucky steamed back in its only show of power to march 79 yards and score Clayton Webb bulled over from Inside the one-foot line He fumbled but recovered and Kentucky went to the front when Bob Gain added the point from placement Vandy started moving for its second score midway through the third period A 24- yard pass from Berry to Mac Robinson on the Cat 10 set up the opportunity and Berry scored from the four on third down Clinard booted the extra point All Vanderbilt Berry pitched to Bucky Curtis early in the fourth for a 34-yard gain that carried again to the Wildcats' ten and made way for another Commodore score It took Berry three plays to go over and Clinard again place kicked the point That was enough to make victory certain for Vandy but Bill Fuqua went 45 yards with a minute and ten seconds to play to score standing and give the Commodores their bulge Like they hogged the scoring the Commodores made the victory look real by hogging the statistics Their ground attack covered a net 220 yards and they added 67 yards on four pass completions in nine tries Kentucky collected 114 yards rushing and 48 passing The Wildcats completed four out of ten passes TCU Coasts By Texas 27-14 COLLEGE STATION Tex Oct 16 Texas Horned Frogs rallied for twa touchdowns in the last quarter todnv and rode home on Lindy Berry's passing and running for a 27-14 victory over Texas A and Three touchdowns were jammed into the last 10 minutes ot the second period The Frogs recovered a fumble on the Aggie nine and Petee Stout went the last two yards The Aggies then scored when Bobby Goff passed from the five over the goal to Cedric Copeland The Frogs came bnck to score in five plays with Stout pitching to the one from where he banged over Brown Triumphs WORCESTER Mass Oct 16 (PI A terrific second-half ground attack gave Brown a hard-earned 14-6 victory over Holy Cross as those new England intercollegiate rivals observed their 50th year of football competition today before a 20000 crowd 1 NQVV HumblGCl 1 5SO 35 To 14 BALTIMORE Oct 16 1 Two touchdown passes in the last two minutes saved Navy from complete humiliation today as Tigers clawed their way to a 35 to 14 victory before about 22000 fans in Babe Ruth Stadfum The Tigers scored 'once in each of the first three periods and added two touchdowns in the final for a 35-0 lead before quarterback Bobby Horne came to life to pilot scores In handing the Midshipmen their ninth straight defeat and fourth under Coach George Sauer the Tigers gained sweet revenge for Coach Don Faurot The Missourians had taken two lickings from Kansas eleven of the previous two seasons aggressive line led by center Bob Fuchs and an alert secondary smothered offense until the last two minutes Horne started pitching then moving Navy 50 and 39 yards with his aerials His scoring strikes wera to Larry Treadwell from the 7 and to Jim Green from the 17 The game was only seconds old when Missouri showed the up ball-hawking which marked its entire play Pete Williams fumbled the opening kickoff on the Navy 15 and right guard Gene Pepper recovered five bucks later Mike Ghnouly took it over from the one and Bob Dawson converted the first of five extra points Vikings Have Remaining Games In Bristol Battle Erwin Blue Devils Friday Tennessee football stalwarts move into the back stretch this week end when they play host to Coach Bo Erwin Blue Devils Only four games remain to be played by the Vikings and all are ThisTact should prove heartening to Coaches Steve Boretsky and Pete Shumaker who have watched their ball club play brilliantly at times and then a week later play' umes mnu GIVE DEWEY- A FRIENDLY CONGRESS 1 I ROBERT Slater Tackles Strong Marion Here Saturday Slater High Wolves will be gunning for their third straight victory and fourth win of the season here Saturday night when they take on a strong Carnegie High of Marion eleven Douglass High of Bristol last week held Marion to a 12-12 tie and Slater fresh from a hard fought 6-0 win from the Bristol Blue Devils here Friday does not expect easy sailing The Wolves will be at their peak strength Saturday A few changes will be made in the lineup by Coach Houston in order to get more strength speed and deception The Wolves operate from the double quarterback Catholic Loses ASHLAND Va Oct 16 Randolph Macon College opened defense of its Mason-Dixon Conference football crown here today by defeating Catholic University 20-13 I GOODRICH 113 SHELBY ST I TIRES BATTERIES 1U VKyUUa (UyuddicoHl GUak I UNITED STATES SENATOR sive victory in an ever-growing string extending back to October of 1946 and put the Wolverines in the seat in defending their Big Nine title Northwestern hadn't been beaten before today but the Wildcats after making a terrific fight at in the first half collapsed under an avalanche of three Michigan touchdown! within a backbreaking space of less than 3 12 minutefc midway in the second half Take 7-0 Lead Michigan va in front 7-0 by virtue of Koceski's one-yard smash into Hie end zone in the dying seconds of the fiist period a slant that capped a 33-yard march in seven running plays The clawing Cats stopped two Wolverine assaults in the shadow of their goal posts the first two times Michigan got possession of the ball in the third Iorcn (Pee Wee Day intercepted Chuck pass in the end zone after Michigan had reached the 5 And stout line turned back four thrusts a moment later to take the ball on downs on the 1 Then Michigan pushed Northwestern right out of the ball game Wildcats Collapu In quick succession Koceski caught Walt 10-yard pass fpr a second Wolverine touchdown George Sundheim fumbled the next kickoff and Ortmann hit Koceski wtih a 31-yard strike for another score and Irv Wisniewski intcrcetpcd Don pass to set up another Koceski fumbling the ball into the end zone where center Bob Erben outscrambled everybody for it to take credit for the touchdown Harry Allis big end booted all four extra points That simply was all there was to it as Michigan hit bnck agairt and again for its third straight shutout victory Northwestern was an abl foe for one good period the second when Michigan fumbles kept the Wildcats in thieatcnmg position the entire 15 minutes But Michigan stood its ground to take back the ball on downs three tunes on its 10 Its 30 and its 24 And the Wildcats didn't threaten again So completely did the overpowering Michigan offense control the -ball from Hie outset of the second half that Northwestern got the ball only four times and ran only 12 plays three of them punts before the Wolverines hnd the visitors snowed under the 28 to 0 count Michigan made 14 first downs to the Northwestern's eight and gained 342 yaids running and passing against the Wildcats 159 The big Michigan defense line and its husky pair of linebackers Dan Dwoisky and Dick Kemp-thorn limited Northwctscrn to 47 yards rushing all afternoon Koceski cniried the ball only six times for 20 yards a running figure exceeded by both Ortmann and end Dick Rifenburg but the little right halfback who stepped into the man-sized shoes of the departed Bump Elliott and fills 'em like they were made for him caught three passes for 49 yards more IIis sophomore halfback twin Ortmann gained 44 yards in 10 rushing efforts and completed four of seven pitches for another 54 yflrdSi Between them the made the difference though Teninga utility back from Chicago kept the Wildcats with their back to the wall by punting for an average of 42 4 yards on five kicks GALLOWAY MOTOR CO and JCVANN EQUIPMENT (0 Buick Willy and Case Farm Machinery EAST MAIN STREET ABINGDON VA CARS 1947 Buick Roadmaiter 1948 Chevrolet 1941 Ford 1940 Ford 1939 Plymouth Convertibld 1936 Chevolet TRUCKS 1940 Plymouth 1 ton Pickup 1939 Chevrolet 1J Ton 1935 Chevrolet Pick-up We have In itock 20 24 end 28-16 inch tractor duct Mounted plows tor VAC Case Tractor Dealer License No 573 £srssmta scores Hal Punts Out His sophomore substitutes mmy and in PRIVACy Amove Of to 12000 mmnuiutif fHANCf THAfT COQATIOto I FIFTH STREET Telephone 3013 ON NOVEMBER 2 VOTE DEWEY WOODS WiVgamatEUzabethton Friday night bears this out The Vikings perhaps showed their most dis- appointing game of the season and lor it was a bitter pill to swallow the coaches players and fans Must Win Other Games However this Tot and cold" team will have to bear down for all they are worth the rest of the way They must dispose of Erwin Friday night knock off Kingsport a week later and hope that in some manner Johnson City dumps Elizabethan If this happened Bristol Kingsport and Johnson City would end up in a three-way tie for first place the Big Five providing Elizabeth ton fell by the wayside Despitfe their 14-6 setback on the Cyclones field the Vikings could still go the route with no more losses What happened at Elizabethan is a repetition of football there the past 20 years between Bristol and Betsy Majority of the fans still believe-that Tennessee High has a better team than Elizabethton and the Vikings have shown flashes of greatness at times that few doubt Kingsport Indians could cope with The Southsiders have the material If they have the will to win from here on out what took place in Coach Dwight Haynes ball park Friday night will be forgiven Up To Nickels In reviewing the game at Elizabethton Coach Boretsky said yesterday that Don Luttrell substitute end was definitely through for the season but that he expected the rest of the team to dig in hard for practice this week About the condition of big Charlie Nickels sterling front wall man whose leg kept him out of the Betsy game Boretsky said that "it would be up to Charlie if he wanted to play against Erwin-We are hoping that Dan Koontz will also be in condition to take over his centering duties The only time this year Erwin has shown anything at all was In holding Elizabethton to a scoreless tie several weeks ago but iiwhe Big Five many an upset is pulled and the entire Bristol team must pull together the rest of the way Following Erwin comes games with Kingsport Rule High of Knoxville and Virginia High the latter match winding up the schedule Nov 12 FREE! BALLOONS for the KIDDIES USE OUR LAY AWAY BARR'S SPORTING GOODS CO 7th SU Just Off Stats WORRELL Cntrl Commltto Paid Political Advtrtlilne OS LIKE NEWT' ftapubllcin Itito PuHPMPyyppNMT -F A 4 1 Virginia High Battles Richlands Thursday For District 7 Championship With the district championship at their fingertips for the first time since Pidney great 1934 eleven roared to the Class state championship Virginia High Bearcats face the Richlands Tornado in Municipal Stadium Thursday night in Southwest of the week Graham High of Bluefield last The REAllY cleans radiator and blocks! Our new "Pressure Purger" glvei your radiator and engine block the cleaning of it life Mechanical agitation presure filtering and pre-heated chemical action! Remove rust scale' lime and Iron depoits metallic deposits and dUsolve grease tar oil and i dirt Guaranteed not to damage your cooling Y-tem in any way Let us purge your radiator and block BEFORE you put In your ANTI-FREEZE1 The University of Mississippi helped introduce football to Mem- wejc'jeavinK Bristol as the only phis playing the Memphis Ath- unbeatM1( untled team in the dis-letic Club on Nov 18 1893 tnct- he Bearcats have only to win or tie Thursday night to sew up the championship Richlands must win to stay in the race Should Virginia High win the district diadem the Bearcats will meet the champion of neighboring District 8 for the regional title in Southwest Virginia Coeburn and Appalachia currently boasting undefeated records are setting the pace In District 8 and the payoff game will corre when the teams collide on October 29 in Coeburn COMPLETE BRAKE Phone 747 COLONIAL SERVICE Piedmont el Oakvlew We Service All Makes of Richlands fell 6-0 before Courtesy on your telephone means tm mudiately identifying yourself to the i party called Plan your conversation so that you do not waste time for the person called I Remember the party called might have an appointment but would be too polite to mention the fad Lilley is back Virginia will have ill strongest line since the opening game now that Co-Captain John Harrington Is ready to go again Hicks Is Cagey Head Coach Homer Harris and his staff expet to torn on the heat in preparing for Richlands The cagey Ernie Hicks of Richlands is noted for hn ability to for a specific contest and Virginia can depend on the Blue Tornado playing a greit game here Thursday night Both rivals have scout-ed each other carefully and it Is likely that both coaching staffs will come up with new plays this week in an effort to get the jump The game will cloe out Virginia district schedule leaving the Bearcats to play the Emory lurlor Varity October 28 and Tennessee High for the city cham-pj onshlD cnJ crub cr 12 Richlands will have three games lo go meeting Gary Va on Ortober 29 the Wise Indians on November and William King Mich of Abin'o'on November 12 to cr its distiic card CARS and TRUCKS BRISTOL MOTOR CO Lee and Bristol Ve Phones lilt end 267 TftvJ Pirif? TOYSi BICYCLES SPORTING GOODS- SPORTINO good 7th it Phon 1232 "WRECKS MADE Baarcats In Shapa I Virginia High came through its (5-6 defeat at Kingsport without serious phydclal the Bearcats lost Bunny Salt via a broken aLlai iU A toet CAA- I legVgalnst the' Tribesmen last sea on nd will be in top shape for IVia PtnhlnnHt hi thp Richlands battle Co- Captain Jr in-XBunny) Saltz used sparingly against Kingsport is expected to be in shapa to start the game and there a rhane that Lloyd Lilley ster- ling guard wiH plav Lilley did not suit up against King1 port If TELEPHONE CO Wracks Made Lika Hew 1116 WEST STATE CALL Jr.