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Elizabethton Star from Elizabethton, Tennessee • 2

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Elizabethton Stari
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Elizabethton, Tennessee
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Al uane In THE ELIZABETHTON STAR Sunday October 16 1949 Volunteers Crimson Tide Battle To A Tough 7-7 Tie Irish Score At Will Against Touted Tulane Cloudland Falls To Jonesboro 38 To 12 On the first piay of tne second period Erwin recovered a fumble on the Sullivan 28 and Lowe passed to Boone for a first down on the 3 Boyd scored through the line Minutes later Sullivan lost the ball on downs on its 39 and Lowe passed to Boyd who went all the way to paydirt fourth quarter pass to Saltz boosted the score to 45 0 and a few minutes rtater George Hensley broke away for 40 yards and another tally The final Erwin touchdown came on another Lowe to Boyd pass after Woodruff had intercepted a Sullivan aerial on the 40 Erwin Flattens Sullivan 57-0 ERWIN Tenn Oct 15 Erwin Blue Devils turned up for next important Big Five Conference game with Bristol by flattening Sullivan Pirates 57-0 It was sixth win of the season against a defeat at the hands of Kingsport 43-yard run broke Erwin into the scoring column the first three minutes of play and shortly afterwards Lowe ruled to Boone on a 50-yard TD play Before the end of the quarter the Blue Devils tallied again Lowe passing to Wilson for the tally The tTennesjce pass attack laibed almost completely with just three completions in a dozen tries and those for only short gains Top line performances were turned in by Pat center and Ed Holdnak guard Holdnak played 'more than 50 minutes and was a major reason the Tennessee passers had no SOUTH BENT) Ind Oct 15 just 10 blazing minutes thunderous Notre Dame pounded Tulane' touted Green Wave into a helpless ripple today The stunning 46-7 victory made a debacle? out ef the game of the If-there was a hero for the furious Irish who reached terrific inspirational heights in their seven-touchdown explosion it was halfback Larry Coutre who scored the first three touchdowns of the game Thus the top ranked Notre Dame for the first time this season 'demonstrated its crunching potentialities for a fourth straight win In all the Lrish slashed through 1 Tulane far four first period touchdowns but it was the first three withia-the opening 10 minutes of Coutre streaked 81 yards for his second touchdown and Billy Baby Buccaneers Drop Game To Emory Wasps EMORY Va Oct 15 The Emory and Henry jayvee elven downed a fighting East Tennessee State jayvee squad Friday on Fullerton Field to the tune of 13 6 Soxel sophomore back from Sewickley Pa scored both of the little Wasp touchdowns one on a handoff lrom Cam Church on the State 13 and the other on a pass from Walter Emmert to the 26 from which Sokol scampered to the double stripes score came late in the second half when tackle Hamilton blocked a Wasp punt recovered it and ran 2d yards to pay dirt Their try for extra point failed The little Wasps threatened the final minutes of the game when Pete Booher took'1 pass on 40 and carried it to the 4 before being knoexa out of bounds The game was ended before another Dlay could be run Both teams played excellent defensive ball allowing the opposition very few long gains Emory ran up 13 tirst clowns to-six for State Stanton Holland Bentley and Walker sparked the JLitue Wasp line wnn Boohei Church and Erunert shining in tre backfield "founder first Ken- Aristides won the tucky Derby in 1875' Lavoisier is called the of modern BIRMINGHAM Ala Oct 15 OP) Each team converted a first half break into a touchdown here today as Tennessee and Alabam fougnt to a 7-7 tie before 41000 drenched jlans Aside from the two scores Tennessee had the only other real touchdown opportunity Bud Sherrod blocked a punt and it was bail on the Alabama 11 in the fourth period Four plays got only six yards however and that was all Tennessee counted fust blasting away at the Alabama line for 28 yards in 10 plays Fullback Bernie Sizemore plunged for most of the distance including the final yard Bert Rechichar like Sizemore a sophomore back 'added the important extra point The opportunity for this march was set up by a pass interception by halfback SherrilL score followed center Pat recovery of a fumble by Sizemore on the Tennessee 18 Ed Salem passed twice for 14 Fullback Tom Calvin drove to the one and soph halfback Bimbo Melton a 160-pounder drove over Salem added the tying point A drizzling rain made the going slippery and led to numberouc fumbles Alabama in particular was hurt by its ball handling had an edge in the statistics retting 171 yards rushing to 65 and 75 passing to where it did no harm Barrett in the final quarter scooter 59 yards to score Quarterback Bob Williams who did a magnificent job in calling plays against the sagging Tulane defenses completed eight of 11 passes for two touchdowns and 177 yards Halfback Frank Spaniel grabbed a 34-yard pass from Williams for the first of his two touchdowns That was the fourth touchdown in the devastating first period second touchdown came in the third quarter on a slashing 12 yard run The seventh Notre Dame touchdown materialized with ridiculous ease on 18 yafd shot to hulking end Leon Hart in the end zone Steve Oracko booted only four of his seven conversion tries but it was not a day for the Irish to fclay which completely whipped a bewildered Tulane eleven Notre Dame scored a touch down each in the final three periods which only emphasized that Previously unbeaten Tulane was in jar over it head The lone Green Wave score came on a pass play covering 76 yards from Bill Bonar to George Kinex in the third period For the pulverizing Irish Who Outrushed Tulane 230 yards to a mere 23 it was their 32nd game Without defeat a skein stretching from the opening of the 1946 season Tulane which proudly came here after wins over Alabama Georgia Tech and Southeastern Louisiana know what hit it in the tremendous Irish opening period Irish backs never were stopped TRI-CITY SPEEDWAY 'On Tri-City Airport Road SUNDAY OCTOBER 16 Rain Date-October 23 Far West Central Washington 21 Collge of Puget Sound 13 Riverside 27 Phoenix 19 Santa Barbara 14 Fresno State 7 Francisco 27 San Jose State 20 v' TIME TRIALS 2: 00 at the first impact which is why worry about extra points The Cloudlarid High School football team fell apart on the field when confronted with Coach Jonesboro gridders and a very wet playing field to loose by a much larger margin than could be justified by weather conditions Thursday night The started out on the right foot by scoring before the game had gone into a minute of play A long pass from Johnny Orr to Delmar Laws put the ball just front of tiffe home goal line Mac Hopkins promptly scored through the line Thi elation lasted only momentarily as Pendleton ran back the Cloudland kick off to score for Jonesboro making the score 6-6 The remainder of ihe quarter was spent by both teams slipping without any headway being gained by' either team The second period had action at its very beginning with Pendleton running on a reverse to the right to score on the first piay Jonesboro then converted on a nice kick by quarter-back Fieener Five plays tolowed this score with the working mceiy down tne field until on a reverse to the right Mac Hopson missed his team mate Bob Burleson only to hand the bail right into the waiting arms of a rusning left-end Chase who ran 40-yards jor another Jonesboro score Ihe conversion was averted as Jim McKinney broke through the line to blocx the kick AS Cloudland received the breaks went against them once again as Hopson though in the clear slipped on his own twenty yard line Center John HeifneTn on the first play threw the ball back high over the head of Johnny Orr Jonesboro recovered deep ill the territory of th line to score boosting lead to 26 to 6 A fumble by Orr gave Jonesboro another touchdown this one being scored by right end May who made a fine recovery and run The last quarter finally found the Highlanders beginning to play the type of ball they were capable of playing The Scotsmen reeled off four consecutive first downs then scored on a line plunge by 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