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Elizabethton Star from Elizabethton, Tennessee • 9

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I jap 1 9 TITE KUZABETHTOS STAR Sl'ND IT NOVEMBER 4 1936 2719 I UTVols Hammer Tar Heels 20-0 4 Notre Dame sT Sooiiers Cop 36th Straight With 3 Second Half Strikes BOULDER Colo (ft Trailing livered the key gains behind the 19 6 at halftime up Oklahoma line rated football team struck for Midway in the fourth period the two third period touchdowns on thebrilliant running of halfbacks Tommy McDonald- and Ctendon Sooners wrapped it up with a magnificent 81-yard march capped by quarterback Jimmy 17 terback Dave Reed halfback Emil De Cantis ll-ylard pass but four more aerials missed their mark and the threat died Halfback Ed Sutton was top ball carrier rushing 61 yards on eight tries Reed picked KNOXVILLE Tenn Third-anted Tennessee looking ahead to rts important date with second ranked Georgia Tech next Saturday) defeated North Carolina 20 0 tathrday in an intersections! 'al game yard scoring play for second touchdown and took the ball over himself for the fourth on a 4 yard keep play after his tosses set it up It) between Navy ran the ball 63 yards in 11 plays with Oldham going the last 8 yards it injured Utlbact Johnny- 1 -y Ivard pn TTrr lone Carter who total for the season to 42 points led Tennessee in total offense with 16 yards rushing and 111 on seven completed passes One a 41-yard toss to wingback Bill Anderson set up Tennessee's second touchdown North Carolina 0 0 0 0 Tennessee 0 6 7 Tennessee scoring' Touchdowns Carter (5 run 1 plungd) Gordon (11 run) Conversions Smith-ers Burklow rado 27-19 Saturday The unranked Coloradans scored in the first four minutes on a blocked punt and sailted for two second quarter touchdowns with a furious single wing assault The touchdown trips covered 55 and 70 yards That shocked the Soncrs fa vored to win by four touchdowns for only a period They came roar-mg back after the halftime rest on late Buddy Shuman of Charlotte drives of 80 and 48 Colorado bolted to a 7 0 lead af ter four minutes of play when guard John Wooten blocked Okla homa fullback Billy Pricer's attempted third down quick kick on the Sooner 10 The ball bounced into the end zone with Colorado fullback John Baytik recovering Oklahoma struck back late in the first quarter with a 45 yard touchdwn march climaxed with a 35 yard scoring pass from Harris BALTIMORE (ft pent-up scoring punch burst its bouiyds for three touchdown in the third quarter aqd with timely passing by quartet back Torn- Forrestal beat Notre Dame Saturday 33 7 for the first time since 1944 -Straight Jos and fifth riiTs'seasoIiTTi The poSTOtf" Notre Dame football record since 1933 Navy eager and ready to kick the Irish while they were down after beating them only four times in 29 past games held the upper hand aTter the first few minutes Navy got a touchdown near the end of the first half to take a 7 0 lead The crowd of 57773 was treated to an explosive thijd quarter with Notre Dame getting its only touchdown on a 27 yard run by halfback Bob Ward They swapped touchdowns in the first four minute after (he second half staited on the damp Memorial Stadium gridiron and Navy then pulled away for its fifth victory in six games this season Foueslal completing JO of 15 passes hit Ned Oldham on a 31 I DODGE DRIVER Lee Petty (above) of Randleman will pilot a 1956 podge in the 250-lap Grand Circuit race scheduled at the half mile Hickory Speedway Sunday afte noon ov 11 The twice postponed race will honor (he memory of the Blue Raiders Tops in OVC MURFREESBORO Tann (ft Middle Tennessee State moved to the top of the Ohio Valley Confer ence football standings here today the expense of a low-powered Murray State eleven The acore: 39 6 14)' Six raiders jined the touch down parade headed by halfback Buck Rolman who zig-zagged 67 yards for the first score and halfback Tillhan Harris who Ikifr lered 58 for another Except for a brief period is the first quarter when Murray matched the first touchdown the Kentuckians were never in it The teams had been tied for the' OVC lead with 3 0 loop record Middle Tenn 1 13 19 0-39 Murray State 0 0 7 Tu lane's 10-3 victory Over MHsuu sippt was its 23rd victory in 37 meeting with Old Mis Syracuse Turns Breaks Into Win SYRACUSE pP alert defense gobbled up three Penn State fumbles and intercepted three passes to come from behind1 with 'a 13 9 victory Saturday in a rib-rattling battle between two of the best teams the East Moving a step nearer a Cotton or Gator Bowl bid Syracuse punched over (he winning touchdown with Chuck1 Zimmerman smashing over fiom the in the final quarter after Dick Aioise had -recovered a fumbled handoff by AI Jacks to Bruce Gilmore As usual Jimmy Brown was the workhorse for the Orange carrying 28 times for 104 yards ind a season total of 687 yauls I yards McDonald and Thomas to McDonald Tiny Halfback Engineers Victory For Mississippi lajora sitting on the bench for ill except one play a 52-yard fourth period quick kick Tennessee's single wing offense mounted only three drives on the stubborn Tar Heel defense but scored all of them1 A1 Carter and Bobby Gordon Ubblng for Majors supplied the spark that carried the Vols to their sixth straight victory of the season Thus the stage was set for Ten-lessee and Georgia Tech also unit defeated to meet in Atlanta next week a contest that may well decide the Southeastern Conference championship North beefy line anchored by Jim Jones and Don Kemper gave ground grudgingly But the superiority showed itself in the three scoring drives Carter led two of the marches and Scored on both of them The -first Tennessee touchdown came the second quarter when Carter dashed off tackle for five yards to cap a 38-yard sally Later the 168 pound Sarasota Fla speedster plunged from the one 'to climax a 62 yard march Gordon and fullback Carl Smith ripped the tiring Tar Heel line to shreds in a fourth period maneuver that covered 84 yards Gordon racing 11 fr A homecoming crowd of Z7ouu Saw Tennessee put on its finest defensive performance of the season The Tar Heels gained most of theif ground in their own end Of the field and only twice were hailing distance of the Vol goal In the second period a short kick br Carter gave Carolina the hall on 28 But in four plays the Tar Heels netted only nine yards and Tennessee took over on its 19 That was the closest the Tar Heels got to the Vot goaU In the waning minutes of tiu game Jim Jones recovered a on the Tennessee S3 Quar BATON ROUGE La Elu sive Eddie Crawfold 117 pound senior halfback who scored four touchdowns led blaz ving Rebels to 46 17 romp over Louisiana State Saturday night snapping a two-game losin string fullback" Jimmy-Tay lor scoring two touchdowns kick ing a 28 yard field goal and' con vertmg twice fought back to lead at the half 17-14 to the complete satisfaction of 36000 home fans who lost his life in a fire just puor to last GNC event on Nov 13 Final Race At Hickory Next Sunday The final 1956 stock car racing program for this area is scheduled at the half-mile Hiqkoiy Speedy Sunday afternoon Nov 11 Grand National Circuit featuring 1956 model cars will compete a 250 lap eent battling for a $4600 purse The twice-postponed event is expected to draw a large field of Ford and Chevrolet pilots plus a number of Chryslers Dodges Mercurys and Plymouths Speedy Thomspon of Charlotte who drove a Chrysler 300-B to victory here May 12 in the Spring Grand National will be one of the favorites but will have to stand off the challenge of 15 to 20 Chevrolet and Ford drivers Drivers and fans will pay tribute to the late Buddy Shuman of Char lotte who lost his life in ahotel fire prior to a 200-lap race here last November 13 Shuman 'a former modified stock car driver was injheemploy ofFordMotordom-pany'at the time This race has been designated as Annual Buddy Shuman Memorial and appropriate trophies will be on hand for the occasion The winner will win a trophy and have his name-inscribed on a perpetual trophy -Georgia Rolls Over Alabama BIRMINGJAM Ala An 86 yard punt return for a touch down by halfback Davis fired up the Georgia Bulldogs Saturday and- they defeated Alabama 16-13 jn a Southeastern confer I ence football game Before run which came in the closing minutes of the third period Alabama had a 7-0 lead and thoroughly had outplayed the visitors But the Bulldogs then recover' ed a fumble on the 41 and drove quickly deeper into Alabama territory with soph omore end Ken Cooper booting a 29-yard' field goal which proved the final margin of victory Georgia with quarterback Billy Hearn "doing most of the work made a second touchdown midway in the final period on a 59-yard march then came suddenly to kfe again and counted on a 61-yard pass from soph quarterback Bobby Smith to halfback Marshall Brown It was first throw varsity play That was all the scoring but brought the 25000 fans uo to new excitement with passes in the closing minutes jfirst score camp midway the opening quarter on a 34-yard drive in eight plays Until touchdown with the punt Georgia had not held the ball outside its own 40 Georgia 0 0 7 Alabama 7 0 0 Georgia scoring: Davis (80 punt return) Hearn (1- plunge Field GoalCooper (29) Conversion Cooper Nelson (1 plunge )y Brown (68 pass-run from Smith) Conversion Reeves UCLA Upsets Stanford By 14-13 Margin The defeat was the Tigers sixth straight 7 But Mississippi riddled the leaky LSU pass defense in the second half to turn the game mto a rout The Rebels rode their air attack to 10 completions in 14 passes for 250 yards Crlwford romped 58 yards with the opening kickoff then took a 29 yard pass from quarterback Ray Brown for' the touchdown In the third quarter" he tallied on a 19 yard pass from Brown and a two yard plunge To put the icing on the cake the speedy halfback snatched a Tiger pass in the fourth quarter and raced it 40 yards for the final Mississippi score In the closing minutes of the s'lT' Rebel fullback Piage Cothren attempted to kick his seventh goal of the season Which would be a new NCAA record He missed his first try from the 7 yard line but got Another shot at it from the 22 when the Rebels were penalized A bad pass from center caused that one to go awry Mississippi 14 0 13 19 46 LouisianaStatelQ rl 0 6--lL downs Crawlord 4 (29 pass from Brown 19 pass from Brown 2 run 40 pass interception return) Reed run) Brown (4 run) Hurst (I run) Conversions Cothren 3 Brown 1 Louisiana State scoring Touch-eowns Taylor 2 plunge 2 plunge) Field ooal Taylor (28) Conversions Tay lor 2 LOS ANGELES (IP) The UCLA Bruins smothered the leading passer Iohn Brodie to upset favored Stanford 14-13 a Pacific Coast Conference football thriller Saturday Brodie was rushed for repeated losses 76 Coliseum Only once in the third quarter was he able to get Stan ford passing attack into high gear to score one1 of two touchdowns And then UCLA blocked the conversion to prevent Stanford gaining a tie -The aert Bruins ook charge the -first period and kept the pres sure on Stanford and Brodie throughout UCLA recovered a Stan ford fumble on the Indian 20 the opening period arid turned it into a touchdown Next the Bruins blocked at Brodie punt and end Pete picked the ball out of the air and ran 42 yards for the out of the air ad ran 42 yards Second UCLA score Conversions Don Duncan and Don Shinnick completed the UCLA scoring Texas A A Slugs Hogs COLLEGE STATION Tex (ft-Brutish ground power under the pounding feet of Roddy Osborne and Jack Pardee and the passing finesse of Osborne and Jim Wright carved a 27-0 victory for unbeaten Texas over Arkansas Saturday night The Aggies the fifth ranking team remained at the head of the Southwest Conference Football race This was supposed to be a bitter struggle but-Arkansas never was in the game Gators Rap Auburn 20-0 GAINESVILLE Fla A 47-vird touchdown pass by runner Jacki Simpson and a 58-yard touchdown run by passer Jimmy Dunn caught the Auburn Tigers bv surprise Saturday and gave Florida a 20-0 football victory A record Homecoming crowd of 41000 saw Florida score those two touchdowns within four minutes ill the second quarter and keep the pressure on the Tigers who werf rated an even chance to win The victory kept Florida in third place the Southeastern Conference race After Auburn showed off its No 1 offense in the conference with an impressive running display in the first thwarted twice within sight of the Florida goal Simpson caught the Tigers off balance with his long' heave to Jim Rountree on the first play of the second quarter Rountree took the ball between two Auburn defenders and beat them to the goal Less than four minutes later Dunn dropped back to pass saw no reeeivers open and dashed 58 yards through half a dozen tackier! with the help of several good bloeks Harfy Spears kicked one con- ersion and Joe Hergert the other The other Florida touchdown came in the third quarter when Ray Midden blocked a punt by Tommy Lormo and ran the ball 36 yards to the goal Auburn 0 0 0 0 0 Florida 0 14 6 0 20 Florida scoring Touchdowns Rountree (47 pass run from Simpson) Dunn (58 run) Midden (56 punt return) Cpnversions Spears Hergert Indiana Nudges Marquette For 19-13 Victory BLOOMINGTON Ind Indiana almost ran out of breath in its expected breather with Mar quette but went all-out the fourth quarter for a 19-13 victory over the winless Warriors Saturday The Hooeier struck like lightning for a touchdown on the first play of the game a pass from Steve Filipowski to end Norm Craft good for 64 yards and touchdown But Marquette almost short circuited the Indiana passing attack after that A weak punt and a fumble opened the way for other touchdown The Marquette touchdowns came hard yard by yard on drives of 80 and 60 yards Quarterback Bob carried the load for the Warriors directing both touchdown drives scoring the second and kicking the extra pint that gave Marquette a 13 12 third quarter lead-Marquette tied the sere on the first play of the second quarter but Indiana regained the lead late in the period Jim Yore passing 9 yards to Dave Whitsell for the touchdown Both lines made crushing blocks and tackles Injuries fumbles penalties and losses were Wildcats Belt Terrapins For 14-0 Triumph COLLEGE PARK Md (ft Billy Mitchell chugged 78 muddy yards on a punt return and little Ivan Curnutte slipped 9 yards on pitchout for 14-0 victory over Maryland Saturday score midway in the fourth quarter was the clincher in the third straight victory for the rebounding Wildcats Curnutte a 5 6 165 pound halfback started the once-mighty Terrapins to their fifth straight loss with his sleek run around right end 90 seconds before theend of the half Quarterback Delmar Hughes converted after both touchdowns Maryland virtually7 paralyzed on offense throughout most of the game frittered away two golden opportunities after end Ben Scotti recovered a pair of Kentucky fumbles in the opening quarter Scotti trapped one by Boi) Cravens on the 28 and another by quarterback Ken Robertspp on the 19 On the first Marhland moved only to the 23 before trying an unsuccessful field goal On the second the Terps got to the 8 be fore a 15 yard penalty ended the threat Gophers Stay Unbeaten By Topping Pitt MINNEAPOLIS Ailing Dick dramatic field goal with lestf than three minutes left his second game-winning kick of the season" brought unbeaten Minnesota a nerve-jangling 9 6 victory over hardluck Pittsburgh Saturday Seconds after the injured-Gopher fullback came through with a bad-angle boot from the 23 yard line brilliant-end Joe Walton almost broke the hearts of Minnesota homecoming crowd by speeding 77 yards into the end zone with the Gopher kickoff But Pittsburgh was caught clip ping on the play and sensational run was called back and the last gasp bid for a Pitt victory went down the drain Pittsburgh survived the heartbreak tf a blundering first half to tie the score in the third period when Corny Savaterra connected with four passes on a 67-yard drive The last went five yards to Walton in the end zone -Minnesota after twice denying Pittsburgh on the goal line pa raded 99 yards in the second quarter with Cox and Bob Schultz rid tiling the Panthir flanks Cox jntched an eight yard touchdown pa to end Jon Jclacic on fourth dow Middleweight boxer Ellswoith (Spider) Webb took part in boxing football and track at Idaho State College He won 16 of his first 17 pio bouts and handed Rory Cal houn his first defeat Stetson Topples Carson-Newman DELAND tla (ft Jim Hawkins started Stetson to a 20 0 football victory over Carson Newman Saturday by taking lateral pas breaking clear and racing yards for a touchdown His score cameun the first per rod Jimmy Hearn added other touchdowns in the second and third quarters The victoiy Stetsons first in seven games this season thrilled homecoming crowd of 4500 Carson Newman never threat ened until the third quarter when it got down to the Stetson 10 The Hatters held at the 10 again in th fourth and dosing miBtes on the Carson-Newman 0 0 0 0 0 Stetson 7 6 7 Stetson scoring Touchdown Hawkins (70 lateral run from Saltrick) Hearn 2 plunge 1 onversins Hawkins 2 Southern Cal Down Washington State PULLMAN VVah The Southern tsdifoinia Troians came from behind on a OGvard kickolf return by 11 Robots and stay ed ahead1 on the running of re liable Ernm Zampese for a 28 12 Tacific Coast Conference football! victorv toda over Washington! State Roberts a biuisin junior took i the second half kickoff on his fourj brushed through a duster of WSCj sped untouched to the goal Zampese who scored twice for the Trojas canted the ball eight times straight in the fourth qtiar er as the winners weie content to eat up yardage in small rhunks Football Scores Jndiin Id Vlaiquette 17 Central Mich 19 astern Mich 8 Xavier (O) S7 Colorado A andW 1 Ohio I 7 Western Mich OO Ohio State 8 Northwestern Tulsa 14 College of Pacific 17 Cincinnati 71 Detroit 7 Kansas 20 Kansas State 17 Nebraska IV Vf ssoun 14 Iowa State 39 Drake 14 Houston 41 Wichita 18 Washington (Si Loutsl 28 Southern Illinois 0 South Dakota 20 Iowa State Teachera 19 Great Lakes XI St Ambrose (lows) IS Wabash 34 Washington and Lee 0 SOUTHWEST Howard Pavne Id WcWurrav "7 Tesas Tech 13 Oklahoma A and 13 Summer Tan Cops Gallant Fcx Run I00 0 DOWN Vandy Nips Cavaliers CHARLOTTESVILLE Va Vanderbilt slogged 62 yards through the gooey muck for a second period touchdown and then slopped Virginia a yard short of the goal in the final quarter to iccord a 62 football victory Sat urday in rain spattered Scott St a dium Boyce Smith poised sophomore quarterbaik atanding in for the injured Don Orr sliced 12 yards over right tackle on the spht-T option play for the touchdown that the game After that The Commodores spent the rest of the afternoon fending off Cavalier thrusts Virginia only dent in the scor ing column came after itsabor live march that died on the Vandy one with less than four minutes remaining On first play Smith took the snap from center in the end rone and fell on the ball to give the Cavaliers safety Moments later Virginia rammed to the Vandy seven but onteAnore the Commodore defenders were up to their task PassesWailed Virginia and as the final gun wtnt Off they lost the ball on the iivw LIMITED TIME ONLY EAST Yale 19 Dartmouth 0 Princeton 21 Brown 7 Amherst 6 TuU Practise 13 Pen State 9 Holv Cros 21 Boston I Connecticut 0 New lfamphir 0 (tie) Penn 28 Hirxard 14 Columbia 25 Cornell 19 I ehijfh 21 Temple avv 33 Notre Dame 7 Snnnjffieid 40 Rhode Inland 40 Washlnaton and Jeffertor 1 1 Maine 26 olbv 7 Armv 55 Colgate 46 Buffalo 31 Buttcnnlt It Ruter 20 LaFavet'e 19 Massachusetts 26 rmont 19 UsinpAhurj 12 fr 7 SOUTH Ten lessee 20 North aioima eorgia Tech 7 Duke 0 anderhilt 9 irgima 2 West Virginia 14 George Washington Kentucky 14 MinUnd 0 lemson 21 VPI 9 Stetson 20 Canon Yewman South C-krolina 13 9 Forest 11 North Carolina Atate Or Fastei Kentucky 25 Tnnee Tech 1J Tuiane 20 Mississippi stJe 14 Georgia 16 Alabama 13 Honda 20 Auburn Louisiana Tech 12 Southeastern Lou isiana 9 Dm idnn 7 Richmond 11 20 Wdbaro and Mary The CHadef 20 Presb'tertan 17 MIDWEST 'I tnigan 17 In 14 Illinoi 7 Purdue 7 'Imnmu Pittsburgh A MieMtun T7 DIAL 2-3311 430 st NEW YORK Summer Tan s4won Jhe S84700 Gallant Fox Sat urdav before a crowd of 35 07? at Jamaica Race Course Midafternoon finished second and Ded icate was third in the field of 10 older stars The time of 2 41 3 5 for mile and five eighths grind was a new track record for Mrs John Gaibreaths favored Summer Tan ridden by Dave Erb Summer Tan carried 124 pounds comoared with 118 on Mrs Edvard Midafternoon coupled with the Cockfield Le Beau Prince in the wagering was $4 70 and $3 50 Dedicate paid 54 20 to show The winner earned a purse pf S700 JOIN THE SAFE DRIVER LEAGUE Beimt 20 Wifconsm (Milwaukee 0 Bradlrv 51 WiHinm Jewell 14 Kent 52 Toledo 6 Akron 40 Oberhn 14 Denton 7T Ohio Northern 0 Bowling Green 7 Miami 0 7 ftie) Hifienberg 25 Mootter 19 John Carrol' 44 Hetem Reere 14 Musk ngum 65 Otterbem 9 a Baldwin allace 21 Ohio Wesleyan 14 Omaha 41 Wane 'Mich) 0 Dakota Welen-27 Smug Falla CoL Icae 11 SOUTHWEST TCI 7 B-rior 6 Rice 27 I Uh Tv FAR WEST Wionima 21 I tab Sate 6 Oklahoma 27 Colorado 19 Brigham YoUn 31 New Meaico 12 0eson ae 23 Wawhnf'on 29 Idaho Sate 27 Calndo '1 pm Montana Sate 33 Montana 14 Southern Cal 28 Mashmfton Sat It Tea A and 27 Arkanva 6 WVW only to stop Johnnv Majors is a shotgun' was Alabama Cbach hitvvsrths contribu tion to the eulogies made by Vol opponents To the grej Tennessee tailback I 7 'i Don Newcombe is the th lrd Broqklyji Dodger pitcher to win 20 or more in three seasons 6 A.

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