Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma • 17

1 The uskagrc Jimflaij phoenix TIMES-DEMOCRAT Muskogee Oklahoma Sunday Morning December 7 1958 PAGE ONE-SECTION THREE Agriculture Eastern Oklahoma's Number 1 Industry Is Covered On Page 4 The Farm Front fo) fa) NSC Holds Off Raven Rally To Capture 19 To 14 Decision four times in thef irst half and the closest to the Redmen's 21 came to life and moved 78-yards in eight plays for a touchdown Moments later Halfback Gerald Mohlman bolted 18 yards for another score and the Ravens were very much back in the ball game End Tom Waller chalked up the first St TD with a juggling finger-tip catch of a 10-yard fourth-down pass by senior Quarterback Mark Flynn Northeastern scored its second touchdown in the second period when Quarterback Johnny Allen went across from the one to end a 45 vard march Smith went 31 ff: A AO Ny' -A were ahead with 88 yards gained on 6 of 13 tosses compared to 58 on a 5 for 18 average by the Ravens Penalties cost Northeastern 75 yards while fumbles four times lost St the ball Northeastern lost the oval once on a fumble although several times they were forced to cover their own bobbles The Redmen went 32 yards to score the first time they got possession of the pigskin ringing the bell on the 16 yard pass from Smith to Moore Moore grabbed the wobbly pass in the end zone with a Ravens defender hanging on his back trying to break up the aerial toss Robert 32 yard punt return got the Redmen rolling putting the Oklahoma Collegiate Conference champions on the St 32 Phelps went six on a keeper to the 26 and a penalty a lvanced the ball to the 21 Bmitp went for three and Reed got two to the 16 Then Phelps pitched out to Smith and the Sulphur flash let loose with a strike to Moor" Phelps kicked the extra point and the score was 7 to 0 with 3:14 gone In the game Taking a punt on the 43 the Redmen covered the distance in eight plays with Quarterback Johnnie Allen a hometown boy from Tahlequah wedging over for the score A bullet pass (Allen to halfback Jackson) ate up 30 yards in the drive and put the ball on By Warren Weakland Phoenix and T-D Soorts Editor Northeastern State College slammed home three touchdowns in the first three periods then fought desperately to hold off a last-ditch rally by St College for a 19 to 14 win and a trip to the Holiday Bowl The Redmen ranked No 1 in the nation by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) will meet Arizona State of Flagstaff on December 20 at St Petersburg Florida for the small-collage championship Arizona won its semi-final game Saturday with a 41 to 12 triumph over Gustavus Adolphus of Minnesota in a game played at Tucson Northeastern scored in the first four minutes of the game on a 16-yard pass from Halfback Dan Smith to End Charlie Moore and added touchdowns in the second and third quarter to take a 19-0 edge in the game that was to make them the fifth state college to earn a berth in a post-season bowl this season But after dominating the game through better than three periods the Redmen found themselves rocked back on their heels by the Ravens from Atchison Kansas who took charge and almost overtook the men from Tahlequah with a brilliant offensive display in the last seven minutes of the game The visitors from Kansas able to penetrate Oklahoma territory just yt- -s nnd T-U Staff Photo Northeastern State College End Charlie Moore (80) hangs on to the pigskin with a clutching grip for a touchdown in the first quarter despite the back-climbing of defender Mark Flynn Saint Benedict's College quarterback Interference was ruled on the play but it didn't matter for Moore's grab netted NSC their first touchdown on the way to a 19-14 victory over the Ravens Saturday in the NAIA semi-final round playoff at Skelly Stadium in Tulsa The victory means a Holiday Bowl trip to Saint Petersburg Florida and a December 20 game with Arizona State of Flagstaff for the little college national championship Some 8000 fans watched the two unbeaten teams battle on a 31-degree day for the trip to sunny Florida yards on the last NSC tally to cap a 47-yard move The battle of unbeaten clubs was just as close as the final score And like the results in 1956 two clubs played in the Mineral Bowl the loser had the statistical edge for the most part St Benedict's won that game 14 to 13 St Benedict's had 14 first downs to 13 for NSC and rushed for 188 jards compared to the 159 by the Redmen In passing the winners Sweet End To Bitter Season By 30-28 Count TLLSA LT) were lucky to pull this seid the victors And from the other side were kejed too The sum up came in dressing rooms after Northeastern Oklahoma State of Tahlequah defeated St of Kansas 19-14 in an NAIA playoff here which resulted In the Northeastern Redmen winning a spot in the Holiday Bowl December 20 at St Petersburg Florida Roger Wickersham senior guard from Sand Springs who was named outstanding lineman of the game summed up the side for Northeastern this way: were lucky to pull this one I know they had me worried right up to the final whistle and certain that goes for the rest of guys The coach Ivan Scot-tel was more stunned than hurt He thought Coach Harold Redmen played well but also felt his own team fought well enough to have won were keyed too high" Schottel said knew it this morning when we were hanging around the hotel Everyone was too tense We just wanted to win it too badly I The dressing rooms as expected were a study in contrast and the losing side had its display of tears The opinion in both camps was that the foes were the best each team had met this season Little All American Guard Claude Billingsly thought the Ravens a fine ball club had a great backfield and their line was plenty he said sure glad the game is Tackle Jimmy Barrett senior from Muskogee lauded the Ravens and praised their forward wall The balding giant said he thought the game would never end in the final moments were real tough and seem to wear us out in the last he commented After the game Northeastern athletic director Wad-ley announced the Redmen will leave by plane for Saint Petersburg Florida Saturday The squad ot 40 including coaches will stay in Saint Petersburg for one week Selection of a hotel has not yet been completed The decision to spend a week in Saint Petersburg was made after Saturday's game in a meeting at Tulsa Wickersham Named Garnet Top Lineman TULSA LB Outstanding player awards were presented Saturday night to Roger Wickersham of Northeastern Oklahoma State and Mark Flynn of St of Kansas following 19-14 victory in a football playoff here Wickersham was named outstanding back by officials of the National Association of Intercollegiate 'Athletics and the Tulsa Junior Chamber of Commerce at a postgame banquet College Basketball Scores Hurricane Nips Webfoots 2-0 Los Angeles Rams Gain Revenge With Win Over Baltimore quarterback broke a NFL record for consecutive game touchdown passes and completed 23 of 38 throws for 214 yards and three LOS ANGELES tfl The Los Angeles Rams got sweet revenge Saturday if small consolation A whopping crowd of 100202 joined in the celebration as the home heros touchdowns COLLEGE Tula 79 Arizona State of Tenipe 71 Michigan State 88 Detroit 51 Army 79 Kings Point 38 Winston-Salem 78 Morehouse 77 St Louis 77 Ohio State 68 St Joseph's (Pennsylvania) 61 Kentucky Wesleyan 75 irginia State 63 North Carolina College 55 Wet Virginia Wesleyan 101 BecKley 82 est Virginia 78 Penn State 63 New York 93 Columbia 70 Western Reserve 74 Wayne State 56 Muhlenberg 75 Scranton bl Pin knell to Rutgers 69 Wabash 56 Butler 55 Cornell 58 Colgate 53 St Francis (Pennsylvania) 5S Du-quesne 56 North Carolina State 56 Wake Forest 52 At Kansas College 64 Lnmbuth 55 Syracuse 91 Clarkson Teh 50 Nnvv 66 Pennsylvania 53 CCNV t)7 Hunter 58 Texas College 83 Langston 70 Kansas State 82 rndlatia 79 (overtime) Purdue 65 Missouri 57 Kansas 75 CanKiiis 54 Alabama 39 Phillips Oilers 38 Arkansas 61 Oklahoma 52 Minnesota 77 Vanderbilt 76 Tulsa 79 Arizona State 71 Louiville 71 Georgia Tech 57 Southern Methodist 65 Iowa 5o Texas 57 Houston 45 Rice 7 Wisconsin Kentucky 76 Temple 71 the 15 Reed drove to the nine and Allen made it first and goal whh a dive to the two Twice the Kansas charges held but on the third try Allen squeezed across The extra point try was wide and the count stayed 13 to 0 Smith's 31-yard TD run in the opening minutes of the third period upped the count to 19-0 and capped a 47-yard march that took seven plays Denied a touchdown on a long pass-lateral play because of a penalty St roared back in the final period and almost spoiled the Holiday-Bowl plans of the Redmen With Quarterback Mark Flynn and Halfback Gerald Mohlman fueling the drive the Ravens struck twice to close the gap 14-19 and make the final few minutes of the game uncomfortable for Redmen gridders and followers 10-yard pass to Waller on fourth down netted the first score and Mohlman galloped 18 yards a few minutes iater for a score with some four minutes remaining in the contest Taking over on their own 22 St went the 78-yards in eight plays topped by a 16-yard jaunt by Fred Finder and a 34-yard sprint by Mohlman alert pass interception got the Ravens the ball again on the St Benedict's 26 and he ran it back to the NSC 48 pass to Allen Lewis was good for 15 yards and a first down on the 19 Mohlman went the distance on the next play and the score was 19-13 Flynn converted and It was 19-14 St had one more chance taking the ball on their own 32 with 1:10 left in the game Three passes went astray and a fourth-down all-or-nothing toss gained just nine yards nnd NSC took over with 40 seconds left Phelps twice simply took the snap and fell to the ground to eat up time There the Redmen allowed the clock to run out the final 20 seconds for a victory and a trip to the Holiday Bowl The Score by Quarters: Northeastern State 7 6 6 St Benedict's 0 A 0 Scoring: Northeastern Moore (16) pats from Smith Phelps kick Alien (1) nin kick failed Smith (31) run kick failed St Wallen (10) pass from Flynn Molhnmn kick Molhman (18) run Flynn kick Boston College Eagles Upset Holy Cross 26-8 BOSTON (UPI) Sophomore quarterback Johnny Amabile scored once and passed for another in a three-touchdown second-quarter explosion Saturday to lead Boston College to a 20 8 upset win over Holy Cross The 5-7 Amabile performed brilliantly as a replacement for the injured Eagle passing ace Don Allard before a capacity crowd of 20000 and an eastern television audience Boston College capitalized early on the passes of vaunted Holy Cross Quarterback Tommy Greene intercepting three of his first four throws The Eagles converted two of the interceptions into touchdowns Greene's only first half completion was a 55-yard scoring strike to end Dave Stecchi in ths opening period for the only Holy Cross touchdown Amabile of Jersey City New Jersey registered the first Boston College touchdown on a three yard bootleg dash Into the end zone as the second quarter started his smooth fake handoff on the payoff play even confusing the referee His 31-yard pass to end John Flanagan set the stage for the second Eagle score which came when Amabile looped a basketball-type two-handed pass to Flanagan In the end zone for the last nine yards Boston College Captain George Larkin ran an Intercepted Greene pass back 20 yards to the Holy Cross 17 in the second period tJ set up the third score Fullback Jim Duggan bulled into the end zone from eight yards out to cap the second period scoring spree and give the hosts an 18-8 halftime lead Boston College marched 63 yards to the Holy Cross six before tho third period ended On the 'irst play of the final qarter halfback Alan Miller went off tackle to score With three and one-half minutes left to play the Boston College line Into the Holy Cross back-field to smother Greene In the end zone for a safety a billiard ball with backspin hopped back and abruptly came to rest only one ard from the double stripe Oregon's Dave GraysOn carried it out to the two on the next play But Poole and Daniel Coughlin caught Grosz behind the goal on the next play and that gave Miami its second win in a 10-game season Oregon Drive Oregon immediately launched a drive that carried from its own 43 to the Miami seven But there Len Read fumbled and Poole gobbled up the ball Miami punted out only to have Oregon drive right back to the 12 From there a field goal attempt by John Clarke was no good Oregon tried one more desperation field goal In the last seconds Miami like Oregon had a frustrating day at the goal line and was stopped oidrives that carried to the eight and the 14 It was sixth defeat against four wins But failure to move the hall across tlie goal gave the Webfoots the national title in defense against MIAMI (UPI) Fran only punt of the year took a freakish bounce at the Oregon goal died on the ore-yard line and set up the safety that gave Miami a sweet 2-0 victory Saturday at the end of a bitter season Hurricane end Bill Poole helped tackle Dave Grosz for the safety and also pounced on a fumble at the Miami seven to stop an Oregon threat Oregon whose home fans 3500 miles away were watching on nationwide television penetrated to the Miami seven twice and also had two plays that crossed the goal voided by penalties Sun-Filled Bowl There were 22898 fans in the sun-filled Orange Bowl for a game that looked more like jacks than football as both teams picked up the frequent fumbles through the scoreless first half But Curci who made a single punt all season found himself in a kicking situation in the third period without Ills punter With the ball on the Oregon 40 the tiny quarterback coolly booted it The punt was a good one so good it almost sailed over the goal But the football acting more like defeated the Baltimore Colts 30-28 hi Memorial Coliseum The huge crowd second 100000 plus assemblage to see the Rams in action here this season was treated to a great offensive show which was nationally televised Actually the game meant nothing because the Colts had already sewed up the Western division title in the National Football League nnd the best the Rams could hope for was to break a second-place tie with the Chicago Bears Two weeks ago the Colts wrecked any chance the Rams had for the title Left end Del Shofner turned In two brilliant runs on passes from Billy Wade one for 63 yards that set up the first Los Angeles touch down The other was a spectacular 69-yard romp for a touchdown that ended the scoring Johnny Unltas great Porter Juniors Cop Basketball Titles PORTER Porter won both boys and girls championships in the junior high school basketball tourney here Saturday The boys beat Chouteau 22-19 in the finals and the girls won 33-18 over Fort Gibson lie went into the game with only four Interceptions against him all season but the Rams intercepted three and returned two for touch downs Linebacker Dick Daugherty grabbed one Unltas toss that was blocked and barged 12 yards Defensive halfback Jack Morris stole another and raced 44 yards down the side line in front of the Baltimore bench for the other TD The Gino Marchettl recovered a Wade fumble on the Ram 29 and Unltas soon hit end Ray Berry from three yards out for their first touchdown Before the first quarter ended Unitas steered his team 62 yards in 12 plays and his five-yard throw to Lenny Moore produced another touchdown The final Unitas scoring pass rifled 22 yards to Jim Mutscheller in the closing minutes of the game finish Baltimore 14 0 7 7-20- Los Anxeles 3 13 7 Wagoner Lincoln Puts Two On All-Star Team WATTS (Special) Watts High School winner of the 13-C District by victories over Copan and Lincoln Wagoner placed five representatives on the All-District team Copan came in second placing four on the team and Lincoln filling the other position with two very fine ball players even though they had to settle for last place in the District This is the first time District 13-C has selected an All-District team It is represented by boys who can play both offense and defense The team has eight seniors and three juniors: The 13-C All-District team: Terry Bryon 165 Junior Copan Joel Church 180 Senior Watts Audie Bradshaw 163 Junior Watts Pete Ward 165 Senior Watts Terry Corner 165 Senior Copan Billy Reloford 180 Senior Lincoln RE Barnett 163 Senior Copan LeRoy Call 160 Junior Copan Stan Nelson 170 Senior Watts George Mackey 160 Senior Watts FB -Howard Murray 205 Senior Lincoln SPORTS EDITOR DIES PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Grauley 80 sports editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1923 and considered the denn of all ac tive sports writers died Saturday at his home here THREE SIDES OF Saturday' NAIA playoff game between Northeastern and St Benedict' College Saturday at Skelly Stadium wa a bruising gridiron battle from start to finish and a tiring test for both players and coaches On tho left Head Coach Tuffy Stratton left asks Assistant Coach Bob Burris did that happen?" as a Ravens back goes for a long gainer through the Redmen line In the center Stratton talks to Little All-American Guard Claude Billingsly after the game during a moment of serious conversation On the right the Stratton smile" beams from the dressing room in recognition of the Redmfen's victory and a trip to the Holiday Bowl in Florida on December 20 I.