Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 2

1 7 THE KINGSPORT TIMES KINGSPORT TENNESSEE MONDAY OCTOBER 30 1939 PAGE TWO eras With 11 Teoinni Ion IyirsirQDinii dtosbwd Sv- Viking Hopfes Fanned As Cripples Abandon Crutches Tigers Wildcats May Give Big 13 This Week UNBEATEN UNTIED ELEVENS ARE FEW ONGRIDIRON FRONT Vandy Gains But Tigers Win 12-6 By KENNETH GREGORY ATLANTA Oct 30 (AP) championship TITLE ASPIRATIONS FACE BIG TEST SUNDAY situation is going to get a great big this week end within the confines of the Southeastern conference The should not be tak en too literally for a couple of Surprising Lions Tied With Packers In Western Chase Meet Champion Giants Thisr Week End aerial-minded giidiron teams could throw a pretty dark shadow over the picture Kentucky Wildcats and Louisiana Tigers are close to in the business of forward passing atul their aerial attacks if as productive of results as in the past may complicate the titular situation The Louisiana State passing brigade principally the now fa-mouse Leo Bird-to-Kcn Kavanaugh combination will see what can be done about the Tennessee Volunteers whom most observers have established as the club to beat for the crown Blue Grass gridders hopeful that Louisiana State can check the onward rush of Ten nessee will unloose all guns against the Crimson Tide of Alabama in an effort to keen their slate clean Those two games headline November's first Saturday or gridiron arguments in the Southeastern league Tennessee and Ken tucky are undefeated and untied in five games defense has not been penetrated for a single point Tennessee the defending champion will be favored to get the verdict over Louisiana State but the Bayou Tigers possess a dangerous and deadly scoring punch with the elongated Kavanaugh snagging them out of the air The Alabama-Kentacky argument rates Vols and Wildcats Head List In South Final Campaigns Open Cornell Heads East By HUGH FULLERTON JR NEW YORK Oct 30 The month of the college football season November starts this week with just the kind of games that can be expected in the more important half of the campaign The first half of the battle for national honors winding up last Saturday produced about the results that could be expected There were innumerable at the start dwindling in number as the teams began to show real strength and weakness The end of October found not more thhn 11 unbeaten and untied survivors still in the race for the mythical national crown Starting part two the 1 unbeaten and untied teams are: EAST Cornell Duquesne and Catholic SOUTH Tennessee and Kentucky MIDWEST Notre Dame and Michigan SOUTH -I' Texas A and Rocky Mountain Colorado Mines Paci-i fic Coast-rOregon State and San Jbse (Cal5 State Tied but still undefeated are Dartmouth and Georgetown in the Tulane North Carolina and Rlchiondin the South Nebraska fund Oklahoma in the Midwest Southern California and A on Jhe West Coast and Utah (tied twice) Tn the Rocky Mountain Big Seven i a Not all these teams of course cam be considered national title prospects By the same token -thete are a lot of real contenders which have been beaten often by the one point that sometimes spells the difference between a perfect pason and a ruined one Contenders for sectional and con-erence championships take in a -lot more ground The situation by sections shapes up like this for the week-end of November EAST: 1 been a long time since any team did so much to aid the prestige of Eastern football as Plmkott (light jersey) of Vanderbilt is shown making five yards over left tackle against Louis-i-naState University at Nashville where the Commodores and the Tigers scrapped it out on the football field The Tigers though could bite as well as snarl and won 12 to 6 Wftat Big Eyes You Have Grandma Coast Teams Looking At Our Yols By TOM SILER CHICAGO Oct 30 surprising Lions should know the worst abeut their national pro football title aspirations in another week of battling The Lions who are matching the fine play of the Green Bay Pack- ers stride for stride in the National western division engage the title-holding New York Giants in Detroit next Sunday in a pivotal clash Detroit New York Green Bay all clicked yesterday with well-earned victories Their three garnet and the Cleveland-Pittsburgh tilt drew a total of 101514 spectators Gus Lions clipped the Chicago Bears in a manner even more decisive than the 10-0 score indicates The Lions throttled completely the vaunted running and passing attack Chuck 37-yard field goal and Dwight 12-yard dash on a spinner accounted for the tallies a defeat that virtually eliminated the Chicago eleven from the western race The Lions now have won five of six games but f3ce a murderous schedule After taking on the Giants a week hence they play the Bears again Cleveland Rams Washington and Green Bay Green Bay matched won-lost record by handing the Redskins their first defeat 24-14 The Packers outrushed Washington by 49 yards but the Indians gained almost 100 more yards in the air The victors ran up a 17-7 lead in the first half and both teams added a touchdown in the final quarter defeat left theT Giants alone in first placfe in the eastern division The ers defeated Brooklv main the onlv un the league Tuffy the touchdown an ded the all-impo Ralph Kerchev: six points on two fields he 47 and 27 yard linesT'! two others but both fizzled In the other game Cleveland and Pittsburgh battled to a 14-14 tie breaking six-game losing Parker Hall league leading passer had a bad day connecting for only one of 13 passes for the Rams But he contributed one of the touchdowns with an 88-yard run in the first period Johnny Drake scored the other six--'f pointer leaving him only one touchdown behind Don season touchdown record of nine victim of Clemson Fordham which Gorpell did last Saturday by whip- came back as an Eastern threat by pingOhio State 23-14 after spott- Whipping Pitt 27-13 Ing the Big Ten therdrapless owls in an intersectional first two touchdowns That trireatr New York 14-13 winner umph automatically installed the over a stubborn Georgia team ELEVEN' PREPS FOR BATTLE WITH KINGSPORT Tennessee Squad Expects to be Neat Full Strength Against Indians Fridfcy as Mainstays Return Tlmt4) BRISTuij lenn Oct Hope is far from dead amorig the members of the Tennessee high football squad for salvaging their 1939 season from th6 depths where Johnson City Elizabethton gnd Knoxville Central have contrived to push it It isn't being talked out loud much but there is a definite feeling among players and fan3 that the Vikings have an opportunity of upsetting the 'Kingsport Indians in their grid contest here next Friday night and such an incident would definitely contribute to rubbing out the memories 'of the last three game3 For the first time in over three weeks Coach Elmer crew is expected to be in shape to take the field with some semblance of the strength that marked their early-season conquests of Erwin and Knoxville City high At that time the Vikings were rated as one of the outstanding teams in East Tennessee but the injury jinx started shelling the Bristol eleven about that time with the result that through the past few games the Vikings have been only shadows of their former selves Captain Doug Owen will'be ready to bolster the line by returning to the tackle post by next Friday night and it appears certain that Kail Smith the leading scorer will be back at the quarterback post after temporary retirement from the game Bob Koontz and Vivian Carrier two other mainstays who have been hobbling through the past few games are expected to be fully recovered from leg injuries and ready to go Don Stickley who sustained a serious head injury in the Knoxville City game has been returned from Richmond where he underwent treatment but he is not expected to play any more football this season Carey Gray another star of the team is out with an attack of influenza and is not expected to be repdy' for Friday game Coach Soloman is expected to make his scrimmages this week as serious as possible but protecting his players from any further injuries that might dampen the chances against a Kingsport team that has been tied twice but unbeaten Biggest job facing Solo- close to a toss-up affair As the 1939 debate moves onto the November stage Tennessee Kentucky Tulane and Georgia Tech are unbeaten and untied in competition The latter two teams forego conference activity this week Tulane has an open date and will look ahead to a November 11 date with Alabama Georgia Tech gets another test in a tussle with Duke One other intra- conference skirmish appears on the bill-of-fare the Vanderbilt Commodores engaging Rebels at Memphis Mississippi dropped its first game of the year to Tulane last week 18 to 6 in a tussle featured by Bob 104-yard touchdown gallop Vanderbilt fell victim to Louisiana passes into the hands of Kavanaugh losing 6-12 Kentucky and Tennessee warmed up for the titular engagements by easily-gained verdicts over non-conference foes The Wildcats beat Xavier 21-0 with Dave Zoellcr firing passes and Tennessee aided by Bob 70-yard touchdown sprint defeated Mercer 17-0 Perhaps one of the best point-after-touchdown records has kept Georgia Tech in the championship race Outplayed by Auburn for the entire first half and trailing C-6 Georgia Tech gained enough momentum to score on the first play of the final quarter Roy Goree a substitute halfback was rushed in to try for the tenth straight placement print and it was successful The Auburn Plainsmen displaying a good offensive for the first time this season move into Boston for an intersectional argument with Boston College already defeated 7-0 by Florida of this league The Florida facing South Carolina turned back Maryland 14-0 Although outplaying New York University all the way after the Vioiets gained two first half touchdowns i Bulldogs were barely nosed out! by the eastern gridders 13-14 Georgia drops out of the conference for a secs'on with Mercer Friday afternoon In other games Mississippi Maroons 0-7 victim of ama in their last engagement play host to Birmingham-Southern and Sewanee goes down from the mountain to neighboring Chattanooga for a contest with that big red team as the No 1 power and next Saturday's game against Columbia despite the decisive 26-7 win over Virginia military hurt stock Duquesne 13-0 winner over Texas Tech Friday faces another stiff intersectional test against Marquette and Catholic 14-0 winner over Miami meets Tulsa of the jMissouri Valley conference Darthmouth encounters its tra-ditionaily-troublesome enemy Yale but off the easy 16-0 win over Harvard and 27-7 licking by Michigan Dartmouth figures to remain undefeated Georgetown after beating George Washington 7-0 meets West Virginia which tied South Carolina 6-6 Friday The biggest games on the Eastern schedule pit Army which has not shown much this season against Notre Dame and Harvard 'Gum-Shoe' Men Kick for Pennsy A rubber boot that fits over the regulation shoe is thrown out from the bench for the use of Pennsylvania place-kickers Its high blunt and corrugated toe almost as hard as fountain pen rubber meets the ball squarely lowering the possibility of deflecting kicks against Princeton which tuned up with a 26-12 win over Brown Notre fine unbeaten team just managed to stave off Carnegie Tech 7-6 while the Cadets routed Ursinus 46-13 Pennsylvania knocked out of the picture by a 30-6 licking from North Carolina meets Navy 15-7 eases off against LaFayette Boston College and Holy Cross still ranked among the Eastern leaders play Auburn and Providence respectively SOUTH: Tennessee the nation's ranking team in last Associated Press poll against Louisiana State with the southeastern conference title as the probable stake The Volunteers knocked off Mercer 17-0 In last Saturday's breather while LSU turned back Vanderbilt 12-6 when Ken Kavanaugh caught two more passes Kentucky co-leader with Tennessee Georgia Tech and Tulane faces Alabama which turned back ivrississippi State 7-0 in another major battle Mississippi beaten for the first time by Tulane 18-0 encounters Vanderbilt Georgia Tech plays Duke which gained a second-place tie in the Southern teams looking for games next year if Tennessee is interested Guest Star Paul Zimmerman Los Angeles Times: there has been an awful lot of Pop Warner and not enough of Dudley De Groot in connection with the fine team at San Jose State De Groot still is the head coach as he was last year when San Jose went quietly about the business of becoming the high scoring team" I Fifteen Sherman (Tex) fans almost broke a football pool by picking the Sam Houston Teachers to upset Rice Those South Carolina ecaches who nearly said it with fists after a close game used to be roomies at Furman Dick Cresap of the Clarksburg (WVa) Telegram one of the slickest sports writers in the country has gone and got himself married Larry plan for a free-for-all world series left baseball men cold and after Larry almost sprained his brain thinking it up Open Forum Walker of Charlotte and Juma Kearns of Mobile say they wouldn't blame the moving picture people if they sued Tennessee for jumping the gun on the world premier of Johnny (Rhett) Butler in With the Observation Ward An official of the Oklahoma Bap-tist-Texas Wesleyan game discover his stop watch had stopped until 33 minutes of the first quarter had been played Ouch Dept When our three star special (Rice) came a cropper Saturday a disgusted Houston client wired: bye Mr Just Those West My Dear Child ten-untied Oregon State and once-tied Southern Cal striving to knock the other out of the Rose Bowl picture the outcome should go a long way toward identifying the Pacific Coast Conference host in post season spectacle Vital game no 2 will he staged way down south at Baton Rouge where Tennessee inarches on Louisiana State LSU figure except that its Tigers probably will furnish the Volunteer 'more trouble than ruiv until they battle Kentucky on Thanksgiving Day The rest of the Rose Bowl elig-ibles should bet by the schedule unscathed unless one or more falls before the violent epidemic of upsets visiting the various football sectors of the nation These games include Texas A over Arkansas Oklahamo over Ioka State Cornell over Columbia Michigan over Illinois and North Carolina over North Carolina State Tennessee the big Texas Aggies Oklahoma and North Carolina may safely he considered among the ranks of active candidates for the Rose Bowl bid Michigan and Cornell may or may not be interested in the matter for one reason or another although many people out here believe Cornell might 'be persuaded to desert the cloistered precincts of the Ivy league if all goes well the rest of the season Notre Dame and Nebraska supposedly are definitely not candidates for the Bowl Tennessee remain the current public choiee around here but it must be added hastily that public affection seems to matter very little when the conference boys set out to invite anyone to the Rose Bowl If the public choice matches the fancy well and good Otherwise STAR LEADS IN SCORING Tom Harmon Sets Pace for Gridders with 73 Points Kavanaugh Heads NSW YORK Oct 30 Tom Harmon great back who scored 21 points against Yale Saturday boosted himself to the forefront of the leading individual football scorers with a total of 73 points Harmon who has been instrumental in keeping the Michigan machine rolling in high gear has contributed 10 touchdowns 10 -oints after touchdovns and one Chandler May Head Nat Rickey May Seek Govemership What Is This two vital games bearing on the Rose Bowl situatio nwill be played this week 1 Vital game no 1 comes at Portland when Oregon State meets the mighty Trojans of Southern California It will be the first real test for either eleven and with unbea- EVERYTHING TOPS AT SLIPPERY ROCK College With Queer Name Marches Along Shoulder to Shoulder With Vols NEW YORK Oct 30(iP)-Such fearsome gridiron machines as Tennessee Duquesne Notre Dame Oregon State Michigan and Cornell head the fast-dwindling parade of unbeaten and untied football teams that was reduced to 25 members over the week end Marching along with them were sUch tiny tots as Slippery Rock Knox Colorado Mines and Earl-hara all of whom were still among the honored crews te swung into the home stretch Of the leaders only Tennessee and the New Britain (Conn) boasted unscored upon records while in the select list 'he San Jose State Californians had piled up the most impressive scoring mark 193 points in eight games Among those who fell from the canctum by defeats were Penn Mississippi Ohio State and Hillsdale which suffered its first loss j5ince the 1937 campaign Tied and therefore forced to bow out of the picture were Lcnoir-Rhyne Oberlin-and Butler The leaders: Opp Team Gams PtsPts San Jose State (Cal) 8 193 16 Tempe (Arlz) Tehrs 6 136 7 Maryville (Mo) Tchrs 'fi 129 7 Texas A and 6 126 16 La State Normal 0 124 12 Manchester (Ind) 5 37 such that may lead to misunderstanding and rather than risk the rupture of cordial relations with other institutions withdrawal is best until such matters are He did not explain what the conditions are that might lead to misunderstandings King has three more conference games to play with Maryville Milligan and Cumberland but Adams said that action should not affect these games since there will be no changes in the eligibility rules underwhich the games are played Hd explained that the eligibility restrictions ptaced upon its students by King college are in excess of those in force in the conference King college was one of the original members of the Smoky Mountain conference when it was organized several years ago Since then Emory and Henry another original member has withdrawn as have Western liorth Carolina Teachers of Cullowhee Appalachian State Teachers of Boone Officers of the conference are (Chink) Lowe commissioner McAmis Tusculum president Dr Eyler Milligan vice-president Alex Chavis Carson-Newman secretary By ROBERT MYERS LOS ANGELES Oct 30 Without having consulted one single person of authority for the simple reason he know any more about the matter than you it seems safe to predict that KING WITHDRAWS FROM S-M LEAGUE Bristol College Quits-Conference In Midst of Race for Football Crown (Special to The Ttnie) KNOXVILLE Oct 30 East Smoky Mountain collegiate conference a few years ago including twelve colleges in East Tennessee Virginia and Western North Carolina today was reduced to eight by the announcement of the withdrawal of Kit college Bristol Tenn from the conference Headquarters of the conference are maintained here by Lowe commissioner Professor A Adams chairman of the athletic committee of King college announced that the action had been taken because of a policy of encroachment by the conference in matters that the college holds should be perogative of the King reigned as the favorite to take the Smoky Mountain football crown at the time of its withdrawal from the conference Professor Adams explained that no ill feeling exists between King and any other member of the conference but that are man as with coaches of all other teams on the Kingsport schedule is that of trying to think of ways and means to stop Bobby Cifers all-southern back last year and high scorer in the nation in 1938 With Coaches Rudy Rohrdanz and John Horvath predicting the roughest week in scrimmages since the season opened for the Kingsport Indians the Dobyns-Bennett gridiron machine 'this afternoon opened practice for their third Big Five encounter against the Bristol Vikings at Bristol next Friday night Expected to bo brought out again for scrimmage after a rest of three weeks hre the blocking aprons which will probably be used plentifully in practice as a result of the complete lack of that factor from the tussle lqst Friday night with Knoxville Trojans The rough scrimmages will be on this schedule as a result of the discovery that the tougher the work through the week the higher the Indian spirit for the game that week end Rohrdanz is predicting that Bristol will present some tall opposition to the Indians particularly if the team is back at full-strength against the locals Friday night The team started the week of practice this afternoon with light drills and a session with scrimmages set for Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons The team is at full-strength for the game with the exception of Captain Mor-ley who has been out all season and George Peters reserve tailback out for the past few weeks with an infected foot conference with a hard-won 6-0 de cision over Wake Forest Tulane has an open date North Carolina with the southern conference pack on its heels returns to its own league to play North Carolina State while Rich rond tackles VMI Virginia meets Chicago aid Mi-lmi plays Texas Tech in the south's jest intersectional tilts MIDWEST: In spite of that thumping from Cornell Ohio State play3 the leading role in the Big Ten facing a raditioral rival Indiana The 3ucks still are tied with Michigan 'or the conference lead while Hoosiers idle last week rre a real threat Michigan should win another from Illinois 13-0 victim of Northwestern when the Wildcats finally got going North-vestern plays sofar disappointing team and Iowa 19-13 winner over Wisconsin plays Purdue which went to the West Joast to take a 13-6 licking from Santa Clara The twin cf the Big Six Nebraska and Oklahoma scored notable victories Nebraska overwhelmed Kansas State 25-9 and Oklahoma routed the Missouri Val ley conference leader Oklahoma Aggies 41-0 Missouri gained a tie with Nebraska for the lead by whipping Iowa State 21-6 without using Christman The two leaders collide nextSatur day Oklahoma plays Iowa State and Kansas meets Kansas State! a game SOUTHWEST: The unbeaten Texas Aggies breezed past Bears 20-0 in their second southwest conference game but are tied for the lead vith Texas Soph omore team which trimmed Rice 26-12 with the aid of an 80-yard run by Jack Crain The Aggies next meet Arkansas beaten 7-0 by Vilianova at Philadelphia while the Longhorns plays Southern Methodist one of the most dangerous teams in the circuit although it hasn't met a conference foe Texas Christian and Baylor clash In another conference game PACIFIC COAST: One title contender is due for elimination this week when Oregon State plays Southern California on a neutral field at Portland Ore The Beavers only undefeated and untied team in the loop beat Washington State 13-0 while Southern Cal living up to its pre-season promise after an uncertain start defeated California 28-0 The winning team still will have to account for UCLA which beat Oregon 16-6 to put the Webfoots out of the picture The Uclans play California Saturday Washington which conquered Stanford by an odd 8-5 score plays Montana 13-0 winner over Idaho Oregon meets Washington State and Stanford faces Santa Clara Sunday games pit Loyola of Los Angeles against San Francisco and St ugnhM Dayton of Ohio ROCKY MOUNTAIN: Denver threw the mountain states Big Seven into a state of considerable confusion by holding Utah to a 7-7 tie That left them tied for the lead and the race wide open Comebacking Colorado which downed Wyoming 37-7 for its second victory in three conference starts is the next oncrt while Denver plays Brigham Young Colorado mines maintained its unbeaten status in the older Rocky Mountain conference vith a 50-7 triumph over Colorado College Football Stars (fir The Assoeiated Press) Tom Harmon Michigan Scored 21 points and gained 203 yards from scrimmage as Michigan outclassed 27-7 Jim Lalanne North Carolina Threw three scoring passes and ran 30 yards for another score sis North Carolira stopped Penn 30-6 Vince Dennery Fordham Scooped up a Pitt fumble and ran 99 yards in most sensational play as Rams beat Panthers 27-13 Joe Behot Vilianova Dashed 82 yards to beat Arkansas 7-0 Bob Kellogg Tulane His runs of 106 and 24 yards helped conquer Mississippi Rebels 18-6 Ken Kavanaugh LSU Scored wo touchdowns as LSU beat Vanderbilt 12-6 Butch Luther Nebraska Scored one touchdown and set uo another as the Huskers stopped Kansas State 25-9 Nile Kinniek Iowa Pitched three touchdown passes to give Iowa a 13-13 win over Wisconsin Jack Crain Texas Was the biggest as Rice fell 26-12 Ken Dow Oregon State A sub back who sparked the Beavers to a 13-0 win over Washington State Jack Robinson UCLA Caught a 66-yard touchdown pass and ran 82 yards for another score as the Uclans beat Oregon 16-6 field goal to the Michigan totaL In second place is Don Lieberum captain and quarterback or tne Manchester (Ind) College 'eleven I who has made 66 points via 11V touchdowns He shades a newcorn- er to the leaders Bill Sheridan of the Clarion (Pa) Teachers whose record stands ttt 62 points With two touchdowns against Vanderbilt to his credit Saturday Ken Kavanaugh end continues to set the scoring pace in the Southeastern conference Kavanaugh has nine touchdowns to his credit in five games this season Polanski Wake Forest with eight tourhdowns and three points after touchdown sets the pace in the Southern conference with 51 points Kimbrough Texas A and leads the Southwest conference With seven touchdowns 'in six games By EDDIE BRIETZ NEW YORK Oct 30 (JP) Scooparade: Branch Rickey of the Cards is mentioned as the Republican candidate for Governor of Missouri in 1940 Dick Metz the golfer is reported altar bound with a former wampus baby star The Dodgers are dickering secretly for Johnny Rizzo of the Pirates and also hone to come up with Earl Averill of Detroit vla the waiver route One of the papers hints ex-Gov Chandler of Kcn-tufcky will succeed Ford Frick as president of the National League Who Was He? All must have been chaos up at the Army-Navy-Princeton-Columbia quadrangulanneet Saturday Nobody could identify the guy who finished 20th in the cross country run One reporter-wired his paper: carried no number and none of the official scorers knew him Also his coach know him He wore a Princeton jersey and had a nice square Harrison Thomson of Montreal has signed as Sonja skating partner this winter Four hundred a week and La Henie on his arm! Whoops Chick Evans the former Chicago golfing great was a visitor last week The down around Charlottesville are in a stew got the Chicago football team booked as aa attraction next Saturday and too late to the whole thing Ed Bang is trying to sign A1 Hostak and Eric Seelig for his Cleveland News Christmas fund show which may feature five champions We know a couple of good prep school.