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THE SACRAMENTO BEE TUESDAY DECEMBER 2 1041 New High School Athletic League May Be Formed Plan Involving Superior California Institutions Is Outlined Stanford Faces I inpi ti Tough Football I Schedule In 32 Football Ratings Give Duke Edge Over OSC Eleven Duke Is Only One Of Bowl Teams With Clean Slate aged Panthers Hope For Haslteiball Crown Indians Will Need Able Team To Meet Notre Dame And Others Minnesota Ends Season Undisputed Holder Of Top Honors Three Of Clubs To Play On New Year's Day Have Lost Twice I'ipe 16 NEW YORK Dee To the Minnesota foot hall team and to Sports Editor Ray Kelly of the New York Ttmps go top honors today in the final Associated Press football ranking poll of the regular 1941 season The Gophers polled a total of 945 points out of a perfect 960 Duke's Blue Devils Rose Bowl hound to meet Oregon State got 725 points and Duquesne only other big time unbeaten and untied team in the land 309 points for eighth In the two biggest bowl games the voters make Duke a heavy favorite over Oregon State given only enough points for twelfth plate while rating the Fordham-Missouri Sugar Bowl clash virtually a toss up Fordham got 329 points in sixth place Missouri 328 in seventh Notre Dame Texas and Michigan in third fourth and fifth and Texas A and and Navy in ninth and tenth completed the first ten Gone from the 1940 honor roll are Stanford Boston College Tennessee Nebraska Mississippi State Northwestern and Washington Holdovers besides Minnesota are Michigan and Texas A and Kelly in his ballot came closest to the ranking He named PEPFFT FV Dee 2 Boh'he hree teams in order then annual Shrine all star football game 0 The sandn8 of the teams (first Coach Ned Kay hopes to build a championship basketball team for the Sacramento Junior College out of the material in this picture The Panthers acre runner sup for the con-faenre crown last season and they plan to go one step higher this near Grid Attendance Gained In All Sectors Except On Coast NEW Dec 2 (JP) The hairiest hit on the coast was Though the absence of a standout little St its home attend-teum the Pacific Coast caused ante more than ui in half Cali-thp aveiage attendance to take anjfoinia and UCLA nl-o fell off players arc left to right amting tumble in that section the ily but suiptisingl" enough Stan- icm of the country has just waded foimation cliew more fans through the most prosperous foot- losing this year than it did knock- row: Gordon Johnston A new high school athletic league will he formed in Superior California if piesent plans mate-rtalie The scheme is to form a conference composed of high schools in Marys ville San Juan Roseville Placer of Auburn Grass Valley Yuha City Chico and Oroville Glenn Potter head of the ph steal education department of the Mar sville Union High School is behind the increment He reports favorable responses hare been leceived from all but Placer and San fIEXN rOTTER Juan High Schools la Natural league is a said Potter today the schools aie dose together The enrolment of the schools is about the same Besides it would parallel the Sac Joaquin Conference which also had eight teams" Potter plans to call a meeting of the eight schools probably this weekend Enrolments Giren The enrolments of the sdiools involved follow: Placer 927 Chico 1264 Grass Valley 648 Marysville 700 Oro-vtlle 769 Roserille 739 San Juan 625 and Yuba City 743 Marysville and Y'uba City have been playing football in a league with Redding Red Bluff and Chico Potter reports that after night contests he was unable to get his boys back to Mart sville befoie 3 in the morning Placer Roseville and Grass Valley have been competing in the Sierra Foothill League while San Juan has been playing in the Sacramento County League Grant Not Included Totter feels the Grant Union High School belongs in the Sac Joaquin Conference rather than in the new league Grant is geographically associated with Woodland Stockton Lodi Turlock Modesto and the two Sacramento high schools Giant has been placing in both the Sac Joaquin Conference and the Sieira Foothill League It is unriei Mood Placer Union High School is not inieiested in the foimalion of such a league It nlso is hcliced that San Juan feels it is better off in the Sactamento County League with smaller schools such as Folsom Courtland Lincoln Elk Grove and Galt hall season on reeotd Athletic! leading gridiron foundries treasuries should be bulging like nin lountiy silos A sludv of home attendanee fig-ine for seventy four of the na 1 tng the daylights out of everybody iast season Figures re Listed Following is the tabulation fering comparative figures for 1940 and 1941 with the number of home 1 Place votes in parentheses points 1 Minnesota 2 Duke 3 Notre Dam 4 Texas (MV) (l) 045Vfr 725 675 494 BY WILLIAM TICKER NEW YORK Dee Now that the Orange Bowl finally ha jelled look over and take your choice for the New Year- Day football extravaganzas Rose Bowl Oregon State (beaten twice) Duke (unbeaten untied) Sugar Fordham (beaten once) vs Missouri (ditto) Cotton Texas A (beaten once) vs Alabama (beaten twice) Orange Bowl Georgia (beaten once tied once) vs Texas Christian University (beaten twice tied once) Surprise Choice The entry of Alabama and TCU into the bowl program surprised It left unbeaten and untied Duquesne out of the major bowl assignments Alabama and TCU however ar a pair of bowl old reliables Th Crimson Tide has gone to th Ros Bowl five times winning thre games losing one and tying on TCU has won two games In th Sugar Bowl and on In th Cotton Bowl for a perfect bowling scor For the first time since th bowl business branched out into a fou ply New Day pick me up only one perfect record team is involved Last January 1st for instance there were Stanford in the Rose Bowl and Boston College and Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl And Mississippi State In th Orange Bowl had only a tie against its perfect record Nebraska and Georgetown the other teams In th Rose and Orange Bowls had been beaten only once as had the Cotton Bowl antagonists Texas A and Fordham Duquesne Left Out Whether Duquesne with a perfect slate was sounded out in the bowl negotiations has not yet been di closed but the Dukes would not have been averse to a New Year's Day Jaunt since their athletic coffers admittedly were depleted The participants for the Suit Bowl Game in El Paso Texas hav not been chosen but Arizona Is expected to draw the western assignment if it wins its final gam with Utah this week Here Is The Natural The Georgia-TCU clash shapes up as the natural TCU agreed to play late last night shortly after th University of Texas declined th Orange offer preferring to concentrate on its game this week with Oregon TCU has lost to Texas A A- and Fordham and been tied by Rice but its victims include Texas th team which knocked the Aggie from the unbeaten ranks The Christian have been shorthanded nearly all year with their star Kyle Gillespie -on the sidelines with an injured knee But Gillespie is on the mend and should be ready for the Miami game as should Frank Sinkwich the Georgia star Sinkwich has been playing all season with a broken jaw Alabama which meets A A in the Cotton Bnwl has won eight games and lost only to Mississippi State and Vanderbilt Alabama's acceptance was announced late leveals an average increase of 4 per nv UEBl ADAMS Stanfoid will need an able football team in 1942 for the Indians will face Notre Pame as well as all the tough elubs in the Pacific Coa-t Conference with Santa Clara thrown in The schedule runs something like this September 26th Washington State at Stanford October 3id Santa Clata at Stanfoid October 10th Notte Dame in South Bend October Idaho at Stanfoid October 24th USC at Stanfoid October 31st UCLA in Los Angeles Novemher 7th Washington at Stanford November Oregon State at Stanford November 2 1st California Berkeley Rough Road Ahead That is a rough progiam meeting I the dangerous Cougars on the opening date and then playing the Rose Bowl Beavers on the Saturday before the Big Game But it is a very attractive schedule if the Indians can have a winner Home games with Washington State Idaho USC Washington and Oiegon State should make the turnstiles click The main losses through graduation in Palo Alto are Fiankie AI- tint quarterback and forward' parser Pete Kmetovic speedy left halfbark Art Weiners and Fied Mever ends and Vie Lindskog and Doug Stable centers Also departing are Bob Crane substitute hack and Ken Robesky reserve guard Erosh May Help Hatty Shipkcy coach of freshman team at Stanford says he has two fine ends an expert center! and at least two halfbacks who can! run the 100 vard dash under 10 seconds to offer the varsity these contributions turn out alii right Coach Clark Shaughnessy should have another winning com-1 bination line this year was' sttong Even in the B'g Game the! Indian fotwaicL stopped California on every occasion hut one Ed Stamm and Btuno Banducci regular tackles and Loten LaPrade and Chuck Taylor starting guards will be back LaPrade originally was a center and he might be shifted hack to the middle of the line which would leave Ed McCain and Jack Francis available for the vacant guatd po-t Two Ends Return Hank Norheig and Boh Mast in ate experienced ends who will he hack next Fall I The haekfield will he the hig pioblem hut Shaughnessv has some big fast hoys with whom to work Buck Fawcett Boh Mitchell Wil-laid Shelter and Milt Vucinich ran play halfhaik or fullback Then theie is Kiic Aimstrong who stalled the Big Game at right halfback 11c is not so hig hut mighty fast Little A1 Cole appears slated for Albeit's quaiteibaek post He is faster than Albert and a capable passer Up might hp ahlp to fill the bill Of course thorp is the possibility Shaughnessy will revise his formation to meet the material at hand He may use a single w'ing back style to make use of his big boys for blocking purposes Bears Have Game While the Stanford players are through for the season and glad of it Ihe California Golden Bears still have a date on their calendar Georgia Tech will come to Berkeley on Decemher 271 for a postseason contest This mav rob the West Sluine team of Jack McQuarv A1 Derinn and some of the other sen-int hut Bolt Remhaid aee lackle will tie allowed to plav in Bei kelev on Saluiriav and in San Francisco on the following Thuisdav If! Francisco NewYear's Day'' 1 orWashington Biff' Jones 0f Nebraska They delayed making thoir choices until the decision on a Rose Bowl team indicated what players will be available SAN FRANCISCO Dec VP) The first official all time Shnne East and West football teams chosen from among players in the annual East-West charity football game here New Day was announced today The team personnel reads like a w'ho of the top football ers of the last sixteen years The teams were chosen by a vote of membets of the Northern Association cent over the total last jear despite the West Coast's drop of nearly 19 per cent for her thirty eight pnntipal games Hifh In hiv is Tno rail madness si ruck a new Drtmruth hijji in the South where the £rYn i- Pitthurph nowfU avejaged 1) per cent high- nmjuesne er than those in 1940 In the Southwest the figures leaped 10 per mil in the Kast 9 per cent I Vfi) I5i I 6 9 6 Georgetown 4 rnlgfite bark Stanley Fcil Robert Ward Wilson Rcbaleati George Miskyhn Charles Gray William Linn Jack or ley Charles Needles Jack Knight Clyde Rickcrt Jack McGee and Francis Crockett Middle row: Ned Kay coach Bob Bodenhamer Elton Bailey George McAdow Gerald Ma-halicy Al Athey John Gui-foyle Bob Rodgers Douglas Sale Bill Putnam and Al Lawrence assistant coach Front row: John Pcaslcy Jack Mahaffey Homer McCul-ley Wallace Van Dyke Roy Misfcldt Leroy Miller Burt Bonomi Fred Gunncttc Al Lazzaronc Pete Codina and Victory Pavktwh manager Bee Photo 167 12 Oregon State 132 13 'Ohio State 81 14 Georgia 62 Pennsylvania 61 16 Missis-patmg sippi State 18 17 Mississippi 18 Tennessee 8 19 Washington State 7 20 Alabama 6 Also Virginia and Texas play-jTerh 3 each Penn State 2 Texas 1 Christian Washington Harvard and iTulane 1 each Cali-i fornia Football Writers I Player Luted Houlgate Ranks Gophers The players chosen and the years hlaVV Second of their appeatance in the annual rharitv classic ate: LOS ANGELES Dec West team: Muller California The Deke Houlgate system of rat- (1925) and Mathews Texas Christ- football teams today placed the ian (1927) ends Edwatds Washing- Golden Gophprs of Minnesota in the ton State (1932) and Barber Uni- top spot in national standing of San Ft aneiseo (1935)1 Holgate making his final selec-rg tackle's Rout Texas Aggies (1938) tions nominated the Navy for sec-M and Beckett California (1930) ond place and Alabama for third guards Tassi Santa Clata (1930) He placed Duquesne fourth icenler Kelly Montana (1927) quar-44 a Schalriach California veisity 5 Michigan 6 Fordham 7 Missouri Duquesne 0 Texas A and 10 Navy Second ten 11 (l) 455 320 32S 300 220 220 Northwestern (alive from the East ninth and Pennsylvania tenth Oregon Slate which will represent the Pacific Coast in the Rose Bowl was rated fourteenth in a tie with Ohio State and Temple Houlgate ranked Missouri Big Six champion and Sugar Bowl team seventeenth with Texas A and Texas Tech Baptist Cagers Suffer Season's First Defeat and the sprawling Midwest more than 2 per cent with the Big Nine shattering all tecotds The 359 home games tabulated hy the Associated Pi ess drew a tolal attendance of 8455962 which1 hoi 1 down to an aveiage audience of 23555 The same seventy four teams diew 8139700 customers to their 759 home contests last season an aveiage of 22673 I Pennxj anin Tops Eist I The Univetsity of Pennsylvania lopped them all plating to 358000 Jin six home games Unaffected hy the blight which hit other coast teams the Univetsity of Southern California entertained a whopping 922000 in six games in Los Angeles Michigan lan Ihiiri with a tolal of 301 606 for five contests in Ann Alhnr The Big Nine wilh Michigan iMinncxqta and Ohio Stale packing them in attracted 1811388 to forty ptes'-r-ri mark when lo'nis Uu5 od f'fv thtee games Michigan hid two 85753 sellouts High Schools Set Cage Tilts Tonight The Sni i amento and 1(1933) and Kutsch Olympic Cluhisixth Duke Rose Bow'l represen- games in parentheses lwr 1040 155000 224 000 107000 5'j non I 60 000 1 A 4 000 44 322 103 005 4 2 00() 17 000 S7 oon 76 000 200000 1 20 000 3M 500 05000 6S 060 1 50 500 I I ITU 25 i oi 7 I KM 1 it non non 1 null To 7 I jja i i no I 2 oon mi 500 non 17 1 Kl I I oon oon i 474 2 1 pinn SOI TH rn I '2 1 onn ir 1 7 i non vj non 1 onn 1 oh non 3 1 7 non 6h oon Mi non 7 2 2 Min bo non s'i non non non non 4n non I i i I ri I I 6 I i 4 i 6 4 i 'i i I 4 I 7 I 6 i I 7 I (5 Columbia Tomri Viumova Army nmrBm fon-t isr rn 'imrioi Vili -nV "'h cirn Tmtipswr nil Kentucky i4i JjtluV'n lu! 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piattne basketball games this eve- w-hnstun lung The Di icons will go to Rose-ville to mt I Hie high school teams of that iitv Ihe Lions will entei-tain the 113 pound leant of the st Man' Minnpqola Purrlue Indiana Ntrr Prrw Nrthuatrn Illinois DeCon ont Northwestern College football star has signed to 1 Krause Penn Stale Wood Colum- play with the San Francisco Pack-bia and Coupee Iowa Westfall of ers of the Pacific Coast Football Michigan Smith of Minnesota Ju7- League He will make his first pro-79 wik of Notre Dame and Bauman of fessional appearance Decemher 14th 1 Northwestern also have been against the Los Angeles Bulldogs (signed lin Los Angeles Decision From Troise CHICAGO Dec 2 Eddie Nazal Pile ho were leading 17 to Lander snapping Chieago lighl-2 at half time The winners showed weight gamed a ten round derision good teamwork last night over Vic Troise of New The plateis and points scored by ol 11 ln main boxing event in Shute Max Baer Win Exhibition Golf Match Denny Shute former Professional Golfers Association champion and Max Baer exheavj eight boxing king defeated Tommy Lo Presti and Frank Elton local Rolfers 2 and 1 in an exhibition matrh on the Saeramcnto Municipal Course yesterday i Shute was two under Presti had a par 72 and Elton shot 76s par Lo Baer and Former Gridiron Star Is Probation Officer NOT JUST LUCK! each follow Ohnt -an Forwards Lmok 1 Cl irk 2 and Link centei Winder 2 and Hthhird guard Sa'krld 1n Aldrich 10 and Hart 4 tT Mrt Raptint frorunrd Weiaker fin right muiul decision er Ileniy Htid TrrwiHicer 1 center Wilnn Jones Drtrnil and Buddv ciia Stahl 4 and Chandler 7 1 i nU U1 Narene Forward Lee 10 and Smallwood 119 Cleveland Won ft four loutirl rlooisinii over Rieharri 1 nu lounn sinn mrr nunalQ his lln1 pound foe all the way Nate Holden 165 Chicago sroieri decision over IEO RODAK WINS HEW ORLEANS Dec eo Rodak Chicago lightweight ist night lurned in a neat boxing Db to take a ten lound decision ver Joe Peralta Tamaqua Pa Ro-ak weighed 134 Peralta 133 is a native of Mexico SMOOTH 7 FOR NEW PROTECTION AT AL NIELSEN FISK TIRES 1619 MARTINEZ (Calif) Dec 2 Arlcigh Williams one lime California football star today confirmed as Contra Costa County probation officer hy Supcnor Judge1 Games for tonight: Carmichael A Biay vs Chinch of God at 8 Rap Williams had been dean of boys itist Young People vs Citrus Heights at the Richmond High School Fi lends at 9 Line 2 center Hendrick 21 Ruard Anderson 6 A Stclnkamr 5 and Whitaker Christian Senior Forw ard Reckcr 1 Perrv Clark and Vuoh center I Barton 7 and ft Collin cuaid WHS nuve 6 Mnikovcr Kcnneds 1 Gallmnn and Schultze Referee Pan Lawrence NO 47 FOR LULU NEW YORK Dec Charle (Lulu) Constantino 127 New Kork rallied in the last round to earn an eight round derision over Joey Fontana 132 New York in St Nicholas Arena last night It was forty seventh contest without a setback WHEELS Ifiinrh Fort) (hpw-nlet Pndfi Plymouth He Soto rhangeovp wheels tires and tubes complete ets ea- fit change MINTZ TIRE PRODUCTS 805 KYK STRKFT 75c IJAtyW "UprpfT PIVT QIAlT Mori Sul rtrw i KWH'S 1S8B ott California Aggies here (lie Mangold Gaidens Lander who weighed 1 14 pounds was ahead of by tcihnua! 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