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eAll in ei 0 2'44 jtort 11 op 1' 4 4 Temple -19-7 before 35001 4 AA A ft" we: 4i a1 here today at foggy and rain-1 A A 7 "tr 't A Yt 7 it soaked Temple Stadium It i 14tAl (3 our IV 14' le SI'1! was the final game of th it I 9 4i I art4it 01 season for both teams AA The favored Terriers scored i 10134ak 3 A lit 11 4 '''1 43 4 44ri: f' St 410 period but the third The vie- 1r l' single touchdowns in ever 111414t's tory was Boston 's seventh 1444 7 44 ''t 7: 4 tagainst6t2wol setbacks better- Itill'441 tool ng established by 3 on diloome's 'ft i 47 4 0 4' 41111: i '44-1 Afr'' ti: teams 1937 19133118e avnd 1949 BU 01e9ra54 campaign with dm csamTpemoh a 3u5 ec undprthe '44 Iv 4 II) -k6 no the 4 11' 'A 4 Slamming Sam Pi 0' 17 Johnny Kastan Pino picked ncaartiroienr's afeoturathilelewadaintagodbaarll d'4 4 004- when he erased the BU sea- lifC sonal rushing mark of 880 i 3 0 411101o4r r- c) 4 i yards previously owned by 4 II 3 J30 3A up 86 yards on 17 carries to i nish with 33 yards 47 better l'f 4N 0 1 an Kastan record estab- hed in 1951 i-v5rrlifie ihtihs 4i 4 't14l''' 1 C'' ciV :::::44 eT N1) C7' 4 LW i Art 1:711 ''''i cl 11111Ft 0 4g Me- po 90 ii 4 Amp' 1 -5- ri ltli: Aphid' 4 1 pi ese il Beablar 'C -1 4' il 41iA At 1 1 Svt 0' FAR en for t-t i 0 it i If FLEAS 49 KITTENS 433 '4r 4 0 Ousi On One Snot Guaranteed br Bill :1 0 Eckerd's Drug Stores 4 Ip: 0 1 i :4 4 10' 4610t 71:: 'r'' MACHINERY i AND '43a INDUSTRIAL a itoir 144 sv 140 4'44 4 41 olhol-eto ma -41e4 4 TERRIERS END1 I FINEST YEAR onv son )ing 500 the red rery by BU the ball lard by ke(1 to tter tab I LI 0 Ant Flea phids TABU' fOf Mu 'S PHILADELPHIA Nov 201 up) Boston University com! pleted the winningest season in its history by whipping Temple 19-7 before 3500 here today at foggy and rain-soaked Temple Stadium It was the final game of the season for both teams The favored Terriers ocored single touchdowns in every period but the third The vie tory was Boston's seventh against two setbacks bettering a 6-2 log established by the 1937 1948 and 1949 BU teams Temple wound up the 1954 campaign with a 3-5 record Slamming Sam Pino the nation's fourth leading hall carrier set a new standard when he erased the BU seasonal rushing mark of 888 yards previously owned by Johnny Kastan Pino picked up 86 yards on 17 carries to finish with 33 yards 47 better than Kastan's record established in 1951 um) 0ZL 1114: ea I SWAM) FLEAS 49 st fsolts Dud On One Snot Guaranteed la Eckerd's Drug Stores MACHINERY AND INDUSTRIAL so inntn i Ire 1 44S1 di Inaba 7-542 Mt 1110 day's game at College Park Weaver batted the ball out of play but it made little difference Maryland went on to win 48-6 (AP Wlirephoto) BREAKS UP Bill Weaver (36) of George Washington and end Jim Parsons (82) of Maryland go high in the air after a second period pass in yester Kentucky Defense Repels Volunteers Yale's guard John Phillips to assist with the tackle Marsh (22) watches the scored a 13-9 triumph LOOK OUT Byron Campbell rams a shoulder into leaping Matt Botsford Harvard halfback just as he gets his pass off in the first period of yesterday's game at Cambridge Mass The pass HARVARD STAGES RALLY FOR EDGE It was Kentucky's magnificent defensive play which produced the hard-earned victory Four times the Wildcats repelled Tennessee scoring opportunities inside the 20 Tennessee scored first in the opening period after a weak kick by Bradley Mills went to the Cats' 25 Pat Oleksiak playing brilliantly at both tailback and fullback hit end Edd Cantrell with a 14- yard pass Tom Tracy converted Kentucky knotted the count early in the third quarter after recovering Oleksiak's fumble on the Vol 16 Hardy maneuvered the ball to the one and then punched over1 Tennessee took the next kickoff and drove 65 yards for a touchdown ailing tailback Jimmy Wade isprinting 36 yards for the score By LEROY SIMMS AUBURN Ala Nov 20 VI Halfback Hcppy Middleton ran for three first half touchdowns to lead the Auburn Tigers to an impressive 27-6 victory ever Clemson today for his team's fifth straight win Middleton a I95-pound speedster who also stars as a dash man on the track team made the important yards on quick up-themiddle smashes The victors ran up impressive yardage all way but were handi STATISTICS Clemson Auburn First downs 11 16 Rushing yardage 200 229 Passing yardage 32 97 Passes attempted 12 11 Passes completed 4 Passes Intercepted by 1 0 Punts 6 Punting go 370 293 Fumbles lost 0 Yards penalized 0 100 capped by frequent penalties including one which nullified a 67- yard touchdown pass from Bobby Freeman to end Jim Pyburn Fullback Bill O'Dell ran well for the losers but they never managed to get into scoring territory urtil the final minute SCORE QUICKLY Auburn's first score midway of the opening quarter followed a 75-yard march in 10 plays the next two in the second period climaxed marches of 45 and 51 respectively A 20-yard pass again from Freeman to Pyburn gave Auburn another touchdown in the final minutes Fullback Joe Childress added three extra points to run his season's total to 15 a new Auburn record The Clemson touchdown was made on a four-yard pass Don King to Scott Jackson with 10 seconds left The Clemson march for 73 yards heat the clock by only 10 seconds A final Auburn threat came on the concluding play when quarterback Howell Tubbs raced back to midfield with the kickoff Middleton with 60 Important yards in 13 carries including scoring thrusts of 11 5 and 1 was stghtly injured in the third period and left the game He was voted the game's outstanding player O'Dell's 69 yards in 11 tries mostly against the Auburn first stringers was matched by Buck George who got away for three long gains for the losers YARDAGE COUNT Childress hammered out 68 for the victors in 15 tries and Freeman netted 56 on six carries Total yardage was 325 for Auburn to 232 for Clemson Freeman hit on five of nine passes for 77 Pyburn was the top catcher with 3 good for 55 eLEmsnm Left Hicks Rivers Left Marazza Tice Crain Left Priester Greene McLellan Hunter Right Rroorton Right Inabinet Hudson Right Smith Bilasey Ross Paradees Left George Right halfback a---Coleman Paghlt Moore Ankuta AUBURN Left Elliott Coleman Left Rogers Warren Left Maxims killa gins Strain Reeves Right Danjean Brame Right Neura Terry Right Hall Stinson Tubbs ILeft Adams Right Shell Minor Walsh Clemson 0 0 0 6 Auburn 6 14 0 7-27 Clemson SCOrinit: Auburn 'scoring: 3 Pyburn 3 Soph Backs Spark Idaho Victory 70 BOISE Idaho Nov 20 UP Sophomores Ron Braden and Bill Baxter sparked a 75-yard drive which set up the touchdown Idaho needed to defeat Brigham Young 7-0 today and become the first Vandal team in 31 years to win four in a row Halfback Bill Lawr rammed through the outmanned Cougar line for the last four yards and the touchdown early in the second quarter Burdette Hess' kick was good and that was the scoring Some 10000 partisan fans saw the Vandals wind up with a season record of four wins and five losses the best since 1949 Idaho 0 7 0 0-7 Brigham Young 0 0 0-0 Idaho scoring: Touchdown Lawn Conversion Hess Classy Soph Leads New Mexico To Win ALBUQUERQUE Nov 20 VP) New Mexico charged out to a 13-0 lead early in the first quarter and hung on from there in outscoring New Mexico A 39-27 today A pair of sharp young quarterbacks Jerry Lott of New Mexico and Wally Ferguson of the Aggies saved the game from complete mediocrity with sterling individual performances Lott a sophomore passed for a pair of touchdowns ran for another and figured prominently in each Lobo drive 1 SUPPLIES For machine shoes cabinet lumber manufacturers ate Industrial Hardware Supply Go 118 Stit is Phone PI WE SPECIALIZE IN SALES AND SERVICE OF AIR COMPRESSORS Call Us For Year Needs Oil Equipment Service Co 3100 Boulevard Dial ED 3 0715 Charlotte IM11 NI WANTED to office executives IIESS CO Phone ED 2-7711 Sales Department Open Weekdays 9 m--Sat Till 6 rn Depts Regular Hours) ecultives Cal IC ED 2-7711 artment ekdays Sat Till liar Hours) I CAMBRIDGE Mass Nov 20 wIngback Frank White playing for Bob Cowles who was injured on the opening kickoff threw a 40-yard scoring pass to end Bob Cochran with less than five minutes to play today as Harvard staged a magnificent comeback to defeat Yale 13-9 The victory spelled Harvard's! first Big Three championship since 1941 and may have cost Yale a Tigers Trim clear hold on the Ivy title Trailing 9-0 as the fourth period began Harvard drove 80 yards for Dartmouth its winning score with soph6more Jimmy Jos lin at tailback for Matt PRINCETON Nov 20 UP Botsford who was hurt on Yale's Princeton's tricky buck lateral touchdown putting on a sensation- series operated by a pair of ex-al display of football skill and grit perienced slickers Royce Flippin It took the Crimsrti six plays to and Dick Martin smashed open score with the key play a fouth Dartmouth's defenses today and down two-yard gamble by Jos lin who made the first down at Yale's ave the Tigers a 49-7 victory in 40 on the play before the winning their final game pass Held to a 7-7 deadlock in a Harvard had closed the gap to rugged first half and forced to 9-7 with 34 seconds gone in the fi- settle for a field goal on another nal period as sophomore fullback Tony ninnoilv fntufht hiq wAv ovprdrive the Tigers struck with ex pass Harvard had closed the gap to 9-7 with 34 seconds gone in the final period as sophomore fullback Tony Gianelly fought his way over PRINCETON Nov 20 UP Princeton's tricky buck lateral series operated by a pair of experienced slickers Royce Flippin and Dick Martin smashed open' Dartmouth's defenses today and gave the Tigers a 49-7 victory in Tandy Breaks Losing Streak NASHVILLE Tenn Nov 20 till Vanderbilt combined an effective passing and running game today to defeat Villanova in a wild-scoring football game 3449 and end the longest losing streak in Commodore history The loss was the ninth straight for the Villanova Main liners who presented one of the best passing combinations seen here this season in lefty Vic Scott and end Don McComb Vanderbilt led from the second quarter scoring twice in that period once in the third and twice more in the fourth period Villanova scored once in each of the last three periods A topcoated crowd of 12000 saw Vanderbilt end a losing streak which had reached seven in a row this season AERIAL BATTLE Both teams took to the air frequently and Villanova scored two of its three times on passes Vanderbilt used passes for two of its TD's Villanova tossed 32 passes during the afternoon connecting for 17 of them good for 205 yards Scott's southpaw heaves proved difficult for the Commodores and two of them pitched to end Don McComb produced touchdowns Vanderbilt connected on six of 15 for 14S yards including the longest gain a 61-yard touchdown play from Quarterback Jim 11noney to end Henry Tyler The Mainliners actually collected 18 first downs to 16 for Vanderbilt but the Commodores' net yardage totaled 380 to 345 Villanova 0 7 6 6-19 Vanderbilt 0 13 7 14-34 Villanova scoring: Touchdowns MLComb 2 Giordano Conversion Helm Vanderbilt scoring: Tone hdowns Hunt 2 Stephenson Tyler Looney Conversions Goodall 4 Shaw Generals Oregon To Victory Over State CORVALLIS Ore Nov 20 quarterback George Shaw rolled up another 121 yards from scrimmage and passed for three touchdowns to conduct Oregon to its first victory in six years over traditional rival Oregon State 33-14 Shaw went into the game leading the nation in total offense His scoring passes were for 50 six and 52 yards He also ran 66 yards with a kick Oregon 0 19 7 7-33 Oregon State 7 0 0 7-14 Oregon scoring: Touchdowns McGee 2 Powell James 2 Conversions Shaw 3 Oregon State scoring: Touchdowns Edigcr Mason Conversions Withrow Westrall Ily 0 I A AK: NOVII'- ER :4 l'i) MAZIN itaM 0 Nti Verlia2r A a COPIE AN Aotkoltv 4Ri :01 1 Ar r-401 4::1 I '''r4 'v 7 M'''''''': t- '464 w' I i 0: 1: v4 -4 5 1 plosive force and swiftness to score five touchdowns in the last period The game played on a miserable rainy day before 23000 spectators enabled Princeton to end its season with fixe victories three defeats and a tie Dartmouth finished with a 3-6 record Two Dartmouth fumbles recovered by the alert Tigers turned the tide in what had been a close game Dartmouth quarterback Bill Beagle dropped the ball when Mike Bowman hit him and Mike Stewart recovered That paved the way for Martin's five-yard field goal that put Princeton ahead In the final period Princeton scored on a 25-yard pass from Agnew to Bill Danforth an 85- yard punt return by Dick Thompson and a seven-yard pass from Thompson to Agnew a two-yard smash by Bob Russell and a 67- yard pass from Sid Pinch to Thompson Dartmouth 0 7 0 7 Princeton 0 7 10 32-49 Dartmouth scoring: Touchdown Turner Conversion Beagle Princeton scoring: Touchdowns Kraus Martin Danforth Thompson 2 Agnew Russell Conversions Martin 2 Direnzo Inhoffer Field Coal Martin MIMEO' You Owe It To Chevrolet Demonstration fell incomplete (60) moves in Harvard's Jerry action Harvard (AP Wirephoto) Kentucky 0 0 7 7-14 Tennessee 7 0 6 0-13 Kentucky scoring: Touchdowns Hardy Schnellenberger Tennessee scoring: Touchdowns Cantrell Wade Conversions Tracy 0 Missouri Dips Jayhawks 41-18 COLUMBIA Mo Nov 20 U11--- The Missouri Tigers used all of their substitutes today in a 41-18 victory that ended the first winless football season in the history of the Kansas Jayhawks It was no contest before a Missouri homectiming crowd of 29- 000 The game was played in clear cool weather Missouri completed its Big Seven schedule with a 3-2-1 record It was Kansas' 10th loss of the campaign and 16th successive setback Missouri ends its season against Maryland at College Park Md Thanksgiving Day The Tigers racking up their biggest score against Kansas since 1942 scored twice in the first quarter once in the second twice in the third and once in the fourth Sophomore Jim Hunter only Tiger to score twice counted in the first and fourth quarters Quarterback Vic Eaton end Jim Jennings halfback Jack Fox and fullback Harold Thomeczek made the other Missouri touchdowns Fox had 5 conversions Kansas 0 0 6 12-18 Missouri 14 7 13 7-41 Kansas scoring: Touchdowns Sandifer Anderson 2 Missouri scoring: Touchdowns Hunter 2 Eaton Jennings Fox Thomeczek Conversions Fox 5 KNOXVILLE Tenn Nov 20 UPt Quarterback Bob Hardy ran and passed Kentucky to a 14-13 football victory over Tennessee today to keep alive the Wildcats' hopes for a post-season bowl game Kentucky came from behind Nice to overcome Tennessee for its second triumph in a row over the Vo Is and its first on the Vo Is' home field since 1924 Reserve quarterback Delmar Hughes' second conversion was the margin of victory The bitterly fought game was played on a rain-soaked field before 32000 fans Hardy who went into the game with brilliant passing record completed only two of five But one of the two was a brilliantly executed 22-yard scoring toss to end Howard Schnellenberger late in the 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Less than' 'act easrt0 40 complete a ring lodayl from the one The drive began after Harvard took a short punt on the Yale 28 and featured Jos lin's 13-yard smash to the 10 It was Jos lin again going nine yards to the one over right guard and on the same type of play Gianelly scoied Yale 2 0 7 0-9 Harvard 0 0 0 13-13 Harvard scoring: Touchdowns Gianelly Cochran Conversion Ross Yale scoring: Touchdown Campbell Conversion Mathias Safety Botsford (tackled by Campbell) Syracuse Nats Edge Rochester By 8079 ROCHESTER Nov 20 Rookies Bill Kenville and John Kerr scored 14 points each today as the Syracuse Nats edged the Rochester Royals 80-79 in a nationally televised National Basketball Association game Syracuse led 80 to 75 with 15 seconds remaining hen Rochester tossed in two almost uncontested hoops as Syracuse refused to foul With six key players hobbled by Coach Gaynell Tinsley his lineup constantly throughout the game It worked Lou Deutschmann played a thundering game at tackle combining with All-America candidate 'David Fournet to thwart Arkansas' vaunted single wing attack LSU has rot lost to Arkansas In 26 years The victory gave the Tigers a 20-12 advantage in a series that dates back to 1901 Arkansas SALESMAN To sell above machine Cobd proposition WWI MO 215 Tryon LSU POSTS STUNNING UPSET 7 Arkansas Bows But 6 Wins Bowl Trip Yourself To Drive The "55" Come In or Phone For A Get Or Deal Before You Buy 1 55 For ou Buy SHREVEPORT La Nov 20 tAl handyman Al Doggett playing every backfield position injury-'riddled Louisiana State University i Arkansas' Bowl hopes with la 7-6 upset today before 33000 fans But the defeat didn't stop Arkansas from winning a spot as the Southwest Conference representative in the Cotton Bowl Baylor victorious over Southern Methodist can still tie for the conference title but a defeat by Arkansas earlier in the season gives the Razorbacks the bowl bid Lightly regarded and heading Inowhere LSU sent the Razorbacks idown to thir second straight de- feat by beating them at their own After threatening twice ball sas got on the scoreboard first in when second string tailback Buddy ctrin The largest public gathering Benson passed 13 yards to Billy Shreveport history saw Doggett ILyond in the end zone midway in start the game at halfback return Jhe second quarter Benson was to quarterback to spark a second wide with his extra point try quarter scoring drive and then! Four minutes later LSU drove move to fullback when there were33 yards to a touchdown in eight kicking chores to be done Iplays Halfback Chuck Johns used It was Doggett's extra point aft- sparingly because of a lame ankle er the ball holder juggled the passscooted over from the three Dog-from renter that made the differ-Igett set up the score with a 14- core Doggett kicked true anywarlyard pass to Joe May LSU near the bottom of the After that LSU concentrated on Southeastern Conference gained possession The Tigers took up the its fourth victory of the year entire third quarter with a 69-yard against six defeats and salvageddrive that ran out of gas on the some glory from an otherwise un-leight then exchanged punts with happy season the Porkers the rest of the game feat by beating them at their own ball The largest public gathering in Shreveport history saw Doggett start the game at halfback return to quarterback to spark a second After that LSU concentrated oni possession The Tigers took up the! entire third quarter with a 69-yard1 drive that ran out of gas on the then exchanged punts with the Porkers the rest of the game (c I ri( Our Is Till (Other MMMI otino-- Cr79EVROLET dra um "Friendly People" 710 South Tryon Street Phone ED 24151 111 0 v-0 LSU 0 7 0 0-7 Arkansas scoring: Lyons LSU scoring: 0 6 0 0-6 LSU 0 70 0-7 mitammm -1Er 1' I I Al 1 it 0 A jhaiLakaimnanet 14.

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