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14 THE PAMPA DAILY NfcWS 48th SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1956 Yeai- Green Wave Wets Maroons, 20-14 By JACK GATES NEW OPvLEANS, Nov. 3 Fullback Ronny Quillian, a blue- chip player, sparked a 69 yard drive in the final four minutes, then capped It with a six yard touchdown plunge to give Tulane a close 20-14 victory over Mississippi State before 25,000 Saturday. On the long, tense payoff drive, which came after Mississippi State had tied it up 14-14, the hard running fullback picked up 47 yards. A 15-yard run on the fourth down carried him to the four yard line. Two plays later he fumbled, but it was recovered on fne six from where he went over on the next play, again on fourth down.

i ithe In all, Quillian gathered in 141 yards on 26 carries against a rugged Mississippi State line that contained Tulane's ground attack most of the afternoon. The tie breaking touchdown came after sopnomore quarterback Billy Stacy had passed Mississippi State to a tie. Midway of the third period, Stacy passed State to the Tulane 10, then went to the three on a center buck from where fullback Frank Sabbatinl plunged over. Halfback Gil Peterson booted the first of his two extra points. Then in the fourth period, Stacy hit end Ronald Bennett with an over-the-line pass, and Bennett went 45 yards to score.

It appeared the game might end that way until the touchdown drive staged by Tulane. The winning score came with only one minute left in the game. Substitute quarterback Johnny Caruso set it up with a fourth down gamble from his 30 when he halfback Willie Hof on the Mississippi 17. Tulane's first score came early in the first period. End Eddie Khayat went through to block a quick kick -pn third down by Sabbatini on his IS.

The ball bounded into the end zone and guard Wilbur Troxclair pounced on it for the score. Tackle Enimett Zelen- lea booted the first of his two conversions. Tulane's second touchdown came in the opening series of the second half. Quarterback Gene Newton, standing on the Slate 20, hit halfback Claude Mason on the 10 and the shifty runner cut back and went over. Saturday was the first time a Tulane team had scored on Mississippi State in three previous contests.

Score by periods: Tulane 707 Huskers Upsel Missouri By CHARLES E. WIESER LINCOLN, Nov. 3 Nebraska scored on a i5-yard pass play with two minutes left Saturday-to give Nebraska a 16-14 upset victory over Big Seven Conference rival Missouri. The jarring upset dealt Missouri's Orange Bowl hopes a jolt. The Tigers' 'now have a S'l conference record, and Jiave the Oklahoma Sooners left to play.

Nebraska's loop record went to Miss Runs Over LSU, 46-13 By JOHN COitPOROK on. the LSU 45, and dashed over BATON ROUGE, Nov. the score. 2-2. The Huskers, after scoring the winning touchdown, fought desperately against a last.

minute passing attack guided by Jim Hunter before recovering a Missouri fumble as the game ended. Husker center ob Berguin cover' ed the ball as the whistle blew. The winning touchdown pass was thrown by left-handed Willie Greenlaw to halfback Prank Nappi. It capped a drive which started on the Nebraska 22. Nebraska, playing desperately to get back into the win column Miss.

State 007 14 after losing three straight, scored Tulane scoring: Touchdowns its first touchdown late in the first Troxclair (block punt in end zone), Mason (20 yard pass from Newton) and Quillian (6, plunge), 2. Have Your Trophies Mounted By COLEMAN'S Taxidermy Studio 319 W. Foster; Ph. MO 4-3871 Memphis Rips Lefors, 26-6 The Lefors Pirates took It on the chin again Friday night as Memphis Cyclones rolled up 20-0 lead before the Pirates could finally push across their only touchdown and Memphis emerged a 26-6 in a game played at Memphis. Howard Bradfield made the only score for the Pirates as he raced through the Memphis "backfield for 69 yards late in the third quarter.

Memphis completely dominated the game as they went on to their fifth win against two setbacks and a tie. period. Quarterback Gordon, Englert recovered on a Missouri fumble on the Missouri 24, and fullback Jerry Brown capped the short drive with a plunge from six inches away. Missouri went ahead, a 53-yard scoring march in hie second, period. Fullback George Cramer went and Charlie Rash converted.

Nebraska quarterback George Harshman kicked a 33-yard field goal fn the third period to put the Huskers ahead, 9-7. But Missouri (UP) Quarterback Raymond Brown, a split-T magician, and halfback Eddie Crawford accounted for 3i points between them Saturday night as Mississippi rolled through Louisiana Slate 'University 46 to 17 before 35,000, The 22-year-old Crawfor'd, who used the LSU line for a private speedway, scored foUr touchdowns, two on passas from Brown, while Brown scored one on a four- yard plunge and booted an extra point. A 72-yard pass play from quarterback John Blalack to halfback Leroy Reed accounted for another Mlsslssips.pl touchdown, while fullback Ottis Hurst scored the other on a one-yard plunge after a brilliant fake by Brown. Fullback Paige Cothrsn also did his part, including a field goal, which was nullified by a 15-yard penalty. Had it been allowed to stand, Cothren would have set a new NCA record.

But as brilliant as were Crawford and Brown, they had to share honors with LSU fullback Jimmy Taylor. Playing as he should have been all year, the big Baton Rouge boy accounted for all 17 LSU in the first half. The Tigers had a 17 to 14 halftime lead. Taylor's scores were two touch- Kansas Jayhawks Clip Kansas State, 20-15 drove from its own 30 and scored oh another line duck by Cramer. Rash made it 14-9.

Score by periods Nebraska Missouri 603 070 Nebraska scoring: Touchdowns (six-inch plunge), Nappi (25-yard pass from Greenlaw); field goal Harshman (33 yards). Missouri scoring: Cramer, 2 (three-yard run and six-inch plunge); Rash 2. Then in the third 'period, Mis ississiippl ran wild. Brown hit Crawford again with a 19-yard scoring heave. A few minutes la.

ter, Crawford scored again from two yards out, after he and Brown had set It tip with a 20-yard pass Brown scored the fifth Rebel touchdown after an 11 yard pass from halfback L. Paslay to Crawford set It up. A few minutes later, Hurst went over from the one for the sixth touchdown. Then Cothren booted the field goal that was nullified by a penalty. On the second try, the snap from center was fumbled.

Crawford ended up the Mississippi spree when he Intercepted an LSU pass on the LSU 49 and went over standing up, Taylor scored the first LSU touchdown on a one-yard plunge. A short later came his 28- yard field goal, both in the first period. His second touchdown was a two-yard plunge in the second. He then kicked his second extra point. In all, he picked up 61 yards in 15 carried.

For LSU, it was sixth straight worst record In many years. MANHATTAN, a Kansas University came from two touchdowns behind to take a 20-15 decision from Kansas Saturday in a Wild contest before 20,000 fans. Kansas State's quarterback Dick Corbin jumped on a K-U fumble, one of the six Kansas lost, and the K-StaUrs drove the 35 yards In three to their first touchdown in the second period. Corbin went 30 yards through the middle for the score. Kenny Nes- mlth missed the conversion.

Two minutes later, scored again. That also was set up by a fumble recover on the Kansas 11. A pass, Nesmlth to Gene Keady, covered the last 10 yards for the touchdown. Nesmith kicked the- point. Kansas' first came In'the final seconds of the half after it moved 69.

yards on 13 plays. Halfback Charlie McCue hammered Into the end zone from "the three-yard line. Quarterback Wally Strauch missed the kick. A bruising ground game and sharp passing gave a touchdown in each of the last twd periods. In third period, a Strauch-to- Bop Marshall pass ate up 44 ai-dg to the K-State 17, and a 5-yard penalty agai'nst K-State ut it on the two.

Strauch scored a keeper and converted to tie downs, a 28-yard field goal and two extra points. He also picked up numerous yards on key plays. The Mississippi express started rolling with only 45 seconds gone in the game. Brown connected on a 29-yard cross-the-field pass to Crawford who went over standing up. Cothren booted the first of his three extra points.

Late in the first period after LSU had made it 10 to 7, Blalack Score by periods: LSU Mississippi 10 7 0 14 0 13 conversions with Reed to put the I Rebels ahead again. Reed took it BATTERY LSU scoring: Touchdowns, Taylor 2 (1 yard plunge; 2, plunge). Field goal, Taylor (28 yards). Conversions: Taylor, 2. Mississippi scoring: Touch, downs, Crawford (29, pass from Brown), Reed (72, pass from Blalack), Crawford (19, pass from Brown), Crawford (2, plunge), Brown (4, plunge), Hurst 1, plunge), and Crawford (49, pass Conversions: Cothren 3, Brown.

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30 heavyweight title bout with Floyd Patterson at Chicago Stadium. Gophers Boot Panthers, 9-6 MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 3 Fullback Dick Borstad kicked the field goal with less than three minutes to play to save Minnesota's unbeaten record in a 9-6 victory over Pittsburgh before 63,579 homecoming fans Saturday. field goal 'on the only play in which he appeared, gave the Gophers victory in what until then, had been a- personal due' between all-American quarterback candidates Bobby Cox of Minnesota and Pittsburgh's Corny Salvaterra. It Was the second time In three weeks Borstad had come off the bench in the waning minutes to salvage victory with a field goal Ha provided Identical heroics for a 16-13 victory over Illinois two weeks ago.

He hadn't been In for a single play since. Score by periods: Minnesota 080 Pittsburgh' 0 0 6 Minnesota scoring: Touchdown (8-yard pass from Cox) field goal 1 (26 yards). Pittsburgh scoring: Touchdown (5-yard pass from Sal vaterra). INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE 22 22 21 21 19 17 16 Imagine Only 12 li 14 15 15 17 19 20 29 30 EXCHANGE TEAM Elks Northern Natural Gas Celanese C. R.

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Nesmith. Safety (Rohde's punt blocked In end zono). Kansas scoring: McCue 2, (3, plunge and 2, plunge); Strauch-(2, plunge). Conversions Strauch 2. 18 16 15 '17 14 18 12 20 SO 20 23 12 12 9 Your Laundry Boston Grocery Duenkel Carmichael Brown It Inc.

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Quarterback Wade Mitchell kept the drive alive with a fourth-and-10 pass play to halfback Paul Rotenberry on the Duke 12. Four plays later fullback Dickie Mattison smashed one yard for tho touchdown. Until then the crowd of 38,000 in Duke Stadium had seen nothing of the dynamic Tech offense since the opening minutes: Tho game appeared hanging on a Tech defense that threw up a Mitchell-inspired goal" line stand, and on Duke's often-frustrated drives. Tech drives deep into j'Juke territory in the period were by halfback Eddie Rushton, both stopped on pass interceptions by halfback Eddie Rushton, both on the Blue Devil four. Then Duke generated marches that gaye the Blue a first- statistics advantage, but alert Techmen stopped two with re overed fumbles.

Then Duke marched from Us own 34 to the Tech three yard line, but Tech 3raced with a nine-man line. Halfback George' Dutrow, who powered the march, vaa thrown for a two-yard loss Mitchell, Next, the six-foot our linebacker smeared Dutrow on the five on fourth down. It was late in the third period hat Rotonberry Intercepted pass by Duke's Sonny Jurgensen on Tech's 39. Then Owen went to work, going to the Duke in two rushes. Halfback Jim Thompson tackled for a 15 yard loss.

But on fourth down Rotenberry Hanked wide and took Mitchell's pass in the clear. Rotenberry ant ihe big Mattison then smashed for the score. Mitchell converted. Score by periods: Duke 000 Georgia Tech 000 Georgia Tech scoring: Touch down, Mattison (1, run), Conver sion Mitchell. TCU Nips Baylor By ED Fttfi FORT WORTH, Nov.

I Bulldozing Buddy Bike perked up a sluggish Christian team that had mustered only oiio first down In the first half against a bruising Baylor defense and the defending Southwest Conference champions rallied in tho rain for a 7-6 victory. Dike, the regular fullback who had yielded his starting berth Id another man came off the bench, pounced on -a Baylof fumble that set Up a 67-yard drive that he kept alive with a spark- ing 31-yard run and paved.the 4 for TCU to stay In contention for a repeat championship and tl slblo Cotton Bowl berth. Quarterback Charles CurtJi sneaked the final foot telling, touchdown and reserve, end Harold Pollard booted the all-lm- iportant extra point less than two minutes Into the final quarter but it was Dike that Inspired the Until tho point, the game had belonged to a raging Baylor defense that had snuffed every TCU offensive effort and had set Up the Bears' score, in the final seconds of the fjrst half with a fumble re- dovery of Its own. Baylor's score came on a 82- yard pass play with 5p seconds to go at the half with Bobby Jones flipping to end Jerjy Marcontel on the 23, from where he had a clear run for, the goal when TCU's O'Day Williams charged him trying for an Inter- ception. Junior Beall's conversion effort with tho wet ball off wide to tho left and that made the difference.

The statistics, which showed that TCU outgained Baylor 144" -yards to 138 failed to tell the true story 6f the Baylor defense led by end Tony Degrazier, guard and center Lee Harrington, which choked the touted TCU at- tack down to 41 yards in the first -period and kept it contained In the second half except for the 10- play, 67-yard TCU scoring drive, Dike churned his way for 64 of TCU's yards and ail-American im Swlnk got 56 more, including vital six yard plunges moved the ball down to the'one- oot line for Curtis'-sneak. Tho victory gavo TCU, pre-game favorite, Its second ictory against orto loss In league )lay, while it was Baylor's second oop defeat In a row against one victory and all but erased lopes for Us first time In more than tlu-co decades. FIRST IN RUBBER B.F.Goodrich 108 S. Cuyler, Pampo MO 44131 Bellis Texaco Station 225 W. Brown MO 9-9119 Holmes Conoco Station 845 W.

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Baylor scoring Marcontel (32, pass-run from Jones). Sports Briefs: EVANSTON, 111. (UP) DoW Finsterwald and Marlene Baueg rlagge have been named the "most Improved professionals" of 1956 by Golf Digest! magazine. HALLANDALE, Fla. (UP) Trainer Fontaine saya that Needles, 1056 Kentucky Derby winner, will bo r(amed for the $100,000 Gulfstream Handicap on March 23.

NEW YORK Feller, Cleveland Indian pitching great, and Bronko Nagurskl, former terror of college and pro celebrated their birthday Saturday, Feller is Nagurskl 48. Read The News Claislfled WRESTLING TOP 0' TEXAS SPORTSMAN'S CLUB Gen. Adm. 90c; Children 50c; Bleacher Res. Res.

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