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f.INTOI.N VNH nFC.KMBni 1. Mississippi ale wins Si with Cotvluty Petscli Ifreaks up hnifx over JollllMHI leails liiihrateii SEATTLE Stung by the ignominy of their own carelew- which Raw them the of a touchdown, try for point and safety, the Washington Huskies came from bihind Satur- uav to score 27 points in the first eight minutes of the final quarter to defeat State college gridders, 33 to 9. The S. Cougars held the BV LEROV SIMMS, whip hand for three quarters, but Har- blew sky high in the final vey Johneon led Mi.s.dsslppi State as the 2.5 fans to a well deserved 13 to 0 triumph dawd and deUrious amasement at over AlahHma Saturday to give the scoring outburst his team iUi first unbeaten seaaon All of Washingtons in modern fr-tball history. came on long-gainers.

Authoritative the scores stemmed frorn 80. 60. 38. victors would be offered an invita- 87 and 40 yard Jaunts. tion to Miami Orange 1 game New Ye.ir Saturday night.

State -aid was little hiince of a deci.iion on any bowl bid h. fore -day. )n the tcu- The Huskies had a score six plays after the opening ktckoff when slippery Ernie Steele returned one of Halfback Billy Sewell's punU 80 yards for a touchdown behind beautiful dowmfield interference. Usually reliable down on a 7Vrd sh Johnny Mlren, sub end. line which followeil a 47 yard the but the Huskers sprint around end.

It came mid- appear worried. sprint way of the opening period. Yancey Goes Over. CTiarley Yancey made the other on a fourth period 23 yard thru the middle, but it an anti-cllm-x after the way the Mls- sis-ippi St fte line, featuring great play by Buddy Elrod. John Trip- aon and Hunter Civrhern.

smeared Alabama tssed, punted and ran all over the place before 22,000 fans. fir.st score followed a punting duel. Corhem recovered a fumble on the State 45 and Johnson V. across the Alabama goal line in two plays. Reverses Flop.

Vois and Eagles lo Sugar howl Dressing room visit shoivs Uushvrs tridy eleven oo (Ks orovdod out Holli elevcMis vnd iiiiliealeii KANSAS STATE FULLBACK KENT DUWE threw a long pass fiom midfield during the second period. owhoy Ih tsch got under it on the Nebra.ska 15-yard stripe to hat it I'hoto. NEW ORLEANS, Unlver- Alabama had it.s best hance to of Tenne-irtee and Boston College were selected Saturday to play in the New Year's Sugar boul football game here. Both have accepted. The much-awaited announcement was made by the New Orleans Mid-W'inter Sports as.socia- get back in the game a few minutes later.

Deshane recovered a fumble on the SUte 42. The Mississippians stoped the Tide attack cold there, but Johnson fumbled Nelson's kick down on the State 5 and Wyhomc fell on it Dave Brown. 'Bama half, tried tion. sponsors of the Sugar Iwwl a revernc, but Tnpso'n nailed him program, 30 minutes after Ten- for an 8 yard lo.ss. Fhe same play nessee had its brought another 8 yard loss, with val.

anderbilt. 20 to 0. and Bos- Arnold doing the tackling. That ton College had vanquished Holy was the closc.st the Tide could get, I kt altho a la.st minute pa.sslng thrust decision left an- carrted 54 yards down to the State 6-yard line. MISS STATP Klr.Kl I.

n. a KB. MU MtniHr-iippi State Riurtnn Jiihntiin. yaniey t-uh fnr touchrt.iwn, Referee 1. L.

ChicHKu. umpire, Wilier hneeman, Red Scveianre. Oberl.ii. field Judte, BtCi. Hrnpbeti.

(C i Arnold Muore I hneofi CreU KtHte leller winners reliirn lo Eagile flooi other team which some thought would get the Sugar bowl bid, a potential selection for the Rose bowl. Both participants in this Inter- battle for the 1941 Sugar bowl title are unbeaten and untied. It will be the first time two teams with perfect records have been signed for the Sugar bowi and the first time a New England elub has been asked to the New Orlean.s game. A. N.

Goldberg, president of the i New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports aa.sociation. said in making the an; nouncement; "Our executive committee, which was unanimous in Its choice, con- i siders itself fortunate in securing Boston college and Tennessee to play the seventh annual Sugar bowl classic, since it assures our 73,000 New day guests a truly great football game. On nhnm opinlon of the com- wo-cnam- national ex- AI.ARAM Hlrkeriion Hecht l.ungdale (f't Brnwii Spencer 0 0 A 1.1 It 0 0 Roint A Neb pions of the will agree, that the meeting Coa'h Ross Armstrongs Chadron rt.ntrniflcent teams state college basketball players are looking forward to another good season. Seven lettermen are returning. Heading the list of veterans is Bill Bruer, Crawiord, who paced the conference scorers last season of two such magnificent teams here on New Year's day will produce a titanic clas.sic; probably the most exciting game in the Sugar i bowl's amazingly successful his- -----The announcement was made at llu skers BY DON KELLOGG.

A visit to the Nebraska dress- ing room after the had trounced Kansas Stste sral walked off with the Big Six conference football champion.Mhip only substantiated what a truly great gang of athletes are these Huskers, Many of them 13 to be exact had Just trudgc-d in the dooc for the final time They had completetl a sma.shing victory, won a champion.ship, amas.setl one of the best seasons in Ne braska history and were waiting for a bowl bid that seemed Just around the corner. But the atmosphere wasn't quite right And the reason was that the entire squad was more concerned with Harry Hopp's shoulder injury than anything else in the world. They saw Eddie Schwartzkopf with tape completely covering a broken nose, Clarence Herndon with a pair of upper teeth knocked out, Fred Preston limping on an ankle and Bob recovering on the table. A others were hobbling from the bruising battle as well. Hopp X-ray.

Hopp, has been a tremendous sparkplug this season, was missing. He had dressed early and gone on to have an X-ray taken of the shoulder that had been struck by a wandering knee. Hermie Rohrig stood over in a corner alone, dressing slowly. He too w'aa thinking about Hopp, not so much of the first touch- dqwn he had scored all season, Yoti can say that my touch- WHS dedicated to Hopp every inch of those 13 yards that I covered." spoke the famed Rubber Man. And when Rohrig made that statement, he pointed exactly at the situation that has been going on for three years a great team spirit and the will to carry on for the other fellow.

That feature has had much to do with labeling this team, Thank Juniors, Soplvs. Roy PcLsch, "Butch" Luther NEBRASKA RESERVES TOOK OVER in fourth poiiod, Fir.sl time tht'v haiulled the hall offensively, Uob Kahlcr broke thru the K-State line for a 10 yard and most of the other seniors were going around to the first and second year men on the team and thanking each ami every one of them for the support. That, too, was worth something. Hilarity was bound to break loose time and it did when the realization of ju.st what had happened in the way of the championship, a game in the Ro.se bowl, and a other happenings to soak in. Monk Meyer, senior manager, along his assistants, took the annual trip into the shower room.

Y'elling and screaming, the boys who have been picking up all the loose ends all season, were soaked and thoroly so by alternate hot and cold running Another ceremony w'as to take place only minutes later. Major Biff Jones had the order out for a meeting as soon as everyone w'as dressed and Roy "Link" Lyman took the rostrum at the outset. ine conierence scorers lasi aeawin otanfArU waa i with and Dal. TanRa- a (Continued from Page l-B I Huskers ivin slalisties, too Evans, Slockham, who lettered in 1938. and Bob Bauman.

Cushing la Arm.xtrong is working a aquad of 20. but exptcts to reduce it this week. The slate follows: lO-ll. 8t of n-lS. 25, r.

rtmrrrtn, 31, at 21-22. State, 1. Peru. lo eat buffalo AUBURN, Buffalo meat will be the main course of the din- ner here Thursday night when North IMallP Irtlrrs, ruplaiii aiiiiounctMl NORTH PLATTE, Neb. Harold Beans was elected captain of the 1941 football team here Nov.

27. He succeeds Bill Strauss who graduates next spring. Beans played end in his sophomore year but this year was transferred to fullback. Letters were awarded to the following men; Wayne Seeger, Blaine Young, Melvin James, Wllmot Janesof.sky. Robert Gilmore, Ber- Roso Preston spr Dodge, K-State halfback, sustained an injured back, but Coach Hobb.i Adams thought all of his other players came thru without serious humps.

"Nebraska has a fine team." Adams said, "and I want to do everything I can to help send them to the Rose bowl. It's a great honor for a team from this I have a different idea about football as it is played out here since I came to Manhattan. How those Nebraska backs can run, and where does Biff get all of It just seemed to me that whenever a fresh one came in, he must have been mad because he had had to sit part of it out, and First downs earned First downs penalty Yards gained Yards lost rushing Passes attempted Passes incomplete Own passes Passes Yards gained on Net yards Laterals Laterals completed Yards gained on laterals. Punts Punt average sportsmen from southeast Nebras- Junior Anderson, Jim proceeded to take It out on us ka Rather hereThe Kiwams club Calvin So-1 My. my.

how run! Yessir. a lem. Harold Beans. Merw'yn Ri- thoroly fine ball club. Luther It Red Hot, is sponsoring the affair.

Wildlife federations will be organized in federations will be orgamzeo in Langford. Frank Otoe. Johnson, Richardson and, Douglas Lawrence. Alden Pawnee counties to affiliate with the state association which now has 56 counties enrolled. Nelson, Duane Easley.

Albert Taylor, Bruce Claussen. Bill Bundle, Steve Cole. Bill Corporon, Bob Aniong out of Brooks and Charles Wright. trank OConnell. Lytle, Dr.

H. C. Zellers, Charles Amier- son. George Carter. Dr.

Merritt JJnuhps Silffrrei hlirus Pedersen of Lincoln; D. L. Willhoite. Superior, president of the CINCINNATI. i.P).

Roy J. Wildlife federation. Ernie Bihler Hughes, 29, former and Howard Wolff of Omaha. man for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1 Oklahoma fullback. Luther stole the show from the ball carrying angle, but he was afforded some great help.

Roy Warren Alfson and the blockers really cutting down when Butch set off on those wide reverses. Butch went into a tie for conference scoring lead with his two touchdowns, equalling the 30 points racked up by Bull Martin A. J. Nebelsick. Auburn, and suffered extensive bums Saturday J.

Jimerson, Peru, arc in when a tar can exploded in the charge of i basement of hi.s home. Quake ieveu finishes second season ivith per feet record Punts blocked by Kickoffs Kickoff returned Ball lost on Fumbles Ball lost on fumbles Own fumbles recovered. Penalties Penalty wardagc Field goals Field goals KANSAS STATE NEBRASKA IQ 2Q 3Q 4Q Tot.1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q Tot 00 20 475 821 0 0 0 1 10 0 0 0 0 15 2 17 8 4263 92137 103 395 9 17 10 27 15 0 0 19 34 0 0 4 0 433 06 12 0 0 10 1 2 1 036 00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 1203 6 0 0 8 0 8 3 14 0 41 58 6-15 248 23 51 106 137125419 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 0 00 0 00 2 2 0 4 8 1 2 0 14 31 67 0 24 41 19 230 3225 0 50 0 5 0 15 0015 0 0 0 0 0 000 0 0 0 0 10 1 11 2 04 0 0 33 0 33 60 35 59 0 154 0 0 13 0 13 00 130 13 0 00 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 4 0 0 1 3 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 01 1 2 1 11 03 0 00 2 2 0 1 0 2 3 0 2 02 4 05 0 20 25 0 10 0 1020 01 0 0 1 1 0 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Statiford ((Continued from Page l-B.) nessy this year. The Stanford drive late in the first quarter. A quick lateral from F'rankie Albert to Pete Kmetovic, good for 19 to California's 1, up the score The period ended on that play, and on the fir.st scrimmage of the quarter Knietovia went over.

Albert converted from placement. Late in the period a bad pa.s.s from the California center gave tlie ball on but Albert pushed the Bears back steadily. Short of a first down by three feet on 15, Al- faking a reverse and running him- and took the ball to three. Gallarneau went over from there on the seconci try. Albert missed the conversion.

With everybody regarding selection for the Rose bowl a formality, speculation centered on choice of an op- ypbraska scoring CENTRAL CITY. Neb Election of Ferguson of Valley and Norman Krong of Clarks as cocaptaina by lettermen of the squad officially closed the Nebraska Central college football season. Ferguson, quarterback, is a senior, while Krong, left tackle, is a Junior. The Quakers completed their seasHin with a 6 to 0 victory over Hebron college. The Quakers flni.shed undefeated to stretch their string of to 14 in two seasons.

Not since the fail of 1938 has a Nebraska Central grid team lost a decision. In mddlUon to winning five games and plaving two ties this jeai. the Quakers held every op- ment hut one Mc- CcKik junior colUge crossed the 'al ith a pa.ss. Last ye.iir only ime team scored on the Ne- bnska Central eleven and that touchdown was also accounted for on a pass. The Quakers represent the smallest college in the United States carrying a complete athletic program.

members of the team graduate this year; Ferguson and Don Hockett of 'Tuscon, Arlz. Eighteen others who lettered are underclassmen. The lettermen: Ferguson. Krong and Hockett; Eugene Sihipmann, Dale Hanway, Harold Mortenaon, John Montgomery, Dwain Mantkes. Forrest Wagner and Francla McCormell.

ail of Central City; Seth Williams and D. W. Tipton of Sargent; Harrison Jackson of Silver Creek: Walter Cremeen of Palmer; Leslie Nicholson of Marquette; Keith Jenson of Hordville; Merltng Black of Central Lity: Jack Burger of Clarks; Herbert of Allen and Walter Niel.sen of St. Paul. Nielsen, 140 pound halfback, led the Quakers in scoring with 11 touchdowns.

It closed the scheduled season on the finest year a Comhuskcr eleven has had in years only one defeat and that to Mlnne.sota, gen erally rated as the No, 1 team of the country. The team has proved itself ver satile thruout the year, probably I squandering more scoring oppor I tunltica against the Wildcats than against any other team. But when power do it Saturday, the Huskers dipped for another type I of maneuver the reverse, swinging Butch Luther both It was a long afternoon for the K-State ends. i The Kansans made some errors, 1 two bad snapbacks costing them yards, but those middle men, Nor! bert denier. Bill Nichols, Ed Huff i and Bemle Weiner, were demons on defense.

By the time the game ended the Walter Liither Wayne Blue Harry Hofp Henry Rohn Rov Petarh Alien Zikmun'l Herman Bradley Ray Vic EP. FG. 4 RI 35 5 0 0 30 4 0 3 0 0 2 2 0 14 2 (t fl 12 2 0 4 10 0 0 fi I fi 0 3 0 3 2.5 17 1 170 KifC to Mill over liavlor bra.ska of the Big Six, Texas Aggies. palikornia oiiko I 1 Matheweon Klmore Hatrher McQuary and the Poaltlon L. L.T.-....

a T---K R.H------ California Stanford STANFORD Warneke Taylor Palmer Banrtuccl Meyer Kmetovic Standlee 0 13 0 Francia Kanaaa Nebraska LanRvardt 0 0 (I 7 13 0 20 Touchdown; lAither 2. Rohria. Try for point; Frands, (ptace- Subftltutiona; r.nrt», Watkins. Maknl- Duncan; guards, Wsrfa, A1 Nlemoel- Hancock; Duwe, Qwtn, Dodge; Rokey. Kler NcbrMk.v: laidwlcK.

Kathol. Bunker; Bchlelch. Herndon; Whitehead. Abel; Meier, Kelly; Knight, Theog Thompson; Rohrig, Bob Kahler, Zlkmund. Bradley; Rohn.

Referee. Dwight Ream. Washburn, umpire, John Waldorf, Uneaman, Bob lulller, Kansas field Judge. John CoUege. HOUSTON.

Tex. Troubleshooter Bob Brumley. magnificent fullback, blasted in ten mlnute.s Saturday the Baylor held for to.s.sing the Owl.s out of the Southwe.st conference cham- pion.ship scramble. -----Tired of Baylor push Bruce Kirkpatrick, occidental. Ftice all over the field, Bnimley took charge of the offense in the E.

third period and in stunning time the Owls had overhauled Baylor (Continued from Page l-B.) and run up a 21-12 lead they never seconds in the 100-yards and Kmetovic, GHllarneaii, McQuary. after touchdown: Albert. McQuarv. Referee- Ton Fltxpafrirk, Utah: umpire. Verne Landreth, head linesman.

Ralph Pttleman. Oregon field Judge. Husker bench had been fairly well PiratCR begin spring swept, but the Huskers were still i threatening to score when the training on eb. in to give the 16,000 shivering fans a chance Pitts spring relinquished. The victory meant that the Rice- Southem Methodist battle here next Saturday will decide which of those teams share a tie with Texas A.

and M. for the league a deadlock in the game itself. Auburn bounces back to smack Florida, 20-7 PITTSBURGH. The Pirates to see and cheer them one last' training next year at the earliest crowd of 8,000. fhA Bum- of the National A league baseball club.

President W. E. Benswanger COLUMBUS. Ga. (UP).

Auburn bounced back Saturday after two straight losses and smacked will Florida, 20-7, in a Southeastern! conference football game before a the home field. The sum mary: NEBRASKA Preston Scha RO R.T Prnehaska LT UG KANSAS STATE SwaOiKin Raemer Nlch Weiner quu substitute Pat Reen of New City, fur-' tug-of-war, volleyball and weight ni.shed the thriller. Reen lifting, addition to basketball. halfback. for 100 meters.

The other three are relay records. Back to Yards. Advocates of the yardage system will ask the convention to eliminate metric measurements from swimming and track and field evenLs. They succeeded last year In having the metric system tossed out of Indoor track meets. The propfNied Pan-American games will come in for thoro discussion.

Sites for 1941 championships be determined for track, boxing, bobsledding, codeball, cycling, field ball, gymnastics, handball, horseshoe pitching, ice hockey, Link's Birthday. Then, a plain and simple melody, somewhat close to the refrain of "Happy Birthday" floated out of the lecture room enclosure. Link, for whose benefit this was for, beamed at the aggregation that he was so downright proud of. It was 42nd milestone and the.se lads had given him a fine pre.sent. When the meeting proper got under Major Jones, head coach of the new champions, stepped up and called for order.

His first were di- rectefl to the seniors. What transpired after that, is just guess. However, the squad did make a semblance of a vote to play a post season game if they were bid, and this time the Husker coaches failed to put down the enthusiasm. But get back to the heroes of the day: "Butch" gave all the way and came up with the most brilliant performance of just a shining career. But modest enough to say this; "Boy, look at that blocking I got all the time.

All I had to do was run." Luther Tics Martin. And quite incidentally, by scoring two touchdowns, Luther tied for the Big Six honors. Johnny Martin of Oklahoma had a total of 30 points and 12 points deadlocked the Sooner in the scoring column. Roy Petsch: Actually intercepted a pass and how his teammates howled. He ha.s a comeback on them now.

greatest work of the afternoon came on blocking. Bus Knight; Another great quarterback whose fine play marked the close of three goood seasons at Nebraska. Warren Alfson: By determined play, he demonstrated why he should be on a majority of the teams. Bob Kahler, Leonard Muskln and Thompson; This trio came along to see quite a bit of action and showed that they, too, could be called up to go places. Forrest Behm and Ray Prochaska: Never a variance in their play.

Bob Burrua: Who completed three years without making a bad pass from center. Kahler on Bench. Royal Kahler: Injured and stepped in snd came up with a Job would have been a credit any end on the field Henry did a swell job with his off tackle sl.ants Rut will tell you thst a big was ready and waiting the work the mentioned linemen Vlke Francis Worried tn death that he didn't make a t'teditohle shi'Wing. Glad on the other hnnd thst Luther snd Rcvhng, the seniors, did the scoring. Willsrd Hunker and Gerry Kathol.

Replacing In fine shape. The same for Freddy Meier who will belong in the first cl And you can guess whst the Husker think of Ular- cnce Herndon. Eddie kopf and Vic Schleirh Eddie Banged Up. Fchwnrtzkopf, in particular, had a afternoon far as getting banged up la concerned, but he didn't seem to "I didn't get bit, altho everything else happened," declared. The pv.Hsing show.

and Roy.il Kahler donned underware to off the beat they could Kahler, when a.sked after the game if he missed getting in action answered: "I get hurt, that about the only thing 1 missed And it seems as tho some dog has got a seaaiin pass the stadium every game. John Selleck is happy now, even tho the attendance has dropped off, due directly to imlement weather. Last season, no were scored at the north goal. This year, 11 of 17 were over the north double chalk line. When Luther snaked around his own right side for the second touchdown, that particular reverse play was used for the time And you might add that the Cornhuakers really reversed themselves Saturday.

Twenty-six of their offensive plays were reverses. Major only comment after the battle was; "Well, we got past that one Biff Averages .750. Since taking over tho head coaching reins at Nebraska at the start of the 1937 season, the major's teams have now won 24 lost 8 and tied 4. A neat percentage of .750, This is the first that the record has been void of a tie game. Goach Adams, whose Wildcat team has only two games of nine, no more than expected a defeat.

has a fine team and a tremendous supply of running and reserve. A truly great Glen Presnell, Husker backfield coach, was feeling sorry for himself after the game insomuch as he get a chance to see Luther roar across the chalk lines on his first mad sprint. a getting somebody ready to go into the game and Luther got away while I was giving out Instructions, Butch was just crossing the goal line when I got a chance to see the ground-gaining chart of the Huskers who put on such a grand in the finale; Av Luthir Ifilfi.5 5 Kahiir 4 30 3 7 Rohn 10 44 1 4 .1 Hopp 400 4 0 3 12 0 4 0 17 fiO fi 3 5 7 180 3 I ZI km unit 3 12 12 Knifiht 10 3 ilcfcaled, Alliuiicc CURTIS, broke loose here Saturday in the last half to win over the luckless Curtis Aggies, 26-0. Jack Harrell, fullback, twice in the second half, once on a 20 yard forward pass and again on a forward lateral from the 26-yard line. Wayne Lotspeitch scored the other two tallies.

His first came in the second quarter he circled right end and went 45 yards to score. The second came on sn 8 yard plunge in the fourth quarter. Gihhoii plucrs on all Tri-Vallev leain GIBBON, the 1940 champion, dominated the all Tri-Valley gridiron selections bv placing men on the fir.st team chosen by conference coaches snd officials. Dale Shires, Gibbon fullback, was adjudged the outstanding player. Mrat team selections: Stack.

Shrlton Oibbnn; F.dw»rrl» Petrrson, Gih- Ourada. and Hheiton: H. quartcrbark, Tbompsen UirbhMd, Scarbormjith. Gibbon and Rood Shalton; and fuiiback, Shlcrs, utbbmi. and Manaeer Frankie F'risch de-! plucked an Auburn kickoff out of Daniel J.

Ferris, the A. A. U. a cided Saturday that the Bucs' the air on his own 7-yard line late perennial secretary-treasurer, and just as happy about the whole Itho LH Hopp would would depart for San Bernardino, Calif on Feb. 21.

wil.i training getting under way three days later. in the fourth weaved and Pre.sldent Laurence di Benedetto shook off tacklers until he could of New Orleans probably will ar- in the ele.ar and then raced rive several days in advance of the get down the field for a i meetings. thing altho ne had to remain on the bench. Harry Hopp and Hermie Ri)hrig; Their story has already been told. But how about the rest? Bob Ludwick, for one, was a happy individual.

He needed only four mUiute.s for a major letter award and when Fred Preston was injured, Ludwick Congratulations! big 6 ON A SEASON OF CLEAN, SPARKLING FOOTBALL PEERLESS CLEANERS GEO. LEMON 322 So 11 th.