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Aggies Swamp Ellington 54-0 TCU Uncorks Aerial Circus To Defeat Kansas 18 to 0 Upsets Michigan The big six Jayhawks were caught three yards short of a touchdown by the first half whistle Parker on the 25-yard line after a short punt by Chiles Pattee passed to Collins on the 5 and Herbert Foster plunged to the 3-yard stripe as the half ended The Jayhawks showed a good running attack and showed the games best running back In hreeh-man Burt Bertuzzi but they were lacking in scoring power Kansas had an advantage in first downs 15 to 10 TCU picked up 183 yards rushing to 156 for the Jayhawks and made 169-yards through the air to 80 for the losers Approximately 16000 saw the game walked off the field with their fourth triumph over Michigan in 13 contests Romping George Taliaferro a freshman negro star from Gary Inch raced around through and into Michigan defenders for gains on more than 20 trips with the ball It was a sad defeat for Michigan seeking to avenge last 20 to 0 setback by the Hoosiers Indiana ANN ARBOR Mich Sept 22 CUJ9 Bo giant-killing Indiana football team upset the University of Michigan for the second consecutive year today in a 13 to 7 triumph opening the 1945 Big Ten season Scoring in the first and second periods on sustained pushes of 56 end 81 yards respectively the Hoosiers surprised a crowd of Sports Porkers Come From Behind To Edge Barksdale Arkansans Take To Air for Win In Last Period SHREVEPORT La Sept 22 (UR) The football season opened brightly for Arkansas here today with a 12 to 6 victory over the Sky Raiders of Barksdale Field though the situation looked bad for the Razorbacks at the Fliers tied it at 6-6 in the third quarter Mike Schumchyk scored Arkansas first touchdown when he took a 5-yard pass from Biddie Young after freshman star Joe Hoffman raced 35 yards to set the ball in scoring position The winning score for the Razorbacks came in the fourth quarter as they gained 46 yards through a series of running and passing plays to put the ball on the 5-yard line Hoffman crossed the goal line and extra point kick was blocked Barksdale Field scored in the third quarter when they recovered fumble on the 22-yard li le and completed a pass for the touchdown Football Scores One of the brightest ideas Arrow ever had Sanday Sept 21 1945 THE CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER-TIMES 2-D Baylor Wallops West Texas 32-0 KANSAS CITY Sept 22 (ft Freshman quarterback Leon Jos-lin and halfback Jesse Mason combined their efforts to push over three touchdowns to give the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs an 18-0 win over the Kansas Jayhawks tonight It was the first game of the season for both teams Joslin 175-pound strong-armed passer from Waxahachie Texas accounted for two of the defending southwest conference champions touchdowns executing a spectacular 61 -yard play to fullback Norman Cox early in the first quarter and flipping 10-yards to Mason on the first play of the second quarter The first TCU touchdown came after the light but game Kansas team had staved off one serious scoring threat and pushed the Frogs back to their own 39-yard line Joslin faded deep whipped the ball to Cox who took it running on the Kansas 30 and scored going away The flashy Frogs added another touchdown for good measure in the third period Mason cracking through the Jayhawks right tackle and going 29-yards for the score i but they had to fight for every i yard they made Kansas threatened after the first TCU touchdown fullback Le- roy Robinson grabbing the kickoff 14 yards to the Jayhawks 34 and then alternating with freshman George Gear and Frank Patlee to move deep into TCU territory where power was lacking and the ball went over on downs Hogan Shaves Lead To 2 Strokes SPOKANE Wash Sept (ft Ben Hogan of liershey Pa knocked four strokes off par and two off Byron Nelson's advantage today in the third round of the $10000 Esmeralda Open Golf tournament with a 68 making his total 204 to 202 with one 18-hole circuit yet to go Nelson straying a bit from the straight and fair came home in 70 after racking up a pair of 66s in the rain cf the previous days Making a great bid to rise from leaders was Sammy I Snead of Hot Springs Va who marked the only 66 His total is 212 Snead had eagle threes on the second and 18th holes and Hogan matched the effort on No 2 Nelson who had eagled No 1 for two days straight missed his third by a foot when his short approach died too soon Clinging tightly to the front runners Jack Gage of San Bernr ardino Calif matched Nelson's! 70 for 206 and Harold (Jug) Me-1 Spaden of Sanford Me had 691 for a 207 total I I '9 i 411) I There's no denying that Arrow designers have thonght in technicolor terms when they created these brilliant new Colorama Ties And each pattern seem just perfect for the colors used What they won't do for your Fall wardrobe isn't worth doing Neat knot are second nature to wrinkle a thing they don't go in foe See 'em today 1 Bryan All-Stater Paces Attack With 4 Touches COLLEGE STATION Texas Sept 22 ift The Texas Aggies launched their 1945 season here today with a decisive 54 to 0 victory over the Ellington Field Flyers scoring all their touchdowns via the ground but gaining plenty of yardage by aerials The Aggies ground game was marred by 10 fumbles nine of them stopping drives that seemed to be bound for touchdowns Preston Smith Bryan High School all-stater making his debut in Aggie colors racked up four touchdowns and kicked one conversion for a total of 25 points Bob Goode lanky Bastrop freshman contributed two touchdowns other Aggie scores were made by Tom ftaniel quarterback letter-man from Kerrville Harold Zeit-xnan Dallas and Warren Sette-gast who blocked an Ellington punt behind the line to score 2 points for the Aggies The Flyers were held to a net yardage of minus 19 and no first downs The Aggies chalked up 310 yards on the turf and made 17 lirst downs The first time the Aggies got the ball it was a score Ellington was forced to kick and Peewee Smith took the ball on his own 20 handed it on a reverse to Bob Goode who went 80 yards behind perfect blocking Spanks Pill 23 to 6 CHAMPAIGN Ill Sept (ft Bill Butkovicli a chunky 19-year-old quarterback brought a famous football name back to the headlines today when he sparked Illinois to a 23-6 victory over the University of Pittsburgh The game was played on a rain-drenched field before 9962 fans It was the opening 1945 grid game for both teams Butkovich breaking into the first-string Illinois lineup after being a substitute last fall ac counted for 14 points on two touchdowns and two conversions 'll is line-cracking runs which lifted the lllini to victory brought back memories of his late All-American brother Tony who soared to stardom with Purdue University two years ago He was killed on Okinawa with the Marines last summer With a 23 to nothing lead Coach Ray Eliot benched his first team in the fourth period Then Halfback Ed Zimmovan 'scored Pittsburgh's lone touchdown from the two-yard marker with six minutes left In the game Pittsburgh stopped on the ground finally took to the air for its score Quarterback Bill Wolff tossed two passes to Zimmovan one 58 yards and one 13 and then sent Zimmovan over from the two-yard line Sooners Defeat Hondo AAF 21-6 NORMAN Okla Sept 22 (ft Two long runs accounted for a pair of touchdowns and a forward pass figured in the t-rd as the University of Oklahoma defeated Hondo Texas Army Air Field 21 to 6 in football today Although Oklahoma Big Six Conference champions scored in the first quarter and led all the way the safe margin was gained by two touchdowns in th last periqd The fourth string bark-field was playing when the last touchdown was made Bill Irvin raced 63 yards from formation lor the first Oklahoma score and Bob Bodenhamer placekicked the point That lead held up until midway in the second quarter when George Boner sliced through the line for a Hondo score climaxing a 20-yard drive that began aft a pass interception But Ivan Cunningham missed the kick for the point and the half ended 7 to 6 for Okla- homa John Steward raced 45 yards for the second Oklahoma score and Jack Venable made the third with a 3-yard stab off tackle after a 15-yard pass helped in a drive from the Hondo 30-yard line Kliegg Andersson Defeated In Mile STOCKHOLM Sept 22 Lennart Strand an unheralded runner until a month ago when he defeated Arne Andersson for 1500 title proved it was no fluke yesterday when he defeated both Andersson and the famed Gunder Haegg in the featured mile at an international track meet Strand was time in 4:048 with Andersson second in 4:072 Haegg who holds the world record of 5:014 was fourth behind Marcel Hansenne seen to 24500 fans who saw the contest under perfect weather conditions at Michigan Stadium Michigan fought back gamely scoring in the third quarter after blocking an Indiana punt on the Hoosier 49 In the dying minutes of the game halfback Pete Elliott passed to end Bob Swanson on the Indiana seven But the Hoosiers checked this threat and fjt ewd Louis Leal missed the attempted convention A scoreless third period ensued but Baylor crossed the goal line twice in the last quarter Price lateralled to Cotton on West 39-yard line and Cotton made the goal and the other touchdown was made on a 18-yard pass from Roy Painter to Baylor mid Joe Joiner Game statistics showed Baylor 11 first downs and West Texas 2 Baylor 248 yards on ground gains and West Texas minus 37 yards Baylor passed 15 times completed 5 for a gain of 121 yards and West Texas passed 14 times completed 3 for a gain of 28 yards and penalties assessed Baylor totaled 105 yards and 20 yards for West Texas Baylor sent in three complete teams during the game while West Texas used only about 4 substitutes Iowa State Bows To Northwestern EVANSTON 111 Sept 22 CM green eleven defeated Iowa State today IS to 6 on a wet soggy field before a dripping crowd of 15000 Dick Conners one of the two regulars from last year's squad' paced' the Wildcat attack and kept Iowa State in the hole by bia accurate punting out of bounds Conners set up the initial score in the first period when he cut off tackle for 70 yards and ran to Iowa seven yard line After the next play he scored Iowa State did not threaten until late in the fourth period The Iowana then opened up with' a good passing -attack They were stopped on another late drive 12 yards from the goal as Jim Marks fumbled the ball and the game ended Northwestern tallied in the first and second periods but it was not until the fourth period that the Wildcats uncovered Hap Mur-phey On his first attempt Mur-phey carried the ball for a 15 yard gain to Iowa 49 then he made 17 through tackle and after Bob McKinley brought it to the three Murphey made the score Don Laser scored the other Northwestern touchdown John Tenges and George Gal alher teamed up for Iowa touchdown- Two successive passes gained 33 yards to 15-yard line Gene Phelps then took over the passing and looped one to Dick Howard who carried it to the three Phelps went over for the touchdown Race Betting Record Set at Belmont Park NEW YORK Sept 22 first $500 000-betting day was turned in today at Belmont Park as 49614 turf fans wagered 35016745 on the eight-race card Probable Pitchera Probable pitcher for today's major loacwe Samoa with won and lost roo-orda la paranthaaaa: Amarloan Laague Now Turk at Boaton Bonham fMl) and Chandler (l-l) va Farrlaa (31-5) and Johnaon (7-3) Waahlnston at Philadelphia Leonard 17-7) and Carrasquel T-5) va Xtvaom (l-lt) and Fowler (1-3) 8t Louis at Potter (11 10) va Trout (11-14) Chlcaso at Cleveland Grova (13-11) va Smith (5-13) Natianal Leagua Boaton at Now York (3) Leo -) and Cooper 3-4 or Wallace 10-S) va Manila 5-2) and Voiaelie (14-13) Philadelphia at Brooklyn Barrett (T-30) and Kraua (4-1) va Beats IMl and Urtn lt-13) Pittsburgh at Chlcaso (3) Onter-mueller 5-31 and Strlncevlcli 15-10) va Wyaa 30-10) and Paeeean (17-8) Cincinnati at St Bowman (11-11) va Burkhardt (10-S) a warning by trouneixyr Jeff Davis of Houston 26-12 Temple also registered an impressive victory in nosing out Jefferson of San Antonio 13-12 as did Lufkin which rolled over Bryan 32-7 and Austin which trounced Ragan of Houston 45-0 Other seizes among the top notchers included: Breckenridge 49 Graham 0 Tyler 27 Jacksonville 0 Marshal 40 Sulphur Springs 0 Lamar of Houston 14 Lake Charles La 14 tie): Cerpns Christ! 26 Greenville 7: Brackenridge of San Antonio 24 McAllen 7 Goose Creek 26 St Thomas of Houston 6 Odessa 12 El Paso High 6 (Continued From Page 1-D) Koyse City 25 Wills Point 6 Carrollton 46 Richardson 6 Tyler 27 Jacksonville Jefferson (San Antonio) 12 Temple 13 Edison 20 San Marcos Academy Alamo Heights 31 Uvalde 12 Commerce 6 Clarksville 6 (tie) Waco 26 Jeff Davis (Houston) 12 Hillsboro 39 Masonic Home Marshall 40 Sulphur Springs 6 Denton 31 Bonham 6 Cleburne 32 Ranger 6 Highland Park (Dallas) 21 Waxshachie Lamar (Houston) 14 a a Charles 14 (tie) El Campo 6 Freeport 9 West Columbia 13 Bolling 9 Wharton 32 Bellville 6 Huntsville 6 Xavasola 6 Moran 6 Baird 13 Gorman 9 Rising Star 29 Coleman 29 Comanche 9 Cross Plains 25 Williams 6 Winters 9 Eastland 12 Olney 6 Seymour 6 Bowie High (El Faso) 13 Alex-ico City YA1CA 9 Ysleta Texas High 47 Demine AI High Paris 53 Hugo (Okta) 9 Corsicana 92 Alexia 20 Victoria 13 Robstown 6 Fair Park (Shreveport) 29 Gladewatrr 0 Lakeview 9 Wellington 17 Iamesa 0 Brownfield It Vernon 13 Altus 6 Olney 6 Seymonr 0 Plainview 29 Childress 9 Quanah 33 Crowell 7 Pharr 45 Lyford 9 Brackenridge (San Antonio) 34 AIcAllen 7 Gainesville 13 Mineral Wells It Fori Worth Tech 32 Weatherford 7 Orange 19 Conroe 6 State Home (Corsicana) 42 Blooming Grove 6 Kerens 54 Mildred 6 Palestine 44 Grapeland 9 Henderson IS Nacogdoches 9 College Soathern California IS UCLA 8 Fresno State 13 College of Pacific 9 AllMisslppi 21 Kentucky 7 Auburn 38 Howard 6 Washburn 19 Fort Riley (As) 9 Colorado College 12 Denver 6 Gustavus Adolphus 9 St Olsf 8 Warrensburg (Mo) Tchrs 8 Spring (Ato) Teachers 0 Muskingum 25 Rio Grande 6 Eastern Kentucky 14 Tennessee Tech 13 Tech Nudges Pirates 7-0 LUBBOCK Sept 22 Walt Schlinkman Texas bid for all-American honors stormed 50 yards here tonight in the first quarter to bring Red Raiders a 7 to 0 victory over the Southwestern Pirates in the season's opener here A crowd of 7000 turned out Southwestern showed a tricky ball handling club but was never able to offer a serious scoring threat Tulsa Mauls Wichita 61-0 TULSA Okla Sept 22 A powerful Tulsa University Golden Hurricane took an easy 61 to 0 victory from a badly outmanned Wichita University eleven in Skelly Stadium here tonight before a crowd of 10000 The hefty hurricane first string era were kept under wraps during most of the game seeing service only in the first period and early in the third frame The Tulsans scored almost at will getting three touchdowns in the opening period and two each in the others Comets (Continued From Page 1-D) and lost back to Comet 33 Kennedy roared through middle to Comet 30 Meson beck to pass ran left end to Comet 10 Krfunh slammed over right guard for a first down on Comet 9 Khelton powered right tackle to Comet els Shelton took a lateral and failed to gain at right end pass over tha line was knocked down Mason fumbled pass hand from center and Comets took over on 8 The Comete moved out to the and Borneman kicked to Kennedy on the Rice 34 Meson fumbled and Crampinn covered for the Comets on the Rico 34 as the period ended FOURTH PBRIOD Pamuel slammed the Rica right tackle to the Rte 35 The Comets drew 3 for off eld Davis hit rirht tackls for five Isteralled wildly to llipps and it was fourth down on the Rice 27 Davis took a lateral run Vouell and mads first down on Rice 18 on sweep at right end Samuel on line run cut back inside left tackle to Rice 3 for another first down had good blocking Baggott passed to Ravens burg for the touchdown Borneman's kick was aide Comets 39 Rica 7 Anderson took the Comet kickoff on the 30 and returned to Rice 43 Comete drew five for delay of gams Kennedy socked the middle for a first down on Comet 45 The Owle made no headway and Anderson kicked to Baggott over the goal line and he returned to 17 The Comets drew 5 mors for delay Tha Comets got that 5 back then drew 5 more for offsides Borneman kicked out on Comet S3 Xemlr powered for first down through Comet Hue to the 10 Kennedy down to the Comet II and Xemlr powered the middle for the touchdown The middle of the Comet line blocked Xemirs kU-k Comets 38 Rice 13 Before the kickoff an entire new Comet eleven took the field Ravenshurg returned the Rice kickoff to the liointt 34 Rushing took a lateral and swept his left end to a first down on tha Rice 45 Rain set In as tha end of the game neared Hal Porto lateralled to Rushing and he went to Rice 30 for first down Comets drew two successive times for delay of game Rica took over on own 35 The Owls made a first on ths Rics Si as ths game ended Comets 30 Owls 13 farting Lineup: COMETS POS RICE Ravensburg LE Malay Smith LT Parker Framptoa Ld Zeisman McCain Murphy Pavllch Smuts Strohmeyer KT Chmellk Ary McRrids Dal Porto Mason Baggott Kennedy Samuel Xemlr Borneman Anderson Officials Beular fTex) referee Sylvester fRics) umpire Pheldon St Edwards) linesman Swart (Rico) field Judge Rice 0 7 Corpus Comets 7 7 0 First down Rice 13 Corpus Comet 13 Comets scoring: Borneman Smith Dal Porto Ravensburg Conversions Bornaman I (placement) Rios scoring: Touch Anderson Xemlr Conversions Nemlr (placement) Comet substitutions: Ends Stone Mlllhuff Ogllvle Simon Tarklea Voroskl Donaldson Palchner Borchsrt Maurino Guards Campbell Evershads Niemann Center flelbell Backs Smith Hipps Touell Davis Jackson Gerton Hansen Rushing Lange Gartlsen Rice: Ends Coates Arnold Tackles Parker Dunn Gerrien Xelson Guard Xlch-eleon Masalusn Penfeld Center Weatherley Pearce Racks Anderson Krfunh Kenned)' Crouch Hoersior Statistic i Rice Como It 13 13 48 4 11 7 3 Flral 4nwn Net yard ruahlug Xcf ards forward Forward attempted Forward completed Forward intercepted hr Yard Interceptiona returned 0 Purte average 4 for 17 for 25 Kickoffs number 4 Kickoff- average it 41 Tarda kicks returned 58 jm Penalties 3 it Tarda lost penalties jjj Duke Swamps South Carolina 60-0 DURHAM Sept (UR) Showing tremendous power Duke University began defense of its Southern Conference football championship today by burying the University of South Carolina under a 60-0 score before a crowd of 13000 Scoring in every quarter the talent-rich Blue Devils completely outplayed the Palmetto teanfc allowing only one first down on a pass in the fourth period The big guns in attack were Tailback George Clark swivel-hipped ace who streaked for touchdown runs of 66 and 45 yards and A1 McCully hard driving freshman fullback National Football League Opens Today CHICAGO Sept The National Football League kicks off its 26th annual official season tomorrow to open what League 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Phone 2-7261 rSMAKT NEW-JARMAN e(y( JiK) eujyft O' 11 WACO Sept 22 Baylor University's decisive 32-0 defeat over West Texas State Teachers College started rolling in the first quarter as Sammy Pierce ran 60 yards off tackle to West Texas 9-yard line after which Jack Price crossed the goal line for the first touchdown Price co-captain of the Bears kicked the extra point They scored again in the second period on a 40-yard pass from Price' to Stoney Cotton Price missed the extra point The relentless scoring offensive rolled on again in the same period as Mike Rowe intercepted a pass by Hap Rogers of West Texas on West 40-yard line and carried the ball back to West Texas 15-yard line Baylor lost 5 yards and then Roy Painter passed 20 yards to Alonzo Robertson for the touchdown Trojans Come From Behind To Nip UCLA Sr VTKREB FBZSS Autumn was here officially today not because of the equinox but because Southern California sporting its usual array of massive football players was underway in another drive for a Rose BowL The Trojans out to become the West Coast host team for the third straight year set back one of their big rivals Friday night when they topped UCLA IS to 6 before 90-000 fans at Los Angeles Coliseum The Trojans pushed around for a time by a line that they outweighed 20 pounds per man had to come from behind to win UCLA marched 79 yards fhP Six plays to score in the second period Southern California countered with the tying touchdown 10 plays later going 95 yards to score A conversion put the Trojans in front to stay although they added another touchdown in the final period Fresno State pulled a small upset in another California game beating College of Pacific IS to 0 while one of the better service teams the El Toro CaL Marines swamped the Los Angeles Bulldogs a pro squad 68 to 0 Redlands topped Occidental 44 to The Southeastern Conference rare got underway with freshman-staffed eleven topping Kentucky 21 to 7 Auburn played an outside breather with Howard winning 38 to 0 A renewal or a Rocky Mountain rivalry found Colorado College 12 to 0 better than Denver while in the Mid-West Warrensburg Mo- Teachers opened the Missouri Intercollegiate race w' a 6 to 0 win over Maryville Teachers Great Lakes and Wisconsin Tie GREAT LAKES Til Sept 22 ill The rugged Bluejackets of Great Lakes and the youthful Wisconsin Badgers battled through mud and driving rain to a acore-less tie today A crowd of 23000 sailors watched their color-bearers make three major scoring threats only to fail in the final yards The first two fizzled when fullback Marty Wendell just transferred to Great Lakes from Notre Dame fumbled The third late in the final quarter fell short when Wisconsin held for downs on its own 11-yard line only major scoring chance came late in the third period when halfback lYink As-chenbrenner the Great Lakes sparkplug fumbled a punt and Wisconsin recovered on the 34 The best the Badgers could do however was to gain four yards and the Bluejackets took over on down its old stride against a widely-heralded Abilene teem and won going away 33 to 12 while Lubbock another district 1 entry held a powerful San Angelo team to a 13-13 tie Last finalists Port Arthur the champion and Highland Park came through the former defeating a good Longview team 19-14 in a surprising outcome and the Scotties taking Waxahachic to measure 21 to 0 Wichita Tails ran roughshod over a strong Paschal of Fort Worth team 27-6 to establish itself is one of the top teams in the state while Waco also sounded Ir 'ulsjj 'W 1 1 iU" 11 fMl Bldg Plainview Takes Spotlight In Schoolboy Grid Race bp nriTBD razts Pre-season favorites in the Texas interscholastic league football race continued to run true to form Saturday on the basis of results of play in the first two weeks of the young campaign All of the leaden came through handily Friday night with enly one minor npset to mar the that being sound 28-8 lacing banded to a Children team that had battled Amarillo to a standstill only tha week before Amarillo reportedly weaker than usual this fall seemed to hit sw mcE 703 CHAPARRAL ST ARDELL THOMAS CO Nueces Hotel.