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4B CORPUS CHRISTI TIMES Wed Jon 2 1 957 TCU Ends GOOD Cotton Bowl EVENING Win Drought Statistics ja SYRACUSE 14 Pint ni Rwhinc i4in 11 ruhu niitn II Pawn I hwi WmwM I f-4M FiMU I Wmbln IhI Yuri tt-li 4X1 1 DALLAS 191 Chuck Curtis' passing Jim Brown's running clutch extra points by Harold Pollard and a blocked tty by furious Chico Mendoza added up to one of the finest Cotton Bowl games yesterday as Texas Christian beat Syracuse 28-27 The Horned Frogs were breaking a bowl drought that extended to five games gaining vengeance for a one-point loss to Mississippi in the Cotton Bowl lost year and vindicating themselves from the tag of rate" team Curtis Texas Christian quarterback passed for 174 yards completing 12 of 15 throws had two scoring shots ran for a touchdown and set up the fourth In leading the Frogs to probably the most-needed triumph in their football history Pollard the victim last year when TCU lost to Mississippi 14-13 kicked four conversions Brown 222-pound Syracuse All-America halfback slashed through and around the Texas Christian line for three touchdowns and kicked three extra points only to see Mendoza's block of one of his conversion efforts prove to be a decisive point It wasn't a sellout for the first time in 18 years with some 68000 in the stands and 7000 seats vacant Fans had stayed away because TCU was considered rate" since It was second in the Southwest Conference with the champion Texas AIM prohibited from playing In the game because of an NCAA probation Syracuse victim of the most crushing defeat in bowl history a 61-6 debacle in the Orange Bowl in 1953 with Alabama as the villain justified the faith of the Cotton Bowl in bringing it here to face TCU Brown gouged 132 yards out of the TCU line often carrying four or five of the Frogs on his back as he dug for more He also took three kickoffs back 96 yards He was voted outstanding back of the game Curtis was runner-up GAME-WINNING TOUCHDOWN the play which won the Sugar Bowl game for Baylor yesterday over Tennessee Baylor quarterback Buddy tpins around in the picture at bottom left and falls into the end zone as the referee (bottom right) signals touchdown Other Tennessee players are end Buddy Cruze (86) and back Tommy Bronson (31) (AP Wirephoto) Humphrey heads for a hole in the line only to find it closed up by Johnny Majors (45) Humphrey Team Effort Earns Bears hi 'Head Coaches Don't Coach Any More' Head Coach Doesn't Coach Any That's what the only unbeaten coach said before he led Georgia Tech to a seven-point win over Pittsburgh lr the Gator BowL That 21-14 win was No 8 in eight tries" for Bobby Dodd the young old nun of the wrambling wreckers who in the current Issue of LOOK magazine says about the modern coaching game: modern football is so highly geared that a coach have to coach any more the coach is more than a coach He's an organizer administrator salesman and chairman of the board He does his coaching in the office in staff meetings and through films" Bobby Dodd said that the same Dodd the University of Texas probably would have paid a small ramson for his signature on a contract as coach" to take the place of Ed Price Bobby Dodd Mid that before his tremendous Techs had won No to set a record that should live as ftng as Babe home run record How Bobby Dodd Got To Tennessee Dodd's been in the football racket player and coach for 25 years When Dodd was a high school senior his team scored 513 points in an undefeated season Dodd recalling that ancient year in his LOOK article said that Just two colleges (Vanderbilt and Tennessee) to see By Dodd meant Little Bobby Dodd (a lean and light quarterback and Paul Hug a powerful end) Dodd tells the story that he and Hug went to Tennessee because Dodd chose1 Tennessee and because Hug wouldn't go anywhere unless Dodd went along never was sure" Dodd's magazine article testified Tennessee was happy about me until I made the All-American (at quarterback) in 1930" One Day A Week Dodd Calls The Turn The winnlngest coach in all bowl history went to Georgia Tech in 1915 as the head man Tech has been a big-time competitor for the collegiate football dollar all the way So got to listen as Dodd says: I was at Tech Colonel Bob Neyland had two assistant coaches' we have seven vanity coaches three team coaches two freshman coaches and four student assistants and I wish we had six What's Dodd the best bowls have seen do as organizer administrator public relations man salesman and chairman of the board if he coach? Dodd says he does his coaching the staff meetings in the office and through the But Dodd admits when his multiple front office chmes are over and his Techs go into the head-knockinfg thq coach Is the coach and calls the turn whether he's head coach six days a week or one day a week is the BOWL Coach of all-time How To Maks Young Msn Old Men Dodd has gone all the way in a quarter of a century even if he says he's a part-time coach the difference between the football of today and of yesterday so far as the coaching's concerned? Dodd gives you the answer: day at Tennessee the squad was small but only 11 men practiced at one time-and the rest stood around and secret of modern day Dodd wrote that every boy is watched every practice day in every part of his work no mistakes go unnoticed and uncorrected" Georgia Tech's man" has survived the pressure of a quarter century that has seen football grow from the collegiate campus game to one of the biggest of all athletic businesses Has the pressure taken Its toll on the greatest BOWL coach? Dodd giverfyou the answer: wear and tear on today's coach has made some old men' out of young people in a hurry" The No 1 bowl coach is 48 He's got a 15-year-old son He want the boy to become a football even if coach doesn't work Does that mean that Dodd after his eighth straight bowl win is ready to get kicked to the athletic directorship? hope to be head coach at Tech for several mare or at least as long as my sturdy assistants hold Quite a man that man Dodd in today's football that's so Mg that head coach doesn't have to coach any Yes sir quite a that man Dodd probably rack up No 9 in some bowl somewhere one year from now even If he works (as coach) only a one-day week TOMORROW Sports Shorts Unto Then Good Evening JOE SCHERRER Bowl Victory Over Vols NEW ORLEANS (91 Baylor Statistics BAYLOR 14 71 14 1-11 4 MU mmssn rtnt Smma 11 RnhJni rmrdiM 144 raMliis jrarSan 14 Fuw 1-14 ferteraatci tv S4L4 1 44 ning touchdown Sub quarterback Buddy Humphrey went over from about a half-foot out Tennessee Coach Bowden Wyatt contended his Vols great game We Just made too many He praised Ezylcr a the season and entered the game a 7tt point favorite Baylor stepped into the lead in the second quarter on quarterback! game most out Bobby 12-yard pass to end Ending player In a poll of news- as great team the best we met all and singled out Shofner Coach Sam Boyd his 13-7 Sugar Bowl victory over Tennessee dampened by an unfortunate player squabble warned the Southwest Conference today his Bears were the team to beat next falL Boyd 43 a standout end at Bay-or in the 1930s had reason to be optimistic the way his squad handled me of the year's top teams in the 23rd staging of the Sugar Bowl yesterday Forty players on the squad will return next season Solid Nucleus Boyd has a solid nucleus for what Baylor rooters hope may be the first Bear team ever to play In the Cotton Bowl The fast Bay-far conference title came more than 30 years ago long before the Cotton Bowl went into business The sweetness of victory was Uttered since fullback Larry Hickman was ejected from the game for kicking Tennessee guard Bruce Burnham in the face during and netted 88 yards in 14 setback continued Tennessee's Jinx in the Sugar BowL It the Volunteers third setback against one victory in the Orleans New Year's extravaganza The game marked Baylor's in the Sugar BowL spoke at the banquet players coaches and officials two schools and apologized part In the third-period Jerry MarcontelL With All-America halfback Johnny Majors putting life into the Tennessee attack the Vols moved ahead in the third period Majors swept around end from the one for the touchdown and Sammy Burklow booted the lead conversion Fumble Sets Up Score But Majors took Del Shofner1! punt on the five in the early min- for his utes of the fourth quarter danced brawl men attempts The marked New debut Hickman for of the CURTIS HEADS FOR PAYDIRT Chuck Curtis (46) TCU quarterback demonstrated his ability to run as well as pass on this play in the Cotton Bowl game yesterday At top left Curtis fakes a handoff to fullback Buddy Dike who in the second picture tries to block a Syracuse guard as Curtis heads for the left end finds an open field and romps toward the end zone with Syracuse guard Rudy Farmer in hot but futile pursuit (AP Wirephoto) back to the 12 but fumbled when tackled and Reuban Saage recovered on the 15 Four plays later the Bears had the win- couldn't he more sorry" he said and asked Tennessee players present to "find it In your hearts to forgive IOWA CRUSHES OREGON STATE Statistics rows 14 Ml hit ll-IS ORE RT Pint Imnw is Ro'litiic nrim 144 rii-tan 1M Pimm 10-14 hlM hitm-pM tv 1 Punts hnMn Imt 3 YirSs MnaliatS third quarter hassle The Injury sent Burnham to the hospital where he was treated for a slight concussion and facial lacerations Hospital spokesmen said he was scheduled for release today any complications" Burnham Fouled Too Burnham would have also been ejected from the game since it was his personal foul which touched off the melee Boyd sadly admitted the triumph the first game ever won I can't be happy He was at a loss to explain action and added he believed boy himself probably But the incident could not detract from magnificent team effort the Bears handed Tennessee its first defeat this sear son Tennessee ranked second in the final Associated Press poll of Buffs Win Thriller In Orange Bowl Statistics COLORADO 0X3(30 Vint Sottm 14 rt SI 37 halt raiUias the winning touchdown Joel Wells Gemson halfback was the game's top rusher with 125 yards in 18 carries He scored two touchdowns one on 58-yard sprint off right tackle and the other on a three-yard smash The outclassed Beavers wound up with 296 yards rushing and passing to Iowa's imposing total of 408 yards Oregon standout halfback Joe Francis strove mightily to keep the Beavers in the hall game He completed 10 of 12 passes for 130 yards and one touchdpwn and carried the ball 15 times for 73 net yards But his efforts fen far short (u wmHmS PASADENA Cklif SB-Big Ten mastery over the Pacific Coast Conference in the Rose Bowl remained in tact today with Iowa's triumph over Oregon State 35-19 before 97126 New Year's Day fans The Hawkeyes outclassed the Beavers by land and by air to make it 10 Big Ten victories to a lone PCC win since the Inter-conference series began in 1947 Southern California's 7-0 win over Wisconsin in 1953 as the only coast conference solace Ploen Top Flayer Iowa quarterback Ken Plocn was voted the outstanding player in game The husky senior fro Clinton Iowa produced a brilliant 49-yard touchdown run and passed 16 yards to end Jim Gibbons for another Hawkcye score Altogether he completed nine of 10 passes for 83 yards and rolled up 59 yards on the ground Ploen injured his light knee in the first quarter after his 49-yard stunner but he returned in the second half to work more havoc on Oregon State This was the first rematch in Rose Bowl history Iowa having squeaked by Oregon State 14-13 last October Ploen' 49-yarder started the coring and Iowa's workhorse halfback Collins Hagler made It 14-0 for the Hawkeyes with a nine yrd scoring run in the first AME-MARRIN INCIDENT Here are two pictures of the incident which marred Sugar Bowl game Jn the top picture an official jerks his thumb into the air to eject Baylor back1 Larry Hickman (black arrow) for kicking Tennessee guard Brue Burnham (white arrow helmet barely visible on ground) In the bottom picture Burnham is carried from the field on a stretcher No 55 in Mills Paces West Texas' 2013 Victory top picture is guardBill Glass of Corpus Christ! who raced to the Vol dressing room after the game to apologize to players and coaches for the incident (AP Wirephoto) nk Prettiest Play Hagler got another in the third Period on the game's prettiest Play Ploen handed off to Ken Dobrfno who handed to Hagler and the latter went 66 yards to score Bill Happel contributed -a five-yard touchdown run for Iowa and the Ploen-teGibbons 16-yarder completed Iowa scoring plus five conversion points by Bob Prescott Oregon State scored In each of the last three quarters via Tom three yard run Nub one-yard plunge and Sterling score on a 35-yard pass from Francis Beamer ran for one conversion The other two attempts place kicks by John Clarice were blocked Bcavef coach Tommy Frothro sadly commented: was tremendously Improved offensive adding the Hawkeyes were best team we played fills MIAMI Fla rather have woo one like this than to win 50-0' chortled Coach Dallas Ward after his Colorado Buffaloes snuffed out Oemson's last-gasp threat and wrapped up a 27-21 Orange Bowl football victory Ward referred to the seesaw bat tie that developed in the second half of grid classic after Cokrado had threatened to turn it into a rout in the first two periods And to the losing coach Frank Howard must go the credit for giving the 72552 fans and a national television audience a storybook thriller instead of a Colorado cakewalk' Thoroughly Disgusted Howard was thoroughly disgusted with his Tigers when they stumbled off the field at halftime trailing the Buffs 204 And he told them so in no uncertain terms told if they get In there and play I was gonna Howard allowed around a big cud of chewing tobacco meant it too I told I didn't want to be associated with bunch of boys who played like that Howard must have gotten through They came back and clawed out two touchdowns in the third period and one early in the fourth for a temporary 21-20 lead Game Backfires Then quarterback Charlie Bussey made a call which may have cost Gemson the game Earlier an onside kickoff had worked Gemson recovered it and bus-sey decided to tty it again The gamble backfired Colorado recovered the short kickoff it the Buffs 47 and John Bayuk 217-pound fullback acored ORLANDO Fla 49) Ron Mills ran an Intercepted pass 75 yards lor a touchdown and plunged two yards for another in a second half attack that brought West Texas a 20-13 football victory over Mississippi Southern in the Tangerine Bowl last night The Mississippians had dominated the play and the Texans had made only one penetration of Southern Territory until Mills climaxed a 60-yard march in nine plays with his plunge Shortly after that Bubba Hillman sprinted 19 yards down the middle to cap a 77-yard advance Tommy Coffey converted after the last two touchdowns Mississippi Southern scored its touchdowns In the second period Arban took the ball on a Statue of Liberty play 51 yards to the four On fourth down Doug Barfield sneaked over from the one Dallas Whitfield converted A 33-yard pass from Bobby Hughes to Jerry Taylor who raced 20 'more yards completed the scoring Sports writers voted Mills a junior halfback from White Deer Tex the most valuable player of the game seen by a crowd of IV 000 tt year' FOOTBALL RESULTS SmW Tumrm 11 Te44 QriHhnamraa CdLcnio St cSmXS JP tai Ck Orison Sta'i it OUTSTANDING PLAYER Voted the outstanding Eliyer in yesterday's Sugar Bowl game was Bay-r halfback Del Shofner who is shown here being carried off the field on the shoulders of exuberant Baylor fans Shofner was a key man in both the Baylor defense and offense (AP Wirephoto) lw1 OmiM Wuhlnttftt nTrmi Wnlcrn Wilt TfXJJ JOv'liSouthl-TI IS I am Zratria SauUnrs aai.