Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 37

atters abilmt epotter For 21 Victory PAGE ONE ABILENE TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING JAN 2 1955 SECTION ns afOBT normas avv Miaausmi a ilr ieVhewSSSSi iv ihwom tor SST Pud Awns 0 Or SS1 a taiMlci Yarda st Fankiaa Laat I By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW ORLEANS Jan 1 l-Georgs Welsh a young man with the daring of bank robber anchored his Navy mates to a 31-0 victory over Mississippi today in the list annual Sugar Bowl football game Welsh score but the deft quarterback guided the patched-up gridiron machine to a spectacular victory over a Mulssippt team whose attack was eo weak the Rebels crossed the middle stripe only nee In the first three periods' ft was Welsh who thriHed 10736 Second Half Rally Keeps Dodd's Bowl Record Intact By HAROLD RATLIFF DALLAS Jan 1 (ff) Georgia Tech polished the rust off The DOUBLE TAKE By Fred Sariner today DALLAS JAN THE WRECKS from Tech took IS years to win the Cotton Bowl chain pionship after their abortive attempt against the University of Texas Longhorns In 1943 But it was only natural that Bobby Dodd the rosy-cheeked magician who has done more to popularize the pelW than any man since Jonah should be the man to lead the lads from Georgia into "high Tonto With Dodd In Bowl Wins paying spectators on the first ae-l ries of downs when he sent fullback Joe Gattuso cradling through the I vaunted Mississippi line with the call four end one end Navy on its 38 Gattuso made three but the Rebels were offside and the gamble paid off with Navy going the rest of the distance in 11 more plays for their first touchdown Gattuso and John Weaver bore the taunt of the Navy attack end the middle of the Navy line pedally the guards bottled 19 the Mississippi attack The Rebels manufactured only three first downs in the first half and get a fourth until the opening of the final period It was a sweet victory for the Middies who went into the game an underdog and played without Jim Royer their 3-11-pound tackle and Bob Craig at regular right half Royer was out with a hip injury and Craig hi the hospital with tonsilitis The turf at Tulano Stadium showed little effects of toe rain that subside until midmorn-ing The gridiron was rimmed with Navy Secretary Charles Thomas numerous admirals and other high Navy brass Until the Navy subs got Into the fray hi the fourth the best drive by Mississippi winner in nine of 10 games dining the season while taking the Southeastern Conference title wee 15 yards The Middies took tot opening kickoff and went 70 yards in 15 plays for the first touchdown ft was a 24-yard sprint to the three by Weaver that set it up Gattuso banged over on the next play Navy lost a touchdown in toe second period when a fourth-down pass was caught by Ron Beagle Navy's All-America end four indies from tha goal line on fourth down Navy repeated its touchdown march on the seamy half kickoff going 56 yards hi 10 plays With the call fourth down and seven yards to go Welsh flipped a 13-yarder to Weaver in the end cone for the score Weaver was covered by two Mississipplans but came down with the bah Gattuso got the third marker on a two-yard blast after Weaver had broken away once for 23 yards and Gattuso a aquat fullback plowed through for 31 yards and then for 10 Weaver who missed most of the final practices this week because of knotted muscles in his right leg showed no ill effects He converted after an three touchdowns Weaver carried 16 times and gained 106 yards while Gattuso added 111 yards in the same num- It kept intact the bowl record of Coach Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech who has yet to low one in six appearances in 10 years For a half the fabulous "23 Little of Arkansas halt ed the Georgia Tech machine when ft roared into Razor-back was But tbs second half saw the Techs picking up steam with each down and they battered and mashed the ltaaorbacka back on their haunebea the rest iff the way Tech dashed and ton Ariumsu for a ponderous 285 yards on the ground and made 21 to the air While the Techs had been expected to throw plenty they tried only 15 passu and completed four But the wu they did complete were quite vitaL One of 13-yard flip from Mitchell -eat op a touchdown Ariumsu managed 141 yards rushing and 85 passing Humphreys wu the leading gronn d-gainer damming tha tough Arkansu line for 90 yards Henry Moore Arkansu fullback wu runnerup in ground gaining with 86 Little Jimmy Thompson carved out 61 for Tech third Ugh man of the day Mitchell scored touchdown is 1 nr a i 4 Sir SIS is up a ateeUough defensa and oa fourth down Olan Buna lanky wingman rushed through to down Ted quarterback Bill Brigman far a 10-yard low Brigman faded for a pau receiver Arkansu wu in Ted territory twice during the first hall tha first ttasa getting the touchdown It wu an Ihyud drive engineered by Walker Oa varsatjte Porter tailback Smashing Henry Moore BOWL Only one of these three howl game field generals emerged vie torious Saturda the Sui in the first half at the Cotton Bowl hut was injuit Porkers bowed to Georgia Tech 144 Jim Contratto right saw his Southern California team take it on the chin from Ohio State 20-7 in the Rose BowL Outmatched Maskers Trimmed by Sake 34-7 carved 18 yards out of the Ted line to start the surge rolling Walker pitched to with II yards to rushing gaiu and a 23-yard pau to wingback Jim Thomason that set up the score on the Ted 2 Moors fast oh hot Walker cracked right guard to within a foot of tha goal lino On tha first pi ay the second period Walter anted acroes for file touchdown Ha milled the extra point beck from Bessemer Ala named Jimmy Thompson "Thompson plays about three-fourths of the timo and would play more except I hero to put a kicker in for him ever once Is a while" Dodd beamed Dodd who was one of the lecturers at the Texes High School Coaches Clinic at Dallas last summer grinned appreciatively when told that his was the fastest epidemic to hit West Texas high school football since the split-T Bowden Wyatt godmother" who was unable to keep the glittering coach and twelve prancing steeds from turning into pumpkin and as many mioe for his Cinderella Razorbacks at the most important ball of nil said Tech was on a par with any teem played this year Dodd rated Arkansas alongside of Duke and other Southeast elevens Ed Danforth veteran Atlanta Journal scribe placed the Hog as better than Alabama knd Tennessee but just a little weaker than Auburn or Kentucky Wade Mitchell 19-year-old sophomore quarter bad: from Atlanta guided the Wrecks to their first touchdown and scored the second after killing an Arkansas threat with the only interception Mitchell called the (day that sent left half Paul Rotenberry over for the TD For Dodd in saddling the Arkansas Razorback 14-6 hero Saturday afternoon was beginning his fourth straight year on the right foot in major bowL The genial Mr Dodd with the help of four of the current wrecks defeated Baylor 17-14 in the 1952 Orange Bowl: tamed Mississippi 24-7 in the IKS Sugar Bowl: and walloped West Virginia 42-19 in the 1954 Sugar Bowl as a buildup toward victory As preliminary warmups he end Georgia Tech defeated SL Mary's Galloping Gads in the 1947 Oil Bond at Houston and Kansas 20-14 in the 1948 Orange Bowl He also toadied the South pest the North hi the 1950 Shrine Bowl game at Miami in which Hardin-Simmons' John Ford was named the most valuable player All-American Center Larry Morris End Buddy Jones Tackle Ben Daugherty end Quarterback Bill Brigmai were members of the lest four bond teams and Tonto Crieman ex-ACO- coach who is plenipotentiary extraordinary Georgia Tech from Texas was IthDodd for dl fouri' Tonto thought It was "too many fresh horses" that won for the Engineers from Atlanta and Dodd singles out as the finest id those horses Morris Guard Franlin Brooks End Henry Hair Quarterback Wade Mitchell and a fiesty little 150-pound sophomore half- By BEN FUNK MIAMI Fla Jan 1 Ml Two alert hard-smashing halfbacks Bob Pascal and Nidi McKefthan ana ihwm Br AAwiw- TSrkl raaXia Yarda Ml a led Blue Devils to a 34-7 victory over the Nebraska Con-buskers today in the Orange Bowl's second football mismatch in three years Pascal 1954 scoring and ground-gaining champion was tha points after four of five touchdowns to make his record for the season 25 bullseyes in so tries Duka lost ooo big scaring opportunity to the second period when with Nebraska pushed beck to fts own 6 Envoy's kick carried enly to the SL Barger passed 19 yard to Sorrell but Buddy Ban wu knocked for a 7-yard Ion he hobbled a lateral pass On fourth down at the 12 end sou pan hit Bob Benson's fingertips and trickled off The gams wu the second under the Orange Bowl pact with the Big Seven and Atlantic Coast circuits her of tries Welah completed eight 14 passes for 76 yards I Navy was fifth ranked national iBUVthlrli pen1 iroka period Nebraska tesm wu trifling by only seven prints 14-7 Then McKeithan who had bees sidelined with injuries most of the regular season picked off pass by Nebraska's Don Comstock but badly outgunned hard-trying quarterbacked Tech skillfully and chipped in with some timely passing Humphreys and Mitchell were voted outstanding backs of the game by the sports writers Humphreys got 18 votes and Mitchell 14 The outstanding lineman award went to big Bod Brooks the AD-Amatos Arkansas guard who played one of the greateet games of Ms star-studded career He polled votes Nearest man to him was (Man Burns Arkansas end with four A crowd of 75J04 saw the game played In sunshine and 65 degrees Twice to the last half the glittering Tech backficld waded through the lightweight Raxorback line with the rieadlinass of a steamroller On other occasions tha Jackets threatened mightily Tech actually had outplayed Arkansas to the first half but couldn't dent the hard-bitten Pokers when tha chips were on the line Georgia Tech moved into Arkansas territory four times during tbs first half ones getting to the Razorback 8 and another time reaching tha Porker 8 But Arkansas was toughest when the territory narrowed The first deep penetration by Tech was stymied by the middle of the Arkansu line and from 12 yards out fullback Johnny Hunsinger tried a field goal but ft wu wide to the left On the next surge that lashed to the Arkansu 8 just before the half ended the Roorbacks throw Mitchell Soys Dodd 'Wouldn't Call Play0 let the Gornhnriter 28 and raced back with ft to the 1L Three plays I Last year tha tieup produced tha later McKeithan butted a yard far 1 top bowl game between and Mississippi sixth Navy had 30 first downa Mississippi five Navy 0 14 S-21 Mississippi 0 0 0 Navy scoring: Touchdowns Gattuso 3 Weaver Conversions Weaver 3 sl Senior Bowl Set Saturday tha touchdown that gave Duka aaj insurmountable lead Tha game proved nothing except that tha Big Seven Conference runnerup is no match for toe Atlantic Coast Conference champion Nebraska got tha Orange Bowl bid unbeaten Maryland and Oklahoma tha No 1 and No 4 teams respectively Oklahoma scored a 7-0 upset A desperate Orange Bowl committee made the agreement with the two conferences in the hope because of a Big Seven rule bar I of avoiding such mismatches as 1953 when Alabama Syracuse 61-6 in the one-sided game to major 0 0 7 0-7 0 14 6 14-34 scoring: Touchdown Conversion Smith Touchdowns Pascal Sorrell McKeithan Conversions Nelson 4 Tha other Arkansas push reached only to tho Tech 40 Georgia Tech rolled yards to Its first touchdown late ta tho third period ft cam after Walker had kicked out to tha Tech 41 Fullback Humphreys was tha big man ta tha surge picking 19 27 of the yarda with dedgokammsr rrfTff into tha Uno A 12-yard pan from quarterback Mttchefl to end Jimmy Durham set up tho score on tho Arkansas 8 Humphreys got 6 yarda ta two smashes and halfback Paul Rotes bony hotfooted ft around right end -for tha touchdown Mitchell kicked the extra point to put Georgia Tech ahead 7-1 Mitchell intercepted a Wdkar pau ihoitly afterward and scattod to the Arkansu 21 Tho Techs smashed down to tho 18 but aa illegal formation penally and tho Arkansas line stopped the drive the 19 whan tha Razorbacks took ovar Bat Walker had to kick and tha ball traveled only to the Arkansu 44 Hunsinger Jimmy Thomson and Dick Mattteau rammed down total Matttoon ta two phmgu carried to two feet out and Mttchefl dived over right guard for a touchdown Mitchell converted and Tech fad 144 Nail Martin Arkansas guard ra covered an ooside kick oa the kick off oa the Razorback 41 Walker's passing carried Arkansas to tha Tech 27 but tha Yellow Jackets braced and took over That wu Arkansu swan song Georgia Tack 6 8 7 7-A4 Arkansu 6 8 1-6 Georgia Tech aeoring: Touchdowns Rotenberry Mitchell Coti versions Mitchell 1 Arkansu scorings Touchdown Walker MOBILE Ala Jan 1 (D-a-I tistics can be manipulated to prove or disprove just about anything But odda makers using them to forecast the outcome of next Senior Bowl game will have a tough time arriving at any prediction other than a toseup Oa a rushing bads tha edge would go to tha 24-man North I squad when 18 bad ran 898 times for 5207 yarda during tha season and a 12 average per try lightly higher than the Tha top torn runners Little All-American I fullback Dick Young with 856 yards fleet halfback Bob McNa-mara of Minnesota with 701 and I All-American Alan (Tha Hone) Aftecha of Wisconsin with ML The best rushers for the SLman I South squad which picked 19 5733 yards ea 782 ground plays are I halfback Wank Eidom of SMU ring champion Oklahoma from playing two postseason games to a row Despite tew public interest to tha fcowl history game 68750 fans turned out to Nebraska set a new Orange Bowl attendance record The game televised and broadcast nationally by CBS wu played to bright weather with a temperature to tha middle 70s Favored by two touchdowns Duke didn't open up until the start of the second quarter Then the Bhw Devils rammed 88 yarda in nine plays to score with Pascal weeping wide to his right far the last 7 yards A 16-yard ran by Pascal and si 11-yard pass from Jer ry Barger to Sonny Sorrell ware the key plays of the drive Fullback Bryant Aldridge set up a second touchdown to giro Duke a 144 halftime margin by Inter file game of stormed ever meat Duka Nebraska Comstock Duke scoring: Kocourek EberdL MOVED Off kle seven more to which ha wu involved In two-man tackles and lost count of the number in which he was in the forefront of a swarm of red-shirt ed Hog defenders Wyatt when asked whether ha would bo representing the Southwest Conference or Southeastern Conference in the 1956 Cotton Bowl (with Arkansas or Tennessee) replied: a good question" But the only answer forthcoming wu that imagine they (Tennessee) are waiting until the coach-r meetings in New Wyatt Texu Tech's Dewitt Weaver Bob Woodruff Minnesota's Murray Warmath all find their names in the hat au successor to Harvey Robinson AU four teamed their football under Gen Bob Neyland at Tennessee and tU four have compiled envious records at major schools Jim Rika now with too FBI in Knoxville Trim homo of the University of Tennessee who wu center on the 1051 Orange Bowl team with Weaver Wyatt and George Cafego now Wyatt's aistant at Arkansas don not claim to have Inside information oa the vacancy But predicting that Wyatt wtU be tha next Teimusu coach Rika wu aa FBI colleague Davey O'Brien a guy who toued the football around at TCU after Sammy Baugh went on to throw returned his signed contract for his for tha Washington Redskins the 19SS season I I Lottner Signs PITTSBURGH Jan ID-Half- back Johnny Lattnar Football League Pittsburgh Steelera today 1 was sun hoping coach would call it for ms but be said Mitchell Dodd explained that Just sent in a lineman and told Wade to toko timo out and think it ovar" Captain Morris who to our mind and vote was the best lineman on the Arid printed out why Tech vis able to move the ball so well in tha second half after bring held scoiriesa in the first 30 minutes were expecting us (o keep up our wide stuff off the belly seriaa 00 sometimes we trapped their two guards and wedged them out so wo could go up the middle" AD-American Bud Brooks who nlayod guard on offense and tackle im defence was the name most often oa the lips of Georgia Tech ilayora as tha toughest Hog line-inaa Coach Wyatt who kept the Ar-kansas dressing room locked against newspapermen until the 100m was almost bare of players put Ms finger on 165-pound Bobby Proctor saying "I know whaa been prouder of a player sad his effort" Proctor filled in lor injured Pres-toa Carpenter who suffered a hurt back la the first half and despite aa injured knee and a gask above hto aye was to on as many aa those who started tha gams Wo counted five plays on which Proctor was the lone toe- ON GROUND Tech's Faith Pays in Bowl Win DALLAS iBraoh and d- Ted Jan 1 Georgia Tex eager of Alabama with 841 at the Nebraska 2L Barger faked passing however (he a pass then fcmtad off to 1 thu the Yankees' The South team 1 4 Barger sneaked for 2 mow then I number gained 1907 yards on flipped a pau to Jwty Kocourd I whQa the Northerners in tha cad sons 11-yard averageie js ihsdehetter Aldridge who broke through teethe today "We believed we could move the baft on tha ground to tha second half" explained Coach Bobby Dodd -And we did" Georgia Tech moved tha ban 355 yards on tilt ground and licked Arkansu 144 played well we have aO year and wu have no alibis" said Coach Bowden Wyatt of the Southwest Conference Ruorbacks Awfafty Ftee Gai Tech played au awfully (hie game and deserved to beat us but very prood of our boys" know" said Dodd "wo be- gained 1407 oa 230 plays Quarterback Bobby Freeman of I Gator Bowl team has tha highest total offense of any ef the game's backa-1132 yards tactud-tog 165 pautog and 367 ruffling Ha will perform for the South The North however claims the 1 back with the best overall aver- Oaky Taylor of Kanus State aSdto'ttaDuke I ami 1 Ccmstock bulled ever for tho En KOr to Period Oil rushing and SSI oa pass inter-1 di ii captions Ml UtXto VKw Mnv Ml s-aide-f Xisa ZM V9M CWw SnSTk HmtU Mi nun os rdksw OMHIMl OrW DmfkUttj UflUr Batata IN SUN BOWL CONTEST Whitfenton Quarterbacks Miners Past ribe 47-20 ISM sue eniWMrta MiOU karnr Van Gnat be Gjatoi Vial Im Dodd's belief: Tha squad became a team ta tha Dike game they beat Arkansu becausa they believed ta tbemsetym "That injury ta Preston Carpenter (ia the second quarter) hart' Wyatt said Bobby Procter played as fine a gams as a coach could ask for" Carpenter pufled a back muscle and didn't play the second ban Turatag Petal Wyatt figured tbs turning point ta the game cam when Mitchell intercepted aa Arkansu pau and brought ft bad to Arkansu That chilled the Porkers' best offensive effort of the second half Georgia Tech stack to the ground ta the second half and scored two touchdowns Yellow Jacket backs hammered straight up tha middle went up the middle a lot more than said Mttchefl wu concentrating an our side stuff" echoed Morris Teak Chances decided to give Arkansu the tittle gains and not take any chancu oa tha long ones" ha added Little Jimmy Thompson 14 148-pound Tech halfback wu an imp that plagued Arkansu defense Thompson's reality i scooter" aaid Wyatt Georgia Tech paid tribute to Bud Brooks All-America guard Arkansu praised the Jackets a Jsetbafl SHAXIU lays wero nuflifled by personal Alton Muiiheml 1 ta earrtos began rip-eama a football team to that Dute fouls on each team gives tha South tha next taff reeh- pg tha Nebraska ltoa apart He game" That wu tha eeventb Tha ragged play and 004egreatag average yards to gaining got way aa ena 20-yard jaunt and I gun the Yellow Jackets played Torn heat took fts ton Ssvaa 1 4Mramtag tad U8 paa ncriw-1 almost In the dear before lost it but we really be-Texu Weston players wars Don Giants hauled him down am a team" Dodd muse helped from the field while Flor-1 Too pass receiver on both equads from behind "I had to tot soma boys go (for it North ond Andy Nacrelli of Another 19-yard oprtot by Pascal breaking training) I know Ida State wu hurt about bad ba Ml tecMw-andtea Smith MrntM 3eMA SUM nr nonaxa ru irtn rax a woraan in iaKyas" iw lar VmSw 'i sw we FfftiUiNi Ydo IJ Sum nMUTiffii torn CiryHwrPiwMr Em NSnto-anm By ROBERT GREEN EL PASO Tax Jan 1 ID-Jesst Whlttontoa a tough smut quarterback ran passed end piloted Texas Weston to its second traiabt Sun Bowl championship today 47-20 rout of Florida State WbiUenton ran far two downs passed for tine more en-ghwered the other two Texu Western scoring drives end kicked five of seven attempted conversions He wu voted the game's satoUndlng player The teams traded first-quarter mans bat At Miners sf Texu Western erupted far 27 points to flu second quarter to wrap up the Mb annul gun before an os-Sasatod MJW Tha Seminotea fast tha service of halfback Leo Corao ta the second quarter Florida State 7 9 9 7-30 Tsxaa Wootsra 7 IT 11 8-47 Florida State (coring: TUuck-downa Musoy Seamstar Odom CoavecrioM Graham Maaooy Toxu Wooten aeorlng: Touchdowns Rutledge 2 Whlttontoa 3 Boh Forrest 2 Dick Fernet Conversions Whittantoa 1 put tbs bail ta position for 1 17-1 whether that had anything ta do yard scoring pau from Barger to I with it or not But I know tho Sonny Sorrell kids became a team after that McKoilhan'a pau interception I The sophomores to that gsma got set up tho touchdown that made confidence" ft 17-7 and before Notauka had Teas Lei Ge wJB receive 599 sad recovered from tha shock of that One of the boys Dodd fat go wu sdeh and toeing toon members 0M giM Dulls won off oa Bobby Thao eon at tha Southeast to toft another scoring drive of 81 yonfa Confortoce's gr atost ground- About 36099 an expected ta 99-1 McKetthu broke loose for two 12- gainers 601 capacity Ladd Stadium for tho yard runs aad Sam Ebardt soared Larry Monte Tack's fine eoa-Ktekoff ta at 14 pm I from the tar and Wads Mttchefl fts star CCST) I Jha Nateaa kicked ffm etora sophomore quarterback Fordham with 25 receptions for 458 yards The South' best is Georgia Tech and Bill Sec nett with 17 catches for 296 yards Members of tha winning squad $509 and expenses Britons Bet Lest LONDON Ju 1 Britoos bet 92196471 leu this year with race-eouroo totefliatora thu they did ta 1861 ft wu announced today Tha total for 1984 WU 168951991 Tha figure however rapmute only part tho money this Ratios bate eu race horvoa Ou-thtrack bookies in Britain collected a hugs parent ago sf tho total Tha Miners performing well under sterling guidance widened the gap to the third quarter From that point an the game got progressively rougher and duller nntfl the two eoechee Mike Brum-befow of Texu Woolen sad Tom Nugent of Florida State tuna an the field to tell tiiatr teams to saw Up ta tha rough stuff Three.