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PAGE SIX-C THE SUNDAY COURIER AND PRESS EVANSVILLE INDIANA SEPTEMBER 24 1961 asser Turns Tide for Miami Wabash Kentucky Falters Li Last Half LEXINGTON Ky (UPI) Sophomore sensation George Mira injured in the first period came back in the second half Saturday night to drive Miami of Florida 91 yards for the touchdown that beat Ken tucky 14-7 The Hurricane quarterback from Key Went ill re-entered the game when tackle Bill Watts recovered a fumble by halfback Gary Stewart that choked off a Kentucky touchdown drive on the Miami nine-yard line Thia was midway in the third period On he first play Mira lined a pass to sophomore end Kick SpineiH who reversed his field and ran to the Kentucky 43 before he was hauled down from behind Two later it was Mira faking a handoft and going 31 yards himself to the Kentucky 16 and he capped the winning By TONY CIIAMBLIN CRAWFORDSVILLE Ind am disappointed" Paul Beck said with a sigh as a quiet group of Aces took their showers after Saturday's 12-7 loss to Wabash no question about it we were Just outfought and outplayed Our blocking and tackling was off and the offense well it Just wasn't working I guess the boys took Wabash for granted They were playing their first game and we were favored but it didn't look like we deserved to Bede wasn't sure the fact Wa-muh was playing its first gams was a factor In the favor scouted at Haaever real the veteraa coach Mid we couldn't scout them so we didn't know what to expert from their da-' fie wing "They were fired up for their new coach (Ken Kueffel) and we played so bad we gave 'em encouragement Yea I am very The defensive (day of ends Larry Duncan and Rod Tepool end guard John Meredith drew compliment from Beck suesa we held them in check pretty well on he said you've gotta score the DOWN FOE FIRST DOWN went Purdue's Don DiGravio on this Saturday action in the Boil- emaker-Y ashiugton game in Seattle Ilia blockers were Hoy 'Walker (38) Forest Farmer (8) and Ed Behanna (53) The Boilermakers used two field goala to win the game 33-G 1 cin StatMic Miami nrm ml sf tMl I I YmS FmsIIhS drive with a five-yard touch-' down pan to end Bill Miller who made a scooping catch In the end zone Mira completed only three of hia pasaes in his heralded aerial duel with Keiftucky quarterback Jerry 1 while Woolum was hitting 17 nf 33 for more than 170 yards But two of Mira's led directly to that winning touchdown The- difference lay in lack of a solid running attack to balance Woolum's passing whereas Miami was a constant threat on the ground with the running of sophomore half John Bennett senior full-back Ken Voilenweider and Mira Kentucky end Jerry Woolum wept SO yards to score the first time Kentucky hsd the ball as Woolum completed tour passes all of them far first downs in key situations Fullback Gary Cochran scored the touchdown on an lie yard sweep first serious threat an 83-yard drive to the Kentucky five ended when Wildcat tackle Bob Butler Intercepted Bennett's pass on the two-yard line late in the first period Bennett was throwing because Mira had been racked up hard early in the drive and saw no THIS PICTURE is worth a thousand words to National League publicist Dave (Irote as long 'an-the words are Swamped with requests for World Series tickets lie used this method to inform ticket seekers at the llcd-Oiaut week-end series in Cincinnati (irote office is in Cincinnati North Posey Raps Castle as Embry Cook Lead Charge By MICKEY PORTER BOONVILLE North Posey's relentless Vikings parlayed the elusive runs of Tom Embry and the hard-nosed efforts of Freddy Cook into a 34-13 Victory over Castle here Saturday night Embry a slippery Junior the ball from midfield to the Castle 8-yard stripe where reserve halfback Ernie Colbert shook loose by a crushing Cbok block skirted end for the score Both teams abandoned defense In the second stanza with Brener picking up both hia 6-P inters and Embry tallying his first Houck booted over one of two conversion attempts for Castle and Cook ran over both hia inrer Mjin ms action the rest of the half The second Hurricane push wu more successful quar-tertack Bobby Weaver befud-l died Kentucky defenses with tries to put the Vikings on the option plays on a 58-yard drive long end of a 1413 count The only pass came when Mia-JJ North Posey whose faith In nd wu in a fourth and eight Its ground attack necessitated ituation on (he Kentucky 10 III have la awk Weaver aad his The (-foot 177 paaader uld he wu eoafMmt Ida would wia wouldn't have been able to do it without our he mI4 Corrigan particularly singled out center A1 Kpoenski guard Conrad Hardwick and hia big brother Dick a second unit senior tackle and kickoff specialist The apple-cheeked Weaver who could easily be mistaken for a player la the steamy dressing room pralsed his assistant coaches for readying the sophomore laden Wildcats for the Big Ten team's Invasion triumph over Kentucky in six K-State used 11 sophomores to- throw wu tipped by a Kentucky defender but John Bahen grubbed tt and went to the two from where Bennett piled over on the next play and Chuck Livingston kicked Uw tying point It was Miami's first victory of the season after an opening 10-7 defeat by Pitt and its first Am to too eoafldeace wa all K- MANHATTAN Kan ID-Two young Men in the Kansu Stale dressing room were among the calmest In the midst of the tumult following Qw Wildcats' surprising 149 football victory over Inmans Saturday Larry Corrigan the 19-year-old Kansu City Kan sophomore who gained glory in hia first K-State game and 30-year-old coach Doug Weaver who uw hia team win ila first big both claimed not to be surprised at the upset victory Gsrrlgaa whose two teach-dowa passes aad cool field gra-eralaMp belled hia lark e( ex perlcace saM the victory was For Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE Vs -ID Virginia wOn a football game at last While a frenized aun-aoaked crowd of 18000 jumped for only one pass it incomplete launched three touchdown drives in the second half and cashed in on all of them The first and third were set up by Cook fumble recoveries with the other being made possible after a fourth-down gamble by Caslle foiled Cook scored the first Embry the second and quarterback Haines the third All were two-yurders and were instrumental in pushing stale 1o 03 CORING ITT 14 I II halfback paced the Viking pay dirt parade with a pair of touchdowns on runs of 49 and 2 yards But Cook the lanky 143-pound senior did everything but sell tickets as he tallied once ran four extra points set up two touchdowns with fumble re- Statlntic MSEY CAITLX 11 11 aesesesssesasessfl eesaataeee I ssseseestTl tSiSf tsstessfl If eessss 0 BOSS 1RR jrmNIflR eeaesii Ml I 1 Opp ImHh lank ptaalli coveriei and had a hand in roughly 50 per cent of his team's tackles Despite the seemingly lop aided score and the sterling efforts turned in by Embry and Cook the game wu In reality close Castle had a pair of fearless backs in Ihe persons of Charlie Brener and Larry Houck and a capable pass director in Ed-die Le master but what up front that counts and Knights didn't have it They generated numerous scoring drives but slipshod blocking and the uncanny pursuit of Cook killed all but (wo of them Braner a 165-pound speedster whose drives could only be topped by gang tackling picked up both Castle TD's the first on-a 52-ysrd Jaunt and the-last on a one-yard dive North Posey whose slate now stands at 1-3 drew first blood Up late In the initial first quarter when Embry and Cbok brought I 17J bgcic iik! In called the third down pass play that ended In a Wabash Interception Aces drove for a touchdown late in the game were three or four pattens we could have run on the he said chose the wrong Quarterbacks John A ramies nd Dave Beaaett csmplrtrd five ef 14 puses for the Aces laeludiag four ef five hi the arcoad half hut their ieuce la mixing plays Berk said he will te alienate the pair Over In the Little Gianta dressing room Kueffel was sopping up congratulations with a smile as wide as the Wabash real proud of those he said beat a fine ball team The game could have gone either Kueffel 37 came to Wabash this year from a prep school in Lawrenceville In five years at Lawrenceville he had three undefeated teams wasted the ehaUraga of allege Kueffel ex-phlaed Ma move He iset com-pfetely aohmlllar with the college raaks He was head fresh-mas coach at the University of Fraasylvania la INI aad INI He brought the single wing to Wabash and with Saturday's victory equalled the entire win total of last club Kuffel la a Harvard graduate with a doctorate in English But first he'z a football coach only lecture in the he laid the other months be too busy with Eimeups rum XAUSCK WILL Barth lire MEREHTCK RAYMOND-WftahL Cmr WEsata a mhml gmrmkadii ABAMOWKZ ta HlSkartu UPOC BOHLEDEIL Ha ni Pac KacalM I artaikaih REEL Onan WABASH Jjta-o WHITS BEAL WUta Taeklaa-BYEaS VESACHTEST a Carmaa Kara ENBICOTT EOLLER I Eartaatt Barta REPLES I-BLACEBURH STONE Ctanr Rice Whips QTJ 7C 9 u9 1 HOUSTON (UPI) Quarterback Billy Cox struck at the precise time tor two touchdown passes Saturday night to guide Rice University to a 163 victory over Louisiana State University before a record crowd of 73000 dux failed to fill the air with passes as aomd had expected but when he chose to peas he picked the exact time In the two touchdown efforts by the Owls while defense appeared to be at its weakest Ia addition to the two scoring drives the Owls' Butch Biume made a 37-yard field goal toward the end of the final period The Tigers only core was field goal climax-inf their finest scoring effort flat opened the second half Ga that drive which featured passes of 11 and 15 yards by LSU quarterback Lynn Amedee to halfback Jerry Stovall the Tigers penetrated to the Rice 14 and Wendell Harris completed the 35-yard field Rial after three attempt! to reach the goal foiled Patriots Push Bills'byTico BUFFALO NY iD Two quick third period touchdowns and Cino Cappeiletti's three field goals provided the Boston Patriots with a 23-31 victory over the Buffalo Bills In an American Football League game Saturday night day kids were ready to play today from the start" Weaver Mid proved they could capitalize on (he breaks when they scored after recovering that first Across the way an ham sms (Ue- downcast Phil Dickens Mid he felt his club wu fist and foiled to play up to Its potential However he refused to detract from the K-Slale team's effort "Their defeBM really was lot tougher thaa we oSnr Haaeack Fimsumi from Indio Calif seized a lead They have a floe ball emSCUkT1- at the end of the second round ma kmm nimni jgiWo Sacremento Valley Dickens refused to comment Open Golf tournament 00 Individual Saturday ancea until he erM-smar Marta Um Miss Hanson thanks to a birdie tunity to check the gams Lima -r A caaSrSeamkartaa on the final hole scored an even JvHiwas Suite in Maiiluittan Knii Saturday State piiar Tom Dowell ThelounamenTends today A 21-6 Win rsatr Martas: CSM I ma: Fat- rLJ? ssi 1 Cutlr Marlas: braaw (I) II na 1 -iwmw smim idividuEi player perform- todieettte imi fibST HOOSIER BILL QUINTER employed liia rijjlit kucc as a hackboniil tv lnHUI on to a seeoTul period pass iu 1 1-8 loss to Butler Compiles Early Lead Coasts by Bradley But tiie Bulldogs could do little with the passing of Braves quarterback Ron Hermann who completed 20 of 38 fbr two touchdowns and a total of 380 Joy the Cavaliers broke their record-tying 28-game toeing streak nd gave new coach Bill Elaii an auspicious send oft by defeating William and Mary 31-6 Saturday It was the first victory for Virginia since it upset Duke 15-13 in this same Scott Stadium Sept 37 1936 Between that afternoon and this one the Cavaliers had equalled Kansas Slate'i major college record for nonwiop failure YMCA To Hold Fitness Clinic Dr Cureion professor of physical education at the University of Illinois will eon-duct a physical fitness clinic for adults at the Evansville YMCA Oct 6-8 Reservations tor the Friday Mannaer nf Ytwr and Saturday sessions and in- niana8eroJ 1 ear -dividual testing and counseling MONTREAL Larry Shepsrd on personal filncaa are being of the pennant-wnning Columbua accepted at $1230 per person Jets Saturday wu named the In-which includes a Friday dinner tomulinnal League's manager of and Saturday luncheon the year And without a first down until the final four minute Knight who racked up 95 of Valparaiso's 184 yards (Hi the ground scored on a 19-yard run in the second quarter He then booted hia tint of two conversions He went six yards for the final touchdown in the fourth period BallStateTies EMichWiih0 MUNCIE Ind ID-Ball State and Eastern Michigan fought to a scoreless football tie Sat- urday as four field goal three by Ball State foiled Neither team could get closer to the goal than the 12-yabd line Ball Stale was there once in the first half and Eastern made it in the second Max Smith tried all three of the Cardinal field goal attempts Two were wide and the third was blocked Norman field goal try for the Huron was wide yards DePauwGets BLOOMINGTON 111 ID A recovered fumble In the second quarter led to the only touch down Saturday night a De-Pauw opened Its football season with an 6-0 victory over Illinois Wesleyan Valpo9s Knight Has Some Night VALPARAISO Ind ID Halfback John Knight was one-man gang Saturday night looting all the Valparaiso points in a 14-i defeat of Hope The hapless Flying Dutch-men from Michigan were held DOWN AND OUT out of tlie lialflmek C'liarley Bren-iici' gi-ls first aid fivmi tin ieiiiu physician (right) and roach Don Whiteside after a third-quarter knee injury in last game with Xortk Posey (Photo by Bruec Baumann).