The Commercial Appeal from Memphis, Tennessee • 87

"nr A Long Line Of Aetion With James Earl Wright (II) Diving For Memphis State1! Second Touchdown wary pa one Bee PORTS jjTHE COMMERCIAL APPEAL Michigan State Backs Rout Wolverines 28-0 Slow-Starting Rebels Smash Houston 47-7 ir MEMPHIS SUNDAY Attack Of Ole Miss Slmply-ffaif And UCLA Overwhelms Cougars In Third Period ByfeAVID BLOOM Ole Mlu iturted end finished with length-of-the-ficld touch downs In clamping a 47-7 vise on Mike Heffner put on a dazzling hapless Houston In the afternoon show In torrid weather Satur jny amj jo ucLA to a 28-21 victory over a gallant Vanderbilt team making a sentimen- half of Crump Stadium's football double heflder yesterday Memphis State bruslied aside Mississippi College Ends Streak 22-6 By MICHAEL SIMMONS Istdsl is Tks OMuwrelal AspmI CLINTON Mias Oct Mississippi College put an end to Southwestern's three-game winning streak Saturday night 224 But the Lynx had the consolation of scoring the first touchdown of the football season against the Choctaws who now have won five In a raw foie year Mississippi College wee In ctntrol most of the scoring In every quarter except the third In that period Southwestern made its touchdown on the game's most electrifying Messers Boot Mississippi Southern 217 In the tal Journey to the Far West night half The temperature on the play- For most of two periods Houston made It a battle and actually led the Rebels 7-6 early in the second quarter Then the Inevitable happened Just as the sundrenched crowd of 13610 antici- Cted The No 1 team In out-11 was out there doing a day's work and getting tougher as the day wore on The third period was the back-breaker for the Texans Ole Mlu scored 30 points with the first aeoond and third teams participating It was hard to tell one from the other and the middle nuin In the quarterbacking triumvirate Glynn Grirfing proved the moat effective of the three He hit on nine of 13 passes and got 173 yards out of them Krb Record Broken Eighty-two of those yards were covered In a record-breaking connection with Chuck Morris to provide Ole Miss with Its SUIT fSala WEAK WllSaaM Spartans Crush Michigan In Battle Of Giants Before 103198 Br Tbs AiwrisUi 7ns ANN ARBOR Mich Oct 14 State powered by flock of fast bocks took a Ions stride toward Big Ten and possible national honors by crushing Michigan 280 Saturday bo-fora 10349S Dewey Lincoln and Harm Johnson both sophomores and Georgs Salmas a 183-pound Junior fullback led the attack behind the poised quarterbacking of Pete Smith Michigan State's fluid and fast defense kept the Spartan goal line uncrossed holding the Wolverines for four downs from the State three In the third period Battle Of Gloats This wu a battle of football giants both lines averaged round 225 pounds In a game that drew a gate of 1400000 and 1200000 for national television rights Smith Insisted on ploying although hla father died only loot Saturday while State wu beating Stanford 31-3 Although passing had not been a Spartan strong point Smith set up the second touchdown with a ton to Matt Snorton another sophomore that was good for 45 yards Smith passed for the third touchdown then set up the Spartans' fourth score with a fourtlvdown pass that gained IS yards to Michigan's 17 Early Break Michigan State got an early break when Bennie McRae who otherwiu wu the outstanding star In Michigan's backfleld fumbled on the 32 The Spartans pounded the right side of Michigan's line to the two from where Gary Bellman carried over From then the Spartans dominated the game except for Michigan' 63-yard drive that started the second half and wound up a scant foot from the Stats goal line Michigan also lost a touchdown In the second period when a 23-yard sprint by McRae wu called back for backfleld in motion McMfaa SM 14 7 7-tt MS Ball aw I na (Baaituttar Saiaraa 17 na (Snadaraitar JH' Charon 19 pan boat 9arik (SraMaMtttr lurk) MS ialhnan I na (BraaSataitaf ISLIN riawi iaiafetsM 7 OCTOBER 15 1961 Carries FSU Past Georgia TALLAHASSEE Fla Oct Doug Messer sophomore place kicking specialist from LaGrsnge Gs booted an 18 yard field goal Saturday night to propel the Florida State Semlnoles to a 3-0 upset win over Georgia The gome ended in a nearriot when a fight broke out between the two teams In mid-field ss Georgia was trying desperately to get play underway Both squads rushed of! the bench to Join In the fracas and spectators poured out onto the field The riot subsided quickly however when groundskeepers turned the sprinkler system on and sprayed the crowd The game played before a record crowd of 21200 was a bruising defensive battle most of the way with Georgia threatening mightily In the closing minutes wily to be repelled by the FSU defense Fred Grimes defensive end for Florida State saved the night for the Semlnoles when he recovered a Georgia fumble as the Bulldogs drove goalward In the final four minutes SUM I Top 10 At A Glance How the top 10 teams in the Associated Press college football poll did Saturday: 1 MImMmI fccflt Horntoa 47-7 1 lava kwt ladlana J7-4 1-Alabama boat SUM 14-7 4 Tnaa beat Oklahoma 11-7 MIcMtaa Mala but MIcMaaa IM gjl MlcMaia Ion 7 OMa SUM bool Cll- Sartor Ion la Arkimas tt-ll HL ManrlaaS Ion la North CarallM Fumble Brings Win For Gophers 10-3 Bobble Enables Defeat EVANSTON III Oct Hero of two previous Northwestern victories soph ullback BUI Swingle's third quarter fumble led to Minnesota's touchdown In a 10-3 Big Ten football upset of the Wildcats Saturday After Swingle's bobble wu re-coverpd by star Gopher tackle Bobby Bell on Northwestern's 11 the big play came when 212-pound Minnesota quarterback Sandy Stephens gained 10 inches an fourth down for a tint down on Northwestern's one On the next play Stephens dove over the middle for the touchdown and fullback Judge Dickson converted for a 7-3 Minnesota lead Five minutes later still In the third period Dickson booted a 31-yard field goal after a fumble by the jittery Wildcats was recovered by end John Campbell on 19 Northwestern took 3-0 lead in the first period on Dave Damm'a 22-yard field goal M'ltX (Dlckaaa kick) TPI EDGES 0E 13-12 Wait Kentucky Misses Late Field Goal BOWLING GREEN Ky Oct Tennessee Tech kept alive Its hopes to repest ss Ohio Valley Conference football champion Saturday defeating Western Kentucky 13-12 when the Hilltoppers missed a 15-yard field goal with 24 seconds left to play With 3:30 left In the final period Western took a punt on the Tech 43 and drove to the 10 Freshman Sam Clark's attempted field goal from the 15 went wide and Tech took over to run out the clock The victory left the Eagles with a perfect 3-0 OVC mark and evened Western's mark in conference ploy at 2-2 nitji Jluh 4 MM Iran ruts (kick im Irma Daiftir IkiTfd) Aittadaaii 4101 (run Major Grid Scores LOCAL Memphis State 81 MlMianlppi Southern 1 Ole Mbs 47 Houtm 7 SOUTH Mississippi College SS Memphis Southwestern 6 A iibere IS ChettaBooge 1 Alabama 86 a State 7 Georgia Tech 81 Duke 6 LRU 47 South Csrotlaa I North Carol loa 1( Marytead I Teenessee 81 Talsa 6 The Citadel IS William Mary 8 Virginia 14 5111 7 Wake Forest 17 Ctemsoe 18 Mississippi State 88 Arkaasaa Stale Florida State 8 Georgia 6 Keeterhy 81 Kaasas State I Richmond 16 George Washington 15 Tutaao 87 Virginia Tech 14 SOUTHWEST Texan 88 Oklahoma 7 Arkaasaa 83 Baylor 18 WlrMta SS North Texas State 14 Texas Tech 16 TCU 6 Rlee 19 Florida 19 Texas AAM 55 Trinity (Texas) 6 EAST Army 19 Pena State 6 Colgate 15 Harvard 9 CohimMa 11 Tale 9 Dartmouth 14 Brown 9 Holy Crow 89 Boston 7 Prtacetoa 9 Penasylvaala 8 Navy II Cornell 7 Villanova 86 Bhffalo 9 West Virginia 80 FUMwrgh 6 MIDWEST Kansan 81 Iowa State 7 Michigan State SS Michigan 6 Minnesota It Northwestern I Purdue 19 Miami (Ohio) 6 Ohio Stale 44 Illinois 9 Notre Demo Southern California 9 Air Force 6 Cincinnati 6 Missouri 16 Oktahonw State 9-Iowa 87 Indiana Syracuse 86 Nebraska 6 Wisconsin SI Oregon State 86 FAR WEST Utah 81 Brigham Young 89 Wyoming ll Colo State 7 UCLA 85 Vanderbilt 81 Utah State 41 New Mexico 7 California SI Washington 14 Washington State Idaho 9 Stanford 17 Sea Jose State 6 Syracuse Rallies POTTSTOWN Pa Oct The Syracuse Nats overhauled the Philadelphia Waiv riors with a minute and one second left In the final period and cored a 109-107 victory In a National Basketball Association exhibition Saturday night Alabama Wallops CState 26-7 Crimson Rolls To Fourth Consecutive Victory TUSCALOOSA Ala Oct Nationally ranked Alabama feU behind on the scoreboard for the first time this season then rallied on the bulla-eye passing of Pit Trammell and walloped North Carol Ins State 26-7 Saturday Trammel a senior quarterback passed 12 yards to Richard WUUamsin lor Alabama's first touchdown and two yards to Bill Battle for the second wiping out a North Carolina State lead that first stood at 7-0 and then at 7-6 Trammell got Bama's third touchdown on a five-yard run In the fourth quarter giving the heavily favored Crimson Tide its first semblance of safe Sophomore fullback Ed Ver-sprille piled on the fourth touchdown with a 45-yard galop in the closing minutes It was the short passes of Gabriel that carried State's WoUpack to a 74) lead in the second quarter He completed tlx In a row for 49 yards then sneaked the lost yard for the touchdown iS jjjfc ptM from ThummU (n AJft-Tramcl I im (Oiivtr pus fraa Atuaiaim orin 4 34000 nm (nm falM) HARVARD DEFEATED 15-0 Colgate Utilizes Ground Gam For Victory CAMBRIDGE Mass Oct 14 Underdog Colgate beat Harvard at Its own ground game 154) Saturday with Red Raiders Dan Keating and Jim Heilman supplying most of the fonbsll fireworks Foregoing the pass much of the way Colgate nevertheless cored its first tuochdown on a six-yard Keating to Heilman toss The combination worked for 40 yards In setting up the clinching third period score which Keating registered on one-yard sneak Entering the game Harvard ranked 10th nationally in both rushing offense and rushing defense By halftime Colgate had 117 yards on the ground I rilmaa i aim (ram Ktat list I shmso (Htttmaa son (lMO MIlMN) first score Grilling hlt Morris-twice on plunges of two and six yards Vanderbilt scored Its first touchdown with 17 seconds to go In the first half on a 9-yard bullet throw from quarterback Hank Lesesne to Jeff Starling Lezcsne found the target again in the second half completing a long throw to Tom Garden for 58 yards and a touchdown with a 17-yardcr on the Ole Miss 35 and the halfback from Gulfport outsped every Cougar pursuer In going the distance The old mark of 81 yards was set by Merle Hapes and Junle IIovlous against Vanderbilt in 1939 Then at Utter end Houston was hit with another blockbuster Perry Lee Dunn whipped one down the middle that bounced a 67-yard pass-run hookup from quarterback Vance Strange to halfback Bill Harwood Big Edge to Chert Otherwise' the' Lynx were held pretty well in check They gained a net of only eight yards nthe ground By hitting eight out of 25 passes Southwestern picked up 149 yards In the air Mississippi College meanwhile ground out 347 yards three splendid goal line stands keeping the Choctaws from adding to the scon Mississippi College sewed In the first two minutes after the recovery of a blocked quick kick when fullback Thames tallied from the two In the second quarter Thames scored again and Alton Greenlee ran for a two-point conversion that made the halftime score 14-0 TD Cloches It Southwestern's lightning thrust In the third period put the Lynr beck in the game but Mississippi College put the decision away with another touchdown In the fourth quarter This one came on a seven-yard run by Charles Garrett Clem Stovall ran for the final two points Southwestern has an open date next week end and then plays Maryville Oct 28 at Maryville Tran MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE Utl Poundi Himia McKIk- Ltfl Brilud Samoa Pm Rllht Md VlMoiT jBEbAusps Akin SOUTHWESTERN fiteas? Doufh LtR inNi-Tanin Twi Tamil coyW to" 44 It Bird Disk Slihl McMp WM kTairtft I (back iehat Manlry Sowtn Main Poww MiMlMiMi Co(lM 4 (- jouthwMUn I I i Harwood 7 put Irwa SMmc 7 raa (SwatH raa) Ing field at one stage was 110 degrees and the atadlum first aid station reported a nearrecord of 225 persons treated for heat prostration The 19 -year -old 187-pound Haffner contributed a brilliant 63-yard touchdown run In the the third quarter which wrecked any hope Vandy may have had Thus ended the Commodores' first appearance In history In Lns Angeles In a contest arranged by the late Henry 'Red' Sanders a man who coached with distinction at both universities Sanders died In 1958 Bouncing back from losses to Michigan and Ohio State UCLA got off to a quick lead and never trailed The Bruins took the opening kickoff and marched 75 yards In 20 plays for a touchdown Haffner shared honors with the tailback Bobby Smith who scored UCLA-Small I nan (Smltk iwij AlnuMrr I ran (Smut Srailiaa (para fillrd) Will nan (kirk falltd) tTU-IIrrnrr SI nan (Andcrwn kick) burden sun (ram Lminc aan fra Ctevdaml (Lmmm nm) AUndaKn: 11704 LSU Overpowers Gamecocks 42-0 Scoring Punch Too Much For South Carolina COLUMBIA Oct Louisiana State's hardhitting football team scored In every period and overpowered South Carolina Saturday 424) In an lnler-conference game 'iW losing Gameencks of the Atlantic Const Conference could pAt cope with the brilliant play of backs Jerry Stovall Jimmy Field and Wendell Harris and the alert defensive work of such linemen as tackle Bob Richards who set up two touchdowns with fumble recoveries The first LSU score came In the opening period when Jim Cbsten'i pltchout to Billy Gam-brell bobled free and was smothered by Richards cm the South Carolina 12 Burly Bo Campbell slemnled his way from there to the 3 After three futile rushes Earl Gras collected the required several Inches for the touchdown Richards recovered another bad pltchout rthle one from Dave Sowell In the second period on the 1 Fbllback Buddy Hamlc took it over Stovall later scared twice and intercepted a pats while who kicked rfjl six ran for a touchdown and set up another with an Interception 'aUnti (tfwfljjud?) 6W lorrU I mil kick) off the hands id a Houston defender and Into the arms of Larry Smith who completed a 73-yard day with a 40-yard sprint accompanied by the music of the siren ending the game That aophomore-to-snphomore connection brought the total passing yardage to 351 a Southeastern Conference record The old mark was 343 by Georgia Tech against Georgia in 1944 Houston's score at the start of the second period came as an artermath of a long-gainer too After Wes Sullivan had missed the point after the Morris score Houston lost the ball regained it at Us 17 and went all the way Cougar Passes Pay From the IS Billy Roland deposited a pass In the hands of halfback Bill McMUlan at his 30 and McMillan went all of the way to the Rebel 22 before Morris hauled him down Six plays later Roland ran right and threw to Larry Broussard for the touchdown Eddie Mltrhamore kicked Houston ahead 7-6 The Houston moment' of glory lasted nearly 10 minutes Then Doug Elmore at the end of 58-yard advance led by Billy Ray Adams catapulted over guard for the go-ahead score Chuck Tempter id Memphis kicked it to 13-7 The 20 points In the third period were earned like this: Elmore passed to Woody Dabbs from 21 yards out at the end of a 70-yard drive Dabbs catching the ball on hla fingertips all by himself in the northwest comer Tempfer kicked the score to 20-7 Grlfflng threw to Wes Sullivan for eight yards and a score to cap 55-yard advance and Sullivan kicked the extra point for the first play after the kickoff Perry Lee Dunn pounced on a lateral that McMillan dropped at the six then rolled the final four yard lie missed psss for two extra points the score stayed 33-7 The first touchdown of the fourth period -came on another -Grlfflng pass this time to Dabbs "for 25 yards down the middle the Reba moving 87 yards on the advance Gritting passed to A Holloway for two points end the tally was 41-7 Smith's lout scoring run brought i long afternoon of Houston frustration to a conclusion Knee New Worry But Appears Only Bruise James Earl Wright's ofMnJured knee Is still a doubtful matter but Dr Woolley sold list night It appeared to be Just a bruise Wright was hurt early In the fourth quarter of last night's game with Mississippi Southern He had been shaken up and assisted from the field even earlier but returned to handle the Memphis State offense He also got back In action to handle the quarterbacking knee Injury but following the his stork consisted of handing off to fullback Dave Caslnelli four times for the final 20 yards In the clinching third touchdown drive CsalneUl Responds With Wright ailing the burden of the offense fell to Caslnelli and the burly sophomore responded with the best night of his 104 yards In 14 carries to lead all ground gainers Wright went Into the gome the nation's leading total offense player He gained 67 yards In 13 rushing attempts and completed two of six passes for 49 additional yards His 19 play total was good for 116 total yards Ilia opponent in the heralded duel of quarterbacks Southern's Don FuelL gained 49 yards in 20 rushes and hit 10 of 20 passes for 90 yards or 139 yards in 40 Ploys- Coaching Commeeto Memphis State Cbsch Billy Murphy said he thought his entire team played wen and was alert'' when It hid to be Southern Coach Thsd Tic Vann was a bit more talkative He said: 1 thought we hod awfully bad luck In the beginning Intercepted passes and fumbles hurt us but I wouldn't want to take anything away from Memphis State That's a real good ball club Wright did his part but you have to five credit to the Memphis State fine especially on the goal line It Mocked well down there Things could have been different If we'd cashed in on that first touchdown opportunity We might have gotten too high fop the game We were boateq by a good club and don't think the score Indicates the Davidson Wins 21-7 DAVIDSON Oct 14 Alert Davidson made the most of its scoring opportunities Saturday to best Presbyterian 21-7 fit JUST AN65HM WORK for Ole Miit Walter Kinnebrew (25) who' shares the bench with a teammate and a yawn with the world Other Robs are Bobby Robinson (71) and Robert Upchurch (52) 1 rims by firt Griffith NN A fl ff as i NAMi Kill.