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Prap Chatter Page 8 Woods and Waters Page 9 The Knoxville News-Sentinel Dyergrom Page 5 World Series News Page 2 Section KNOXVILLE (2) TENNESSEE SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 4 1959 Etter-Paced Vols Clout Maroons 22-6 Pinpoint Pass-Etter to LaSors Gate for Vols U-T Capitalizes on State Errors Stage Is Set for Showdown With Undefeated Ga Tech By FRANK (RED) BAILES Opportunist Tennessee turned a fumble and two pass interceptions into touchdowns added a safety on a blocked punt and rode home on an Orange cloud' to a 22-6 victory over Mississippi State yesterday The victory coupled with Geor- given his Orange and White uniform mainly for his place-kicking talents scored two touchdowns fired a 45-yard pass to wingback Ken Waddell and made a sensational over-the-shoulder intercep-lion of a State pass to highlight his activity gia Tech's 16-6 win over Clemson in Atlanta set the stage for a showdown between the two undefeated surprise Southeastern Conference powers at Shields-Watkins Field Saturday Gene Fitter the smallest football player on Ihe field stepped into a starring role when Vol tailback Bill Majors was knocked groggy early in Ihe first quarter The 167-pound Eller who was Sophs Lead Tech Past Clemson Gritty Jacket Defense Handles Tigers 16-6 Recoils With Welch Harris After Mathis Runs Kickoff 99 ards ATLANTA Oct 3 Bill Mathis startled Georgia Tech with a 99-yard touchdown dash but the Yellow Jackets rode superior speed and gritty defense to a 16-6 football victory today The loss was the first of the season for Clemson which entered the game ranked sixth nationally Tech rated No 7 is undefeated in three outings Two sophomore halfbacks John- Etter Almost Missed Out on 4 His 9 Day nv Welch and Bobby Gene Harris were key men in Tech's offense expected to suffer from the loss of their regular halfbacks to injuries Harris got Tech's first Tom Siler News-Sentinel Sport Editor Officials Have "Flan Spelling Defeat for Rolh Vols and Mississippi Stale DON'T LET ANYBODY tell you Tennessee won a football game yesterday The score was Tennessee 22 Mississippi State 6 for the record but the officials "won" the game They observed "flag day" at Shields-Watkins Field and in doing so "defeated" both teams and the 26895 cash customers They meant well I'm sure But it was just one of those overzealous jobs of handkerchief-dropping that finally bogged down both teams and made what could have been an entertaining afternoon an almost interminable one in the hot sunshine Referee Chiirky Bowen and his four assoeiates stepped off a total of 21 yards Several other penalties were declined Tennessee once spurned a 15-yard penalty for clipping and a half dozen others were shortened because they were near the goal line AH In all the penalties meted out hit close to 250 Sometimes it was a fast i 1 1 other times a slow whistle and on one occasion there was no nepd for a flag at all Coach Bowden Wyatt on an out-of-bounds play dispatched Tom Husband to relieve Ray Moss as a linebacker The sub cost Tennessee five yards despite the fact that Husband was a perfectly legal substitute The penalties it should be added hastily did nothing to hasten the downfall of the visiting Maroons Nor did they help the visitors Tennessee was a vastly superior team The penalties simply turned a briskly-contested battle into a morass of delays and inaction NEITHER COACH was anxious to put a public blast on the officials "There was some awfully hard hitting out there" observed Coach Wyatt think they figured they'd need to calm things down a hit with penalties Piling on was the major cause of the penalties" Coach Walker was equally cautious in what he said to newspapermen But it's my hunch that this set of officials will get several bad marks when Wyatt and Walker send in reports to the SEC office COACH WYATT was elated as he put it to "get that one behind us You never know what to expect when you've been as keyed up as our gang was last week We did a few things much better and as always we've got a lot to do before we can be ready for Georgia Tech invades Shields-Watkins Field Saturday COACH WYATT spent a busy afternoon handling traffic on tailbacks and when the day was done he was pretty happy about the gradual development of the quartet Bill Majors was addled by a vicious tackle In the UPI TelepHolo UP FOR TECH Georgia Tech quarterback Marvin Tibbetts (15) is up in the air about something snarling over his shoulder ot Clemson defenders as he dives for short gain in Tech's 16-6 victory Thanks Doe That dancing little No 43 wearing a Tennessee football uniform In yesterday's conquest of Mississippi State almost missed the double-wing party Gene Etter No 1 in a squadron of Vol heroes suffered a painful finger injury in the Auburn game The little finger on his right hand was In a splint until Thursday and had three stitches in it until yesterday morning Etter able to handle a football all except in his left hand Even during Friday's light signal drill he ran along behind a unit The stitches were removed Saturday morning and Trainer Mickey and the team physician Dr Brashear made the derision then to let Etter play And he played! Major College Grid Scores The officials off more yardage than either learn gained on the ground There were 21 penalties called mosl of them 15-yard violations Mississippi Slate was penalized 11 times for 117 yards Tennessee 10 times for 101 State's flashy double-wing offense was grounded by the Vols' relentless defensive play which forced the Maroons into many mistakes in the rugged battle before 26895 fans in the 82-degree weaiher Bailes Sophomore tailback Glenn Glass did some sparkling for the Vol fans in a fourth-quarter splurge which almost resulted in another score The drive after moving to the I was halted at the M-S 4 Tennessee met the first challenge of the double-wing as Mike LaSorsa tagged Pat Shute for a yard loss at the State 47 and Bill Hill missed on a third-down pass Bill Schoenrock the punting specialist was rushed into battle and he put one into orbit The ball sailed over the goal Majors missed the snap from center on the first play and lost six Two plays later Majors quick-kicked 44 yards lo Hill at the Stale 40 Here Tennessee got its first big break Hill hobbled the punt finally picked it up and fumbled when hit by Cooler Shields at the 4ft LaSorsa recovered and the Vols headed goalward Majors got five yards but was dazed when stopped by Willie Daniel Enter Etter The gritty 5-9 demon from Chattanooga put offense in motion two plays later He hit Cotton Letner with a 10-yard strike at the State 25 Etter sent Neyle Sollee into the line next but the Maroons were waiting stopping him cold Etter faded to his left spotted LaSorsa at the 13 and fired LaSorsa made a great leaping catch to haul it in State was penalized half the distance of the goal to the 6 for a personal foul after Etter had rolled up seven yards Linebacker Tom Goode defensive demon all afternoon halted Sollee on a wedge after Etter had moved it to the 2 Gene then scampered through left tackle standing up to score Letner kicked the extra point Eight minutes had elapsed The safety came 90 seconds later A 15-yard holding penalty and Daniel's fumble moved State back to the 25 after the kickoff Joe Lukowski broke through the Maroon line blocked punt with a vicious smash and the ball headed toward the end zone Letner attempting to recover the ball for a touchdown knocked it out of the end zone and the Vols had a two points The second Vol TD was set up by the Vol defenders Shields blocked Bill Tohill's pass and Jim Cartwright intercepted it at the State 45 Etter hauled out knockout pass a new maneuver which caught the Maroons with their guard down Etter spun left made a complete pivot rolled out to his right and caught Waddell racing down the right sidelines He fired and Waddell took it in over his shoulder at the 18 and raced into the end zone Letner's kick failed Waddell intercepted a Tohill pass on the Tennessee 45 and returned it 2ft yards to set up the third TD (ouch-down march rolling with a 21-yard sprint to 26 hot on the next play was hurt and left the game Quarter-hack Fred Braselton kept the march going with some short passes and scored himself on a sneak Welch got into the game later and scored Tech's second touchdown on his first run as a varsity player Tech was ahead 7-0 when Mathis took the second-half kickoff at his one shot up the middle cut sharply to the right and outraced Tech's angling defenders Placement specialist Tommy Wells whose kicking provided Tech's winning margins against Kentucky and Southern Methodist added some insurance with a 37 -yard fourth-quarter field goal Clemson kept the sun-drenched sellout crowd of 44274 on its feet much of the fourth quarter when quarterbacks Harvey White and Lowndes Shingler mustered two scoring threats with their passes But defense led by center Maxie Baughan and end Butch Carter stopped (he first Tiger sortie at the three On fourth down White overthrew his receiver in the end zone Safety man Jimmy Sides stopped the second threat by intercepting (See other football results Cornell It Lehigh 6 on Page C-2) Harvard 20 Bucknell SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE p0y Css i Penn Stale a8 Colgate 2ft Nebraska 7 Oregon Stale 6 Oklahoma 42 Colorado 12 Purdue 28 Notre Dame 7 Wisconsin 44 Marquette 6 SOUTHWEST Texas 33 California ft Texas 7 Miss Southern 3 Texas Tech 8 Tulsa 7 Arkansas 3 TCU 0 SMC 2ft Navy 7 FAR WEST Oregon 14 Washington Stale 6 Penn 13 Dartmouth ft Pittsburgh 25 UCLA 21 Syracuse 2ft Maryland ft Yale 17 Brown ft Rutgers 2ft Connecticut 8 MIDWEST Illinois 20 Army 14 Missouri 14 Iowa State ft Northwestern 14 Iowa 1ft Vol-State Statistics Tennessee 22 Miss State 6 Ga Tech 16 Clemson 6 LSU 22 Baylor ft Florida 55 Virginia 10 Tulane 6 Wake Forest ft Alabama 7 Vanderbilt 7 (tie) Ole Miss 41 Memphis State 0 Carolina 3fl Georgia 14 Auburn 35 Hardin-Simmons 12 SOUTH Duke 24 Rice 7 Carolina 20 Stale 12 YPI 2fl Wm Mary 14 The Citadel 13 Davidson 7 EAST Princeton 22 Columbia ft Oklahoma Stale 27 Kansas SI 21 Wyoming 27 Utah Stale 2 Kansas 28 Boston 7 Stanford 21 COP 6 Air Force Academy 27 Trinity (Tex) 6 Colorado Stale 15 Denver ft Miami (O) 33 Xavier (O) 7 Mich Stale 34 Michigan 8 Minnesota 24 Indiana 14 33-0 Rout for TV Audience MISS TENN STATE Total First Downs 13 15 Carried Rushing 45 48 Gained Rushing 140 213 Lost Rushina 34 25 NET GAIN RUSHING 106 188 Passes Attempted 6 24 Passes Completed 4 10 Passes Hod Intercepted 1 4 NET GAIN PASSING 78 60 Number Punts 10 8 Had Blocked 0 1 Puntinq Average 429 380 Punts Returned 7 6 Total Yards Punts Returned 97 44 Number Kickoff Returns 2 5 Total Yds Kickoffs Returned 29 89 Total Yards Penalized 101 117 Number Fumbles 3 6 Number Fumbles Lost 1 2 California TB scooted 58 vards to 22 Shutout lOW on first scrimmage play a Shingler pass at the five Harris who gained 84 yards in four carries before being hurt of the game The Jackets moved cnee corps curved 46 yards for the six where halfback Floyd first score to give 26000 rain-snaked fans and a national television audience a preview of coming events Series and Football on TV Radio (See stories on Page 2) World Series action two pro football games and a replay of 1 use(l a bristling defense today to yesterday's Tennessee Mississippi make California a third straight State football game all will be on shutout victim 33-0 TV today Halfback Rene Ramirez grace- The Series also will be tele- full' a bruising interfer-vised Monday and Tuesday beginning at 4 pm over WATE-TY channel 6 Here's the lineup: Mss Stote Texas Bumps 1 Cl tor orcl AUSTIN Tex Oct 3 The high-flying Texas Lon gh or shook three backs loose for 4fl- yard touchdown scampers and 15-WATE-TV: U-T TCU Bows Field Goal Glass Shields Etter Majors Faucefte fumbled Shingler recovered for Clemson in the end zone Clemson had another opportunity but Ihe Clemson surrender 17 Sprinting sophomore Jack Collins whose Texas-record 82-yard quick-kick led to Texas' second score spurted 44 yards for one touchdown with three seconds left in the half Two scoring pass plays one for lft yards and another for 11 yards preceded a bulldozing 40-yard jfip Statistics: in the second quarter Jacket defense made the ball on the clemson GEORGIA TECH BrosePon 1 snook CLEMSON Mathis 99 run Welch 5 run (run ft- 6 0 7 6 3-16 (Wells kick): (run foiled) fa'led) on The Lineups: TENNESSEE LaSorsa Leake Shields Frost Marquart Lukowski Smortt Kile Moss Blankenship Costello Husband RG Grubb Inglett Baldini Schaffer Cisseil Baker Letner Phillips Waddell Severance Franklin August ina Cartwright Sadler Quillen Sallee Carter Orr TB Majors Etter Glass Shields MISSISSIPPI STATE LE-White Kelley Hutson Powers Osbourne Fleming Kennedy Show Goode Peeples Lloyd Stacy Suggs Perkins Brooks Smith QB Hill Tohill Correro Daniel Bethune Thames Flowers Schoenrock RH-Shute Welch Wode TENNESSEE 9 4 7 0-22 MISS STATE 0 0 0 6-6 Etter 2 run (Letner kick) Safety Schoenrock kick blocked by LoSorsa and knocked out of end zone bv Letner: Waddell 45 poss from Etter (kick faded) Etter 2 run (Letner kick) TohiU 56 run (poss toiled) rumble by 210-pound Texas fullback Mike Dowdle to cap the scor- First sown? Rushing (football playback 1 WATE-TV: Cleveland Browns vs Chicoqo Cords (NFL football) WBIR TV WNOX radio Wosh-ngter Redskins vs Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL football) WAT TV: Los Angeles vs Ovca qo (World Seres) first five minutes He got up wobbled off in the wrong direction and finally fell down That brought on Gene Ftter the Mighty Mouse who was merely sensational This little 167 gets better all the time When Etter ran down Wyatt called for Glenn Glass the 195-pounder whose college debut will not soon be forgotten especially by Glass himself The big red-head threw for an interception and later squibbed a quick-kick 23 yards Etter and Majors alternated thereafter until Tennessee had the game tucked away Then Wyatt dispatched David Shields who ran hard and had a punt partially blocked But before the day was over he gave the fans a 65-yard quick kick lo remember him hy Glass got a chance to redeem himself in the waning minutes The officials slaved out of the way a few minutes while big Glenn reeled off a 17-yard run and alternated with Carter in banging the ball down to the Maroon 1 On fourth-and-one Glenn tried a wide play at left end a had call He was smeared but the day wound up with better than fair debuts for Shields and Glass Clemson 11 yordooo 123 Possing yordoge 67 out manned Bears got their Posses -16 chance to score when a fum- interenned gave them possession on the FUmbi it 17 A stiff defense am! Yorlh penalties set the Bears back Texas 45 before a fourth The Lineups: punt ft 0 0 ft- 0 CLEMSON FAYETTEVILLE Ark Oct 3 Arkansas beat Texas Christian 3-ft in a steady rain today on a 28-yard field goal by Freddy Akers in the second quarter The hard running of halfback Darrell Williams set the Razor-back score with a 23-yard run after Arkansas took over on the STANFORD Calif Oct 3 ft-'Texans 40 when Leslie Letsmger texas Stanford heat College of the Pa- i recovered a fumble ing Tne best bie Texas' two to the down CALIFORNIA fpt TEX Moses 13 6 6 I 33 Romrez run (Lock kick) it poss from Shirtey (kick foiled) riftc 21- today for the Indians' Texas Christian was late and it i first 1959 victory Dick Norman short with its most potent senr-! Sirv to passed for two touchdowns and ing bid Midway of the final quar- set up the third with a 17-yard ter TCU picked up three first RIDES 4 WINNERS Again Etter went into action Ht fired a high pass to Letner whf SEC Standings All at wnLtTi ppnjijd (0 the 31 for a personal 1 foul Sollee took it to the one and Flerrbc Conformed Won Lost Ti 111 111 took it in at the 15 Sollee hi hard on a wedge kept running tc the State 5 and the Maroons were Anderson Bost OolHy LT Co'-dileon King A ydfett Wagner Croat Snyde' RG Lynn Olson Olson Osborne Bornes Ring Debordeieteff Wtwte Shmgier LH Mathis Chaffin Ravi kick RH Usry Morgan Wilson DogrouP FB Cine Scrudato Knott GEORGIA TECH Burch- Carter Powell Shaw Foret LG Erickson Moss McK nnev Baughan McGouahev RG Reed Ntdioti Pilgrim RT Oeese Nutting RE Rudoioh Murphy Davis T-bhes BraseHon des LH Paucette Wech Wells RH WWiamson Harris fame Nod Anderson SnvHt LoXow i 2 THE "FOOT" in football played a tremendous pari in the sensational seesaw ing up and down the field in the second quarter Etler for Instance "rolled" a quick kick to the Mm mon It Bill Schoenrock returned the tavnr a marvelous boot that hit far hevond Etter and rolled to the Tennessee pass to Chris Rurford I Stanford held a bare 7-6 lead until less than five minutes be- fore the final gun 1 U-Jl I WoWoct 1 run (pass tated) 1ST AN 25 pass 4 -or- Nc-ncn (Foeo kick) Nike 5 pass Nor- CII rn (oct kck' Sc" 4 run See TOM SILER Page 2 1 k-ci down in a row by hard running ATLANTIC CTTY Oct 3 mostly by Harry Moreland and (UPI) Jockie Willie Harmatz i Larry Terrell 1 rode four winners at Atlantic City The Frogs had a first and ten Friday including an 181 60 daily on the Ra7orbacks 23 but Porker double Harmatz had Edsewater center Wayne Harris intercepted (112 80) in the first Tight Money quarterback Donald George's pass ($1240) in the second Time To on the Arkansas 14 to end the Sell ($4 201 in the fiftl and Mar- i threat 1 tins Goid ($2490) in the eighth Georgia Go Tech Mississippi LSU Alebomo Vendor Auburn TyMn Keatochv bis Slot! ith 7:10 gone in the third quar ter Etter went off left tackle tr score Letner added tl extra point State went 79 yanr to score See VOL Page.