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Page II NEWSTRIBUNI Pert Pitre Fla Sundiy Ocfobtr 14 1U8 Unbeaten Cards and Cothren Big Gun in 16-0 Ole Miss Win Lions Clash Today Gators Gave Rice Short Passes But Not Long Ones Field Cothren (21 22 23 yards) By THC ASSOCIATED PRESS The only unbeaten teams In the National Football League after two works of the Chicago Cardinals and Detroit face their third testa of the season today end It's up to Bobby Layne and Lamar Mcllan to keep them winning That the Cards and lions are on top of the divisional standings is proof that almost anything can happen in pro football They were Navy Scuttled 21-6 by Pass-Minded Tulane SiSsS GAINESVILLE Oct 13 The key factor in Florida's football defense which held Rice scoreless in spite of 22 pass completions was that the Gators kept Frank Ryan from running on the pass play Coach Bob Woodruff said today His Florida team won the intersectional game 7-0 I expected Rice to throw" Woodruff said "and worked on pass defense all week We gave from Miami came off the injury list to play at right tackle They figured in the strategy of rushing the Rice passer which Woodruff tabbed as the decisive maneuver A week ago Ryan went back to pass 31 times against Louisiana State but only threw 16 Woodruff noted from movies of that contest The outstanding triple threater ran for 75 yards in that game Against Florida he threw 20 times but the 13 times he ran witn 1 UNIVERSITY Miss Oct 13 If Paige Cothren kicked three field goals today to lead the University of Mississippi to a 16-0 football victory over ineffective Vanderbilt before 28500 Homecoming Day fans Cothren an All-America hopeful was the standout Unable to score a touchdown over or through the frustrating 'Vanderbilt line Ole Miss called in Cothren three times for three field goals in three quarters In the opening play of the fourth quarter John Wallace Blalack snapped a quick pass to Gayle Bowman in the end zone for the only touchdown Then Cothren kicked the extra point Ole Miss monopolized the ball during most of the game but the Commodores improving as the game went on succeeded time after time in thwarting the Rebels' scoring attempts including Coth-ren's 35-yard field goal attempt in the beginning of the second quarter The Rebels headed for a score immediately after taking the opening kickoff marching downfield from their own 10 to the Vander- Father of Boxer Young Slribling Is Dead at 70 themf the short one not the long frund him with net taS one' of 29 yards Although i quarterbacks haven't been rushed as Ryan and King Hill completed 22 hard all Jess Neely vet-of 32 the only two long ones the cran Rjce coach observed Owls tried were Intercepted by The wind was bad on punts Florida's Jackie Simpson and ajdt taking nole 0f the 20 Rountree yardcr by Hill which started Flor- A shakeup in the Gators' start-1 ida on a 45-yard march to the ing lineup helped pep them up only touchdown of the game NEW ORLEANS Oct 13 Little Gene Newton's two touchdown passes and uncanny quarter-backing guided Tulane to a 21-6 intcrsectional football upset victory over Navy today Tulane showing a vastly superior line scored in the first quarter on a 74-yard march in the third on a 63-yard drive and in I the fourth on a 59-yard drive Navy was unable to push across a touchdown until the final two minutes- against a Tulane team made up of reserves Fullback Ronnie bulllike runs and the dancing dashes of halfback Willie Hof sparked the first Tulane drive which ended with Quillian smashing through guard for the final seven yards Quilliaq aiy) Newton kept Navy MIAMI Oct 13 William Lawrence Slribling father and manager of the late heavyweight boxer Young Stribling died of a VTHREE The University of Houston has three of the Ibest fullbacks in college football They are left to right Owen (MulhoUend Curley Johnson and Donnie Caraway But he added quickly Rice has ne alibi on that count because each team had to kick against the wind half the game "Florida rlayed like we thought It would but was tougher" Neely said "It is a big strong ball -club after a 17-8 loss to Kentucky in the rain a week ago "Larry Wesley did a great job and our tackle play was Woodruff said Wesley senior letterman from Fernandina Beach made his first start of the season at lrft tackle and Charlie Mitchell 220-pounder way down at the end of the 1955 aeason and weren't expected to Improve their positions much this year But In tha first two games they bowed that a quarterback who is hot can fire up a whole team Layne passed for 236 yardi in' Detroit's 31-14 victory over Baltimore and llopalong Cassady the heralded freshman from Ohio State accounted for 92 as he added considerable punch to the Detroit attack For the Cards Mcllan completed five of seven passes for 136 yards and two touchdowns he led a fired-up team to a 35-27 vie-tory over the New York Giants In their third game the Lions take on the Los Angeles Rams last Western Conference champions' and the Cardinals encounter the injury-riddled Washington Redskins who have lost two games already Detroit la a solid favorite especially aince Ram coach Sid Gillman hasn't been able to get a consistent performance out of any of his three quarterbacks The Chicago-Wasb-ington game is rated as a toss-up partly because the Redskins have the home-field edge other gamei on a full schedule the Chicago Bears entertain the San Francisco 499ers the traveling New York Giants stop off at Cleveland to faee their old enemies the Browns Philadelphia plays at Pittsburgh and the Baltimore Colts and Green Bay Packers clash on the semi-neutral ground of the Milwaukee Stadium Unless somebody jama their electronic 1 a the home teams should be favored in the first three of these games The line gives Baltimore a slight edge over Green Bay but some expert figure Tobin pitching plus the rather Inept pass defense the Colts showed against Detroit should pull the Packers through A swift-moving development of the past couple of weeks finds sev eral dubs using electronic communications between their box spotters and the defensive sig nal callers It worked so well on offense but even the club owners who have sneered at the cadet stuff are beginning to agree they may have to follow suit Biggest "Gain" Was 5-Yard Loss In 222-0 Shellacking with fine runners and a good line We were afraid they were going to be too strong for us in the Rice gained a mere 49 yards rushing although picking up 221 on passes I Both coaches agreed that Jerry Harris Rice center played a whale of a game He topped both teams in eight unassisted and a share of three others OSTEOPATHIC CLINIC Dr Chas Getchell bilt 16 Stopprd by that stubborn Vanderbilt line Ole Miss called for Cothren He booted a 21-yard field goal In the second quarter quarterbacks John Wallace Blalack and Ray Brown alternated in a passing attack that brought Ole Miss to the Vanderbilt 17 Again the Commodores halted the Rebels and Cothren came in to kick a 22-yard fie'd goal in the final three seconds of the half Vanderbilt 0 0 0 Mississippi 3 3 3 Mississippi scoring: Touchdowns (in end zone pass from Blalack) Conversion Cothren 1201 ORANGE AVE heart attack today at the ago of 70 He suffered a stroke about two weeks ago A tough active former acrobat he survived a similar stroke in 1945 and along with his wife Lillie who survives had voted much of hia time in recent years to church work Stribling known as to old-timers in boxing was the guiding spirit behind tho ring career of (Young) Stribling II He let the boy turn professional in 1920 at the age of 16 and the fighter met most of the best boxers of the 1920s Some or his opponents were Jack Sharkey Mike McTigue Ernie Schaaf and Max-ie Rosenbloom He lost his only fight for the championship failing to dethrone Max Schmciing in a bout at Cleveland in 1931 Young Stribling was killed in a motorcycle accident at Macon Ga'in 1933 after some 250 fights Stribling was a native of Thomasville Ga He and "Ma" were a touring acrobatic team toward the turn of the century A son Herbert 47 also survives He lived here with his parents Funeral services will be held Monday at the First Christian Church He will be buried here Office hours! 9 am te 12 noon 1:30 to pm Jerry Reichow former Iowa star quarterback had never seen a I pro football team in action until jhe played in the 1956 College all-I star game against the Cleveland 1 Browns reeling until midway in the third period when Quillian went out with a leg injury Sophomore halfback Claude Mason took over ground-gaining duties and helped the team to its second touchdown Mason dashed 19 yards to set up Nrwton's 9-yard scoring pass to end Will Billon The final Tulane scoring march featured the running of Mason and sophomore fullback Walt Kelly Newton passed the final bight yards to Mason after pulling in the Navy defense with clever faking Guard Emmett Zclcnka got his third conversion Navy scored later on an 11-yard pass from Gus Prahalis to end John Ruth with two minutes left The score came after a fumble re-j covery on the Tulane 11 Halfback Chet Burchett's conversion try was I wide Navy 0 0 0 6 Tulane 7 0 7 7-21 Navy scoring: Ruth (11 pass from Prahalis) Tulane acoring: Touchdowns Quillian (7 plunge): Billon (9 i pass from Newton) Mason (8 pass from Newton) Conversions: Zclenka 3 Evening Calls: 7 to 1:30 by Appointment McDonald with a 10-yard pass completion but he questions that Who are we 40 years later to argue with him? There was another dispute about how long the game went (Chip) Robert one of the timekeepers said the quarters were shortened to allow just 391 minutes playing time But Gray of San Saba Tex substitute fullback said they started at 3 pm and played until sundown At any rate all of the six Cumberland stalwarts at the banquet agreed it was the longest afternoon they ever spent They cleared up what has long been a mystery in some quarters name of their coach They recalled that he was a law student named Butch McQueen from Dallas "We never heard from him said Ilayslcr Poage of Clinton Bio ATLANTA Iff What was the longest gain by Cumberland University in that historic football game the eleven lost to Georgia Tech 222-0 on Oct 7 1916 It a gain says A McDonald who was there playing fullback for the losers It was he reports a five-yard loss he racked up on a try around end But one of McDonald's teammates Morris Gouger of Robs-town Tex was on hand at a 40th anniversary banquet last night to dispute him Gouger maintained that by a smart but of football strategy he' managed to get back to the line of scrimmage on a quarterback sneak It was fourth down in the closing minutes and Gouger said that by all rules of the game he should have kicked But if he had he explained Tech would have blocked the kick and scored again "That he said "helped hold the score Actually the record books credit OPEN HOUSE Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 PM South Florida Bird Hunters Get a Break Miami Takes to Air for 13-6 Mississippi SI Old-Time Friends Bump Together in Hospital Room Here New CBS Construction 2 built in vanity Built in Kitchen Range A Oven Parkay Floors Many Othar Now and Naval Foaturos Win Over Terps Deleals Trinily world champion Browns were smong the first to try out these gadgets after a wretched showing in exhibition games They lost their opener but bounced back with a 14-10 deeision over Pittsburgh The game against the Giants may show whether the offense which has missed Otto Graham sadly can come up with something to match New York's Charley Conerly Don Heinrich pitching combination The Bean looking for a big season should win from an In-and-out San Francisco team and the steady Pittsburgh Steelers for whom Lyr Chandnois has been producing some big gains seem to have the edge over rebuilding Philadelphia HOME OF THE WEEK Location: 2911 Sylvan Torraco (Sunrise Blvd to left 1 block then right to 2911) A reunion was held in Room 8 first floor of Memorial Hospital when two old 'friends who hadn't seen each other since 1930 bump-cd into one another there as pa MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED PETER BLUESTEN CO tients The two men are Claude James of Jenkins Road and Corbett Gei-gcr State Road Camp Bell Avenue both formerly of Homestead Fla offered exclusively by 1145 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY FORT PIERCE PHONE 2144 STATE COLLEGE Miss Oct: 13 Mississippi State spotted Trinity University a first-period touchdown and then fought back with a vicious ground attack to defeat the stubborn Texans 18-6 before 9000 Homecoming fans today Mississippi State in scoring its second victory of the season against two losses11 played conservative football and relied on four hard-running backs to grind out methodical yardage Jim Tait Bubter Trammell Molly Halbert and Frank Sab-batini consistently gained ground through the out-manned Trinity Une Trinity 6 0 0 6 Mississippi State 6 6 6 FORT LAUDERDALE Oct 13 Quail hunters gat a break today in the form of a south Florida season extension The Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission voted unanimously to permit quad hunting through Feb 1 in the area south of State Road 80 which -connects Fort Myers and Palm Beach Counties affected are Dade Broward Monroe Collier and portions of Palm Beach Lee and Hendry The season previously dosed Jan 1 A spokesman for the commission said the change on quail was made in response to requests from hunters and in view of the fact there is no conservation value in halting the season on quail earlier The commission rescinded a requirement that hunters pay $5 a day over and above their $5 game management area hunting permits to hunt in the Cecil Webb Game Management Area in Charlotte County Comedian Hardy Returns to Home BURBANK Calif Iff Former film comedian Oliver Hardy 64 has returned home after being hospitalized for a month Hardy half of the comedy team of Laurel ami Hardy suffered a stroke Sept 16 lie has not been active in the movies since 1945 You'd be busier than a Worried Bee MIAMI (A Blocked on the ground by a big tough Maryland line Miami's Hurricanes went into the air lanes Friday night to defeat the Terps 13-6 for their third straight victory of the football season When a fine goal line stand by Maryland stopped one Miami drive a foot short of pay dirt Quarterbacks Sam Scarnecchia and Bonnie Yarbrough began pitching and each completed a touchdown pass to build a 13-0 lead for the Hurricanes ki the third period Scarnecchia nailed John Bookman with a 23-yard scoring throw 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