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Cartcndafs Kerrln Morphystoro SOUTHERN 1LL1NOISAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1955 Page Seven T7 0 (GllfalE IfJll 1 jUJM SWW IU i I Tigers Beat West Frankfort Devils Top Chester 20-6; Unbeaten In SWE Conference By Tony Stevens Of The Southern Ulinoisan ran its way to a 20-6 Southwestern Egvptian Con i th ference football win over Cheste, on a muddy field Saturday nighi I v. in Murphysboro. The Devils ran vr 242 yards. I I I A i 19-0 Tc Near South 7 Title By Merle Jones Sxjtkrn Ulinoisan Sports Editor Herrin stood on the brink of tfce srhool's first South Seven Conference championship in i s-tory t-'-dav after a 19-0 victory over West Frankfort Saturday night. The victory before a home crowd cf 1.700 fans pe the Tigers a 4-1 league record with Marion to face Nov.

10. Harrishurg has a 3-1 nark and must play West Frank-fot and Benton. Everybody else ha at least two losses. Redbird Coach Bob Colborn revised his lineup to get maximum, weight into his offense. 1 le moved Joe Wendryhoski, 205-pound center, to fullback and put Francis Florian, 205-pound sophomore who had been relegated to frosh-soph duty since early in the season, at halfback.

Bob Burton, Charles Woods and Gene Can-trell, all over 200 pounds, were i i I 1 WINNING TEAM Eldorado's cross country team from scrimmage and failed to complete a pass. A lone Murphysboro completion was nullified by an off -side penalty. Murphysboro ground out one first quarter score and counted a second marker in the fading seconds of the first half by converting a Chester fumble into a 48- trict championship Saturday at Herrin. Members of the team are (left to right), Frank Wil- the Southern Illinois dis- won J) lis, Jack Klaffer, Bob Watson, Roscoe Woods, Leonard Willis, Coach Gene Haile. Eldorado Wins Harrier Title Eldorado won the Southern II linois district cross country title i vard touchdown run.

The third Murphysboro score came in the third period, and Chester dominat ed fourth period play in shoving across one Saturday at Herrin in a three way race with Galatia and Christopher. An Open Fomm Wliert Ytur Opinion Xi At Coe4 At Oxrs The Eagles finished with 63 touchdown with a 34-yard run, the longest of the game won by Herrin 19-0. HAMILTON SCORES Fullback Charles I lamilton of Herrin, whose white jersey was covered with mud, scored Her- rin's second touchdown against West Frankfort Saturday on a two-yard smash over right tackle. Hamilton also set up the first points to 64 to Galana and 65 The Devils retained their status as a fumbling team with seven bobbles, including loss of the ball on the game's second scrimmage play. Jackets Threaten Chester tackle Dick Sauer gave in the line.

Tigers Score Early Herrin made a 55-yard coring drive the first time the Tigers got the ball, but the other two touchdowns were tainted bv Redbird et for Herrin. Thus the two play- for Christopher. Since only the lve-man teams of the first two ers were virtually opposite one another all the time. schools qualify for the finals at Champaign this Saturday, Christo Salnlns Fielif mvh. ifefm 13-13 Statistics indicate the Uusually Wendryhoski and miscues.

pher missed out on the trip by a mm mm WtmmW 'W MM fetal UM iW Vfl BT mm) mm) km WumW IMP mmm mtm Wendryhoski, Hamilton Really Sock One Another 4Just look at that. I can't believe it," said West 'Frankfort1 Coach Bob Col bom as he held up a broken plastic football helmet worm by Joe Wendryhoski in the Herrin game Saturday. The broken headgear had a break six inches long across the front. The helmet, which Colborn said is the best plastic headgear the Jackets an early scoring chance when he covered a Devil fumble on the second offensive play on tlieM-21. sinsle point.

Hamilton were butting heads in the line. One time, however, they Statistics Ken Cockrum of Galatia was IIAC STANDINGS Missed Field Goal, Penalty, Bad Center Pass Spoil Victory were out in the open where everybody could see. Wendryhoski The Jackets TEAM PCI gaincd only the individual winner. Leroy Morris of Mounds Douglass was sec After trailing 13-0, the S1U Sa started on an end run and Ham Mich. Normal 4 0 0 1.000 Illinois Normal Beats Southern lulck dUnlavrd a Kfrono finish to1-.

1 ilton cut in to met him head on. ond followed by Bobby Furlow of Christopher, Bob Watson of El Statistics M'boro Chester Hamilton threw himself down low 11C OlCIIJ UiUlUI, IJ'IJ, dorado and Alan Gelso of West Ma- WF 11 8 150 79 36' 76 14 15 5 5 1 3 1 1 10 25 3 6 37 23 Western 111 in a half tackle, half block just as Wendryhoski lowered his head as Yards rush in 2 Illinois Normal's cross country 3 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 0 3 0 .750 .625 .375 .375 .167 .000 First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Passes attempted Completions Intercepted by Fumbles lost Yards penalized Number punts Average homecoming fans at comb Saturday. Western lumped off to a Frankfort. Members of the winning Eldo team posted a 25-31 victory over Passes attempted Northern if going through the line. They Southern Illinois University at 'Passes completed rado team were Watson, Frank point lead in the first 17 numttesjj really crashed.

available, is not supposed to break. Fans who saw Wendrvhos-ki and Charles Hamilton of Herrin hit one another four or fives times can understand how the helmet was damaged. It is less un-derstandable how the two bovs did not break some bones. Willis. Tack Klaffer.

Roscoe and appeared to be on its way to Wendryhoski carried the ball 22 242 118 4 9 0 1 0 19 10 5 30 30 7 1 5 0 1 2 Woods and Leonard Willis. The a rout. Doutnern came Dack to times and netted 70 yards in his debut as a ball carrier. His top Carbondale Saturday. Southern's freshman Bernard Kabot and Larry Viseur of Normal ran closely together for the whole three and a half miles.

Viseur finished stronglv to take the victory laras on passes First down Penalties, yards Fumbles Own fumb. rec. Opp. fumb. rec.

team is coached by Gene Haile. Centralia, Herrin and West Frankfort had full teams and Thompsonville entered four men. gain was 11 yards on a draw plav Wendryhoski, a 205-pound se up the middle. He did very wel in his first attempt at fullback. nior center, plays line backer on defense.

He is well known for Seldom do fans get to see two Results Saturday Southern 13, Western 13 Michigan Normal 14, Eastern 7 Illinois Normal 20, Lewis 20 Omaha 28, Northern 12 Central Michigan 63, Milwaukee State 1 2 Games Friday Illinois Normal at Western Games Saturday Washington at Southern Central Michigan at Michigan Normal Northern at Eastern his hard-charging tackles all oer the field. Saturday Colborn put players as good as endryhoski game was much more closely contested than the score says. The fine punting of Herrins Jim McPhcrson as contrasted to Redbird efforts, handicapped three times by low center passes, vcs the only ma; or difference. Aldiongh the field was in fairly good shape after a heavy Friday rain, Herrin Coach Ledio Cabut- The University of North Dakota has had 19 head football coaches during 59 seasons the sport has been played at the school. and Hamilton hit one another so in the winning time of 19:32, four seconds ahead of Kabot.

Others in the order of finish were: 3. Betts 4. Tvree IN 5. Warner IX hard and so often. Wendrvhoski at fullback in an effort to bolster his offense.

Hamilton, a 185-pound senior, also plays fullback and line back score less than a minute before the half ended and then tallied again on the first play of the final quarter. Southern dominated play almost the entire second half and pushed Western over the field. The Sa-Iukis almost won the game in the final six minutes of play when a 6 8 -yard march extended to the Western three-yard line. Southern then was called for holding. Seconds later with fourth down on the Western 22, SIU halfback Carver Shannon made a field goal attempt against a strong wind.

The ball went in the right direction, but fell five yards short. Herrin unbeaten frosh-sophs coach now the head basketball man at the University of Idaho, savs yards in four line plays and gave up the ball on downs on M-19. The Devils launched an 81 -yard scoring drive that got its biggest boost on a 43-yard end around sprint by James Jamison to the C-30. Devil back Bud Williams skirted end and lateraled to Don Hubbs, who went to the C-9. Williams and Hubbs picked up six yards in two tries before XV i 1 play, at West Frankfort tonight at ti chose to kick off rather than re seven-thirty.

Ihe came has been touted all season as one of the top frosh-soph contests. West Frankfort has lost only to Mt. Vernon. Statistics run by Williams that almost went the distance. Hubbs Scores Williams went 10 to the C-4, and I lubbs went over in two tries.

Turk's placement was good for a 6. BrvantIN 7. HelbergS 8. Kaczinxki 9. BennerIN 10.

Del Riva IN 1 1. Branch 12. DeNeal 13. ShiptonIX 14. Havens ceive after winning the toss die coin.

The strategy almost paid off in-ttantly as Wendryhoski had trouble trying to handle Terry Jones' kick 2nd bar el covered the ball on the WF-27 before Gerald Hams cracked over for the score. A placement attempt skidded to Idaho, Washington and UCLA are being picked as championship favorites in the Pacific Coast League. Hodges has 13 sophomores and two seniors on the varsity and expects to be strong for two moie years. Two of his players are from Illinois, 6-7 center Bob Gould of Hoopeston and 6-0 guard Bill Wilson of Rockford. Any area Hodges followers might note these dates if thev want to see his team.

Idaho plays at Kentucky Dec. 17 and at Washington in St. Louis Dec. 21. SIU Line Stands Out 11 The Salukis acamst run wi Dick Howe, former Carbondale Community High basketball center now a sophomore at Kentucky, is sidelined with a knee injury.

He slipped on a wet spot on the floor, shifting all his weight suddenly on one leg which buckled under him. 20-0 lead. Chester lost a long gain early in the fourth period when a pass from Cowell to Klein went 47 yards to the M-18, only to be nullified by a Chester backfield in motion Southern's line again played outstanding ball, both on offense First downs 12 11 Yards rushing 18S 105 Yards parsing 41 113 Passes attempted -20 Completions 3 10 Intercepted by 2 0 Fumbles lost 2 2' Yards penalized 35 20 Number punts 2 4 Average 43 31 the right of the uprights. Chester back Thomas Klein, who with Ray Fricke and Cliff Jeremiah carried the brunt of the Jacket attack, almost gave away on Jexalds dove for the ball. On fourth down Wendrvhoslu, rrho centered the ball on punt formation, tent back a low pass to Jim Dotv.

His hurried kick came and defense. Especially noticeable was Marion Rushing, sophomore cuard from Pincknewille, penalty. The Jackets took over on a sec broke throueh several times to nail Harlan Hodges, former area ond scoring spurt when Klein in OSUPiobes Grid Loans Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 31 (AP) Two Ohio newspapers say a faculty group from Ohio State University will investigate what a running play shortly after the kickoff. He ran 19 yards to the M-45.

Two plays later Klein got behind the Devil secondary, but a pass from Bill Cowell was too long. Murphysboro's second touchdown went into the score books just 48 seconds before the half. tercepted a partially blocked Murphysboro pass and ran it back to the M-35. Fricke picked up five and Klein went 15 to the M-15. ball carriers for losses.

The Salukis were far from full strength with more tlian a half dozen men sidelined with injuries. John Gelch, who received bruised ribs in the Michigan Normal game, did not see anv action. First string right guard Jim McCann received SHEKINAH LODGE No. 241 CARBONDALE Will Observe out. Bill Spratt's kick for die extra point was good.

Fumbles Slow Both Teams Fumbles on the rain-soaked field slowed down action in the third quarter. Highlight of the quarter coavn tnd bounced backwards to cany only 20 vards to the Herrin 45. The Redbirds went into virtually 8 nine-man line with tight 4-5-2 defense. On first down diaries Hamilton shot over right tackle, cut to the outside and ran 34 vards to the WF-2I. Trie Tigers made first down on the 11 and the Redbirds prepared to dig in.

Quarterback Jim Mcpherson crossed diem tip on first down Kith a pass into the end The Devil line stiffened and took" the newspapers claim are personal was a Western punt blocked hv amily Flight a broken arm in the first quarter! of play and will be out the rest of the season. Panng the way for Western HERRIN TELEVISION SALES AND SERVICE MOVED From 11th Street TO NEW MODERN BUILDING 1 00! North Park Ave. HERRIN Franchised Dealers for Capehart and CBS Columbia lohn Canova A. C. Robinson Proprietors Chester had the ball in midtield and was passing for a long gain as time ran out in the half.

Three Devil linemen charged quarterback Cowell and caused a fumble. End John Winn scooped up die loose ball on the G42, and outdistanced a Chester pursu the ball on downs. Murphysboro ran a first down1, to the M-30, but lost the ball on1 the M-20 on a fumble recovered by I Chester guard Ed Smith. A run lost three yards before pass from Cow ell found a receiv-1 er in end Terry Mangold, a i two Murphysboro defenders bat-j ted the ball around in the air. A 1 I -1 I Wayne Williams.

As the quarter neared the end, the sky grew dark that die lights were turned on. This ecmed to be the signal for Southern to send in its new light Shannon, who personally led SIU 's final touchdown rally. scores was the passing arm of Bill loans or gilts by tootball Coach Woody Hayes to his players. Big Ten and NCAA rules state that all help for athletes must come through authorized university sources. Hayes was not avilable for comment on stories by the Ohio State Journal here and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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was downed on rne 4. Fricke hit the line twice to .1 He picked up 25 yards the first three times he carried the ball as the Salukis moved to the three-yard line as the quarter ended. total of 10 complete out of 20. Western scored in the first sis minutes on a 73-yard march in 10 plays, including two long pass completions. VandeMerkt plunged over from the one-foot line for the score.

His place kick for the A short Chester punt early in the third period set up the' final Murphy score. Starting from the AT DU QUOIN Du Quoin 7 7 13 1441 Schneider went straight through some to Bob Booth for a touch-; down. Hamilton's wide kick left it 6-0 with less than four minutes gone. A Redbird fumble recovered by Herrin tnd countered by Red-bird interception slowed each team the -rest of the first period. Mcpherson then zpt off ft 41-jkicktotheWF-9.

As the second period opened, Redbirds went into punt for-Ksricei on their own 25. Wendry-tasH low center pass got by Doty, who was hit on the two-yard line by Ivan Jefferson. Hamilton went over on the next plav Sesser 6 0 6 012 v- n. me uevns ran vi 1.1ms score, placement attempt by Mike Hathaway skidded outside the uprights, leaving Murphysboro ahead 20-6. The Devils took the Chester kickoff and ran two line plays to kill the few remaining seconds.

Du Quoin touchdowns Wil center to score on the opening play of the fourth period. On the extra point try, the pass from center rolled on the ground. Hart made a vain attempt to run it liams 3, Bridces, Stanhouse, extra point was good. Southern rallied to penetrate all the wav to the Western 22 before and Hubbs in alternate swipes at the line for two first downs to the C-14, including one 29-vard Goodwin. Extra points Bridges being halted.

Western again took Expect more BEAUIY 4 across. 3, Williams, Stanhouse. Sesser touchdowns 1 a 1 1, Thompson. to the air with the usual receiver, halfback Don Lashmet. The Leath The tie all but knocked the Sa- ukis out of a possible share of than ever before! ernecks drove to the SIU 10 be the conference tide, but does rive fore the quarter ended.

oiu a good chance to capture sec On the opening plav of the sec fRfLMI -J 3vJ ond place if the IIAC lrW Shotgun It Rifle Ammunition Stock Up NOW ond period pass interference was Michigan Normal, beats Cen tral Michigan in a conference-de caded on Southern, placing the ball on the one. Fullback Bob De-Vries scored the TD, but Vande- ciding game this Saturday. Merkt's kick was wide, eivin? Western a 1 3-0 lead. for 1 12-0 lead but missed the kick ftgain. Ridblnls Threaten The Redbirds bounced back on 38 -yard Florian-Don Griffin pass.

Klorris Boren caught Griffin co the H-27. Ron Gay then intercepted a Redbird pass and returned to the WF-43. Griffin intercepted two long Herrin passes near the goal line to check desperate efforts to score before the West Frankfort drove 44 jards to the H-14 before losing the ball The Salukis made their initial HERTZ RENT A CAR OAT. WEE TEAI IxomplM 24 Hovrs 100 MHm Get e4 Oil tnrlw4, Vi.90 GR0B AGENCY. Inc.

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