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The Macon News from Macon, Georgia • 18

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FOOTBALL ROUNDUP ttljf fgarott STrlftintpl) 3Cfmii 29 m1' Show Power Spartans Awesome Tar Heels Upset Tigers 20 to 0 i CHAPEL HILL XC Sept 28 Senior quarterback Dave Heed i cored one touchdown and passed (or another to lead North Carolina' rejuvenated Tar Heel to a 26-8 upset win over Clem son A damp crowd of 16000 Including Adlai Stevenson saw Reed sneak one yard for the first Tar Heel score and pass IS yards to end Buddy Payne for the third Reed's touchdown climaxed a 67-yard inarch which began late in (he first period Halfbacks Daley Goff Emil DeCanlis and Jim Schuler provided most of the momentum to set up the score Goff gave the Tar Heels a first down on the demsnn as the period ended He moved th ball to th three and (hen to the on whre Reed took It over Phil Blaser converted Clemson halfback George Usry fumbled the kickoff on his own 26 and Leo Russavage recovered for the Tar Heels Nine1 plays later Schuler dunged one yard lor the score laser's conversion try was wide The Clemson defense stiffened and the Tar Heels did not threaten again until th fourth period when Reed and sophomore quarterback Jack Cummings put on a passing show that provided two quick scores An offensive holding penalty stalled the third Tar Heel touchdown drive but only for a minute Goff and Schuler moved the ball to the IS and Reed hit Payne in the end sone Bob Shupin converted Guard Fred Swearingen intercepted a Clemson pass on his own four to set up the final score A si from Cummings to end second quarter The Alabama Polytechnicians defeated the favored Vols 7-0 (Unifax Photo) DOWNFALL FOR TENNESSEE came on this play as Bill Atkins (39) visible on the crest of the pile-up scored from the one line in the War Eagle Scores Upset Over Defending Champions teams having laid off for a long period during and after World War II It was stirring revenge for a Tennessee rout of Auburn in their opener last year and put the Alabama eleven high in the conference ratings Score by Periods Tennessee showed flashes of its 1956 form only in the fourth period when the Vols backed by tailback A1 Carter and fullback Tommy Benson drove to the Auburn 29 before the Plainsmen shoved the ball back to the 50 and took over the ball Atkins Scores Atkins six-foot 190-pound senior from Millport Ala took a handoff and plunged from the one over left guard to icore nine-minutes into the second period He then got off the extra point Auburn opened its power drive with four quick first downs in the opening five minutes of the first period Two were by Atkins He was abetted by halfback Bobby Hoppe and quarterback Lloyd Nix whose left-handedness seemed no handicap at all The drive carried 63 yards but KNOXVILLE Trnn Sept 28 Fullback Billy Atkins the forgotten man in speedy backfield plunged for a touchdown on a soggy field today and kicked the point to upset Tennessee's defending South-eastern Conference champions 7-6 before 42000 Atkins plunge made good one of numerous Auburn threats that Sahara Taaa 11 am ft ia i 1-S 1 Mi Ma 41 I Tint dawaa InMif ynrdafa Paulnc yardaaa Paiaaa Phwi Intercepted by Paata Enable laai Tarda yraaltarl 1956 before bowing to Baylor in the Sugar Bowl made only one kept the Tennesseans backed up through three quarters The Volunteers winners of 10 straight In first down in the first half fizzled on the Tennessee one Two plays later Tommy Lorino pounded close to the Tennessee goal but was stopped Auburn launched ita 57-yard scoring march that took 16 plays including a 10 yard pass from Nix to left end Jerry Wilson to the Tennessee 30 Right half Lamar Rawaon Lorino and Atkina alternated on power plays thrbugh the Tennessee line One-Two Punch Hoppe and Lorino were rated the one-two Plainsman punch but Atkins was the unheralded mainstay who most often succeeded Atkins tried two field goals in first and third periods but one was wide and the other was blocked by tackle Frank Kolinsky Auburn was in trouble once outside the Vol comeback in the final minutes Tailback Bobby Gordon quick-kicked in the first period and sent Auburn retreating 62 yards Nix tried a quick kick that was blocked by guard Bill Johnson and Tennessee took over on the Auburn 20 Gordon fumbled and end Jimmy Phillips recovered for Auburn to stop the threat -It was Auburn's first victory over Tennessee in JO years the PREP GRID STANDINGS EAST LANSING Mich ept 28 Fourth ranked Michigan State playing almost flawlessly overpowered Indiana 544) today In quest of a Big Ten championship and a climb in the national rank-lng The Spartans cleared the bench against the hapless Hoosiers who were playing their first game under in charge" Bob Hicks Michigan State set a school record by using 67 players in the game including 37 sophomores But Michigan State still scored almost at wilL Navy Racks Bill-Mary ANNAPOLIS Md Sept 28 UP A heavily-favored Navy eleven unleasing a withering offensive punch powered by fullback Dick Dagampat and halfback Harry Hurst today romped to a 33 win over William and Mary before a homecoming day crowd of 15 000 Sceore by Pecriods Navy 6 13-33 0 0-6 William and Mary Navy scoring: Touchdowns Dagampat 2 13 end run and 57 lateral from McKee Oldham 15 end run! Hurst 2 17 end run and 36 end run Conversions Oldham 3 William and Mary scoring: Touchdown Edmunds 11 plunge Penn State Tops Tenn PHILADELPHIA Sept 28 (UP! State backing as one of the East's top college teams grabbed two fumbles for two big touchdowns today as the Nittany Lions topped Pennsylvania 19-14 In the opener for both achools SCORE BY PERIODS Penn Penn State 7-14 0-19 Missouri Gains Win COLUMBIA Mo Sept 28 UP Hank Kuhiman scored three times today and halfback Jerry Curtrlght once on a 79-yard kickoff return to give the Missouri Tigers a 35-13 intersectional victory over Arizona pass defense an old weakness became an asset to stop the Arizona's highly touted Ralph Hunsaker The Missourians scored for the fifth and final time late in the third period when end Dale Fid-cock recovered a fumble in the Arizona end zone Arizona penalized back to its own four-yard line fumbled on a pitchout from Jim Geist to Sal Gonzales Minnesota Marches MINNEAPOLIS Minn Sept 28 UP Powerful Minnesota with Bobby Cox leading a bevy of talented backs and anchored by a stingy defense launched its 1957 football campaign by crushing a stumbling Washington team 46-7 before a record opening day turnout of 63512 Coach Murray Warmath's latest version of the "Golden a devastating ground attack and a surprisingly sharp passing game to score at least once in every period Warmath substituted entire teams throughout the game and Washington was unable to cope with the always-fresh Gophers Mountaineers Win MORGANTON WVa Sept 28 UP Virginia University defeated Virginia Tech 14-0 today for itts 22nd straight Southern Conference victory and a head start on lta fifth successive conference title The game played before 26000 fans had been billed as one that would determine this year's conference champion West Virginia's touch downs came on breaks The Mountaineers FOR SALE USED PIPE Macon Iron Paper Stock Co 170 Walnut Phone 3-6773 GET A Wolfpack Backs Explode Surprise Maryland 48-13 A1 Goldstein stole the ball from Tiger quarterback Bill Barbary as he attempted to pass SCORE BY PERIODS North Carolina Clemson 0 13 0 0 0 13-26 0 North Carolina scoring: Touchdowns Reed 11 sneak 1 Schuler 1 plunge Payne 113 pass from Reedl Coker 18 run! Conversions Blazer Shupin Michigan Moves Past Californians LOS ANGELES Sept 28 UP1-A stuttering University of Michigan -offense sparked by quarterback Jim Van Pelt and halfback Jim Pace had enough spurts of brilliance today to defeat Southern California 16-6 In Memorial Coliseum before 44738 spectators Both sides were stopped repeatedly by a multitude of penalties with each team being assessed more than 100 yards But when It needed the push Coach Bennie Oostertaan's team came through picking up a touchdown and a safety in the second period and another touchdown In the third The statistics showed Michigan's superiority as it ran up 278 yards to the Trojan's 164 But Southern Cal drew a measure of satisfaction from having scored on Michigan for the first time in history In their previous meeting In the Rose Bowl In 1948 the Wolverines blanked them 49-0 SCORE BY PERIODS Southern Calif 0 6 0 Michigan 0 8 7 Tigers Paste Rutgers PRINCETON NJ Sept 28 TUP Princeton's Ivy League favorites plagued by fumbles and penalties at critical moments blasted over a touchdown with less than four minutes to play today for a 7-0 victory over undermanned Rutgers In the 48th game of eolleglate oldest rivalry dating back to 1869 AmOUKClXG T1IE OPENING OF Aulo Service SPECIALIZING IN MOTOR TUNE-UP BRAKE RELIGXING GENERAL AUTO REPAIR 758 Broadway Ph 2-2258 IBeek gfC HAM Owner MEN'S TUNS STANDINO UPI With Top Front Tuning Ey to mad channel dial DOUBLB-BRIGHT PICTURBI With Alumlnliad Pictura Tuba and Optic niter marched 34 yards after punt by Gobbler fullback Bobby Conner traveled only seven yards The Mountaineers got their second tally in the fourth quarter to cap a 56-yard drive after recovering a Tech fumble Eli Slaps Connecticut NEW HAVEN Conn Sept 28 Yale defeated the Univer sity of Connecticut today for the ninth straight season 27-0 on the superior passing of Dick Winter-bauer and the running of Junior Herb Hallas it was the opening game for Yale which last' season won the Ivy League and "Big Three" championships Badgers Win 60-6 MADISON Wie Sept 28 Quarterback Sid VUliama passed for two long touchdowns and ran for two more to lead Wisconsin to a 60-8 victory over Marquette Saturday the second largest margin in the S3 game series between the two schools Penalties Help Indians STANFORD Calir Sept 28 UP Stanford helped by an outbreak of penalties which hit Northwestern like the Asian flu ground out a 26-6 victory over the stricken Wildcats today in the nationally televised game of the day' Michigan Kicks USC' LOS ANGELES Spt28 UH Favored Michigan ran into fired up Southern California today but gained momentum in the second half and won its first game of the new season 16-6 Michigan's fast hard-hitting array of backs including quarterback Jim Van Pelt and hnlibacks Jim Pace Mike Shatusky and Bradley Myers pac'ed too much talent for the scnior-lesi Trojans Maroons Shade Memphis State STATE COLLEGE Miss Sept 28 Fumbling Mississippi State managed to hold on to a slippery football long enough to march 44 yards in the third quarter and score a narrow 10-6 victory over Memphis State today Mississippi State's Maroons took a 3-0 lead in the second quarter on an 11-yard field goal by Bobby Tribble starting left tackle from Huntsville Ala The Maroons after losing the bail five times on fumbles marched 44 yards in the tvd quarter to score on a one-yard smash by quarterback Tern Miller Mississippi State's sixth fun'' made by halfback B''bbcr Ti-i-mell set up Memphis r- touchdown Guard Ed RrncV i recovered on the Mississippi F' i 34 Four plays later third sf-' quarterback Fred Hearn war- 1 yards for the Memphis touchdown Memphis State Miss State 6 0-10 Memphis State Touchdown: Hearn 11 run! Miss State scoring Touchdown: Miller (1 plunge! Field Tribble 111 Conversion Morgan Hit the Adventure Trail on a 1957 Harley-Davidson You'rf out in hunt to May with urfinf puwar und luzuriou ridin ramfort whan you twin aboard tha handmntt 74 OHV Coma in and taat rida it today Eaay tarma CLIFF WALKER HARLEY-DAVIDSON DEALER -For Over 41 Ysois 855 SECOND ST (H 3-2346 Ph 2-5771 ft key Crist good for S3 yards put the Tar Heels on the Tiger 13 Don Coker moved the ball to file nine and then went all the way on a- pitchout from Cummings The conversion try failed 1 Clemso's only other threat ended on the Tar Heel 13 when end 0 0 CO PIES While Yss Wail Permanent Records of Important Papers Offers You Extra Copies Other Than Original- THE FILM SHOP 640 Cherry St Phone 2-3153 SMARTEST 567 Cherry St VAN HEUSEN VANTAGE ALL-COTTON SHIRTS Need No Ironing! Wash-Hang-Wear Wash it! Drip-dry it again and again will still look like new! Collar stays are sewn in get lost! IDEAL FOR THE TRAVELING MAN! third down Hunter took a pitchout and flipped 14 yards to end John Collar for the first of the state touchdown flood By halftime the Pack had hung up a 21-0 lead State scored in the second period on a 21-yard pitch tram quarterback Tom Katich to Christy and again when Christy counted on a seven yard rifle shot off tackle That second TD was set up by State's tricky punt return this time Hunter handing off to Christy who raced 45 yards to the Terpa' 20 The Wolfpack gouging out the largest score North CaroMna State ever ran up against its Atlantic Coast Conference foe turned it into a rout in the second half First Hunter Intercepted a Dickie Lewis pass and ran it back 33 yards to seven from where Hunter went over for a touchdown on the next play FlFpl SCORE Second string halfback Ken Trowbridge added State's fifth score on a twisting 40-yard run off tackle in the third The sixth in the final period came on Christy's 96-yard kickoff a run aided by fullback Don Hafer'a bone-crushing block on the Terp safety man And State'! last score was contributed by some eager third stringers with quarterback Ernie Driscoll passing nine yards to end Finley Read It was 28-6 when Dare scored first TD on his kickoff return in the third period It was 35-7 when the Terps got their final one a 10 yard pass from halfback Ted Kershner to fullback COLLEGE PARK Md Sept 28 IUP North Carolina dynamite duo" of Dick Hunter and Dick Christy exploded all over Byrd Stadium today in a surprising 48 13 conquest of favored Maryland The two speedy halfbarks wrecked what was supposed to be a tough Terrapin team with long runs on two punt returns an intercepted pass and a dazzlig 96-yard kickoff return by Christy Christy's run added insult to injury for just a few minutes before Maryland halfback Howie Dare had given the 24000 Terp fans one of their few hances to howl when he ran back a Wolf-pack kickoff 90 yards for touchdown Long-Range Lightning This was the aame Maryland team that gave powerful Texas while State had nipped North Carolina 7-0 But the Terrapins were dazed by the Wolfpack's long-range lightning The first bolt hit in the Initial period when Christy took a punt on hli 30 and handed off to the criss crossing Hunter Hunter sailed to the Maryland 15 where he lateraled to end Bob Peppe who barged to the Terp seven Two plays lost yardage but on Special izing IN MOTOR TUNE UP A Doc COOK invite you to visit us for motor tuno-up Starter and generator repairs Willard and Doles Batteries Aulo Electric Battery Service 573 Plum SL Phone 2-7261 T-V-'fe I teSt-V-" Tennessee Auburn 0 0 0 0-0 0 70 0-7 Auburn scoring: Touchdown Atkins 1 plunge Conversion Atkins Blue Devils Rout Cavs In 40-0 Tilt DURHAM NC Sept 28 UP Wray Carlton keeping a promise by his coach wrote himself into the Duke record book today by scoring four touchdowns and kicking two extra points in a 40-0 Blue Devil rout of Virginia Carlton a second stringer whose coach said strictly up to him" established a new Atlantic Coast Conference single game scoring record with 26 points before 14000 rain-splattered fans The shifty 196-pound junior from Wallace- NC ran across three touchdowns within 10 min' utei In the second period and took a perfectly-faked pass in the end zone In the third Powers Duke Drive Carlton described by backfield Coach Ace Parker as having promise of becoming one of the greatest backs in Duke football history also powered a Duke drive to the Virginia three in the third period With fullback Hal McElhaney and guard Roy Hord paving his path Carlton amassed 111 yards in 16 carries Duke rolled up 396 yards rushing and 30 first downs The Cavaliers who tied West Virginia 6-0 last week were helpless against the brutish Duke defenders today They managed only two first downs in the first three periods and never got past Duke's 45 A fumble by Sonny Randle recovered by Duke guard Carol Jamison on the Cavalier 20 started the Carlton-powered second period Duke explosion Two line plays gained six and Virginia was called for pass interference on the Duke two Carlton scored over right guard Quarterback Bob Brodhead then intercepted a Cavalier pass at midfield and Carlton and McElhaney bulled to scoring position Carlton swept right end for 19 yards and the score Duke then powered 52 yards and Carlton swept right end again for 11 yards and his third touchdown In the third period Duke went 61 yards on Carlton and McElhaney plunges and Brodhead's Jump passes SCORE BY PERIODS Duke Virginia 0 19 0 0 7 14-40 0 0-0 Duke scoring: Touchdowns Carlton 4 2 run 19 run 11 run 2 pass from Brodhead Harris 3 run Bell 1 run! Conversions Carlton 2 Harris Ebert Iowa Slams Utah State IOWA CITY Iowa Sept 28 Iowa's tal-nted Hawkeyes displayed too much of everything for an out-dBssed Utah State team today and ran up a near-record 70-14 victory Iowa using deep reserves as early as the first period gave the visiting Aggies a 10-touchdown football lesson In the first contest between the two schools The Iowa score was the biggest since 1914 when the Hawkeyes beat Iowa Teachers 954) COMPLETE SUPPLY NEW and REBUILT POOL TABLES $40 up MACON BILLIARD SUPPLY 430 CHERRY ST- EG IOW MU region 1-aa norm Reston Game! 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