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or Spo rts Part 2 Page 6 Sunday November 26 1950 Vf'TSMr JK I Breaks Of I The Game By Cox ootball Scores Oyster Bowl i deb ar Vuje Cow University (ven Show Up Georgetown Unf versity post I game was started In caylight and finished under the arch 41 lorida 13 postponed this 0 afternoon at the stock car races at Virginia Beach Speedway Thel ilr I ive4 onk niii az4 OA I fVs Jzxlzu 1 1 Over Georgetown today in will I football lanagan fc 4 15000 ans rave Snow i And reezing Weather 1 1 ng around in Its own I 391 Surprising Indians at ull Strength for irst Time This Season Hold 20 0 Lead al Half' Ed Weber Also Goes Over 25 tn demon irst diwn Ruslunr jardara Pa 'si nr vuniaffe Passes attempted Pae completed Passes intercepted Punts Puntiur average umble lost Yards penalized John eking gave both punters Dickie and Mooney of State utilized the quick kick to a 13 295 60 10 The Statistics State 103 24 15 4 7 343 1 2 55 i Don Heinrich Leads Washington 52 to 21 Spokane Nov 25 Don Hein rich cranked up the Washington touchdown machine today to squash the Washington State: Cougars 52 to 21 cracking two records himself and cutting Hugh McElhenny loose for a third The two men left an overflow crowd of 30000 gasping Heinrich pitched 17 completions to wreck a national i record set up in 1917 by Chuck Cbnerly of Missis sippi The 17 gave him 134 for the season Conerly had 133 Don rifled two touchdown passes to break by one the Coast Confer Ed Magdziak Tribe fullback scoring William and first touchdown in 19 yards A bunch of State rooters began 14500 the largest crowd on record for the A stadium The Buffaloes mixed the line smashing of fullback Mervin Hodel and sharp passing and clever re verses to build a 18 0 lead in the third period They slammed the door on all but one Aggie threat Colorado Colorado A (tie)l State William Mary Breaks Losing Streak to Upset State 34 to 0 In Oyster Bowl Lewis and Magdziak Score Two Touchdowns Apiece i I Colorado Turns Back i Colorado A 1 6 ort Collins Colo Nov 25 Golden Buffaloes out to avenee two humiliating defeats in a row by Colorado A did a good job Southwest Texas Christian 26 Rice 14 Baylor 3 Southern Methodist 0 Texas Tech 37 New Mexico 12 ball on his one yard line and scrambled back to the six before he was smothered by the Green shirts Mooney i lately quick kicked the bah going out of bounds on Spate's 33 The inspired and mud begrimed Indians needed only eight plays to march 33l yards After Weber was tossed (for a two yard loss Lewis pranced off right tackle foi ls yards to' 17 ladgziak picked up five yards outside left tackle and added five more on an inside reverse over left tackle Lewis slipped through right tackle to the three and Madgziak plunged to the one as the period ended Lewis Scores ive seconds after the final pe riod started Lewis picked a hole at right tackle and scored Lewis converted for the final point and State was penalized 15 yards on the kick for unnecessary roughness and Kremer kicked off from 45 yard marker He booted the into the end zone and State took over on its 20 With Mooney passing to and Barkouski State marched to William and 37 On fourth down from kick formation Mooney faked a punt and raced to the 29 oreman ield lights flashed on Continued on Page 10 30 Lap Race At Speedway A 30 lap feature will be held Oyster (Bowl yesterday (Borjes) in um Old Man Winter tried his best to spoil the fourth annual Oyster Rinwl pamp at orem variety irst itsrair more snow Midwest Northwestern 14 Illinois 7 i Michigan 9 Ohio State 3 Wisconsin 14: Minnesota 0 i Oklahoma A 41 Kansas State 0 Miami (Ohio) 28 Cincinnati 0 Oklahoma 49 Nebraska 35 Purdue 13 Indiana 0 Sewanee 7 Washington (Mo) 0 ECTC Passer Is Honored Greensboro Ndc Rncrer Thrift a passing from Ea st Teachers Col lege is the North State Conference most outstanding gridder of 1950 Thrift was named tor the High Point American Business an nual award in a poll of North Caro lina members of the Southern Con ference Sportswriters Association and the nine conference coaches Smitfi Barrier of the Greensboro Daily News executive secretary of the Sportswriters Association con ducting thejvotie The East Carolina quarterback who wrote new conference records for passing received 91 out of ja possible 115 votes on the ballots of the 23 Writers and coaches who participated I Thrift is a 192 pound senior from Chapel Hill During the seasop he completed 124 of 257 passing at tempts for 1907 yards and threw 20 touchdown passes Report from Lapland On that never to be forgotten yes terday when the sledge dogs re fused to go out of the house came rain hail sleet snow sunshine a howling ban shee wind that hit the heart like an iron claw and green lightning Never saw green lightning in your life? Nevei mind nearly 10000 humans includ ing the Wolfpack from State saw it and some felt ityesterday at oreman ield The Greenies from William Mary struck all over the place ii uprooting State players and the exact i ui Borealis to the frigid known as Oyster Bowl football North Carolina State (0) Eleft ends Butler arrell Romanowsky Left tackles Da viz Hillman Left Schzct NlchoUon Cox Centers Tofaute Martin Hardinr Rirht Baronis Britt Rirht tackles Costa Bever Swart Rirht Allman Simon Quarterbacks Barkouskie Kaiser Left halfbacks Mooney Webster Rirht Smith McArthur Loan ullbacks O'Rourke Yeates William and Mary (34) Left Rarazzo Kror Joe Connors Heflin Left tackles Mexale Znpko Shatnyski Left Guards Kirk Poms Kreaineheck Car utc i Centera Layne Wilson Witt Rirht ruarde Gomer McNamara rich Rirht tackles Rienerth Clements Rirht ends Pones Goodlow Sica hngr Ou ark Lana Left halfbacks Dickie Lewis Tommy Lew is Mioduszewski Rirht Weber lanagan Yewcic ullbacks Mardziak John Connor Krem er Score by tserlodst William and Mary 8 14 7 North Carolina State 0 0 0 0 William and Mary scorinx: Touchdon Mardziak 2 Lewi 2 Weber Conversion Lewi 4 placements) weather there were few fumbles The with their inside reserve over left tapkle ot it today mauling the Aggies 31 to 6 before addingAurora setting fourth iatne i The deal was completed 1 by the Indians who scored one of the notable victories of the 1950 football season 34 to 0 when they were ex i pected to lose by at least two touchdowns It was a monumental achieve i ment for the Greenies also a i monumental gathering Not (one soul was ordered to sit out there on the deep freeze cem i ent and close to 10000 peo pie did exactly that Surely this was one of the most sensational turnouts in football history all things considered Posterity take notice A hundred years from now as tomorrow never let it be said that Norfolk fans will not support college football Either that or put it down that crazy So it went with the city brac ling against the first wave from dhe polar invasion sweeping ithe nation The howling caught and drove thou sands of newspapers used bythe fans as highabove the stadium fringe lOne character who evidently 'had too much anti freeze in tank blinked an eye and stuttered a snow flakes 1 ever When jwarm Spring comes probably I can give you a much better report on the whole thing! To Khedive Temple of the Shrine Gentlemen great you brought i off here yesterday was out of this world and your great plans and your fond dreams came true in spite of every thing Weak legs will walk! Grid Crowds Held Down By Cold Wave Penn State Pitt and Col gate Riitgers Games Are Called Off I New York 'Nov 25 The mow sleet winds and wretched weather in general that hit the eastern part of the United States todav made quagmires out of some football fields refrigerators out of others and made at least four com pletely unplayable The Penn State Pitt game at Pittsburgh and the Colgate Rut girs affair at New Brunswick: were the major victims of the elements College official took one look andsent the plaers home The Scran ton Niagara and Kings College Can non affairs also were called off The Scranton Niagara game will be played at 1:30 (EST) to morrow and it had better start on time for the storm knocked out lines supplying power for the flood lighting system Even the goalposts were blown down Crowds Stay A way Crowds stayed away in droves from the games that were played The big battle of: the day in Knox ville Tenn pitting Kentucky against Tennessee was witnessed by about half the expected! 50000 crowd The two big Ivy League Cornell Penn at "Philadelphia and Dartmouth Princeton at Princeton drew a total of 23000 spec tators About 90(X) were expected to pack the two stadia So bad were conditions at Prince ton that when Dartmouth back Dick Brown tried a kick in the sec ond period the hurricane which was raging blew the ball backward AU television lines were down too as were Western Union wires The Associated Press was forced to ob tain its report of the game via the one telephone line that was open in the stadium I The Big Ten clash pitting Michi gan against Ohio State in Colum bus was played in conditions that were just about as bad In fact there was some talk of calling the game but officials finally decided to play it The visibility was a flat and a snowstorm raged The handful of fans who braved the elements found five inches of snow on their seats Last week tickets to this game were being scalped at $50 a pair Continued no rage Ji South Alabama Georgia Tech 46 Davidson 14 I Duke 7 North Carolina 0 William Mary 34 North Caro lina State 0 Wake orest 14 South Carolina Tennessee 7 Kentucky 0 Clemson 11 Auburn 0 lorida State 35 Tampa 19 Tulane 35 Vanderbilt 6 Georgia 40 urman 0 tackle by a Tribe man floored Webster and he nea later for more action Tribe safety man nearly got away shortly when punt By Tom ergusson lan ield yesterday He certainly believed in pn inpn it snowpn tnen lrp sun chitip uul or the first time in the stadium's 14 year history a California 7 Stanford 7 Washington 52 Washington 21 Oregon State 14 Oregon 2 ence mark of 12 set In 1949 by Jim Powers of USC McElhenny scored five touch downs as Heinrich fed him the ball steadily In a successful effort to crack the conference seasonal yard age mark of 1010 set by Jackie Jensen in 1948 Hugh capped his work with an 84 yard touchdown canter In the final seconds piled up 296 net to boost his total to 1107 Midget Bowl Postponed The second annual Midget Bowl double header scheduled for yester day morning at City Park was post poned until Saturday The rain and poor gridiron conditions were reasons of postponement North Pole Weather Brings Variety of 4 Items to oreman ield One Official Brigham Young 28 tort Hood (Texas) 11 A 39 Southerik California I singing when it really began snowing hard in the second quarter Despite the blustery Indians had zreat success and caused the press box quarterbacks to wonder just what would happened if the Indians played in other games like they did yes terday There was no halftime activity and the 15 mihute intermission seemed like a hlf hour Many of the spectators in the east stands which bore the brunt of the storm called it quits and headed for warmer places The wind was blowing harder than ever when the teams resumed their (battling game was quite a contrast to the first Oyster Bowl staged in 1946 wh8n Granby defeated Clifton under ideal weather The Shriners did a great job despite the unfavorable weather East ordham 13 New York 0 Kings College vs Gannon post poned rain George Washington 6 Yale 1 1 Harvard 6 Holy Cross 26 Temple 21 Cornell 13 Pennsylvania 6 Penn State vi Pittsburgh poned snow (play Monday) Princeton 13 Dartsmouth 7 Colgate vs Rutgers cancelled rain and high winds Scranton vs Niagara snow and rain (play tomorrow) I When Umpire Robert A Collier make connections Jiminv Howard local arbiter was pressed into service He served as field judge together with referee (Bird Hooper head linesman (Bunn) Hackney and umpire Harry Montgomery With the several miniature lakes onthe playing feld the Shriners wisely called off their colorful pageant The weather was a heart breaker all right because the Shriners had spared no expense to make the 1950 Dyster Bowl the best You'll just have to blame the weather The field was more suitable for water polo than football squad garbed in sweatshirts put in its appearance first and went through warmup maneuvers at the boutli nd The players dodged mud puddles as they practiced passing and puntingA stiff nor West breeze whipped across the stadium and the Southern Conference pennants were stiff as a board i Because of numerous injuries the State squad numbered only 29 William and huskies splashed down the east sidelines and went through a brief (warming up drill Bob Bates and Al Gomez of the local football officials board assisted the visiting horn tooters with tie yard sticks Pre game ceremonies transpired at midfield witK Mrs Betty Lewis AVagenhals Miss Virginia of 1949 singing the Star Spangled Banner Invocation was said by Dr Murray Kantor rabbi Agudath Achim Synagogue of Suffolk I Capt Tony Romanowsky won the toss and elected to receive the Indians kicked wlith the wind somewhat in their favor Russ Kremer the ck off artist whanged the initial kick off out of bounds and then plaited tie next one into the Waiting arms of Jim who scared (the Tribe supporters by breaking Into the open and splashing 63 yards It looked like a rout was in the making when three plays latej Ed Mooney got a first down on thi 15 I It was getting Lolder by the minute and a biting windn making things most' uncomfortable for the players and spectators 'as well 11 1 i' first aerial' looked like it might click but the ball Blithered off the icy fingers of Captain Romanowsky both punters Dickie Lewis of the Indians and Mooney of State utilized the quick kick to an advantage The first casualty was safety man Alex Webster who gathered in tuick kick fumbled the ball hich was slippery as an Elizabeth River eel but finally covered on 49 yard ribbon A driving left the game but returned Ed MiodUszewsk'i he returned By Tom ergusson William and mud spattered Indians snapped a four game losing streak in the fourth annual Oyster Bowl game at oreman ield vesterdav bv upsetting the favored State Wolfpack 34 to 0 Sub freezing weather and a mild snow slashed the crowd to an estimated 15000 at kick off time but only a few thousand happy souls remained for the finish The frost bitten spectators brought overcoats blankets extra sweaters and you know what to keep them warm The inclement weather forced the Shriners of Khedive Temple sponsors of the game for the crippled hospitals to cancel the colorful pagentry The downtown parade went on as scheduled but the rain soaked bands get a chance to strut their stuff at the game Aeitner uia me anrnre pct trols Only the United States Navy Band was used at the pregame ceremonies or the first time this year Coach Rube McCray had his Indi ans at top strength and they gave a worthy performance for the chilled spectators On the other hand State somewhat crippled with many of its stars on the hos pital list never did strike its stride Indians End Slump Before the Indians came to Nor folk yesterday for Tidew only collegiate football game they had dropped fodr straight games bow ing to North Carolina Boston Uni versity Virginia and Houston State was undefeated in its last tussles and only last Saturday held favored Wake orest to a 6 6 stalemate Coach Beattie Pack was rated a two touchdown favorite at game time Triple threat Dickie Lewis was the star of the dreary day The 185 pound junior tailback from Arlington racked up two touch downs and booted four extra points all bv placements Ed Magdziak also came through brilliantly for the Indians scoring William and first touch! down and then scampered 86 yards for another Ed Weber got the oth er Tribe touchdown Runs 63 Yards State threatened at the outset when fullback Jim gath ered in Russ kick off and tip toed 63 yards to William and 26 yard stripe O'Rourke and tailback Ed Mooney State's crack running backs drove to William and 15 for a first down The Indians get their de fen se organized slammed through cen ter for two yards and then Mooney passed to Captain Tony Romansky and the ball slipped off his fingers Ronnie Gonier Tribe tackle broke through and spilled Mooney for a six yard loss Mooney whipped a pass to Ray Barkouski who got as 1 far as the 12 where he was literally snowed under Kicking Outstanding Lewis' kicking was outstanding all afternoon' His second quick kick traveled 52 yards and got the Wolfpack in a hole which they never recovered Jammed deep in their own terri tory Mooney quick kicked for State but the boot was a poop one going only 24 yards to 34 Then the Indians began to roll On second down Lewis passed to co captain Vito Ragazzo good for seven yaruat anu incn JMdugz idK found Jlagazzo for a first down on 17 Safetyman Paul Web ster intercepted pass in tended for Weber and brought the ball back to 37 but the Wolfnack was penalized for defen sive holding the Indians took over on five Madgziak passed to Larry ones on the 3i yard stripe and on the next play Madg ziak twisted over for the first touch down of the 1950 Oyster Bowl Levis missed the first of five place ments our plays after the second period opened the Indians scored again On fourth play a bad pass from center gave William and Mary the ball on 24 Defensive half back Vitus Kaiser spilled Lewis for a two yard loss and the Indians were penalized 15 yards for hold ing setting the tri color team back to 36 Screen Pass Clicks A screen pass Lewis to Ragazzo netted the Indians a first down on six Weber crashed over on an inside reverse and Lewis made it 13 0 ollowing an exchange of punts Madgziak brought the frozen spectators to their feet when: he raced 86 yards for a touchdown He started off his right tackle! re versed his field and aided by Ra gazzo's letter perfect block on wingback George McArthur went all the way down the east side lines It was snowing hard when Lewis booted the ball through the uprights for the 20th point Late in the second period Ed Mioduszewski thwarted a State goalward when he Inter cepted pass on the Tribe 12 and returned it three yards but Indians were penalized back to their one yard stripe for clip ping Before the Indians could run a plav time ran out and the happy Redskins went to their dressing room leading 20 0 Early In the third quarter State threatened twice but the Indians held and the Wolfpack was forced to yield the (balance on the 15 and then again on the 17 It was here that Lewis con tributed a 83 yard scoring gallop He broke off his left tackle and streaked down the east sidelines He also added the extra point via placement making it 27 0 and more spectators hurried for warm er climes Lewis whose kicking was a fea ture of the surprise vic tory beamed a 67 yard punt early In the fourth that got State into trouble Safety man Mooney played the kick poorly scooping up thaj i Indians Kicked On football it can be said 1 right now that Rube Indians organized themselves for the first time this year They played marvelously well 1 for the first time played it! 1 right on the nose State which had toppled Maryland land had tied mighty Wake orest was blasted The field of play war in i far better condition than would be expected from the opening remarks The field had little to do with the outcome in fact it had dried and was freezing hard at the finish William Marv won the ball game by getting' the jump via 'use of the punt They kicked a themselves into the lead and turn took full advantage of an opportunity handed to them ii through faulty State kicking On two quick kicks by Dick Lewis the Tribe wound up with a first down on the State 3 1 in the first five minutes rom there they scored with Ed Magzdiak plunging In the first minutes of the second period Ed Mooney splendid tailback got a high pass from center on an attempted fourth down punt and the Indians got that ball on the Wolfpack 25 The mint you see turned i the tide again because the In dians scored from there with Ed Weber driving wide To his left to cross And that was the game with the Redskins run ning wild including an 86 yard sprint through the line by Madzdiak and later aq 84 yard er by Lewis You go back to the first two touchdowns for the tide of the battle and there you find that the Indian fprewall broke up the State attack in the same high standard it blocked to spring the ball car riers free In the telling opening plays Hillsman Wilson and Big Jim Continued no Page 11 first race is scheduled for 2:30 Colorado 31 Colorado A 6 Buzz Barnetf the top modified driver at the half mile oval this season is expected to have a per sonal duel with his brother in law and king of the straight stocks Don Crouch Crouch won the grueling 100 lap race last Sunday and the heavy favorite Barnett spun out of com petition while running second RIGHT TACKLE Ed Mooney 165 pound State tailback gains three yards in first period against William and Mary i Leading interference for Mooney is guard Bill Cox (61 Set to make tackle is defensive back John rhoto by Dorjes virginmn ruot sun rnotograpner i Washington Nov 25 fancy George Washington a 7 6 football victory over Georgetow a game that began in deep mud arid woundup in a driving snowstornj i Shullenbarger kicked the game winning extra point And he got off 14 booming punts to keep Georgetown a 1 1 i much of the time deep territory in the season ending game for both teams Despite shoetop de some spots both teams scored on passes Georgetown got its (touchdown first and it was a honey Early in the first period before the field was too churned up rank Mattingly passed down (the middle to Jim Thompson who caught the ball on the 35 Thomp son stumbled regained (His footing and staggered on to a touchdown I Although the gate were officially opened at 11 o'clock the fans didn't begin arriving until 12:30 They came prepared for the North weather bringing blankets sweaters windbreakers and a goodly supply of newspapers and mag" which they used to' sit on I Warmest place was In the press box which was jammed to capa city Dick Esleeck University of Richmond coach who was scouting Indians sought refugepn the press box oetop deep mud of Griffith Stadii 1 'tnirniiT niMn ljuii niitnjunK lime wwiwi awmi ijiiraniiui mwi xun jmoo ill hilwi 6 6 12 0 0 6 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