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Lose Hoosiers Cop; Gophers Wildcats, Vil.C I 1,1, i II il Indiana Sophs Whip Illinois nonnwesiern Deals Sooners 45 13 Beating Bv DALE BIRGLSS (the ball except to punt, and it! Cornhuskers In Startling 3M 2 Victory MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Under dog Nebraska feasted on Minnesota fumbles and boomering passes Saturday for a 32 12 victory at sodden Memorial Stadium behind the three touchdowns salvo of Clay White. The tough, alert Cornhuskers BLOOMINGTON. Ind. (AP) In used the quick kick to deadly ad diana hauled the cover off a great; vantage. crop of sophomores Saturday and Illinois 1 By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN' AM3tt Pttm fcport Writer) EVANSTON, 111 (AP) Dickj Thorn too' heady quarterbackmg and passing, and Ron Burton's) electrifying runs today charged defeated a fumbling Illinois team Indiana 7 720 20 0 in the Big Ten football open i Lid Smith 1 run (Miller kick) er ft both teams.

Rain poured' Ind Hunter 7 run (kick failed) all afternoon. Ind FaLson 18 pass from Jack Tailback Ted Smith knocked iWscn (Milier kick). 1inm nff hfllnnr with a Sl vard mm. runback of the opening kickoff.l scored 10 plays later from the II lini one and tnen let the aopho mores struts Willie Hunter, a 195 pound tailback, plowed 16 yards the first time he got the ball and tallied Indiana's second touchdown from; i reduced the Gophers to jittery in eptness and turned Minnesota mistakes into five touchdowns. In the process they wrecked the heralded debut of Gopher soph quarterback Sandy Stephen's who fumbled four times and had a pass intercepted.

White, a stumpy churning runner, scored on runs of 34, and four yards and on a three yard pass from Harry Tolly. Pat Colls Start Title Defense Against Lions By MIKE RATHET (AP Sports Writer) the Illini 7 at the start of the second quarter. BUCKEYE RUMBLE Bob Ferguson (46), strong running Ohio State halfback, makes eight yards around right end on a pitchout as teammate Leonard Fontes leads the interference. Claude Moorman (85) and Bunny Bell (25), come up to make the tackle for Duke. Ohio State squeezed out a 14 13 win over Duke at Columbus Saturday.

Unifax. If John Henry Jackson, another) sophomore tailback, 18j up Northwestern for a shattering 413 defeat of Oklahoma, the nation 't second ranked football team. It was the illness weakened Sooners worst licking since Oklahoma A It handed them a 47 0 trouncing in 1945, It also marked the worst Oklahoma drubbing under Coach Bud Wilkinson the previous being a 34 13 setback by Texas in lmT, Wilkinson's first year, ft a a Five Oklahoma regulars be came violently ill two day before the game because of apparent; food poisoning. All played most of Saturday's game, The seccnd quarter of the nationally televised game before ai capacity crowd of 50,000 was played in a near cloudburst. In the curtain of ram that at! times obliterated the field, both a Fischer nd Tolly got tha other Nebraska touchdowns.

The National Football League LATE PASS CLICKS Melrose Stops Tremplo, 7 6 MELROSE, Wis. Both teams scored in the first quarter Satur yards to junior Earl Faison for the Hoosiers' last touchdown. Ron Miller kicked extra points on the first and third touchdowns but missed on the middle one. He had to boot the first one from the 28 yard line after a Hoosier penalty, Illinois lost the ball five times champion Baltimore Colts, with aerial artist Johnny Unitaa engineering a potent attack, open defense of their title today aa hosts to the Detroit Lions. The Colts Lions game highlights HARD RUNNING HOOSIER Indiana tailback Willie Hunter (45) eludes Stan Yukevitch, left, and Pat Lennon (69) of Illinois during this first half scamper in the first Big 10 game Saturday at Bloomington, Ind.

The Hoosiers blanked the IUini, 20 0. Unifax. Mighty Hawks day as Melrose nipped Trempea Buckeyes Edge Out Duke, 14 1 3 on lumoies and twice on inter ceptions. Indiana never gave up Underdogs by 10 points, the Huskers spotted Minnesota a first period touchdown and then struck for two quick scores midway through the second period for a 13 12 halftime lead. White took over after Intermission to score three times his 34 yard cutback scamper in tha fourth quarter breaking the Gophers back.

Minnesota fumbled eight times and lost the bali on five occasions. They also had two passes intercepted that led to Nebrask touchdowns. Although he hurled a 19 yard touchdown pass, scored on a 55 yard return of an intercepted pass Bryant for 16 yards and Jim Herb hish sides packed the game's steit for 15. leau, 7 6, in a rain soaked, mud spattered Coulee Conference game. Quarterback Ronnie Erickson passed 10 yards to Duane Harebo for the Melrose score and added the vital extra point by skirting around end.

Fullback Ron Gunderson scored from 10 yards out for the Trempealeau club. After the first quarter the gridders suffered under the elements. Rout California lights into Ute quarter. Oklalwma scored a touchdown' on a 45 yard thrust in II plays that cut Northwestern lead to 13 T. The score came on a hoopla; Bv ALAN CI.INE did the Iowa throwing.

Ray Jr by Vted Grange Jack Wilson, a young sophomore, sparked Duke to its first score as he ate up 57 yards in seven tries, the last six in a row for the score. He ran it from the three yard lint to make it Ohio 14, Duke 13. The gambling Blue Devils tried a pass for a two point conversion but it failed. (Written for NKA 8erric pass involving three of the fivej ELRKELEY, Calif. (AP) A Jauch, Bob Jeter, Dun Horn.

Gene Sooner regulars stricken with food mighty Iowa, striking by land and Moaley and John Brown did the poisoning. by air, smothered California 42 12 running and catching. Ends Curt i Saturday in a Rose Bowl replay Merz, Don Norton and Jeff Lang A college rules change which From the Northwestern 7, Bob it hat turned into another night ston also snagged passes from perhaps needs amplification is the land carried a kickoff 78 yards, Stephens had an unhappy day. Two of Sanford's fumbles and one of his intercepted passes pre ty Boyd slipped a backward pass mare for the Bears. end of the gridiron to governing distance penalties.

Trempealeau I 06 Melrose 7 0 0 67 TD: Trempealeau Gunderson, 10 run; Melrose Harebo, 10 yard pass from Ron Erickson. PAT: Ron Erickson, run. a four game program as the professional circuit's 40th season rolls into high gear. The 1959 campaign was officially kicked off Saturday night when New York met Los Angeles and Cleveland played Pittsburgh. In other curtain raisers Sunday, the Chicago Bears invade Green Bay, Washington tackles the Cardinals in Chicago and Philadelphia is at San Francisco.

Unitas who has thrown a touchdown pass in 25 consecutive league games will have the same array of hard running, elusive ballcarriers aligned with him in the Baltimore backfield. Getting the starting call again are fullback Alan Ameche and halfbacks Lenny Moore and L. G. Dupre. Baltimore, experimenting frequently with Ray Brown at quarterback, finished the exhibition season with a 4 2 mark.

Spearheaded by a veteran backfield crew, the Lions rang up a 4 2 1 mark in preseason play. The Lions lost halfback Gene Gedman for the season when a knee operation failed to heal, but came up with a top rookie prospect in fullback Nick Pietrosante of Notre Dame. COLUMBUS (AP) Ohio State's ground eating Buckeyes ware forced into the airways Saturday to pull out a 14 13 victory over Duke's Blue Devils in an inter sectional game before 62,000. The defeat wrecked Duke's tradition of never having lost to a Big 10 team. After Ohio State had scored on its first attempt, going 59 yards in eight playa to send soph halfback Bob Ferguson in for a score, the game was a drab affair until the explosive fourth quarter when Duke scored twice and Ohio once.

The Buckeyes, who seldom use an aerial attack, won the game with 1:51 to play on a 23 yard pass from second string quarterback Tom Matte to end Charles Bryant. After Duke had gone ahead, 13 7, with about four minutes to play, Ohio marched 64 yards in nine plays for the winner. The score came on fourth down door die pass after Matte had hit Ref Kills Rattler, Prep Scoring Stops to Jim Carpenter, who tossed to; Cal scored after two plays, a 56 i other. in previous years, any penalty Brewster Hobby in the end zone.iyard pass from Larry Parque toj that would carry the ball inside Jim Davis, another of those who Bob Wills and a 10 yard run by, Horn scored first on a 5 yard the one yard line terminated at had been sick, booted the extra Grover Garvin. 'dive, winding up a 10 play.

71 yard point. Under the 1959 rules, point. The Hawkeyes then look overlive. The plunging fullback no penalty enforced toward the ceded his touchdowns. Another fumble on the Nebraska three cost Minnesota an apparent touchdown.

But the Gophers rookie looked good through the first quarter Newburg Players Meet Northwestern, rated No. tnen amj steamrollered Coach Pete El scored again in the third quarter goal line can be more than half Players on the La Crosse New hnrtrc hauhatl tiam nr aWW to RICHLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) Richland Springs High School had Rising Star down 22 0 in the third quarter of their foot wrt at. th aft. rh.hmnm. when he led a 50 yard drive that p.m.

Sunday for the trip to Eso ded with 1 StePhen to game Friday night and ap vcored twice to ciamp a ua on vne.iiott team with an awesome a three yard run. fwtcome wth a 27 7 halftime! display of running and passing be Holhs, Brown and Mosley car bulge, spoiling Wilkinson's first fore a crowd of W.OHO in sunny ned ad for the second score, venture against a Big Ten team Memorial Stadium. Hollis running in from the one. aince taking over at Oklahoma. Halfback Burton slashed 62! Olen Tread way and Wilburn Hoi ui, the distance toward that goal line.

By way of illustration, a 15 yard penalty enforced from the 16 this year actually is only an eight yard penalty. Under the old rules, the entire 15 yards would peared certain to run the score lea. Manager Bil. Parizek said his higher. Then Referee Ernest Head no (ball club will piay the Mississippi yards for a touchdown.

U.ck jonnson uhicikwwii pass. Tom Kramer moved Nebraska into a 7 6 lead in the second quarter with a 12 yard pass to Fischer snd Tolly went over from the one a few minutes later. With less then a minute of the some to Cal in the vm Rose Bowl have been paced off, putting the River league club at 2 p.m. Wavne Chamberlain recovered an! I Oklahoma fumble by Jackie HohTU55e5 IN IVUin cn the Sooners 8. hall on the one.

O. Who do you think will win the Auburn Alabama game? Michael McCarty. A. That one is a long way off, made hash of the Bear i line Saturday. Jeter made the third Iowa touchdown on a four dash in the second quarter.

Ori the next drive, Mosley ran Caught Badgers On Tribute To Tatum SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Spectators stood in a minute lay, Thornton threw i half left, Stephens flinched a of; Kramer pass and stormed 55 pass to Paul Yanke a dripping, Qrr Gunrf4.r nnrh 28. Right now I would have blurred tigure in tne enc .77,,. for 2n Hnlh. hit him for 31 andNov.

English Jockey Killed ATtotoonmiliiornimii wupuij ar, ohci, a touchdown pick Auburn because it ia a Sword Dancer Wins NEW YORK (AP) Sword Dancer moved up along the rail in the final yards Saturday and overhauled Hillsdale to narrowly win the $109,800 Woodward Stakes at Aqueduct. cass tailed JOT uie exui iww uuu naj. oauuaT wMuumm i recognized power. Alabama is re yaids to score. It was 13 12 for Nebraska beading into the third quarter and White took command from there, scoring once in the third period and twice in the fourth.

ticed that a Richland Springs halfback's flying feet threw a snake into the air. Head casually marched over and picked up what he said later he believed a grass snake. Hia intention was to toss it off the field. With the reptile in his hand, he noticed with alarm that it had a diamond pattern on its back. Then the reptile erupted with a buzzing noise at its rear.

It waa a rattlesnake. Head dropped the snake with understandable speed. Then he killed it with his spiked shoes. No one scored after that. And silent prayer for Jim Tatum Saturday between the halves of the North Carolina Notre Dame football game.

Tatum, who waa the head coach foe North Carolina, died in July. ASCOT, England (AP) Manny after each touchdown. juicx caujmt nis oaojiersi points building, but this is a dog fight, and you know how the 0 7 0 6 13 off guard with a tremendous pass ia 12 6 14 4a.ina exhibition during a last half ljal Mercer, one of Britain leading jockeys, was thrown from his Oklahoma Northwestern fourth quarter, Early in the bounces sometimes. jthe Big Ten's 410 yard run cham i down pour. STATISTIC tt mount and killed at the start of a questions to race at Ascot Saturday.

Mercer, Willi Ulff mill lnil U1K wmi, pivi'i npi inivn mi joiua i fwj wv! nUUITAl HWIIIIMII Bruhn said after the game, "Our i without a hand laid on him. Red NEA Service, 461 15 felt there wtMildn't be any Tom Moore kicked six Iowa Eighth New York 1, N.Y. who had ridden in the United States, was unseated from his mount, Priddy Fair, just before 4 10 boys 13 0 1 3 1 13 Questions of general or unusual passing. 1 conversions. Hawks Drop 3 Players ST.

LOUIS (AP) The St. Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Assn. cut down to 13 players today by dropping Jerry Lester, Tom Spencer and Hank Stein. Fawfi. Fumb lo in this! the start of the Red Deer Handi 33 3 0 119 While Wisconsin slipped and The Bears picked up a second interest will be answered slid on the soggy turf, Norman touchdown in the third quarter column.

Other questions players fumbled three times in the cannotlcap. It was thought he was kicked last quarter. in the face as he fell. kept his team moving with a ser jwhen quarterback Wayne Crow be acknowledged individually. ies of passes.

The Badgers, lead romped 36 yards. ing IH when the ram 14 14 7 7 42; DftL CJ. CrnrAec 6 0 6 0 12; BLED, Yugoslavia (AP) Bobby won the game, 16 14. Cal Both Indian touchdowns came after the rain began, one of them rsm vnsik it low 21 FOOTBALL SCORES i Miles 9. Albany (Ga) 7 Tuskegee 7, Xavier (New Or leans) Howard (Ala) 20, Sewanee Howard (Ala) 20, Sewanee FAR WEST do ii Wl yrdgf 'man to Chris Burford.

Norman is jg JT JTUlllIg V.0. VUllt CIIUCI 111 the international chess tourney. 9 33 1 conceded defeat Saturday in his 3 48 1 adjourned match with Svetozar a Gligoric of Yugoslavia. 2 2i8 177 13 30 3 3 42 1 14 uF i 1 1 I'l i wi 1. 1 ww" in i.i twr jiii tints Rmhn said, because he worked Knmtii Lot College of Puget Sound 27, East jaway ftjtll snort passes, then Yari Heating Oil I em Washington 7 sprung a bug one.

Saa Francisco State 34, Cal Poly t'orrmm ramy offensive appar Pomona) 14 ently surprised Coach Jack Cur Whitworth (Spokane) 14, Le tjce as much as it did Bruhn. and Clark (Portland) 7 'We're just not used to playing Bosox Triumph fJW STANFORD On Jensen's Hit FILM AT 'V BOSTON AP) Jacie Jensen's ansa; Only! i two out nomer in the iitn itining, Baylor Co ado 7 hn said the bad weather al Red Wah.ngta State 30, Saa hampered him in making a over ruaie i St lull ions (ton. i Oregon 21, I'tah "When the rain came I wanted A Uaiilmin. a tf Boston had surged from behind urns oi me sstan ford football game will he shown Wednesday night at the La Crosse YMCA, 7th and Main streets. General Secretary Ted Griffin raid movies of Wisconsin football games will he scheduled for 7:15 p.m.

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