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MONROE (LA) NEWS-STAR JANUARY 3 1956 Georgia Tech Defeats Pitt Makes Touchdown In 1st Quarter To Win, 7 To 0 five yards for backfield in motion, i A couple more penalties helped put; the brakes on Pitt. On the next play the skyscraplng Mitchell scored but the play was called back because Pitt was; offside. Mississippi Gets Upset Over Texas Christian By STERLING SLAPPEY NEW ORLEANS, Jan, 3 I DALLAS Jan. 3 Versatile the ball between the goal pos's Mitchell took another whack with and hammering Paige but TCU was penalized for Illegal a quarterback sneak and did the Cothren pulled Mississippi to a 14-1 formation. The next time job again.

He added the placement ef vlctory over Texas Chris- kick was wide to the left. Georgia Tech, a team of lean op- t0 make lt Tech 7-0. in the Cotton Bowl Monday in They know it but that was portunities waiting like l- Latc the flrst half and one AU.America Jim the ball game right there. tWM for flttsburgiii to err the second half Pitt managed to Swink's fines games. 1 Day ended uP being named outbreak of its life Monday Ju fust a case of offensive en- quarter and cashed in with Th- i i The Rebels, laying back like a standing back of the game with tou'chdown to win the Sugar Bowl intermission Pitt got the ball on the 20 after a Tech Buddy Alliston.

200-pound Mis- Quarterback I off tackle and end sweeps Atlanta boy I The big gainers were Lou Cim- quarterback, Chuck Curtis. He was DuBmsson, Mississippi Injured on tne first play of the wlt" fans gat jn team, arolli, Cornelius Salvaterra, Pete game and taken to a hospital with was supposed broken rib. and a bunged up shoul- to watch wha to be a game of touchdown-trading, It was not anything like the offensive battle it was supposed to be Pitt's 1 yard line, Wade Mitchell, an playing on his scored the only touchdown and Grier. and then kicked the placement. Tech stonewalling near the goal tier.

Dick Ki.ney, who bad The bowl victory was the seventh posts gradually pulled the Pitt 200 minutes paying on the without a defeat'for coach Bobby to a stop. Salvaterra chose team, plucked the sticiors ut of Dlentv to make it his pants sitting oa 'he ben'vi Dllt suu Discover mellow mash and tried to on for Curtis. He attractive. The loss of Curtis undoubtedly did well undtr the cirvn.sUotes 1 ne hurt TCU but for almost 56 utes it looked like the substitute. Finney, would through.

The lineups: MISSISSIPPI pull the Frogs harles Duck (64), guard. (AP Wirephoto). Dodd of Tech and the score justi- to g0 over center and failed to fied the one touchdown gain. Tech took over and whiled advantage in betting odds. away the time until halftime.

Pitt, a slow operating split-T Tech cooked up a hoi drive of but was not a Curtis, team, ground up and down the its own in the final quarter. Swink almost carried TCU to vie- consuming ground like a move got to the Pitt 7. Ray Di- tory, scoring both toucn 1 nvitr huge earth mover and pass- intercepted a Tech pass go ting off glittlrm? ru is ir.g as it and ran it back to the 10 to end that kept tb' Horned F'ogs in stood out over throwing the threat. front until tie last miu game. Just before the game ended Pitt Mississippi swept 66 yards twice Left Fisher, Harbin.

But Tech was the team with the began to move again, but it was for touchdowns one male on the Left Yeiverion one punch which won. In the last mostly through desperation passing nf Dry and he rum r.n i Left J. wimams. throwing and not a coordinated ef- of Co'hren, and the athe- being Stone. fort.

scl up by a 2. yard da i Right McKay. Tech has now won five major Cothren bon red over u-m three Right Bickerson. bowls in a row and made itself yard, out for the first Rebel score. Right D.

wmiams. undisputed king of post season then klcked the extra Quarterback-Day. Blaiach. play. As an added pleasant bit, this be ajso djd after second halfback Blair, Liawioia, jndjans and tbe Ouachita Parish was the first time in four tries actual margin of A that Tech has whipped Pitt.

They victoryt Second-stringer Billy Lott Lott, first began to play in 1918 when I ran around Tight end 'o f.w Bakei. TEXAS CHRISTIAN INJURED ON FIRST PLAY Charlee Curtis (46), Texas Christian University quarter- the Alliston three minutes of the ponderoud game, third string quarter-, back Darrell Lewis turned himself into a desperate lefthander with a mission. He fired half a dozen passes with his whiplike left designed as a home run. Tech reeled back, faltered and the game appeared headed for a tie. Time aught up with Lewis and Pitt on the 5-yard line.

The game ended on second down and goal to go Another minute and Tech might very well have been of a Grier got favored treatment from the crowd of 80,173 throughout the game. Whenever he managed to gain two or three yards, the cheers rang out. The stands were unsegregated but only a handful of Negroes showed up and they were not near enough to account for all the clapping and cheering which greeted Grier. Massive Pitt piled up an impres- statistics, outmov- Triple Cage Bill Set At Ouachita Tonight Thu Northeast Louisiana State High School and Louisiana College -Daw the Northeast will be opening High Lions serve as co-hosts of a string of five consecutive nome aP- over a igan State end who kicked the field goal that gave the Spartans a 17-14 si ve in ti nr In the East was strong and the South The PITTSBURGH Left ends Glatz, Kiesel Lcf' tackles McCusker Left guards Hunter Centers Bose, Brueckman Right Schmitt, va Right tackles Canil, Kissel, Linn Right ends Roshorough Quarterbacks Salvaterra, Lewis Left halfbacks Cori Right halfbacks Cima Jelio. Passodells Fullbacks Jenkins GEORGIA TECH yaras and ne second 'score.

Left Nickel Day parsed for 137 vards whun Left Laswell. Cothren 79 yards nf the Left Williams, Alexander, TCU line is bruti-h plunging Yung. S.vink was the lead ig gainer, as be had been ui very game played the past season. The great Frog rolled uy I' thraugh the hard-knocking MississipM line. The Frogs stormed on the gro- 1 and 20 the r.

while Mur had 11 and 137 UCLA in the Rose basketball triple header here to- pearances for the new year, meet- never before had kicked a ing demons here field goal in his college career. Friday night, Arkansas State here Oee. Right McCullough. Right Cooper, Groom. Right Williams, Bull.

Finney. Left Swink, Shofner. yards Right Mmebur; night with East Texas Baptist College and Mangham High School furnishing the opposition. The big 1 Saturday night. Southwestern Lou, i isiana here next night, and show is scheduled for the U.r.il.S.

gymnasium. Girls teams of Ouachita and Mangham are slated to meet in the curtain-raiser at 6 Then the Lion and Dragon quintet take The six-footer from Alpena, a transfer from Notre Dame, had tried twice before earlier this year and missed both times. he came through In the clutch." said Spartan Coach Duffy Daugherty. is our field goal kicker even if he never fio quale, tall Tec and 94 defense, massing against 137 earn yard a fis 19 i 155 il in T. ends tackle se, Nabor -Vcreen, Huff hristy.

Penalties figured prominently in the result of the game and the one that hurt the was that assessed against TCU which prevented a point after touchdown. It came after the second TCU score. Harold Pollard, the steady TCU second-string fullback, planted run about cramble bet-. ecu Northeast and the Baptist following immediately alter. Coach Arnold Redskins.

nlm'iimg to dual competition following their dethroning as champions of the Northeast Invitational Tournament by Central Okla- Texas Christian homa's Broncs Lst week in a 66downs: Swink 2 (I, plunge; 39, 60 scramble, vv Miller. l'ollard. Mississippi 0 7 0 .4 xas i 7 0 Mtssissipoi scori i downs: Co er. 13, pin (5, end runt. Conversions: Cothren Conversion: Pollard.

Te if the Mite lit nri The i on ved such Le ft gu ards -Brooks, 'ulcher, a very only ris, Stephen i if looked Ri it i guards Ecker, Miller, Glaz garni carne Ri it i ekles Thrash, Ander- hell on the son, sed to end it nds Ellis. iv 11 ave Ellis a Ql rt eri backs Mitchell Vann a ve the ks Rote nberry, at a key F1 ov i ve gl it ha Menge: ilfback Volkert, Thomp- the Fi ill baci Mattison, Owen, i Mar-j Gool kit a i umpus urgl 0 0 0 Georg is "I'eeh 7 0 0 0 7 Techswept rgia 1 et i scoring: touch-j Grit said! -Mi tchell (1, sneak i. Conversion Mite for the 22nd bit hot for football, official 73 degrees, been partially re- the sluggishness of Central Hoopsters Hosting Baskin In Twin Bill Tuesday Rebel Coach Frog Coach Gloomy Over Tilt By WHITEY SAWYER Day, however, shrugged off his DALLAS. Jan. 3 think we run with, just had good played a pretty good ball game," Mississippi Coach Johnny Vaught believe we just wanted the smiled calmly as he sat off in a victory more than they he corner away from the dressing summed it up.

room tumult that marked the Reb- ---------Eagle Day Chosen Outstanding In Cotton Bowl Fray DALLAS, Jan. 3 Eagle be shooting tor their ninth victory against three losses when they tackle to invading collegians from Marshall, Tex. Northeast opened its season at Marshall by beating this same outfit coached by Lenny Fant, the fermer Centenary star who played Louisiana Tech here January 16. Then will follow four games on the road as the Tribe swings into the last half of its most expansive schedule. Coach Herb probable kicked one Ouachita lineup is Johnny The goal was from the 31-yard Maroney and T.

L. Fuller, for- 11 yards to the goal wards; Bob Whitten, center: and posts at a slight angle. Jeff Spence and Dickie Crowe, The game was reminiscent of uards. the 1950 Rose Bowl contest when Regular college prices will be Ohio State beat California by the charged the customers vMh Ouach- same score with a field goal in ita sharing in the proceeds. 'the last couple of minutes of play.

Greatest Athletic Year Is Ended At 14-13 victory over Texas Christian University in the Cotton Bowl today. Over in the Texas Christia 1 dressing room, Frog coach Abe Martin stared through the gloom, his Cotton Bowl victory hopes as dead as the shredded cigar lie chewed listlessly. He didn't offer much. The sportswriters had to drag answers out of him. Curtis (TCU quarterback Chuck Curtis) went out, we realized DELHI.

Jan. 2 (Special) We had a lot better The Central High girls basketball Vaught said. Curtis received Missouri Valley, Juniata Tie 6-6 In Tangerine Bowl ORLANDO, Jan. 3 Day, the Mississippi quarterback Huntin rat 32 Don Hi hard slio ball to 1 That was th time in volvinj player on the Negro boy wh vin Griffin ra about. After mistak to a quick touchdown he did not touch Elli The crowd fell 2,000 short of capacity in the saucer-shaped Tulane University Stadium.

Tickets, prices at $6, were selling for 50 rents about 20 minutes before game time. The Bowl was a reaching an That eould sponsible for Pittsburgh. At any rate, Tech was far and more spirited. error was not the only time that pen key times. A called on Pitt in the second period which appeared to take the steam i dominated out of the Pennsylvanians.

almost a decade, 56 to 55, in tneir got five. ly after that, Pitt was charged with Baskin meeting. I Martin glumly agreed with Ijeft Tackle Norman Hamilton nf I Ruarter and both on Passes i Qn the same card Tuesday night that run broke the ran seCQnd the all-star linesman voting, with nine ballots. GRAMBLING. Jan.

2 (SPL) Edward Mitchell, James Culmer, When the buzzer rasped to sign- Henry DeGraffired, Sherm Cotting, ai the pnd of the Xavier Holiday ham, Foster Wheeler, Theo Roach, hA coached''kqDelh Tournament in New Orleans Wed- Big Joe Dixon, Jamie Caleb, and here and also coached at Delhi )( (he fnd Gafford of most successiul ath- Hop ko bnsketball all-time letic year. high scorer with 3,209 points was The Tigers won the tournament named to the Helm's Foundation with a seesaw 72-61 victory over All-American team, and is current- Tennessee State to run their com- ly being sought by five teams in posite basketball baseball-football the National Basketball League. He holds seven NCAA scoring records. Around Grambling it is consider- record to 56 victories in 66 athletic events. For a school whose prospects were regarded as dub- ed good taste to mention Murry and the pass throwing of Pat Tarquinio iast jyjew Day, Gramb- Davis in the same breath with and catching of Barry Drexler ling cjeaned Up national honors in Hopkins.

Both were named to Alive the second longest Yootball and won conference titles American teams. Davis, a firey 220- pound tackle was placed on the whose gamble won the Cotton Bowl game for his team, was voted all- star backfield man of the Cotton Bowl Monday by sports writers. streak in college football in baseball and basketball. londay when a big, rugged Mis- They were seldom contained and NAIA eleven and earned a first- i Valley line forced Juniata nf as Athletic Director Ed- team berth on the All- itingdon. to settle for a 6-6 die proudly points out.

American units with Murry. Playing against the best teams The sixth ranking offense in the country, the extradorinary leader with 1.151 yards, Murray Tarquinio, star tailback record was compiled in this man- is considered best back OD ner. Basketball, 27-5; baseball, 19- since Younger. He is also tie in the 10th annual Tangerine Bowl, who had led the Indians to 23 Left Guard Buddy Alliston of straight victories, covered 216 yard 3 football, 10-0. team, which upset Baskin High broken ribs on the opening kick- Mississippi was voted all-star lines- with 15 passes tonight.

Drexler All three teams played like vet- a top baseballer. All the awards weren't gobbled up by the players. tatc Class champions last week oft man. Day got 22 votes, more than caught eight of them for 16-1 yards, eran units and solved each prob- Eddie Robinson was named at Baskin, got a chance to dupii- When a-ked what he thought oi 50 per cent of the total cast, while But the bigger and better manned lem as the oppostion presented it. of-the-year" with the enthusiastic AU-America Alliston got 20.

Missouri Valley Vikings from Mar- This especially true of the endorsement of the nation top battered Juniata back football squad which defeated Flor- writers and fellow coaches. He 11 be 1 Atlanta, Jan. 20, at cate the feat Tuesday night when jjm Swink, the two sextets tangle in Central halfback and the leading ground- All-American Left Halfback shall, hurt Pitt gymnasium south of here, gainer, Vaught dropped some of James Swink of Texas Christian I Just sho. of the goal ime twice in ida A 28-21 in the Orange in 15 foul a as; Class girls barely his restraint. University got 13 votes in the all- the final minutes wheii the Indians Blossom Classic before 40.319 after which time Grambung will be pre- the Baskin team that has bo; he's a ballplayer.

That backfield man voting and full- seemed on the verge of their 24th some writers said it fin- sented the H. A. bcott ftiemcnai nated state Class play was dangerous, very dan-i back Paige Cothren of Mississippi; straight. ish at the top of the heap aSTVhamninnshin Roh'n st a decade, to 55, their got five. Both touchdowns came the first greatest assets were Negro gud Championship Rob WHEN YOU THINK OF HARDWARE AND SPORTING GOODS THINK OF 401 W.

Monroe the Central High boys, who suffered game up. a rare defeat at the hands of run of was the big Baskin quintet last week, will be play, of course. He made a nice seeking to avenge their 60-33 loss, maneuver but we should have had The contest will open the him back there inside the he program at 7 The boys' engagement is scheduled fori not a lot, we did have a an 8:15 start. lot of he said when 7 asked if he thought his Frogs made many mistakes. course we missed Curtis, but Finney (Dick Finney, it ut quarterback) did a great job.

They all did a good job. But losing Curtis hurt our timing Swink, looking tired and worn, voiced admiration for the Rebel game. hit real hard and linebackers could really crash. Finney called a fine game Center Gene Dubuisson of Mississippi was third, with seven votes. Tackle Don Cooper of TCU was fourth, with three votes, and Center Hugh Pitts of TCU was fifth with one vote.

Score by quarters: Juniata Missouri Valley excellent coaching and such stand- son has a 14-year record of 108 out performers as Robert Ab- victories, 41 defeats and six ties. 6 0 0 Hopkins, Edward Murray, Wil- 6 0 0 lie Davis, Bob McCoy, Melvin Lee, TOO MANY BILLS? Let Us Consolidate Them Into ONE LOW COST Monthly Payment For Quick, Confidential Service SEE STAN BAGWELL LOANS of ANY TYPE! Pitt Co-Captain Becomes Father While On Gridiron Coach Says Sooner Win Due To NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 3 By CARTER BRADLEY squad it was going to have MIAMI, Jan. to play better ball to beat homa Coach Bud Wilkinson, as; said Bollinger modest as ever in a moment of commented.

Wilkinson confirmed triumph, said Monday the Oklaho- the Sooner surge after intermission ma victory over Maryland was a came without any special squad featuring the making. It was fifth captain Harold Hunter of Pitts- best play of his No. 1 team in any bowl game under his administra- hurgh received word Monday that, bowl game. i tion. his wife gave birth to a 10-pound; Amid the whooping jubilation of Alternate quarterback Jay hut 1 still wish Chuck baby girl w'hile he was playing in Oklahoma dressing room itn- who led that unit to the could have played this one.

the Sugar Bowl football game mediately after the 20-6 score went second Oklahoma score in a stun-! FCU center Hugh Pitts put it against Georgia Tech. i into the books, Wilkinson singled ning drive only minutes later, said mis way: should have won) Hunter, a 207 pound senior out a Pass from Halfback Tommy it was a matter keeping up guard from Canonsburg, was McDonald to Robert Burris as the with our first called to the telephone during the key play. Oklahoma meup players banquet at the St. Charles second half is the best to trs Hotel after the game. i played this Wilkin- Teammates, suspecting the rea- i son said.

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The proud papa, caught without cigars, took a congratulatory back pounding that almost equaled the bruising play of the game. left knee put in a cast and then I was allowed to walk. Doctors said he may have a torn cartilage. 1 All-America Guard Bo Bollinger i Halfback Carl Dodd, who intercepted a Maryland pass for an 82- yard scoring sweep, said he look back for pursuers during his dash. saw I was in the clear so I just took Dodd said.

got it and ran, Wilkinson said none of the special plays cooked up by the Soon- strategists for this occasion was successful. used all of them save one, the others didn't work at all, I so. Wilkinson threw up his i hands with glee. Oklahoma players will have a Lightweight boxing champion Wallace (Bud) Smith formerly for his father-in-law who is an i undertaker. laughed off congratulations from day for deep sea fishing or trips the happy Oklahoma coaches with to the horse races here before fly- tlm remark, was the sorriest; home Wednesday.

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