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Indiana 20 Duke 7 Purdue 21, California 49 Maryland 28 Perm 7 Princeton 61 Notre Dame 14 Iowa 13 Tennessee 0 Ohio State 14 Minnesota 13 Clemson 0 Dartmouth 0 Rutgers 19 Texas 3 Fage 4 Page Page 4 rage 4 Page Page 2 page 5 Pag' 5 MSC Last-Second Field for Goa Win tanford Makes U-l Boot by Lekenta Nips OSC, 17-14 Grid 'Miracle Saves Spartan Streak After 14-0 Edge Is Bloicn iOOk Mighty STATISTICS ft ,4 3, --v ize Knots Series MSC 18 237 116 18 8 0 3 1 60 OSC 114 149 17 8 45 3 55 BAD! 2 to 0 Reynolds had to hit his peak of perfection before most of the customers had hit the Yankee Stadium seats. He struck out Billy Turn to Page 2, Column 4 First Downs Rushing Yardage Passing Yardage Pause Attempted Passes Completed Pass Intercepted Punting Average Fumbles Lost Yards Penalized Oregon State College 0 0 7 0 14 Michigan State College 7 7 0 17 Michigan State scoring: Touchdowns Dekker, Duckett. Conver sions Slonac 2. Field goal Lekenta, Oregon State scoring: Touchdowns Brown, Taylor. Conversions Cordial 2.

I Homen two trips to the plate in the opening and third innings. Reynolds permitted no others except one in the fifth by Andy Pafko and the last one in the eighth by Carl Furillo. WOLVERINE "i If a) A TED TOPOR GOES UP TO NAB A TED KRESS PASS AGAINST STANFORD 4. BY TOMMY DEVINE TrM Pna Staff Wrltrr PORTLAND, Ore. The age of football miracles continues.

Michigan State once more into its seemingly bottomless barrel of gridiron heroics Saturday to come up with a field goal in the final second of play to nip Oregon State, 17 to 14. Gene Lekenta, a 135-pound sophomore from Grand Rapids Union, was the golden-tped Cinderella-kissed youngster who provided the points that enabled the Spartans to stretch their winning streak to 17 straight games. Frequently during that long stretch which extends over a span of three seasons, Michigan State has been pushed. Often it has had to come from behind late in the game to preserve the streak. NEVER BEFORE, HOWEVER, did the Spartans press their luck so close or toy so dangerously with the second hand on the timer's clock.

Luck rode with the elegance of Lady Godiva with the Spartans on this summery October day. The drama and the spine-tingling suspense of this game were wrapped up in the final seven seconds of this battle. Here's the picture: The Spartans had passed their way from their own 33-yard line to the Oregon State 13. The big scoreboard at the south end of the field toward which Michigan State was advancing showed Just seven seconds to go. Coach (Biggie) Munn sent in Lekenta to kick and EUis Duckett to hold for him.

Lekenta kicked. The ball sailed high, but then veered to the right of the goal post. It was not good. THE SPARTANS' long run on the glory trail appeared to have ended. But there was another punch left on the luck card.

An official called Oregon State offside on the kick. The Beavers were penalized, and Lekenta received another chance. That was all he needed. With Duckett putting the ball down this time on the 13-yard line, Lekenta's kick this time was straight and true. It sailed squarely through the middle of the goal posts as the clock ticked off the last second of the game.

Lekenta was mobbed by his Spartan teammates as the crowd of 22,595 sat stunned. Michigan State jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first half, but then faded badly in the final two periods. In the last half the Spartans' offense sputtered repeatedly, and its defense consistently was baffled by the winged attack of the Pacific Coast Conference team. AS THE SPARTANS wilted, Oregon State appeared to grow stronger and more efficient. It roared from behind to deadlock the score and completely dominated the play.

But football fate walks on only one side of the field, and it surely wore the green shirts of the Spartans on this occasion. Michigan State played with neither the finesse nor the confidence it displayed in its opener against Michigan. But it still had the poise of a champion in a clutch. When the odds were highest against victory In the-waning minutes of the game, the Spartans dug in and Turn to Page 2, Column 5 On, Wisconsin, to Big 10 Title! 0m3vmmvyIIands OCTOBER 5, 1953 ftje Strait SECTION RALLY DOES IT SUNDAY, Wolverines Lack Punch in 14-7 Loss Mathias Fumbles 4, but Indians Repeat STANFORD IB 20.1 81 J7 3'l3 4 80 i 1 l'-M 17 lK'i 4 86 714 0 7 Flriit downs RtikhltiK yardage Patiftinjc yardaae Puwi attempted Para completer! Pamiet lntrrrrpted Funlinc Fnmhlfs Irmt Yard! ixnaliwd Stanford I Mirhltan I Stanford worlna: Tourhdnwnti Ht In herit, Mat Mat. (onrminn Garrett 'i.

Michigan urorlnn: Touchdown Ferry. Con vcr lion Reicorla. BY BOB LATSIIAW Frae Prraa Staff Wrltrr PALO ALTA, Calif. The only ones celebrating the 50th anniversary of Michigan's first Rose Bowl victory over Stanford were the Stanford Indians. The immortal Willie Heston, who played on the great Michigan point-a-minute teams, must have shaken his head sdly as the Wolverines, once proud champions of the West, bowed to the Indians, 14 to 7, before 35,000 fans in Stanford Stadium.

Heston was one of the spectators who watched the Wolverines drop their second straight game of the season. It was the second year in succession the Indians have taken the measure of the Wolverines- Last year Michigan lost, 23 to 13, in Ann Arbor. STATISTICALLY, the Wolverines were close to Stanford. But actually, they never really looked like it because they couldn't click when the chips were down. For example, Michigan completed 18 of 30 passes, but when the tosses could have meant touchdowns, four of them were intercepted.

In addition, the Wolverines fumbled six times, twice deep In Stanford territory. It was a sloppy game both ways. Together the teams fumbled 13 times, Michigan losing the pigskin twice and Stanford four times. In one three-minute Interval the ball changed hands three times In four plays. Each team Intercepted a pass and each team recovered a fumble committed by the other.

In fact, one of the Stanford touchdowns can be traced to an Indian fumble, but this one worked in their favor. Big Bob Mathias, who fumbled four times during the afternoon, bobbled the ball while shooting through an opening in the Michigan line. Strangely the ball didn't touch any other player, but bounced out of bounds and Stanford picked up about 12 yards extra. The Indians went on from there to tie the score. A FUSIBLE FIGURED in Michigan's touchdown march in much the same fashion.

Despite his horrible day Math-Turn to Page 2, Column 7 tit U-M PASS TO LOWELL Stanford's Don Carlson r-' 7 I Li with BY LYALL SMITH Free Frew Sporlt Editor NEW YORK The ponder ous figure of aged Johnny Mize strode out of the past to hand Pitcher Allie Reynolds a pres ent. The 39-year-old slugger slammed out the 358th home run of his long major league career to give 34-year-old Reynolds the only lead he required to lift the New York Yankees back into this 1952 World Series on a spectacular 2-0 triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Mize hit his homer as the lead- off hitter in the fourth inning at the expense of Right- Hander Joe Black. HE DOUBLED as the first hitter in the sixth and drew a base on balls in the eighth as the series again became tied in a knot at two victories for each team. Such a performance gave Big Jawn half the four hits the winners were abl to make off the brilliant Black and young Johnny Rutherfort, the DeT troiter who replaced him in the eighth.

And, while his Homeric wallop was all Reynolds needed, a Yankee youngster who wasn't even born when Mize already had one year of professional baseball behind him gave Allie an insurance run in the last inning. He was Mickey Mantle, the fleet-footed outfielder who, at 21, has taken over for the departed Joe DiMaggio. Mickev was the first batter to face Rutherford, HE RIFLED, a tremendous three-bagger to the distant wall in centerfield, a 50-foot drive, and came all the way home when the relay to third base by Shortstop Pee Wee Reese went bouncing into the stands for an error. There was no other scoring In the ball game, but the mammoth throng of 71,787 cash customers were treated to more than their price of admission Just to watch Mize, Reynolds, Black and Man'le. Reynolds, loser to Black In the Series opener, allowed Just four scattered singles as he racked up his fifth victory in postseason competition against only two defeats.

The burly part-Indian never was sharper as he chugged his strikeout pitch past 10 batters to completely dominate the pitching scene. HE MADE Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, the two big guns of the Dodger attack, his special victims. Neither got a hit. Robinson was called out on strikes three times while Catcher Campanella went down swinging twice. Two of the loser's singles were made by Reese, the little Dodger captain who now has picked up eight blows to lead all hitters in the series.

He made them on his first PERRY GOES ASTRAY covering on the play; A Want Ads 4 W4 3ii Cornell a Grid Lesson ITHACA, N. Y. (P) A powerful Navy attack, striking sharply through the air and on, the ground, riddled Cornell, 31-7, at Schoellkopf Field. The future admirals, sparked by Capt. John Gurski, scored twice on pass plays, and once on the ground after an initial touchdown by a blocked Cornell kick, and a field goal.

Defensively, they held Cornell to one touchdown and a mere two yards on the ground. GURSKI SCORED twice and was outstanding on defense. He smashed through to block and recover Marv Anderson's boot from behind the goal line in 3:12 of the opening period for the initial score. 14 VEUS(MSC) Villanova Squeezes Past U-D by 21-7 Margin BY DICK PETERS After making a great bid for an upset, the University of Detroit finally was conquered in the second half by highly favored and undefeated Villanova Saturday night at U. of D.

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Gangway for Wisconsin! The bristling Badgers exploded a 20-6 haymaker here Saturday to floor Illinois, defending champions and take a long step toward their first Big Ten football title since 1912. Their two bone-crunchers, Full back Alan Ameche and Halfback Harland Carl, literally ran the Illini out of Camp Randall Stadium, to the delight of 52,071 fans biggest crowd ever to see a football game here. AMECHE AND Carl both topped the 100-yard mark by bowling over Illinois' eight-man line with almost open insolence. Altogether, the Badgers cracked Illinois' vaunted defenses for 334 yards on running plays to 60 for the bottled up Illinois. And when it was needed, young Quarterback Jim Halus-ka supplied the aerial support with six completed passes out of 14 attempts for another 100 yards.

Illinois, ranked second only to Michigan State among the na tion's leaders, never was in the game as the Badgers, rated eighth, swept downfield to score the first time they got the ball and kept the pressure applied the rest of the way. Illinois only touchdown, on a 63-yard kickoff return, came after .1 V. 1 OA A -u8. 1 ci smooth-clicking Wisconsin eleven. A crowd of 19,312 saw Villanova score a 21-7 triumph.

The first period was scoreless as both teams missed golden opportunities. After stopping Villanova twice, the Titans began moving from the Villanova 40. A roughing penalty put it on the 25 and a fourth down on the seven. However, two running plays and two passes missed fire and the visitors took over on th six. Three plays later, Gene Filip-ski cracked right tackle and dashed 74 yards.

Only a tackle from behind by Ray Zambiasi stopped him on Detroit's 19. The Wildcats made one first down to the seven, but then ran out of. gas and Detroit took over nine. A fumble on Tom Zang's turn punt gave the Titans ball again on the Detroit again U. D.

couldn gain Zang punted to Villanova's As the period ended Villanovr had moved out to the 26 roughing penalty. In the second period, brillian passing by Marchibroda offset Villanova break that saw th rivals and the half in a 7-7 dead lock. But Vlllnova was pounding on the door again when the gun sounded. A FTJMBLU by Dick Koster set Up Villanova's TD midway in the period as the Wildcats recovered on the TiUp lg Thrp! grmnd plays took it to the eight and four more rnaae ln score- rennau finS over Uom the one- Bob Haner converted. i Then TJ-D came right back Kith the kickoff to tie the count, Turn to Pago Column 2 (H: A i i IT A Wisconsin's ninth 'straight game without defeat.

trno. hor-v tn THinni' 14-0 victory of a year ago. And when Illinois suffered its first Turn to Page Column A TOM YEWaCTO-PAt'I DEKKER TOUCHDOWN PASS IS IN THE AIR AT OREGON STATE Camera angles gives Impression Spartan Dick Skiles Is about to grab It.