Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
\ Conchs Face Toughest Test Friday The Key West High school grid squad will be facing it’s toughest test of the current campaign when they’ journey to .Seacrest for a meeting with that club which is rated one of the top teams in the suncoast Conference. The once beaten Seacrest eleven (South Broward captured a 6-0 win | over them last week) has a tough | running attack built around 185- | pound fullback Joe Swilley and the Conchs are working frantically | in an effort to strengthen their de- fense in the middle of the line ; where they have shown weakness in the past. The Conchs took something of a physical beating in their 27-6 win 1 jover St. Mary’’s last Friday when \two mainstays, Dick Salgado and | Ralph White incurred injuries that | may keep them. on the bench come | Friday night, Salgado has a bad | ankle while White is suffering from | a recurrence of an old knee injury. Coach Ed Beckman said to- day that “if we do manage to pull out with a win, it won't be | by much. They are older, bigger more experienced.” Another point in Secrest’s favor is the fact that they will be meet- ing the Conchs on their home | .ground,---and it is no secret that | the high school boys like to play 1 at home. Beckman had reason to be Maryland Is Nearing SEC Championship By STERLING SLAPPEY Maryland is expected to draw one notch nearer Saturday to the “unofficial,, mythical” champion- ship of the Southeastern Confer- ence-a football league in which Maryland is not a member. Sound confusing? It is, but no more confused than the usual foot- | ball team is after a game with Maryland. When the Southern Conference expelled Maryland for one season in 1951 for accepting a bid to the Sugar Bowl, Coach Jim Tatmu turned, to the SEC to fill in five blank spots on his depleted sched- ule. Auburn, Georgia, L. S. U., Mis- sissippi and Alabama took Mary- Jand’s dare and signed on the Terps. So far Auburn and Georgia have fulfilled their obligation and each got beat in the process. This week it’ L, S. U.’s turn and the game comes off in College Park, Md. Should Maryland win all five games with SEC teams, the very thing the Terrapins are expected to do, they could claim to be the best club down here this fall. After all, they spent half their time against SEC teams. | Maryland can’t claim the cham- | pionship, however. There isn’t any. In the SEC the football crown is a mythical affair, unofficial in every way. The LSU- Maryland game and the Georgia Tech-Vanderbilt game in Atlanta are the most attractive in the eight-game week-end pro- | gram. Like Maryland, Tech is un- | beaten, untied, and rolling smooth- ly, at the halfway mark of great | seasons. While the possibility of | Maryland going to a bowl is cloud- |ed by Southern Conference rules, it’s safe to say that Tech will | entertain offers for a New Year's Day engagement. Three other SEC games can |eause some fast shuffling in the | standings. Second ranked Georgia meets Florida in Jacksonville, | Mississippi State plays Alabama |in Tuscaloosa and Auburn plays | Tulane in Mobile. The Auburn ~ Tulane game is a cellar battle be- tween two teams far stronger than you would ordinarily expect to find that low in the standings. . Mississippi, still an . unbeaten | club, will be in Little Rock against | Arkansas. Ole Miss hasn’t lost a | game, but two others have been | tied. Tennessee, apparently in the midst of a comeback and an of- fensive resurrection, should have a mild afternoon against Wofford in Knoxville. Kentucky, probably | the shakiest club in the SEC, goes to Ohio to play the University of Cincinnati. The largest winning World Se- ries share was $6,772.07 by the Cleveland Indians in 1948. pleased with at least two mem- bers of the squad who haven't seen too much action in the past- Tony Dopp and John Vermette. Both showed well in the blocking department. Dopp tossed a couple of key blocks that didn’t hurt the Conchs a bit. Vermette, while he doesn’t hit as hard, displayed beautiful timing to take his man out of the play when it counted. Generally, Beckman was pretty well pleased with the performance of the locals, but this week with the chips down, he is drilling the squad harder than ever. GRIDIRON CLEANINGS: The Key Football. Results By The Associated Press LATE SATURDAY SCORES Boston Univ 33 Wm. & Mary 28 | Washington & Jefferson 20 Geneva 7 Davis-Elkins 40 Salem 6 Georgia 27 Louisiana State 14 Wofford 19 Newberry 13 East Carolina 21 Western Carolina 7 Emory & Henry 34 Maryville 13 Sewanee 12 Miss College 7 Elon 28 Little CreekNavy 25 Catawba 3 Appalachian 0 Virginia State 47 North Carolina | State 0 | Western Kentucky 42 Northeastern Louisiana 27 Marquette 37 Arizona 7 Tulsa 26 Kansas State 7 Detroit 57 Drake 0 Findlay 19 Defiance 14 | Emporia State 7 Omaha 6 | Southern Methodist 21 Rice 14 Baylor 21 Texas Tech 10 Hardin-Simmons 28 North Texas 13 Tenn Tech 21 Arkansas State 13 Arizona State (Tempe) 48 West Texas 14 Arizona State (Flagstaff) 20 Calif. Tech 7 San Jose State 26 College of Pacific 21 Whittier 14 Occidental 6 Fresno State 27 Utah State 21 When he is not playing with the Detroit Lions in the National Football League, end Jim Doran operates a 1,000 acre farm with a brother in Boone, Iowa. ORANGE BOWL CLASSIC IN PLANNING STAGES Story book’ finishes with never a seoreless first half in 18 Orange Bowl games and breath-taking | half-time shows mark Miami's New Year's Day grid classic in many | dans’ minds. Last minute wins are part of the Orange Bowl’s trade- mark, R. D. (Buck) Freeman, Orange Bowl Committee schedule chair. | man this year, won't®go'so far as | to guarantee more of the same for} the 1953 game, but allowed he was | optimistic E. FE. (Ernie) Seiler, Orange Bow! impresario, vows the | 1953 ‘tween halves spectacle will | top all others. Pepper Rodgers’ field goal, with | three minutes to go won the 1952 | event for Georgia Tech over Bay. lor, 17-14. The 19-year-old substi- was tackled in the end’ zone for a safety in the 1951 game, with minutes to go, Clemson nosed out the hurricanes, 15-14. Before that, Miami had a@ 14-13 edge. The bail game winning honor went to a Clemson sub, Sterling Smith, for the lone scoring play of his col- legiate career. Scoring as the clock ticked off toward the finale averted @ pos- sible tie for Santa Clara against Kentucky in the 1950 version. The Brones were leading, 14-7, in the third period. The Wildcats failed to convert in the final stanza, making the count 14-13, until Sa Clara‘’s late tally made it 21-13. In the free scoring Texas-Geor- gia clash of 1949, Georgia got a TD tute quarterback'’s boot from the | and converted each period after 10 iced to win after the Yellow jac-| Texas racked up 13 in the first ket had tied it up, 14-14, jn the final | quarter, seven in each of the next Period. |two. In the last period, Your minutes When Frank Smith of Miami ito go, Randy Clay went over for TOMMY WOODBURY, fis Dipper” hooked shark just off ¢ Porte: de the defeated shark, four yards to sew the game up for Texas, 41-28. The Orange Bow! thriller to top ‘em all was provided in 1946 by another sub, Al Hudson, Univer- sity of Miami halfback, He snag- ged a Holy Cross pass and ran it back 89 yards for the touchdown that defeated the Crusaders, 13- 6, The contest officially ended as Hudson galloped over the mid- field. stripe on his way fo pay dirt. Going back farther were exciting closing seconds of the 1937 Orange Bowl game. A 72-yard pass by Boyd Brumbaugh to Ernest Heffle gave Duquesne a 13-12 win over Mississippi State as hundreds of | fans were leaving the stands. Probably the heart breakingest | play iri Orange Bowl classics was | when Kansas’ Lytne McNutt fum- | bled on the two-yard line in the | last two minutes of the 1948 game | won by Georgia Tech, 20-14. Renectel woeemne Sat this seven and a half foot sand f Duval street late Saturday afternoon. He was eft: John Burgoby Fred King, Cari Adams, and i West High School Band has shown a great deal of improvement. Their halftime show featuring a ‘Conch Formation” pleased the fans im- mensely. Under the direction of Bandmaster Harold Casterton, the group was trained in marching by H. J. Cornell. Courtesy was in order of the evening on night in the pressbox as tant coach Paul Davis manned a newly installed spotters phone to the Conch’ bench. was heard to end one conversation with Win Jones with a cherry,, “Thank you for calling, Mr, Jones.” ee Close Race In National Grid League NEW YORK (#—It appears likely the American Conferenée title of the National Football League won’t be decided until the final weeks of play, while, on the other hand, the Ni -*1 division race has de- veloped into a one-team strangle- hold. Three clubs -- the Cleveland Browns, Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants--are tied for the American section leac with 3-1 rec- ords. And right behind are the Philadelphia Eagles and the Wash- ington Redskins with 2-2 slates. Only the winless Pittshurgh Steel- ers are hopelessly out of conten- tion. The pulverizing San Francisco “| phers on the Mlinois 22,, cost Hli- 21 FUMBLES MAR PURDUE, IRISH TILT By WILL GRIMSLEY NEW YORK @® — Hanging up Monday’s football wash, and, for goodness sakes, be careful--don’t let it drop: Everything seems. to be rising these days, except footballs, and we wouldn’t be surprised after Saturday”’s wave of fumbles to see a.campaign for non-skid pigskins. There were 21 fumbles in the Notre Dame-Purdue game. Purdue, upset 26-14, was guilty of 11 of these and eight times let the ball sqirt inuto Irish hands. A fumble, recovered by the Go- nois its 13-7 loss to Minnesota. Florida fumbled three times, Vanderbilt twice in the first quar- ter of t ‘t game,.won by Vander- bilt 20. Kentucky fumbled six times against Mississippi State. But there were two odd incidents. Princeton lost the ball eight times by fumbles yet pummelled Lafay- ette, 48-0. And Olympic Decathlon champion Bob Mathias of Stanford, who fumbled in the Indians’ early season victories, was given a foot- ball with a handle as a hint. Bob didn’t fumble Saturday, so Stanford lost to UCLA, 24-14. Sports writers should have been equipped with tabulators at East Lansing, Mich., where Michigan State’s Coach Biggie Munn trotted out 61 players in all ... he had four offensive platoons and even labelled his backfields-the ‘“‘crush- er” backs, No. 1; “pony” backs, No. 2; and ‘fpepper” backs, No. 3 ... they hardly nodded as they | passed each other on the field. It was a day of superb individual performances ... George O’Brien, Wisconsin guard and _ captain, kicked for the first time in a col- 49ers rule the roost in the National me ... rroceeded to boot conference with a 4-0 record. Two “-_ Hr Sie the ball dying on games in areas are the Chicago! jowa’s three ... Don Heinrich of Bears, Detroit Lions and Green | Washington and Mitch Price of Bay Packers, each with a pair of ; Columbia wrote new passing rec- triumphs in four starts. The de- fending champion Los Angeles Rams (1-3) and the Dallas Texans (0-4), the league’s newest entry, trail the pack. In yesterday’s action, the un- heralded Cardinals eked out a vital 24-23 conquest o-er the previously- unscathed Giants. Meanwhile, the Browns crushed the Eagles, 49-7. The victories enabled Cleveland and C' ‘ez go to jump irt- the triple- tie for first place with New York. San Francisco embellished its stature with a resounding 40-16 succes. over the Bear- while the Yions remained in contention by vanquishing Los An; eles, 24-16. The Redskins nipped Pittsburgh, 28-24, in the ‘ay’’s other game. On | Saturday night Green Bay thumped Dallas, 24-14. Fleet-footed Ollie Matson and sub quarterback Don Panciera, a cou- ple of ex-San Francisco University luminaries, were instrumental Softball Smoker Is Set Tonight The anual Softball Smoker given by the City Recreation Department to all players, managers, umpires, scorekeepers and gatekeepers who took part in the 1952 Island City Softball League, wil) be held to- at 7:30 p. m. ‘ the Cards’ upset over the Giants. | night, in Bayview Park, beginning | ords ... Heinrich three TD passes in beating Oregon, 49-0, giving him a total of 27 scoring heaves to beat the Pacifie Coast record of 24 set by Bob Waterfield, while at UCLA ... Price rewrote Colum- bia records although losing to Pe 27-17 ... He completed 15 passes for a total of 1933 during his career to beat Sid Luckman’s 180 ... And he piled up 186 yards through the air to eclipse Paul Governali’s university record, 2,619 yards to 2,513 ... Ted Kress of Michigan set a Big Ten rushing record by dashing off 2188 yards in 20 tries against Northwestern. Quarterback Sonny George saved face expertly in the Wake Forest- North Carolina game ... When George missed a conversion try for Wake Forest it looked for sure as if it meant a 7-6 victory for the Tarheels ... But in the final 76 seconds Sonny got another chance ... He kicked an 18-yard field goal and won the game, 9-7 ... Eddie Erdelatz’ quote after his Navy. middies had been smothered by Maryland, 38-7: “The tide never turned.” SPORTS MIRROR By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO—Notre Dame trounced Pittsburgh, 33-0. This anual smoker given exclu-; FIVE YEARS AGO—Rinty Mon- sively for those who participate in | aghan of Ireland decisioned Dado the games during the season was | Marino of Hawaii in 15 rounds for originated 3 years ago by Paul G. | the world featherweight champion- (them know w Albury, City Recreation Director, has proven very popular and is looked forward to by the players. ship in London. TEN YEARS AGO — Ohio State’s Buckeyes received the top ranking VIEWS JACK K. BURKE THIS AND THAT As for the test Friday night, | the Conchs passed it with flying jeolors, but many sore muscles ‘and other minor injuries are being felt by the participants for the victory. All this goes along with it, as many who have played this sport know, yet some do not consider this when they talk tabout the game. During the past two days people bave been quick to point jout the mistakes of this player or that. To them, he did not block that man out or he played the interference wrong or this player is betsrr than that one. iso on and so on. When all of this was going on, I just sat and listened for they do not know the fine points in the football that after niany years at A large portion team have not had perience that has «we in schools. {t's true that some played last season, but it will take more than just twe to have hat to do, Just give little more time and what's meant by come to 2 player it he present previous ex- other the: ail a you will sce that statement Mf his injury heals, Jobo Crus ‘ sport of; will be ready for next week's tilt with Seacrest. With him} back in the line-up and the| other boys playing the way they | have done’ in the past, Key West | jwill be hard to hold, at least with teams of their own caliber. | Don't forget. you prospective | Quarterbacks, the QB Club will) hold their regularly apres dinner tonight at the La Concha hotel commencing at 7:30. Four more players will be honored) ,and Head Coach Ed Beckman) will explain the plays of Friday j night's game. 18th HOLE In the Sunday Big League. the foursome of Joey Lopez, Jr. Roy { Duke, Clem Price and yours jtruly won with a point score of 86 The Blind Bogey part was won by W. Walker; Harry Knight. second: and Joey, Jr. third Wednesday sight all mem- bers af the Key West Golf Club are urged fo come to the club- house for » business meeting Monday, QeteZer 20,1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 Michigan State Paces Midwest In Grid Power By ED CORRIGAN But look at the Coast and South.) against Wisconsin at Madison and NEW YORK \#—More’s the pity |In the Pacific Coast Conference, | Purdue against Minois at Urbana. there are no fewer than three out- |The Purdue-Illinois clash could de- the South and the Far West did not schedule more intersectional games this season because those two sections are the class of col- lege football this year as the cam- Paign steams into the second half. Except for Michigan State—the undisputed ruler of the country— the Midwest has not showed any. particular power. The Big Ten, in fact, does not boast an undefeated team. Wisconsin and Illinois were supposed to be loaded, but neither has played up to expectations. Nor does the traditionally strong Southwest haves anything to brag about outside once-tied Oklahoma, which seems a shoo-in for its fifth straight Big Seven title. The South- west Conference does not have a team in the undefeated class. It hardly even has a favorite for the championship. The East has lived up (er down) to expectations. Penn of the Ivy League, no less, is head and shoulders over the field and should win the loop title. Syracuse, which was figured to be about 2nd best in the section, took a gruesome 48-7 mauling at the hands of Michi- gan State Saturday. The Orange was supposed to make it close. British Horse Heads For Home After Victory LAUREL, Md. (#—Optimistically named Wilwyn was getting ready today for his trip back to England after giving international racing a boost with a victory in the $50,000 Washington International classic. The win for the English colt Saturday at Laurel Park in a new course record of 2:30 4-5 for the mile and a half proved foreign horses can be flown here a week before a big race and take the honors. Wilwyn picked up his’ eleventh straight for owner Robert Boucher of Kent, England. The International brought to- gether seven horses from England, Germany, Canada and the United States. Racing over the infield grass course with a walkup start gave the foreign horses something they were used to. Even so, Greek Ship, Ruhe and Pilaster, the three steeds carrying colors for the U. S., were figured to finish strong. But the foreign horses ignored such things as long plane rides and climate changes to take three of the first four places. Mann Mercer rode Wilwyn home a length and three garters aheuad of Hasty House Farm’s Ruhe. George Rolls’ Zucchero ran third only half a length behind and Niederlander, the German derby winner, was a neck away in fourth. Brookemeade’s Greek Ship, the 6-5 favorite, came in sixth. in the Associated Press weekly football poll. TWENTY YEARS AGO—George Gibson was signed to manage the Pittsburgh Pifates for 1933 at an increase in salary. fits undefeated and untied—Cali- fornia, Southern California and UCLA—named in the order of their chances of staying that way. All boast 5-0 records and all are hoping for the bid to the Rose Bowl, which goes to the winner of the league crown. One of them probably will bite the dust this week when Cal and Southern Cal meet in Los Angeles in a battle of mighty offense and stonewall defense. In the South, the big boys, in their approximate order or rank- ing, are Maryland, Georgia Tech, Duke and Virginia. The first three have won five games without a set- back and Virginia has captured four. Duke meets Virginia this week and Georgia Tech the next week. The Engineers should leave ‘the Blue Devils reeling. Actually, Maryland should beat Duke, but the Devils figure to rule the fayor- ites over strong Virginia, probably the leading independent in the area. Other big games this week will send Penn State against Michigan State in East Lansing, UCLA 33 College Grid Teams Undefeated NEW YORK w—Fifty-three col- lege football teams, including seven of the ten top ranked elevens, still are undefeated and untied. Three small colleges ~ William Jewell of Missouri, the Peru, Neb., Teachers and Stevens Point State of Wisconsin--top the list with six victories each. In the five - game all - winning group are six of the nation’s top ten. They are Maryland (NO. 2), California (No. 3), Georgia Tech (NO. 4),, Duke (NO. 5), Southern California (NO, 7) and U. C. L. A, (No. 10). Top ranked Miehigan State has won all four of its games. { A cide the Big Ten champion. Princeton could give Penn a tus- sle, but the Quakers seem to have too much all-around class. Houston leads the Missouri Valley, but De- troit could slip in, especially if it beats Oklahoma A and M this week. Defending Champion Utah is the class of the Skyline Con- ference, while Idaho State just about wrapped up the Rocky Moun- tain Conference championship with its 46-16 triumph over Colorade State Saturday. There were only two minor up- sets Saturday. Notre Dame took advantage of eight Purdue fumbles to win, 26-14, and Minnesota drop- ed Illinois, 13-7. Otherwise the big boys just rol- led along. Maryland dropped Navy from the ranks of the undefeated, 38-7; Oklahoma clouted Kansas, 42-20; California ~clouted Santa Clara, 27-7; Southern California whipped Oregon State, 28-6; UCLA thumped Stanford, 24-14; Georgia Tech whitewashed Auburn, 33-0; Michigan turned back Northwest- ern, 48-14; Penn downed Columbia, 27-17, and Tennessee defeated Ala- bama, 25-0. National Football League By The Associated Press SATURDAY Green Bay 24, Dallas 14 SUNDAY * Washington 28, Pittsburgh 24 Chicago Cards 24, New York 23 Detroit 24, Los Angeles 16 Cleveland 49, Philadelphia 7 San Francisco 40, Chicago Bears 16 Tommy O'Boyle, Duke Univer- sity’s line coach, played football as a collegian at Tulane. Bert Zagers, Michigan State right halfback, is called the “‘pen- guin” by his teammates because he hails from the northern part of Michigan, CASKET RRA AORN RET = A PRS CTL OP TL RT