The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 27, 1954, Page 10

Gritty State ' Scores Early, Holds Lead By JIM COBB Citizen Sports Editor “There’s no substitute for guts.” That’s the way N. Carolina State freshman coach Bill Smaltz summed up the sur- prising victory his Wolflets pulled off over a huge Uni- versity of Miami freshman football team in the Shrine Bowl game last night. ~ “These boys wouldn’t be beat — it would take a bet- ter club than Miami had to do it,” Smaltz continued as he surveyed his. tired and happy gridders admiringly. The Wolflets had driven to two first quarter touchdowns to take a 14-0 lead and then | held on gamely to edge the Baby Hurricanes, 14-18. Mi- ami, boasting of its best freshman team in_ history went into the game three touchdown favorites. It was a. GRID ACTION—North Carolina State freshman scatback Dick Christy rips off sizeable gain in last night's victory over Miami University yearlings. Christy teamed with State’s Dick Hunter to stage impressive offensive exhibition for local fans in Shrine game—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. Dick Hunter, played a whale of a ballgame, drove to the one yard line from where’ Hunter went off tackle for the first score. Tom Katich kicked the point and it was 7-0. The fans then settled back to wait for the expected carnage from an incensed Miami eleven, It never happened. Instead, State drove to another Score before the Baby Hurricanes could pull ‘themselves together. The second TD was set up after Miami’s Gene Reeves had hit Gil Radovich with a pass on the North Carolina 28, but Radovich had dropped the ball. Hunter went off left tackle on a shoot on the next play, threaded his way through the Miami secon- dary and went all the way, yards, to a touchdown. Again Katich booted the crucial point to give State their winning edge. 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But State contained every drive the Baby Hurricanes could muster after that and the game ended with the Wolflets intercepting a pass on their own 25. “They. had a good fast ballclub — they outplayed us,” was the only comment of Miami coach Jim Lin- us, who handled the reins in the absence of Bob Breitenstein, who is in Gainesville for the U-M Flo- rida clash, Yanks, Orioles May Continue Swapping Players BALTIMORE (@#—Like Topsy, that mammoth deal the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles pulled off last week just grow’d and grow’d today with reports it would involve 17 or 18 players be- fore it is completed. Eyebrows were raised through- out the major leagues when the Yanks and Birds announced last week that pitchers Bob Turley and Don Larsen, and shortstop Billy Hunter—three of the Orioles most promising players, had been traded to New York for nine play- ers, including outfielders Gene Woodling, shortstop Willie Miran- da, first baseman Gus Trandos, catcher Hal Smith and pitchers Harry Byrd and Jim McDonald. Yesterday, Hal Lebovitz, Cleve- land baseball writer, named the other three who he said would soon be sent to Baltimore, as third base- man Kal Segrist, pitcher Bill Mil- ler and second baseman Don Leppert. ’ = Oriole President Clarence W. Miles and Manager-General Man- ager Paul Richards refused: to comment. So did the Yankee brass. One New York spokesman said he would neither deny nor confirm the identity of the three and he added the deal had not been comp‘ete yet. and would not be “for several more days.” That lent credence to a report last night by Lou Hatter, Balti- more Sun. baseball writer, that not only would the three Yanks soon be on their way here, but-that “five or possibly six” Birds would soon be wearing Yankee uniforms or those of Yankee farm clubs. Hatter said the five, “or more likely six” Orioles still to go to New York, would come from a group of Orioles that includes pitchers. Lou Kretlow, Mike Blyz- For A Quick Loan 703 Duval Street TELEPHONE 2-8555 705¥2 DUVAL STREET cash ready for you. Let us you have an enjoyable Holiday season. PHONE 2-3574 1 t ‘ L_SS==========_———_ Casa Marina Finals Slated The finals in the Casa Mari- na Fall Tennis Tournament will be played today and Sun- day. One semi-final match in the singles division will pit Navy Lt. Bill Barnes and Dr. Alien Shepard and fhe other will feature Jack Sellers and Bill Pearce. In the the doubles semi-finals Bill Barnes and Charlie Lott will face George Hamilton and Dr. Shepard and Harvey and Jack Sellers face Lyn Reinhart and dohn Sellers. The finals will be played on Sunday afternoon, with the sin- gles beginning at 1:30, ~]’]]—SS>S=SSSSSSS SS ! Three Texas League baseball team$8 — Fort Worth, Hoiston and San Antonio —. trained in Florida last spring. ka, and Frank Fanovich, catcher Ray Murray, catcher Darrell Johnson, first basemen Dick Kry- hoski, and outfielder Jim Fridley. 247, Defense May Mark Army, Navy Battle By ORLO ROBERTSON PHILADELPHIA (—Army and Navy present the nation’s two. top offensive teams to more than 100,- 000 fans in Philadelphia’s. Munici- pal Stadium today bwt it wouldn’t be surprising to see ths battle of football titans urmed into one. of defense. Not since the days when Felix Blanchard and Glenn Davis ran wild for the Cadets has the annual game between the two service academies attracted so much inter- est, For it has been many a year since both schools came up with such awesome attacks, The big climatic game always has been a sellout but without be- ing the talk of the gridiron worid. However, one would think today was baseball series time in this city of brotherly love. As the game of the week in the NCAA’s television .program, the game will be screened throughout the country “by ‘the American Broadcasting Co? starting at 1:15 .m, The weatherman promised after- noon: temperatures in the 40’s al though it’ll:be cloudy. For ,the second straight year, President Eisenhower passed up the game in favor of a round of golf. But the game was not lack- ing for Army brass and Navy braid. Officiafs high in Washing- ton’s official life, the nation’s bus- ness and social whirl mingled with the average football fan, who somehow -managed to dig up the $6 necessary to gain admission. There was more scalping of tickets than in many years. Some reported receiving as much as $140 for a pair of .50-line ducats. An- other offered and received $40 for a pair of end zone seats. There wete strong indications that should Navy win or tie the Middies will accept a bowl bid. Army officials several times have said they are not interested in a post-season game, Army was the slight choice (the odds-makers say five points( but there is no obvious reasons for this favoritism. The Cadets have won seven straight since dropping their opener to South Carolina. The Mid- dies havea 6-2 record with the losses coming at the hands of Notre Dame, 6-0, and Pittsburgh by the margin gf a couple of missed extra points, And but for a goal fumble the Navy might well have tied or heaten Notre Dame. There is little to choose in their national rankings in this week’s Sports NEW YORK #—Remember how the NCAA abolished the two- platoon system only two seasons ago in a valiant effort to take a financial burden off the smaller football schools and stem an alarming trend toward abandon- ment of the fall sport by the little fellers? Well, the little fellers say the well-meant edit has just about ruined them. First to rebel openly and threat- en to’ make up its own rules unless the national governing body of col- lege’ athletics backs water at its next meeting here in January is the Michigan Intercollegiate Ath- letic Assn. composed of seven smaller “schools who claim they are getting it in the neck. Their complaint is based upon a devel- opment which should not have been difficult to foresee. ? It is this:*The big colleges, blessed with better scouting staffs and fatter football scholarships, are coralling practically all the high school and prep school stars | who have shown an ability to play both offense and defense. They are taking the cream of the two-way boys and leaving the one-way won- ders for the birds. The Michigan group Says that, as a result, its small squads ave being forced to take a physical beating. Its members are deter- Roundup By Gayle Talbot The Football Guide lists three of the Michigan schools—Alma, Kal- amazoo and Albion—as members of the NCAA. The other four— Hillsdale, Hope, Adrian and Olivet —are not so listed. “This leads one to wonder whether, if tlie group does kick right over the traces and play two-platoon next year, its NCAA members will face expul- sion. It seems likely other small conferences, faced with a similar situation, will be Watchng the turn of events wth keen interest, It would be ironic if a concerted revolt among the little schools should eventually force the NCAA to abolish or modify’a rile which was intended to curb the major powers to some extent while af- fording relief for the small insti- tutions. Almost without exception, the big time coaches despised the mea- sure from its inception. They still do. They feel, as the professionals do, that two-platodn - football brought the game to a peak of perfection and that its abolition was a long step backward. They particularly scoffed at the sugges- tion that one-team football would prove a leveller and give small | schools a better chance of com- peting on even terms with the | national powers. There is no indication it has done mined either to return to the two- Platoon system or to liberalize their own substitution rules so they can shuffle their players in and out of the lineup much more freely than they can at present. As a matter of fact, the Michigan body already has taken some ac- tion in that direction, This season, acting on its own, it permtted players who had been removed from the game to return in the final four minutes of each quarter. This, so far as we know, was a clear violation of the NCAA rule which permits such substitution mre Oe second and fourth quar- any such thing. The score or so |of teams which regularly dom- |inated the scene under the two- platoon system still are doing so. | They still have the horses. No small or “unknown” college has | sprung suddenly into the limelight | with a series of upsets over its | betters. ‘ Things are as they were, except j that. scores appear to be running higher, with the winning teams soaring into the 50s and 60s much more often than they did in two- platoon days, The weaker teams, bone weary in the second half Undefeated Grid Team To Batile Pensacola Dec. 3 The powerful Shaw Air Force Base, of Sumter, S. C., football. team has replaced the Eglin Field gridders in the third annual Conch Bowl game scheduled here December 4, it has been an- nounced. Louis Carbonell, chairman of the Lions Club football committee, said that the reason for the change is that the Pensacula Naval Air Sta- tion gridders and Eglin Field have already met during the regular sea- son and that a better game is as- sured by bringing the Shaw foot- ballers to Key West, Shaw is un- defeated in nine games this sea- son. “We'll have a better game — it should be the best football ac- tion of the season,” said Carbonell in announcing the change. He point- ed out that Shaw is unbeaten and has won victories over Eglin Field, Keesler Field and the highly rated Assocated Press poll. Army was ranked fifth and Navy sixth. The statistics favored the Cadets by a narrow margin, They piled up an average of 401.3 yards for second place. Army picked up most of its yardage on the ground, rushing for an average of 329.1 yards. Against the Cadets’ No, 1 ranking in rushing offense the Middies stand _ ninth with 268.3 yards a game. But in the air its Navy but not by much. There were many football ex- Perts on hand who figured the high- powered . attacks would fizzle against strong lines possessed by both sides. The Navy was consid- ered deeper up front but the Army supporters weren’t willing to con- cede a thing on defense, Both lines are fast. Army has working behind its forward wall such high speed backs as Pete Vann, Bob Kyasky, and Tommy ell. Navy likes to eat up the ground in small chunks with George Welsh and Jack Weaver on the sending up of short passes. Bob Craig is the Middies’ chief answer to Army’s array of rushing backs. Not to be overlooked is the ex- pected duel of ends. Army’s Don Holleder and Navy’s Ron Beagle are just as good as they come, BUY A Guaranteed HESTER BATTERY With Its Emergency Self Charging FEATURE _A $15.58 Battery ‘That Fits Most Cars —ONLY— $8.95 «3 Lou Smith, 1116 White ‘Shaw Air Force Base Replaces Eglin In Conch Bow! Contest: Great Lakes Naval Training Sta- | tion eleven. Pensacola, making its third con-| secutive appearance in the Conch | Bowl game has dropped two de-| cisons this season. | They trounced the Opa Locka | Marines 31-7, in the first Lions {Club game in 1952 and dropped a| 'hardfought 13-12 decision to the ;Camp Lejeune Marines in 1953. The annual two day Conch Bowl festival will get under way Dec. 2 with a gala parade down Duval St. Featured in the parade will be the 137 piece Coral Gables High School “Band of Distinction.” They will also stage the halftime show at the football game. Also in the line of march will be the Key West high school band, the Fleet Sonar School Band and the Douglass high school band. Navy and civilian marching units and several floats are also includ- ed in the parade planned to be even bigger than last year’s affair. Conch Bowl Queen Joann John- son will preside over the prade and the football game. She'll be formally crowned at the football game. Advance ticket sales for the game are reported to be proceed- ing at a brisk pace. They are on sale at Lou’s Radio and Appliance Store, Evans Sprt Shop and. Paul Sher’s Jewelry Store. The proceeds of the game will be split three ways. The Lions Club Blind Fund, the Navy Relief Society and the March of Dimes Po lio Fund will be the winners, They Coudn’t See © ‘The Bloomin’ Ball LONG BEACH, Calif. —Long Beach is still waiting to find out about English rugby. Fans assembled last night to watch teams representing Austra- lia and New Zealand. Austrazia scored a try and converted for a 5-0 lead in the opening minutes. But the fog was so thick the crowd didn’t see what was going on. Referee Ron Gelder saw the hopelessness of the situation, gath- ered in some of the players who had become lost in the fog, sug- Sested they call it off until 3 p.m, today, “Why, this bloomin’ «stuff is worse than what they have in Lon- don,” said Gelder. Citizen Ads Pay! 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