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—fl'ESDAY' NOVEMBER 13, 1831,
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SPORTS
MR es, T, © Sports Editors
By The Associated Press
The fact that Tennessee dropped to the second spot in
ihe Associated Press national football poll gives scant com
fort to the Mississippi Rebels, next opponents of the mighty
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Rain vesterday hampered the
ctart of Rebel preparations for
' guturday’s meeting at University,
Miss, Offensive and defensive
lignments were rehearsed after
the rain stopped but there was no
. time for scrimmage. f
One cheering note in the Missis
cippi camp: There were no injuries
in last week’s smashing victory
over Auburn. The team will be
' in top shape for Gen. Robert Ney~
land’s powerhouse.
Vol Drill
At Knoxville, the Vol first
. ciringers got off with a light, lim=-
bering up drill. Tennessee escaped
injury in its rout of Washington
& Lee, but old ailments may keep
three defensive regulars on the
' gidelines. Coach Neyland listed
jinebacker Gordon Polofsky, end
Robert Rotroff and halfback Joe
Maiure as doubtful starters.
In eontrast, Alabama had good
reason to expect at least limited
service for three Injured regulars
in Saturday’s tilt with unbeaten
Georgia Tech at Birmingham.
| Backs Bimbo Melton, Larry Chi
odetti and Joe Compton were able
1o participate in yesterday’s light
workout and all appeared frisky.
With his broken jaw protected by
a wire mask, Melton played for a
few minutes last week against
Mississippi Southern.
Showing marked respect for Al
abama’s reputation as a strong
November team, Tech engaged in
its toughest Monday workout of
the year. Coaches had the Yellow
. Jackets sprinting up and down the
field all afternoon, seeking to re
store a eonditioning peak dulled
by last week’s bad weather,
Battered Tigers
Auburn’s battered Tigers, still
groggy after last week’s wrecking
by Mississippi, confined their ef
forts to a light practice, Coach
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Ralph Jordan scanned the squad
for a defensive end to replace Bill
McMurry, injured in the Miss
issippi game. Auburn makes its
annual trip Saturday to Columbus,
Ga., to renew a long-standing
rivalry with Georgia,
Georgia worked out routinely
and pointed with pride to the
smooth passing of Zeke Bratkow
ski last Saturday at Gainesville
which gave the Rulldogs their
first conference victory. The
sophomore tosser has amassed
more than 1,000 yards through the
air this year.
Vanderbilt took the day off and
Tulane worked out lightly for
their conference clash Saturday at
Nashville. Tulane, still looking for
a SEC success, counted five regu
lars out indefinitely with injuries.
Louisiana State and Mississippi
State buckled down to business
with extensive drills for their
meeting Saturday at Baton Rouge.
The Maroons concentrated on pass
defense in the rain and mud at
Starkville; the Bayou Tigers held
signal practice and dummy scrim
mage.
Wildcats-Colonials '
Kentucky practiced briefly for
its next opponent, George Wash
ington.
Florida, only other SEC team
with a non-conference foe Satur
day, held a short workout on the
field and 'a long session in the
movie projection room. The Ga
tors face Miami Saturday night in
the Orange Bowl stadium at Mi
ami,
Coaches Vow
To Eliminat
ale
Cage Scandals
|
By JERRY LISKA
CHICAGO, Nov. 13 — (AP) —
Character building will be more
%&an a fancy-sounding phrase as
}dwestern basketball coaches,
mindful of the game’s festering
fix scandal, prepare for the 1951~
52 season.
An Associated Press survey of
Big Ten and neighboring schools
today disclosed that while coaches
generally had a it-can’t-happen
here scandal attitude, they were
aware their tasks involved more
than teaching how to make more
field ioals and free throws than
‘the other team.
‘ Most outspoken on the subject
were Ray Meyer, whosc DePaul
quintet will appear eight times in
public arenas, and Arad McCut
chan, coach of Evansville (Ind.)
college, Indiana Int%;collegiate
Conference champion basket
ball’s hot-bed state.
Said McCutchan: “College bas
ketball in general realizes that it
has a house-cleaning job, and I
think because of this ali coaches
will be more diligent in getting
their players in the proper frame
of mind to reject any temptations
that may be thrown their way.
Also, in all probability these temp
tations will be lessened in view of
recent events. I would predict
that the next 10 years will find
basketball on the highest plane it
has ever known.”
Meyers said he hoped “coaches
and administrators alike will re
'main constantly alert to prevent
any recurrence of player dishon
esty.
In the Big Ten, coaches. general
' 1y believed the size of crowds and
their reactions would remain un
changed at campus games.
However, Coach Harry Combes,
whose Illinois team is favored to
retain its conference title, said
“I¢’s foolish to believe that fans
won’t react somewhat to the scan
dal, After all, when a youngster
blows an easy shot or dribbles the
ball out of bounds, some question
is bound to arise in minds of fans
pbecause of the scandal. I don’t
know how far reaching this will
be."
Bradley University, one of the
schools hit by the scandal, had its
team honored recently at the cus
tomary pre-season dinner by a
Peoria, 111., booster club.
Visibly moved, Bradley Coach
Fordy Anderson said basketball
was a sport “deserving of a part
in everybody’s life and we'wxll
treat it right and be a credit to
this city and school.”
Two undergraduate players,
Jim Kelly and Fred Schlictman,
gharged with being implicated in
a rigged Bradley game, still are at
Bradley but have been banned
from intercollegiate play by the
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Michigan St.
Back On Top
In AP Poll
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 — (AP)—
Michigan State, back on top in the
Associated Press' football poll,
may be heard to dislodge from its
position as the No. 1 team in the
nation,
The spectacular Spartans take on
Indjana Saturday and close out
their season the following week
against Colorado. Both games
should prove easy for the infant
members of the Big Ten.
Tennessee, which dropped to se
cord after a three week reign at
the lop, has three toughies barring
its way to a perfect season. The
Vols iake on Mississippi, Ken
tucky and Vanderbilt,
Big Jump
! Michigan State, leader the first
two weeks, vaulted from fifth
lplace, after drawing 55 of 158
first-place votes and 1,318 points
from sports writers and sports
broadcasters.
Tennessee gained 42 firsts and
1,155 points to nose out Illinois,
for second. The Illini, Big Ten
leaders, finished third with 20
firsts and 1,145 points. The three
pace-setters are riding seven
game winning steaks.
~ The Spartans charged to the top
as a result of their 35-0 victory
over Notre Dame. Tennessee and
Illinois scored easy 60-14 and 40-
13 victories, respectively. Illinois
has two tought conference games
remaining against Ohio State and
Northwestren,
Three other unbeaten and untied
teams followed the top three.
Stanford, with eight victories,
came in fourth with 951 points.
and Princeton, also unbeaten in
seven outings, was sixth with 793
points. Rounding out the top ten
are: Georgia Tech, Wisconsin,
Kentucky and Baylor in that
order,
Stanford gained fourth on the
strength of its 27-20 victory over
Southern California. Maryland
breezed to a 40-21 deceision over
Navy and Princeton staggered
Harvard, 54-13.
Tech In Seventh
Georgia Tech’s unbeaten but
once-tied Engineers moved up to
seventh after troucing V. M. 1., 34-
7. Wisconsin edged into eigl}th
place by a tough 16-7 decision
over Pennsylvania. Kentiicky,
pointing to its meeting November
24 with Tennessee, smeared Tu-
Jlane, 37-0. Baylor moved back
into the tenth slot by trimming
Texas, 18-6.
Both Southern Cal and Texas
dropped out of the top ten. The
Trojans fell from sixth to 11th
and Texas dropped from tenth to
15th.
‘Dogs SEC Team
Of Week; AHS
Rated Highly
Georgia's Bulldogs were
named as the Atlanta Consti
fution’s SEC Team eof the Week
after the Bulldogs’ win over the
Gators from Florida last Satur
day in Jacksenville.
Another Classic City grid
eleven, the Athens High Tro
jans, was rated as the eighth
best Class A high school team
in the state by the Constitution.
Albany, Newnan, West Point
and Forest Park received the
top billing in the Class AA, A,
B and C leagues, respectively.
Rated in order as the first ten
in Class A circles were New=
nan, Elberton, Spalding, Gaines
ville, Valdosta, Northside, Elli
jay, Athens, Griffin and Tifton.
—POUND.
Tech Frosh
Win, 43-6
m,
AUBURN, Ala., Nov. 13—(AP).
Georgia Tech’s freshmen football
squad with an impressive 43-8
victory over Auburn’s Baby Tig
ers behind them, are pointing for
the Georgia Frosh and a perfect
season.
The Baby Jackets walloped Au
burn yesterday for their second
triumph in two starts, Earlier in
the season Tech beat Alabama’s
freshmen, 33-13.
Score by periods:
Ga. Tech Freshmen 6 7 12 18—43
Auburn freshmen 6 0 12 0— 6
Ga. Tech scoring: Touchdowns
—Spratte, Morris 2, Humphreys,
Teas, Griffin 2. Conversion—
Arnall.
Auburn scoring: ‘Touchdown—
Hall,
.
Indians Rally
.
To Aid Thorpe
NEW YORK, Nov. 13—(AP)—
Indians in the metropolitan area
are rallying to help Jim Thorpe,
the fabulous Indian athlete who
is recovering from an operation
at Philadelphia.
Thorpe’s wife said the onetime
All-America football star and
Olympic liedal winner, voted
«Athlete of the Century” in As
sociated Press poll, is without
funds.
A Sioux princess, Juanita Sen
ter, sald she had formed a com
mittee to raise funds from among
Indians to aid Thorpe. She said
she herself had donated SIOO.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
“Bowl Master”
Moulds Passers
Wallace Butts is known as the “Bowl Master” because
he has turned out more bowl teams than any other coach
in the game-—seven, to be exact. But he also should be
known as the Passing Master, The records show that he
has been a pace-setter in the spectacular aerial game.
Butts* great Rose Bowl cham
pionship team of 1942 still holds
the SEC records for yardage
gained passing: 2,101 in 11 games,
(191 yard average per game a
nother SEC record existing today).
His present Bulldogs, although
below the Georgia standard of de~
fensive excellence mainly due to
many injuries to top defensive
personnel, are leading the league
in team passing with an average
of 166.1 yards per game.
No other coach in the history
of the Southeastern Conference
has turned out as many brilliant
passers ag has Butts in his 13-year
tenure at the nation’s oldest state
chartered institution of learning.
Zeke Bratkowski, young sopho
more T-quarterback of Danviile,
111, is his late®t passing wizard
and he may he Butts’ best bomb
ardier. Zeke is the fourth Butts
pupil to better 1,000 yards passing.
Only 14 times in the history of
the SEC, inciuding recerds made
this year, has the 1,000 yard mark
been bettered by passers and
Butts’ Georgia boys have done it
five of these 14 times, the others
being Kentucky three (Parilii
1949-50-51), Vanderbilt three
(Jamie Wade 1949, Bill Wade
1950-51), Florida once (Haywood
Sullivan 1950), Mississippi once
(Cornerly 1947), Georgia Tech
once (Southard 1948).
Here are the Bulldogs who have
bettered the 1,000 yard mark
passing:
Year Players-Pos. Yds G.
1942—*Sinkwich, TB 1,392 11
1943—*J. Cook, TB 1,007 10
1947— Rauch, TQB 13 il
1948— Rauch, TQB 1,307 ‘lO
1951— Bratkowski, tgb 1,289 8
*Tailback on single wing team.
Georgia switched to T-formation
in 1944.)
Bratkowski seems headed for the
3 Flirting With
2 Bowl C ittees
BY WILL GRIMSLEY
NEW YORK, Nov, 13.— (AP)—The powerful, unbeaten
Maryland football team was the apex of a triangle today
that threatened to throw the bowl picture into wild con
fusion,
Both the Sugar Bowl in New
Orleans and the Cotton Bowl in
Dallas are flirting with the Ter=-
rific Terrapins from College Park,
Maryland is flirting right back.
But the Southern Conference, of
which Maryland is a paid-up mem
ber, is on record as opposing all
post-season games,
Conference Approval
If Maryland wants to play in a
Bowl it will have to get conference
‘approval first. This appears im=
possible in view of a 13-1 vote
(Maryland abstained) by college
presidents to outlaw bowls.
The Presidents’ vote came in the
form of a recommendation, which
is to be acted cn at the Dec. 14
conference meeting.
The Sugar and Orange Bowls
can’t wait until then to pick their
teams. Maryland can’t wait until
then to say, “yes or no.”
As matters now stand, the two
choicest plums for the uncom
mitted bowls are Tennessee, se
cond ranked nationally, and Mary=-
land, No. 5 in the latest Assicated
Press poll.
Tennesse is figured swed up for
the Sugar Bowl. which normally
favors the Southeastern Con
ference Champion as host.
Mich. St. Ineligible
Top-ranked Michigan State is
ineligible. It looks like Illoinis and
Stanford, Nos. 8 and 4, in the Rose
Bowl. But if not, they can’t play
anywhere else, as is the case also
with Wisconsin, No. 8.
Princeton, No. 6, is anti-bowl
and Georgia Tech, .-No. 7, is al
ready signed for the Orange Bowl
in Miami. Ninth-ranked Kentucky
and tenth-ranked Baylor, both
beaten, may wind up in the Cotton
or Orange Bowls, depending on
future developments.
At any rate, the pickings are
anything but lush and a team
with Maryland’s imposing record
would be welcome by any sponsor.
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greatest passing record of all of
Butts' fine pitchers. His total gain
of 1,289 yards this season has
smashed the SEC record for a
sophomore passer, formerly held
by Haywood Sullivan of Florida
who amassed 1,098 yard in 10
games last season, ¢
Bleomer Boys
To Do Battle
Frid ight
ay Nigh
The basketball tilts between the
Gaines and Winterville PTA’s that
were postponed last month are
scheduled for 7:30 Friday, Novem
ber 16, in the Winterville gym.
The Gaines Glamor Gals and
the Winterville Winsome Women
will battle it out in the first game.
The second game will feature
Winterville’s Weary Willies and
the Gaines Galloping Ghosts in
fast delayed - action. Bloomers
will be the official uniforms for
players and cheer leaders.
Admissions of fifty and twenty
five cents will be divided by the
iwo Parent-Teacher Associations.
CCNY NAMES GIRL
NEW YORK, Nov. 13—(AP)—
City College of New York broke
a century old tradition today by
naming a girl, Marilyn Bukspan,
manager of the Male Rifle team.
“It's like having a WAC in the
Army,” said Sgt. Joseph Taylor
of CCNY’s ROTC unit. “If she
learns to shoot well I'll give her
a chance on the varsity.”
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Spec Landrum
t Named Assistant
" Bulldog Coach
James D. (Spec) Landrum,
former head coach at Grady
High School in Atlania, has been
named as an assistant varsity
football coach at the University
of Georgia. Landrum will as
sume his duties here next Mon
day.
An All-Dixie Conference and
All-State College halfback at
Mercer in 1939, Landrum has
had a remarkable record at the
helm of the Grey Knights of
Heunry Grady high school. His
1950 and 1951 elevens won 14,
lost four and tied one. The
Knights close out their ‘sl cam
paign Saturday night in Grady
Stadium 2gainst the Atlanta
City League champions, the
O'Keefe Green Wave,
Landrum was born in Stephens
County and received his early
schooling at the elementary
schools at Demorest. He attend
ed Statesboro High School where
he began his fooball eareer.
Starring at Mercer as a 165-
pound halfback, Landrum gra
duated from the Baptist School
in 1940 after a brilliant grid
record.
Landrum’s first head ecoach
ing job was at Canton HMigh
from 1940 to 1942, In 1942, he
joined the army and served 28
months overseas in Europe. Out
of the service in 1946, Landrum
became assistant coach to O. V.
Bruner at Roosevelt High in At
lanta in 1947. He served under
Bruner until 1950 when he took
over the Grady head reins from
Rufus Godwin,
In his second year at Roosevelt,
Landrum handled the cage team
in the last two games of the state
tourney which the Roosevelt
lads won.
Landrum is married to the
former Mildred Wood. They
have no children.
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Lineman Of Week
ATLANTA, Nov. 13. — (AP) —
Bill Edwards, whose Vanderbilt
team upset LSU, 20-13, was chosen
as Southeastern Conference Coach
of the Week in the regular poll
conducted among Southern sports
writers by the Atlanta Journal.
Outstanding back of the week
was Babe Parilli, Kentucky, quar
terback, who broke one national
record and tied another in the
rout of Tulane. Marion Campbell,
Georgia tackle, was selectéd as the
lineman of the week for his de
fensive play against Florida.
“St Legs Run;
rong Legs Rum:
So Weak May Walk”
BY MERRITT POUND, JR.
Once a year two of Dixie’s foremost grid rivals send
their young freshmen grid stars onto the turf of Grant
lield to battie {or the glory of their separate institutions,
but most of all to run that weak legs may walk,
When Georgia's and Tech'’s frosh
elevens take me rield on Thanks
giving Day in the annual Scottish
Rite Benefit game, it will mark
the nineteenth year that such an
event has been held. Back in 1915
the Scottish Rite Hospital for Chil
dren was founded and since that
tice 103 Clarke County children
have been treated at the hospital.
Qualifications for admittance are
that the child must be from a
family who is unable to pay for!
the necessary medical treatment,
that the child be under 14 years
of age and of average mentality
and that he be one who is crippled
with a bone or joint condition
which, in the opinion of the Sur
geon in-Charge, is considered en
tirely curable or one that may be
materially benefited.
No other feoball contest in the
South or in the nation is moie
worthy of spectator support
than the Scottish Rite game.
All of the proceeds are turned
over to the hospital for use in
the treatment of the many young
patients, who without the help
of the needy charity could not
receive the necessary medical
attention fc gvercome their
handicaps. Many useful and
good citizens are graduates so to
speak from the Scottish Rite
hospital.
“Strong legs will run that weak
legs may walk”™ is the slogan for
the grid classic. Every spectator,
coach, vender, and sports writer
or announcer must pay to enter
the gates of Grant Field on Nov
ember 22. And there will be no
need for free tickets. All who at
tend the game will be proud to
contribute even more than the set
ticket fee. Not only will the specta=
tors aid a worth while charitable
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organization, but they will see
a grid tussle equaled only in
spirit and color by the Georgia
and Tech varsity struggle in At
lanta, December 1.
Ducats for the game have al
ready arrived in Athens and Le
roy Micheal, chairman of the
Seottish Rite Benefit Committec
for Clarke County, has annoeun
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one of the best in the whole
state; and means that Athenians
and University siudents will
have as good seats as any of the
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A full house in Grant Stadium
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| “MAN OF YEAR”
| CLEVELAND, Nov. 13—(AP)—
The Cleveland baseball writers to
day named pitcher Bob Feller a:
the Indians’ “Man of the Year’
for 1951. The big righthander wor
22 and lost eight for the best rec
~ord on the Tribe’s mound staif.
One of his victories was the thirc
no-hitter of his 13-season majo:
league career.
MARINE NEWCOMBE
NEW YORK, Nov. il3—(AP)—
Don Newcombe, Brooklyn's 20-
game winning pitcher, says he ex
pects to be in the Marines by the
l time another baseball season roll:
around,
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