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BY WILL GRIMSLEY
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.— (AP) —The top attraction of
t:e young college basketball season is the dish for Lexing
t 1 tonight when Kentucky and St. John’s of Brooklyn
¢lash in a game matching the nation’s No. 1 and 2 ranked
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The joust headlines a full slate
of pre-Christmas activity featur
in® anothgr game between tenants
¢’ the Asosciated Press’ top ten.
The St. Louis Billikens, fourth
ranked, are host Wednesday night
to Washington, No. 6.
Net As Rosy
Things are not as rosy with
Adolph Rupp's National Champi
one at Kentucky as a year ago
vhen the Wildcats beat St. John’s
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The Wildcats, who rarely lose,
have dropped one decision al
peady--a 61-57 loss to Minnesota.
Besides, the team’s seven-foot
pivot star, Bill Spivey. is on the
ailing lst and a New York Assis
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tant District Attorney is in Lex
ington hinting of new scandal ex
poses. Nobody has named names.
Rupp’s marksmen probably will
have to have their sights razor
sharp if they are to avoid a second
setback.
St. John'’s has a fast, smart teara
built around big Bob Zawoluk. It
has won five straight ga?es.
Kentucky plays Depaul Thurs
day. St. John’s has a Saturday
date with Vanderbilt.
Washington has a rough week.
After playing St. Lofiis Wednes
day, the huskies take on Minneso
ta Friday and Saturday nights.
Illinois No. 3, plays Oklahoma,
North Carolina and Depaul, Kan
sas State, No. 5, is at Hamline
Monday and meets Indiana Sat
urday.
Seton Hall, No. 7, takes on Tem=~
ple State Wednesday &and Scran
ton Saturday. Eighth-ranked Kan
sas plays Rice Tuesday and South
ern Cal Saturday. Ninth-ranked
LaSalle is idle but North Carolina
State, No. 10, meets George Wash
ington Tuesday and Manhattan
Thursday.
The defeat of Columbia, unbeat
en in regular season play last
year, featured the nearly 200 ma
jor games Saturday night. The
é,iogs were beaten by Pittsburgh,
5-64.
St. John’s Wins
St. John's prevailed over Rhode
Island State, 82-62, while Seton
Hall beat Towa 70-60.
St. Joseph’s took the measure
of Texas Tech, which had pre
viously surprised North-Carolina
State, 62-58.
NYU won its ninth straight
game, defeating Cornell, 58-52,
Ohio State beat Butler, 75-74.
BABCOCK, MOROCCO
HONORED
Georgia’s senior left halfback,
Zippy Morocco of Youngstown, O
and junior right end, Harry Bab
cock of Pear River, N. Y. were
selected to North Carolina’s all
opponent squad—Morocco on the
first team, Babcock on the second
pick.
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.Jimmy Williams, shown above
as an Athens High frosh gridder
four years ago, accepted a foot
ball grant-in-aid to Georgia.
Williams scored 78 points from
his haifback position this year.
PHARMACY STUDENT
Jimmy Graves, 6-4, 120-pound
tackle at Rome high (Ga.) who has
accepted a grant-in-aid to the
University of Georgia, plans to
enroll in the pharmacy school
here.
At Montgomery
Blue-Grey To Meet
In Old Reb Capital
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 17.—(AP)—Two All-Am
erica performers and 46 other gridiron glamor gents roll
into this city this ‘week to get ready for the fanciest Blue-
Gray game in history.
When workouts start Saturday,
rival coaches will have just seven
days to whip their squads into
shape for the Dec. 29 encounter.
Even the taxpayers have kicked
in with $20,000 to help make it
the kind of show Promoter Champ
Pickens has dreamed of since he
originated the North - South
“friendship” classic 13 years ago.
Friendly Battle
The legislature appropriated the
money to advertise the game and
to dramatize it with a pageant
symbolizing the friendly competi
tion between gray-cald Rebels and
their once-hostile Yankee neigh
bors.
What;ver Pickens comes up with
will be” but a prelude to the big
act—the kickoff at 1:45 p. m.
(CST). And for the next couple
of hours after that, any brotherly
affection will be evident mostly in
the stands. S e
The Yanks certainly don’t aim
to use the 60 minutes of playing
time as a means of showing their
appreciation for the Southern hos
pitality extended to them.
In fact, coaches Rip Engle of
Penn State, Ivy Williamson of Wis
consin and Dick Harlow, formerly
of Harvard, are downright belli
gerent about it.
With a record of only four wins
in 12 previous appearances, it's a
bit difficult to see how they could
be optimistic unless you consider:
1. A defensive line averaging
218 pounds and featuring All-
America Pat O'Donahue from Wis
consin; little All-America line
backer Tito Carinci from Xavier
of Ohio and tackle George Young
of Bucknell, and three bruisers
from Michigan State, second rank
ing team in the nation.
2. Two of the top 20 passers for
1951—Don Leahy of Marquette,
No. 3, and Bob Bestwick of Pitt,
No. 14—plus the country’s eighth
best rushing star, John Kastan of
Boston U.
The Southerners aren’t exactly
operating from hunger either—not
with guys like All-America Guard
Joe Palumbo from Virginia; Her-
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THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Deec. 17 — (AP) —
Billy Joe Thompson, Gainesville
High end, is the “Lineman of the
Year” on the Atlanta Journal-
Constution All-State class A foot
ball team. Billy O'Dell of New
nan was named “Back of the
Year.”
Gainesville also contributed the
“Coach of the Year” and Valdosta
placed three men on the team.
Coach Clayton Deavers is the
honored mentor.
The All-Star squad:
Ends—Thompson, Gainesville;
Mike Eason, Northside, Matthew
Arthur, Fitzgerald; Douglas Bin
ion, Thomasville.
Tackles—Roland Perdue, College
Park; James Warren, Valdosta;
Walter White, Toccoa; Clayton
Pitts, Spalding.
Guards—Bert Doss, Gainesville;
Earl Jones, Valdosta; Maurice
Bond, Elberton; Jimmy Thomason,
Newnan. :
Centers—Bill Saye, Athens;
Wendel Strayhorn, S. W. DeKalb.
Quarterbacks—Jimmy Harper,
Thomasville; Frank Troutman,
Northside.
Halfbacks—Jimmy Williams,
Athens; Billy Rabon, Fitzgerald;
Wayne Shaw, Valdosta; Bobby
Thompson, Elberton.
Fullbacks—O’Dell, Newnan; Ted
Trenton, Spalding.
Jonny Short, Athens High and
Tech-bound guard, made honor=-
able mention.
schel Forester, Southern Metho
dist’s All-Southeastern guard;
Louisiana State’s tough center
George Tarasovic.
Reb Backfield
In the backfield, Rebel Coaches
Rex Enright of South Carolina,
Rusty Russell of SMU and Gay
nell Tinsley of LSU can count on
help from the sensational Steve
Wadiak, an Enright product; Gil
Bocetti of Washington and Lee;
Andy Davis of George Washing
ton and Wofford’s classy Jack
Beeler.
Blue-Gray sponsors are looking
for a full house of 22,500.
Georgia Bulldog linemen, Jeff
Burgamy and Marion Campbell,
will participate in the Blue-Gray
tilt.
Browns, Rams
Title Clash
NEW YORK, Dec. 17—(AP)—
The Cleveland Browns and the
Los Angeles Rams will give a re
peat performance next Sunday of
the 1950 National Football League
title game,
The Rams clinched the right to
meet the champion Browns yes
terday by downing the Green Bay
Packers, 42-14, for the National
Conference title.
Browns Unbeaten
The Browns, unbeaten in five
years of title play, and the Rams
will clash at Los Angeles. A year
ago in Cleveland they staged a
nip-and-tuck battle with the
Browns winning, 30-28.
It will be the third straight year
the Rams have been in the NFL
championship game. They lost to
Philadelphia in 1949.
While Los Angeles was whip
ping the Packers yesterday on
five touchdown passes by Bob
Waterfield and a 99-yard touch
down run by Jerry Williams, the
Detroit Lions fell before the San
Francisco 49ers, 21-17, and the
Chicago Bears bowed to the Chi
cago Cardinals, 24-14.
The results left Detroit and San
Francisco tied for second place.
Cleveland finished out the sea
son with a 24-9 victory over the
Philadelphia Eagles for the Browns
11th straight win since losing the
openr to the 49ers.
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Bill Saye, 190 pound Athens
High center, will enter the Uni
versity of Georgia next fall.
Saye, a sparkplug of the Tro
jan line, has accepted a grant
-in-aid to play football for the
Bulldogs.
Georgia Gets
Thomasville
Star Back
By DAN MAGILL, JR.
Eleven Dixie college football
powers sought the talented T
quarterback of Thomasville (Ga.)
high school, James Harper, jr.
Harper accepted a grant-in-aid
from the alma mater of his dis
tinguished father—the Universi
ty of Georgia.
Young Harper’s father, James
K. (Doc) Harper, made an out
standing record at the University
here: member of Spinx, top hono
rary club on the campus; editor,
Red and Black, student newspa
per; letterman 1919 and 1920 foot
ball teams at tackle, shoulder in
jury curtailed grid career; varsity
baseball team, 1920-21-22-23.
Doc Harper was head coach at
Thomasville high school for 17
years following his graduation at
Georgia. He was commander of
the Thomasville National Guard,
served in the army as a Lieuten
ant Colonel during World War II
and now is principal of the Thom
agville junior high school -and
judge of the city juvenile court.
Young Harper is off to a splen=
did start following in his father’s
footsteps. He is an A student.
Here are some of his athletic high~
lights:
Football—Thomasville’s regular
T-quarterback the past three
years . . . this past season he com
pleted 82 of 154 passes (only eight
intercepted) for a gain of 1,319
yards and 14 touchdowns.
Baseball — Pitched Thomasville
American Legion junior team to
semifinals of state tournament last
summer, striking out 112 men in
60 innings.
Basketball—Scored 25 points in
first game of 1951-52 season this
week against Pelham.
Tennis—Won district singles last
year.
Jimmy is only 16 years old,
stands 6-0 and weighs 165.
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
STUDENT
Leonard Hall, 6-0, 195-pound
halfback at Millen (Ga.) high who
will enter the University of Geor
gia next September, will major in
animal husbandry here. °
.. BULLPUP COURT COACH ..
Green Wililams, former basket
ball standout at West Georgia
College and now studying for his
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Maroons, Tigers Lead
SEC Baskesball Race
BY VERNON BUTLER
Auocirartied_Preu _S;lgrts_w_ri_@er
Making merry while favored Vanderbilt and Kentucky
are sticking to outside foes, darkhorses Mississippi State
and Auburn are co-leaders in the Southeastern Conference
basketball race.
Paul Gregory’s Mississippi State
outfit, seldom a conference cage
power, held a surprising 7-0 re
cord Monday and were 2-0 in the
SEC. During the week the Maro
ons drubbed Tulane, 68-60; Florida
State, 75-47, and Arkansas, 76-39.
They meet Arkansas State Monday
night and are then idle until the
Georgia game Jan. 5.
Tiger 7-0 Mark
Auburn’s young and talented
team, also holder of an over-all
7-0 record, bounced Birmingham-
Southern, 79-46, in its only 3ap
pearance of the week. The Plains
men get their co-leader status by
virtue on an earlier victory over
the cellar-dwelling Georgia Bull
dogs.
Louisiana State, beaten only by
Mississippi State, remained a con
tender by clipping Mississippi,
81-69, as phenomenal Bob Pettit
bagged 40 points to tie one SEC
mark and better another. Pettit,
a six-foot, nine-inch sophomore,
netted 57 points in two games last
week to run his amazing total to
150 in six outings.
Pettit’s one-man show against
Mississippi equaled the one-game
conference scoring mark posted
Rotary Club To
Honor AHS Grid
Team At Dinner
The Athens Rotary Club will
be host to the Athens High
football team and coaches Wed
nesday at 1 p. m. at a luncheon
in the Georgian Hotel.
The Rotarians have been active
in their support es local athletie
teams and the luncheon will be
another example of their gen
eroisty.
masters’ degree in Physical Educa
tion at the University of Georgia,
is coaching the Bullpups’ court
squad.
Williams, a native of Rome, Ga.,
starred in football and basketball
at McHenry high school in Rome
and at West Georgia Junior Col
lege. -He made the All-State jun
jor college hosketball selection at
guard in 1950.
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by Bill Spivey of Kentucky against
Georgia Tech in 1950 and bettered
Spivey’s old ‘record of 16 field
goals by bagging 19.
The week’s biggest upset, of
course, was Minnesota's 61-57 vic
tory over Kentucky. The Wildcats,
number one team in the Associat
ed Press National poll, get a
chance to regain some prestige
Monday nright when they test St.
John's of New York at Lexington.
Adolph Rupp’s floor-masters are
still playing without their indis
posed center, Bill Spivey. In St.
John's they face a taller team with
better reserves.
Seventeen gameg are scheduled
by SEC teams this weeks, but only
two are intra-conference affairs.
Alabama is at Mississippi Mon
day night, and Tennessee goes to
Florida Wednesday,
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Tennessee .. .. 0 0 3 0
This Week's Games:
Monday—Alabama at Mississip
pi; Texas at LSU; Clemson at
Tennessee; St. John’s at Kentucky:
Miami at Florida; Texas Tech as
Vanderbilt; Mississippi State gt
Arkansas State.
Tuesday-—Texas at Tulane,
Wednesday—Auburn at Maxwel]
Field; Tennessee at Florida.
Thursday—Cornell at Tulane:
DePaul at Kentucky; Rice at Van
derbilt.
Friday—no games.
Saturday—Cornell at Tulane:
Rice at Tennessee; Vanderbilt vs
St. John’s at New York City.
~Game And Fish }§
Club Now Has |
105 Members %
Three new members, A, F. Mc-
Leroy, W. H. Medlock, and M. ~
Johnson, swélled the total en
roliment of the Clarke County
Game and Fish Club to 105 Sat
urday.
Membership dues for a year are
only SI.OO T. Ed Williams, see
retary and treasurer of the local
wildlife group, urges all sports
men to join the conservationist
and better hunting and fishing
movement.