Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1942 — Page 26

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‘of 99 players and one umpire, is

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| With ‘Bad Day’ Sinkwich Can Set All-Time Gridiron Mark

Evonks Goes Big Time

JIMMY FRANKS, who was “in the nets” for the Indianapolis Capitals during the first two seasons of local league hockey, has been purchased by the New York

" Rangers and probably will play

tonight against the Chicago Black=hawks. Franks played two-thirds of the first season here and was forced to retire because of an operation. Alfie Moore replaced him and the Caps were beaten in the playoffs by Providence over a seven-game route. Franks was back the next year and played the entire season.

Frosh Numerals w Times Special ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. 26.— Two of the 42 players to receive freshman football numerals at the University of Michigan this year were George Kraeger and Alvin

Levenson of Indianapolis. Michigan’s rhinies tied Michigan State, 0-0, and lost to Ohio State, 14-16, this season.

Latest listing of the number of players from the minor leagues in the service, boosted by the addition

1247, but 19 have dropped out for various reasons leaving a net of 1228.

Phil Marchildon, right-handed

of the Athletics for 1942, has en-

listed in the Canadian air forces.

LAST YEAR the Caps selected Joe Turner for goalie and Franks was sent to Omaha of the American Hockey association. He was instrumental in helping Omaha win the league title. The American association disbanded . this year and Franks returned to Detroit to practice with the Red Wings and the Caps. He ‘was more or less a holdout for the Caps because of a defense job he had in Detroit. The Caps took Floyd (Fats) Perras for a goalie. Franks turned professional in 1936 with Pittsburgh.

Losing Team Players Among Leaders in Total Offense;

Governali, Top

Aerial Artist

By TOMMY DEVINE United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Nov. 26.—The nation’s “figure filberts” lined up today against the selectors of all-America teams. The bulk of the all-America choices season after season comes from performers fortunate enough to play on winning teams, but the latest compilations of the American football statistical bureau clearly show that the grid combinations with the best won and lost records do not

| have a monopoly on all the talent.

Three of the five leaders in total offense are performers who are playing with teams that have taken their beatings with monotonous regularity this fall. They are Paul Governali of Columbia, Bill Dutton of Pittsburgh and Otto Graham of Northwestern. Columbia, Pittsburgh and Northwestern have won but a meager seven games while absorbing 20 defeats. But too good to be overlooked are the talented backs who have demonstrated their individual brilliance despite the forlorn showings of their teams,

Breaks Schwenk’s Mark

Governali ranks second in total offense, Dutton is fourth and Graham is fifth. The individual leader is Frankie Sinkwich of Georgia's once-beaten outfit and third place belongs to Gil Dobbs of Tulsa’s perfect record combination. Although he netted only 37 yards on 31 ball carrying attempts against Auburn, Sinkwich completed 11 passes for 149 yards to bring his yardage for 10 games to the rec-ord-breaking total of 1995 yards. The old mark, set a season ago by “Bud” Schwenk of Washington university, St. Louis, was 1928 yards. Sinkwich plays against Georgia Tech Saturday and even with a “bad day” can become the first performer in modern grid history to

Grange Gives N. D. Shaky Vote And Picks Army Over Navy

By RED GRANGE The Original Man-in-Motion NEW YORK, Nov. 26—Army is back in step again and get my vols against Navy in what can’t miss being a savagely fought battle at

Annapolis on Saturday.

The Cadets bogged down a bit when the crack backs, Hank Mazur and Ralph Hill, suffered leg injuries in the Pennsylvania party. Mazur and Hill were well rested while Princeton was being mas-

sacred, and Red Blaik has come up with several effective plebes in the way of replacements. Navy came on sufficiently to outfight and out-think Pennsylvania and repel Columbia, but Army appears a bit too well equipped for the midshipmen. The Soldiers will

know they have been on the field,

however, in what may be the last meeting of the service schools for the duration.

It was an awful blow when under-

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rated Auburn deflated supposedly invincible Georgia, but the upset was precisely what the doctor would have prescribed as preparedness for the Bulldogs’ key battle with Georgia Tech at Athens.

Shaky Vote for Irish

Georgia Tech moves into this one with a brilliant and spotless record and the men to back it up, but it is my guess that Georgia will bounce back. Notre Dame is given a shaky vote over Southern California in Los Angeles. Don’t overlook the fact that the Trojans scored 26 points against Washington State, 21 against California and 40 against Oregon. If we are to believe all we hear, Boston college only has to show up to eat up Holy Cross in Boston. Villanova is given an edge over Temple in Philadelphia and the North Carolina Air Cadets have a bulge on Fordham at the Polo Grounds. ; While Michigan is vulnerable to passing and Iowa has Tom Farmer, I like the Wolverines and their array of vicious ground-gainers against the Hawkeyes at Ann Arbor. Iowa Air Cadets easily could be turned back for the second time this year by powerful and accomplished Ohio State in Columbus. It is more than barely possible that Detroit will be beaten for the third time this fall when Oklahoma A. and M. moves into its stadium.

Rice Gets the Nod

I rather expect Oregon State to further salvage a disappointing campaign by defeating Michigan State at East Lansing. Illinois is my choice over Camp Grant at Rockford and Indiana over Ft. Knox in Louisville. . Kansas State finally found an outfit it could handle in Iowa State, but Nebraska is something else again, Tennessee has too much for Vanderbilt, Auburn for Clemson and Wake Forest for South .Carolina. West Virginia should get over Mss! and Alshama is'my selection meeting with the Georgia Afr Cadets. e : I am giving Rice the nod over a good Baylor array and look for Texas Christian to get back on the Hshi track against Southern MethOn the Pacific coast, it’s Stanford over the California Air Cadets and Washington State over Washington. ut none of this gives right to sue me. g You, the

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The three leaders in each individual department follow:

«TOTAL OFFENSE— Total Player and Team Rushing Panta Yards Sinkwich, Georgia.... 728 . 1995 Governali, Columbia. .. 168 he 1610 Dobbs, Tulsa....... ..s 362 952

«BALL CARRYING—

1314

Net Games Atils, Yards Mobley, H.-Simmons . 8 164 Holovak, Boston Coll. 8 163 Steuber, Missouri 10 122

~—PASSING—

898 812

Yards Atts, Comp. Gaitied Govyernali, Columbia. 165 Evans, Kansas 169 = I

Gillette, Virginia. . ~PASS RECEIVING— Yards Games Recd. Gained Rogers, Texas A. & M. 8 8. » 26

378 Ferguson, California.. 338

—~—PUNTING~—

Aver. a Punts Yar Yards

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gain more than 2000 yards in a single season. Governali ended his colegiate career by finishing second to Sinkwich in the list. He has 1610 yards to his credit. Dobbs in third place has 1314 yards, Dutton is fourth with 1285 yards and the versatile Graham fifth with 1258 yards. Governali completed 11 passes in his final game to displace Ray Evans of Kansas, the season-long leader, as the top aerial artist. Governali completed 87 out of 165 toses for a gain of 1142 yards. Evans is second with 83 completions out of 169 tries and Turbull Gillette of Virginia third with 82 completions in 144 attempts. From a team standpoint, Boston college’s undefeated and untied Eagles monopolized honors. Boston took over the lead in total offense with an average f 422.8 yards per game, is first in total defense as it has permitted opponents an average of but 106.3 pards per game and is tops in rushing defense with a mark of 26.9 yards per contest. Tulsa has the best team passing and punting marks and Miami (Fla.) leads in pass defense.

Lambert Wails Over His Team

By UNITED PRESS

Except for a few die-hard football fans, King Basketball has again completely infested Hoosierland, as Indiana and - Purdue hitched up their belts and prepared to dive into the Big Ten whirlpool. Purdue’s pessimistic Piggy Lambert, the little silver-haired fox of the courts who starts his 26th season as Boilermaker net coach, still insists his 1942-1943 team “won't be so hot.” The diminutive Purdue mentor, who has engineered the Boiler-

maker netters to 11 Western con-|’

ference basketball titles, grows sadder each day as the opening game with Wabash Dec. 10 approaches. I. U. Looks Good Meanwhile, Branch McCracken of Indiana has reason to be gay, as his team of veterans appeared one of the top outfits in the conference along with Wisconsin and Illinois. Lambert has only Allen Menke, brother of the famed Menke brother duet of Indiana, as a returning veteran, but he.looks like a worldbeater in the center position. Piggy

thinks Menke is faster and more accurate than last year. Big Eddie Ehlers of South Bend has exhibited a sharpshooting eye in practice that may make him one of the sophomore sensations of the conference, while Rudy Lawson, a junior, is another of Lambert's dependables. Besides these three, Piggy’'s lineup is a big question mark—even to Piggy. Harold Hoffman, a senior letterman, probably will be a starter, but Jack Swantz, Duffy Friend and three sophomores will have to fight it out for the other spot. At Indiana, McCracken has had his troubles in practice, with the military program forcing the Hooisers. to drill on dirt and in the old gym. But Johnny Logan, veteran senior forward, Capt. Ervin Swanson and Ed Wenton, mainstays of last year's five ‘that upset Illinois, are shaping into another great I. U. outfit that may rival the national championship team of 1940.

Everybdoy’ s Sport HILADELPHIA, Nov. 26.—~Tabor Loa Bowling league of Philadelphia started its 48th season with two great-grandmothers and seven grandmothers in its lineup,

Selkirk Joins Navy

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (U. P.)— George Selkirk, New York Yankee outfielder, will report for duty with the navy at Newport, R. I., Sunday. He enlisted yesterday. Selkirk replaced Babe Ruth in right field but bd not been a regular since 1939.

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By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—It's easy enough arbitrarily to say Sammy Baugh is the best passer in football, better than Sid Luckman or Cecil Isbell, for example, for the league figures would support the claim: They have the Washington star on top on a percentage basis. * But giving body and substance to the claim, making it stand up convinecingly . . . well, that’s something else.

Happily, there’s one man still in professional football who comes closer to being an authority on the matter than all the others, That would be the enduring Mel Hein of the New York Giants who has become the Cy Young of the mercenaries; he has seen them all come and go and he takes Baugh . , . “the one man team.” And the next best passer of all time in Mr. Hein’s book is neither

1178 | Luckman nor Isbell but a former

teammate, Benny Friedman. “Friedman’s accuracy was amazing. Over all the years I don’t recall seeing him throw over or under a receiver. And he had the knack

920| of leading a receiver down to what

almost amounted to a science. He'd always have the ball out there in

a? time for the receiver to make a

running catch, and it would be in the right place. When you consider the game was not so wide open in his time and the principles of protection for the passer were ‘only loosely conceived, Friedman's performances take on added dimensions.” #® 2 » BUT WHEN THE comparisons come down to contemporary passers Mr. Hein unhesitatingly picks

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out his target; (3) faking, a screening of intention which constantly baffles the opposition. Mr, Hein is quick to admit his esteem for Baugh’s chief rivals, Luckman and Isbell, former Purdue star, but it just happens to be his

considered opinion that they don't] quite measure up to his man in|

overall talent. “Isbell reminds me of the old days. It's a rare thing in these times to see the passer fade out of his pocket or normal passing zone, but Isbell will do it casually, up to 15 yards or more. I remember seeing him back up 20 yards before he let go with a 55-yarder that beat us in a Los Angeles all-star game. This is where he differs chiefly from Baugh, who dotes on the short pass.” » ” ” . ISBELL’S PENCHANT for the long pass is understandable. He has Don Hutson to catch it, and Hutson is the best. That's what you rnu into when you discuss Isbell . . , this fellow Hutson. It may be unfair to Isbell as a passer but the way things are the defense must worry about Hutson first, Is-

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