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Middies Snap Cadets’ Long Victory String,
Play Rivals
102,000, Including President Truman, Cheer | Underdogs as They End Losing Streak at Eight
By LEO H. PETERSEN, United Press Sports Editor
PHILADELPHIA, Nov.
whieh hasn't known victory-for more than a year came up with a miraculous performance today and fought a heavilyfavored and unbeaten Army team to a 21-21 tie. including President Truman, cheered wildly as the underdog 2 Midshipmen ruined Army's
A crowd of 102,000,
bid for another perfect rec-| ord season. Up until this sunny No-
vember © afternoon, Army had| gone ‘through the season undefeated, but today in the annual]
service match in Municipal Sta-|
dium it met its matoh, almost its) master.
And from a ball club which|in the face again today, but the had lost eight in a row this| | Southwest Conference champions
season—which hasn't been on the| right
October day in 1946 when
SMU Gains Tie
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27—A fighting Navy team
With Final Rally
DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 27 (UP)— Southern Methodist flaunted fate
had what it took to turn almost-
side of the ledger since that|certain defeat at the hands of | it| Texas Christian into a 7-7 tie
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Justice Comes to Virginia-34 to 12
Tarheel Back Puts On One-Man Show
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Nov. 27 (UP)—The dazzling and almost unbelievable Charley Justice showed North Carolina the|
ginia before 24,000 fans today, making a bow! bid almost certain for the unbeaten Tarheels. It was the 165-pound Ashville marvel, whirling and fading out) of reach, who staggered the overflow crowd with touchdown runs of 80 and 50 yards, who passed for two more and who set up the other to cap the first undefeated season for a Tarheel team in 50 years. After Virginia brought its part-| isans up screaming with an in-
spired, brilliant second half come- |
back, Justice blasted the last thought of an upset with two touchdowns in the first five min{utes of the last period. Justice had plenty of help this sunny afternoon, although he
whipped Cornell. Ever since that| with only 15 seconds left to play. \nardly seemed to need it even|
time, Navy has taken a whipping —up until today. All OK Now
These eight defeats this year were forgotten and all was right with the - world with the Midshipmen when their harassed and bruised players came up with a fourth-period touchdown _ which meant more than a tie for them— it meant they had prevented the East's leading team from an all-victorious season. It meant more than that, for they thwarted their most deadly foes, the Cadets of West Point. This was supposed to be an easy ope for Army—21 point favorites. But it was as tough a struggle as the Cadets ever will have. They were outplayed and outfought by a club which came up from the dregs of despair almost to the heady wins of victory. Navy, finishing its first year under a civilian coach, George Sauer, showed from the start that today it was out to torpedo its enemy. IX did so well, in fact, that in view of the record, most of the fans who sat in the stadium were wondering whether ‘the Midshipmen shouldn't be given a saliva test for an illegal stimulant.
Had What It Takes
For they looked like anything but a club which had lost all its other games this year as they squared off against the Cadets. The first time they got their hands on the ball they scored and when things looked dark for them-—as {it usually has—they had what it took to come from behind and wind up even. Pistol Pete Williams, and Butlet Bill Hawkins were the big weapons in Navy's armor. Williams went 59 yards—the longest run of any Navy back this season—shortly- after the - kickoff to put his club on Army's 12 yard line. Two plays later, he made a first down on the Army 2 and, on two quarterback sneaks, Reeves Baysinger carried it over. Roger Drew converted and there it was on the scoreboard, Navy 7, Army
0, even if the people didn't be-|3
leve it. Looks Like a Rout It wasn’t ‘until midway in the second quarter that Army, using fts usual separate offensive and defensive elevens, showed its striking’ power. Thoroughly out-
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its Cotton Bowl foe on the same] turf New Year's day, SMU electrified a packed crowd of 67,435
minute and 45 seconds and its|
on a watersoaked field that made
crunching fullback, Hosea Rod-| gers bulled over from the 5-yard|
in the fi 1|line in the first seven minutes of| with a 99-yard surge in the finally. came dragging two Cavalier |tnis week. We had four nights of
tacklers.
All-American Doak Walker,|
calmly stepped up and booted the! all-important tying point. The final punch in that breath- | taking coméback drive was a 35yard pass from Gil Johnson to end Zohn Milam after the TCU secondary had been sucked out of position by a fake Statue of Liberty play. Up to that final try; TCU made the heralded Methodists look like a second-division ball club. It forced a 7-0 lead of its own 10 minutes into the second period when ‘Lindy Berry worked his way seven yards across the goal and Homer Ludiker converted.
Washington
Beats Jets, 94-16
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 27 (UP)—The Washington Capitols continued their dominance over their Basketball Association of America rivals tonight at Uline arena by defeating the Indianapolis Jets, 94-76. At no time in the game were the Caps in any danger. They outscored . their Western Division rivals in each quarter, their greatest margins coming in the first
Delta Bowl Names Foes MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov.
of Williamsburg, Va.,
game on New Year's Day.
27} (UP)—Oklahoma A. & M. col-| lege has formally accepted a bid to play William and Mary college be very tough today. But I meant in the sec-|it that way. And I guess we were ond annual Delta Bowl footballiat that.”
Times Staff Photographer John Spicklemire.
Navy's 21-to-21 ump Tech Cagers Nose Notre Dame Downs Howe High, 39-37 Washington, 46-0;
Replayed i in Dressing Room
Fighting Midshipmen Whoop Their Joy | Laud Coach After Tie With Mighty Pn |
| | By CARL LUNDQUIST, United Press Sports Writer L PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27—The scoreboard said the game] ended in a 21-to-21 tie, but Navy's dressing room was a winner's {circle tonight.
t The ever-fightin’ Midshipmen, kicked from stem to stern and gierdom at this time of year didn't! way to 34 to 12 walloping of Vir-| lin between all season in a disheartening procession of defeats, | waste time reaching the atute)
gained ‘a triumph that didn't show in the final score, but was
wildly evident amid th
ing joy: And Coach George Sauer, tears {of emotion streaming from his leyes, was the happiest of all. “Sure we would have liked to win but—,” he said. His sentence was never finished. Co-Captain Scott Emerson, who had played a whale of a game at tackle all day, led a wave of teammates who swept Sauer onto their shoulders and ‘marched him over a floor cluttered with helmets and shoulder pads. ‘The Fightingest Team’
h & WHOOP" limbed aboard a wardrobe trunk|
|and shouted:
have made it.” The philosophy of victory was|
lilams who went to the Negro] ¢lubhouse attendant, asked for] the team’s lucky rabbit's foot and! gave it a big, wet kiss. When Sauer was asked to pose| with Bill Hawkins and Reaves | “This is the fightingest team I Paysingar, Who scored the Navy| ever coached,” Sauer shouted, chance—only with whole! and the tears streamed un- squad. {ashamedly. “These boys never| “Everybody on the team be-| {once knew they were licked alllongs in that picture,” he said.| {season. In my first year as Navy “That's the only way it can be| guess I didn’t even realize made.” {myself just how much this Army; Over in the Army quarters, | {game means to the boys. there was no such hilarity. | “But I began to find out early] Coach Earl (Red) Blaik, shak-| ing hands solemnly with Navy| Director of Athletics Tom Hamil-| ton said, “Your boys came off the mat and played themselves to| glory. “I don’t want to cry that we] didn’t have Bobby Jack Stuart, but he had been out for two weeks and he wasn’t up to par,” Blaik said. ‘“He was our-ace in the hole and we surely missed him.”
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|scrimmage in which the boys |were better than any time all season. That was a tip-off to me that we would be red hot today. I think most of the newspapermen thought I was whistling in the dark when I said we would
bove the din, Emerson
and last periods when they out-| §§i
scored the Jets by eight points. Washington’s scoring was almost equally divided. Lanky Bonés McKinney and Chunky Freddie Scollari each collected 19 points, high for the night, and Bob Feerick chipped in with 15. High for the visitors was playermanager Bruce Hale, who registered 17.
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Totals 26 24 29| Totals 35 24 27 Officials—Collins and Eisenstein Score at half—Washington 42; ‘Indianlis: Hale nken (2), (3) Nor:
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It was just'an example of the fierce play between the Tech and Howe basketball teams: at the Tech gym last night in a city series game won by the Green, 39 to 37. Shown above scrambling fog 8 loose
First Down—Ooops—It’s Basketball Now
TECH 39 HOWE 37
Phofo by tackle in the above repro-
Page (14) retrieved it. In Stewart (43) and Bob Brown
on ne re Hine - Of typical prep contest punctuated our side today, all the way. Wear all times with crowd hysteria went through its 27th consecutive game without defeat and had to have Him or we wouldn’ t| just before Tech walked off with|
ball in the third quarter, are Howe players Joe Pirtle (34) and Lary McKinsey (50), on the floor. Pollom (9), just missed the ball and his teammate, Charlie
Capacity Crowd | Watches Thriller
By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS The high school hardwood in-| isanity that begins gripping Hoo-|
Taking Coaches’ Ber
Rockne Record Broken
Leahy Chalks Up 50th Victory Since
th at South Bend
By BILL EGGERT, Times Staft Writer NOTRE DAME, Ind., Nov. 27—The Irish went march-
stages at Tech's basketball em- ing again today, parading seven touchdowns against a help-
[porium last night. Perennial rivals on the ‘Wist) (Side, Tech and Howe, turned in a
less University of \all-time victory re While slapping down the
that reached the boiling point]
a hotly contested 39 to 37 verdict. It was the first city series con-!
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Arizona 24, Marguette 14. Wash. (St.L.) 27, Louisville 172. Austin College 25, Texas A.-L 20. Southersi U. 19, Prairie View 0. W. Tex. St. 19, New Mexico 0. ‘Kentucky St. 33, Bluefield 0. Grambling 30, Bethune Cookman 6. : Adelphia 7, Hofstra 6. Trinity (Texas) 83, Hardia College 13.
Penn State Nips Cougar, 7 to 0
TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 27 (UP) Penn State, forced to fight bit{terly for every yard, defeated an | nspirea Washington State team 7-0 here today before 18,000 fans. A 55-yard march by the invading Lions paid off for the game's only score with three and a half minutes left in the first half.
Times Staff Photographer Henry Glesing Jr. Tech's Tom
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ington squad and gettin a pew d for Notre Dame.
Huskies, 46 to 0, Notre Dame
[pow has won 21 straight, [Preaking a record compiled by nute Rockne and Hunk Anderson coached teams of 1929,
1930, and 1931. \ It was the fifth time the Huskies from the West Coast had
| been shut out this season and
marked Notre Dame's biggest scoring spree of the year. The 46 points also boosted ND's total scoring this year to 306, a faster pace than the national championship eleven of last year. Leahy's 50th Win The triumph was Coach Frank |Leahy's 50th against three losses land four ties since ne has been {masterminding the Irish squad. Only once did Coach Howie {Odell's Washington eleven 'threaten. That was in the third | period when the Huskies were stopped cold: after, reaching the |séven-yard line. If Washington lesson today it was to never , [fumble against Notre Dame, The 3iIrish turned five fumbles into touchdowns in the’ first half with —=— Quarterback Frank Tripucka |passing for four. Six players fig{ured in the touchdown avalanche with End Leon Hart. | Snatches Husky Fumble
learned any
—| "Washington Quarterback Ansel
{McCullough helped the Irish cause jearly in the first ‘period when he {fumbled on the first Huskie play. Bill Fischer, Irish captain and tackle, recovered on the Huskies’ 24, Fullback John Panelli hit {hard for 11 yards and took a quick handoff from Tri a to score on the next play. Emil Sitko's placement attempt was low. The Irish went on to score three more TD's in that first ‘period. Edward Hudak, reserve Notre BPame tackle, recovered {Brook Biddle's fumble on the {Washington 31. Tripucka faded ‘back to the 40 and tossed a high one into the end zone where halfback Terry Brennan had outSitko missed the placement again and Notre ?|Dame was breezing along with a 2 to 0 lead. Dick King, Huskie quarterback, | fumbled on the first play after the next kickoff and halfback Lancaster Smith of Notre Dame recovered on the Washington 32. Panelli knifed through for 17 {yards and Hart dragged two tacklers across the boal line on an end around play. Bill Gay's try for the extra point was low. Oracko Kicks 4 Fourth string fullback Fred Wallner set up the Irish fourthTD by recovering a fumble on {the Huskies’ 34. Tripucka then luncorked a long heave to Hart, who shook off one tackler on the 5-yard line and stepped into’ the end zone. Steve Oracko came in to kick the extra point, his first of four straight. for the after-
s|noon. - Late in the period. haif- ‘| (Continued on” ian 2)