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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS 3 A
Abilene, Texas, Monday Morning, December 24, 1962
McVea Rar
Like Crain
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Brack-mother good boys to go with Me
enridge’s Eagles, who didn't look
like a football team but certainly .. .
played like one, stowed away the will again be strong next fall.
Class AAAA schoolboy football
Vea, most of whom are back.
which indicated that the Eagles
1. hurriedly
and arrived
hours later
title and then decided that 1963
might be another season just like
it.
One of the absentees, however,
will be Victor Castillo, the Latin
uebonnet Defeat 4th
Row on TV for Dodd
en wo final-
we didn't
r get here."
i all thia fog
e re on the
until after
took some
the usual
planned by
sea commit-
greeting in
day was
ossed by a
hit quarter-
len on the
i stunned.
e’s a passer
quipped one
boy who put on a great passing
exhibition against Borger Satur-
Veteran observers of the state day as Brackenridge won the
championship game at Abilene, in title with a 30-26 victory.
which Brackenridge won 30-26. Castillo passed for 256 yards
dug back two decades to find and three touchdowns and set up
somebody able to run like Warren still another
McVea Brackenridge didn't look any-
The old-timers recalled Jack where near as strong as Borger
Crain, the stubby little man who with its mighty line and a great
became known as the finest run-runner in Lee Johnson, who ear-
ner in Southwest Conference an- ried the ball for 156 yards. •
nals. McVea runs much as did
Crain—weaving in and out, run-
ning across the field to shake up
the defense so he could return
and whip out a long gain
He caught six passes for 74
yards and scored three touch-
downs. He set up one touchdown
with a pass reception and he took
a punt back 52 yards to lead to
still another TD. '
ried the ball for 156 yards.
But in some way the Eagles ■
bridled the ball-possession offense ( ■
of Borger—most of the 10,000 1
fans watching the game figured E
the gangling, skinny kids from 5
San Antonio would crack before E
they did" anybody any harm- I
and the Eagles used a devastat- H
ing aerial attack to knock Bor- ■
ger from the unbeaten, untied •
ranks. b
But Brackenridge had some it's what McVea and Pete
I I.
IN STATE
1
. Tech Back
= Broken By
y Tobin Run
■ ' HOUSTON (AP)-As far as Bob-
1 by Dodd of Georgia Tech is con-
cerned they can turn off those tel-
a evision cameras.
• Tech won 10 straight football
games before national audiences,
but the past four—three of them
bowl games—went sour for the
frustrated Yellow Jackets
Dodd saw his teams lose to pro-
Htege Frank Broyles of Arkansas
the 1959 Gator Bowl to Penn
State in the 1961 Gator Bowl and
■ to LSU in a televised game during
■ the 1962 season. His latest bitter
dose of defeat came Saturday
1when underdog Missouri ran for
touchdowns and played tre-
■ mendous defense to whip Tech
■ 14-10 in the Bluebonnet Bowl
■ While Dodd bemoaned his re-
MP
BOBBY DODD
... TV jinxed
DAN DEVINE
... happy birthday
IN SUGAR BOWL
WO
as
i. (AP) —
tales were
first annual
School All-
11.
d by the
atriot-News,
lastic foot-
of the 50
AA Tigers
Only Team
Undefeated
JACKSBORO (AP) - Jacks
boro's Tigers had reached the end
of a satisfying football seoson
Bautista did with a pass after ■
catching it that told the story. H
Each could run like the wind and io
McVea was as elusive as a *
greased flag pole This combina- th
tion tacked onto Castillo's pass- ,
ing spelled doom for Borger has
Bautista caught five passes for POLNAC GETS LOOSE - Rotan halfback < enis Polnac (42) is on his way to «
121 yards.v 58-yard gain on a screen pass against Ingleside in Saturday’s Class A state cham-
in addition to Castillo, Brack pionship game in Temple. Ingleside gva tl Butch Riley (65) gives chase. Rotan
enridge will lose 14 top players, won 39 (Ap Wirephotol5
But that doesn't daunt the Eagles won, A5 Wirepnotoi
There will be plenty of playersm•
-----8 Starters Lost
Brackenridge wound up with an
cent ill fortune on TV, Missouri
Coach Dan Devine, 38 Sunday, en-
I joyed a rich birthday gift while en
i route to San Francisco where he
will coach the West team in the
I East-West Shrine game next Sat-
urday.
Dodd called a 77-yard touch-
down run by Missouri halfback
Griffing-Moor
Duel Forecast
Bill Tobin in the third period the NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The
key play of the Bluebonnet Bowl. 1963 Sugar Bowl clash between
"It broke our back, the Tech Mississippi and Arkansas could
coach said, , turn into a duel between two out-
Devine agreed.
. , standing quarterbacks—Ole Miss'
It was a reverse, our bread- Glynn Griffing and ,hf Porkers’
and-butter play, and it was well
ted entirely
s were se-
d were not
id or third
ar team is
atriot-News’
team, an-
ennsylvania
he National
•an team at
came away
es followed,
ory for the
0-0 tie.
nal Colle-
on issued a
• games in-
more than
itional can-
ylvania big
eturn to a
of the boys
i will be in-
eceives the
e state ex-
association
in game
donated to
d dual rep-
onal 33, in-
The others
1. Georgia,
and Mass-
ad
lad
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Sunday the only undefeated, un- 11-3 record. Those three defeats
tied team left after four state came at the time some of the
schoolboy champions had been Eagles were out of action scho-
| lastically. At full strength. Brack
eciacd.enridge could—and did—beat any
The Tigers whipped Rockdale body.
52-0 for the all-time widest mar- '.______.
gin in a title game, sacked up
the Class AA championship that 111 Call
had eluded them for two years AL-LONE0A
and wound up the season with a was wwnvs”
15-0 record.
The Tigers also were the state's Tarama
highest scoring team with 602 NVICCI DITONO
points—an average of more than 3
40 points per contest . OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The
In three years they have 5 won 27th annual All-College Basketball
37 and lost only two.Tournament begins Wednesday
But the era may have ended with a pair of first round games.
Friday night as the Tigers, with Creighton will play Wyoming in
Steve Wheelis putting on a great the tournament opener at 7 30
=---====&
Gone next season will be such
stars as Wheelis, a passer, run-
ner and quarterback extraordi-
nary: James Leach, the talented
To Roton Squad
executed," the youthful Missouri
boss declared.
Tobin got the laurels, but a lot
of folks thought fullback Andy
Russell was the giant figure in
Missouri's upset victory.
Russell threw a key block at the
line of scrimmage that sprung To-
bin loose on his vital run and he
thwarted two Tech scoring bids
with pass interceptions, his eighth
and ninth of the year.
Missouri collected another dis-
TEMPLE (AP)- Rotan. Classy The powerful Yellowhammers. Herren has averaged over 300
A schoolboy football champion by lose eight starting seniors from yards a game passing and run-
virtue of its 39-6 victory over the championship team The ning. Against Ingleside he ran 45
Ingleside Saturday, faces a re-hardest job to fill for Coach and 85 yards for touchdowns and s
building problem if it hopes to Tommy Watkins will be that of passed six and 58 yards for two wallop Tech without completing a
more pass The Tigers threw seven
i Ingles.de, on the Gulf Coast times, and they had two intercept-
near Corpus Christi, faces a
smaller problem for 1963 Only
five seniors leave the team-but
three of them are in the back-
field with the loss of quarterback
David Blaschke, and backs Glenn
McDonald and Bill Auten.
Blaschke’s replacement will be
By Mike cochRaN linsham. Ernest Nagy and Jessie Nap nananed atod of the eHrowthe
FORT WORTH (AP)—Dumas Espinosa. . running duties for the 5
husky Demons have tucked away Dumas, which swept like a prising Mustangs Ineleside a wouldn’t let us cash them for
— - - - ..... - - . „ P ustngs Ingleside was
tinction. The Big Eight Confer-
ence power is the first team to
retain the crown.
quarterback Steve Herron.
Dumas to Return
Many Good Boys
Billy Moore.
Both Griffing and Moore spear-
headed their teams' open throttle
offenses during the regular sea-
son campaign.
Both exemplify the near perfect
balance of the quarterback roll-
out-option attack which reached
new heights this season.
Griffing, nicknamed “Squirrel"
by teammates, is the latest in a
long line of great Rebel quarter-
backs. including Charley Conerly,
Eagle Day, Jake Gibbs, Bobby-
Franklin and Parker Hall
Incidentally, Griffing, a 6-foot-1
200-pounder from Culkin, Miss.,
may one day follow in the steps
of the fabled Conerly, former star
with the New York football
Giants. He was picked in 1961 by
the Giants in the National Foot-
ball League draft as a future.
Griffing nailed down rushing
honors this season on an Ole
Miss team which piled up a total
of 3.281 yards in winning all nine
of its games. He accounted for
277 yards while clicking on 72 of
his 122 aerials for 59 per cent. 882
yards and 11 touchdowns.
Tide Slight
Favorite To
Beat Sooners
MIAMI, Fla. (AP)—Coach Bear
Bryant’s crimson-clad Warriors
from Alabama have been made
slight favorites over Oklahoma in
ed.
"This was probably our best
game of the season,” a grateful
Devine said in the uproar of the
winners' dressing room, "but we
made an awful lot of mistakes.
1 thought."
Dodd said he thought the breaks
were about even, "or perhaps we
got an edge in them, but Mis-
souri — a fine football team —
Only Conerly, who played for
the Orange Bowl football game, the Rebels in 1942 and again in
but don't count on it coming out
that way
1946-47, has a better career mark
on touchdown passes at Ole Miss
than Griffing. Conerly hurled 26
No one is more painfully aware
than Bryant of the fact that Bud scoring strikes in his three varsity
Wilkinson s Sooners have been in- years, Griffing got 23.
vincible under the hot Miami sun. ........ ... ...pounu Mrouuct
striking for four straight victories. | of Little Rock, Ark had the best
And Wilkinson wants in the passing accuracy in " 1
worst way to make it five straight
for his 6-1 record in all major
bowls was marred by a Bryant-
coached team. The Bears Ken-
Moore, a 5-10, 178-pound product
University.
* ISIJ.ALAT********— T * I - ULIBIUIUC IMUSIALIUS -
Two more first round games will their second straight Class AAA whirlwind through the playoffs, an underdog allseason reaching touchdowns."
be played Thursday night. Toledo football championship and are sewed un the title behind a 13-1 the finals ~ - pi- *-
will meet Memphis State in the turning their sights to 1963 ' " * W * 5-
first game and Loyola of Chicago
record The championship trophy powerful New London upset over
_ ------.-------. Coach Bill Spann’s Warriors will nestle along side the 1961
will play Arkansas in the second captured the crown Saturday in award, captured in the mud in
a come-from-behind 14-3 thriller Dallas at Nederland e expense
Baker and others of one o' the The high-scoring Ramblers from against spunky but outmanned
finest teams in Class AA school- Loyola rate the role of favorites Pharr-San Juan-Alamo.
boy football. in the oldest of holiday basketball More than two dozen players
Coach of Jacksboro is Chuck tournaments. on the championship crew's ros-
Curtis who won fame quarter- The Chicagoans are ranked ter will return for duty next year
backing Texas Christian and re-fourth nationally and have been including backfield aces Norman
portedly is being talked as the clipping along at an average of Bonner and Gary King, both
next football coach at his alma more than 110 points per game, sophomores
mater. Oklahoma City is the only team Among other top returnees is
Wheelis ran for three touch- in the tournament this year that Jerry Glover, an all-state nomi-
downs passed for three, passed participated last year, although nee at tackle and guard, who
for six conversion points and all but Creighton, Loyola and To- played an outstanding game Saturday: CollEaSisketball stores
intercepted two passes for one ledo have made previous appear- against the Bears Peng.78. St. Joseph’s, Pa. 77, three over-
of the great individual shows of ances. The Demons will be faced with Yilanovs 89, St Francis, Pa 7
schoolboy football, Oklahoma City has been in the the problem of replacing such Cte 37. FoRanamSlate 48
Just where the 180-pound back- tournament 19 timea Baylor 15, stalwarts as all-state end Kelly wane T.SSEto 41 83 ...„.„
field star is going to college is Arkansas and Wyoming 7 each Baker and their durable quarter- FM^MmxmM^.^uu^w^MM 49 Baugh.
an unsettled question but rumor and Memphis State once. Okla-hack. Joe Parsons liona 55. G
has it that Texas Christian may homa City is the only previous
be in line for his services, title winner. The Chiefs have won
ball-carrier: Dale Gideon, shred-
Conference, hitting on 51 of 91 for
673 yards and five touchdowns. In
der of lines: guard Sam Shana-
felt, tackle Marti Sikes, ends '
Billy Williamson and Mitchell game.
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three titles, the last one in 1958
Bowling Green, last year's
champion, was unable to return
this year to defend its title.
PORKERS' MOORE
GETS DIVORCE
FORT SMITH. Ark. (AP)
— Jo Lynne Moore of Fort
Smith was granted a divorce
Billy Lothridge, Tech's versa-
tile quarterback, didn't have one
. . of his better days, but Dodd cred-
Soph the back Bobby Jones ited an aroused Missouri defense-----. --------------
Dallas at Nederland's expense scored the Mustangs lone tally for some of his quarterback’s em- tucky club beat the Sooners in the
The loss left surprising Pharr-against Rotan Saturday. Although barrassing moments 1951 Sugar Bowl when Oklahoma
San Juan-Alamo, which entered Jones is relatively small-136 Billy has played better than was the national champion.
the game a three-touchdown un Pod - ' I runs with power he did." Dodd commented, "But President Kennedy, spending cS) marks Arkansas’
derdog, sporting a respectable and, “ a good open field runner you have to give a lot of the cred-the holidays at Palm Beach, has son straight marks. Arkansas
11-2-1 mark Johnny Sterns — a 150-pound it to an outstanding Missouri de accepted an invitation to attend pean.aisht appearance. The
back—is also a skillful runner , the game Forkers bowed 10-3 in the 1962
who will be a senior next year Dodd said . things surprised This New Year's Day battle will game . to Alabama’s national
for the Mustangs, him. 4 said things surprised be fought by teams that have been champions.
Rotan’s main hope in filling in, -1 thick Missouri 1 defensive giants against running Mississippi, one of three major
for Herron is 145-pound Pete run as Qa as did so end attacks. undefeated football teams this
Garcia Garcia saw action in unit and r an think their ouar | Nobody has crossed Oklahoma's season, makes its sixth trip to the
most of Rotan’s game and has un t and Jdidatthink theirsquart goal on a running play for 33 New Orleans classic since 1953.
understudied Herron well in per- the wav he " quarters—more than eight games. The Rebels' last Sugar Bowl en-
| forming the rollout pass-run op- Johnson carried eight times for After a slow start with a line-up counter was 1961 when they
carterb,esarda and sol Rice 144.
"“ X^ Bme “" ^ “^ n 5222 ocometz
, - : son of Sammy Baugh, one runs, was the game's outstanding ning streak
of foot a 5 best known figures back. Despite having to complete Bryants teams always are not-
The younger Baugh scored 28 the game with a broken nose, ed for defensive ferocity. This sea-
wwe points this season and averaged Conrad Hitchler, Missouri's great son. the Tide yielded only five
four Valley c 5.2 yards per carry, right end. was named the out touchdowns to all corners. * 19.
The sparkplug of the Rotan standing lineman. game winning streak was broken
team may be Howard Van Loon, -----------------------------by Georgia Tech 7-6.
a 205-pound junior all-state tackle MA: L: L An interesting point in making
Van Loon is sometimes sent in Michigan Pitcher the comparisons is that Oklahoma
as a fullback and moves fast on Gets Tiger Bonus while relying mostly on its run-
bort hitters Van Loco also 3 ning game, developed a sound
handled the punting duties and GRAND RAPIDS. Mich (AP)—passing threat while outscoring its
averaged 39 yards per boot. | The Detroit Tigers signed Ken opponents 247 to 19, and there is a
Herron's two favorite targets Palmateer, 21. right-handed semi-weakness in the 'Bama pass de l
—all-state end Bill Ashton and pro pitcher from Kalamazoo, Tense
--------------78 Joe Frank Garcia-will be hard Mich., to a bonus contract Satur- Of 121 passes thrown against the
i on 52 to replace Ashton was also a day. Tide during the past season, 93
ENi" of Paris 66 fierce linebacker. Palmateer, who will be gradu- hit the mark for a total gain of
Vinston Salem 83. two The majority of Coach Wayne ated from Western Michigan Uni 994 yards Oklahoma opponents
75. Indiana State 67 Wilcher's Ingleside co-champion versity in January, is expected completed 59 of 162 for 718 yards.
.‘Minnesota Morris so team is composed of sophomores to get a minor league assignment nt n *
*« 60 and will be back next year. from the Tigers.
addition, he gained 589 yards in
131 carries and scored 84 points,
one shy of the school mark.
The 1963 Sugar Bowl game, to
be nationally televised (NBC at
CAGE
SCORES
Nona 55. Colby 52
Parsons rambled seven yards Pare BrvET "Pry 71
for the second Dumas touchdownSOUTH
Vanderbilt 80. Virginia Te
Memphis State 70, Missis
Richmond 62. Florida Stal
Christian Brothers 114, Mi
MIDW EST
Cincinnati 72. Dav idson 46
Ohio State 101. Detroit AR
Chicago Loyola 93, Seattle 83
UCLA 77. Wisconsin 63
Illinois 93. Oklahoma 90
Southern California 55. Nebraska 50
Butler 66x Notre Dame 59
42
% 72
Mina 36
in the final minutes of play after
Julian Miller, a departing senior,
plunged one yard for the first.
Miller's touchdown came in the
third period and erased a 3-point
Pharr lead established in the
1 second stanza on a 25-yard field
goal by Bucho Gomez
Graduation will trim the Bear
ranks considerably
Among the most notable losses
De
47,
4. 1
84.
is Poppy Rodriguez, the flashy RieS%
little 146-pound halfback who gal- Southern filino
Friday from University of loped through the hefty Dumas Akron"ss. Ren
Arkansas quarterback Billy defense for 86 yards VOye""w
Moore - Also departing is Gary Emrick. Ball. State. 38.
Judge Hugh Bland granted another fine halfback, who Western hum
trimmed the Demons for 41 yards Norinem" SB.
and nearly shook loose for a long- Skakoma Curisuan ... ,
distance scoring strike in the Arizona 60 COT"WES
first half. Arizona St te Uni
A Demon defender trapped Coumans state X
Emrick from behind a moment Tn. "WEhtern 71 Tor Ankes
before he burst into the clear Muno Sia‘s.24: WepLesanal: ALM
Press All-America team, was | after rambling for 16 yards Arovertime -
ordered to pay $25 a month Some 20 players listed on the Southern Louisiana s muarew
for child support South Texans' roster will rejoin , tsh State 102, Jeon state 87
_ the ranks next fall and among Tatham MS' 33
them are nearly a dozen who saw Stanford172. Texas 46_ ___.
, . 1 ____, . Lovnia New Orleans 68, San Francisco 64
plenty of action en route to the California 60, Wyoming 55
Towa State 72, San Diego State 59
Iinas.Regis 101, Nevada 68
Tennessee State 71. Hawaii 67
Chico State 80, Southern Oregon 58,
Tn Washington 75. Northern Mom-
Cantormia Santa Barbara so Redlands 64
North Dakota 76, Alaska 62
* ToENANRNTS
KENTUCKY INVITATIONAL
Championship
Kentucky 79, West Virginia 75
Consolation
Oregon State 61. Towa 55., .
LONG BEACH CLASSIC
Championship
Oklahoma State 61. Drake 59
Consolation
^ Marks MOST AT NOLA
Comtara “
Eastern Montana 68, San Francisco State
the divorce on grounds of de-
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girl was given custody of the
couple's child, Williim Jef-
frey. 1.
Moore, who made the sec-
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PALM BEACH. Fla (AP) — President Kennedy
has accepted an invitation of Florida’s Gov. Far-
ris Bryant to attend the Orange Bowl football game
in Miami on New Year's Day.
Alabama and Oklahoma football teams meet there
this year in the annual post-season spectacle.
White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger
said Saturday Kennedy would fly to Miami on New
Year's Day and return here after the game.
Kennedy attended the Orange Bowl in 1961, but
did not go last year when his father, Joseph P.
Kennedy, was in a hospital after suffering a stroke.
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national rankings He passed only •
65 times, but completed 38 for 789
yards and nine touchdowns, and
was never intercepted
Quarterback Joe Namath set
new Alabama passing records
with 76 completions and 1,192
yards, while Cotton Clark broke
the one-year scoring mark with
92 points The Tide s leading rush-
er is fullback Ed Versprille with
373 yards
The Sooners will arrive Christ
mas Dey Bryant will bring his
team in Wednesday Each team
will open drills Wednesday
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