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Show Gilbert Welch to End Big Season on Coast ( Mie of 1 1 it outstanding gridiron performers per-formers of 1!)-J7 found u fitting climax for his football career when he led the' undefeated University of Pitts- j burgh eleven Into the tournament of j roses at Pasadena. Calif. i;:ibert Welch, captain and half- j liuck, having played three years on i the Pitt vanity, muds his last np- j peurance in collegiate football in the i New Year's clash with Stanford university. uni-versity. Welch this season bus drawn unto himself attention (hat places him among the leading candidates for all-American all-American recognition. Fast, and a good broken field runner, run-ner, Welch's pluy has been featured j by long runs. In PItt'-s eight games j this season, with only Washington and Jefferson gaining so much as a tie with the Panthers, Welch gained a total to-tal of 1,213 yards. In several of the games he played only a few minutes. In the game with West Virginia he took a kickoff back of the goal and ran 105 yards to a touchdown. Against Nebraska, he ran 97 yards for a touchdown. touch-down. Welch's yardage record in 1020 was even better. In nine games "he j gained 1,004 yards. Prior to entering Pitt, Welch at- . tended Bellefonte academy and starred in his high school football days at ; Parkersburg, W. Va. ; . i |