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Show Davey O'Brien Takes Grid Passing Crown From 'Sam' By LESLIE AVERT United Press Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. J Seein's believin', as the drawls have it down here in Dixie, and seeing little Davey O'Brien in action is to believe that the 150-pound Texas Christian quarterback is the greatest passer in football history. Pitching T. C. U. to a 1&-7 victory over a rugged Carnegie Tech eleven In the Sugar bowl yesterday was Just an ordinary afternoon's work to Davey. But for the 50,000 persons per-sons jamming Tulans stadium to the gunwales It was the undeniable conquest of the throne upon which the great Sammy Baugh once sat supreme. The little buckaroo, ss calm ai If he were gotng through a routini J Ml kl. I- . i -1 .J O'Brien bad flipped one to Connie Sparks good to the Tech four early In the second period. Sparks smashed over for the scors. Two perfectly executed passes in ths third period O'Brien to Sparks and then O'Brien to Durwood Horner Hor-ner brought the second touchdown and then Davey place kicked for another three points in the fourth period. u l in uii iiai uviua riMuv, iimiu, whipped out a touchdown peas, heaved another ball that made the second touchdown possible, and then booted three points through the uprights. L'eed Deceptive Move Executing his passes in three jerky movements that left Tech in doubt whether he would let It fly from position one, two or three, O'Brien shot ths bsll with deadly accuracy. There was little trajectory trajec-tory even to his longer pssses; the) simply loomed serosa the intervening interven-ing space 00 per cent of the time tc the target Aeriala accounted for 22S of th 36.1 yards ths Horned Frogs movee to win the ball game. CBrien'i 1 right arm moved through its fa. mous ritual 23 times and 17 time, the ball found a receiver. The first Texas score csms aftei seen inrowe rase "Csrnegie's only scors cams on a perfectly executed imitation of O'Brien. Little Peter Moros, who had played O'Brien's role in practice, prac-tice, took Fullback Jack Lee's place and threw a 39-yard looping aerial to George Muha, who gathered II In on the two and stepped over Muha converted. CARNEOIB TECH. TEXAS CHRIS ' Strtaiel le lonei Dobrua It.... Hall ' Pyiynakl If KIIih Schmidt .c..,. ..... Aldrlcl Ralth. . ra.... ...... Taytol ' Campbell h White I Flaher .re. . ..... Hnmai Carnally.... qb...a ... O'Brlai Condlt .lb Clarl . Muha rh Hal Lee (b Spar I Score by periods : . Cem.gle Tach ...... 0 T 0 O 1 ' Taxaa Chrtatlan 0 S S 3 II Carnagie Tach acorlni: Trrtirhdown . Muha. Point after touchdown al una, place mant. Taxaa Chrtatlan erortna: Touchdown , Spark. Horner. Field oal-0'Brlen, place mailt. |