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Show White Gallops Around End for Another Long Gain Against Pioneers at Denver Thursday Afternoon ! "r- grv - - - i-f,' . i. . ' . I . . - ' . . - - 'i-'-v --- - -a -t -fl I Yes, air, that's No. 24 on the rampage) again! Byron White is pictured on a run around end a second before he was brought down by Wallace, Denver guard. Whizzer Grabs National Scoring Lead at Denver ' By LOt'DON KELLY DENVER, Nov. 26 (AP) To a great team undefeated Colorado Colo-rado and a great player Byron (Whizzer) White the Rockies' football faithful raised their hymnals of praise today. Colorado did mora than win a football game In beating Denver university 14 to 7 before 29,000 holi- day apectatora here yesterday for the worst defeat a D. V. team baa suffered from its ancient rival In many years It won Its first u n e h a 1 1 e n ged Mountain conference confer-ence championship champion-ship In 13 years, finished in the tiny circle of undefeated, un-defeated, untied teams throughout the country, bolstered bol-stered its bid for fen opening in the Denver right aide, faded past the L. U. safety, who had an unblocked crack at the runner, run-ner, and romped 52 yards for the first touchdown. Denver, undaunted, came back In the second period with Its fourth drive into Colorado territory and thia last one, stretching a distance of 73 yards, waa capped by the tying points. Ferdinand Dreher, Denver'a atar end from Arkansas, literally battered bat-tered his way through C. U. tacklers on a fourth down end around play for the touchdown and then place-kicked place-kicked the seventh point. Turn on Heat The crowd thought then it was in for a give and take football battle. Instead it looked on -in admiration as White ran and passed and punted Denver Into a retreat that never changed, except for a brief spell In the final period. Halfback Nuttall caught Denver's klckoff after Dreher's score and lateral passed to the Whisser. White danced upfleld 55 yards. The next thing Denver knew he had gone right through its middle for his second touchdown. Then cams touchdown No. S, not more than a minute later. Colorado recovered a Denver fumble on D. U.'s 27-yard mark. The Whisser cocked his passing arm and let fly to Left End Leon Lavington for the score. Lavington snagged another of White's tosses for the fourth score early in the third period. Intercepts Pass That was more than enough to insure in-sure the powerful Buffs their title, but White chose to turn loose his most terrific burst of speed in the final minute of the third atansa. Chuck Loftus, Denver's best back in the sad afternoon, threw a pass right into the Whlsxer's arms and White shot like a daahman 42 yards for the last score. Four of his five conversion kicks rang the bell. It was a magnificent football performance from every viewpoint as the league'a finest player since Dutch Clark made his last bow In conference competition. consideration for OaJtes "bowl" games and proved to the stubbornest skeptic its all America candidate, 20-year-old Whisser White, ia ons of the two best backs ever to wear a headgear in the mile high section. White, the Phi Beta Kappa student, stu-dent, closed his college football career ca-reer yesterday a star who never ones disappointed his audience or his coach, B. F. Bunny Oakea. He was responsible for all of the new champions' pointa yesterday and made 22 of them himself, to recapture re-capture the national scoring lead with 122 tallies, a new record for conference play. On Colorado's fifth play of the game White dodged through an |