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Show Rams Favored to Defeat Packers and Gain Loop Crown ,000 Fans Lxpected to See Clash Oklahoma Leads Nation's Grid Teams in Scoring United Press Sports Writer The crippled Los Angeles Rams are favored to whip the Green Bay Packers Sunday and make Sid Giilman the second coach ever to come directly from a college campus and win a National Football League division title on the first try. Adam Walsh pulled the trick with the Cleveland Rams In Bears are Favorites The Bears, only team with a chance to catch Los Angeles, are 7Vz point favorites for their regular season wind-u- p against the Philadelphia Eagles at Chicago. The Rams can win the title by defeating or tying the Packers, regardless of whether the Bears win or lose. All 12 NFL teams end their 1955 campaigns Sunday. The Cleveland Browns, who clinched the Eastern title last Sunday, will defend the league championship in the title game at Los Angeles or Chicago Dec. 26. Cleveland ends its regular seaon by entertaining the Chicago Cardinals. Quarterback Otto Graham and guard Abe Gibron of the Browns will be honored at special ceremonies. Graham, who has helped Cleveland win 10 straight division titles in two leagues, will retire after the championship game and will play his final home game Sunday. New York At' Detroit In the other windups, the San Francisco Forty-Nineplay host to the Baltimore Colts; the New York Giants visit the Detroit Lions and the Washington Redskins play host to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Since the league was split into rs two divisions in 1933, Walsh is the only man who came directly from college coaching and won a division title. Walsh, who was the center for Notre Dame's famed "Four Horsemen" backfield, was line coach at his alma mater in 1944. 1945, he. guided the Cleveland I lms (now Los Angeles) to the Western NFL title. Giilman, who was head coach at the University of Cincinnati last year, can match Walsh's feat Time Out .. - .r be-'Kmo- u- -- Los Angeles, leading the runner-u- p Chicago Bears by' a half-gam- e in the Western Division, is a 0 point choice although star pass catchers Bob Boyd and Elroy Hirsch are injured and may not play. Tom Fears, the other top Ram receiver, also is hurt but will play in the Memorial Coliseum contest which will draw at least 75,000 fans, 13 NEW YORK (UP) Final NCAA football statistics told a simple By WENDELL RIGBY who had some experience in last Experience Needed Oklahoma story today about why B Class too successful not nn thine- v is the ExDerience " . . ... . 1W -year's was rated the No. 1 team in the Rrish.m TU j trio mciua ine need wildcats badly. They seem more points scored than well in spots, but they have a battles, one nation y 1 10 nave a fair,y good n to if to are long way go more lggei and they anyone else ana sn0oters ; they are not exception-Basketba-ofll a threat in the Division One on the sluad: and Stan Allen fair-alJcome gained. y fast but are aggres4ive Race in Region 3 com- - Mike Wiscombe. They looked The Sooner s, bound now for an Tlro'"1 lV game nave night's and sufficient good size to put this petiUon Orange Bowl date on Jan. S Coach Don year. term 2? Snow, veteran men- against Maryland, came within uieir wupyocnis mi least in trie iiwiy assisted Grant tor, a third of by statistical Bushman,) "l-"1 . cwtin eight points v... anrf hall i n,eci0 ."v the football league games. masterminder, are at handling on their part. crown announced today Least two of the jumo. cm At to mould nine seniors points allowed. That honor went tempting on Other the.didates seniors, are currently and five maexpected to rate to Georgia Tech, and Army won juniors into a cage a good piaCe? on the regi ar team if Paul include Hart, squad, chine can that click the defense championship. consistently prospect who did not get to see they can maintain their develop-actio- n Oklahoma ran rampant through throughout the season. Thursday; Hart Bullock, ment progress; and this pair plus It looks like an overload of a perfect season this year and exVernon Higbee.l Irvin Wiser, Ulen, Wycombe, Paul tended its unbeaten string to 29 final year players and it is ex- Grant Davies and Russell Jack- - Elliott, Hart and Hart Bullock could that the axe will trim about son. The games by ripping off 36.5 points pected Jackson make bespectacled things tough for opposing per game and rolling up 410.7 three of them from this year's came into the game late in the teams. Russell Jackson may also varsity squad. yards gained per game. second half and played some! come through and Vernon Higbee Three Returning Lettermen Denver was second in scoring steady ball. He may develop looked fair in the short time he Coach Snow 31.0 and is with points per game, building his team enough to provide Coach Snow: was In competition, 10 around were: out three the top rounding returning lettermen with some of the power he needs. Generally, then, the Wildcats Texas Christian 29.3. UCLA and up irom me sopnomore ranKS should be in the thick of ih West Virginia, 28.5 each; Army if they can develop Eldon Christensen, their ball 28.4: Southern California, 26.5; and handling; inject a little ly Mike Jones and Dean Vest. Col- more Michigan State, 26.2; Wichita 25.2, into their play; find speed lins and Christensen were starters in the squad some one who can and Mississippi, 25.1. 57-1ConferSouthern iuu-.u- v West Virginia, .uu 3 serve as a spark plug to keep the radeence champion, took second in 0thf" team moving; .nd .how eon- total offense with 384.5 yards L E H I mid-seasattack at the ! scoring Showing hoop. gained per game and rounding out form, Pleasant Grove High'i mine vmj uiiuugu 55-368.9 clash Wildcats lost a the top five were Denver at wrestling team defeated Lehi. The Michigan State at 364.4, and Navy 57,13, last week. Results of the with Wasatch, then dropped the at 358.6. opening round of the four team matches follow: Oklahoma closed out its trium139 lbs. Jerry Harmer, Pleas- tourney to Coach Carlos Asay and season shutouts by scoring phant ant Grove, Ronald his Titans. of inin its last five games, but still Jones, Lehi. pinned 125 lbs. Ronald In spite ball their somewhat 1 defenand the ners consistent handling JjJ-iT 5 If m Morgan, Lehi. decisioned Gary sive Jf points-allowe- d title. Tech, Richkis, PI. Gr. 144 lbs. Palew-ski, lapses, there is promise in bound for the Sugar Bowl, won the BY team, and if the competiPI. Gr., decisioned that by allowing only 4.6 points Stine, Lehi. 137 lbs Raymond Paul Al- tion is not too rough this season propar m&miori or rabaf, pay TT'vtrtt at per game, followed by Oklahoma len, PI. Gr.. pinned Ernest they may be able to make a good with 5.4. Completing the top 10 in Rains, Lehi. 139 lbs. Porter, showing. They have a tough prethis phase of defense were UCLA PI. Gr., pinned Henry Ha villa. season practice program that and Maryland at 5.7 each. Navy Lehi. 170 lbs. F. Richins. PI. should bring out their latent abil6.2, Detroit 6.9, Princeton and Gr., pinned Clifton Cook. Lehi. ity if they have any to show. Vanderbilt 7.3 each, Michigan 125 lbs. Jerry Harmer, PI. Gr., Coach Snc is not picking any State 7.7, and Army 8.0. decisioned Jerry Erickson, Lehi. breathers. test the stood defense 135 lbs. Pack, PL Gr., pinned Army's Following the double header in the big victory over Navy and Keith Nelson, Lehi. 131 lbs. Thursday and Friday the Wildthe Cadets won the total defense Christen sen, PI. Gr., decisioned cats and Bulldogs will participate crown with 160.7 yards allowed per Stanley Turner. Lehi. in another double round of play game. The Cadets had won the 126 lbs. S. Richins, PI. Gr., the coming weekend when they total offense title last year and pinned Johnny GoUedge, Lehi. go to Ogden Friday and Saturday are the first team to jump from 114 lbs. T. Richins, PL Gr., where they will clash with Ogone to the other in successive pinned Norman Bresee, Lehi. den' s Tigers and Weber's Waryears. They're also only the second 114 lbs. Robert Kirkman, Lehi, riors in another pair of experiteam to win the defense crown pinned G. Smith, PL Gr. 109 lbs. ence gaining encounters. despite losing three games. Atkinson, PL Gr., pinned Other games scheduled include: 120 lbs. Granite at BY High, Dec. 21; BY PRESCRIPTION CENTER Completing the top five in total Leon Cardon, Lehi. defense are Maryland at 169.1, Cobbley, PL Gr., pinned L. High at Springville. Dec. 23; 23 N University Av. Navy 181.7, Auburn at 183.2, and Smith, Lehi. 125 lbs. Richard North Sanpete at BY High, Dec. 183.5. at Cross BY BY Dec. at and Holy 29; Delta, Kirkham, Lehi, pinned Jones, 27; Utah Phone FR PL Gr. at North Summit, Dec. 30. TO MOFFITT HEAD GOLF ORGANIZATION ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UP) The 76 members of the Professional Golfers Assn. House of Delegates reelected Harry Moffitt, Toledo, ' Ohio, president, Harold Sargent, Atlanta, Ga., secretary, and Wally Mund, St. Paul, Minn., yards 1945. SUNDAY' December n. 1955 Utah County. Utah Wildcats Face Rough Road Ahead In Division One Basketball Race v.,o wii.tc By EARL WRIGHT i SUNDAY HERALD st.' -- let LSVZ?r Matmen iru "J!!? ... LTJT' Top Lebi "e "'"V - "f!c"itent "Xi"c' on 42 RUPTURED? STUDY FILMS Michigan State head footbal coach Duffy Daugherty (left) and team captain Buck wystrom give careiui study to turns of action in projection room at .msu. coacn now announced has and .next Friday, team departure date, he that sometime between Daugherty to hold fall term final exams for his boys. sessions between sandwiched three hopes practice jJjutiL' lula (UP Telephoto). TODAY'S SPORT PARADE Desire Counts For A Lot In Football, Hopalong Says By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (UP) Howard (Hopalong) Cassady, Ohio State's gridder of the year, stowed the Heisman award in a well - filled trophy case today without committing himself between a future foot- ball or baseball career but you can bet the Detroit Lions will get him. "Howard," as his petite wife Betty refers to him, is some pumpkins as a baseball player as well as being the hottest football trans- porter in recent years. Protecting his eligibility, he professes indecision. But thoughts and his thrills are of football. "I wanted to play football, and for Ohio State, e 'er since I was a high school kid in Columbus and used to sneak over the wall," exd, bent plained the nosed young man with the auburn all his broad-shouldere- hair. Thus it was, he explains, that his biggest thrill in a career which included a Rose Bowl apwas his first game for pearance Ohio State. Third Stringer Scores was "I only third string but I into the game and I scored got three touchdowns," says Howard, who gained the "Hopalong" nickname when a certain cowboy was making personal appearances in Columbus about the time Cassady was hurdling rival . high school lines. It is worthy of note that Cassa game of a dy, in the semi-fin- rd Cassady led the Buckeyes in home runs and extra bases. He disclosed that baseball scouts have been after him but "none of them asked me to sign on the dotted line." "If I went into pro football," he said with a broad smile, "naturally I'd like to play on offense Babe Ruth not only set the ma under the pro system. jor league record for 60 home x But reall enjoyed playing both runs in 1927, but he also hit more rs two-plato- wav. on than 50 in ro1lM.p For Doubters years four-bagge- 54 in 1920, 59 1928. three other in 1921 and Hendrick's 3-0- Inspiration The son of an interior decora- 54 in tor, Cassady is an inspiration to high school players who may have with the. tapering hips and slender their doubts about being college legs. "I guess' you'd say I'm proof that anybody who wants anything material. "I only weighed 150 pounds in bad enough can always get it." high school and I wasn't much A fine boy, this Cassady. You heavier when I reported at Ohio can take that from his proud coach State," he said. "Of course, I told Woody Hayes.' And from the numthe coach I weighed more, but ber of awards he's getting, the rest treasurer Thursday. The annual of the country is in total I couldn't have been over 156. meetings end today with a brief "But I'd like to tell all the kids business session. this: If they're interested fn play ing college football, there is only one guy who can beat them. That's themselves. If they have the desire, they can make it, and make it anywhere they want. to." Cassady took his "lumps." He suffered a broken nose twice, a separation of each shoulder and a bad knee. "But it's been well worth it," 0 grinned the al collegiate TEAM LEAVES ON TOUR NEW YORK (UP) A three-ma-n United States track and field team will leave by plane from San Francisco Monday to compete in New Zealand and Australia. The team is made up of Bobby Morrow, national 100-yachampion from Abilene Christian; Parry O'Brien, world shot put record holder from Los Angeles; and Lon Spurrier of San Francisco, who set a world record for the half-mil- e last spring. career, scored three touchdowns against Iowa recently. "I played pretty good baseball last season for Ohio State," he admitted under urging. "I was hitting .460 . for a while but then I so went into a slump and wound up dated he your girl. "Okay, . . . For heaven's sake, throw it at only .327." to him anyway!3' A right-hande- d long ball hitter, RE-ELECT- watches 177-pou- nd ARRIVED IN TIME FOR XMAS new SINGER Cabinet Models Fall Selection Singer Sewing Machine Co. W. Center Ph. FR 27 i DELIVERS XMAS SPECIAL BIG Water Heater Christmas joy IT HAS EVERYTHING . . . 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