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Show i I Murray Maughan Gets CjTiJ srw 77 SPORTS Center Spot; Woodward iiMIRROR And Smith Are on Second Notre Dame JwJ LOOKING into the M PAUL FOUR. with Ray Nelson TEAM (MPA!USONS it is interesting to note that the United Press Big Seven football selections re- leased today contained nine playlisted ers that the Herald-Journon its honor team last Wednesday Not that we think the Logan newspaper pick had anything to do with the United Press announcement, which was just sent through the mails from Denver yesterday But it does indicate that for most of the grid positions on an team in the newly organized Mountain istates league, there are men who stand out. The two posts United Press und the Herald-Journdiffer on are one end and one tackle We favored Woodward of US AC for while William left gu ird, Downs, United Press staff correspondent who made the selections for that agency, put Vaughan Lloyd of BYU in that position, and shifted Marty Brill Colorado U. to right gaurd had where the Herald-JournEd Christofferson of Lloyd U P. fuekle Denser was the didn't menthat Herald-Journwas Batkin tion, while Bruce given the end position held on the Logan papers team by Tom Cory of Utah In the ba.kficld the two selections were Identical, agreeing on Swan of Utah, quarterback; of Wyoming, left half, Snow' of Utah, right half; and McCarthy of Denver, fullback. Backfield of Swan, Winterholler, Snow and McCarthy Is Identical To Herald-JournPick UNITED PRESS DIG SEVEN SELECTIONS D. t s X J I : i V. Lloyd, Il.y.U. M. Madirhan, USAC Marty Prill, Colo. U. JJ i l c I J I I T 1 ' ... LG C . RG Denver RT . . . RE QP LII RII FP BY WILLIAM DOWNS I nited Press Staff Correspondent The United Press piesetils its foot1938 Big Seven ball selections as a fitting contribution to the first chapter in the d Rocky history of the arguThere ments advanced this fall to the effect that high school football in northern Utah is not as powerful and classy as that down Salt Lake way and in the southern part of the state Some have said Region One teams are greatly inferior to such elevens as American Fork, Jordan, Carbon, Davis, and so on. According to the results of the state high school and finals, hauling teams in this region ran couqiare very worthily with those southward. It is interesting to note that our own North Cache plujed the state champions. Carbon, on their own gridiron and held them very close, it is interesting, also, to consider how close Ogden came to winning over Carbon until the waning minutes of the game Ogden had the battle pretty much her own way. And then Carlton was able to scratch out a victory over Jordan, and Jordan humiliated e American Fork in an almost manner during the semifinal tussle. newly-forme- States untam Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The teams were chosen by the vote of men best fitted to judge individual play through the season All of the Mountain State's coaches their selections along presented with the region s scouts and sports-w- i iters who have traveled with the squads and seen them in action Built On Spirit In going to the source of best authority for its choices, the United Press confirmed one fact that emerged m the polling a fact that has been evident all season The Rocky Mountain Big Seven deteam play pended on closely-kni- t the Mountain for its success; states' brand of football is one cn cooperative fight and spir- - ls grus-som- ( ) C C e There were no "Whizzer" Whites year to monopolize the grid- iron Unulight, but also there ws no lack of Individual stars KIXU COTTON In choosing the first team, which Utah State and Logan are includes players representative Tolman, from six of the Big Seven squads proud of Jay Cotton former Aggie star, whose Delta the coaches and writers were alRabbits pulled a surprise out of most unanimous in agreement on the state high school grid bag all positions The voting showed and marched off with the class that there was no argument reB laurels garding the outstanding players in Cotton was one of the hardest specialized departments, but for the charging barks ever to burn up second team the ratings often were the local turf. Not only was he close but he had a McGarry ( a plain Bernard McCarty of the chamvery lusty pair of lungs when it came to yelling at teammates, pionship Utah University team was and in expressing what was in chosen captain of the his mind on various occasions squad because of his excellent field gcnci alship when he captainduring the game. Those who remember Cotton in ed his Salt Lake City squad football, especially before he was thiough an undefeated conference lrjurcd, remember him as a tow- season headed streak who was fearless The backfield presents two good as well as ruthless in grid battle throwing arms and four pairs of Now he has raised the Delta the to pnton-leg- s Rabu.ts to the class B football he found anj where The L'tan com-bi- n hard-chargin- st - row n ition of Pul Snow and Bill Sv in was too good to hre ik up the cine lies, sc uts and xportswrilers thought Johnny VV intorhnller, the (I in IOWA CITY, la, Nov 28 whulwmd from Wyoming, was ail The University of fowa athletic almost unanimous choice Although b aid announced Dr his team won only one conference today that dward C Anderson of Holy Cross gime the votes demanded he be ni hem signed to coach the Iowa included VV interhollri hHd a season over fcot bill team frr three years i 1 I Gets.Thanksgiving Dinner Hard Wa ,! IUV I iiUMtJ age of 28 yards cn punt returns and hts long runs made him one of the most spectacular playeis in the league Snow's punting was the best in the conference His season s average was 48 yards which included 60 and 70 yard boots at crucial periods Swan seldom carried the ba concentrating on team maneuvers from his quarterback position The deadly lac kling and nf this backfield disblocking tinguished them all Ends Work liar Herb McCarthy seemingly pulled Denver university out of an early slump by his teammates bootstiaps This giant back curried the ball more than 75 times dunng the Denver team's season mid averaged 2 8 jards per carry His passes were responsible for of the team's touchdowns The hardest working members of a foitball team, most coaches agree, are the ends those platers j who must combine speed with ity to block, tackle and catch pass-l- t es Utah s Bruce Balken and Mer- r,n Waters of Brigham Yeung filled these requirements and be- cause they did, the experts voted them the number one end position on the United Presj team McGarry and Denver s Ed at the tackle positions balance the first team line with almost a quarter-te- n of their particular brand of gridiron dynamite So few plays have gone through these gentlemen that opposing quarterbacks have almost found it necessary to carry detour signs to post before their respective posihalf-a-doz- abil-bui- lt I ful-th- ls Chns-toffers- tions BY JIYKKY FEKGl SON I nited ITe Sports Writer NEW YORK, Nov 28 (I to The the road is a week away for end Notie Dame and anything can happen this Saturday, but today the Irish of South Bend still stand astride the football world. Undefeated and untied through a bruising schedule. CoachwestElmer this Layden and his boys go week for a game with Southern California, an outfit that stalled the season slcwly and then came along with a rush that may end in the Rose Bowl TCU And Duke If Notre Dame falters in California. two other teams arc ready to step in and claim the national Texas Christian, championship south-wes- t, the irie.sistiblc force of the rock of Dixie the and Duke, Five major teams remain unbeaten and untied as the season dies, and they rank about like this' 1 Notre Dime 2 Texas Christian and Duke in a tic, 3 Tennessee, and 4 Oklahoma Notre Dame was idle over the week-enand so the great adventure of the dav befell the Blue Devils whom Wallace Wade coaches at Duke Many an eyebrow had beet, lifted at Dukes none too strenuous schedule and the word was passing around to wait until the Blue Devils caught a tough one So thev caught Pittsburgh at Durham. N C. Saturday and when the game was over Duke had won, 7sea-to 0, and had come through the son without having its goal line crossed Records Certain Nothing can happen now to spoil the perfect records of Duke and Texas Christian unless they get n bowled over in one of the bowls Oklahoma and Tennessee are not so lucky. . Mississippi, a tough team with one rf the nation's great backs in Parker Hill, plays Tennessee Saturday Oklahoma has to get by Washington State this week Trouble At Guard Hiwever, the tackle positions presided the most trouble In selecof tion players Colorado university s Marty Brill for three years has been used in virtually every position in its for ward wall Brill was an choice last year and his veterans judgment and skill played e hig pari in keeping Cl in a top-- r Dartmouth classed at among the great teams of the nation, ran into a hitherto indifferent Staniord club in California and woke up to find itself on the wrong end of a 23 to 13 score Let that be a warning to Notre Dame Games were scanty over the week end but every section of the country had at least one good battle. including one with fists between plavers and rooters of Louisiana State and Tulane at Baton Rouge, La Army Downs Navy Here in the east the Army rolled d drive that along on the won a 14 to 7 victory over the Navy tn one of the best games those ancient rivals ever played. Texas Christian rcinfcrced Us chum to national recognition by trampling Southern Methodist at Dallas, 20 to 7. and proved again that one of the toughest jobs in footb ill is to stop O Brim & Cu Out at Stillwater, Oklahoma took to the air to gain an easy 19 tr 0 victory over the Oklahoma Aggies The bowl that gets Oklat jr.ir. is going to have quite a foot bad game if the competition is go d The west const had two butt yard htawls in wl.iih Oregon State r vicpunched out a 'ourlh-cjuartory over Oregon, 14 to 0. and Washington c rustled its old rival Washingtui St ite, 26 to 0 The surprise of the day onuired mid-seas- third-perio- He inking conference position was placed at guard because of this have ability and because he would nc trouble keeping up with the speed and dine of Vaughan Llovd liiiglinm Youngs stai guard who was chosen for the other guard position Murray Maughan of I tah rtitc did mi nine h more than merely squat ever the bail anil throu it between Ins legs to a huckfield man n that lie was the overw helming in Jacksonville, Fla, where Florida team rose choice for the ei nter position. On under-do- g the offensive he repeated punctured and smote Auburn, 9 to 7 rpiiosition forward walls with low charges and in lieu king up the him on defense, npimsitinn blockers and ball carriers ilescnlaxl get ting by him as like trying to evade an octopus. The final standings of t tie teams on completion of the first year's A compet non In the Big Seven con DALLAS, Tex , Nov 29 d ference follow mstol wound threatened today to nd Big Monty Strattons c ireer as a has. oall plavcr tnruugh .imputation of his leg Stiatton to foot 4 inch pitcher for was ill the Chicago White S'-Parkland hospital in serious condition from the wound Dr A R Thomasson said a decision on the ampul ition would he reached today or tumeric w Stratton was hunting lahbits when tile accident Oceuireu ycstir-da- v Weiriug the pistol strapped tn tits Ihgh western fasteon, he was walking a half pule from Ins farm home near Gteen-vill- e wlun the weapon dischirgcd SACRVMENTO, Cal, Nov 2s d The bullet entered the cuter Santa Claras football season and its chances for a bid to one of the thigh and ringed downward and bowl gums were splattered tod iv hac kward to the km c by a one point defeat which might h ive bee n tut nod into a vie tory had Coach Buck Shaw aoiipted sn of- CARBON HIGH IS fer of the rival coach, Gus Dorais rf University of Detroit not to count the point after touchdown It was a cruel twist of fate which saw Detroit, by converting the extra point defeat Santa Clara SALT LAKE CITY', Nov 28 d lt which missed Its try. in their Carbon high school today w is sectional game before 20 000 champion of the cl css A division fans hue yesUrd cy of state intcisi holasttc footb ill Dora.s made the suggestion for by vu tue of Saturday s 6 to 0 eliminating the point after teueh-dow- n wm over Jordan high school at several weeks ago He re- t.,3 Ute stadium here commended that in case of a tie The touihdbwn was the winnr be the team which gain- made on winning a pass from Farliano to ed the most yards from scrimmage MiLInnon. ti Pistol Wound May Keep Bali Player Oul Detroit Whips Santa Clara mo-her- s STATE CHAMPION w 6 Distinction of getting the fn,t deer and turkey in Texas this season with bow and arrow belongs to Tex Stone, pictuied with an eight-poibuck weighing 105 pounds and a young gobbler scaling 10 Stone, a resident of Dallas, brought down the deei at 34 yards and the turkey at 28 m Rlanco county fu-- hourS af'er coned nt n in-t- 9 3 8. v SAN Charge Coach E L "Dick" Romney of Utah State cut his basketball , squad to 20 men today in pre-pnation for the two games Tuesday night against the Watts and the Mint Cafe ramblers from Salt Lake City. Coach Dick will divide the men into two squads tonight, and one 7 group Tueswill play Watts' group at day night, the Other, Mint Cafe at 8 o'clock The general public is invited to attend the games at Smart gymnasium free of chaige "This year weve got two teams good enough to enter the but Mountain States league, r not we can come whether through with one great team is the big question," said Mentor Du k today "We have some of last year s regulars back around which we can build a nucleus- - The bovs from Weber college who have enlisted at the Aggie camp this year will be a great asset, AU-Sta- is - I . -- ' CJ Ws-r- a What is believed to be the longest run in a vaisity game this fall was made by the smallest man on the Carthage College team, of the Illinois Intercollegiate Conference. Charley Hopson, mite quarterback, shown galloping over the chalk lines, aan 103 yaids to seme after mtiirepnng an Klmluiist College pass in the end zone. He spnntcd nenily ..s many yaids as lie tips the scale in pounds, which is J23. I m Sammy Baugh s Passes Keep Washington In Running NEW YORK, Nov 28 d Pi still pitching Sammy Baugh is so in well, touchdown passes Redfact, that his Washington c skins, 1937 professional hampions were still in the running for the 1938 title today. Baugh, underweight and hampered throughout the season bv a shoulder separation, tossed two as touchdown passes Sunday Washington trimmed Pittsbuigh, 15-25 000. capital before city fans The - victory - e(bks the Redskins to go into next Sundays game against the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds with a chance to retain their eastern title and meet the western champions in the playoff The Giants need only a tie to wm the eastern crown. In the western division the Detroit Lions have a chance to tie the Green Bay Packers, needing only a victory over Philadelphia next Sunday to finish in a deadlock with the Packers and necessitate a division playoff It such a plavoff is necessary it will take place Sunday, Dec 11 and cause postponement of the championship game between the east and west until Dec. 13 If Detroit fails Sunday, tne league championship will be decided Dec 11, with Green Bay repiestntmg the west. Two national league recuns were broken and .it tied a the Chicago Cardinals won their secover the Cleveland ond victO-Rams. Gayn 11 Tinsley, former L S U end, i. night n piss fiom Doug Russell lor a gain to heat his former record a gain on a piss in ide Iasi yeai. By catchtng six Tinsley ted tne record of Don Hutson Gieen Bay end. whi' e might il 0, 3-- oas scs in creased Tit! The C'ii km. .Is J in- court against the W attsmen and Cafe, and how they come through under fire will determine whether or not thev are good hoop timber The Watts p'ayers include ConBob Guv Bunker, ley Watts, and Eldon Watson Cm istcn&en, among others The Mint Cafe gang is composed of some outstanding hoopsters gathered from a.ross the entire nation managed by Joe Sloan who has for the p ist several years sent crack teams into the A A U tournaMint Trojans Selected Rose Bowl Team LOs ANGELES, Nov. 28 U Pt The I Diversity of southern California football team, today was ments selected to represent the west in The next game in wh.ch Aggie the annual Tournament of Hoses basketeers appear is on December footlMill game in Pasadena on 9 m Logan when two games will be played against Weber Junior January 2. The Trojans were voted into college and Hick Millers the bowl by telegraphic ballots from Salt Lake City On oast by 10 faculty members of December 23 and 24, the Aggies the universities of the Pacific are to engage Montana University Coast conference. in the Smart gymnasium. MonAnnouncement of the selection tana is in the Pacific league of the Trojans was made by Al Wasson, publicity director of I . refused S, C. athletics. Wesson to say how the vote stood. All I can say is that l S. C. received sufficient votes to wm the 000110111100, Wesson said. Six votes from conference faculty members were required to n FORT WORTH Tex. Nov 28 the win football d 19 Texas Christian university, its honor. 1938 season ended without a blemish. considered two bowl Invitations today and awaited a third which C.aoh Dutch Meyer, for one. hoped would come from California and he accepted The Chnstmns had on file invitations to play in the Dallas Cotton Bowl and in New Yorks Eastern TW IN FALLS, Nov 28 U 19 will not accept Bowl, but Completion of the organization of either until they the teams arc selected a profesMcnitl baseball fc r pioneer the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl league was accomplished litre Team members will decide where as club owners and repreduring the new sentatives g ilhercd for the final they shall play and Coach Meyer hrhday, session that returned the Rocky years will not attempt to influence their Mchintain area into the fold of organized bascb, ill Checks for $1 not) n h tod ly had places the Cincinnati Reds in bun 1 tin r posit d in guaranteed St Louis Cuidinahs (via Sacfor the six fi am lusts in the league ramento) in Pocatello, San Fran-de- c Twin Fall B isc. Pocatello Salt ision L'wiston and Ogden cisoo Soils in Salt Lake City, City and pi iy w i , s. t to st irt the latter Spok ine H iwks of the Western pait of Apitl or the foie part of league, in Twin Falls, Mav and Boise and Lewiston p The nc w of the teams All-Sta- Texas Christian Gets Two Offers post-seaso- New Baseball League Is Organized v Og-de- total cn up i' p four more lhan Gieen t ic r sure Coach Romney emphasized that lie is not going to attempt picking a fust team this cat ly in the season, but that the games tomorrow night would probably help to sift some of the most promisEvery one of the ing players twenty squad members will be given a chance on the maple d, post-seaso- 1 Public I.nvited To See Games Free of f V GOOD JUST have been some semi-fina- LT Irani Seeond Fred Poweis, Denver P. Lyons, Colo. State A. Moncmi, Wyoming Jack Paldwin, Utah J. Woodward, USAC Carl Smith, USAC Drew Leonard, P.Y.U. J. Christensen, P.Y.U. Tom Pate, Utah . Ken Soffe, B.Y.U. Jack Broady, Coloiado 28, Aggie Squad Prepares For Tuesday Tilts Fighting Irish! Meet Trojans Next Saturday HONORABLE MENTION Bucks Rex Tomlinson, Coloiado; Marty Krpaii. joining. Art Unger, Colorado; Charles Peterson, Colorado State Ends. Harold Saunders, Colorado; Tom Coiy, Utah, Kenneth Sturman, Wyoming, Lex Quarnberg, Coloradj Tackles Forrest Bird, B YU , Luke Pr.ppis, Utah; Loren Creese, Colorado, Mike Juruh, Denver; Fremont Miller, Colorado State; Moyle Knudson, BYU ; Max Punches, Colorado Guaids. Moigan Davidson, Colorado, Louis Engleberg, Colo-- r tdo State, Mark Duncan, Denver; Keith Fitzgerald, Utah Centers: Bud Flynn, Colorado, Chris Mortensen, BYU. A I LE Ed. Christofferson, M. Waters, P.Y.U. Iiill Swan, Utah J. Winterholler, Wyoming Paul Snow, Utah H. McCarthy, Denver . Win-terholl- i 'J 15. Pos First Team Palken, Utah McGanv, Utah (C) Littlest Man Makes Longest Run Classed As Nations Best al all-st- NOVEMBER OXDAY, to 112. Bav m ide in 193b Pat Coffee, Cardinals halfback led his teams scoring with two one on a touchdowns, run when the Ranis were leading in the first period. The Cards attick reached Its heights in the th.rd penod when hey scored 17 points d REVOLTA IS set-u- Today s Sports Parade Cal ,0f FRANCISCO, those toUq none, hoys, and let not & long d, tant, call escape1" Such was the order issm J 4 ami Tennessee, Duke, t hristian universities todav in thP of hce that the next jingle might bring a Monism ,a from Southern ( ulifnmi.t. Sometime this week or tn c ot the football tennis of these schools will get tin . ,j (o Bowl m Rose in the Sm play Year's Day, and it is a bi that nm is worth just one tenth of lion dollars, win, lose or dim 28 d 19 -- "Man i i .t Which team will git even Solomon could have mswer ed that one todav bnause th. choice, if it has been m uU locked deep in the noggins of the southern California atlilcii. of ficlals, and tho.se noggins in deep, dark vaults indeed But in an effort to find winch way the wind blows I m uU a casual poll of the priss ho habitues at the Darthmouth-Stanfor- high-scorin- Not all those questioned faior ed Duke There were those who thought Duke's schedule wasnt big league, and that it s record was largely a paper one, despite the closing game triumph over mighty Pittsburgh One of the reasons advanced by a man who thought Tennessee would get the bid was that Southern California, having been beaten by Alabama, would like to play a team that had licked Alabama. Southern Califoi ma re lsoning and Is very exotic," he said it would give the Trojans a great measure of satisfaction if they could beat the team thhadit had beaten the teem that beater, mem ' The team that everybody in the press box expressed a hope would get the bid is T C U Out here the boys from Fort Worth are regal de'd as the strongest team in the United States, and the folk felt that T. C Us very greatness its ability to run up big scores and beat the living daylights out of its opponentsNo will bar it from the Bowl one feels that Southern California is going to stick its neck out and take on the wild westerns just for the hell of it. Not after already taking two lickings, and being none too sure it wont suffer a third defeat when Notre Dame comes to Los Angeles next Saturday 0 0 Southern California of course officially named is the far western Bowl rem esenta-tivc- . but there is little or no chance that it wont be The Trojans ended the Pacific coast league season in a tie with California, but the fact that they defeated California is certain to If swing the ballots their wtiv by any chance they shouldn t chosen, and California gum the honor (and what is mote important, the dough), life wmildnt be worth a nickel in the entire would sfiart st state Rioting once, and lontinue until the onlv thing left standing was a red wood tree or two (Copynght 1938 by United Press' hasn t been Mechanical Sparring Partner Meets All Comers GOLF WINNER COLUMBIA S C. Nov 28 d P -Johnnv kevol, of Evanston, III retained Ills No 2 position among go'fs Icadit g-- money winners today with the $1 20U fust pi ie in ood $5 900 the Columbia-Ridgeepe n Rev oltas 2s4 tot il for the 72 holes beat out Ur ng Wood. Ntw York, and Harrv Cooper, Chicopee Mass, who had 2s5 s The vatoiv boost, d Revolt is 19 pc earnings to $3 5,3 33 but he w is still fir below Sluggin Sim Snead (f White Sulphur Springs who has accumulated $18 not), a re-c- d t ilce Sneid came up to the final hole needing only a per three to tic Rcvolta vcstirdiv hut his drive hit a tne and he missed a five foot putt to end up with a 236 and a ta with Hcnrv Pn ird j Hershev pi X and Jimmy Hines, Y Great Nick thrie-wi- UIRHS HGIIls PHILADELPHIA Nov 28 0 P Du Ambits Herkinui X Y, Hurruane who lost hts light- weight boxing title to Hi nrv Arm-stri g bv a nariow min gin aim is at th- - first crosst iads on Ins come hi k trail tonight whin he meets Phdadc Iphias veteran Tom-n- n Cross m a bout at the aren l Ambers is a 9 to 5 e I d here S ituriav and the result would indicate that Duke will ho iinu.il Those who leaned toward Duke offered varied reasons for their belief The Blue Devils amazing record no defeats, no ties, and no points scored against them was one. The fact that Howard Jones. Southern California conch, once served in the samt capacity at Duke, was anothc said he One man questioned thought Duke would comt because it was a low scoring defensive team, and would be less likely to whip the Trojans as g Tenbadly as the nessee or T C U. teams Another opined that Wallace Wade. Duke roach, is highly regarded out heie because of the success he had when he brought Alabama teams out for the Bowl, and that the .cast boys would luce to take another crack at one of his clubs game T' S w.h a human opponent after a busk woikout with f Lis mechanical sparring , arlrv should be a pleasure. The machine, designed by the Rev. Fredeuck Westcnioif. Catholic You. Oigjnization director, uses compressed air to shoot it s tlrts. Coach Mike Dudal; of the Gary, Ino C. Y O., is shown woikhig it against Joe Koenig, a lightweight. |