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Their League Roughest
By UNITED PRESS
Commissioners Bert Bell claims
his National Football League
plays the roughest version of the
game and the circuit's quarter-
backs probably second the motion.
Six of the 12-team pro league's
T-formation quarterbacks have re-
ceived more or less serious in-
juries so far this season.
And that injury list doesn't in-
clude the bumps and bruises the
passers take every week — such
as the concussion Bobby Layne of
the Detroit Lions received against
the San Francisco Forty Niners.
Charlie Conerly, the New York
Giants' seven-year veteran, is the
latest quarterback sidelined by the
league's aggressive defensive line-
men. Conerly was leading the
league in touchdown passes with 17
when he suffered torn ligaments
in his right knee as three enthus-
iastic Cleveland Browns landed on
him early in last Sunday's game.
George Blanda, the converted
linebacker who plays for the Chi-
cago Bears, was headed for a
flock of new passing records when
he was sidelined for the season
while playing against Cleveland
two weeks ago.
The other top-ranking signal
callers injured this year were Y.A.
Tittle of San Francisco and Jim
Finks of Pittsburgh. The Forty
Niners started the campaign rated
as one of the league's top clubs
but a stream of injuries, including
a broken left hand on Tittle, turn-
ed them into an also-ran.
Arnie Galiffa, another San Fran-
cisco quarterback, suffered a
broken right hand and Gary Ker-
korian, the Balimoro Colts' top sig-
nal caller, has been hampered by
The key games this weekend
will be played at Detroit and
Washington.
The Philadelphia Eagles visit
Detroit and a victory or a tie will
clinch a third straight Western Di-
vision ttyle for the Lions. The
Browns visit Washington and a
victory over the Redskins will
clinch at least a tie for Eastern
honors for Cleveland.
This week's selections with won-
lost-tied records in parentheses:
Saturday — Rams (5-4-1) over
Colts (2-8) at Los Angeles; Sunday
—Lions (8-1) over Eagles (6-4) at
Detroit; Browns (7-2) over Red-
skins (2-8) at Washington; Steel-
ers (5-5* over Giants ' 6-41 at New
York; Forty Niners (5-4-11 over
Packers (4 6) at San Francisco;
Bears (6-4) over Cardinals (2-8) at
Chicago.
Reagan Cagers
Open Tonight
Reagan Junior High basketball
teams open their season here to-
night at 6:30 o'clock with a double-
header against teams from Merkel
Junior High, in the Reagan gym-
nasium.
The Reagan seventh grade team
will play Merkel seventh graders
at 6:30 and the two eighth grade
teams will play at 7:30.
Dalton Hill is eighth grade coach
and J. D McKeowri is seventh
grade coach.
from the
FRESSBOX
By MURRAY FORSVAU
■ports edit os
Basketball Tourney
To Open Saturday
Al B. T. Washington
The Booker T. Washington
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IT'S A WONDERFUL TOY
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BRECKENRIDGE—(Spl)—Greetings from the land
where football is king and the fans gloat over every block
and every tackle made by their Buckaroos.
Quarterback Club meetings here are nothing like those
held at Sweetwater. Here everyone attends—men, women,
and children. The High School Auditorium was over half-
full of enthusiastic supporters and it was to see the film of
a home game.
The projector stopped on near-
ly every play and reeled back-
wards to show the scene again and
to pick out a certain tackier and
make sure the proper person was
credited with the stop or block.
This guy they call the coach
down here is more than just a
football coach. Joe Kerbel is also
_ an accomplished emcee who kept
School's Fourth Annual Invitational ■ the Quarterback Club meeting en-
Basketball Tournament for Boys j tertained by his comments on the
and Girls will get underway Sat- film and by his review of the Gar-
urday morning. December 4 at 9 - land team which the Buckaroos,
o'clock in the Booker T. Washing- playoff representatives for Sweet-
ton gym. water's 1-AAA district, meet here
Eight boys' teams and eight j Friday afternoon.
girls' teams representing schools1 Garland sports an undefeated
in eight West Texas towns are '■ record but they haven't faced the
scheduled lo participate in the i caliber opposition the Buckaroos
tournament. Teams are expected i have and they haven't won by as
from the following schools: Lake
View. Big Spring; Booker T. Wash-
ington, Breckenridge! Paul Dun-
bar, Coleman; Fred Douglass,
Eastland: Oscar DePriest, Ham-
lin; Central Ward, Haskell; Book-
er T. Washington, Stamford, and
the host school, Booker T. Wash-
ington, Sweetwater.
Six engraved trophies will be
awarded, including three in the
boys division and three in the girls in eleven.
division. | Lufkin 35
impressive margins as the Bucks
have.
We'll take Breckenridge to romp
before the home folks.
Breckenridge 28, Garland 14
Rice Lands Three On UP
All-Southwest Grid Team
e?
Lufkin, the overall favorite in
AAA, takes on a Sherman team
which has dropped three games al-
ready. The Lufkin eleven is unde-
feated in ten games and should bo
Sherman 12
Control Of Grid
Games Over TV
Is Recommended
CHICAGO. Dec. 2—UP—The Na-
tional Collegiate Athletic Associa-
tion's television committee has
recommended continued national
control of televised football games
but emphasized this would not
rule out TV games on a regional
basis.
The committee, meeting here
Wednesday, prepared a "broad
! outline" of its report which it will
; present at the 49th annual NCAA
convention in New York, Jan. 5-7.
It recommended simply that the
! NCAA should retain control of
i television and that the TV com
j mittee to be appointed for 1955 at
the convention would determine
! the final plan within a framework
to be approved by the convention.
Chairman Harvey Cassil, athlet-
ic director of the University ol
; Washington, Seattle, said the rec-
ommendation would not bar re-
1 gional telecasts.
In the lower bracket it's Port
Neehes at Temple and McAllen at
Alamo Heights of San Antonio.
Port Neehes. the defending AAA
titlist, shouldn't have trouble
against Temple, a team that got
out of their district, by two coin
' flips after a three-way tie.
Port Neehes 40, Temple 12
The McAllen - Heights contest
; may prove to the closest of them
I all. McAllen rates the favorite but
' an upset may be in the making at
i Santone.
McAllen 14, Alamo Heights 13
In AAAA. Abilene gets the usual
El Paso soft touch in the first
round. This time it's Austin of El
I Paso. It wouldn't really matter
i which El Paso team it was for the
! Eagles would trounce any of them.
Abilene 41, Austin 7
Poly of Fort Worth takes on
South Oak Cliff of Dallas and the
'Parrots look like the one to beat.
Polv 20.
South Oak Cliff 14
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WE GIVE S & H GREEN STAMPS
Waco and Miller of Corpus Chris-
ti are both once-beaten and meet
in Corpus. Waco, they say, is a
slight1 favorite. We'll ride that-
pick.
Waco 14, Miller 7
i
The only undefeated eleven in
! AAAA is Galveston and the Tors
go against Stephen F, Austin of
; Houston.
Austin came out of the district
that contained the defending cham-
pion Lamar club but this isn't
! Houston's year.
j Galveston 20, S. F. Austin 13
In AA. Colorado City and Phil-
lips tangle in a baltle of teams
with 11-0 records. The axe has to
fall on one of them and most pre-
dictions will probably go with Phil-
lips but we'll ride the Wolves.
Colorado City 28. Phillips 20
Albany faces a Sonora team that
scored 58 points in an upset over
McCamey last week. The Lions
, should go if Sonora has the usual
! let-down after triumph.
Albany 33, Sonora 27
DALLAS, Dec. 2 —UP— All-
America Halfback Dicky Moegle
anchored a three-man Rice Insti-
tute delegation on the 1954 United
Press all-Southwest. Conference
football team, which was marked
by the absence of any players
from pre-season favored Texas.
Moegle, the slender speedster
whose loping gait gave him the
conference rushing leadership by
a wide margin, was one of three
stand-outs who gained unanimous
approval of United Press sports
writers and 14 conference scouts
who balloted on the mythical
team.
Sweeping endorsement of the
voting panel also went to Bud
Brooks, Arkansas' gifted guard
who also was an all-America run-
ning mate of Moegle's this season,
and halfback Frank Eidom, the
sparkplug of Southern Methodist's
rumbling running attack.
It was the first time in the me-
mory of the balloters that peren-
nially powerful Texas failed to
place at least one man on the hon-
or team.
This season, Texas was the only
school not represented on the
team, which was made up of three
players from Rice, two each from
Arkansas, Baylor and cellar-bound
Texas A&M and one each from
SMU and Texas Christian.
James Ray Smith, Baylor's
rangy tackle, was the only repeat-
er from the 1953 honor team.
I while Moegle, Eidom and Rice
guard Kenny Paul made it up
' from last year's second team and
I Brooks jumped from the 1953 third
team.
Rounding out the backfield were
Elwood Kettler, the halfback
Coach Paul iBear) Bryant con
verted into his T-qu.arterback at
Texas A&M, and Henry Moore,
the driving fullback from Arkan-
sas.
Besides Brooks, Paul and Smith,
the line was made up of ends Hen-
rv Gremminger of Baylor and
Bennie Sinclair of Texas A&M,
tackle Eddie Rayburn of Rice and j
center Hugh Pitts of TCU.
Two Close Ones
The only close battles for a >
berth was at end where Sinclair |
nosed out SMU's Ray Berry by j
two points and at tackle where i
Rayburn edged Forrest Gregg of j
SMU by six points. I
In addition to Moegle, Brooks ■
and Eidom, who received the,
, maximum 75 points, Smith came
close to being unanimous with
' only one second-team vote break-
ing the chain to give him 73 points.
Pitts was the next most popular
Four Southwest
Cage Quintets
Register Wins
By UNITED PRESS
: Four Southwest Conference bas-
ketball teams opened their seasons
in fine fashion last night, but. Ar-
kansas, playing its second game,
lost.
Southern Methodist, Texas. Tex-
as Christian and Rice all beat non-
conference foes, as Arkansas' Ra-
zorbacks lost 72 to 65 to the inde-
pendent Phillips Oilers ol Bartles*
ville, Okla.
TCU smashed Abilene Christian
College 92 to 45 to win by the
, highest score and widest margin,
I while SMU did almost as well 84
to 60 against Austin College. But
both Texas and Rice, last seasons's
co-champions, squeezed through in
the last minutes to win by two
points each; Texas. 59 to 57 from
Hardin-Simmons University, and
Rice. 73 to 71 from Lamar Tech.
Texas A&M opens against the
University of Houston at College
Station Thursday night, while Bay-
lor tackles Hardin-Simmons at
Waco.
choice with 70 points, followed by
Paul "with 65, Moore 63, Gremmin-
ger 54, Kettler 52, Sinclair 49 and
Rayburn 48.
The second team backfield had
five men due to a point tie be-
tween George Walker of Arkansas
and Del Shofner of Baylor < 26
each). The others were Bill Hoop-
er of Baylor, James Swink of TCU
(36) and Don Kachtik of Texas
A&M (29).
In addition to Berry (42) at end
and Gregg (42) at tackle, the sec-
ond team line included end La-
moine Holland of Rice (37 tack-
le Buck Lansford of Texas <34',
guards eddie Bradford of Arkan-
sas (27) and Clarence Dierking of
Baylor (31) and center Johnny Ta-
tum of Texas (30).
DALLAS, Dec. 2—UP—The 1954
United Press all-Southwest Confer-
ence football teams:
FIRST TEAM
E—Henry Gremminger. Baylor.
T—J. R. Smith, Baylor.
G—Bud Brooks, Arkansas.
C—Hugh Pitts, TCU.
G—Kenneth Paul, Rice.
T—Eddie Rayburn, Rice.
E—Bennie Sinclair, Texas A&M.
B—Elwood Kettler, Texas A&M.
B—Frank Eidom. SMU.
B—Dicky Moegle, Rice.
B—Henry Moore, Arkansas.
SECOND TEAM
E—Raymond Berry, SMU.
T—Forrest Gregg, SMU.
G—Eddie Bradford, Arkansas.
C—Johnny Tatum. Texas.
G—Clarence Dierking, Baylor.
T—Buck Lansford, Texas.
E—Lamoine Holland, Rico.
B—Billy Hooper, Baylor.
B—James Swink, TCU.
B—Del Shofner, Baylor.
B—George Walker, Arkansas.
B—Don Kachtik, Texas A&M.
THIRD TEAM
E—Johnny Crouch, TCU.
T—Lawrence Winkler. Texas
A&M.
G—Vernon Hallbeck, TCU.
G—Kirby Miller. Texas.
T—Herb Gray, Texas.
E—Charles Smith, Baylor.
B—Duane Nutt, SMU.
B—Preston Carpenter. Arkansas.
B—L. G. Dupre, Ba.vior.
B—Buddy Dike. TCU.
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Henry Moore . . .
Porkers' Top Gainer
J. R. Smith . . .
Tough Baylor Tackle
Sweetwater Reporter, Texas, Thursday, December 2, 1954
City Cage League
May Be Formed
Plans for a city commercial bas-
ketball league are being formulat-
ed, and Morris Barker, at the U. S.
Gypsum plant, in charge of entries,
has requested that all firms ot-
oliths wishing lo enter a team in
the league lo contact him.
Last year the league operated
with four learns, and played a
round-robin schedule, concluded
by a championship tournament.
Games this year will be played
at both the high school and junior
high school gyms. Barker said. He
urged all firms and clubs interest-
| ed to contact him immediately in {
I order to get the league underway
| as soon as iKissible.
MAC Opens Winter
Meeting At Chicago
' CHICAGO, Dec. 2—UP—The an-
; nual winter meeting of the Inter-
] state Intercollegiate Athletic Con-
| ference will hegin Thursday night
with coaches, athletic directors,
publicity directors and faculty rep-
resentatives slated o attend.
Publicity directors and faculty
representatives were to meet
' Thursday with the general busi-
ness meeting Friday.
Six Coaches Seek
Tulsa U. Position
TULSA. Dec. 2 —UP— Six can-
didates have applied for the head
football coaching job at Tulsa
University, which fired Bernie Wi-
tucki after his teams won only
three games in two years.
But Tulsa officials said the
names of all six applicants would
be held in confidence.
Witucki and his lour assistants
were hooted out Monday. Tulsa
won only three games in 1953 and
won none in 11 tries this season.
Among candidates mentioned
for the post were UCLA Line
Coach Jim Meyers; Paul Young,
h i g h I y successful high school
coach at Muskogee. Okla.: Glenn
Dobbs, former Tulsa backfield
star, and Perry Moss, backfield
coach at Miami of Florida.
Moss and Young expressed in-
terest in the post while Meyers
and Dobbs said they hadn't been
approached.
Moss, who helped sleer Tulsa to
a two-touchdown victor y over
Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl
in 1945, told the Tulsa Tribune by
telephone that he would like the
job.
Young said. "A man is always
interested In bettering himself."
At Los Angeles, Meyers said he
had heard nothing from Tulsa and
hadn't applied "but naturally I'd
be interested in any head coaching
job thai offered me a chance to
improve my present status."
Haggerton Reaps
Football Honors
At Utah School
Norris (Shortyi Haggerton, son
of Mrs. Maxine Caple of Sweet-
water. and former Newman High-
man High School football player,
recentIv completed an outstanding
grid year for college of Southern
Utah.'
Haggerton was high point man in
scoring, scored the greatest num-
ber of touchdowns and was named
to the all-conference team as full-
back.
In addition, he had a high scho-
lastic rating, and was chosen as
"Rickshaw Man," an honor paid
to a student gaining high scholas-
tic and athletic rating.
Girls' Cage
Tourney Opens
A girl's intramural basketball
tournament at Newman High
School will get underway tonight,
at 7 p. m. in the Mustang gymnas-
ium, when the Red Dots meet the
Raiders.
The second same of a double-
header. matching the Rod Ants
against the Cats, will begin at 8
p. ni.
The cage tournament will con-
tinue through the month of Decem-
ber. Mrs. Florence Sparkman.
girl's physical education director,
stated, with other games scheduled |
for Dec. 9. 13. 16 and 30.
Admission charge for the games
will be 10 cents per person.
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