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Notre Dame . ... 20 Ohio State ......46 Michigan State .. .
Navy ......... 13 Wisconsin... ..34 Purdue ........
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0 Minnesota
o Nebraska
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Pitt Beats
Fordham,
Baylor
ies
Texas
Panthers Hand
Rams Surprise
Setback, 13-0
Pitt Scores First Triumph
This Season As Saksa,
Jones Register Tallies
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 8,-(P)-Pitt
13; Fordham 0.
And thereby hangs another enact-
ment of football's favorite saga-the
story of the team that always was
beaten rising to glory witA a shock-
ing upset of the team that couldn't
be beaten.-
In this case it was a band of badly
mauled Pitt Panthers-they hadn't
won once in five previous starts-who
smashed down a potential football
powerhouse, the all-victorious Ford-
ham Rams.l
6nly 20,000 Witnesses
Even dyed-in-the-wool Panther
fans hd lost faith in the oft-beaten
Pitt club and there vas a bare 20,000
spectators in the cavernous recesses
of smoke-stained Pitt Stadium for
the game.
But those comparatively few faith-
ful witnessed an epic. For the Pan-
thers not only defeated the Rams-
they balked the touted powerhouseat
every turn and clearly led in every
department of play.
Pitt revealed that it had picked to-
day to catch on fire early in the
game by driving 70 yards after 12
minutes of the first period had
elapsed. Sophomore Frank Saksa
15-pound fullback from Braddock,
Pa., bulleted through a wall of hu-
manity from the Fordham one-yard.
line for the first Pitt touchdown and
guard *1aph Fife connected from
placement for the extra point.
Jones Goes Over
Then, after stopping Fordham's
vaunted attack for almost three full
periods, the Panthers capitalized on
Ram desperation and scored the clin-
cher late in the fourth quatter.
Edgar 'Special Delivery" Jones,
Pitt's great back from Scranton, Pa.,
accounted for this score, rambling
30 yards to the promised land-after.
intercepting a Ram aerial.
ishi Trounce
Navy, 20-13,
I Hard Battle
BALTIMORE, Nov. 8 - P) -A
work-horse Notre Dame backfield,
getting solid support from an under-
rated squad of ends, knocked a big
but eventually bewildered Navy foot-
ball team out of the nation's dwind-
ling undefeated ranks today.
The Irish, in keeping themselves on
the list of the unconquered with a
20-13 triumph, did so on the fine
forward passing of sophomore Angelo
Bertelli; the sweeping, slanting, hard-
to-stop drives of Steve Juzwik and
Frederick Owen (Dippy) Evans, and
the smashing defensive play and of-
ten miraculous pas-catchng of their
ends, principally Bob Dove, John
Kovatch and Matt Bolger.
Bertelli Sparks Irish
Bertelhi, the blonde Italian young-
ster from West Springfield, Mass.,
this afternoon was every bit the
passer he had been cracked up to be.
The first one he threw, early in
the second quarter, went for 42 yards
to set up the game's first touchdown;
he passed to Juzwik for 18 yards and
the second score, and two of' his
passes that were good for 41 yards
brought Notre Dame a first down on
the Middie eight yard line, from
where they went to their winning
tally.
Late in the first quarter Navy had
moved from its own 37 to the Notre
Dame 36. Smeared for a seven yard
loss on the next play, the Sailors
elected to pass. Bill Busik drifted
back to midfield before he let fly.
Down on the Notre Dame 20 Evans
came up on the dead Iun and, with
a ,masterful exhibition of pace-
changing, threaded his way up the
field 39 yards before he was hauled
down on the Navy 41. .
Evans Gets Toukhdown
The Irish bucked for two yards, lost
five- for offside, then shifted into
their box formation with Bertelli
back. The lanky ,-kidF pitched some
30 yards to Bill Earley, sub halfback,
who pulled in the ball on the 20 and
at last was forced out of bounds on
the Navy 2. The 200-pound Navy line
stopped Evans' first buck, but the
second time he shot through a hole
for the touchdown, and Juzwik added
the extra point.
Then late in the third period, after
a punting exchange, Notre Dame
S PRTFOLIO
! Three Big Upsets Yesterday
* Sellout For OSU ame
SByHAL WILSON
Daily Sports Editor
* * * *
T HE LIVES of some 200 of the nation's football players were rudely altered
in a short but furious two and a half hours yesterday.
Members of the highly-rated Fordham, Texas and Navy gridiron
machines will now be forced to eat their Christmas plum pudding at
home dodging snowballs like the rest ofus. Their round trip tickets to
the Sugar, Cotton and Rose Bowls were canceled in no uncertain terms
in the biggest day .of upsets of this 1941 grid campaign.
ND EVEN AS THESE THREE top-notch outfits were bounced from the
rarified atmosphere of the unbeaten, so the path was opened for other
good college teams to receive the nod for Bowl nominations.
In an unofficial poll Friday night Stanford players, who are odds-
on choices to be Rose Bowl hosts, expressed the desire to entertain Crain,
Layden & Co., otherwise known as the Texas Longhorns, in the annual
New Year's Day classic.
BEING VERY UNCOOPERATIVE about the entire matter, a fighting band
of Baylor Bears yesterday washed off the varnish of invincibility which
previously characterized the Longhorns by holding them to a 7-7 deadlock.
In fact, it was Texas that did the holding in a furious battle, for Baylor took
the early lead and the Longhorns had to fight back desperately in the last
half to prevent defeat.
In what will undoubtedly later be termed the season's greatest
upset, the Panthers of 'Pittsburgh recaptured some of that gridiron
might which once struck deadly fear into all Pitt opponents and clawed
Fordham, 13-0. Thus, they. deprived the Rams from an almost certain
chdice Bowl berth and wonderful Christmas yacation. And worse yet,
New York sports writers will be forced to get their southern tan this
year from ultra-violet rays.
LESS AN UPSET but still a mild eyebrow-raiser was the 20-13 setback
Notre. Dame handed Navy, which was slated for a big benefit Bowl.
Now the Middies can stay home, study harder, graduate sooner, and con-
Melzow Works.
Hard, But Well,
At Guard Post
By BENNETT YANOWITZ
After working at a thing almost
constantly for close to seven years,
a fellow might\,think it was time to
begin to take it easy. But not Bill
Melzow, bespectacled senior guard on
the Wolverine grid machine.
Bill started on the road to football
success at Flint Central, where he
won three varsity letters in football.
In high school he played tackle as
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,,W0rrVV western.
SOther surprises studded the nation's
grid results all along the way. Harvard
dumped by 20-6 the same Army team
7Awhich fought Notre Dame to a scoreless
tie last Saturday. Penn State defeated,
the same Syracuse outfit which crushed Wisconsin, Detroit edged
Marquette, and Alabama ditto Tulane. .
GAMES IN THE MIDWEST went according to schedule for winners but
not for scores. Twelve touchdowns and 80 points marked Ohio State's
roaring 46-34 triumph over Wisconsin's Badgers, who think the best de-
fense is a good offense and have-been proven wrong four times already this
year. Minnesota played its usual game which was good for a nine point
margin"'over Nebraska. Iowa downed Illinois, driving another nail into
Zuppke's coaching coffin; Northwestern subdued Indiana, and Michigan
State tied Purdue.
* * * *
SPORTS HASH: Capt. Bob Westfall's All-America football stock
jumped a few points yesterday when Fordham bowed to the in-
spired Panthers . . . for the Ram fullback, Steve Filipowicz, was con-
sidered by Eastern authorities as Westy's closest competitor for the
honor selection.
But how authoritative are Eastern authorities? . . . New York sports
writers-the same ones who aren't making Christmas trips-are acclaiming
the Michigan transfer Johnny Allerdice as one of Princeton's two best
freshman gridders .. . . which may be true . . . but they also say that
Johnny, who shifted from here to the Eastern school during the middle of
pil-season training drills, was ranked above Tommy Kuzma at the time
. . . and that he easily ran through Michigan's Varsity in practice for
touchdowns . . . neither of which is true . . . Allerdice was fourth string
tailback, behind Kuzma, Nelson and Robinson.
SCALPERS SHOULDN'T READ THIS, but Michigan's Stadium is a
complete sellout for the Ohio State game . . . Ticket manager
Harry Tillotson announced last night that 85,'53 tickets had been dis-
tributed, just as in the case of Minnesota, and that the sale assured I
Michigan of its biggest home season with 301,606 paid admissions for
five games. b
A traveling squad comprising Capt. Dobby Burton, John Patten, Bob.
West, Tommy Williams, Jim Skinner, John Sharemet, Gus Sharemet, Dick
Riedl, Ted Horlenko, T-Bone Martin, Lou Haughey and Perry Trytton has
been selected by swimming coach Matt Mann to make the Eastern trip,
Nov. 28 and 29 . . . high point of the tour, from an aesthetic not a com-
petitive standpoint, is an exhibition before Smith College girls scheduled
for the 28th.
COACH FRITZ CRISLER and Scout Ernie McCoy were in the Buckeye
Stadium yesterday watching Ohio State roll up its 46 points . . .
Line Coach Clarence Munn and Cliff Keen were in the Quaker City to
watch Columbia bow to Penn, 19-16 . . . while Backfield Mbach Earl
Martineau was slated to take in the Detroit-Marquette clash.
A couple of letters . . . one from Thomas V. Williams, '03, who writes
from Medford, Ore. and encloses picture of Stanford's mentor, Clark Shaugh-
nessy . . . Mr. Williams calls attention to the "striking 'resemblance be-
twe-n the Coaching Wizard of 1940 (and 1941?) and the Coaching Wizard
of 1903, Hurry Up Yost."
THE OTHER comes from Pat Hoeper, Class '42C, Randolph Field, San
Antonio, Texas . . . Pat'says that Capt. Herbie Brogan and Bob.
Baylor, Steers
Deadlock, 7-7
Kittrell Runs And Passes
Bears ToSurprise Tie
WACO, Tex., Nov. 8-(A)-Baylor
hurled baffling ground play and aer-
ial magic at the University of Texas
Longhorns today to gain a 7-7 tie
with the nation's top-ranked football
team.
A hard-charging Baylor ofense led
by Kitt Kittrell, an amazing 175-
pound sub halfback who ran and
passed the Longhorns dizzy, and Jack
Wilson, key Bear pack, largely out-
fought a Steer eleven which appeared
disorganized throughout.
Fast-breaking backs gave Baylor
128 yards on the ground to the Steers'
116, while the Longhorns gained 43
yards overhead to the Hears' 41. Bay-
lor completed 6 of 12 passes to 4 of
14 by the Steers.
The Longhorns obviously suffered
from the loss of regular fullback Pete
Layden, wingman Malcolm Kutner
and tackle Julian Garrett, all bench-
ed because of injuries last week.
Gophe-s Beat
Nebraska, 9-'
Higgins, Sweiger Spark
Minnesota To Victory
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 8-( P)-Min-
nesota's Golden Gophers won their
fifteenth straight football game'to-
day, defeating Nebraska, 9 to 0, in a
stubbornly fought contest.
Stepping methodically along to-
ward another perfect season, Coach
Bernie. Bierman's outfit held the up-
per hand from the start. They threat-
ened several times but found the
going mighty tough when the Corn-
husker's goal was threatened.
There was no score yet, at the start
of the second quarter and it took thatl
sensational little man-Bud Higgins
-to shoot into the game and begin
takinghthat pigskin places.
s
Midget Bud showed the big fel-
lows how it should be done by skip-
ping ten yards for a first down on the
Nebraska one. Then, heavyweight Bob
Sweiger powered it over.
But the Huskers smashed through
and blocked the try for the extra
point and were still very much in the
ball game. That was the way things
remained right on through the third
period, with Minnesota warily trying
to pick up a safe margin and Neb-
raska desperately trying to connect
with a payoff pass.
Early in the fourth period, Bill
Daley tried for a field goal from the
Huskers' 22 but it was wide. Then
came a punt exhibition and Bill be-
gan plunging for substantial yardage.
He battered to the Nebraska seven
where on fourth down, Bill Garnaas
booted a field goal, and Minesota's
championship stride thus was finally
protected with just a few minutes
remaining.
Black Hawks Gain Tie
With Montreal Puckmen
MONTREAL, Nov. 8-(AP-Chi-
cago's Black Hawks battled from be-
hind a 2-0 deficit tonight to gain a
2-2 deadlock with Montreal.. Goals
by Joe Cooper and Mush March in
the third period put the Hawks back
on even terms, after Rod Lorrain and
the Bunny Dame scored for the
Canadiens.
The tie left Chicago unbeaten in
two games, while it was the first
point for the Canadiens in two Na-
tional Hockey League games.
Playing in mid-season form, both
teams gave a gallery of little more
than 6,000 a hard, dashing gatfe.
The Canadiens had moved out in
front at 18:24 of the first session
when Rookie Lorrain took Ray Get-
liffe's pass to beat Sam Lo Presti.
f .
BILL MELZOW
well as the guard position that he
now fills\ So well did he play these
positions that in his senior year he
was named as a member of the myth-
ical All-City, All-Saginaw Valley, and
All-State teams.
Three-Letter Man
At Michigan, Bill is well on the way
to again winning three letters in
football. He broke into the first game
in his sophomore year against Michi-
gan State and has been in there
pretty regularly since then. Last year
Bill alternated with Ralph Fritz, and
this year he has shared the right
guard position with sophomore Merv
Pregulman. Coach Crisler can keep
the guard positions off his worrying
list as long as he has men like these
to fill the posts.
This year the likeable senior has
received much attention as the Wol-
verine place kicker. Bill first began
to practice placing the ball between
the uprights when- he was back in
high school. Though the Maize and
Blue griders, haven't been in any
crucial battles where the point-after-
touchdown has meant the difference
between victory and defeat this year,
it is a satisfying feeling to have a man
as reliable as Bill around. The team
hasn't forgotten least year's battle
with Minnesota.
Team's Hardest Worker
It doesn't detract from the others
to say that Melzow is probably the
hardest worker on the team. Night
after night, Bill is the first lineman
down to practice and works steadily
to improve his linework and place
kicking. Coach Clarence Munn praised
the senior guard's fine team spirit,
"For three years now Bill has been
out there working all the time. He is
a fine example for all the fellows and
certainly deserves much credit."
Bill will receive his degree next
June when he completes his studies
in the field of Political Science. He
hopes to have a job waiting for him
as a teacher and coach-if the draft
doesn't get him in the meantime. His
physical examination comes up next
weed. But at any rate, big Bill Mel-
zow is sure to finish up his last two
games for Michigan and hopes to
finish them in grand style, working
hard for the team as always.
Fitzgerald, of last year's WolverineI
primary training at Hicks Field.
Spartans And Purdue
Fight Scoreless Battle
ROSS ADE STADIUM, West La-
fayette, Ind., Nov. 8-(P)-Michigan
State College and Purdue's favored
Boilermakers sloshed to a scoreless
tie on a soggy field here today.
The Spartans turned on the heat
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