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{Nebraska Tops Sooners For Bowl Berth % * I Football \ Stores s (Area Vanderbilt 31, GW 0. Midwest V l Bowline G. 26, Xavier IS. Kent State 23, Dayton 0. Nebraska 29, Oklahoma 29. . N. E. OkU. 13. 8. E. Mo. 7. ' Ohio V. 17, Marshall 0. South i * Alabama A*M 26, Miles 9. r Allen 14. Shaw 6. Auburn 21, Florida SUte 15. • E. Kentneky 34. Tptn., 14. Em. A Henry 26, Guilford 9. * Florida 27, Miami <FU.) 21. t Fla. AA M 36. Beth. Cn. 14. ‘ J. C. Smith 66. F’etvtlle 9. * So. Miss 37. Citadel 12. Tennessee 19, Kentucky 0. Winston-Sal. IS, St. Paul's 9. $ Southwest Arkansas 27, Texas Tech 29. E. Texas 14. S. F. Austin 8. Mow'd Payne 26, Sul Ross 22. ' Prairie View 35, Southern 0. ♦ S.W. Texas 20, Texas AAI 6. ■ j Far West Brie. Youne 24, Col. St. 20. i E. New Mex. 40, C. OkU. 21. ♦ Utah 25, Utah SUte 23. * Postponements Thanksgiving Day Clemson at South Carolina. Columbia at Rutfers. Furman at West VlrrinU. Illinois at Michigan State. Miami (Ohio* at Cincinnati North Carolina at Duke. Virginia at Maryland. 11 a.m. 'Wisconsin *t Minnesota. November 30 'Cklifnmia at SUnford. • Dartmouth at Princeton. Harvard at Yale. •Ekfayctte at Lehifh. Missouri at Kansas. I Ohio State at Michican. "< heron State at Oreron. 'furdue at Indians. 1 (CLA at Southern Cal. .Washington SUte at Wash ; ineton. l \ Indefinite Air Force at Colorado. Arkansas AAM at Miss. Voe. Boston IT. at Boston College. 'ldaho at Arizona SUte. 'lowa SUte at Drake. -Louisville at Houston. , McNeese at SW Louisiana, i Temple at Gettysburg. 'Virginia State at Morgan. Others ft Kansas State at Oklahoma SUte, December 7. ’ New Mexico at Arisons, Dec. 7. -Penn State at Pitt, December 7. Rice at TCU December 7. SMU at Baylor December 7. West Virginia SUte vs. Nor folk at D. C. Stadium, Friday. November 29, 8 p.m. Wyoming at West Texas, Dee. 7. Cancellations t ;• Appalachian at East Tennessee. Arizona SUte at Trinity. 'Colgate at Brown. .Delaware at BucknelL ' Detroit at Toledo. 'Franklin A Marshall at Ursinus. Holy Cross at Connecticut. Idaho SUte at WichlU. Indiana (Pa.) at MontcUir. 'Moravian at Muhlenberg. 'Notre Dame at lowa. -Pacific at San Jose SUte. ‘ i. Conn, at Central Conn, fit. Augustine at Del. St. (Southern Illinois at N. Texas. |wAL at Washington (S. Louis) \W. Md. at Johns Hopkins. 'Wofford at Davidson. aj» iilvy Decision Postponed For Week a* Br tna Associated Press • The Ivy League football title ’will be decided next Saturday jßhen Princeton plays Dart mouth and Yale entertain) Harvard. Both games wen KKtponed for one week follow ng President Kennedy’s assas sination Friday. Princeton. 5-1, can clinch th( grown by beating thlrd-plac( ■ Dartmouth, 4-2. But if Dart ' mouth’s defending champiom whip the Tigers and Harvard 4-1-1, gets past Yale, the Crim • aon will claim the crown. The postponement of th< Yale-Harvard game was thi first in the history of this ath letic rivalry which dates bac] to 1875. SPORTS VANDY SNAPS SKID GW Blasted, 31-0, By Commodores By DICK SLAT Star Staff Writer NASHVILLE. Tenn., Nov. 23—George Washington trav eled a little bit too far out of its own football league today and got trampled by previous ly winless Vanderbilt. 31-0. be fore a crowd estimated at . 11.000 at dismal Dudley Field. The game almost was can celed—as were a majority across the Nation in mourning for President Kennedy and GW probably wishes now that it had been. It was the first shutout of . the Colonials since last year’s final game in which Syracuse . prevailed, 35-0, and the setting was also similar—a cold, damp ■ afternoon In an ancient stadi um, with GW unable to put to gether anything resembling an offense. *1 The Commodores snapped a winless streak of nine games reaching back into last season. The string included seven loss , es and two ties in which Vandy had scored only 42 points. Its . 31 today, with Fullback Bill . Waldrup providing three touchdowns, were the most since Vanderbilt beat Florence Bute, 42-7, in 1959. That was 40 games ago. GW was outgalned. 328 yards • to 72, and its passing attack, which was averaging 165 yards a game, produced only 31. Merv Holland completed only three of 25 throws and four were In tercepted. Tom Branch had the other two completions, in three tries, for 14 yards. Game Put Out of Reach GW moved across the 50- yard line only four times, and j its deepest penetration reached the Vandy 33, thanks to a 37- u yard interference penalty. Two! ’ plays later Guard Jimmy Wyatt picked off a Holland toss to start Vanderbilt on a 51-yard march which ended with a 30-yard field goal by Toby Wilt. That made the score 17-0 with not quite a minute and a half remaining in the third quarter, and removed all doubt of the outcome. However, unlike at Syracuse a year ago, when the score was - already 22-0 at Intermission, GW was still in contention at halftime today. The Colonials trailed, 7-0, at the half on a Waldrup scoring run of 5 yards through right tackle midway in the second quarter. It was the eighth play RECOVERY TO BE SLOW Area Sports Scene ' Close to Standstill By STEVE OUBACK Star Staff Writer * The area sports scene, which ’ has come close to a general: f _ standstill, will take several days ’ to recover from the shock and sadness of President Kennedy’s untimely death. Coach Tom Nugent plans to reassemble his Maryland foot- Notionol Scent Quiet. Page A-21 ball team for a squad meeting tomorrow afternoon and will , decide at that time on a prac tice schedule for later in the week. The Terps' season-ending game with Virginia, originally scheduled for yesterday, has been postponed until 11 a.m. Thanksgiving Day. The two area race tracks have revised their plans. Pimli > co, which held its program yesterday will be closed tomor row. Shenandoah Downs, - which called off yesterday’s card and tomorrow's program, will resume Tuesday night. Bowling officials also have announced that duckpin and tenpin lanes In the Metropoli tan Washington area will be closed until after the funeral services tomorrow. Classic Moved Back The Capital Classic football e game, scheduled for last night y at D. C. Stadium, was post poned until Friday at 8 p.m. „ Norfolk State plays West Vir ,_ ginia State in this game. ,* Among cancellations were the Howard-Livingston game at Salisbury, N. C.. and George town's football “revival” against Prostburg. Neither game will be rescheduled, rj Ma ryl a n d’s soccer match against Drexel Tech, originally jscheduled for tomorrow, has ie been postponed until Tuesday lCl at 3 pm. This is a first-round i- match in the NCAA playoffs. •k School officials, making a hasty check, said that Thurs 1 STATISTICS O W. Vanderbilt M downs s 14 Riuhlnt rardate 41 823 I Passing rardate 31 S Passes .. 8-28 2-8 Passes Intercepted br 3 4 Punts 10-38 6-38 fumbles lost 11 • Yards penalized 34 87 of a 32-yard push, following a 24-yard punt return by Tommy Clark. It was the sixth time Vandy had had possession, and there was some expectation that GW might jell offensively and pull it out. But in the last two quarters GW was minus 2 in rushing yardage and plus 14 passing on Branch’s two connections. Hol land missed all 12 of his at tempts in the second half and Dick Drummond was zero in two rushes. He totaled 26 yards In six tries all day. Interception Halts Drive An Interception by Jim Johnson halted Vandy on the GW 29 the first time the hosts bad the ball In the third per iod. but two plays later Dave Malone intercepted for the Commodores and returned to the 33. Vandy scored In four plays, Waldrup going practically un touched for the final 9 yards through right tackle. Wilt's field goal 7 minutes later made it 17-0. Then the margin mounted to 24 points on a 1-yard dive by Waldrup with 11:42 to play. That was two plays after End Tommy Martin jarred the ball from Holland, who was trying to pass, and Tackle Joe Graham recovered on the GW 6. j Waldrup retired with 79 yards in 17 carries and the res erves played out the game. | With 56 seconds left. Quarter back Dave Waller shook off defenders during a , weaving. 33-yard dash for the . final touchdown. I GW clicked on a 63-yard pass play for an apparent touchdown In the last period, i Holland hit End Paul Flowers down the middle and Paul | evaded four tacklers and final ; ly lateraled to Drummond, who stepped the last 5 yards to the , end zone. An offside penalty , washed out the whole thing, sort of typical luck for GW in Its seventh defeat in nine games winding up the season. OEoT~W ASHTNQTONI) O 0 0— 0 VANDERBILT 0 7 10 14 —31 Vanderbilt—Waldrup 5. run (Wilt kick). , Vanderbilt-—Waldrup 9. run (Wilt kick). Vanderbilt—PO Wilt. 30. Vanderbilt—Waldrup 1. run (Wilt kick). , Vanderbilt—Waller 33. run (Wilt kick). Attendance 11,000. day's Maryland-Virginia game probably will be the first Thanksgiving Day game for > the Terps since 1954, when Maryland defeated Missouri, 74-13. Years ago Maryland played a traditional Thanks giving Day series with Johns Hopkins, but that series ended in 1934. Students on Recess The Thanksgiving date was agreed on even though stu dents at both schools will be on recess. At one time the possibil ity of a Wednesday afternoon game was discussed. Nugent said that his practice plans are uncertain at present. He canceled Friday afternoon’s drill immediately after hearing the news of the President’s death. The squad assembled yesterday afternoon briefly to watch news broadcasts on tele vision. Nugent also canceled the usual Sunday night meet ing. “We’ll get the squad together Monday afternoon,’’ Nugent said, “and decide on our course of events. We haven’t practiced now since Thursday and I’m a bit worried about our condi tioning. I’ve told the boys to do some running. As things stand now, we’ll probably have some contact work on Tuesday.” The Virginia team, which had arrived at College Park and took a light Friday after noon workout at Byrd Stadium, left yesterday to return to Charlottesville. Coach Bill Elias planned a light workout today. Maryland officials said that the ticket office would be open | Tuesday to handle refunds or 1 purchases. Dr. Wilson H. El ’ kins, university president, has t suspended classes and general ’ activity tomorrow as part of I the national day of mourning. Ticket refunds or purchases t for the Capital Classic will go on this week at 913 U street. Sunday SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1963 4 |||||"% RJR ' m ' '• *<&^***?C*^u^'?**?H$ l^*e *' W a mJm a % s P-' v 4 Yii 1 I -’at JO ** La W IJr' Jr ■jk |mH iSr X __ W.' - %f ~ fl JBk tB 115 *4 * > *5 - ’ 1 "‘ * ' - ' ' sso. >' I VANDERBILT 31 , GEO. WASH. _.O i \ 1 Officials Delay i * ! Game Decision ; On Army-Navy 5 PHILADELPHIA Nov. 23 (AP).—The status of the No * vember 30 Army-Navy football 1 game remained in doubt today, awaiting a final decision from ® Washington by the Defense I Department and the Army ahd ‘ Navy following the assasalna -5 tion of President Kennedy. s ’ "It is a matter of co-ordina ' tlon between the Institutions ’ and the Army, Navy and De ' sense Departments in Wash ' ington,” a spokesman said at . West Point. “We’re all in a ) state of shock. No decision on the service game may be ! reached until next week.” As the late President was the commander-in-chief of the service academies, It is likely j that there will be no action | ! taken on any superficial mat-j ters, such as a football game, until after the funeral. If the game is played on schedule, Roger Staubach andi his pass-m 1 n d e d Navy mates will be favored to give Coach Wayne Hardin an unprec-i jedented fifth straight victory over Army’s sturdy ground forces. fi A Cotton Bowl bid for Navy could hang in the balance of this 64th renewal of a rousing } rivalry dating back to 1890. A j sellout crowd of 100.000 had _ been assured before the tragic, ’ event In Dallas, j! Kickoff time is 1:30 pun. Staubach, called by Hardin “the finest player I ever have seen,” has led the Middies up to this important game with an s 8-1 record, marred only by a * 32-28 defeat by Southern Methodist. Navy is ranked No. 2 In the Nation behind Texas II in the Associated Press poll. I ALL NFL GAMES ON d ; Redskins, Eagles Denied Bid to Postpone Game By LEWIS F. ATCHISON r Star Staff Writer 1 PHILADELPHIA. Nor. 23 ® Despite two requests by Red -3 skin and Eagle officials for a 1 postponement of their return ‘ engagement at Franklin Field, 0 the game will be played as 3 scheduled tomorrow, as will all e other National Football League contests. l Leo DeOrsey, vice president t of the Redskins and ranking - officer during the illness of i, George P. Marshall, verified 3. tonight that Commissioner s Pete Rozell had turned down . pleas to postpone the game un t til December 22, a date set 1 aside in the event of a dead locked division race. Money Not a Factor 5 ,1 The game, which can do no f more than move the Redskins [. into sixth place if they win, s will NOT be televised It will be o broadcast on WWDC, starting at 1 p.m. !Dick Drummond of George Washington leaps to intercept a pass in the second quarter of yesterday’s game against Vanderbilt at Nashville. Teammate Fred D’Crazio also is ready to grab the ball for the Colonials —AP Wirephoto. Quadrangle Takes Futurity By 10 Lengths in Rainstorm By JOSEPH B. KELLY I Bt»r Racing Editor BALTIMORE. Nov. 23- Quadrangle. a lightly raced 2-| year-old from the Rokeby | | Stable of Paul Mellon of Up pervllle, Va.. overpowered 13 > rivals today to win the $176,250 j 1 Pimlico Futurity by 10 lengths ! In a driving rainstorm at Old l Hilltop. Jockey Bill Hartack. due to be Installed in the Jockeys' Hall of Fame here a few hours i later, engineered the victory of I the bay colt, a son of Cohoes j and Tap Day. Originally scheduled to ride Orientalist, who finished 12th, Hartack subbed for Bill Shoe maker. who decided not to fly from the West Coast because of his grief over the assassina tion of President Kennedy. Finishing second in the rich- j est Maryland 2-year-old race jof the year was Mrs. John W. I Hanes’ Breakspear, the 19-10 1 favorite. Breakspear was three quarters of a length In front of Mrs. Marion R. Frankel's Bupers. the Belmont Futurity winner. Foxcatcher Farms'' Ramant was fourth. Possibly because Hartack was I riding, the crowd of 14,138 made ] Quadrangle, who paid 88.40, | $4 and 83.60, the second choice. | • Breakspear, who was piloted by Bob Ussery, returned $3.80 and $2.80 and Bupers paid $4. Quadrangle, who had raced' i only fast tracks in his five , previous races, had no diffi culty with the sloppy footing. Second most of the way in the mile-and-a-sixteenth clas-. 1 sic, being run for the 41st time, 1 Quadrangle took charge In the ' stretch and drew away from i the large field with ease, i Bred by Mellon, Quadrangle i earned more than 10 times as . much today as he had gar i nered in five previous races. The colt’s share amounted to "Frank McNamee, president' of the Philadelphia team, asked { me if I would be willing to I " postpone the game out of re-1 spect for the late President' 1 Kennedy,” DeOrsey said. 1 1 “When I agreed he telephoned! • Rozell. who said the games must ' i be played as scheduled. I also | called Rozell and received the ' same answer. ‘‘The game is a sellout but I * would gladly leave the Red ’ skins’ share, $75,000, and re turn the team to Washington 1 at my expense. I feel the Red ' skins are in a different position 1 than other teams. They repre ■ sent Washington, which is my > home town, and which I think must be considered Mr. Ken nedy's home, too. However, Mr. Rozell has made a ruling and iwe will abide by it.” i The Washington players i were still visibly affected by , the tragic event. Coach Bill > Me Peak said the squad was [ "d e p r e s s e d.” The quiet that prevailed yesterday after the $110,012. Breakspear gained i ! $33,850 second money and |i I Bupers $16,920 for finishing ' ! third. Quadrangle, in winning his most important race and his third in six starts, covered the! • distance in 1:47V 5 . Trainer Elliott Burch was elated with Quadrangle's race. “Boy. was I glad to get this one. This is the first stakes I've won since last year here in the Marguerite.’’ he said. Ussery said that Breakspear I "didn’t seem to handle the go-1 | ing. I’d have to say he ran as well as he could." i During the first half-mile of Mira Hits for 3 TDs, But Gators Top Miami MIAMI, Nov. 23 (AP). A 70-yard, fourth-period touch down dash by Hagood Clarke 'shattered a 14-14 deadlock to 'night and Florida went on to defeat Miami, 27-21, before ! 57,773 In Orange Bowl Stadium. Clarke took a handoff to the weak side, slipped out of the arms of a tackier, and sped In. the clear to the winning touch down. Then, moments later, Alan Poe pounced on a wild Miami lateral at the Hurricane 46 to put the Gators in position for a clinching score. Quarterback Tom Shannon whipped a 26- yard pass to Poe and later sneaked across from a yard out. Miami's All-America quarter back, George Mira, put on a great aerial show, throwing three touchdown passes. Shannon’s passes of 20 and 12 yards to Charles Casey and il9 yards to Larry Dupree players heard of the assassina tion carried over to today. I There was no banter, no hi larity that usually is part and .! parcel of the 2 Vi-hour train ride to this city. It was just a somber group of athletes tra ' veling to fulfill a schedule obli ' gation. A brief tribute to the late i President will precede the kick off. After the two squads have entered the field the sellout crowd of 60,671 will be asked to stand for one minute in silent prayer. This will be followed by the playing of the National An them. Player introductions will be omitted and there will be no commercial announcements on 'the public address system. Workout Is Canceled McPeak, who led the squad in prayer at the end of yester day’s practice after receiving i j word of the shooting, canceled a planned workout this mom : i ing because of rain. He substi Win, Lose or Draw, Page A-IS Leisure Sports, Page A-20 the race, Bupers, Quadrangle, Breakspear and Nenemoosha 'outran the rest of the field, but at the top of the stretch the Rokeby Stable colt forged ahead of Bupers. then in the lead, and kept increasing his advantage. Despite the rainy weather, favorites won all four of the twin-double races and the pay off was a conservative sl4l, just a little more than the 'daily double, which returned ! slls. Betting on the second week end program at Pimlico this faU totaled $1,306,667. . sparked the Gators on an 81- ■ yard drive that produced the > first touchdown, In the second • period. l Mira shot the Hurricanes : quickly back into contention, . hitting Nick Spinelli, Hoyt : Sparks and Jack Sims with : three passes that covered 60 i yards, and then, on a fake . field goal, catching the Gators | flat - footed with a 15 - yard , touchdown pass to Sparks. : After the Gators had scram j bled to a 27-14 lead, Mira hit [ Halfback Pete Banaszak with L his third touchdown pass, cov 'jering 15 yards. r ' FLORIDA ~0 77 13 —27 | MIAMI 0 8 8 7—21 '• Florid*— Shannon 1. run i Hall kick) ■ Miami—Sparks 13. paaa from Mir* , ipas* failed). E Miami—Smith 20. paaa from Mira i (Spinelli. pass from Mira). I Florida —Dupree 8. run iHall kick). Florid*—Clark 70. run (Hall kick). ( Florida—Shannon 1, run (kick * failed). 1 Miami—Banassak 16. pasa from . Mira (Currtrlght kick). »I Attendance. *7,773. tuted a meeting in the hotel i here. Tomorrow’s game marks the beginning of the homestretch in the NFL race. While the Redskins aren’t in the title pic ture, it is a critical period for McPeak, with his 1964 contract .hanging in the balance. The Redskins are conceded a chance of winning this one, al though the Eagles, 37-24 vic tors in the first game, are 3- point favorites. The Colts, Giants and Browns follow on the schedule In that order, and it is belived that if the Red skins win two of these games j McPeak’s job is safe, i The coach hasn’t decided . whether Billy Barnes or Tom Tracy will start at left half back. Baines injured his ankle last Sunday but was running l well Friday. Toneff Replaces Snidow l : Rookie Ron Snldow’s back • injury has forced McPeak to ■ make one change in the start A-17 Fumbles Help 29-20 Win for Big Eight Title LINCOLN, Nebr., Nov. 23 | (AP).—Nebraska won its first • Big Eight Conference football championship in 23 years to day by defeating Oklahoma's 1 sixth-ranked Sooners, 29-20, and moved into the Orange Bowl New Year's Day. Oklahoma’s fumbles, a dev astating Nebraska defense and the hard running of Rudy STATISTICS Oklß. Nebr. Pint down* 9 14 Rufchlnt yardice 99 194 Pi&Ainv yardage 115 60 1 Passe g . 5-14 6-16 Passes Intercepted br Puma 9-27 4-25 Fumble* lost i 4 Yards penalised 4 *0 , Johnson. Willie Ross, Dennis Claridge and Kent McCloughan i combined to produce the vie- j tory. All of the points, except . for a Nebraska field goal, came in the second half. The triumph rounded out a ’ 9-1 season, 7-0 in the Big) Eight, and automatically put the Cornhuskera In the Orange ] Bowl at Miami. League Streak Snapped Oklahoma, with a wind-up j game against Oklahoma State ‘ to be played this week stands , 7-2 for the season and 5-1 In * the conference. The Sooners had won 16 in a row in the conference since 1961. ', Holding a slender 3-0 lead at halftime, Nebraska capitalized Pic fur* on Pag* A-21 on Oklahoma's fumble of a Ne braska punt early in the sec- 1 ;ond half. Tackle Lloyd Voss re covered on Oklahoma's 15. Johnson made the short drive good on a 1-yard plunge and oranges rained onto the field > as the near-capacity crowd of 36.465 savored the Orange i Bowl prospects. | t Nebraska, again cashing in on a fumble, added seven more ■ points in the wild fourth quar- j ).ter on Claridge's 1-yard plunge .! and tackled on t#o more; , touchdowns in the game’s eloe , ing minutes. , j The late Nebraska touch- ] “ downs were scored by Mc * Loughan and Fred Duda. . Three Scores in Fourth Quarter l Oklahoma packed its three touchdowns into the fourth < J quarter, mixing passes with , runs after finding its ground , t game strapped. The Sooners had a net loss of ' 5 yards in the first quarter ' and were held to a total offense of 28 yards In the first half. Oklahoma covered 57 yards on its first touchdown drive, aided by a 35-yard pass from Bobby Page to End John Por terfield. A 22-yard paaa from Ronald Fletcher to John Flynn provided the score. Two more Nebraska touch downs intervened before Okla homa closed out the game on . touchdowns by Wes Skldgel on ; a 22-yard run and a 25-yard 1 pass from Tommy Pannell. i The only score in the first 5 half was Dave Theisen’s 27- , yard field goal in the first t period. V OKLAHOMA u 0 6' 26 sli .! NEBRASKA ■ . 3 0 7 19^C9 3 Nebrwk»—FO. Theisen (27). - i Nebraska—Johnson 1. run (Theisen 5 kick >. Nebraska—Claridks 1. run (Theisen * Oklahoma—Flynn C 2. nasa from Flet- I chcr (Jarman kick). Nebraska—McCloushan 2. run (kick * failed). I I r u “ (kick failed). u Oklahoma—Skldgel c 2. run (Jarman 1' KICK). - ° k neU o ? D Wfilfed>”' B *“ ir °“ P*B -7 Baseball Meeting Off 1 A meeting of the Tri-County 1 League Baseball Association scheduled for Wednesday at t the Hillandale Recreation Cen » ter has been postponed until further notice. ing defensive lineup. Snidow I will be replaced at tackle by ! veteran Bob Toneff, but the rookie probably will be used sparingly as a relief man. An encore of last Sunday’s offensive performance against the Steelers might be enough to give the Redskins their first victory after seven straight set backs. In that one Quarterback Norman Snead reached his peak in psssing and Bobby Mlt , chell hung up two club records i in pass receiving. I Snead didn't have a good day in the first game against the s Eagles, completing only 10 out of 29 passes. Four were inter- I cepted. i The Redskins may not have • to worn - tomorrow about Phil ■ adelphia's Sonny Jurgensen. : who had a field day in the first go-round, pitching four touch down passes. Jurgensen is re ported ready to play, after suf ; fe r in g an arm injury, but i McPeak expects to see more of King Hill, his understudy.