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14 FOOTBALL THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 195p. FOOTBALL SECTION 2 OB-Witherspoon i lH-Sdbrook -RH-Grld s'Zi OB-Skeeters 4 flH-Uov, fRH-leonhardt 'JZ 2 0jSJ' I I till I Is i Underdog Has Won Every Contest Between City Teams This Season, Giving Male Hope For Upset Today Thanksgiving Day, and another chapter in the historic I Male High-duPont Manual football rivalry. Manual I appears to be favored by one or two touchdowns. This doesnmake Manual boys as happy, as you would think, because the underdog in these encounters seems to whittle I the favorite down to size more often than not In every Icontest this year between Louisville teams the underdog has won. St.

Xavier was favored over Manual, and the Reds Won. St. X. was picked over Flaget, and the West Enders won. Flaget was given an edge over Male and the 5 Purples won.

Manual was conceded her game with Flaget and the result was exactly the reverse And Male High was favored over St. X. and the Tigers triumphed. I'll have to string along with Lady Luck and take Male by seven. Other high schools attracting state-wide attention today: 3 St.

Xavier and Highlands in the Shrine Game in Lexington, Valley and Paintsville in the Cumberland Lake Bowl at Somerset, and several in Western Kentucky, playing in their annual Turkey Day classics. "ii tjL2rs sv-r--4 K'ur-' v.v.-. nv it 2 S-TT RT-Bivin RE-Worrerl Goes West Louisville's Spider Thomas will fight on the west coast soon, under a new pilot. His contract has been sold by Joe Martin and Dave Reynolds to Henry Yeager. Yeager has signed for matches in Phoenix and Los Angeles.

Bryant Will Get Many Offers Sign of Success Hugh Fullerton's report yesterday that U. Paul Bryant has the "inside track" on the football coaching job at Texas, doubt- Stoll iaS C- Kuhn cx fcLiG-BrimmJ RT-Bpone RE-Cress IG-Davidson C-Mrange Courier-Jurnal Pnoios by Manual cheerleader Patty Bates illustrates the "new look at Manual where coeducation was introduced this year. The Crimsons of Mike Basrak have won seven, lost two, tied one. of five of nine games, Nick Denes' Purples will be under, today's 57th meeting with Manual. Male cheerleader Paul exemplifies the High School spirit.

Manual is favored. lE-Orman tT-Berthold IG MALE Winner dogs in Stone Manual Chas. Farnsley iess is true. It also is just.as true, probably, 7th Meetin In 5 Is Choice Over that Paul is a top choice at Minnesota and several other schools now losing their coaches. That's the first sign of success for a football coach.

gJPaul will get many offers during the winter. But he has a long contract with Kentucky, and "spring probably will find him in Lexington. Vanderbilt, Too U. K. gridders "harder than the Commodores of.Vandy, it seems.

Bill Wade, the luminous quarter DacK, siuaies are boning no Accounting, and No Illinois Rip Gish 3 Howard. If the Reds kick off, Waldo Haueter and Dave Ryan will replace Strange and Leonhardt. Nick Denes, who gained a tie last year in his freshman stint for Male, proclaimed that "High School will be represented by the youngest line I can remember ever to start Thanksgiving game." Juniors Sonny Berthold and Ralph Boone will man the tackles while a sophomore, Dave Kuhn, will be at center. Two juniors, Jimmy Sed.brook and Eddie Grider, will operate in the backfield. Manual Is Heavier Denes starters will be ends Bill Cress and Don Orman, Berthold and Boone or sophomore Twyman Patterson, guards Gene Stoll and Bobby Brimm, Kuhn, quarterback Tommy Witherspoon, halfbacks Sedbook and Grider and fullback Bobby Slayton.

If the Purples IT-Hundley Mike Basrak His Crimsons are favored ANUAL it ale IT TVnrmmirt; Analvtical Geometry. 5 Naval Science, just for an example. pottery courses there. mu spivey Mr. Mayor Solution Men Louisville situation of hiring a new place for Mayor Mayor's term educator for the of chancellor for may devote most Chancellor Farnslev May Be Chancellor very close to the University of have a solution to the problem president now, and still making a Charles Farnsley when the expires.

They will choose an presidency, and create the office Farnsley. Thus; the president of his time to the school itself, and may keen ud outside contacts. kick off, Dick Quinn and Henry Brooks will open instead of Brimm and Stoll. Comparison of results against Flaget and St. X.

gives little fort to supporters of either club. Manual tripped St. X. but lost to Flaget; Male downed Flaget but bowed to St. X.

Manual, an older and heavier ball club, will outweigh its ancient enemy about four pounds per man. The Crimsons average 176.3 to 172.1 for the Purple and Gold. The Reds' single-wing running attack is concentrated in the consistent gaining of halfbacks Haueter and Charley Davis and fullback Denny Steineker. The Crimsons also can resort to a dangerous air game with Jimmy Evans throwing to his rangy ends, Hrvey Young and Ross Warren. Sedbrook's Last Game Male's offensive hopes are tied to the elusive Jimmy Sedbrook, one of the best breakaway backs in the state.

Although a junior, Sedbrook is making his last football appearance for the Bulldogs; he lost a year of eligibility while in junior high school. Male adherents contend that if Sedbrook has a great day, the Purple will prevail. A wet field will act as a brake on the talented halfback. Male has shown little ability to move by air off its in previous games but observers feel that Denes won't come out of the scuffle without making a how of passing. Box Office to Be Open The box offices will be open for the first time in many years.

Approximately 1,500 tickets will be offered at the Burnett Street box offices. Spectators with tickets purchased beforehand are asked to enter by the Pindell Street gates. Cloudy skies and mild weather with scattered showers was the discouraging forecast by the weatherman. Steineker and Sedbrook are locked in a pursuit of St. Xavier'i Ernie Heckman for the Hasenour Trophy, symbolic of scoring leadership in the city.

Heckman holds first place with 70 points while Steineker and Sedbrook are tied for third with 54 points apiece. By JOHNNY CARRICO Consolidation Segregation Coeducation Only the Rivalry doesn't change. Young gentlemen from Male and Manual, as their fathers and grandfathers have done since 1893, will display their football prowess on Thanksgiving Day. The 57th meeting between the public schools, will begin at 2 p.m. today at du Pont Stadium.

A big Red eleven, winner of seven of nine games and tied in one, be a 3 -point favorite over an almost equally husky Purple team that has triumphed in five of nine contests. Both antagonists ccme into the arena with the unpleasant taste of recent defeats. Iike Basrak's Crimsons lost to Flaget and Knoxville High in its last two starts while Male dropped its last four after winning the firt five. City Title at Stake Manual will have direct feminine support for the first time in the 57-year-old classic. Too, it will no longer be a Brook Street battle since the Crimsons moved to new quarters along with its change to coeducation.

However, the winner will be rewarded with a share of the city championship, half of which was captured by Flaget Sunday. Basrak, who has won one and tied one in two Turkey Day efforts, announced a starting lineup of eight seniors and three juniors. The underclassmen are center Leo Strange, tackle Arvon Biven and quarterback Neal Skeeters. Singing their swan song for the Red and White will be ends Ross Warren and Harvey Young, tackle Alf Hundley, guards Roy Frederick and Bob Davidson, Jnalfbacks Louis Leonhardt and Charley Davis and fullback Denny Steineker. Schmidt Is Hurt Skeeters made the opening unit after regular quarterback Bob Schmidt developed a charley-horse.

Others on the Manual disabled list include reserves Ken Peak, Dave Noyes, Jim Mattingly and Joe Forecast The magazine, Sport, picks Ed Warner, C.C.N.Y., Sherman White, L.I.U., Sam Ranzino, N.C.S., Clyde Lovellette, Kansas, and Gene Melchiorre, Bradley, on its pre-season all-America basketball five. Bill Spivey, U. and Rip Gish, W. are on the second. ii if I 1 1 3 ii "i What Can N.C.A.A.

Do? Suggestion "There's nothing the N.C.A.A. can do to clean up college football," says a writer in a National magazine. That's not true. There is one little rule (easily 3 would elevate enforcable) that Spider Thomas college athletics the standards of if ffiUjgt; ers du Pont Tennessee In Cotton Bowl; U. K.

Held Cinch for Sugai a hundredfold, and protect the boys from unprincipled coaches. It would "read something like this: No boy is eligible for N.C.A.A. competition if he falls back as much as one subject in the work normally required of any student in his class to obtain a degree in four years. In other words, if a' freshman flunked or failed to carry a full course of required subjects he would remain in-eligible throughout his college career until he brought himself ud to snuff in summer school. i Pos.

Player Yr. W't. Ht. Ase L't'rs Address L.E. R.

Warren Sr. 180 6-0 18 1 4612 Bellevue LT. Alf Hundley Sr. 201 6-2 18 1 1362 Catalpa L.G. B.

Davidson Sr. 184 6-1 17 1 622 E. St. Catherine Leo Strange Jr. 174 6-1 17 2713 New High R.G.

R. Frederick Sr. 185 6-1 18 1 311 N. 30th St. R.T.

A. Bivin Jr. 183 6-2 17 0 609 N. Hite r.E. II.

Young Sr. 180 6-0 17 1 1268 Bardstown Rd. Q.B. N. Skeeters Jr.

152 5-10 15 0 4725 Bellevue L.II. C. Davis Sr. 144 5-9 17 1 1526 Cherokee Rd. R.H.

L. Leonhardt Sr. 178 5-10 17 1 1911 Payne F.B. D. Steineker Sr.

171 5-11 17 1 2250 Winston Ave. Co-captains. Male-Manual Game Facts TIME 2 p.m. PLACE du Pont S.tadium, Burnett and Eastern Parkway. TICKETS Approximately 1,500 tickets will be on sale at the Burnett Street box offices.

ATTENDANCE 18,500 (estimated). RECORDS Manual (7-2-1); Male (5-4). OFFICIALS George Rennix (referee); Carl Rentschler (umpire); Don Elser (head linesman); Carl Ledbetter field judge). All are Bigr Ten officials. RADIO WKLO and AVINN at 1:45 p.m.

WEATHER Cloudy, mild with scattered showers. QilMhiiM Al fttlunk. Munuicf by Ocorgc OnJfm. have been scrapped. It had been a rule that invitations could not be accepted until 7 p.m.

of the last Saturday in November. Similarly, it also had been a conference ruling that a team had to win 80 per cent of its conference games, and had to play six, to be elgible for a bowl bid. Both these rules have been scrapped. 'Still Have A Game' Lexington, Nov. 22 (P) Coach-Paul Bryant of Kentucky said tonight he didn't think Tennessee's acceptance of the Cotton Bowl bid would vitally affect the big game Saturday in Knoxville.

"We still have to go oTer there and play a ball game," he said. What bowl Tennessee plays in or what bowl we play in, if any, hasn't been a big factor with us in this game. We'd like to win it just as we would any other." Bryant said as far as he knew Tennessee's decision to play at Dallas would not force an early bowl decision by Kentucky. "If we get any bids," he said, "it will be up to the boys what we accept." Kentucky is known, to have feelers from the Orange and Sugar Bowls. There have been unconfirmed reports that the Wildcats already have been offered and have accepted an invitation to play at New Orleans New Year's Day.

Kentucky officials, however, denied today there had been any commitment made. Kentucky played in the Orange Bowl at Miami last year and lost to Santa Clara, 21-13. II ill in ond 741, ISiircIicrcIins 288 J7DDIE Hammond of the Fifth Avenue 900 League knocked out the highest bowling series of the season last night a mighty 741. Eddie started out with a mere 205 in his first game. But then he really went to town, collecting 279 in his second game and 257 in his third.

Hammond had to be hot to get honors for the night. Fred Borcherding, bowling at Western Lanes, also took the pins for a dizzy ride, crashing a 736 series. Fred toppled the high game of the season in his series, 288. Due to early deadlines last night because of the holiday, other scores could not be Leading Bill Wade Three Rabbits At One Time Jack Pot I mentioned yesterday about the good rabbit hunting in the Tennessee border country. D.

L. Woosley of Guthrie and I hunted alone on the second day of the season. Some bird hunters told us of a very small locust thicket they had walked through. "It's alive with rabbits," they said. We hardly had hurdled the fence when a rabbit got up and scampered away.

We hadn't gone 40 feet when D. L. fired. A bouncing bunny, bit the dust and three more got up! I tried to fire in three directions at once and missed all three. Psy cliiatrist entuckv E.

C. Blum Jr. 155 5-11 15 0 E. W. Gallimore Sr.

152 5-10 17 0 1078 Bicknell Ave. T. F. Armes Sr. 201 5-11 17 0 314 S.

38th St. T. W. Collins Sr. 209 6-0 17 0 2008 S.

Preston G. S. Henegar Sr. 153 5-8 17 0 1906 S. Third St.

G. D. Ryan Sr. 161 5-10 18 0 936 E. St.

Catherine C. R. Blum Sr. 155 5-10 17 0 1237 Wojfe Q.B. R.

Schmidt Sr. 155 5-10 17 1 1725-J Patton Ct. ll.B. J. Evans Jr.

169 5-10 19 0 1116 Hull II.B. f. Thacker Jr. 170 6-2 16 0 3526 Kentucky H. B.

W. Haueter Sr. 180 6-1 18 0 670 S. 35th St. F.

B. D. Hoffman Sr. 180 6-1 18 0 Box 276, Route 6 Male High L.E. D.

Orman 1 Sr. 157 5-10 19 1 417 S. Fifth St. S. Berthold Jr.

206 6-0 16 0 1332 S. Floyd G. Stoll Sr. 159 5-9 17 0 3121 Meadow Lark C. D.

Kuhn Soph. 210 6-0 15 0 .321 Saginaw R.G. B. Brimm Sr. 154 5-7 17 0 2010 Maple R.T.

R. Boone Jr. 195 6-0 16 0 2321 Winston R.E. W. Cress Sr.

170 6-0 17 1 1256 Lydia Q.B. T. Witherspoon Sr. 159 5-10 17 1 401 Heywood J. Sedbrook Jr.

172 5-11 18 1 1211 S. Second St. R.H. Ed Grider Jr. 166 5-11 16 0 127 W.

Gait F.B. B. Slayton Sr. 146 5-6 18 1 3605 Parthenla IS'ick Denes His Purples outweighed Tlie Teaiiis Manual Reserves Staff Picks EARL RUBY Male, 7-0. DEAN EAGLE Tie.

7-7. JIMMY BROWN Male, 13-7. LARRY BOECK Male. 13-6. JOHNNY CARRICO Manual, 14-6.

E. W. DONALDSON Manual, 6-0. TOMMY FITZGERALD Manual, 7-0. DAVE KENNEDY Manual, 12-6.

JERRY McNERNEY Male, 6-0. BOB OWENS Manual, 7-6. Associated Press Poll 1. Paducah Ttlghman 4. Louisville St.

Xavier rc ei 3. Fort Thomas Highlands 4. Louisville Male 5. Louisville Manual S. Russell ville 7.

Louisville Flaset R. Ashland Valley 10. Mayfield .45 44 43 41 37 .14 -IS 10 Other teams and total oolnts Harlan. 7: Covington Holmes. Lexington Lafayette.

S4 Captain seriously for the Cotton Bowl invitation, The Courier Journal learned from an authoritative source. One reason, said the source, is because Kentucky is scheduled to open its season with Texas next year at the Longhorns' stadium. It was feared that a meeting cf the teams in the Cotton Bowl would detract from next season's battle in the event one of the elevens should make a rout of it. Old Rule Scrapped At the same time, said the source, the Longhorns were not particularly desirous of meeting the high-flying Wildcats. Tennessee could accept the Cotton Bowl invitation at this time because the old Southeastern Conference rules regarding bowls HlglulssBids Lexington, Nov.

22 (P) The commonwealth's second and third-ranked high school football clubs, Louisville St. Xavier and Ft. Thomas Highlands, clash here Thursday in the Shrine Bowl. The benefit classic matches two of the strongest schoolboy teams in the 13-year-old Shrine Bowl. Highlands is unbeaten in 12 starts, including a 40-28 post season win over Prestonsburg in the Recreation Bowl at Mt.

Sterling. St. Xavier was second rated on the basis of six wins against three setbacks in the season. Both teams possess a strong attack, deep reserve power and outstanding defenses. Highlands has been more air-minded and scored 10 times this season via passes.

St. meanwhile, has tallied on three passes and 27 running plays while Highlands has scored on 34 of the latter. Both clubs use the open, power driven single-wing offense. The game is slated at 2 p.m. (Central Time) on Stoll Field.

X. To Rim Special A special train carrying about 500 St. Xavier followers to the Shrine game at Lexington today will leave Union Station at 9 a.m. It will make stops at Baxter Avenue at 9:14 and at St. Matthews at 9:22.

St. X. principal Brother John Joseph announced that tickets can be bought on the train. By LARRY BOECK Kentucky last night was awaiting formal announcement of having been invited to the Sugar Bowl after Tennessee removed any doubt there may have been by accepting a Cotton Bowl bid. There had been reports that the winner of the important Saturday game between the Wildcats and the Volunteers would get the Sugar Bowl invite.

But The Courier Journal learned last week that the Wildcats have been No. 1 on. the Sugar Bowl priority -i 'J list win. lnsp or ri a against Tennessee. i.

-see's acceptance of the Cotton Bowl invitation, however, has removed the last doubt anyone may have had about Kentucky's playing in New Orleans. Bob Neyland Thus, the school will have two teams represented in bowl festivities in one of sports history making events the basketball and the football teams. Oklahoma Likely Foe Kentucky's foe in the Sugar Bowl is expected to be another undefeated eleven, mighty Oklahoma. The Sooners have won 29 straight games, a football record. Tennessee's sudden and surprising acceptance of the bid from the rich Texas bowl undoubtedly has taken much of the pressure off the Vols.

While Kentucky had been considered a cinch for a major bowl invitation, even if defeated, it had been expected that Tennessee would have to triumph to secure a bid. May Get $125,000 The Volunteers, coached by Gen. Bob Neyland, a native Texan and a former football player at Texas A. and took only one day to make the decision accepting the Cotton Bowl offer. Tennessee was first on the preferred list of Texas, the Southwestern Conference champion which play the Vols Jan.

1. The Vols have won eight and lost only to Mississippi State in an upset in their opening game this season. A crowd of 75.300 is expected to see the Cotton Bowl game, with each team receiving around Kentucky never was considered yfh AC Leading Reserves E. P. Brooks Jr.

152 5-11 16 0 "2311 Village Drive T. T. Patterson Soph. 215 6-0 16 0 677 Myrtle T. H.

Bittner Jr. 187 6-0 16 0 1707 Richmond Drive Ti P. Jacobs Jr. 182 5-11 15 0 2405 Woodbourne G-D. Vandertoll Sr.

178 5-8 16 0 2550 Ransdell G. D. Quinn Sr. 175 5-10 17 1 2500 S. Third G.

G. Thornton Sr. 171 5-11 17 0 907 Central C. G. Woods Jr.

171 5-9 17 0 614 W. Oak C. J. Walker 190 6-0 17 1 2121 Edge Hill Rd. Q.B.

B. Waltrip ISr. 146 5-7 18 0 2323 W. Main St. H.

B. K. Kessler Jr. 145 5-6 17 1 1360 S. Sixth St.

F. B. D. Bowman Jr. 190 5-10 17 0 1214 Longfield ays ave Any plexes it might have or any supposed jinxs." Anyhow, he continued, how could a powerhouse like undefeated, untied Kentucky have any complexes? Well, we said, wondering if perhaps the good doctor was buzzing for a straight-jacket for us, what we meant is couldn't a team try so hard to win that it might become too tight and mentally too keyed-up for a game? Good Precedents "That can happen in anything table tennis, for iastance," said "Keller.

"But figure it this way One team has won 15 straight games and going into the 16th game the boys begin to think maybe their luck will run out; the team that has lost 15 straight thinks the percentages now are running in its favor and that it is bound to hit one." It was beginning to sound, we Cats By 7 TVEW YORK, Nov. 22 (JP) Oklahoma, the nation's No. 1 football team, rules a 17 -point favorite in the ejrly odds to whip Nebraska Saturday and retain its Big Seven championship. Kentucky's third-ranked Wildcats are only a seven-point choice to down ninth-ranked Tennessee. Army, No.

2 in this week's A.P. poll, is idle. "Here's how the rest of the top 10 shapes up for Saturday's action: 4. California. 13'i over Stanford.

S. Texas, idle. 6. Illinois. 13 over Northwestern.

7. Princeton. 20'i over Dartmouth. 8. Ohio State.

7'j over Michigan. Tennessee. Shouldn't By LARRY BOECK We got to thinking which is always perilous about the Kentucky-Tennessee football This distressing mental adventure sent us hurrying to a psychiatrist Dr. William Keller, to be precise, the director of psychiatric services at General Hospital. What about a team being mentally prepared for a football game in which it is supposed to be "jinxed," we asked, thinking of the important U.

collision Saturday. And what about a team developing a com plex after being beaten by another bunch for a number of years? What we had in mind, specifically, was the fact that since Gen. Bob Neyland has been coaching at Tennessee- the Wildcats haven't won a game. The best they could do since 1926 was to tie four games. It's true they defeated the Vols- last in 1935, but Neyland was away that year on Army duty.

Before 1935, U. last victory over the Vols was in the pre-Neyland era in 1925 by 23-0. Why Worry? Dr. Keller, a keen student of football as well as of the mind, said yes, a team could develop a defeatist complex. "But I wouldn't worry about it in the case of the Tennessee-Kentucky rivalry," he added.

"This is a traditional game, and that saying you sports writers have been using for years anything can happen is true. In the case of a traditional rivalry, a team can absorb whatever com- Complex told Dr. Keller, as though he was picking Kentucky. He laughed. "Well, there are a couple of good precedents, not to mention the fact Kentucky has a good team," he explained.

"For in stance, right here in Louisville, in the Male-Manual rivalry. Male at one time consistently defeated Manual. Then Manual ran off a victory streak, and there was a saying Manual had to be two touchdowns stronger than Male to win since High School traditionally had been the winner. "Take 1920, and you'll see psychology and football in play. Manual was a strong favorite when Coach Hugh Sutton, as a stratagem, didn't start Pascal Guigli-ano, his, star quarterback.

Male held Manual and then, spurred on and getting confidence, scored a great 21-13 triumph. Sutton's 'psychological trick boomer-anged. "There's another example the old State-Centre rivalry, when U.K. was known as State. Except when Bo McMillin coached at Centre, Kentucky always had a stronger team.

But it always had a 4ough time with Centre." Just to make sure about this psychology business, we saw Dr. Noble Kelley, head of the psychology center at U. of L. "There's no doubt psychology influences football games," he said, 'but just what the factors are I don't know, for they haven't been studied. Just on pure guess work, though, I'd say Tennessee can be expected to put forth another Herculean effort to knock off U.K.

For one thing, Kentucky now is the Southeastern Continued on Page 15, Column 2 Records MALE 30 Fern Creek 6 6 Cincinnati Roger Bacon 2 27 St. Louis Southwest 0 32 New Albany 7 32 Flaget 6 0 Paducah Tilghman 1 6 Miami (Fla.) Senior 34 6 St. Xavier 13 0 Charlotte Central 28 139 103 MANUAL Somerset 0 Oak Park (111.) 20 Granite City (111.) 0 19 20 14 12 Evansville Bosse 0 47 Gary Horace Mann 24 27 19 38 0 7 Birmingham West End 7 St. Xavier 12 Raleigh. N.C.

6 Flaget 12 Knoxville High 20 203 101 season completed. Michigan State. ana restonsDurg, l. it i.