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FOOTBALL THE COURIERJOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1941. FOOTBALL SECTION 4 fwr "aw innesota Wallops Wisconsin For 2d Consecutive Big Ten Title 1 rfM ''V S-s, i 4 and Tackle Dick Wildung was its shining light. This speedy Gopher forward broke up play after play, even the fast starting Harder being the victim of his crashing tackles. Twice this Minnesota line came through acid tests. In the third period Wisconsin drove to the Minnesota 6, only to lose the ball on downs.

In the fourth, the Badgers got to the Gopher 12, again seeing their attack falter and break. In first downs, Min- Stalisticst nesota led 14 to 11 and the Gophers gained 249 yards by rushing to 131 for their red-shirted opponents. There were many observers today who ranked this Minnesota eleven on even terms with that great undefeated and untied 1934 Minnesota team. In 1935, Minnesota had another "perfect" season and in 1940 came through again with a no-defeats or ties record. The season which ended today capped a remarkable record for the ten-year Bernie Bierman regime.

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1.11 (1 67 I 1.1 JL A i I I. -S i f-ir-" 'v-- GREEN I trt Minneapolis, Nov. 22 (AP) Minnesota's mighty tide of football empire with, Captain Bruce Smith brilliantly riding the crest of the wave -swept over Wisconsin today to carry the Gophers to the Big Ten and national football championships. With Smith winding up his college career in AU-American fashion, Minnesota rolled over the Badgers 41-6 to run their winning streak to seventeen straight games and give the Gophers the remarkable record of six Western Conference titles in eight years. ONE OF BEST This Minnesota team was one of the all-time great Gopher elevens today and Smith was the big reason.

The moment he entered the battle, he sparked a power blast which almost blew the game Badgers out of Memorial Stadium. And when he hobbled from the Rnme late In the final period after figuring In four Gopher touchdowns, the crowd of 52,894 stood to give him a mighty ovation. Minnesota's great line gave Wisconsin little chance today, smothering the Badger attack monotonously except for one Badger surge. That drive paid tribute to fullback Pat Harder, who climaxed a second period drive with a tremendous 10-yard scoring charge on which he bowled over three Gophers as though they were ten pins. The Gophers, leaders of the Associated Press national rankings poll through most of the season, didn't have Smith in the lineup as they started this game which brought them a second straight Western Conference crown and wound up a second straignt undefeated and untied season.

FIVE PLAYS But about five minutes after the opening kickoff, the blond Gopher bombshell went in and on five plays Minnesota had a touchdown. His 45-yard pass to Bill Garnaas came just three plays before he galloped 18 yards through right tackle for the first Gopher score. "With twelve seconds of the period remaining, Smith pounded off right tackle again. Picking his spots brilliantly, he raced 39 yards before being surrounded at the Wisconsin seven. Alertly, he whipped a lateral to Bob Fitch, who continued on over the Badger goal line.

Early In the second period Smith intercepted Bud Seeling-er's first pass of the day, then raced 42 yards to the Wisconsin 11. Bill' Daley who, with Bob Sweiger, ripped the Badger line wide open today crashed to the two-foot mark on two plays before driving across. 73-YARD MARCH Then it was that Wisconsin staged the 73-yard march that saved the Badgers from a shutout. Harder started and finished this drive, for his 25-yard sprint took Wisconsin to midfield and his 28-yard jaunt on a lateral pass play carried Wisconsin to the Gopher 10. On the first play Harder took a lateral from See-linger and, running over three Gophers with sheer power, drove over the Minnesota goal line.

His try for point was low and wide. Just before the period ended Vic Kulbitski intercepted See-linger's pass at the Wisconsin 25 and raced unmolested for another Gopher score. ODDS TO LEAD In the third period Smith's passing added to Minnesota's lead. His shot to Judd Ringer helped Minnesota to the Wisconsin 20 and then the Gopher captain passed to Daley, who caught the ball at the Badger 15 and raced over the payoff stripe. In the final period.

Smith suffered a recurrence of the knee injury which handicapped him in several recent games, but Minnesota scored anyway. Little Bud Higgins fired a 26-yard touchdown aerial to Bob Sandberg just before the final gun. Minnesota loser of only nine games in sixty-four stretching back to include the 1934 season had a line today that played in its usual hard-charging style, BIG 10 ROUNDUP: Minnesota's powerful Gophers swept to a 41-6 victory over Wisconsin Saturday to annex another Big Ten Conference grid title and finish their second straight unbeaten and untied season. Michigan and Ohio State, however, waged the most exciting battle of the day which resulted in a 20-20 deadlock and left the two tied for second. Northwestern blanked Illinois 27-0, ending: up in fourth place, while Indiana topped Purdue 7-0 for its first loop success.

Iowa went out of the circuit to drop a 14-13 battle to Nebraska. f-mwmrr''-'immuir-Muiit, w-mmk, iMgiHWt igiK. AP Wirepboto. Dippy Stopped This Time But There Were Olher Plays Dippy Evans, IVotre Dame Iark, smacked at the Southern. California middle for a short gain in this first quarter play an Mrlehor and Green stopped him.

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The game was less than three minutes old when Southern California gave notice to the sellout crowd of 56,000 that this was to be typical of the sensational scoring games these intersectional rivals always stage at Notre Dame. BLOCKED Ralph Heywood, Trojan end, blocked Dippy Evans' quick kick and U. S. C. recovered on Notre Dame's 33.

From there it wa a procession cf half-hearted line piays until, on fourth down at the 21, Bobby Robertson flipped a touchdown pass to Heywood who gathered it in as he fell into the end zone. Center Walt Ziemba blocked the placement attempt by Bob Jones. After a punt exchange, Notre Dame began to move. Angelo Bertelli, who later was to pass the Trojans to defeat, dropped one Into Robertson's arms and the Trojan back raced 45 yards to Notre Dame's 20. Notre Dame held and Jones' attempted field goal was short to the left.

DOMINATED Notre Dame dominated the second and third periods as completely as U.S.C. had the first, calling out such old time plays as the legal screen pass and a fake pass ending in a reverse, A short kick from the end zone, drifting out of bounds on U.S.C.'s 31 was the break for Notre Dame's first touchdown. On the first play Juzwik skirted left end for 25 yards for first down on FITZ PUTS OUT nrl 4.1 Forward paaaea attempted 21 orward paasea completed 10 Yarda gained by forward pause 1 0.1 rd lost, attempted forward paaaea 0 Forward paaaea Intercepted by 1 Yard rained, runbark on In- aereepted pae v- 45 Punting average' Xffom arrlra. mage) 87 Total yarda kicked returned. 29 Opponents' fumbles recovered 0 Yards lost by penalties SO Includes punts and klckoffa.

US 21 IS 5H 0 0 SI MS I it Bobby Robertson's fumble on his own 45 brought Bertelli's passes into play shortly thereafter and Bertelli didn't stop throwing until he'd put the Irish on the four. He sent one to End Bob Dove for 19, lost five on a penalty during pass, sent one of one yard to Evans, 10 more to Juzwik and 16 to Dove. On second down, Juzwik scored and kicked the point. MUSICK SPARKS With little more than a minute to play in the half, Sophomore Bob Musick personally passed and ran the Trojans to a 65-yard touchdown. He ran 10, passed to Dough Essick, 21 to Paul Taylor, 19 more to Essick and five to Bill Bledsoe for the score.

Johnny Kovatch blocked the kick by Jones. Next came a 54-yard march led by Bertelli which made it 20 to 12 in the third period. Pass WITH SUPER POLY CHOKE $yooo Gives you varying uVprre of rlioke in on gun, from true cylinder to full choke by a mere twi.t of the sleeve. 12, 16 or 20 gauge. Hirahrunnar K.T, Lehner Schreiner Ringer Farrla Srelinger Hay Harder Lsconsln Minnesota Scoring: Harder.

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22 (UP) For the first time since the golden days of Knute Rockne came to an end in 1930, Notre Dame today completed its football season unbeaten by defeating in-fpired Southern California, 20-18, on two blocked points after touchdown. It was a tremendous nersonal victory for 33-year-old Frank Leahy, a brilliant pupil of Old Rock, who came through his third season of head coaching experiencing only one defeat in a regularly scheduled game, that incurred against his Boston College eleven by Florida early in 1938. He won 20 of 22 games at Boston, the other loss coming in a Cotton Bowl clash against Clemson, and in his first year at Notre Dame, the Irish ended their campaign with only a scoreless tie with Army against their nine-game record. Twice since Rockne's death Southern Calilornia had wrecked unbeaten seasons for Notre Dame, and it required all of Leahy's coaching genius, coupled with every ounce of fight the Iri.sh could muster, to beat back a surprising aerial offensive by the Trojans. LED 13-12 Just as a blocked conversion attempt saved Notre Dame a tie st Northwestern a week ago, two more blocked kicks saved them today.

One came in the first period after U. S. C. had taken a 6-0 lead. The other came in the second, following a 65-yard march on passes that brought a Trojan touchdown with only seconds remaining in the first half.

On those two blocked kicks, Notre Dame led at half time 13-12 end with a third period touchdown and conversion its lead was Fufficient to counter-balance Southern California's fourth period score. Steve Juzwik, the little man who whipped Northwestern wfith Good-Bye, Mr. Zup 'A fat A -I -e. J' AT IVIrephoto. 1 lie curtain came down on vurn of couching at lllinni Saturday for Holt Zuppke an all hi- Hp luting faiil to help the Illini H'i n-t Northwestern.

They lout 127-0. (Story on I. 4.) Crimmins' All-America Play 'Sight for Sore Ears ing on all but two plays, Bertelli moved the Irish along with a pass of 12 yards to George Murphy, one of seveu to Harry Wright, nine more to Wright and later 18 yards to Evans for the touchdown. A bad pass from center spoiled Juzwik's kick. IN TROUBLE Musick and Paul Taylor, a lefthanded passer, had Notre Dame in trouble until the closing minutes of the game.

After being halted on Notre Dame's four, the Trojans fired right back when Taylor returned a punt 12 yards co the Irish 33, then threw a lefthanded pass 25 yards to Joe Davis. Robertson crashed over from the eight-yard 1 i and Jones' pass for the point from placekick formation was knocked down by Bertelli. In all Bertelli completed 13 of his 21 passes for 156 yards. Robertson, Musick and Taylor competed 10 of their 21 passes for 103 yards. Notre Dams Pns.

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Gram Crlmmina R. Verry Lillls R. Polaucr Kovatch Jonra WrlKht q. nundy nertelll 1, Robertson Jiuwick Bleeker Evana Anderson Notre Dame 0 13 7 0 20 Southern California 6 6 0 618 Touchdowns Heywood, Evans 2 Juz-wick, Bledsoe, Robertson. Points After Touchdown Juzwick Substitutes: Notre Dame Ends, Bolder.

Barry. Murphy. Tackles, Ebll, Bereoles. Rymkus. Guard.

Laiber. Backs, Hargrsve, Patten, HnRan, C. Miller. McNeill. Southern California-fends.

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Bledsoe, R. Musick, Taylor. Manning- CAT Staff Writer first half. Eight times Crimmins, a guard on offense and a fullback on defense, was in on the tackle and it was Crimmins who threw that block that flattened the last defender as Dippy Evans went over on an 18-yard pass from Angelo Bertelli for the third Notre Dnme touchdown. That passing was a sight for sore ears.

Angelo Bertelli threw passes around like confetti on New Year's Eve and Southern Cal had a passing attack that can be described only in neon lights or by Kadio Announcer Dick Bray. It was close, but Southern Cal hasn't a kick coming now. The Trojans had three, but, after two of them were blocked, they decided to pass for an extra point, but this failed too. ALL-AMERICAN Crimmins left the game about 10 seconds before the end and Bray introduced your correspondent to some guy whose name your correspondent didn't catch because his youngest child, who had cut his lip on the jagged edge of a can of chocolate syrup, came screaming into the living-room at this inopportune moment. This guy, however, said that Crimmins and Maddock, at the other guard for Notre Dame, "certainly looked oil-Americans." There was another fellow who couldn't answer the alarm clock either for today's successful close of an undefeated Notre Dame season, but everybody knew he was there even if they couldn't see him.

They knew he was there unseen but felt when Mr. Bray introduced Mrs. Knute Rockne between the halves. Iowa made it 13-0 in the third period. He threw three this time, the first two taking Iowa to the Husker 24.

The third was taken wide by Bill Green on the 15 and he raced over. Then Nebraska went to work. Dale Bradley came out to the 21t with the kickoff and the touchdown march was on. The Husk-ers scored in 1(5 plays. Early in the fourth period a fumble had cost the Hawkeyes five yards and Farmer got set to punt.

The pass was low and the ball had just left his foot when End Fred Preston got in front of it, sending the leather flying into the end zone with End Jack Hazen on top of it for the touchdown. The World's Greatest Clothing Value! Madc-in-Louisville SUITS and TOPCOATS VALUES TO $35 (Santa Item) Alterations Free if All Latest Materials Shades it Regulars Longs Stouts A I 0 SJ to 60 Another big wrestling show, and another Buy On Our ACCESSORIES Blue Bill Hunting Coat $450 Of waterproof army duck, lined with rubberized duck. Shell loops and oversize pocket. Blue Bill Pants $25 Waterproof and double knees and seat. Winchester Ranger Super Speed Shells All hard hitting, long range shells By TOMMY South Bend.

Nov. 22 The only thing missing here today to make the Notre Dame Southern Cal game perfect for your correspondent was your correspondent. Once upon a time he had heard oi a morning newspaper man who claimed to have heard alarm clock b-r-r-i-n-n-n-n an at 5:30 the morning, but Ration proved the guy investi-hndn't gone to bed. So your correspondent didn't expect the alarm set for that unearthly hour to awaken him either, but he would have bet all the Japs in China that it would arouse his wife. The "Bernie Crimmins Special," carrying several hundred Louisville admirers of the Louisville boy to this football burg to see him play his final game for Natre Dame already was a good half pint or so on its way to Indianapolis, however, when your correspondent felt a vigorous shaking of his pajama-clad shoulder.

THAT LOOK It was like pulling off adhesive tape as he forced his sleep-pasted eyes apart at the unhear of hour of 7 a.m. The pain of this operation, however, was nothing to the expression of pain that twisted the face of your correspondent's Wife as she snt im in bed with one of those "gee-but-I-. aian near the alarm-clock" looks petrified on her countenance. But when the mountain would'nt come to Mohammed, Mohammed went to the moun FITZGERALD, Courier-Journal tain. So your correspondent, unable to get to South Bend, Mohammed-like brought South Bend to Louisville as quick as you can say "70 on your dial." It was one of the best games your correspondent has never seen this 20-18 triumph of Notre Dnme over Southern Cal and he's never heard Crimmins play a better game.

It was Crimmins Crimmins" Crimmins on almost every defensive Notre Dame play in that Boston C. Tips Boston U. 19-7 Boston, Nov. 22 OP) -There were two diflerent looking Boston University football teams on the field today as Boston College walked off with their annual intra-city battle by a 19-7 score before 15,000 at Fenway Park. The team that started was an Inept group which saw Boston College score bn the opening kickoff after a 96-yard mn-back by Fullback Adolph Kissell, and then add two more quick touchdowns within eight minutes on 28 and 10-yard runs by Halfback Frank Maznicki When B.

U. finally pulled itself together the score was 19-0 and a dreary afternoon was in prospect. But something must have happened, for those same players not only held B. C. even the rest of the way but even had a shade the better of the play.

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