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Daily Times-Gazette, 26 Oct 1953, p. 11

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CALGARY OUT OF RUNNING Schedule Over, Western Football Teams Start Their Playof By GRAHAM TROTTER Canadian Press Staff Writer Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winn.peg Blue Bombers start Ca- nadian major football along the playoff trail Wednesday when they open their home-and-home, total Joints Western Interprovincial Un- semi-final in Winnipeg. The teams battled down to the wire for second place before Frank Filchock's galloping Riders won by one point as the WIFU end Mgt od ch held t night. ewan was 0 a 1313 te Stampeders at Calgary and Win- mnipeg thumped the first-place Es- kimos 17-8 at Edmonton. Bombers, pre-season favorites who now appear to have shaken the mid-season slump that rele- fated them to third place, face a ormidable job against Riders. who ended the schedule as the WIFU's hottest club, 'With the veteran Filchock taking over ably at quarter for the inivre Glenn Dobbs in late season, Riders were unbeaten in their last five fantes, winning four before figur- in the W. 's only 1953 tie game Saturday. schedule Saturday | y the cellar-dwelling ! fs This Wednesday y In their last two games, Fil- \field on a stretcher. He is under (chock posted a remarkable pass- {ing record of 22 completions in 2/ attempts. BOMBERS FACE JINX During schedule play, Riders beat Bombers four times in six meetings although being out-scored 92-84, Both Bomber wins came at home. So George Trafton's charges have a jinx to beat when the semi- fudl shifts to Regina next Satur- day. . The semi-final winner meets Es- kimos for the WIFU, champion- ship in a best-of-three series open- ing Nov. 7 in Edmonton. e WIFU champion then takes on the Ontario Rugby Football Unign titleholders in a precedent-break- ing sudden-death playoff Nov. 21 in the West. Edmonton won 12 of 16 games for an easy first-place finish. But their loss through injury of half- back Billy Vessels was nerve- shattering. Vessels, winner of the Heisman Trophy last year as the most valu- able U. S. follege football player, was injured early in the Saturday game and was carried off the observation in hospital. KORCHAK TOP SCORER ~ Homebrew flying wing Bud Kor- of Bombers kicked two con- verts the game to win the league scyring championship' witn 66 points. 11 more than Vessels' backfield mate, Rollie: Miles, who led in touchdowns with 11. Cal- gary's Pistol Pete Thodos, a Van- couver halfback product, scored a major to give him 10 for the season, same as Vessels, and third place in the scoring race. Eskimo tackle ilbur Snyder, second-year import from Idaho, kicked his 31st convert without a miss Saturday, believed a league record. Statistics compiled by The Ca- nadian Press show that Korchak |who came up through Winnipeg minor ranks, connected on one {touchdown, nine field goals, five singles and 29 converts. He w as | M the first homebrew to top WIFU !scorers since Vern Graham of Cal- gary Stampeders and a native of Calgary won top honors four years ago. His nine field goals are a league record. London Central Collegiate Wins Red Feather Award By DON PEACOCK Canadian Press Staff Writer TORONTO (CP)--London Central Collegiate Saturday night won the first golden rule award of Red Feather football. As 500-bare-legged cheerleaders led more than 15,000 fans in ap- plause, team captain Don Dyckman received the trophy and the fifth annual Red Feather football tour- nament of champions, billed as the biggest teen-age extravaganza in country, was over, its two-day stand, the T 0 and Ontario Commun- ds for charity. Eight teams from Ontario sec- schools competed under played four games were four winners. But the trophy, a team to do more than win: It had game for the game's d "be fair at all times." coaches had a code, too, in- reminder that "no ad- ¥ E [yantase are to be sought over others, except those of superior skill." SPORTSMANSHIP COUNTS London Central white-washed St. Catharines Collegiate 19-0 as the tournament opened Friday night, but in taking over the Red Fea- ther championship from North Tor- onto Collegiate, 1952 winner, it got marks for sportsmanship as well. Judges marked the teams for win- ning ability, field generalship and player-coach" deportment. The tournament, sponsored by the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations in co-opera- tion with a Toronto newspaper (Telegram) and department store (Eaton's), is held annually to raise funds for the Toronto and Ontario Community Chests. When all re- ures are in, some $60,000 is hoped or. : Indicative of the fair play in- spired by the tournament is the fact Oshawa Collegiate, which won the right to represent central On- tario, voluntarily relinquished its priviege when it realized it had ken a Red Feather rule by a nting its team with their sister-collegiate players. As .a result, Alliston Memorial High, the team Oshawa had beaten came to the tournament. SUDBURY DEFEATED Saturday night, Ottawa Fisher Park' High bl ed Alliston 34-0 and Etobicoke Collegiate defeated Sudbury Tech 26-5. Friday night's second game saw Hamilton West- gale down Toronto Danforth Tech Halfback Jim Butler led Ottawa with three jo¥chdogrnz, five con- verts and a field gohl. Jack Young and Gord Johnson scored the other majors. Johnson also booted a single. Don Guest, who is also an out- standing Canadian schoolboy scul- ler, scored two touchdowns and kicked a convert for Etobicoke. Lorry Stacey made two touch- downs and Don Comish went over for the other major. Gino Pinn took Arne Haldin's nine-yard pass for Sudbury's touch- down. = FOOTBALL RESULTS By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sal y Pittsburgh 31 Green Bay 14 Sunday Cleveland 7 New York 0 hd Philadelphia 56 Chicago Cards 17 Washington 17 Baltimore 27 Chicago Bears 24 Los Angeles 38 Detroit 14 San Francisco 10 : Kitchener Sarnia CANADIAN GRID STANDINGS By THE CANADIAN PRESS Big Four W.L F A Pls. Montreal 6 5 216 172 12 Hamilton 6 5 162 186 Ottawa 5 6 225 208 Toronto 5 6 152 189 Saturday's Result Hamilton, 5 Toronto 17 unday's Result Ottawa 30 Montreal 15 ORFU WL F 8 3 219 7 4213 Toronto 7 4 199 .139 Brantford 0 11 298 Saturday's Results Toronto 6 Sarnia 23 Brantford 12 Kitchener 25 Sunday's Result Brantford 0 Toronto 37 * Intercollegiate A 160 101 4 0 9% 2.1.5) 2 2 1:2 927 McMaster 0 4 32 Saturday's Results Queen's 7 Western 19 McGill 13 McMaster 7 WIFU (Final) Edmonton Regina Winnipeg Calgary . 1 Regina '13 FUAYS Bom ary Winnipeg 17 Edmonton 8 Windsor Juniors White wash Samia « WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Windsor AKO defeated Sarnia Knights of Columbus 55-0 Sunday in the first game of a two-game, total point series for the Ontario Rugby Foot- ball Union junior title. Second game will be played in Sarnia next Saturday. Windsor was in control all the way and the Sarnia team never got within 25 yards of the Windsor goal line. Bob Fletcher and Mike Roberts paced AKO with two touchdowns eac AKO held a 12-0 lead at the end of the first quarter and extended the lead to 18-0 at half time. The score was 35-0 at the end of the third quarter. touchdowns were scored by Leo Karcz, Boris Antosko, Lou Panontin, Eddy Mularchyk and Ron Hoover. * Jim Haslip of Sarnia suffered a minor hip injury in the game and Wed 'ken to hospital for treat- ment. Mustangs Are Title Bound By THE CANADIAN PRESS Western Mustangs are galloping towards their second straight Sen- ior Intercollegiate Football League championship at a relentless pace. The Mustangs rolled to their fourth straight victory of the year' {19-7 in Little Memorial Stadium Saturday to keep a stranglzhoid on first place. : In the week-end's other game, McGill Redmen moved into a sec- ond-place tie with the idle Toronto Varsity by coming from behind * 113-7 at Hamilton. Queen's, gave the Mustangs their toughest opposition of the year. Trailing 2-1 early in the game the Mustangs started rolling and moved into the lead with a late first-quarter touchdown by Garnet Mason. - Murray Henderson gave the London club a 13-2 lead with a major just before the half. The Gaels showed their best form in the third session when Jack Cook * (took a pass by Pete Cranston to score. Another Western touchdown by Hendersoh in the final quarter sewed up the verdict. McGILL TRAILS AT HALF The Redmen came from behind a 7-6 half-time" deficit to take their second game in four starts. Mc- Master's touchdown came in the first quarter when quarterback Joe Kosakowski took the ball from the one-yard line after a 55 yard ground drive. McGill tied the score in the sec- ond quarter when George Klein scored after a 90-yard drive. Then Lorne Wrigglesworth of McMaster kicked a single just before half e. It was all McGill in the last half with Len Shaw evening the score with a 50-yard punt early in the third quarter. The final Redmen touch was set up by an intercep- tion by Lionel Quinn when he blocked a kick. Shaw tossed to Hal Biewald for the major. Shaw singled to end the scoring. Hamilton Inters Crush Stratford STRATFORD (CP) -- Hamilton Panthers scored four converted touchdowns in the first 10 minutes Saturday and went on to crush Stratford Rams 34-6 in the final game of the Ontario Rugby Foot- ball Union intermediate schedule. Twice in th elsatfviutesfionme Twice in the last five minutes of play Stratford had the ball on the Hcomilton one-yard line but failed to push it over. : Garnet V"'liams, Ernie 'lard with two 1 Steven Mo... .u with three counted Panthers* six touch- downs. i Don McTavish's forward pass to George Wilson accounted for the Rams' only touchdown. 4 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, October 26, 1958 41 DICK GREGORY SCORES 17 Balmy Beach Star Has "A Field Day" ~ Against Brantford - But Not Samia By JACK SULLIVAN Canadian Press Staff Writer It's just as well that nobody in Western Canada knows which club will travel to Toronto for the Nov. 28 Grey Cup final because no one east of Winnipeg has the foggiest idea who will be waiting for them at Varsity Stadium. The way things have been going, the Big Four should conduct saliva tests, The Western Conference hits the ayoff trail this week and the TE 5h Da hat it eve ng ou up. eastern union had a big chance to straighten out into a two-way battle during the week-end but now it's anybody's fight. Toronto . Argonauts, humbled by Montreal Alouettes 39-11 the week previously, took it out"on Hamliton Tiger-Cats with a 175 count at Toronto Saturday. And Ottawa Rough Riders, the powerhouse of the Big Four on paper that looked second-rate on the field the last three outings, knocked over the Als 30-15 at Montreal. The 16-game Western Confer- ence schedule ended Saturday ht with intere results. Sas- katchewan Roughriders, with old pro Frankie Filchock directing play, had to settle for a 13-13 tie with the last-place Calgary Stam- peders and Winnipeg Blue Bomb- ers knocked over the first-place Edmonton Eskimos 17-8 at Edmon- ton. ROUGHRIDERS SECOND The tie gave Roughriders second place, one point up on the Bombers and the two clubs meet at Winni- RE semifinals. The series meets Edmonton in the best-of- three finals starting Nov. 7. The Ontario Rugby Football Union moved ahead with little fan- fare. i IMPS STILL HAVE CHANCE Sarnia Imperials, once - feared fplons of the ORFU bo are fin t tough go! year, came up with Jorg their 'best games on Saturday to defeat Tor- onto Balmy Beach 23-6 and keep their playoff chances alive. Beaches splattered Brantford Red- skins 37-0 at Toronto on Sunda to stay in a second-place tie wit the Imps, eague - leading Kitchener- Waterloo Dutchmen won a playoff berth by defeating the Redskins 25-12 at Kitchener on Saturday. Perk Johnson, Eric McKeever and Dutch Davey went over for Sarnia touchdowns with Jack Mec- Kelvie converting all three. Jim Burr booted a single and the other ints came on safety touches. arvey Singleton took a pass from Bob Schiendenbach behind the Sarnia goal line for the Balmy Beach touchdown. Dick Gregory converted. 5% The Dutchmen sewed up their victory with first-quarter touch- downs by Al Wade and Bobby Kuntz, Carl Totzke and Don Sle- mon went over for the other Kitch- ener majors. Stu Crosse kicked all four converts. Jack Mancos booted a sinle. Boris Kotoff and Andy Sowalski intercepted a Kitchener pass for a Brantford major and Andy Sowalski took a 15-yard for- ward to count another touchdown. L Hairston converted both. BIG DAY FOR GREGORY Gregory had a field day for Balmy Beach against Brantford. He rolled up 17 points on two touchdowns, a field goal and four converts. Johnny Bell also: scored two majors, one of them on a 45-yard run. John McCutcheon re- covered a fumbled Brantford snap behind the Redskins' goal line and Doucette plunged two yards through centre for the other Tor- onto majors. ¢ Argonauts, who usually come up with the big ones stopped Tiger- Cats cold, allowing them a meagre 34 yards KEained on the ground and only 100 yards in the air. The Bengals were outpla badly along the line and Toronto quarter Nobby Wirkowski had practieslly enough time to count the house while looking for pass receivers. Uly Curtis and Doug Smylie went over for the Argonaut touchdowns. Bob Shaw kicked both ¢onverts and a field goal while Steve Karrys booted two singles. Cam Fraser kicked a single for Hamilton. Their other points. came on two safety touches. The Alouettes, riding on a three- game win streak, appeared on the way to their fourth victory with a 9-0 half-time lead but they couldn't stand prosperity. Riders ripped through their line and the Als were a badly-beatén club at the end of 60 minutes. Fleet Bernie Flowers accounted for two Ottawa touchdowns. Ava- tus Stone, Choo Choo Roberts and . Bobby Cunningham scored one each. Roberts made four converts ood and also kicked a single. John & Quinn and Alex Webster counted majors for the Als, both conv by Ray Poole who also kicked a placement. Frankie Albert Had His Season CALGAR Y(CP)--Frankie Albert after a disappointing Western In- terprovincial Football Union sea- son with the tail-end Calgary Stam-- peders, flew back to San 'Fran- cisco Saturday night. It is believed he won't be back. Frank McCool, sports editor of the Calgary Albertan, sald that "by pre-arrangement Albert statéd he would take a crack at Canadian football for one year only and that no matter what happened he would be going hack to San Francisco and show at the conclusion of the season," Albert did not live up to his press behind the weakest line in WIFU. Bfit on the few occasions that line did give him protection, he ranked the best in his field generalship, passing and run- clippings, partly because he oper- the Albert sat out Saturday night's 13-13 tie game with Saskatchewan Roughriaars with a displaced ver- rae. ORFUNS WIN TITLE COBOURG (CP)--Peterborough Orfuns won the championship of the Ontario Rugby Football Union Intermediate A group Saturday by defeating Cobourg Galloping Ghosts 19-0. Peterborough led the two- ame total-points series 24-11. Co- urg won the first game 11-5 at Peterborough. Coach Frank Leahy Stricken At Game SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)--Notre Dame football coach Frank Leahy collapsed midway in the Notre DameGeorgia Tech game Satur day, and his worried Irish grid ders--who "cried like babies" -- went on to win 'for Leahy" 27-14. . The 4Byearold coach was stric ken at halftime. Doctors at St. Joseph Houta) said he suffered a severe " inal spasm resulting from an acute attack of intestinal influenza. 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