locoing C-1 Pie SPORTS irk WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1956 Terps, Sooners Put Marks on Line; All Bowls Expecting Close Battles Oklahoma Still Spartans, TCU, 7-Point Choice Tech Favored; Weather Good H MjWojf- In Miami Game Br the AsiocUted Pree* By WHITTLESEY b ' MERREL College r tJHPBBBkJi 4 12k* Star Staff Corraapondent football reaches a Hi w»m I ®g|p* frantic climax today when eight MIAMI, Jan. 2.—Two football of the top If teams of the land, teams which are opposites in sporting a handful of All* B Jh|k I \, Americans, meet many ways, yet strangely alike in the four big l# post-season bowl games. V.' • " “%*°' thoroughness B \ 1 T" jSfcjjl* in and perfection, The Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Orange today, / meet in the Bowl _ ''w / ¦‘ \ iJfajr ß the granddaddy of them all, «¦¦ a|B BflM \ ?-.- ¦§ the only post-season game pitted Michigan State against 'igf££BgHK ilaHi!.. UCLA; Orange r. ft;« 4”Jfi\ matching the Bowl in ' ; : a¦< - unbeaten teams. s*#**>£? JSihißE: Flashy, speedy, v Oklahoma, Miami sent Oklahoma, the No. 1 country, against row, a 7- team in the winner of 29 in a is Maryland; point >third-ranked the Cot- favorite over defense-con-' paired seious Maryland, unbeaten in its ton Bowl in Dallas Texas Maryland Christian against Mississippi, last 15 games, but the Sugar (ans were loving those odds. and the Bowl in matched Georgia Tech READY FOR ACTION—Miami Beach.—Back Jim Heard, Ladd, Visiting coaches, sports writ- Tackle Benton SHI • * .4 IB and Pitt. and Guard Kenneth Hallum of Oklahoma relax they await ers and prominent football i If All • as yesterday’s hangers-on were picking Mary- were down for full radio drill for today’s Maryland. Coach and television coverage as fol- final Orange Bowl battle with Bud Wilkrn- a tide that has turned ¦Hi' son .was confident his charges were “as ready as can be.”—AP land in lows: Wirephoto. to the Terps. & -j -¦ ¦ISiiBBBI Rose—s pm. (EST), NBC ¦ ¦ The bigger and better-known r radio and TV. Maryland linemen, i If*Jf : coached to Orange—2 pm. (EST), CBS anticipate Oklahoma's every M ftmr radio move, believe they can slow down Si and TV. Big Ten Opens Cotton—2 pm. (EST), NBC already win, the Sooners, who have radio and TV. lose or carrying 11l received the trophy the Bugar—2 pm. (EST), top-ranked ABC honor of the Nation’s radio and TV. » League Action team. (In Washington, WTOP-9 is ¦f draw Nobody Has Exeases outlet, ' the CBS WRC-4 carries There were no pre-game ex- BB the NBC games and WMAL-7 cuses from Maryland, Oklahoma, presents the ABC game.) With 4 Games or the weatherman. The game- Close Games Expected figured That Extra time temperature is supposed to All the games were to Something 87 liltAssociated Press be close, with no team rated bet- MIAMI,Jan. 2.—Two years ago, Jim hit 75, and the skies will be clear. Tatum uttered his The champion of the Queen report game words, 1 CBS will the to the famous “There goes our football team,” when Quarter- City tournament will be crowned 1 Nation by radio and television. back Bemie Faloney’s bum knee collapsed during a workout in Buffalo tonight, heralding the ¦j Hours before the 2 o’clbck BOWL WEATHER Today, camp end of the holiday tourneys and By Associated Maryland’s followers fear that after this second ' kickoff, most of the 76.561 spec- BEFORE THE STORM—Miami Beach.—End BUI Walker and Tackle Ed th« Press Orange Bowl battle with Oklahoma, or latest after the start, in most cases, of con- tators had made their way to CALM at the 1956, competition. ' minutes of relaxation be- Official weather forecast for the big coach “Here ference basketball the huge stadium in downtown Heuring of Maryland take advantage of a final few the major fbotball bowl games may say, goes Tatum.” Georgia game a fish they Tech and Xavier of ' to see pre-game pag- . , fore today’s Orange Bowl with Oklahoma to admire couple of City Miami the today: If ever a football team moved into a major bowl under Ohio clash in the Queen eantry, the floats, the pretty girls pulled out of Biscayne Bay. They could hardly wait to get their hooks in the Rose—Clear, qualified by i about 48 de- similar circumstances it it unremembered here. There are finals. Tech knock- 'and the caremonles. Sooners.—Star Staff Photo by Ranny Routt. grees. ing some who feel the Tatum-to-North Carolina spiel is just one | off Canisius and Westmin- l, (Pa.) |! The Oklahoma band has won Cotton—Clear, about 70 de- more in a long line of spiels, but they are in the minority. ster while Xavier made ’ the first bout, but it could back-! grees. the grade with victories over Ni- fire. In the Orange Bowl parade Now the suspicion is that if Dr. Wilson Elkins threatens to ! agara and St. Bonaventure. Orange—Clear, about 75 de- cut down on athletic scholarships and generally de-empha- Saturday night, the Sooners’ 1 No Immediate Announcement Seen grees. game going While the title is ; cheer leaders chanted. “We’re cloudy, size, Big Jim will, indeed, be on his way. the Big Ten will open its Sugar—Partly about jon, ’ No. 1. we're No. 1.” Watching; 68 degrees. The Terrapin Clubbers whom he organized are very j season with four contests. grandstand not Ohio State, a slight favorite•from the was the Weighs North Carolina Job, happy writing. ' Maryland team, As Tatum at this They have been accustomed tc win- j league which doesn’t ter than a one-touchdown favor- to dethrone lowa as believe it. ning football teams and bowl games. They remember little champion, will take on Michi- By MERRELL WHITTLESEY | Carolina is not a coaches' and the other is the remote pos- ite at kickoff time. Michigan In Maryland's last bowl I Isibllity might Byrd Stadium of years ago and compare it with today’s Byrd i gan. Northwestern faces Indi- three Star Staff Corrrapondent paradise. Much of his time in! that he succeed! State rated one touchdown over appearances, the No. 1 team in probably ! leaves, UCLA, as Oklahoma Stadium. They like it in the big league and Tatum is nothing ana. Michigan State meets 11-: MIAMI, 2—One the next two weeks will Tatum if Jim did over the A. P. poll has been a partici-1 I Jan. school be spent in weighing the two Giese, Tatum’s confidante, is Maryland, Texas if not a big league coach. linois and Purdue tackles Wis- thought here, consisting i Christian over ipant. Tennessee was ranked first''of Jobs. about a 99-to-l shot to coach Mississippi and Georgia Tech * • • * consin. mostly reporters in 1952 when it lost to the Terps. of who have year ago month, > season, over Dons Idle Until Friday wrong years A last this next and Pitt. and so was Maryland in 1954, been for nine about reporter went to : of THIS IS THE BOOK on Tatum going into the 22d Orange In other games. Detroit plays ! going to the Atlantic I this probably will be the first The official weather forecasts | when it lost to Oklahoma. This North meeting in post-Orange Bowl today: Bradley and Wichita meets Carolina, Maryland Coast Conference i the Bowl announce- were favorable in all four cities. Valley is no time to break the precedent, is that the particularly every- Seventy-three wins, 13 losses and four ties in 9 Houston in Missouri con- ' coach will make dramatic post-' Greensboro because iments. The sun was expected seasons. the Maryland players believe. a a very good except Orleans, Three perfect seasons of 10-0 records, or 44 wins in Mary- tests. Auburn visits Florida and game statement in the dressing there was chance Catch for Gamecocks where New where Pittsburgh plays Yale. Terps Take It Easy that Tatum would take the! the forecast called for some at room after the Orange Bowl is smart, thorough, land’s last 48 games, excluding bowls. Dons, Maryland Carolina Job. He was closer at, ; Giese ex- cloudiness. San Francisco’s winners The squad spent a game that he will be the new perienced, and should be good Five bowl teams, including today’s, with wins over Mis- of 36 straight and ECAC cham- restful day vesterday that time than he been! a Two All-Americans will tangle after the coach of the Tar Heels. has, . Gamecocks. Rex souri and Tennessee, tie with Georgia and 7-0 defeat by pions. until Friday when sun since. If he leaves, it will be only i catch for the Pasadena before the throng of a a are idle warm had taken the New According Information, Enright director, St to our because North Carolina meets ; will be athletic 100,000— Oklahoma. they're expected to breeze past Year's eve chill from the air. such announcement today the coaching job } Earl Mor- Pepperdine. They an his every demand for security for relinquishing ! rail of Michigan and The best 10-year record of the Nation’s active coaches. were serenaded in the; :1s about likely as snow can- he has threatened to do for State Guard any luck all, the top- morning by as himself and his family. as James Brown of UCLA. Only With at the Maryland band, 1 celing the Maryland-Oklahoma , years. Enright here for the Coach-of-the-year in 1953. impromptu ap- is years ago, Spartans rated Dons should at least tie | which made an • So far the Tar Heel officials ' Orange game. two the teams, collegiate Flamingo clash. job replac- Bowl whipped A national champion and two third-ranked the all-time record of ' pearance at the hotel department to have handled the of course, the Uclans in the Rose straight Jointly by Long This would like ing George Os if Giese haul reli- the meaning the current edition and the 1951 squad which beat 39 held j and tore the Terps from their 1 go on record as saying that Barclay badly and reasons to believe he would Bowl and score since the Big Island University and Seton ' they not able Tennessee, the No. 1 team, in the 1952 various forms of recreation. Tatum, as Os this moment, plans are much closer to: Tatum if Jim goes to Ten and Pacific Coast Confer- Hall. ! afternoon meeting was reaching decision the "succeed ence began their tieup stands The big guy never has coached a loser, even in his first The ito coach Maryland next season,! a on North Carolina, he probably After Pepperdine, San Fran- listening for 1942, much shorter than the usual although he still is to 'Tatum situation. would choose the Maryland Job 9-1 the Midwesterners. year, at North Carolina. He was 9-2 during the war at cisco is play Santa pre-game meeting, apparently a job. They don’t down to North Carolina. Tatum has ’ over South Carolina. on Jacksonville Naval Air Station and 8-3 at Oklahoma in 1946, Clara State, neither Terps a Bank Runners and Fresno because the were so much He positively has not signed a have coach. It's their move. Although both clubs can pass. which he left move Maryland. !of which figure to give Bill Rus- on edge thar any All of the assistants who have after to to more talk contract or reached an agree- All Aides Might Go for years, par- Coaches Duffy Daugherty of • * * * sell and Co. much trouble. The might have dulled them. Last Heels, but, : been with Jim 1 ment with the Tar ticularly ex-Terps. Tommy Michigan State and Red Sanders game on January night they a ago, ! to , the THAT WAS ANOTHER time when Marylanders were up California 28 attended movie. as was the case a year still If Jim decides return to naturally hope could be the record-breaker for visiting coach said in the Chapel Hill, where he played I Mont and Bob Ward, of UCLA to turn their run- in arms over their football coach. Dr. H. C., (Curley) Byrd, , One has the Job under consideration Maryland ning Peaks jthe Dons. lobby he didn’t think Mike San- and where he was head coach ! would like the Job. backs loose. Clarence then president of Maryland, could not or would not extend to Two of Study? goes, likely that ; and Gerry Planutis carry the ¦ Santa Clara had the distinc- dusky, Maryland’s tremendous Weeks in 1942, today’s game may mean IfTatum it is ,’he : Michigan State, Paul Bryant a lony-term contract. Under the youthful Bryant, tion of being the first school to tackle, wait the kick- Tatum has reasons for being, • the final appearance on will offer every man on his mail for while 1 could for the! !! a job him at Davenport a coach and organizer much on the manner of Tatum, the jvin a college basketball game wants to go right now,” slightly unhappy at Maryland, Maryland every single staff with North i Sam Brown and Bob off. “He staff for run- Terrapins began to go places. When Bryant announced he in 1956 The Broncos fought off , See ORANGE BOWL, Page C-4 r but he also realizes that North one of his assistants. |Carolina Carolinians Eddie i handle most of the UCLA rally Loyola Teague and Emmet Cheek prob- • ning. leaving Maryland for Kentucky, students started a “sit- a late to defeat of ! apparently has s was Orleans, 53-50, holding ably would be the first to accept. The Oklahoma-M aryl an d down” strike, which Bryant helped to break up. An oddity, New in the only, been up announcement II game played last night. that he will leave Maryland for. As he has done in the past, , struggle has been awaited a long seems to Terrapin Club members, is that bpth AT A GLANCE trying push up- or at least so it Dayton, unbeaten in nine BOWL GAMES two reasons. One is that it; 'Tatum has been to i time —ever since the Sooners Dr. Byrd and Dr. Elkins had played football in their college See BASKETBALL, Page C-3 Bf the Associated Press be poor taste, j his assistants into other vacant : ended the Terps, 7-0, in the same games, showing would inasmuch as days. But whereas Curley openly sought big-time status in Lineup of today’s football name of the Orange Bowl should be coaching jobs. Jim Meade, Jack : bowl two years ago. Oklahoma, records, starting times, ex- re- the sport, Dr. Elkins apparently intends to put on a check- bowl, site, teams, won-lost-tied ceiving his every consideration. See TSTUM, Page C-4 See BOWLS. Page C-4 Maryland Rooters pected attendance, receipts and radio and television ar- rein rangements: (Starting times are Eastern Standard.) That was quite a team—Byrd and Tatum. As an old 'Apologize' Byrd Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Calif.—UCLA (9-1-0) vs. Michi- Maryland coach himself, Curley was not above second-guess- to gan 100,000, NBC radio By » Staff Correspondent State (8-1-0), 5 p.m., $500,000. Oklahoma succeed Bryant. Star. ing the man he hired from to MIAMI. 2 (Special).—'The , and television. Jan. Orange* Bowl, Miami, Fla —Oklahoma (10-0-0) vs. But no coach had it so good as Tatum and together Byrd and Maryland apol- 7 band and rooters Maryland (10-0-0), p.m.. 76.062, $515,000, CBS radio and Jim built Maryland into a national power, not to mention ogized to Dr. H. C. Byrd, former 2 big plus $3.5 University president, “letting, I television. building that new stadium a million fieldhouse. for Sugar Orleans—Georgia (8-1-1) vs. * * * Bowl. New Tech * him down two years ago” in yells Pittsburgh (7-3-0), 2 p.m., 82,985. $500,000. ABC radio and SNOW^MUDandSLUSH 1 MARYLAND HAD NEVER produced an All-American during a pep ralaly at the Fla- mingo night, [ television. until Tatum and Byrd began operating. Since then, nearly Hotel last before Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Tex.—Texas Christian (9-1-0), vs. giving a cheer for the current p.m., 75,504, $475,000, radio and TUBE Terrapins Mississippi (9-1-0), 2 NBC TIRE and 20 have made first or second All-American teams. president, Dr. Wilson Elkins. television. Pro scouts, who rarely followed Maryland, now tap the Col- sorry Curley, we let “We’re ' Sun Bowl. El Paso, Tex.—Texas Tech (7-2-1) vs. lege Park fount regularly. you down,” the students yelled, (7-3-0), regional MONDAY J> "Wyibrahon ; Wyoming 4:30 p.m., 15,000, $65,000, radio, ¦ ¦¦ / / When the made off with the National between songs and cheers. Later JG they no television. Football League playoff a week ago they had Ed Modzelewski called for Dr. Elkins, who Tangerine Orlando, (Pa.) (8-0-0) They Bowl, Fla.—Juniata going for them. And Ronnie Waller was with the runner up addressed them briefly. also vs. Missouri Valley (Mo.) (8-1-0), 8 p.m., 12,000, $40,000, called for Coach Jim Tatum, who 1 Los Angeles Rams. Both finished in the first 10 in ball carry- 1 no radio, no television. was not at the hotel. Bowl, Houston, Tex.—Prairie View ing. Another, Dick Bielskl of the Philadelphia Eagles, wound Byrd, to Prairie View Dr. who is scheduled (7-2-1) vs. A&I (7-2-0), 3 p.m., 10,000, $15,000, up of the leading A standout on defense for game, 1 Tennessee as> one scorers. be here for the was Main- ’ local radio, no television. the Redskins was . land's president when Oklahoma Ray Krouse, more than once an All-National League beat Maryland, 7-0, in the 1954 1 1 ‘ Orange tackle, and Dick Nolan were on the New York Giants’ first . The group also gave a yell for defensive unit and Stanley Jones played regularly for the. a distillery in , with (>1 H Jl, 11 4 < Q.j {t V j rs jWB n 9*r Chicago Bears. played for the Pittsburgh obvious reference to Dr. Elkins’ 1 W’lii¦ i Lloyd Colteryahn for the Baltimore Colts and a pair on campus drinking. Steelers, ban fir TUBE m .GUARANTEED BIX MONTHS amvSSSSIIM of others, and Bob Morgan made good in OPEN EVERT DAY FACTORY RECONDITIONED V. rW*S|[|M too) SPECIALS! .... month’s pro draft (only partial, Center (Including Sunday) I ¦ mount- Canada. In last i These prices with old if / Ed Pellegrini and Halfback were first choices of the respectively. Boys’ & Girls’—Men’s & Women’s Eagles and Redskins, , of course, j belongs to the Browns, but is in the service, at Bolling Air Force Base. Oedee Ponllec Mercers Hedeen 80*,# * * • * J-JJJJJ SSSe J 2 •• THE LARGE GENTLEMAN from McColl, S. C-. has win- 5.70115 l.ooxia B PLY ning ways and not everybody is going to take kindly to a SKATES 7 S departure on his part. Tatum, too, may rue the material he I TIRE 5.99 6.99 5.99 s^9* may have to leave at College Park while rebuilding at North 0*45 B Regular Military Snow Treads Carolina. oS Th!f, ii.k she Peek. Still, he’s got some bargaining points. That’s a big sta- ** dium to fill at Maryland and a de-emphaslzed football team USED TRUCK TIRES § weather, ad- 6 40x 1115 going hand, skating take J**’'"• |H 00x'iV~* *~6 1 isn’t to fillit. On the other North Carolina hasn’t f * vantage of Sport Center's JM- | jif«j X -SiBB fielded a winner in a long time and if the Tar Heels are complete K/' IKI looking for a guy to do the job tn a hurry, he’s their boy—- and one of their own, too. For Maryland rooters it’ll be tantamount to a double- Hooded Sweat Shirt 2.05 header in the Orange Bowl. The first half of the bill is Mary- land versus Oklahoma. The second half, they strongly suspect, is Tatum versus President Elkins. WESTERN DIVISION Won Loot Pet. NBA STANDINGS Port Werne 14 . IS .838 Rochester 13 17 .433 k; the Ai.ocieted Frees St. Louie 11 15 .423 Minneapolis 8 20 .310 I Sts, EASTERN DIVISION WP Bth and D N.W. RE 7-254S^^g Won Lo.t Pet. RESULTS TESTERDAY HttE EAHKINO ANY DOWNTOWN FA IKING LOTI Boston. 121: Philadelphia, 113. | i Rochester. 101: New York. 02. Port Warns, 85: St. Louis, SB. ii in Srracuse. 85: Minneapolis. 60.