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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 New Orleans 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 South Carolina 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 Jim Tatum 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—Quarterback 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.