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••;%§£, ill; H ? m BMI KENTUCKY STRING ENDS AT 16 Terps Cheered : • Council Holds Upset by By Background * Vanderbilt ’ * e rV^^|| ¥> *¦ »t| >. >#, Os New Coach "V''' UsifcV Key to NCAA Lightens Rupp's Load By MERRELL WHITTLESEY Star Staff Writer Action Today Br th« Associated Free* left but N. C. State pulled it Fears among University of The load’* const dera b1 y out behind the clutch shooting Maryland fans, students and CINCINNATI, Jan. 7 (AP).— ] lighter today for Adolph Rupp, of Lou Pucillo and Bob Mac- alumni that the school would OUR SCHEDULES—Tom and Jim you - WELCOME TO Nu- cuse Tatum of know where. The The 53d annual convention of i the Kentucky basketball glllivray. ide emphasize footoall were gent (center), Maryland’s coaches meetings the baron new football coach, are busy at the NCAA in National Collegiate Ath- jwho once said, "A winning Scattered conference play eased yesterday when word is greeted by coaches of two Terp opponents Cincinnati.—AP wirephoto. letic Association starts offl- , streak gets kinda’ heavy to and a handful of neighborhood leaked from Tallahassee, Fla., next season, Ben Schwarzwalder (left) of Syra- daily today. And it could open ) Ary around.” games rounded out last night’s that Tom Nugent was going with a bang and of program. to Florida screams | j Commo dor s leave State to be- anguish if the council, the! Vanderbilt’s e come the Terps’ eased the burden last night, Rice Texas A&M new coach for group’s policy making unit, ) the next four years. shattering top-ranked Ken- finds any member schools!: Rice’s Gary Griffin whipped De-emphasis guilty tucky’s 16-game string of vic- in | is not in the of infractions of the five points in the last 12 makeup of Nugent, an eager, NCAA code. tories with a 75-66 decision at seconds to break a tie and up- Hoyasand AU Tangle Nashville that must rank as dynamic fellow whose back- The committee on infrac- ; set Texas A&M, 70-65, throw- ground quick tions, by the top upset of the college ing shows success in LOSE OR headed A. D. Kirwan the Southwest Conference rebuilding jobs at VMI of Kentucky, basketball season thus far. and delivered its re- race into a tizzy The Aggies, Florida State. port yesterday, Only 5-5 before game, And there is an As Terps Battle Duke to the council the the beaten but once in 10 earlier outside chance that Maryland but there ( Commodores reeled off starts, pulled By FRANCIS STANN was no indication of a 21-4 even at 65-all on will boost the number of DRAW Big basketball doings are AUantlc its findings spurt midway its The Coast Confer- in cases which it 1 in the first half Neil Swisher’s basket with 33 football scholarships. scheduled in opposite corners -1 ence game at Maryland isn't might have studied during the 1 and stayed comfortably ahead seconds left. Griffin broke it §WIN, of the Washington baliwlck to- throughout. The 45-year-old Nugent, a past year. up lay-up exactly a “must” the Ter- i with a with 12 night—an Atlantic Coast Con- for investigations Jim Henry’s 29 points seconds to go, handsome, curly-haired Irish- raplns, but It's important Such are con- and and then ference scramble between Duke , nev- ducted in the utmost secrecy ; 32 fouls called on Kentucky wrapped it up with three free man, has high ambitions of and Maryland at College Park, , ertheless. Duke, a sopho- big success in the football world, New Boy at Maryland with so that an innocent institution were the factor in the Wild- throws. , and a home-town rivalry be- more team, has won its last, will not draw unwarranted un- cats’1 first loss since another Bobby Jones’ 30 points led and this is his first opportunity OUR FLORIDA OPERATIVES are quick to lament the games tween neighboring Georgetown i three and is rising as still favorable publicity. I Southeastern Conference team. Southern Methodist over Texas. at a major football school. The loss of Tom Nugent, father of nine and the choice of Dr. and American U. at the neutral I another threat to Maryland’s The committee on infrac- Auburn, sandbagged Rupp 6c 73-55, and Texas Tech rallied dapper New Englander has a Wilson H. Elkins as Maryland’s new resident football Fort Myer gym. shaky reign as conference 1 tions met last month In Kan- Co.,1 64-63, last February 24. to edge Baylor, 68-65, In other great desire to be a winner. game . champion. sas City games. genius. Among other things, Nugent is expected to waste The at Maryland starts to assemble the report Win Foul Southwest Quickly Approved p.m., which at Line George no time introducing the “Magic of Thinking.” at 8:15 with a freshman Both was delivered yesterday, Dartmouth, with Dr. Wilson Elkins, Mary- prelim Bow to Powers to Kentucky reeled off five Ramming netting the at 8:15. Georgetown i its final session this morn- 20 points, land president, who four weeks In good time, according to reliable sources, Coach (admis- Duke is 2-1 in the conference ing, the : straight victories to close out opened Ivy League and AU start at 8:30 council was to decide its cam- ago gave Tommy Mont 24 hours Nugent will display certain other gifts. He will sing, , after beating Wake Forest Mon- if any action last season as NCAA champion paign with 52-51 squeaker sion free), also with a frosh would be taken a to resign after three years as perhaps in a soft shoe, challenge oratorical prelim . day night, and 5-5 overall. on the basis findings by and had tacked on 11 in a row Virginia throw little the at 6:15. Also on tap to- of the over Yale, and Tech head coach, presented Nugent’s . Maryland is 2-1 and 3-5. group. this season. Vandy bagged it Southern records left by Jim Tatum and undoubtedly not only night is a Mason-Dixon Con- infractions and Richmond won the of Regents The Blue Devils have at the free throw line, hitting Conference name to Board spread flank his ference game between Towson , taken Six tests. yesterday his ends the near-width of the field but their lumps from Clemson, Ken- Now on Probation 33 to 20 for Kentucky. The !in Baltimore morn- halfbacks just back of them. and Gallaudet at Gallaudet at ; Virgina Tech rode a 34-point ing. He promptly was accepted. [8:15. tucky. West Virginia. Villa- Ifany. punishment meted out 1 Commodores got 12 of their last performance by Sophomore Bob along the way, Elkins, of to 14 points on free throws. Maryland had intended to Somewhere Dr. president the The Georgetown - American , nova and Michigan State, a member schools would be Ayersman to an 86-81 decision After the game withhold the news until this University of Maryland, became separated from his original game is being advertised a [hardly disgraceful record. announced just prior to offi- Rupp said, over George Washington, and as “We have averaged making afternoon, but the first word line of “a of Maryland for test this area's /Maryland’s list of losses also cial opening of the convention 18 Richmond had four players in thought of Maryland coach boys between two games came Florida State, Nugent exciting players.' sounds something like a Who’s in the afternoon, fouls in 11 this season. double figures—topped by Alan from Maryland people.” is out of Lawrence, Mass., via most little Tonight where Nugent had been head Puddy Sheehan [|Who of college basketball. council is expocted to remove we had 32 called Cole with 19—in a 69-62 victory Ithaca | Vanderbilt drew weeks of guessing by the press, sophomores, 5-foot-9, Hal Bradley, now has its sophs California from probation. 22 fouls. sports celebrities. both are Southern Ironically, Bob Polk, the Irish Lose Again radio,! and television, nobody and both products | working well together and won Cal has served its Van- are of D. C. probationary derbilt coach, didn’t learn about Connecticut, triggered by ever had mentioned Nugent’s "This guy is the most imaginative coach in the coun- high schools, Sheehan its last three over Yale. Louis-: period, but the from St. council his team's tremendous victory points, name. try,” cOmes a tip from Florida. John's and Jones from Dunbar ville and Wake Forest. Howard must be convinced that' Jack Rose’s 20 won its past violations have been cor-! until after the game. Roy seventh straight for a 10-1 rec- Maryland is giving up Mont, * * Hurt, a “little”guard at 6-foot-! say /\'** Eagles Given Chance rected. Skinner, an assistant, coached ord, 73-58, over Yankee Con- a coach who some lacked 3, is pacing the team with a imagination, for who HIS The have Schools currently on proba- the team for Polk, who suf- ference rival Maine. Nugent, “MAGIC OF THINKING” is not a cue to laugh, two everything ex- ’ls-point average, and although from every cept height. are tion and the dates fered a heart attack nine weeks A1 Butler, the sophomore borrows formation it develops, because there are too many people willing to They speedy, • only a soph is a cool player. on which in the invents on their terms end are ago and wasn’t even permitted jumping jack, flipped in 22 book and some testify works. After some good defense and are the This he showed in the Dixie UCLA, of his that it moderate over-all success floor of | August, Southern to listen on the radio. points as Niagara bounced own. leaders their respective ! Classic by sinking three free' 1959: Metho- at VMI, Nugent developed his brain-washing at FSU, which teams. dist, September, Memphis North Carolina State, No. 2 Syracuse. 70-55, despite a 24- Tops Mont's Salary Sheehan, with a 21- practically last; 1959: had been a girls’ school at Tallahassee and even point average, and Jones, with shots in the January, North in the weekly Associated Press polnt burst by the Orange’s Although didn’t ! second beat State. 1960: no salary was dis- play football until a 28 average, top teams to Louisville. Carolina State, November, jpoll and the only other rated Jon Cincebox. Nugent obviously 1947. their Maryland playing 1960: closed, is in scoring. will be its Seattle, September. 1960, team in action last night, had Well-thrashed Notre Dame costly. And how does this in week—it and jgoing to be more Mont formula work? American University, which 1 first game over a Auburn, September, 1961. a scare but survived over- lost another, blowing a 19- was getting $12,000 and Nu- Loyola the consolation “This guy just refuses to believe any team can beat has a 6-1 record and is defend- beat in The degree of punishment coming pesky Virginia, 73-68, point lead to drop its eighth, ! gent’s salary at Florida State . Sugar him,” Columnist Ralph Warner of the Tampa Tribune was ing champion of the Mason- of the Bowl Tournament during the probationary period in an Atlantic Coast Confer- this one 62-60 to Butler. The was $13,000, with the promise “ may saying on the telephone, ' ‘I make myself believe we can Dixon Conference, is given a last time out—and have varies with seriousness of the ence game at Raleigh. Virginia, Irish played without their ace of a SI,OOO raise. A fellow , Charlie McNeil back for limited which upset Virginia hardly Nugent fair chance of beating George- violation, but basically it pre- I West last scorer, Tom Hawkins, who hurt with nine children would whip anybody’ tells us, and then I try to make my year’s ” tonight, something , service. He was last probationary month for one of its two vic- an ankle in last Saturday’s take a $2,000 cut. Squad It.’ town that lead-1 vents schools from I na- believe never has happened in 18 pre- , ing scorer and has the top competing in NCAA-sponsored ! tories in 11 starts, led the Wolf- tional TV game with North A Florida State source said Florida State supposed to have much wasn’t of a team vious games. The Hoyas have « average of 14.1 this season. He and NCAA-affiliated champion- pack, 52-51, with nine minutes Carolina. See MARYLAND, Page C-3 last season. In fact, it was the only school in the State a 4-4 record against stiffer was kept out of the Sugar Bowl ships and tournaments. Thus for which a losing campaign was predicted by most sports competition. I games because of a bad foot. N. C. State and Auburn, both i writers. It turned out Nugent’s outfit had a 7-3 record, with nationally ranked basket-) best in Florida, and Miami in the bargain. ball teams, cannot compete in’ licked the NCAA *** * major college tour- PIRATES, LSU FOLLOW IN VOTE nament. BUD OF WILKINSON OKLAHOMA and other big- No TV Change Expected NOW! AT PLAZA SPORT SHOP timers know of Nugent, whose annual summer clinic at ? i The report of the NCAA tele- Tallahassee always has been well attended. I Once Wilkin- Yanks' Series Rallv vision committee, which met in son said, “If that guy ever quits football he can make a two days of preliminary ses- million dollars as a salesman.” sions, also was expected today, j Nugent is a showman and the first to admit the ham but all indications are that it to him. During his regime at VMI, from 1949 through Top Comeback of 'SB will merely indorse the cur- , rent program of restricted 1952, he “I-formation,” which By Associated Press TV. invented the so-called the the final out in the 10th after It was learned that the Big | against opponents some he will use approximately 75 to 90 The comeback of the year In i a brilliant relief job by Rynci Ten put up its usual stiff fight | per cent of time. Once, high the as a school coach in 1958 was made by the New { Duren. That was the day when for unrestricted TV, but again Virginia, he inherited a squad with two quarterbacks, a York Yankees In Milwaukee's was thwarted by committee I Stadium, ! Warren Spahn pitched his icyylgweffu righthander and a lefthander. Nugent played ’em, placing County where they members from other regions. losing game. behind the center, and opposition won the World Series. heart out for a One committee member ad- them the was properly contest, confused. Trailing 3-1 after the fourth ! In the decisive the vanced a radical proposal for I game, Yanks finally broke up a tie : taped telecasts that would be I Florida State was by no means rated in a class with the Yanks scrambled I back to win the fifth in New , game with a four-run blast in shown on Saturday evenings,, some of the schools on its schedule in the last I , bigger York and swept the last two in the eighth inning, with Turley replacing the current live tele- Nugent couple of years, but has pulled quite a few Milwaukee. Only the 1925 Pitts- . once more shining in relief. casts on Saturday afternoons,! upsets. Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech look but it drew from came to on burgh Pirates ever had done' Pirates Soar to Second no support | Nugent and his “I-formation”with profound respect. this in a seven-game World other members. “I would use the ‘l’ myself if I knew how to coach it Series.j The Pirates made a cellar-to- The number of national and; . second rise in the National regional telecasts may vary | like Nugent does,” Dodd has admitted. The Nation’s sports writers gave . League under Manager Danny j slightly from last year, but the, ** * * and sportscasters the Yanks a sizable margin over • Murtagh, who had the club in “split-network device.” an ar- THE IRISHMAN FROM ITHACA has a gift of gab and the Pittsburgh Pirates in the .; the pennant race until the final rangement to satisfy NCAA I regulations requiring a range to his subject matter, too. Nugent plays it in a annual year-end poll. The .; weeks. at least I recognition one telecast to originate in light vein most of the time, and he isn’t a bad needier, | Louisiana State University ¦ LSU drew as a each football team a distant team, as well the district will probably be either. Shortly after coming to Florida State six years I was as re-1 | third, closely pressed by . | team of the year, because the tained. Under this setup, two ago, Nugent set his sights game University Bos- on a with the ton’s Pete Runnels, who almost ; 1957 football team had man- or more games are shown "na- of i j 1 tionally,” ! Florida, like a featherweight challenging a heavy- the American League .; aged only a 5-5 season while but the network is {won bat-j split weight. ting title, and Robin Roberts, , the 1958 version was the No. 1 so that each area gets only one game. * McGregor • - It took a little time and Coach Bob Woodruff of Florida who regained his pitching : i team in the Nation. LSU ended i White does not list Nugent among his favorite people, but the j touch at Philadelphia. jits regular season with a 10-0 Rule Changes Sought • Catalina • Jantzen a Gators Os the 207 writers partici- record and added a Sugar Bowl finally condescended to meet Florida State last I ¦ The American Football | • • except jpating in the poll, 65 put the si victory over Clemson. ? California Sportswear Zero King season. To nobody’s great surprise, possibly that of Coaches swung w j Yanks first, 23 The Association into j Nugent, had them sec- ¦! leaders with points on I three days of Florida won, 21-7. Still, Florida State won a certain ond and 20 more (first-place intense meetings) rated them i a 3-2-1 basis votes' after making probably amount of recognition. third. The points its I total of 253 i in parentheses): biggest news yesterday with THE If Florida State was paying Nugent $13,000, with the on a 3-2-1 basis compared to THREE EXAMPLES OF FANTASTIC BARGAINS! 1 1. Yankees (08) 15.1 the announcement of recom- promise of a SI,OOO raise this year, Maryland’s terms must Pittsburgh’s total of 159 points, , 2. Pirates (31) 188 17.95 Imoprttd 595 MIN’S end BOYS’ Cotton % 'lncluding 3. LSU football (18) TB mendations by the Rules Com- have been pretty attractive. The athletic directorship 31 firsts. 4. Pete Runnels (12) AH k 5. Robin Roberts (7) 50 mittee. SUEDE 1 does not go with the Maryland job, as it did at Florida Unusual Position 6. Northwestern football (5) 42 Lou Little, chairman of the CORDUROY SLACKS FLANNEL SHIRTS A 7. Indiana football (10) 41 W LEATHER JACKETS State, but Tom must know what he is doing to move his K. Baltimore Colts (3) 4o Rules Committee, said these rec- The Yankees, who were run- (7) Timmy, Jerry, Peggy, 0. California football 35 ommendations winter P missus and Tommy, John, Kerry, nersup . Ray would be for-) colors! these Uvorite, to LSU in the team-of- 10. Robinson t4» 33 36 0.99 SSS“r.nSK. SS 1.69 J Patty, Mary and T. D. to College Park. Others with 10 or morfc points: Air warded to the NCAA Football Sizes to 46. fI.OB Sizes 27 to 38. dium, large sizes | Ann the-year balloting, found them- Force football (4) 27. Archie Moore (4) 124. Giants (3) 21, Bob Rules Committee for action at a i T. D. has no name, only initials. Nor did Nugent run selves in an unusual situation TurleySan Francisco { (4) 20, Pittsburgh Steelers *s> meeting starting in Los Angeles out of names as T. simply as Normally IN. Alabama football 15. Bobby Layne i the brood increased. D. stands comeback winners. (3) Roy Campanella J 13, il) 13. Bob next Monday: i Sport . . . for they are cast in the role of the { <2) 12, Center Your Hunting Clothes Headquarters touchdown. 1 ! Cerv Kentucky basketball: 1. Return of the goal posts heavily favored , j(2) 12. The Best Known Names In Hunting Clothes, Guns and Equipment at Winter “The milk dealer will love us,” Tom predicts champs who ! Clearance A as a to the goal line. Prices! Headquarters for Insulated are grinding some hapless op- 2. Underwear! starter. ponent Further liberalization of I ? under their heels • • i the substitution rule. PRICES SLASHED ON .. . Woolrich Duxbok American Field • Remington A Milwaukee’s 1957 series tri-; 3. umph woeful, Retention of the current • Winchester • Browning • Bass Boots • Comfy and the Yanks’ Ex-General Gets method of Down Jackets and Sleeping recording substltu- ? • • performance J Bogs Handwarmers, 1.29 • in the first four; tions. ) Earmuffs, 89c Insulated Sox, 1.29 games of the ’SB series set up Helfand's Position 4. Retention of the present Boyd Is the comeback situation. In fact, ; conversion rule, with 7-5 Favorite Y„ (AP>. comment i Tlazaonly sroar there were many who ALBANY. N. Jan. 7 park called! NCAA, k ITI them the poorest Yankee team —Melvin Krulewitch. 63, is the See Page C-3 C chairman of the New • RENT CKiR6E IT! new York ~ SKI ever to win a pennant after i ? only* FREE! i He; Over State Athletic Commission. «• Mims in TV Fight they had absorbed that 13-5 replaces (Julius Helfand, who k EQUIPMENT! , C E SKATES „ .**. A CHICAGO, humiliation in the second game. l*t,a Jan. 7 (AP). jdleweight crop and then skid- served as chairman for four skis, Binding, Boots SHARPENED! down town Downtown Bob Turley started their re- IT WILL PAY YOU p * Bobby Boyd of ded out of the rankings, years. and Poles for Rent» Come in and have your \!.\ 5 W . . Cost Chicago, trying ; coun- roies ior Ken . covery when he out the ana u skates shftrpened by ex Lot ¦ regain the ter-punched his way victory shut Krulewitch, New York to form that made to Braves, 7-0, in the fifth game. a at- TO BUY him the No. 1 middleweight , over the crafty Mims in Chicago torney and a retired Marine ?r After a day for travel, the 1956, a Mims, 30, Corps major general, thus contender in is 7-to-5 Stadium in 1956. teams went back to Milwaukee, au- YOUR NEW 1959 choice tonight against battled him to a draw in Miami tomatically becomes a power veteran where Turley came in to get Holly Mims of Washington | Beach a year ago. in boxing. D. C. Mims went in 1958 to score Krulewitch was named yes- OLDSMOBILE on terday by Republican The 10-rounder in Chicago upset Gov. 1 a surprising of highly Nelson A. Stadium will be Webb, Sammy TODAY'S Rockefeller to fill a televised rated Spider lick SPORTS~ commission seat vacated by tWMAL—7 in Washington, at Walker and stop Johnny Cun- ON TELEVISION Francis J. Souhan of Seneca 10 p.m.) and scored under the ningham. He now is ranked CAPITOL 6-point must system. Falls. Souhan’s term had ex- No. 7 by the National Boxing Boxing pired. designated CADILLAC-OLDSMOBILE GO. Boyd, lanky Rockefeller a 25-year-old, Association and No. 4 by Ring Holly Mims Bobby Boyd, licked the top of vs. Krulewitch to the $16,900-a- 1222 22d St N.W., Wash 0 C who the mid- Magazine. WMAL—7, 10 p.m. --year post as chairman. t 4