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Army Overpowers Navj for Perfect Season Last-Minute Field Goal Gives Mackenzie Title, 3 to 0 71,000 See Cadeis Win Grid Crown Walterhouse Sets Conversion Record 13-Yard Placement by Gerry Wood Licks Game Holy Redeemer NAVY 114 2 9 it STATISTICS AKMY Firt downt I Yard m.liine 7 ard pas-inc HI Tase attempted JO 1'ates romplfted ft Fa.e iitterrepled 5 I'untinr average 4-pp. fumble recovered rt penal ired 4. AKMY 23 NA 7 Bramtett v- HI.IIIIIIBUI1 I 111 PIP -iV NAVY '(V i J' I IF. II l.C, I Ti; liK OB I II KM IB flter Arnold t. OllEX Manuw ic eniet jt Kxfilko McKenna in Minor Blanchard Army Light Lions Repulse City Champions Four Times Within Their Own 15 BY BOD LATSIIAW Failing to capitalize on their height and weight advantages on the ground and in the air, Mackenzie's Stags resorted to a field goal in the final 15 seconds to defeat Holy Redeemer, 3 to 0, for the City High School football championship, before 30,054 fans hitmire.

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i End Gerry Wood supplied the dramatic finish to one of the most bitter contests in the seven-year history of the Goodfellow series Wood Puts the Foot in Stag Football I when he booted a 13-yard kick i squarely between the uprights on i fourth down. THE STAGE WAS set for the winning play on a fancy pass play that moved the ball from the Redeemer 30 to the three. But it wasn't until four plays later that Wood accomplished his winning effort. Putting the ball in play on the Redeemer 30, Tino Sabuco lateraled to Dan McKenzie on the 35 and he sent a long forward pass to Herb Slayton who was hit immediately on the three by Bob Kovalcik and Marty Kelly. The Stags tried three passes AssociHted Prrs irpphoto at the extreme left.

Hamberg played an outstanding game for the Middies but to no avail as the Cadets powered their way to their ninth consecutive victory, 23 to 7. IT'S FOOTBALL, XOT LEAPFROG Left Halfback Hal Hamberg, of Navy, Used tumbling tactics to advance four futile yards against Army, Note the leapfrog lads Wrecks Give Georgia Jinx Bum's Rush, 44-0 STATISTICS CKENZIK REDEEM i Hrl down Harris II" 1 l'ae(, attempted A l'ases completed Pasj.es intercepted I) Yard purine 1.1 Pontine avcrase IS 0p. fumhlcs recovered I larris penalized MACKENZIE (3 REDEEMER i0 Kay I tariredn Itli-eker IT Z'link Allen arr (' T)nunv Jt'nktns Hii Iteldtirn HUmle HT I'unvard Wood RE E. Krien Mt-kenzie )K Kelly Sabuco I. II Kovalcik Hro.

11 KH EeRnuf Slavton IB T. tries Mackenzie OHO 3 3 Mackenzie seorlnff: Field goal Wood (placement BY TRUMAN" STACKY When Gerry Wood's toe smacked into the ball for the field goal that gave Mackenzie a 3-0 decision over Holy Redeemer in the 1944 Good-follow Game, it was the third time this season that his kicking feats hewed victory out of defeat for the Stags. Wood's point after touchdown provided the margin of victory against Cooley in the Stags' first real test in the West Side battle. LATER, HE converted two extra points and provided the difference that meant a 14-13 decision over Northwestern's Colts1: Against Pershing, a fortnight ago in the City League playoff. Wood converted a point after Mackenzie's opening touchdown.

This point kept the Stags in the van, until late In the third period. Saturday's attempt, from the 13-yard line, however, was his first field goal attempt of the season. Even had. the goal posts been placed on the end line instead of the goal line, the kick would have been good. The ball sailed high above the posts, high into the stands.

COACH DICK FRAXKOSKI accepted Coach Des Sheedy's congratulations after the game with warm praise for the losers. "Redeemer stopped every running play we threw against it when we were in scoring territory," he said. "Wo made mistakes, but it was a sweet one to win," he continued, "and it must have been a bitter one for Redeemer to lose." The Stags crowded around Wood and Sabuco, their best Turn to I'age 2, Column 1 Golfers Led DETROIT FREE PRESS Saturday's Grid Scores HIGH SCHOOL Mackenzie 3 Redeemer 0 COLLEGE by Ferrier DRTS Broyles Aids in 5 Scores Tech Victory First in Athens Since '93 BY AL KCETTNER ATHENS, Ga. (U.R) Georgia Tech's Yellowjackets, stinging with the pent-up fury engendered by PART TWO DEC. 3.

1944 Soldier Shoots a 66 at Frisco BY" JOHN N. SARO Free I'ress Staff Writer BALTIMORE Football dynamite Army planned, packed and delivered hit the Navy in Baltimore Stadium. The explosions came in full view of 71,000 spectators and left a proud Navy team nursing: th wounds of a 23-7 defeat administered by one of the preatost teams ever to come off the plains of West Point. It was supposed to be th bet football pame of the year, and it was. Undefeated and untied Army, beaten by Navy the last five years, loosed all its fury in a "bone-crushing: second half to win its ninth straight game.

THERE CAN no longer be any doubt about the 1044 football champion. Army settled the argument when Dale Hall socked the Navy with a 24-yard touchdown run in the second quarter and Felix Blanchard followed with a nine-yard scoring" smash and Glenn Davis with a 50-yard frallop into the end zone in the fourth quarter. For pood measure, the Cadets picked up two points when Tackle Joe Stanowicz blocked John Hansen's third-period punt for a safety. Dependable Dick Walterhouse, the place-kicking- expert from Ann Arbor, booted all three extra points to set a National collepiate record. Walterhouse made 47 extra points in nine games, three better than the mark set by Clyde Le- Force, of Tulsa, two years ago.

TO OFFSET Arm y's power. Navy's single-wingback offensive erupted only (once for a 73-yard scoring march in the third period when Clyde Scott charged over from the one-yard line. Thus Army finished it3 first perfect season in 28 years. Never in history has an Army team compiled a record like the 1944 aggregation. The Cadets finished the season with 504 points, an average of 56 a game.

They held the opposition to a combined 35 points, no team scoring more than seven points against Army. As a finishing touch Navy was the only squad able to hold Army to as few as three touchdowns. AKMY SIMPLY had too much power and reserves. The Navy attack suffered when Boh Jenkin3 was injured in the first 70 seconds and did not return to action until the fourth quarter. Still, the Navy couldn't have stopped the Army even if Jenkins had been around all afternoon.

For one half it was a close game. After 11 minutes of the second quarter Army opened with its big guns. Then a 66-yard scoring march was completed in six plays, with Hall, a halfback from Parsons, ramming through left guard from the 24. The big explosions in the second half started when Army forced Navy deep into its own territory and Hansen tried to punt with the ball on his 21. ARCHIE ARNOLD, John Green and Stanowicz jumped at Hansen, Turn to Page 2, Column 1 41 Arkansas 0 THEY'RE TOPS 23 Navy 44 Georgia then without success.

Ken Woods missed Wood in the end zone and then Woods tried to hit Jim Kay, but the pass was too long. Sabuco then hit McKenzie with a pass in the end zone, but after getting both hands on the ball McKenzie let the ball get away. Then came Wood's perfect kick. ALTHOUGH deemer staged one of the most courageous battles ever witnessed in Briggs Stadium. Four times the Lions halted the Stag's offensives Turn to Tage 3, Column 2 going without victory here since 25 Tulane 28 Great Lakes 31 Nebraska 31 Havana 13 Southwestern 1893, won the Southeastern Con Arkansas Army 1 Georgia Tech LSU Notre Dame Oklahoma Presbyterian Rice SMU Texas Tech Virginia Prairie view Denver ference football title by defeating SAN FRANCISCO (U.R) Sgt.

Jim Ferrier fired sensationally long drives and putted like a master for a six-under-par 66 to take the lead at the halfway mark in the $14,500 San Francisco Open golf tournament. The husky 215-pound soldier had a total of .141, one stroke better than that posted by Mark Fry, Turn lo Tage 3, Column 1 Georgia, 44 to 0, before 28,000 9 Tex. Christian 6 melancholy fans. 7 So. Plains AAF 6 The thirty-ninth renewal of the 26 No.

Carolina most bitter traditional rivalry in 6 Southern 0 27 Colorado 13 the Southland was strictly "no contest" after Freshman George Mathews fired a 19-yard bullet pass to End Charley Murdock for Sooners Still Rule Big Six Oklahoma Keeps Title bv Licking Nebraska OKLAHOMA CITY (IP) Stabbing to four touchdowns in the first half, the University of Oklahoma sewed the fringe on its second consecutive Big Six football flag by defeating Nebraska, 31 to 12. The Sooners, performing before 3,000 shivering fans, were impregnable in the first half as they kept Nebraska from touching Oklahoma territory while throwing the Cornhuskers for a minus 11 yards rushing. It was a different story in the second half, however, as the Huskers made up for lost time against the Sooner second team, recording eight first downs their total for the game and bringing up their net yards rushing to 92 against the Sooners' game total of 108. HOMER SPARKMAX, Derald Lebow, Tom Meason, Dub Wooten and Merle Dinkins hit the paydirt once each for Oklahoma and Joe Kessler and Junior Collopy scored for Nebraska. NEBRASKA (11) OKLAHOMA Koenic T.K Bnrcert KotiH I.T Slpvenson Tillman Doyle Mavfield Tieart l.orenj; KT Harley 4'olerirk KK Wooten Betz OK Spark rnan Hollin I II J.ebow Kessler RH Heard ollopr KB Pollarhirie Nebraska 6 ri Oklahoma fi 1 Nebraska seorinc: Touchdowns Kessler, Collonr.

the first touchdown in the first period. ITS CHRISTMAS TIME AT HUDSON'S Two minutes later, after a pass Cadet Aces Strut Stuff for All to Sec BALTIMORE Glenn Davis, the speedster from Talladega, and Felix (Doc) Blanchard. the line smasher from Bishopville, S. lived up to all advance notices in Army's 23-7 victory over Navy. The Army netted 181 yards rushing.

Davis picked up 75 of those yards and Blanchard 89. For good measure, Blanchard was the outstanding defensive back on the -field, in addition to doing most of the punting and all the kicking off for the Cadets. Hal Hamberg, Navy ace from Lonoke, led the Middies with 32 yards net rushing- and all their 98 yards passing. Navy tried to offset Army's rushing edge through the air, but it didn't Work out. The Middies tried 24 passes, with Hamberg usually on the firing end, but the Cadets intercepted five times to keep Navy in trouble most of the afternoon.

Don Whitmire, big Navy tackle, was outstanding in the first half Turn to Page 2, -Column 2 interception by Allen (Dinky) Bowen, the Ramblin' Engineers scored again. This time it was Frank Broyles, who crossed up the Georgia defense by looping a 21-yard pass to Mathews for a third score. BROYLES, TECH'S All-Southeastern Conference fullback, had a hand in five of Tech's seven touchdowns, scoring two and passing for three others. The victory enabled Tech to a complete its season with only two defeats in 10 games. The Atlanta eleven will bring that creditable record into the Orange Bowl at Miami on New Year's Day when it meets Tulsa in a rematch of its Kuppenheimei OVERCOAT Jan.

1, 1944, game at New Orleans which Tech won. 20 to 18. The Tech touchdown parade went Oklahoma seorinic: Touehdown man. Lebow. Meaon (sun for Point on apace with two more being appended to the total In the second period, another in the third and Wooten.

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M. Conference football race ended on sour note as Texas Christian's RACK OUR FIGHTING MEN WITH MORE WAR BONDS MOW I champion Horned Frogs were toppled, 9 to 6, by lowly Southern trWAft LOAN Methodist. The Mustangs, fighting for company the conference Assooaieci i'ress Wirepuc cellar, outplayed the Frogs most of the way and beat them on a second-period field goal by Pete Kotlarich. THE GENERAL GIVES AUTOGRAPHS Gen. George C.

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