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Cotton remembers that war as the
best contest he saw. For sheer ex-
Hall is Honored
As Most Valuable
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)
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Tigers tied for
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Hall Paces Nittany Lions Past
Engineers in Gator Bowl 30-15
23-0. in the Miami Orange Bowl.
Texas and Mississippi appears to
be the best match. The Longhorns
Blanda Picked
AFL’s Top Man
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'the magic screen. Most of his TV-
time is spent on Saturdays and
Sundays, since every Friday he is
wide television audience saw the
high-powered East bottled up in
its own territory throughout the
first half The Fasteners finally
singles championshin of the Cot-
ten Bowl tennis tournament Satur-
Hall. who wears glasses off the
field but not while playing, led;
State to a 30-15 victory over Geor-
gia Tech. He threw three touch-
down passes, completing 12 of 22
aerials for 175 yards. In the first
Lmie Cypress (4s)
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Richey unset the hiohly rated
Sen Antonio bov 7-1, 0-3.
DATLAS (AP) — Cliff Richev
of Dallas beat Butch Newman .of
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Sam Gruneisen booted a 26-yard
field goal for the Wildcats.
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BEAUMONT (Spl) — First
Baptist Church of Beaumont
notched a 80-47 victory over Me-1
Donald Memorial Baptist of Or-1
ange to win the first annual Bap-:
tist Invitational Tournament here
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Bennie tries to see every
mase he can. but often has been
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- pect he might be another team’s
scout.
"No one’s ever run me off from
a scrimmage. But I’ve been asked
where I'm from several times."
said Cotton with a grin.
As the regular season begins.
Bennie prepares his own list of
schedules or "idiot sheet " as he
calls it himself. Beginning with
; Thursday night all the zames in
A the area are listed, including La-
mar. Tech's Beaumont appear-
l "That wav T am able to figure
■ out the eames I want to see,” said
■ Cotton. He doesn’t follow any par:
■ ticular team or teams, instaad
B choosing what he considers the top
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Ed Griffin. Hfll passed wide to
(the sidelines and far over the
marker as he was knocked to the
turf.
by 1
the Grays.
A crowd of 18,000 overcoated
last night. Penn State quarterback
in the consolation finals the Or- Hall. at a loss to explain his
ange First Baptist Church team
downed Woodland of Beaumont
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ing score.
Joe carried twice in the 43-yard
drive and ran over four Wichita
players on his 19-yard scoring
run.
EXPERT SERVICE
ON ALL
TRANSMISSIONS
tied up Wichita's running r---
and picked off four Wichita
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Blume's Toe
Gives Grays
9-7 Victory
- MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -
An avenging Southern all-star
squad broke a three-year losing
streak today and rode to a 9-7
Bridge City had smashed Vidor
f morn ing in the
Parkhurst
____ ay and helped .the
Wildcats to a 17-9 Sun Bowl foot-
—Leader Staff Photo
BENNIE COTTON OF ORANGEFIELD
Looks Over List of Gomes He Sow in 196!
pointing against Washington a year
ago and are determined to get hunk
at the expense of the Uelans.
All Murray Warmath's lads have
to do is stop the Bruins’ single wing
running and this is the best thing
did all the way along the
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By GEORGE PHARR
If an ward was presented to the
best football fan to Texas, then
Bennie Cotton of Orangefield would
win the honor hands down
la a lead loaded with folks who
love football like no other sport.
Cotton rates this distinction be-
cause of ahis undying devotion to
.the game.
[ He saw 35 games this past sea
■on. which stacks up as a per-
sonal all-time record. Bennie re-
members the season as his "best
ever" and only wishes it had been
possible to see a few more games.
F Cotton saw every brand of foot-
ball. ranging from Class B to the
professionals Thirty-five games
Leading Dayton was Jimmy
Ager with 12 points.
Little Cypress had a 19-13 half-
Jaroy Huckabv was the ton point-
getter for McDonald Memorial
with 12. three State
Everett Robinson led Orange missed only one of 11 throws.
I The officials ruled it intentional
_ grounding which from the end
KaTizone is an automatic safety and
Galen two points.
, PASS Penn State
ing accuracy despite nearsighted- Georgia Tech
ness. Saturday was voted the most ■ - ■
valuable player in the Gator Bowl G-t -
football game. 1
First downs
Rushing yor doge
played the tougher schedule and __________
-possess more speed. Ole Miss lacks Tommy Neck of
the Steers' real brillance. They are
likely to miss Billy Rav Adams.
। the fullback injured in an automo-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Kan-
game.
Many weeks he’ll see three
games, beeinning on Thursday and
seeing battles again Friday and
often Saturday nights. One time
I this na«t season. Bonnie had a bin
four-game weekend, which he
[wiches wta occur more often.
I "I saw Marion play at BishoD
Rvmne on Thursdav night. Then
Fridav I went to the Corous Christi
IRav.Port Arthur game." Cotton
Lexolained, glancing at his checklist.
A"Satnrdev was Stonhen F Austin
Rirkev Winner
In Net Tourney
FINANCING ARRANGED
NO MONEY DOWN
Passes intercepted
Punts
Fumbies lost
Yprds penalized
trip, UCLA needs one.
The Golden Gophers were disap-
By HARRY GRAYSON Barna pitched six shutouts. — ------------- ------
Who do you like in the Bowl blanking the last five opponents ership in interceptions,
games? r The metinmellaz teleui
“ Who’ll whoop it up on New TheiSrimson Tide’sgendszone pro.
Years TDayas, college, “ major cWlegethteamkhtsinc0" 1939
“APUP-sanotpreditstnshereare: Bear Bryant‘sguysyieidedoniy 19
Texas over Mississippi, 19-14, in points,osonly' 5ire 5 touchdowns.
the Dallas Cotton Bowl. Can./ pick against them. .
Minnesota over UCLA, 21-12, in I After a stumbling start, Lduisi-
the Pasadena Rose Bowl. ana State did considerably better]
Alabama over Arkansas, 27-9. in than all right. Paul Dietzel throws
the New Orleans Sugar Bowl, three teams at the,enemy and the
Louisiana State over Colorado, defending Chinese Bandits have
muscles they haven't even used
eoe WEE.,S‘nAtionai teie standing on defense throughout
fans, watchedsthecnationalx.tele the tourney for the Bridge City
vised game.inu.Cramtenn. then girls. The win against Tomball
first under bright sunshine, then upped Bridge City’s record to
Blue-Gray football victory on the
toe of Butch Blume of Rice.
The 170-pound Texan put the
Rebels ahead with a last-quarter
Aftendance $9,000
Holes-in-one in the USGA Jun-
tor Amateur were scored by Per-
ry Thomas of Canadaigua, N. Y.,
in 1953 and bv Lloyd S. Monroe
o North Caldwell, N. J., in 1956.
By VERNON BUTLER , He connected with Powell for
Asspciated.Press Sports, Writer Penn State's winning touchdown
JACKSONVILLE. Fla. (AP2 ~ in the third quarter. The Nittany
Galen Hall, a balding quarterback Lions took advantage of Tech’s
with defective xision, found his ta rdiness in emerging from its de-
PASS targets with the. touch a a fensive huddle, and Powell was
genius Saturday and hurled Penn at least 10 yards from the near-
State, to 1 30-15 triumph over (a- est Tech defender when he caught
That's What Bennie Cotton,
Wichita touchdown until the last
cCoachanGlennnPaarspurgerPrigga . FSibndk Billy Joe a 230 pound
-2-- consolation game to junior who received the- most
invaluable player award. Was Villa-
L But consider that the regular tie in Liberty.
---* ------ -,‘I left early Saturday morning
of for the long drive to Cleburne.
16 said Cotton. "But it was worth it."
In his own review of the season.
East by 21-8;
: Hadi Standout
ed nine of 19 passes. 1
In Church Finals 10 : 23 hSXfLd.
ee 35 contests.
Tomorrow he caps off his "hi citement, the Little Cypress-P or t
erson" viewing by attending the Acres was a close second, m .
le Miss-Wexas hattle in thecot-a Regarding thatnCleburns-Neder-
m Bowl. It will be one of the few land.match. Cotto nsaidtc"twasa
'llege games he’s seen this sea- tough gams.xithabothatea m ,,2
on but it’s a perfect way for him even. ButNederiand.madeua sreat
> start the New Year I sreondohaif ” omeback to win it on
ToBennie Cotten.there'snophing Naturally there were many other
X e» “f^o
at Lamar, and ou Sunday I
watched Landry play Central Cath-
olic in Beaumont.”
Such a busy schedule gives »'
small idea of the many miles Cot*
ton travels each fall. He finds it
impossible to even estimate the
distance traveled to attend games
last season But a figure of about
50 miles per game wouldn’t be too
far off.
That means he covered roughly
2,000 miles.
In the season just-completed Ben-
nie’s longest trip was a junket to
Cleburne for the Nederland-Cle-
burne bi-district match. That
was on Saturday afternoon and
Friday night he had attended the
Hull-Dalsetta-Sealy bi-district bat-
15 nI Kanad? manunY H’-EM "1 •
12 machine to compute its scores the
fought to within two points at
29-27 through three periods.
Dayton leaped to a 34-31 lead _________ _____
the Bears slipped back ahead in Alex Zyskowski scam
early in the fourth quarter but. from 7 yards awav for
the nip-and-tuck struggle. I last minute touchdown.
edging Dayton 40-38 in an oygf-
time battle Friday night. The
Bears and Bronchos were tied
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put their offensive in gear early
.m. In the third period and moved 80
Eme yards for a touchdown with Ro-
man Gabriel of North Carolina
State passing the final 16 to Mary-
land’s Jerry Collins
First Baptist to the consolation
championship with 10 points
a gainst Woodland Ed Theile had
eight for the losers. I
McDonald had defeated Orange
First Baptist in the tourney’s
opening round by 53-31.___,
! 13-5 for the season. ;
Little Cypress swept into the 52353
'finals of the boys' division by
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pionship, was named player of the
year in the American Football
Loojto Saturday.
Little Cypress had a 19-13 half- way over from the two, capping a
time lead, but the Bronchos 22-yard drive set up by a Wichita
fumble on the kickoff.
bile accident.
There is no lack of incentive in
the Tournament of Roses feature
listance for the enjoyment of see-
nt a game — be it high school,
rofessional or college.
His love for football goes bsck a
Kountze leaped to a 36-30 lead
before Borel and Ray led the
Bear comeback which netted the
win.
For their ply through the
tourney, Borel and Ray were
chosen to the all-tournament
team. Others were Jefcoat,
Kountze; Bubba Toler, Dayton;
and C. L. Ratcliff of Spurger.
Parkhurst made the all-tour
ney gifts' team. *
Due Monday
By WILL GRIMSLEY
Associted Press Sport. Writer
Seven of the natiod’s top 10 col-
lege football teams and a poet-
view of the season’s brightest in-
dividual stars feature the New
Year’s Day bowl fare—a televi-
sion viewer's bonanza
The series of spectacles start as
early as 12:45 p.m.—EST - and
last until well into most people’s
dinnertime.
Here’s the program expected to
draw close to half a million-on-
the-spot customers and entertain
countless others on the magic
screen.
Orange Bowl at Miami. Fla —
Louisiana State. No. 3 ranked na-
tionally. vs. Colorado, No. 6. 12:45
p.m. EOT (ABC-TV, radio).
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans —
Alabama, No. ! nationally, vs.
Arkansas, No. 9. 1:45 p.m. EOT
(NBC-TV color, radio).
Cotton Bowl at Dallas—Texas.
No. 4 nationally, vs. Mississippi.
No 5. 215 p.m. EST (CBS-TV.
radio).
Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif.-
Minnesota. No. 1, vs. UCLA, un-
ranked. 4:49 p m EOT (NBC-TV
color, radio).
On the record, the closest game
two free'ongnsood0—18 ....
Score by Quarters
Kountze _______ 9 9 ;
sas quarterback John Had! threw
I two touchdown passes and
T. sparked the underdog West to a
221-8 upset over the East Saturday
3 as huge linemen checked All-
"2 Americas Ernie Davis and Bob
JI Ferguson in the 37th annual East-
« West football game.
n The 200-pound Hadi, effective
1 as a runner, passer and punter,
it engineered the opening touchdown
9 drive for the West and his passes
11 of 14 yards to Buddy Iles of Texas
2 [Christian and 24 to Curt McClinton W.
of Kansas brought the next two. rnet.‛
13 A near-capacity crowd of 59.000/roH ld be Warmath’s last as- gemus sauuraax ana nurieu renn st least 10 yards from the near-
“in Kezar Stadium and a nation-sigmmentuwith the Giants o the XM’W qer,fa est Techdefender when he caught
------------------North He is a leading candidate anrud Goa Bowl aime the third-quarter scoring pass.
for the vacancy at Army. Hall tfcrew touchdown pianen to Tech’s Auer returned the South-
Arkansas hardly needed an IBM, halfbacks Al Gurskv Roger Koch- eastern Conference power to con-
_e • -mpt ire ecores the man and Hal Powell 13 27 tention early in the fourth period
past autumn. Alabama's national and 35, yards, respectively, after when. he. recovered an errant
champions were the campaign s Tech had grabbed a 9-6 lend onpitchout from quarterback Billy
stoutest defenders, whether calcu-an unusual safety and a 68yaraLothridge near the Penn State 25-
ecord-breaking touchdown run by' yard .linetand raced for his sec-
halfback Joe Auer. ‛ond touchdown.
Hall, who wears spectacles ex- Georgia Tech scored first on an 2
cept when he is playing. complet- unusual safety. E
including | With Penn State in possession
"1 Penn on'its 9-yard line, Hall faded to
pass and retreated into his end
Portieme 69, Michigen 43 -
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37-yard field, goal after a hard -----------y - . . .
charging Yankee team had held carried Bridge City to the conso- Wichita Saturday
the lead for three periods. lation title. She fired in 21 points " _ 2
It was the firt Southern tri- against Tomball in yesterday s ball victory
umph in the 23-year history of finals, while Loretta Franklin and
the intersectional contest Mildred Marceaux each hit for 18
time.
Ray flipped in a free throw to
push the Bruins out front 38-38
early in the overtime. With 20
st the""treeohnpw «„VIanavatkept Wichita battied
aroppepintwa foul shots to make tRe first ht. Wth less than three
it 4 038afer Paytonehadsuscess. minutes to play, the Shockers
fully, addeda free, throw to tie the I drove 41 yards to the Vianova 18
latest once more Bill Seigle then kicked a 36-yard
The Bears had taken A 37-35 Held goal, longest in Sun Bowl
lead in the regulation game but history
Gwinn Votaw fired in a long set villanova posed another serious
shot to knot the game and force ■ threat midway in the second quar
the overtime. ter. driving to the Wichita nine
Borel sparked the Bears with but Nick Russo fumbled L.I
16 points, including bight of 12 at- Wichita’s center. Leroy Leep, re-
tempts. Danny Wolf added nine covered on the six.
to finish as the second high The Wildcats put the game out
scorer. of reach in the third period with a
touchdown and a field goal. Full-
back Lou Rettino battered his
ALL DAY 3 Gomes
BROWNSONE
After the West drew' a penalty
On a conversion. Syracuse's Heis:
man Trophy winner Davis ran the
ball over for two points The East
threatened again early in the
fourth period, but the threat fiz-
zled after Collins dropped a Gab-
riel pass in the end zone.
Hadi ran the West out of trouble
with a 34-yard dash to the East
24 and three plays later hit Mc-
Clinton for the filial touchdown.
The Kansas quarterback, al-
ready signed by the San Diego
Chargers of the American Foot-
ball League, was voted the game's
outstanding player. Iles, who has
agreed to terms with Dallas of
the National Football League, was
honored as the top linemen.
The West scored in the first
quarter on a 7-yard dash by San
Jose State's Mack Burton, who
circled end. capping a 55-yard
drive. Hadi's pass to Iles covered
14 yards on the first play after
the West recovered an East fum-
ble in the second period Mel
Melin of Washington State booted
all three conversions
Utah State’s gigantic tackles-
AIHAmerica Merlin Olsen, at 785
pounds, and Clark Miller at 250.
with Ed Blaine, Missouri’s -20-
pound guard, led the line charge
that stopped Davis and Ferguson
wiue cold in the first half and checked
and them most of the second. , ,
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should be that in the Cotton Bowl.
Mississippi, a team of tremendous
speed and depth, is rated a 3-
point favorite over a lighter but
quick Texas contingent, featuring
All-America halfback Jimmy* Sax-
ton.
The game ie a 75,006 sellout.
In the Rose Bowl at Pasadena,
where 100,870 spectators form the
day's largest crowd, ponderous
but rugged Minnesota rules an 8
point choice to beat UCLA and
'thus avenge a 17-7 toss to Wash-
ington last year.
The Gophers feature straighta-
way power and bell control with
All-America quarterback Sandy
Stephens the central figure in the
operations.
Alabama, which marched over
10 opponents to the national cham-
pionship, is rated a 12%-point pick
over Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl,
geared for a capacity crowd of
81,585.
Louisiana State's Tigers are a
whopping 13-point pick over Colo-
rado’s Big Eight champions. LSU
is so loaded with material that it
operates three separate platoons.
Colorado boasts All-America
bag way. "I’ve been interested in
lootball ever since I can remem-,
ter," said Cotton.
"I always try. to see as many
tames as possible, but this season
[^jffIq Cypress Wins
lo watch a game on television. | 4 ■
There’s too much you miss,” he _ • _ _
Sour Lake Tourney
43 - 20.
The one-two scoring of Robert
Hansen and Harry Seiler paced
Beaumont First Baptist to the
championship. Hansen notched 16
end Seller 15 to the final game
The nationally televised Bowl
binge will be seen by the biggest
audience in football history.
year more than made up for the 73-29 yesterday
extra-point attempt he didn't get oonsolation simifinals. -------- ------- -----—
—us .-------------- . to make following the South’s tone slammed in 40 points in this vie* wall limited Wichita to 182 yards
San Antonio for the junior boys touchdown. A fumble by Don tory and Franklin netted 17. Mar- total offense and did not allow a
■ ■■ ‘ “ Fuell of Mississippi Southern kept ceaux’s 14 also helped. I"tektt- .—*“--— *- .—
the placekicking specialist from
getting the ball away. V1 .a..
Dave Sarette of Syracuse scored in a Friday consolation game
the North touchdown and Ron advance. Parkhurst whipped ... . . —------
Taylor of Missouri converted. Bob- 25 in this narrow win. nova’s leading ground gainer with
— Hunt of Auburn went over fori Doreen Taft Bettv Hoffpauir 63 yards on eight carries. He
’ Grava an? Norma Sorrel werfPout- rammed over the Wildcats’ open-
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____ . . _ SOUR LAKE (Spl) — L i 111 e the game, the Bruins shot ahead
I off somewhere attending a game. Cypress downed Kountze 45-42 on Hugh Dean Ray’s bucket. Player—-
. What makes Cotton unique is here last night in a spine-tingling 39-38. It was the: first Little Cy- IRa. »■ -
[ that he has been known to travelfinale to win the boys champion- press lead since early in the third W01F P -
I great distances to see a game ship of the Sour Lake Invitational quarter. • * Rochuc. ».
‘ "The distance is something that I ] Tournament. | But Kountze bounced back andserm: 2:
! don’t consider. The time element is Bridge City’s girls helped Or- the score went like this: 40-39, in Town
s the only barrier that keeps the ange County add more honors In; favor of the Lions, then 41-40, lit- [
I from going to more game*, or from' the meet by copping the consola- tie Cypress; 42-41, Kountze, and
I seeing a game which I believe will tion crown. They thumped Tom-! finally Danny Wolf dumped inale Players-.
be real good” ball 53-34 yesterday, thanks to bucket with three minutes left Evemon *
The football season starts in mid- [Pat Parkhurst's nifty firing.
August when high school teams i In other final action. Sour Lake gin
start interschool scrimmaging, won the girls crown by stopping ____________ ____
scrim-[Jasper, and Spurger’s boys took: throws with two minutes left to
the consolation title over Ham- i push Little Cypress farther ahead -LIe cypres —1s 7 12 1
shize-Fannett. I The Bruins led throughout the officicls: Mathner ond Reimer.
Noted as a comeback club after first half, building up a six and | ---------------
two narrow wins in the meet be-1 seven-point advantage ' at times j LIII Cvoress co
fore last night's finals a g a i n s t They enjoyed a 22-18 halftime Pleyrs- FOFTAFTMPF
Kountze. Coach Bill Hoffman’s' edge. SP- 2
Bears had to use every trick to But Kountze ripped to a quick Pochuc. 1—- e
edge out the Lions. lead in the third quarter on the Bo 8
Down by as much as 1# points firing of Tommy Jeffcoat and Scot- 0
in the third period. Little Cypress I BillV Freemn. —"
staged another gallant rally —
grab the narrow win.
Trailing 38-37 with 5:39 left ip
"44
35 this past season. ,
Whether it was Cold Spring and
Lovelady or Galena Park and Cor- 2
pus Christi Ray, it made little dif- 2
ference. Every game he saw was
football and that’s what really
counts.
(Tuesday: Hew It All Began.)
to the third period. Little cpress|Biily Freemn. ' Tofot" 11
staged another gallant rally to Early in the third period yotaw, . _ ^7 68
I Kountze' carved a 33-23 margin Tolar. * --------- 2
and it looked like a dark night HewlM o__- 8
for Little Cypress. But Wolf. Haynes, g ------- 0
Borel and Pachuca added buc- roxer ‛ ’
ets, mixed with a free throw by fetois u
Borel, to cut the margin to 34-36 SCORE by QUARTERS
•- ----- Dayton 9 4 14 is
emu Cypress » 10 10 s
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Browning, J. Cullen. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 308, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 31, 1961, newspaper, December 31, 1961; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1530468/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.