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The Border Conference host teams have to win sometime.Star of the Rose BowlSPEAKING of Shipkey. his stature as a player goes up when one reads the accounts of his Rose Bowl .performances . . . Maxwell Stiles' history of the Rose Bowl, which contains an interesting and detailed account of the past 31 New Year's games, has just reached this desk. . . . Shipkey played his first Rose Bowl game in 1925 against Notre Paine . . . He and Ernie Nevers performed brilliantly, but the Four Horsemen of Knute Rockne were too much for Stanford . . . The Irish won. 27-10 . . . Shipkey. as a senior, came back to the Rose Bowl two years later when Stanford played a 7-7 tie with Alabama . . Stiles says this about the New Mexico coach in his account of the latter game: “Off to a brilliant start two years earlier against Notre Dame, Shipkey again proved him-aelf to be the equal of any wing-man who ever trod the Pasadena turf ... He carried the ball on two end-arounds, once for 23 yards, the longest scrimmage run of the game . . . He caught five passes for 30. 10. 1, 30 and 10 yards. . . He recovered Hyland's fumble of Barnes’ long punt ... He touched id own a Hyland punt on the 'Bama 40 ... He recovertxi Taylor's fumble of a punt by Wilton on the Tide 17. He was a veritable defensive fortress.’’ *Made No MistakesA /|R. STILES goes on to say: In
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Sat, Dec 29, 1945
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