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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1948
Page
9
Philadelphia December report notes pro football faces restrained bidding as 18 teams prepare for the 1948 draft. Commissioner Bert Bell says few outstanding college stars this year mean limited salaries and bonuses. Eagles release full craft lists while other clubs reveal only partial names.
Notre Dame halfback Terry Brennan won a spot on Coach Herman Hickman’s North squad for the Shrine benefit game Christmas night at the Orange Bowl. He joins Yale’s Robert Furse at quarterback and Eldwood Petchel of Penn State at left half with Big John Weber of Princeton at fullback as Hickman’s selections. The North will face a Southern College All-Stars squad in a 40 000 spectator game for the crippled children fund. Southern coach Andy Gustafson named a starting line averaging 218 pounds per man with stars including Barney Poole Jim Cain Ernie Settembre Ray Richeson Phil Poole Mario Demarco and Gene Kinney. The term filibusters is traced to pirates and U S citizens who intervened in Latin American revolutions without government sanction.
Long Island University's offense centers on two pivots Sherman White and Jack French. The six foot six and six foot four players position on both sides of the basket to feed cutters or take hook shots. The sequence uses multiple passes with passes behind screens and delayed cuts to create open shots under the basket.
Connie Mack marks his 86th birthday with the Philadelphia Athletics and hints at a possible 1949 improvement. He remains focused on winning another American League pennant, though he stops short of promising the flag.
Nathan Buddy Blair former major league star and famed all round athlete spoke before the Rotary Club in Ferriday Louisiana Blair a Sicily Island Ferriday resident and former LSU standout managed the Vicksburg Hill Billies and recently joined a Monroe sporting goods store He played for the Yankees and Athletics and was known as a hard hitting infielder now with the Vicksburg club echoed on taking care of himself.
Greenville Mississippi officials say James Acton manager of Lea Grange Georgia last year will visit to discuss managing the Greenville Bucks in the Cotton States League. Possible candidates include Chester Morgan and Sidney Gautreaux, both noted for prior leadership roles with Clarksdale and Thibodaux teams.
New York December 23 Kentucky tops major college basketball in defense with 36.3 points allowed per game through December 18, while the veteran Wildcats average 67.7 points. Bowling Green and Mississippi share best field goal percentage at 38.9.
Nevada's Stan Heath and Texas Mines' Fred Wendt set multiple 1948 single game and season marks in national statistics. Heath led rushing and passing yards, completions, and TD passes in key games, while Wendt totaled 327 rushing yards and 152 points, aided by other top performances from Justice and Jones.
College basketball results include Kentucky 51 Tulane 47 and Manhattan 68 Springfield 5.5 Texas A. and M. 50. Dayton 78 Morris Harvey 71 in overtime. Notre Dame 70 Navy 62. Purdue 54 Drake 41. Kansas State College 54 Iowa State Teachers College 47. Youngstown 51 Fenn 44. Southern Pro Nashville 59 New Orleans 56. Other noted scores include Iona Freshmen 72 St Francis Brooklyn Freshmen 67 and Iowa 47.
Baton Rouge, Dec. 23. Athletic Director T. P. Heard said LSU will meet Alabama in 1951 and Texas in 1952. Both programs were dropped from the 1949 schedule but will again be among the Bengal's opponents in future years.
The column lists past sports milestones: a 1942 basketball score Kentucky over St John's 52 to 40 at Madison Square Garden. It notes 1940 Santa Anita Derby had 99 three year olds named, and 1937 Great Lakes upset Notre Dame in AP poll surprise. It mentions 1932 Mildred Didrikson Zaharias marriage to Babe Zaharias.
Jackson Touchdown Club invites 65 SEC coaches to its annual football roundup on December 28 in Jackson Mississippi. Invitations went to 150 junior college and high school football men tors in Mississippi. Harry Mehre, former Ole Miss coach and current sports columnist, will serve as master of ceremonies. About 700 guests and members expected.
New York December 23 The Pac Coast Conference faces a looming split as Montana exits and Idaho may follow. Washington Oregon and Washington State clash over post season plans while Oregon seeks a Texas Bowl bid, raising fears of a two conference future and possible reorganization by 1951.
Philadelphia reports an automobile agency offered 274 new cars to the city for 27 dollars apiece plus trade-ins for use as police patrol vehicles. The offer arrived without hesitation and drew immediate attention from city officials.
Gil Telford and Harry Rayner, recreation hall proprietors, pledged free beer to all comers on sunless days and served about one fifth of a 5 000 population. In Las Vegas the El Rancho Vegas Hotel offered free drinks up to midnight but saw no stampede, likely due to late word.
In Hollywood a July start to the holiday season features starlets posing in summer scenes and a Santa Claus lane on Hollywood boulevard. The piece details star gift lists, studio parties, and the contrast with Christmas traditions abroad, noting many films operate in morning schedules with afternoons free.
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