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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1963THE DAILY JOURNAL-GAZFTTE AND COMMERCIAL-STAR. MATTOON, ILLINOISpage fit*HaltsEven ts CanceledMHscagecnmc DickMemoryBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS to Nov. 30.Major sports events postponed or Southern Illinois at N. Texas, anceled because of the assassi-America SquadPRO FOOTBALL American League SundayHouston at San Diego, postponed.nation of President Kennedy included :COLLEGE FOOTBALL Notre Dame at Iowa, canceled._ _______ Harvard at Yale, postponed, may Kansas City at New York, post-By JIM BECKER be played Nov 30 jponed.Associated Press Sports Writer i Rice Texas Christian, post- Buffalo at Boston, postponed.The sounds of sports crowds, ponetl to Dec. 7. Oakland at Denver, postponed,were stilled today in memort of Penn state at Pitt postponed to PRO BASKETBALLa vigorous, sports-loving Presi- £ec# 7 Fridaydent. North Carolina at Duke, post- Detroit at Cincinnati, postponed.Dozens of big Saturday football poned to Nov. 30. Boston at Philadelphia, postgames were canceled. A few others Wisconsin at Minnesota, post- poned.were still scheduled to be played poned to Thanksgiving. New York at Baltimore, post-because the people in charge said Purdue at Indiana, postponed. poned.they felt that President Kennedy! Air Force at Colorado, post-] Los Angeles at San Francisco,Of KennedyDick Butkus, All-America centerTACKLESScott Appleton, State, junior, 20, 6-3, 266 lt;Levit-LW Jets Seekponed.California at Stanford, postponed to Nov. 30.UCLA at Southern Calif., postFourth Victoryponed to Nov. 30.All national television sports | Missouri at Kansas, postponedprograms were canceled today andSunday.The annual Yale - Harvard game was one of the first to be postponed. It may be played Nov. 30. The late President played junior varsity football at Harvard.Stockholders OKFord's Offer ForDetroit Ball ClubDETROIT Uf)liam Clay Ford to purchase the National Football League club’s franchise.About 94 per cent of the 144stockholders voted in favor of the sale.The move also dissolved the Detroit Football Co. Ford, in a brief statement after the meeting, said he was forming a new corporation called the Detroit Lions Incorporated, of which he will be the sole owner.The 38-year-old vice president of the Ford Motor Co. has been president of the Lions for the past 2% years.astructing hitters. During his playing years with the Chicago White Sox, 1930 to 1950, Appling failedto hit .300 in only four seasons and finished with a lifetime batting average of .310.Appling served as coach of the Baltimore Orioles last season.Turkey TelecastThe traditional Green Bay Packers-Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day game will be televised nationally. This will be the secondkins, Baylor, junior, 20, 6-1, 180 Texas, senior, 21, 6-3, 235 (Brady, (Oklahoma City). Tex.) and Harry Schuh, Memphistown, Pa.). Guards -Dick Redman, WashKANSAS CITY {JO — Luke Appling, a major league baseball ‘Deep Loss’ player for 20 years, has beenBaseball Commissioner Ford named a coach for the Kansas Frick spoke for sports when he City Athletics, said: The club said Friday that Ap-We all feel a deep loss and at pling’s primary duty will be in-the same time a great sense of shame and unhappiness that this should happen in our country. We are all shocked and in sorrow/’Friday almost all sports events were canceled or postponed after word was received of the President’s death.Most basketball and hockey games were not played. The national television fight was cancelled.Night racing was called off.Most tracks will stay closed until Wednesday.would have wanted it./ - **But half-time shows were replaced with memorial services for the slain President.At Kansas CityAppling to CoachCoach Jim Waltrip s cagers have, ^ defeated Central Junior Highstockholders voted Friday School of Mattoon 31-24, stoppedoept the $6_million offer of Wil-jSuUivan 33.^ and rapped Hum.boldt 37-20.The heavyweights will seek their second win after defeating CentralThe 1963-64 version of the Mattoon High School basketball team will be unveiled at a special fans’ clinic scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the MHS gymnasium.Opening remarks will be given by Athletic Director Harry E. Gaines, team members will be introduced by head basketball coach Bob Sink, and rules changes will be interpreted by sophomore coach EdLash*An intersquad game will follow at 8 p.m.Jefferson Junior High School’s lightweight basketball team will be seeking. its fourth consecutive victory of the season when the Jets entertain Effingham Central in a game set for 6:46 p.m. Monday.26-7 and dropping two games to Sullivan 46-17, and Humboldt 53-36.Jefferson will resume court action against St. Joseph here Dec. 3, following Monday’s game.postponed.BOXINGFridayAllen Thomas — Johnny Persol TV fight, canceled.Rabbit HuntingProgram Is SetSeason Starts■iiiiiiaiiiiiiisiisaaaiiifiBSPRINGFIELD, 111. — The staternhHit. sea-cnn ntv^npd tstriav of cun.By HARRY GRAYSON Newspaper Enterprise Assn.The All-America football playerhas reached the pinnacle of athletics.He made the climb by consistent brilliance. He put all his gifts, some of ^qjhdch are intangible, together at the outset and kept them there all the way along the route. He gave his all unselfishly in the roughest, toughest and most intricate team game ever devised.The world’s greatest athletes are supposed to appear in the Olympic Games next Ootober, but you saw the best of all on the college football fields during this fall season. The foremast runners, hurdlers, throwers, jumpers, weight lifters and gymnasts will compete in Tokyo. The American football player has to be composite of them all.With the thousands of young men playing college football, some deem it unfair to name the 11 best. But why take a negative approach and deprive certain combatants the awards they so richly deserve? jSo again it Is a privilege toj name the extraordinary performers adjudged the most formidable! in the college game at their respective positions. They are elected by the nation’s coaches, profess-sional scouts and football writersIto the 1963 Newspaper Enterprise Association All-America team:ENDS — Billy Martin, Georgia ( Tech, senior, 20, 0-4^, 236(Gainesville, Ga.) and Larry El-ButkusNEAington, Junior, 20, 5-11, 210 (Seattle) and Bob Brown, Nebraska, senior. 21, 6-5. 250 (Cleveland,Ohio).CENTER — Dick Butkus. Illinois. junior, 6-3, 234 (Chicago).QUARTERBACK — Roger Stau-boch. Navy, junior, 21, 6-2, 190(Cincinnati, Ohio).HALFBACKS — Gale Sayers, Kansas. Junior. 20, 6-0. 190 (Omaha. Neb.) and Paul Martha, Pittsburgh. senior. 20, 6-0, 166 (Union-town. Pa.).FULLBACK — Jim Grisham, Oklahoma, junior, 20, 6-2, 206 lt;01-ney, Tex ).SECOND TEAME—Bob Lacey, North Carolina E—Vem Burke, Oregon State T—Archie Sutton, Illinois T—Jim Freeman, NavyO—Ed Adamchick. PittsburghO—Bill Budness, Boston UniversityC—Malcolm Walker, Rice Q- Oan TruLl, Baylor B—Mel Renfro, Oregon B—Gary Wood, Cornell B—Benny Nelson, AlabamaTHIRD TEAME—Allen Brown, Mississippi E—«Mel Profit, UCLA T—Ernie Borghetti, Pittsburgh T—Carl Eller, Minnesota Q—Damon Bane, Southern CaliforniaO—Don Croftcheck, Indiana C—Orville Hudson, East Texas StateQ—Jim Sidle, Auburn B—Jay Wilkinson, Duke B—Sherman Lewis, Michigan StateB—Coamo Iacavaz/,1. PrincetonNamed
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