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Frank Branch Leads Victoryver ixeorffiaDefensive Fullback HaltsFamed Passing Of BratowskiSTARK VILLE, Miss.—(A) —An underdog Mississippi State football team turned on Georgia here yesterday and battered the Southeastern C onference Giants for a6-0 victory.A tiny Mississippi State quarterback and a hulking defense fullback spelled the difference between the two grid machines.V Frankie Branch, State’s 126-pound signal caller, sparked the first quarter five-play touchdown drive that proved to be the Georgians' downfall.Fortunato Gomes ThroughAnd it was defensive fullback jToe Fortunato who hatted the hall away from Zeke Bratowskl’s Bulldog receivers as the Danville. 111., qunrtert ack pegged 39 passes to set a new conference record foran tnthvidu-'. He completed only14.Harry Gilmer's 37 passes for Alabama against Tennessee In 1940 was the previous mark. Georgln'*' brilliant aerial attacktcept the Bulldogs very much in it game right up to the lastwhistle.State drovee 54 yards for its touchdown in the first two and jone-half minutes of the game.Right end Tony Kotovvski tookJBratowski’s punt on the Mississip-| State 28, lugged it to the 46 i re be turned It over to branch's passes.Branch Makes GoodBranch made good his first toss, a 20-yard heave to Tom Rushing on the Georgia 34. Right I Halfbac k Wally Beach got two yards through the line and then Branch rifled one to right end F.d Evans on the 23.The touchdown went to Reach, who blasted his way 16 yards on the next play and skirted left end for the lemaining seven. PeteiPolovina missed the conversion attempt.■ With Fortunato, right end JohnSantillo and left end Tom Fulton out in front, Mississippi State'forced Wally Butts’ charges tochance to a ground attack in the second half. Chopping off one to five yard gains, they got as far as the State 39 before Mississippiwrite held./ It w-s not until the last few seconds of the fourth quarter that Bratowski began to hit his receiv-i er when it counted.
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Anniston Star
Anniston, Alabama, US
Sun, Oct 07, 1951
Page 15
Full Page
Clipped by
Joseph M.
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