European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes Tom Greene dives Over a " Milij Uve � the stars and stapes a up polls Iowa army an new York up Louisiana state which has confounded the experts this season not Only with its perfect record but also by the huge margin of its victories has taken Over the no. 1 spot from Iowa in the United press International College foot Ball ratings. This was the sixth team to take Over first place during the eight weeks of this unpredictable season. Ohio state Oklahoma and Auburn led during each of the first three weeks then army and Iowa took Over for two weeks each. Leu emerged on top after crushing a respectable Duke team 50-18, saturday night for its eighth consecutive Victory. Coach Paul wednesday november 14, 1959 frogs stumbling to Cotton bowl berth thu worst looking,9 but Southwest s tons irr\r5 i air it fti.,.,.fort Worth a the worst looking football team in the Southwest conference Texas Christian enters he Home stretching the drive toward a Champion ship and the Cotton bowl unable to do anything can it boat some body. Everyone is complaining about How colourless and thoroughly in imposing the horned frogs  they did to have the Best win Ning record in the conference the probably would t draw a Corporal s guard for their games. Sports writers protest when they have to cover them. Coach Abe Martin is sorry about the team that has to stumble to Victory and puts on such a sorry show. Maybe the rest of the teams e play will look worse than us he ventures hopefully. I think most of those sportswriters need astar to write about. We Don t have one. Our second team is about As Good As our first. S0 that might Puzzle  Martin warned everybody when they were picking the frogs to win the conference championship. He said they must t expect flashy team and there would be no stars but he thought he d have the roughest and toughest outfit yet. He predicted he d have a Good called at thu. Martin is deeper in top tackles than at any time in his coaching career. He has in Marshall Harris and Marvin la Sater his Best blocking halfback. The running attack is terrific the passing is excellent when the frogs decide to use it. The team has averaged 321.1 Yards per game on offence and permitted 209 on defense. It has allowed fewer Points than any major College inthe nation. Since Texas Christian has one of the smallest coaching staffs in the country just four men mar tin uses a plan of dividing the squad for instruction. One Tea will work on defense at the South end of the Field and another Millwork on offence at the North end. But there s nothing can be Don about the looks of the team in View of the fact that it has lost Only one game to Iowa the big ten Champ and has stumbled to six victories averaging 23 Points per game nobody is expected Evento try. One. The fellow has if you like a team that just uses physical strength and brute Force to win. The frogs have been compared Toa bulldog that takes u grip on an opponent squeezes and punishes shifting the hold and improving the advantage at every Opportunity until he is in a position to Winthe fight. There Are two big Ines the first averaging 204 pounds and the Sec Ond 212. Each has More Speed and ability than any immediately re bowl ticket orders nixed Iowa City Iowa up the University of Iowa is returning All orders for Rose bowl tickets. The tickets Haven t been printed be cause the Pacific coast conference representative has t been deter mined. Diet Al s tigers have outscored their opponents thus far 206-47. The Only team that came reason ably close to beating the Bayou bengals was Florida which succumbed two weeks ago 10-7. Leu which appears sugar bowl bound still has to play Mississippi state and Tulane. Underestimated at Start the tigers were not even picked to finish 1-2-3 in their own South Eastern conference before the sea son. Twenty of the 35 leading coaches who make up the up rating Board cast their first place ballot for leu this week. Iowa which walloped Minnesota 28-6, and clinched the big ton Champion ship and the Rose bowl berth had 14 first place votes in Points a stopped Iowa 324-307. The Only other first place ballot went to third ranked army. Ohio state dropped out of the select group for the first time this sea son and notre Damo plummet Edall the Way from 10th to a tie for 20th place. Pitt moves up with Points distributed on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 scale for votes from first to 10th places army had 233 Auburn 212, Wisconsin 184, okla homa 1 59, Purdue 12c, Mississippi 102, Northwestern 52 and Pitts Burgh 46. Pitt made the biggest and Vance of the week jumping from 20th to 10th place. Iowa has a much tougher Road to travel than leu during the last two weeks of their regular season schedules. The Hawk eyes still have Ohio state and notre Dame to play. Iowa s Hopes for the National championship will depend upon How it fares against these two rivals who Are ranked among the second 10 teams. A game bound to cause a shifting next week s ratings pits seventh ranked Purdue against ninth ranked Northwestern on saturday sixth ranked Oklahoma also faces Tough opponent in its big eight conference showdown with mis Souri. Most of the other top 10 team should have Little trouble winning. Auburn plays Georgia Mississippi meets Tennessee and Pitt faces Nebraska. The up ratings first place votes and won lost led records in parentheses i Louisiana state 20 8-0 2iowa 14 6-0-1 3army i 6-0-1 4auburn 6-0-1 5wisconsin 5-1-1 6oklahoma 6-1 7purdue 5-1-1 8 Mississippi 7-1 9 Northwestern 5-2 10 Pittsburgh 5-2-1 Rutgers army get feelers for bowl bids new York up unbeaten Rutgers and once tied army both have received Cotton bowl feelers it was revealed monday with the probability that neither team will accept a bid to a Post season foot Ball game. Army a 14-7 Victor Over Rice last saturday Long has been against postseason Competition even though Navy went to the sugar bowl in 1955 arid the Cotton bowl last Jan. 1. If army was to accept a bid i undoubtedly would have to be As the result of a directive from the the department of the army West Point spokesman said. Stick inn reveals news meanwhile Rutgers coach Joh Stiegman admitting that an undefeated season is within reach despite a broken hand suffered by All America candidate Bill aus tin disclosed at the weekly lunch Eon of the new York football writers association that Rutgers too had received a feeler. At new Brunswick n.j., a Little later Rutgers officials also announced that they have received feelers from both the Tangerine bowl in Orlando Fla., and the Blue grass bowl at Louisville. New York a it s going to take a Stout crowbar to pry Louisiana state out of first place in the weekly associated press College football poll if the tigers continue to manhandle their opponent Sas they did Duke last saturday. It was their third week As no. 1 team. The sportswriters and sports casters participating in the voting impressed by the 50-18 Victory Over the Blue devils this week again made Louisiana state no. 1. The Iowa Hawk eyes who clinched the big ten title saturday were again in the no. 2 spot. Army held its no. 3 position despite the fact the wilting cadets a spokesman said difficulties Rutgers would have to overcome before accepting a bid would in clude financial risk a Lack of Winter training facilities and the presence on the squad of import ant members of the varsity Basket Ball team. Nothing to say it s up to our administration officials whether we would go he said. Personally i have nothing to say about it one Way or an other but there would be a lot of complications with studies another  Stiegman said he does t know whether Austin can make it Back this season because his hand will be in a cast for two weeks and had a bad scare pulling out a Vic tory Over Rice with a Long pass in the final seconds of their game at Houston. Army also was hard pressed toehold its no. 3 position As Auburn crowded up to within 23 Points of Earl Blaik s team As it moved from fifth to fourth place. Auburn displaced. Northwestern in fourth As the big ten school dropped out of the top 10 As a result of its defeat by Wisconsin. Tgu joins group Northwestern was the Only on of the top 10 teams of a week ago to fail to make it this week. Okla homa held its no. 6 spot wis Consin moved up from seventh to fifth Mississippi jumped from ninth to seventh Purdue held on to no. 8 and the air Force acad Emy remained 10th. The newcomer to the select Listis Texas Christian which moved from Lith to ninth. Louisiana state gathered 95first-place votes in holding its Lead with a total of 1,532 Points. Iowa got 52 votes for the top spot and accumulated 1,441 Points. The Only other teams in the top 10 to be backed for no. 1 were Auburn with six votes Oklahoma wit three and Mississippi with two. The top 10 teams with first place votes and won lost records in parentheses. Points on a 10-9-8etc., basis i Louisiana state 95 8-0 2iowa 52 6-0-1 3army 6-0-1 4auburn 6 6-0-1 5wisconsin 5-. A Oklahoma 3 6-1 7mississippi 2 7-1 8-Purdue 5-1-1 9texas Christian 6-1 10air Force 6-0-1 1,532 1.441 909 976 786 783 535 289 287 249second in ii North Carolina 2 218 12 Syracuse. 179 13-Northwestern. 166 l l3-8o"th"-n methodist 67 o 59 7-Ri ". "3 18-florida.19-Hutoers i. 35 20 Georgia tech. 19. 324 307 233 212 184 169 126 102 52 46 second 10 in Syracuse. 39 12-alr Force Academy. 31 13-Ohio state. 29 14 tie North Carolina and Texas Christian 23 each 16 Rice ii 17-Southorn methodist. 6 18-Gcorgia tech 4 19-Navy, 2 20 tie notre Dame an California i each. Army retains Lambert leu the rules say a player cannot play with any unyielding substance on his  but he spoke highly of Little College football in the East com pared with Ivy league football asserting that the smaller schools Are doing an Ever better Job of getting  in this group he named Connecticut Buffalo Lafayette Lehigh and Delaware. Donelli praises Penn Buff Donelli the Columb Acoach whose team faces Penn next saturday rated the quakers As the strongest club in the Ivy league at this Point in the sea  his son quarterback Dic Donelli probably will miss the Penn game with sprained knee ligaments he said. Steve Sebo the Penn coach spoke out strongly against the two Point conversion Rule and said that returning the goal posts to the goal line to promote Field goal kicking would make the game More interesting. Ferguson wins Tampa welter go Tampa Fla. A Henry Fer Guson Bimini welterweight Champ steadily bore in for 10 rounds and won a unanimous decision Here Over taller Freddie ?svr%7ampa Ferguson weighed139%, Moore 138%. The 5-foot, 5-Inch Ferguson was the aggressor All the Way. Moore never had a Good shot at him. There were no knockdowns butt was a bloody fight. Both men u butted Heads in the third round with a Cut opening Over Moore left Eye. It bled freely the remainder of the fight packers Ferguson out Green Bay wis. Up full Back Howie Ferguson will be lost to the Green Bay packers for three weeks. Ferguson suffered a Sepa ration and fracture in his left shoulder during the first play of game with the Chicago bears Irish s Izo Heads up Backfield picks new York up _ notre me quarterback George Tzowas named to head the United press International Backfield of the week for the second week in a Row Izo figured in every Point scored by the Irish in their 29-26loss to Pittsburgh. Selected with Izo were sum s Don Meredith Missouri s Phi Snowden and leu s Warren Baab who each accounted for two or More touchdowns in major victories last week