News Scrapbook 1956-1959

/1 9.{!{{tJLS ----SPORTS EDITOR -------- found-A Football Team That Doesn't Want Newspaper Space Maybe it wasn't the best football game in the coun- try last week, but it probably was the most pic- •turesque. The reference is to the game played between the University of San Diego and the Chino Men's Insti-

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tute, a contest played on prison grounds before a crowd com- posed of convicts and guards. "It was," relates USD coach Bob McCutcheon, "a highly edu- cational experiencP." Reporting on the Pioneer~• 46-14 victory at the Monday Quar- terback lunchj?on, ;\1:C'Cuteheon honored an agreement with pris- on officials and refused to give names of the convict athletes. "The Chino athletes don't want publicity," explain<'d • kCuth- eon," "and we had to promise we wouldn't mention any names. ' This I can tell you: they have some well-known players, includ- ing at least two who formerly

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played in the Pacific Coast Conference." While on the subject of name~, McCutch<'on was intrigued by the convicts' flair for descriptive nick- names. One athlete, convicted of robbing Coke machines, is known to his colleagues as "Soda Pop Smith." Another, sent up for breaking a jewelry store window with larcenous intent, is appropriately identi- fied as "Windo Pane Jones." The convkL<; also have an interesting de.c;cription for the heavy fog which rolls into the prison in late afternoon, tempting ' those who yearn excessively for freedom. "They call it parole dust," said McCutcheon. "When the fog rolls in the prisone1·s won't even go near the fences. The temptation to escape is so strong that a Jot of 'em go to their rooms and stay until the fog goes away. Prisoners' Jeering Rattles Back "The prisoners know they can go over the fei:ice just about any time they feel like it. But one 1.hmg stops them-five years at Folsom." . . McCutcheon discovered that the prison mmates are intensely interested in football, and the cheering -and jeering-from the stands was startling. When a USD athlete fumbled a punt, the crowd worked him over so fiercely that the youngster became badly rattled. "I just can't catch any more punts," the boy told McCutcheon, "give me something else to do." One comical character in the stands almost broke up the game, as well as McCutcheo~, when he jumped to his feet and made a dramatic announce- ment in a voice that carried to all corner's of the field. "Somebody stole my wallet," the spectator an- nounced, "there's a thief in here someplace! " All of which recalls the story of the football coach at Sing Sing who complained bitterly when a news- paperman dropped by for a visit. "What's the matter, coach," asked the newsman, "you look like you'd just lost your last friend." In the manner of football coaches everywhere, the prison tutor sighed and sounded a stock complaint. "I don't know why," he replied, "but we just don't get the good boys anymore." As you can see, football is fun for everybody. But it's a lot more fun for the winners. San Francisco's Frankie Albert wasn't exactly radiating happiness after his 49ers had taken a 56-7 mauling from the I Los Angeles Rams. And Paul Governali had to struggle to see the humor in San Diego State's 25-0 Indeed, the Marine line dominated play so decisive- ly that one of the Aztec forwards reporte_dly cal!ed time out to ask a backfield teammate an mterestmg question. "Are you having fun back there?" asked the line- men. "Sure," came the reply, "this game is fun." "I got an idea," the lineman retorted, "let's change places. It's getting awfully serious up here._" There is, of course, a serious side to football. 'I_'h1s ls illustrated by the furrowed brows of the profession- al worriers who already forsee disaster for the west in the coming Rose Bowl game. Forgotten, apparently, is the lesson of last Jan. 1 when Oregon, much maligned by the press and pub- lic battled Ohio State to the last breath before yield- ing 10-7. Iowa, the Big Ten champ, is being hailed as a super-team and e crocodile tears are started to flow for the Pacific Coast Conference school unlucky enough to be chosen for the sacrifice. . It may be significant, incidentally, that. Berrue Bierman is one of those who speaks of Iowa m tones of awe. Bierman, one-time builder of ch~pions at Minnesota, is celebrated for his conservatism b~t. he loses all inhibitions in discussing this Iowa edition. "The Hawkeyes," he says, flatly, "have one of the finest teams I've ever seen." Murray Warmath, incumbent Minnesota coach, echoes Bierman. "This (Iowa) is without question the best team I have seen in my five years in the Big Ten," says Warmath. Anybody for tennis? loss to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. Iowa ACinch In Rose Bowl?

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TALL ORDER - Chris Mueller Jr. put finishing touches on an 10-foot, 8-inch statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception which will crown the dome of the Church of the Immaculata on the Uni- versity of San Diego campus in Alcala Park. A scale model of the statue and dome is at upper left. Statue of Virgin Nears Completion Forty-three year ago Chris hefore hitting on one that was Mueller Jr. came to San Diego right, 2\Iue!le1 said. Ko live with his father to do all the'model was u. ed. sculptural work on buildings "At first the statue was not erected in Balboa Park for the,feminine enough," Bishop Bud- 1915 exposition. ' dy said. •·r insisted on femi- He ls back now, working on ninity. Mr.• 1 u e 11 er added the Alcala Park campus of the curls and other touches here ! University o! San Diego. and there am! there until we :'>Tueller ls nearing comple- got it just right. Hon of the biggest job of his "When the statue is cast life-a statue of the Virgin next week, we will have a Mary. It will be placed on the crane lift it up ove,· the walls dome of the campus Church of the College for Women and o! the Immaculata, 169 feet place it in one of the patios. above the ground. I "While it is there for 10 u c ll er sculptured the days, each member of the l statue of wet clay. Last week graduating c I ass and any 65 pieces o! the mold were other students who wish to do l made. When cast in marble so may place gold leaf on one aggregate, the 10-foot, 8-inch of the fleur de !is of the statue will weigh 3 12 tons. robe." Uec. 8 Dedication Set Bishop Quofos Genesis Dec. 8 is the Feast -0f the Bishop Buddy quoted the Immaculate Conception. On First Book of Gene.si , 3rd that elate The Most Rev. lchapter, 15th verse, to e.xplain Charles Francis Buddy, Bishop the pose of ::\[ary ~tanding on of the San Diego Catholic Dio- a snake with an apple In its ce.e. plans to dedicate the mouth. church with a Pontifical High " 'The Lord God cursed the :'>lass. The statue should be serpent . . . and I will put in pla1.-c for the dedication. !enmities between thee (the The half,globe on which the serpent) and the Woman..•. statue ta will be colored lShe shall crush thy head and blue. A sc pent ;n be brown. thou shall lie In wait for Her j The er c moon will be in heel.' " go d, al 1th embroidery Bishop Buddy explamed that, and dccoratloru! on the off. in Catholic dogma, the "Wom- white ro an" referred to is the Blessed, He made three scale models Virgin. t i1 17' O u ag.

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