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Form? It's A Fable As New Grid Season Counts Its Casualties Some reflections on college football's first big week- end or the ';j8 season: Th pundits are in complete route, form is a fiction, and a lot of character-builders can be grateful for smaU favors. Stanford's Jack Cl!l'tice, for example, is celebrated

WAVES HERE

Governali Predict Even Tilt By BOB ORTMAN "Frustrating" was the word for last week, Paul Governali, San Diego State College foot• ball coach, told the Quarter- back Club yesterday at its first weekly luncheon meeting at the San Diego Club. Governali id he and his staff had spent a number of hours trying to decide wheth- er to kick, run or pass for the extra points after the Aztecs' touchdowns. "Then," added Governall "we were shut out (25-0 by Santa Barbara), so there went four hours of work down the drain.'' Sees Even Game Maybe they can h a"'.r v e s t some fruit for their labors this week. The Aztecs play host to Pepperdine Saturday n i g h t and "it should be an even game," according to Gover- nali, which means the Aztecs finally may get on the score• board. Governali said his team and the Waves both "are about the same as last year," when Pepperdine pulled out a 14-12 decision. Mike Tarlton, a sophomore making his debut at end after being shifted from the back- field, and hlj!fba£k Dick Mor- ris, "a young-man with many talents," were singled out by Governali for their e ft o rt s against Santa Barbara. Morris To Start The Montezuma m e n t o r said Morris will break into the starting lineup, along w 1 t It so.phomore speedster Jimmy Kmg, who was nursing an ankle injury last Saturday and fullback Ken Cochrane' another promising newcomer: Bob Mccutcheon, University of_ San Diego coach, said the P10neers should beat Ne w Mexico Western here Satur- day "if we play up to our ability." "But," he said, "We'll get knocked off good and proper unless we get more variety mto our attack." He blamed overconfidence on the part of the Pioneer coaches and players for their (Cont. on l'age b-6, CoL 8)

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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1958

for his sense of humor and he must have died laughing as his first Palo Alto edition took a fear- ful pasting from Washington Stale, 40-6. Curtice insists that football can be fun for the play- ers and he's right. The Washing- ton States, with an eye on the Rose Bowl instead of the punch bowl, had themselves a ball. This was a weel

Governali Predicts Even Tilt ~aturday (Continued from Page b·5) was pleased with the perform· 20,6 squeaker over University ance of the freshman-domi- of Mexico last week. nated Westerners in last "We re a 11 y underrated week's 41-0 loss to a strong them," said Mccutcheon. "We Redlands team. were too limited In our of. George Schutte of San Diego fense. Junior College and Duane Ma- "Our line really looked pa- ley of San Diego High said thetic. Our backs did a cred- they are keepin" their fingers !table job, considering they crossed until ~fter t h e i r received no blocking. The teams' openers next weekend. quarterbacking was weak, but The Knights play at Glen- that was partially the coaches' dale JC Saturday, while the fault for limiting their plays." Cavers will oppose Lincoln Marines Pra.ised High in one quarter of the City. Bull Trometter said his Ma• Prep League Carnival Friday rlne Corps Recruit D e p O t and will meet Kearny in a full team is peopled by "a lot of game Saturday. green boys, but with their de- "Glendale is 11th in the na- termlnation and desire I think tlonal rankings," said Schutte. we'll have a fine season." "I only hope we're more pre- He said the Devildogs' ot- pared Saturday than we are fense finally started to click today. We still are weeding In the second half of Sunday's ou,~ our personnel," 33-0 rout over Eagle Rock We have a small tea)'Il and Athletic Club. "Everyone did a very, very green one," said a fine job," he added. Maley. "If we ca!! get by the "I hope we'll be able to go first two or three games, we against Fresno and operate could have a pretty good ball as we did against E a g 1 e _c_lu_b_._______._..._~

FIRST QB MEET TODAY

FOOTBALL SCORES

Victims included C u rt i c e, UCLA's George Dickerson, Kan- sas' .Ta,ck l\Iitchell, Arkansas' Frank Broyles, Texas A&M's Jim Myers and Missouri's Dan Devine. Dick rson, succeeding the practically immortal Red Sander , suffered what amounted to a disaster. The new Bl"Uin coach was eager to continue the winning tradition established by Sanders, eager to impress the old grad . eager to proye that Wilbur Johns, the UCLA athleti<' director. had made the right choice. But t beautiful vision collapsed in a hurry as Pittsbu1 h m nhandled Dickerson's single - w i n g fore , -G. It'!> a little early for sweeping judgements, hut thL uld be a long, agonizing year for Dickerson and tie UCLA Iatthful. Not Sanders-Model Team t;CL wa beaten by an excellent football team, a team po sibly. headed for big things. But the Bruins wer urpri 'ngly inept, both offensively and defen- si cly, It wasn't. to Jean on an understatement, typi- c 1 of h squad turned out by Sanders. Th Pittsburgh linemen made it a miserable after- noon 'QCLA' · tailbacks, seldom giving Don Long or 13ill ·1m time to throw unhurriedly. In a word, the Brum a protection was inadequate. And he l'CLA defen · . long a Sanders strength, was either un- able or incapable of handling Pittsburgh's pro-:scyled offen:,e. Though bleeding inward!), the high - strung UCLA coach accepted defeat with good grace. Dickerson not onlv observed the time-honored custom of con- gratulating the winner but had a long post-game con- \ ersation on the field with Pitt's Johnny Michelose . :Michelosen earlier had been given a short ride-it amounted to a token-on the shoulders of his players. Th Panthe ·s had won so easily they co n't raise hon st enthusiastn. r !r, :now vel', a tiny measure of co 50 • tion for Dickerson. The old grads who lmd lnststect UCI.:A's head coaching job should got to Tommy Pro- thro or Jim Myers, instead of Dickerson, were left temporarily speechless. This, as it developed, was a black weekend fo1• Sanders' disciples. Prothro's Oregon State club looked even worse than UCLA in taking a 21-0 trimming from Southern Cal. And ihe Myers regime at Texas A&M \ as christened with a 15-14 upset loss to Te~s Tech. Prothro shared the responsibility for Oregon State's ineffeclu&I . hawing against outhern Cal. Apparently enchanted by the new sub t1tO'titJTrrules, he tinkered with his lineup until all con t ui ·as l ·t. No Over-Empha is F..or. ztecs The result was organized coll!usion. Prothro em· ployed at least three men at eacli sition and called upon a total of five athletes at ti key tailback as- signment. None of 'em stayed in th game long enough to get anvthing started. Worse iet, th,e Oregon States were so disorganized they handed Southern Cal a first down at the Beaver 23 by drawing a penalty for delaying the game. A sub entered the game while the clock was running. On the ensuing play, quarterback Tom Maudlin tossed a :.!3-yard strike to end Marlin McKeev~r for Tll>y's third touchdown. Such was the crazy-quilt pattern of an exciting first weekend. About th only visible form was demon- strated by cuti haking porn porns on the sid lines. Form also wa upheld by San Diego State, which took its expected beating from Santa Barbara, and by the Universitv of San Diego, which had too mus- cle for the little men representing ti Uni e ity of Mexico. There was a note of irony in yeste 's n paper. The story of San Diego State's ~0- squai;l losing, 2.3-0, to Santa Barbara was related the s s sec- tion. In the main news section wa the ounce- rnent that a student body of 10,000 will throng the :i\lontezum campus as classes take up today. Ten thousand scholars and 30 football players. It seems safe to say that football isn't being over-em- phasized at San Diego State in the year of 1958. . Pete Elliott doubtless will testify that the same sit• uation exists t the University of California (pop.18,- 981) which just lost its first football game to College or Pacific (pop. 1,334) since 1943. A crazy game, football. Crazy, but fun.

Rock," he said. The Recruits play at Fresno State Satur- day. Hopes Run High Bob Kloppenberg, end coach at Cal Western, said the West- erners will go to Q'i:cld ntal Friday "with hope Pll ing an upset.'' "It we can tighten up our pass defense," he added, "we have a chance." I He said the coaching staff

Coach Alers Team, Gains 2 Platoons fyo platoon or not lo pla• toon. I That's been a question fac- ing Bob Mccutcheon since his University of San Diego F~o- neers began spring training. This week Mccutcheon shuf- 11ed his team, promoted 10 freshmen, and decided to m e e t a tough New Mexico Western squad Saturday with a d o u b 1 e-barrelled starting lineup. He still was shuffling today when he explained how things will work: Offensively, the Pioneers will use their usual modified split-T. Defensively, they'll put five men in the forward wall, bol- stered by a cornerback at ei• ther end. That leaves two line- backers and a couple of half- backs to hold the Pioneers' rear. By bringing up the fresh• men, Mccutcheon has built two complete offensive pla- toons and two defensive ones. Incidentally, that's 44 players -0ne-sixth of the whole USD Men's College student body. The whole q u e s t i o n of whether to use two platoons boils down to which t e a m USD is playing against, Mc Cutcheon said. The Pioneers belong lo the NAIA, which allows unlimited substitution. If _the opponent also belongs to the NAIA, there's no question of whose rules they play under. But if the opponent is a member of the NCAA, which lets a player enter the game Cutcheon will switch to the old method.

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[ EVENING TRIBUNE b 14 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA • Thurs., Sept. 25, 1958

THE SOUTHERN CROSS, THURSDAY,

Southwest Kansas State 17, Wyomlng 1..A. Texas Christian 42, Kansas o. Texas 13, Georgia S. Texas Tech 15, Texas A&M 14, B9vlor 12, Arkansas o. Bishop 42, Butler (Tex.) 8 er~;~~~t~n~J. ~gr~~ol of Texas South• McMurry 21, Howard Payne 8. '[itl 2 l,e~Y~e f:ate 27, Abilene Chris• Rocky Mountains Oklahoma State 31, Denver U Brigham Young 29, Fresno Stcite 7, Utah 20, Montono 6. M;~!g~af Western 16, Eastern New Idaho. State 30, Eastern Washlngton 9. Hardm-Slmmons 14, Tul!a o. Sam Houston 12, McNeese 6. Western Montana 7, Ricks (Idaho) 6, South Florida 3-4, Tulane U. South Carolina 8, Duke o. Kentucky 13, Georgia Tech 0 lin~o~~~ Carolina State 21, North Caro- Clemson 20, Virginia 15. Wake. F9r_est 34, Maryland 0. W: V_1rgtn1a 66, Richmond 22. M1ss.1sslppJ 17, Memphis State O. Florida State 42, Furman 6. Vlrgl.nla MIiitary 46, Morehead 20. ctiV;.,r~s 6 . Brown 24, Northern Carolina 12: le~e'rphis Navy 7, Howord (Ala.) Col- ~~Corra~~:"· fe 0 lt postponed, ram. ~~~t5b~t~ 1 :fcin Jl: E~~ih~~~ol~~o~ran 6 • Concordia (Minn.) Augsburg 13. T~~~f/~i lnsti1ute 18, Fayettevllle Presbyterian 24, East Caronna 16 ~%~o~t'f;~Wt~~l~: Western CarOnna 6. Centre 7, Wilmington 6. T~/,s~_sslppi Southern U, Louisiana Louisiana College 1', Corpus Christi O. Ei;ist Tennessee 12, Murrav 6. Middle Tennessee 12, Austin Peay o. 50 ~~ 1 sb~rn Kentucky 12, Southeast Mis- Marshall 9, West Virginia State , O. ~Lusif~~~de \1,· A~gb)a~sa xii Newberry 16, The Citadel O • ~~Ji"J~,J~c 2 t 2&0u~~f~o n;a Union 0. State

1ng For Second Victory lt's victory No 1 in th 1958 f University of San 01·ego p· e ootball record books for the 10neers. But they'll have to show more rid make it two in a row when lhe g savvy. if tl;ley hope to Western _this Saturday afternoon inyB~~~llde w1t.h .New Mexico The P10neers didn't have the • oa Stadium. sof~ tou~h they expected in the . University. of Mexico Plumas neer 17. A five-yard pass from last Saturday night. They fi- Lui~ Rodriguez to end Ismael nally came through with a 20 _6 Enemas was good for the Mex- triumph. 1co score. Coach Bob Mccutcheon says Freshman Joe Gray from st. the Pioneers will take the meas- Aug~stme High intercepted a ure of New Mexico Western "if Mexico pas.s and raced 68·yards we play up to our ability." to the P10neers' final touch- "But," he added, "we'll get aown with only seevn, seconds knocked off good and proper of play. remaining in the game unless we get more variety into G':ay ~clGausepohl e h~ our attack." · sh!mng hghts in the de- . Mccutcheon blamed overcon- fense. 1 Each intercepte w 0 f1dence on the part of the USD passes d e e P in Pioneer terri- gndd~rs and coaches for the tory to thwart the visitors. surprise the visitors from below the border gave them. "We really underrated them" Mccutcheon admitted. ' The 7,000 fans in Balboa Stadium saw the pioneers

The Mustangs from Silver (Cont. on Page b-5, Col. 1) Coach Alters USD Team (Continued from l'age b-3) City used the two-platoon sys- tem in their first two games. They defeated St. Mary's of Kansas, 40-0 in their opener and Adams State, Colorado 34-7, last weekend. ' Th~ Pio_neers took a shaky openmg victory from the Uni- versity of Mexico to boost thelt victo1y string to five over a .wo-year . As things stood today, sopho- more ha!fbaGICI V: c Gause- pohl, whose deTens ve w or k last . week helped stop t h e Mexicans on the Pioneer goal line four times, was. the only player Mccutcheon has slated for both offensive a.nd defen- sive work.

launch the sea/11'.m' s scoring in the first quarter. Quarterback Jan Chapman hit end c G Walker for a seven-yard to~ch~ down aerial. T h e scoring toss I topped a 53-yard drive. Sopho- m O r. e Vic Gauseopohl, who starred on defense, ran over for the two extra points. The Pioneers staged a 53 _ yard dr Ve ll1 the second quar- ter for their second touchdown. Bob Keyes tinished it with a o:ne-yard jaunt for a 14-0 half- time advantage. After a s ~less third quar- ~er, the Mex· Jub gained a nreak when que Fuentes intercepted a pass on the Pio-