Stanford vs. Illinois

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  Evening star, January 2, 1952, page 46

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  PASADENA, Cal1f., Jan. g. Illinois released its power In a four touchdown last quarter to crush Stanford, 40–⁠7. before 96,- 825 in the Rose Bowl. Stunned spectators saw Stan ford’s defense crumble into the sixth straight defeat of the Pa cif1c Coast Conference by the Big Ten in yesterdays classic. But later, when some one asked Illinois Coach Ray Eliot to COM pare the brand of football in the two leagues, he said: There actually isn’t much diff ference in the brands. The Coast plays a grand game” It’s sad for Western fans to consider on the morning. after but the agreement under which the champions Of the two leagues meet in the Rose Bowl still has two years to run. Illini Prove Superiority. To the 96,825 who sat in or the game, and the millions more who watched on television, there must be little doubt of Midwest superiority. The we’ll trained well-coached Illini kept Stanford off balance most of the afternoon And when they finally pushed the Indians back on their heels fol good, they gave the West the worst trouncing it has seen since Michigan steamrollered Southern California, 1910. four years ago Stanford’s defense was gearec to stop Illinois on the ground, ano succeeded fairly well for half the game. But its heavier line couldn’t stand up through so min utes of the constant charge oi Illini forwards, and when it final lily cracked, it fell completely apart. In nine minutes % seconds o1 the fourth quarter, four touch downs poured across. Up to thai point, the score was a respecta- BILE 1877, the one-touchdown mar. gin most of the experts hac predicted. Freshman Ace Uncovered. Johnny Karras, star halfback who led Illinois TO an unbeater season, was sEnothered often. But some one else kept breaking loose usually Bill Tate. the fullback or Pete Bachouros, classy half. back. Clearing his bench, neal the finish, Eliot uncovered q freshman, Clarence DeMoss, who looked as good as the best in the longest serimmage run of the day Illinois went 361 yards on the ground for an astounding average Iof seven per running play. By contrast, Stanford averaged less than a yard-and-a-half per play on the ground, and one of it’s big offensive threats, Fullback BOZ Matthias of Olympic fame, wound Iup with a minus 8 yards for the day. Stanford’s net on the grounc was SO yards. thanks to a fine defense anchored on Center Chuck Boerio. All that kept Stanford

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  The globe-independent, Hagerstown, Md., January 3, 1952, page 1

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  The amazing thing about Mary lands crushing defeat of Tennessee in the Sugar bowl on New Years Day, was the fact that, from the opening kickoff, General Bob Neylands Vols were never in the game. Both teams opened cautiously, kicking on third down in the early part of the first quarter, but from the moment the Terrapins took the ball on their own 48 and marched straight down the field for the first score of the game, with Fullerton crashing through from the two-yard line for the score, it was all Mary land. The much publicized defense of the Vols never got going-in fact, it was the other way around, with Maryland’s forward wall smashing Tennessee’s line to ribbons and jar ring the ball loose from the Vols ball carriers with their terrific tack ling On the days play, Coach Tatum’s superbly coached eleven was easily the Number One team in the nation and they richly deserved their vic tory-the final score was % to 10. Just as amazing was Illinois rout of Stanford in the second half of the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena. The two teams played on even terms in the first half, which ended TO in favor of Stanford, and there was little to choose between them until late in the third quarter, when Illinois suddenly started clicking. They scored their second touchdown just before the third quarter ended and then turned the game into a | rout in the fourth quarter, scoring four touchdowns, with Coach Ray Eliot literally emptying the Illinois bench in order that every boy on the squad could get INTO the game. | The final score was 40 to 7. In the Orange Bowl game, which | figured to be close, the Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, coached by Bobby Dodd, former Tennessee star quarterback, came from behind in the last six minutes of the game to win, II to IA. Trailing by seven points, they tied the game up on two completed pass es from the throwing arm of Darrell Crawford. He started the touch down drive with a pitchout to Bill Teas, who raced down to Baylor’s 25-yard line. Ground plays moved them down to the Bears three, and

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  , January 4, 1952

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  or mas OVeF-fnaCCneQ lCS6lI II After six years of the exclusive pact with the Big Ten for the an nuaI Rose Bowl game at Pasadena victory still in a will-o’-the wisp for the far west. Not only that, the outcome sometimes has been downright humiliating, like Illinois 40 to 7 victory over Stanford in this most recent renewal Of the grandpappy of bowl games. Moreover, the Big Ten has scored more than three times as many points in the games as the Coast. They had better tear up that pact with the BigTen and givethis one back to everybody in the in terest Of saving whatever athletic prestige is left in the far west, producer ofgreat athletes in every thing except ability to win their own game on home grounds. There should not be that much difference between the football in two sections. Boys come in about the same sizes and shapes no mat ter what coal mine you dig them out of or the farms from which they are plucked to be given a higher education, including the adj visibility of making your tackles low. That’s the answer for this the Coast would like to know in these hours of humbleness after another catastrophe setback, which I hope means they are DANCED well nettled about being whip sawed again. This, however, apparently is not the ned yet. Either coast football for a long time was a delusion, now dissipated by the Big Ten, or fo1 some unaccountable reason under the talent shortages of recent times the coast has been hit hard err than other sections. Even admitting that there is 3 growing scarcity of standout athletes in all sports, due to the retarding effects Of military ser. vice, the coast still produces it, share, and more, or what stars are twinkling now. Why is football alone so veal out that there way, out yonder where they excel in so manythings except in meetings with the Bis Ten? I don’t know and neither d. they, but presumably they wisE by now they did not have tina Big Ten contract.

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Stanford leads 6–⁠4 in 10 meetings, counting the nine since this game.