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narily a football game isn’t billedas a duel between a quarterbackand a halfback, but if the drum-beaters (ftiore politely known assports publicity men) for theMorris Brown College Wolverinesand the Florida A and M College

Rattlers claim that Saturday’s

battle between the two gridirongiants will be just that, don’t taketheir yelps lightly.

The Rattlers from down“South” in Tallahassee will comeinto the important fray which forthe second consecutive year may

determine both the SIAC and

national championships, withtheir hopes pinned on a radar-

armed quarterback by the name

of Alkin “Mr. Cool” Hepburn. Ifyou would believe the A and Msports publicity office, he s the

the hottest passer ever to walk

onto a football field. More aboutthe alleged “Mr. Cool” later.

Henry Mosley, the freshmanAll-American sensation of the

Wolverines last year is back, andgoing great guns for the Ox

Clemmons-coached machine. The“Chattanooga Choo Choo” scoredtwo touchdowns and sparked an-

other to lead his teammates to a

20-13 win over the Rattlers on

their home field for the Wolver-ines first win over A and M m

10 years. Mosley took a despera-

tion pass from fullback Rufus

Tribble late in the fourth quarter

to break a 13-13 deadlock.

The Rattlers have been hard hit

by graduation and induction of

key personnel into the armedforces. They’ve lost Jap Saun-

ders, their great tailback, and apair of All-Americans in OscarNorman, right half, and A1 Var-

ner, an All-American tackle. On

the other side of the fence the

Wolverines will be without the

services of Tribble, All-Americantackle Ted Benson and tackle

Bobby Graves.

But back to Hepburn, he com-pleted seven of eight attempted

passes against the Wolverinesduring the first half, eight of 11

during the second stanza of the

FAMCEE-A&T tilt, and endedthe season with an astounding

performance in the Orange Blos-

som Classic when he clicked on

10 of 11 attempts for five touch-

downs to bring his season total

to 11.

And so the Rattlers prepare for

their encounter with the Wolver-ines with their hopes resting al-most alone on the shoulders of a169- quarterback who onthe eve of the ’sl season wasn’teven counted on to throw morethan two passes during the sea-son, let alone hit for 11 touch-downs. The only two added con-solations the Rattler coaching

staff may have is in the presence

of Willie Irvin, a 200 pound leftend who snatched six TD heaveslast season, and James Moore, a170- fullback who tallied54 points. However, to date Irvinor “The Train,” as he is called hasscored only one touchdown al-though playing a key role in twoothers, and Moore has gonescoreless. Against Benedict hewas taken out of the game earlyin the first quarter this is thesame squad he ran four touch-downs against in 1951. In theTexas game he carried the ball12 times for 78 yards.

In addition to Mosley who is

the answer to any coach's dream,the Atlanta eleven has SteveDaniels running from right half.Though the “Waycross Express”isn’t as glamorous a player as hisleft half teammate, many coaches,scouts, fans and writers say he isthe “money” player for the Wol-verines, that he frequently ranthe ball to the goal-line only to

have Mosley carry it across, butthis is grandstand coaching if youcare to call it that.

Coach Clemmons lost his num-ber one fullback when Tribble

departed but against MarylandState sophomore Willie Elard ranlike he’s been the “Mr. Big” ofthe Wolverines all the while.

The game is. expected to drawa capacity crowd to Herndonstadium with the famed Marching100 of the A and M making thetrip to appear during the halftime show. The 135 piece band ofthe Rattlers has the reputation ofbeing one of the top musical or-ganizations of its kind in thecountry today.

CLOWNS WIN ‘NEGROWORLD SERIES’

Syd Pollock’s Indianapolis

Clowns captured the “Negro

World Series” against the Bir-mingham Black Barons by taking

7 out of 12 games to gain themthe 1952 Colored baseball cham-pionship.

The Clowns, defending cham-pions and Negro American League

first half winners, who were nosedout by the Black Barons in the

second half competition, won thefinal game in New Orleans,

where Bob Griffith pitched a 4-hit 5-0 shutout over the Baron’sTaylor Smith before more than

5,000 fans to give the Funmakerstheir third straight season NALtitle.

Birmingham was leading theseries 5-3, but the Clowns camefrom behind with four straight

victories in the stretch drive, witha 3-1 win at Columbus, Ga.; a3 -2 ten-inning triumph at Mo-bile, Ala.; a 5-3 victory at Biloxi,Miss, and then the finale at NewOrleans.

Frank Carswell, led theClowns’ hurlers in the series withtwo wins and no losses, while BobGriffith posted a 2-1 mark. Forthe Barons, Manny Cartledge wontwo with no losses, and BillPowell had a 2-1 record.

Henry (Hank) Aaron, Clowns’shortstop and property of theBoston Braves, was the hittingstar of the series as he lashedfive homers and produced a .402batting average.

The Clowns lineup includedHenry (Speed) Merchant, JimmyWilkes, Ray Neil, Piggy Sands,player-manager Buster Haywood,Rube Williams, Hank Aaron, Cur-tis Hardaway, Leon Kellman,Julio Toledo and pitchers JimTugerson, Bob Griffith, JimCohen, Frank Carswell and youngPercy Smith.

The Barons were representedby Tommy Butts, Eddie Brooks,Henry Kimbro, Ed Steele, CharleyXing, Wes Dennis, Irv Castile,Otha Bailey, Pepper Bassett andpitchers T. W. Richardson, TaylorSmith, Bill Powell, Manny Cart-ledge, Joe Chestnut and SammyWilliams.

FT. MYERS TOPSDANIA 25-6

The Fort Myers Tigers plowedunder the Dania Eagles 25 to 6for their first win of the seasonbefore a crowd of more than1,000 grid fans at Dabney Stadi-um last Friday night.

Willie Chatman led the Tigers’powerful running attack by scor-ing all of their touchdowns. Chat-man was the star of the night ashe went for touchdown gallops of15, 37, 56 and 87 yards. The loneDania score came in the finalseconds of the 4th period on apass play from W. Wolford toSears.

This was the first win for theTigers in four starts. They motorto Miami Friday to meet the pow-erful Carver High School of the“big 12” in the Coconut GrovePark.

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wins without a defeat.The A and M gridiron machine

rolled for 17 first downs and 380yards on the ground with Gavin*,a Lake Wales 204-pounder lug-

ging the pigskin for 127 yards in

11 tries. Hepburn, the “Mr. Coolof the Rattlers, calmly directed theOrange and Green to five ID* onthe ground and uncorked a 33-

yard scoring pass to right halfJohn Arnold for another.

The Rattlers uncorked drivesor 85, 60, and 65 yards in tally-

ing three touchdowns in the first

quarter to move out front 19-0 on

the strength of an added extrapoint by Charlie Herout. Left half

Vernell Ross of St. Petersburg

scored the first touchdown when

he went through the Ft. Valley

forward wall from the seven.Hepburn needed but seven plays

to move the Rattlers from their15 to the goal with Ross, Gavins,Willard Cooper performing theheavy chores.

Gavins swept the right side ofthe Ft. Valley line from the onefor the second score after a 15-yard penalty against the Wildcatsput the ball there. H® scored onthe sixth play including the pen-alty. Herout failed to convert forthe second time.

Sidney Bell, a transfer backfrom Edward Waters tallied thethird Rattler TD from the two.A Hepburn pass to end RalphAnthony on the five set the stage

for Bell’s scoring effort.The Wildcats threatened in the

second stanza when James Gar-j land, E. L. Brannon and Allen

i Nelson smothered the Rattlers’punter Willie Speights on the 26.But on the first play a pass from

' quarterback Bennie Foster intend-ed for Nelson was intercepted by

i A and M defensive back Robert! Mungen on the ten who ran theball back to the Rattlers’ 39. Then

i Gavins went the remaining dis-I tance for the 4th touchdownchalked up by the men in Orangeand Green.

Herout converted to give theRattlers a 26 point lead whichthey held at the half. -The Wild-cats threatened again before theend of the period but this time apass interception by defensiveback Joe Joe Lee on the ten stop-ped their efforts. Lee, a freshmanfrom St. Albions, Mich., ran theball back to the 33 yard line ofthe Wildcats. A and M moved to-wards the goal but Foster inter-cepted a Hepburn pass in the endzone and returned it to the 14 tohalt the drive.

The Rattlers failed to scoreduring the third period althoughthey marched to the five. At thatpoint Ross fumbled with ClydeWilliams of the Wildcats recover-ing.

Bell sped 20 to open thefourth period scoring spurt of thehome team. The A and M eleven

1 added six points a short time lat-er when Arnold scored from thethree following a 24-yard run by

i Gavins.* Bennie Moore intercept-ed Foster's attempted pass tostart the drive. Herout converted.Arnold teamed with Hepburn totally the 7th touchdown for A andM when he took a pass on the 10and went the remaining distance."Mr. Cool” was standing on the33 when he threw the ball and inthe process ducked three would-be tacklers.

The Rattlers’ *

scoring effortsended with substitute quarterJohn Jones of Sherman, Texas,running the team. Freshman full-back Jesse Heard scored from thethree following a Jones to GeorgeLawson pass.

The A and M defensive line-play was outstanding and almostcompletely bottled up Foster, abetter than average quarterbackwho had thrown touchdownpasses in leading the Wildcats to12-0 and 7-6 victories over Clarkand Knoxville College respective-ly. End Sam Wilson, tackles Wil-lie Lee, John Neal and Sam Mar-shall, along with linebacker Wil-liam Kenchon spearheaded theefforts of the “men up front” on

| both defense and offense.*

Foster and Edward Williams, aleft half sparked the running at-

i tack of the Wildcats which gain*i *d "9 yards rushing. Foster com-, pleted one pass for 17 yards with

> Nalson on the receiving end.

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