Evening star., 1929-01-02
DASH WRONG WAY
+ : BEATS BEARS, 81
california Center Goes to
r Own Goal After Picking
/ Up FumbIed Ball.
By the Associated Press.

4 championship honors as the re-
suit of its strangely wrought S-to-'
lNictory over the Golden Bears of Cali
Norma in the Rose Bowl New Year day
classic here.
Techs victory was due, in part at least,
70 q spectacular blunder by Roy Riegels,
: fCenter and captain-elect of the western
] eleven. who in the second period ran
! US yards in the wrong direction, CIV
ling the Dixie Tornado an advantage
Z (which was turned into a safety and
h 2-point lead that won the game.
+ A play that has been the subject OF
Emaany gridiron plots and the basis OF
many a magazine thriller, but seldom
lSeen on a foot ball field was that which
.Riegels made inadvertently when he
aost his bearings.
Il Neither side had scored. Tech had
1.-The ball on its own 25-yard line.
IStumpy Thomason, Tech halfback,
fumbled, Riegels snatched up the ball
land started for the GeorgianS goal.
HE progressed few steps, then wheeled
tabout and headed for his own goal line.
Seventy thousand foot ball fans watched
i'm amazement as Riegels streaked down
Nhe field.
Some of the Georgians started after
lRiegelS. tOherS stopped in their tracks.
iRiegels had gone perhaps 20 yards to-
! ward the California goal when his
1 lteamnate, Benny Lom, first to realize
what was happening, started in pursuit.
!. Mad Race Futile.
Down the field raced Riegels, the
white lines passing beneath his feet,
his mind concentrated upon out-run-
ming the Georgia Tech team. LON
gradually overlook him. Once 1t looked
Jas If Lom were going to make fly
ling tackle of his teammate, as he was
within diving distance, but he evidently
Expected to turn Riegels around.
Not until RiegelS reached the 1-foot
Anark did Lom overtake him. Lom then
ipulled Riegels by the shoulder and
IRiegels stopped, and at that instant two
Georgia Tech players tackled him and
threw him over the goal line. The
referee called the ball down at the place
where Riegels had been stopped by his
heammate.
Riegels was too crestfallen for words.
He dropped to the ground, jerked off
his headgear and gave vent to express
I6ions Of diSmay.
Most of the sports writer's believed
that Riegels, who was opposing Pund,
the Georgia Tech all-America center,
and who had taken ferocious pound
=
tor less groggy when he picked UP the
,fumbled ball.
Standing with his back almost even
with the goal posts, Lom then attempt
ed to punt out of danger. 1t was the
only thing to do. but it proved the
Bears undoing, for as the sterling Cali
lfornia halfback swung his mighty right
foot, Vsnce Maree, Techs outstanding
tackle, crashed through, the Bear line
ITO block the punt Stanley Barr, Cali
; tornia halfback, fell on the oval be-
hind the goal line after mad scramble,
and Tech had two points.
Safety Checked Bears.
after the safety was made. but he start
ed again at center at the half. He dis
played his worth later by blocking q
Tech punt and recovering for Califor-
mia.
Demoralized by the freak "break" the
bears fell victim to a Yellowjacket at-
tack in the third period. The stalwarts
of California stiffened to hold in check
ION their own 1-yard line Tech drive
but the Tornado returned with even
greater fury few plays later to storm
across the Westerners' goal line for q
touchdown. Warner Mizell, halfback
2 ace, EallopeQ 5U yaroS 10 planC Cne pig
skin on California's 15-yard line and
lStumpy Thomason, his squat running
mate, packed it across. Georgia failed
dn the try for point.
A touchdown in the final minutes Of
the game was sweet fruit to California; q
gridders, who faced shutout defeat
although they had outgained their foes
almost two yards to one, and outbat-
tied them virtually throughout.
California made 112 yards on aerial
plays against 35 for Tech and 169 from
lscrimmage compared with 164 by the
Goutherners.
Mizel proved the best ground gamer
I'm the game, making 1856 yards in II
plays. Lom, California's best ball car
trier. made 121 yards in 13 plays. l
Lonn, who had been the backbone oi
the California offensive, passed with un-
canny accuracy and terrific force in this
last hope drive Of the Bears that carried
80 yards. Two passes to Capt. Irvine
Phillips, one of which the star END
scored, and one to Lee Eisan, slippery
quarterback, accounted for most of the
80 yards advance Bars lofty kick fol
the extra point was successful.
Tech had a fast-charging, hard-hit.
ting forward line-one of the most con.
bStstent forward walls that ever has per-
formed In Rose Bowl classic.