The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-11-13
Wee Willies Kick, Run,
Pass With Best Of
Football Giants This
Season
By FERD BROWNING

BY FERD BROWNING
/ NEW YORK. Nov. I3.-To-
days gridIron giants must know
4 little of the embarrassment
Goliath fell when lii David
stepped up and put the big guy
out Of commission with a measly
slingshot.
Footballs scamper scalawags
are having a banner year
East. West. North. South.
and Middle West. every sec
tisu has them. II If isn't Junie
EEovious OF Mississippi it's
Runky Morris Of Syracuse or
Bud Higgins Of Minnesota. OF
Johnny Bosch OF Georgia
Tech-some Wee willie some
whsre every Saturday Is
throwing the ball over the big
guys o. carrying If through
their legs for most hunihat-
ing gains.
The East offers one small back
who beats the big power guys al
their own game He's Pepper
PetreIla, I55-pound senior half
back at Penn State. No seal"
back. as the South calls the lit
lie hipper-dipper guys, he's .
power runner, a little plunger
with a hefty pair Of shoulders
that shake off wouId-be tacklers
II the lire, and with a pair Of
legs that carry him on a twist
ing. hard-to-gauge pace once
he's in the open- Plunger?
Against Bucknen he scored all OF
Penn States four tOuchdowns,
each time from close I'D where
the bruisers usually handle mat
tiers
Bunky Morris, red-headed Sy-
racuse junior, Is a 147-pounder
with no respect for the size of
the Orange opposition. He aver
aged IL yards a try last year. IS
matching that in II. His punts
=. average 40 yards. and he has
personally conducted Syracuse
on most of their victory jaunts.
He scored twice against Rutgers
+ snd had a 49-yard scoring effort
called back And-oh, yeS-he
dropkicks, but goodl Joe Arico,
Dartmouth's 150-pound tailback.
is another amazing flutter-foot
from the East, and you can put
Villanova's Joe PezelSki IN the
same classification.
Look to the South and you'll
see more scat backs than cot
ton fields. The smallets. If not
the most sensational. Is Ala
bams's I34-pound Roy John
son who had thrown five con-
secutive completed passes at
the last count.
1 But the big boy among the
South's little boys is JUNE Ho-
vious, the Mississippi menace
who plays football Ike minia-
ture Jim Thorpe. His 7S-yard
scoring run against Tulane in
THE Rebels 1918 ! upset victory
znight have been Just habit The
Z 55lpound tripfeaRreat has been
running like that for three
years down at Ole Miss. Jackie
FIack. bur1y 140-pounder.
starts many of the Mississippi
/ games at H0vious' post. You
might think Coach Harry Mehre
did that just to make JUNE look
larger, except that Flack scored
one Of the other two touchdowns
against Tulane. and on a 49-yard
kjaunt Billy Sam. 155. is an-
other small star at Miss.
Johnny Bosch, Georgia Techs
little magician, comes close TO
+ 155 pounds Typical Of Bosch at
his best was his performance
+ against Auburn. He threw two
passes for touchdowns, scored a
third on a 60-yard punt runback.
Washington and Lees l55-pound
/ sophomore, Harry Baugher, has
done some high. wide. and hand
some running, including an S5-
yard kickoff return against Rich
m0nd.
The Midwest offers two stand
outs IN Bud-or Bob, II you'd
rather-Higgns (147, but don't
breathe a word Fl 70 Bierrnan9
Of Minnesota. and Dave Nelson.
I56. Of Michigan
Higgins. who sneaks Out of
the Gopher dressing room
without weighing IN fcr fear
Bernie Biernzn win learn his
poundage and drop him from
Tie squad. scored three touch
downs against Pitt and look
ed better thas fair against
MichiGan's huskies. He was
the hero Of the victory ever
Northwestern supplying a
touchdown from Il yards out.
Kansas State depends on I47-
pound Frances GwIn for speed
and desperation passing in a
clutch Orv Mathews Okla
homa's sprint star quarterback.
! weighs IN at 100. MissourTs Har-