The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-02
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BY JACK GUENTHER

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 Durham, N. C., Jan. 2-(UP)- Some day and somewhere, maybe not for years or within 1000 miles of North Carolina, two teams may possibly play harder, faster or more heart-stopping game than the Rose Bowl football classic of 1942- but don't try to tell it to anyone in Durham.
 For as tobacco town slowly settled back to normal today after the most hectic week in all its history, some 56,000 citizens are still busily rub ping their eyes, feeling their pulses and remarking to the world in gen. eral, Brother, I've seen and heard everything now, so help me-"
 And maybe they have, too.
 They saw twice-beaten team ranked an underdog at 1-3 upset the second highest scoring team in America; they saw all predictions of strictly defensive battle explod- ed; and they saw bunch of fight ing mad boys prove once again the old theory that 8 team which won't be beaten just can't be beaten.
 Close Enough
 The official score Is Oregon State 20, Duke 16, but that doesn't tell how the orphaned champions of the Pacific coast turned back the Duke eleven which won the Southern Conference title with nine straight triumphs to earn acclaim as the finest team the Durham campus ever has produced.
 You could just say that a record crowd turned out for Rose Bowl game brought into its own back yard expecting to watch cat play with g. mouse and ending up watching grandma gobble the wolf. It was close ball game and tight one and 1t could easily have ended in a diff ferent score, but 1t was an Oregon ball game from kickoff whistle to closing gun.
 Oregon took the ball 20 seconds after the kickoff and held 1t for almost IS minutes while marching 52 yards for TO first period lead gained by Bob Durdan's 15-yard climax romp. A dozen minutes later Duke reeled off 70 yards for a score and conversion of its own to tie matters up at 7-7, but the late State collapse expected never occurred.
 For with the score knotted at the start of the second half, the orange jersied boys from the far northwest went to work again to the complete surprise of the spectators. This time Gene Gray skirted end for 24 and Bob Dethman passed 30 more to George Zellick for the score, and once again Warren Simas boot ed the extra point.
 A second time Duke came back and, aided by 24-yard penalty to the O. s. c. one, drew even again at 14-14. But here is where the low ly Beavers showed their mettle. Within two minutes they drew away for the third and last time. It was Dethman pitching again, this time on 62-yard pass play by Gray, and the safety scored by Duke in the last 10 minutes didn't matter.
 Nip And Tuck
 All the story can't be told in that scoring summary, but you can get the idea from the facts that the ball changed hands 12 times on fumbles or interceptions; that Dur dan and Steve Lach of Duke aver aged 46-4 and 47-8 yards on punts despite a steady rain; and that O. s. c. rolled up 302 yards and Duke 295.
 Oregon State roared homeward to- day, the first Rose Bowl appearance odd though 1t was-a successful one. There were heroes aplenty IT Quentin Greenough, Martin Chaves, Bill Halverson, Joe Day, Lach, Dur dan, Dethman, Gray, Mike Kar- mazin, Bob Can't, Tom Davis and many another-but the coaches themselves summed up the game.
 "They didn't believe we were seri- ous," said Lon Stiner of Oregon.
 T guess my Rose Bowl luck has just run out" said Wallace Wade ot