Evening star., 1950-11-19
Statistics

spot. pass defense. and clicked
superbly before capacity throng
Of 71,119 wild fans.
The win, the Illini's fourth in
five Big Ten games. showed them
ahead Of Wisconsin in their torrid
duel for the bowl bid. Each has
one more game to play.
52-Yard Pass Play.
Little Fred Major. wearing a
chin mask to protect a broken jaw
bone, faxed Jump pass in the
first two minutes of the second
quarter and finally fired the ball
to Don Stevens, Negro star from
Youngstown, Ohio. He shared it
on the Ohio State %. and as the
Buckeyes Fred Bruney lunged at
his heels, skipped loose to flee for
q touchdown. The play was good
for So yards and the tally was
Stevens first in two years at Illi-
nois.
Six minutes later. the nlini
thrust again through the air to
what became the clinching marker.
The drive was touched off by nlini
Joe Halls recovery of Chuck GAN
dee's bobble on the Illinois Al.
With hobbled Johnny Karras
streaking IL yards, the nlini COW
cred the distance goalward in
seven plays with Major pitching
the last five yards to Stevens in
the end zone.
The payoff pass came on a
spread formation off a fake punt,
play nursed along in secrecy all
season for use today.
Stevens on Job Again.
Just before the touchdown, Ma
Jor's toss to Tony Klimek on the
same spread alignment was
fumbled by the star end, but
Stevens snapped it up in midair
to make it count and set up the
touchdown on the next down,
Sam Rebecca converted both
times.
With 312 minutes left in the
explosive second period, Ohio State
became the first team of the
season to score on the ground
against Illinois steeled defense.
Ohio's States Vic Janowicz.
every bit an All-American TODAY.
and Tony Curcillo, the injured
Buckeye quarterback who played
brilliantly, used End Tom Watson
as their passing target on three
plays that gained SO yards.
Janowicz eventually slammed
over from the 4 to end an 83-yard
surge in 10 plays. He also con-
verted.
Two intercepted passes and re-
covered tumble quelled Ohio State
just as it appeared that the Buck
eyes were wound up for touch
downs. Herb Neathery filched a
Curcillo pitch in the third, and AL
Brosky minutes later stole a ia
novice aerial. Both times the
Bucks were striving to pass mid
Held and seemed to be rolling.
Another tumble Hurts,
In the finale. Walt Kleyay's o.
yard run ignited 7O-yard Buck
eye blast that ended on the Illi-
nois 10 when Eli Popa, a defen-
sive fullback from Canton, Ohio.
recovered his second tumble as
Sophomore Klevay bobbled. Later
Chuck Gandee led squirt to the
Illini % before Ohio State was
stalled.
The Buckeyes, who had aver
aged Al points per league game
before being tanned today, almost
gave Illinois another touchdown
at the outset of the first period.
Popa pounced on Bruney's tumble
on the Buckeyes 20 and from
there Illinois moved to the one be-
fore Dick Raklovits lost five yards
to cancel the threat.
Stevens, the 171-pound back
who has been Karras' understudy.
gained 78 yards in IA carries for
a 5.57 average. Janowicz aver
aged 4.29 in 81 trips and Klevay
ratified off an average of 6 in 10
thrustS.
Major. failing to click many
times on quick Jump passes, hit on
S of is tosses-but the strikes
riddled the Buckeyes hopes. Ja-
novice connected on 5 out of IL for
(see OHIO STATE, Page BAD