The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-03-26
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Football fans, particularly
Ole Miss supporters, will be
interested in the following
comment made by the sports
editor of the. New Orleans
Times-Picayune in his Sunday
column, Viewing the News"
Bill Keefe's observations.
which should be impartial as
well as competent, back up
those Ole Miss supporters who
have been vehemently claim
ing their team did not get a
square deal in the 1853 Sugar
Bowl game with Georgia Tech.
Now for Mr.. Keefe's column
which we reprint:
Magnificent Picture
Colored movies of the Sugar
Bowl game. shown Sunday to
the Mid-Winter Sports Associa-
tons big party for the
Sugarettes at the St. Charles,
are an all-time high in foot
ball pics. The soft, but varied
and gorgeous colors of the
crowds and the vine-covered
stadium ends, the contour of
the crowds in the lower stands
and upper decks and the ex-
cellence Of the presentation Of
boxing, basketball, track, ten
mis- and yachting, as well as
the football classic, form a
treat that will be watched by
millions. Every watcher will
envy those who were in Tulane
Stadium for the game. No finer
tribute could be paid to a city
than this picture pays to
Americas most interesting
city.
The picture Of the football
game is accurate and complete.
And. sorry to say, it is an in
delible indictment of flagrantly
incompetent and seemingly
grossly unjust officiating. The
picture shows billiard of Ole
Miss crossing the Tech goal
line a full yard, relaxing and
being pushed back, whereupon
the officials put the ball on the
six-inch line; it shows nume-
rous times when Tech was off
sides, with no penalty; it shows
q Tech man throwing the ball
down in q rage-and not being
penalized, whereas an Ole Miss
man who did exactly the same
thing brought l5-yard pen
atty against his team for un-
sportsmanlike conduct.
Plainly can be seen how
tackle Hal Miller raced down
field at least eight yards from
where he should have been
and. standing between an Ole
Miss man and the goal. re.
ceived FORWARD PASS
THAT HAD BEEN DEFECT
ED INTO HIS HANDS! Plain
ly. too. the picture shows Leon
Hardeman rolling over into a
sitting posture on the three
yard line and getting up to
SCORE A TOUCHDOWN!
Dick Westerman of Ole Miss
catches a forward pass on the
three-yard line, is tackled and
heaved back to the six, AND
THE BALL is PUT IN PLAY
ON THE SEVEN. The picture
leaves nothing to the magma
ton on that.
AS for the fair catch signal
well the colored movies show
it even better than television
or the black and white pics
showed it. A flick Of the hund
the fraction of a second before
he was tackled-not the sign
Of a waving of the hand-and
that was the Tech mans fair
cutch signal that took the ball
away from Ole Miss and got
the Rebels penalized Is yards
Don't fail to see the picture.
1t is magnificent and interest
ing. It's beauty is in no way
dulled by the result of the
game or the officiating.
A large group of Holmes
people have seen the movies
of the Sugar Bowl game and
will agree with the New Or
leans sports writer on their
beauty.
One Holmes man at least
said Ole Miss should have lost
the game for being dumb
enough to accept officials all
from Georgia, three OF them
from Atlanta!
A reader from West phones
in that citizens in that area
are having a great deal OF
trouble with foxes.
The foxes are raiding their