Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-14
Dons Capture
18th Straight
In d Breeze
BY the Associated Press

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Top-ranked San Francisco. the
best college team in a long. long
time, breezed past Fresno State,
$3.50. last night to match the
all-time major college consecu-
tive victory record of 80 games
Now the Dons have a two-week
vacation before making a bid to
become the winningest team ever
against California January %.
Long Island University set the
record 10 years ago. rolling along
unbeaten from the 1885 season
until knocked off by Stanford two
years later. Seton Hall is the
only other major club to win 80
in a row. The Pirates did it in
1939-1941, with Long Island
finally stopping them.
All-America Bill Russell, the
IDons' 6-foot-10 ace. topped the
scoring against Fresno State with
l22 points, showing little effects
| of a cold that put him in bed
Thursday. He also grabbed II
rebounds, although playing less
than half the game. Coach Phil
Woolpert substituted freely and
used his entire l5-man travelling
squad.
Improved on Defense
The Dons, 1870 for the season,
hit only 1914 per cent OF their
field shots. The low mark can
be explained by the fact third
stringers played most OF the
second half. But the whole out
lift combined to improve San
Franchises Nation-leading de-
tense average OF 52.2 points a
game.
/ Elsewhere it was a night OF
upsets, big scares and heavy use
of the controversial zone de-
Tense.
/ North Carolina, ranked No. 8,
got 80 points from Lennie Ros-
enbluth and needed EN- all after
blowing a l6-point halftime lead
to outlast South Carolina. 1918.
and gain a share of the Atlantic
Coast Conference lead with
Duke. Both used the zone all
the way.
/ Virginia Tech, a real sleeper
with a SIS mark, upended l4th-
ranked George Washington, g.
81, Bill Matthews hit 81 points
and tapped in closing second
field goal. Tech hit an amazing
/ go per cent of its field shots, but
ftrailed in field goals. 24-23.
West Virginia. despite Hot
Rod Hundiey's % points. just
did get past Penn State. 81-79.
In the Ivy League Harvard
stunned Penn. 1918, as Ike
Canty canned 26 points and
Phil Haughey IS to outweigh the
81 Joe Sturgis hit for Penn.
Manhattan Upset
LaSalle. using a second half
zone, rallied to defeat Syracuse
I7l-64 and Little st. Joseph's of
Pennsylvania upset Manhattan
I75-74 in the other half Of the
Philadelphia twinbill as Kurt
Engelbert hit a field goal with
IT seconds remaining in the Sec
ond overtime period.
Texas A & NJ. mixing speed
with zone defense. held off
Texas 75-74 in a Southwest Con-
ference game while Arkansas
employed a zone to defeat Rice
84-70.
Heavily favored Colgate needed
Milt Graham's one-hander from
the corner at the final buzzer to
beat Buffalo 66-65 after trail
ing by five with so seconds re-
manning.
/ Florida defeated Miami of
Florida 1885 on two free throws
and field goal by Capt. Ted
Copeland in the last AZ seconds.
Florida State. down Is points,
rode behind Jimmy Oilers %
points to beat Georgia 1916.
| Utah State called on the zone
and a surprising offense topped
by Pat Dunn's % points to upset
Wyoming 63-6l in a Skyline Con-
ference game while Brigham
Young rallied In the second half
Ito whip Colorado AIM. 61-54.
| UCLA remained unbeaten atop
the Pacific Coast Conference race,
defeating Washington State, So
~. Oregon ripped California.
$685.; Stanford whipped Idaho,
I77-60. and Southern California
beat Oregon State. 68-47.
In other games, Cornell beat
Brown, 74-56, in an Ivy contest;
Miami of Ohio walloped Western
Michigan, 1906, in the Mid
American Conference: Arizona
beat West Texas State. 1864, and
New Mexico AIM defeated Har-
Idin-SimmonS, 56-43. in the Bor-
der Conference: Hofstra beat
Kings Point, 1910 in overtime:
Wofford defeated The Citadel,
!8l-6l. and Seattle beat Portland.
l88-77.
.CHRISTY WALSH