Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-24
Falcons Warm Up
For Army With
20-7 Triumph
BY the Associated Press

on the winning track and Au-
burn regaining some of the
prestige it lost when it was
tied by Tennessee in the first
game of the season.
Air Force virtually coasted to
whip UCLA, 20-7, at Los An
geles in a contest that provided
a good warmup for the big one
for the Falcons-the battle
with Army in New York a week
from today.
Auburn stunned the Miami
Hurricanes on their home field,
21-6, with a weapon unusual for
the Plainsmen-the forward
pass.
In other games yesterday
Boston University edged Con-
|necticut, 81. on fourth-quar-
ter rally; Eastern Kentucky de-
feated Austin Peay, 21-7; More
house nosed Tuskegee, 60. and
Westchester defeated Shippens-
burg, l4-0.
Purdue Iowa on TV
But this activity was just
the curtain raiser for some
battles of the titans coming up
today. The television game of
the day matches two Big Ten
powers, Purdue and Iowa at
Lafayette, Ind. (Channel 4, at
BIS PM But perhaps over
shadowing this one, as far as
Big Ten ranking is concerned,
is the game between Wisconsin
and Ohio State at Madison,
Wis. Wisconsin defeated Iowa
and Ohio State whipped Purdue
last week.
In another Midwest battle
which is attracting more than
passing interest Notre Dame
will attempt to upset unbeaten
Northwestern at South Bend,
Ind. The Irish are itching for
an upset after having lost two
games this year.
Meanwhile, Louisiana State,
ranked first in the Associated
Press poll and nursing a IT.
game Southeastern Conference
winning streak, goes against
Florida in a league game. LSU
naturally is a heavy favorite.
Texas, the bigwig of the
Southwest Conference, has an
easy assignment against win
less Rice in a night game.
Big Eastern Games
Mississippi, LSU's big threat
for the SEC title, plays Arkan-
saS, a Southwest Conference
power. This should be close.
Southern California, the class
OF the Pacific Coast so far, is
favored over Stanford.
The big games in the East
pit Syracuse against West Vir-
Rinia, and Penn State against
Illinois.
Georgia Tech will try to get
back on the track against Tu-
lane after going down to its
first defeat at the hands of
Auburn.
Three major unbeaten teams
have stern tasks. Oregon 40
meets Washington, which lost
its first game of the season
last week; Penn 40 tangles
with alwayS-tough Navy, and
North Texas State (4-OO has a
date with Houston for the Mis-
souri, Valley leadership.
Yale (4-0), the only I'M
scored-on major team, has a
breather against Colgate, which
hasn't won yet.
In their victory over UCLA,
before a crowd of 32,953 IN
Memorial Coliseum, the nor
mally air-minded Falcons piled
up BIT yards on the deadly run
ming OF good set of backs.
Falcons Break Tie
They broke a TT halftime
deadlock with two long drives
in the third and fourth quarters
to wrap up the contest, upset
tie favored Bruins, and avenge
a 40 whipping from UCLA
in their first year of football
in 1857.
Quarterback Rich Mayo and
his fellow ball carriers, Half
backs Mike Quinlan and Phil
Lane and Fullback Monte
Moorberg, consistently ripped
the UCLA line. Only once we're
they held to no gain rushing
and only once we're they
thrown for a loss-a puny
three-yard setback.
Mayo scored the last two
touchdownS, plunging l and 3
yards. The first ended a S.
yard drive that required nine
plays. The second capped a
60-yard push that took 10
plays. The last touchdown was
aided by two costly UCLA
penalties, one a 15-yarder on
a personal foul that put the
ball on the UCLA 6. The Fall
con defense held UCLA to los
yards.
"New" Look for Auburn
1t was a new" Auburn team
that beat Miami. At least, the
Plainsmen had a new look
about them. In the past, they
have stuck to the ground in
their attack. This time, they
took to the air on the opening
play from scrimmage when
Bobby Hunt passed to Lamar
Rawson who galloped 70 yards
! for the score.
Hunt also set the second
touchdown up with passes. then
ran 7 yards around right end
for the marker. Bryan Harvard
raced for the third Auburn
touchdown, which came as a re-
suit of long ground gains.
Connecticut appeared headeA
for an upset. scoring in the
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