Everybody agrees now-Beban's shadow is a good quarterback
By HAL LANCASTER City Editor
During the first quarter of Saturday’s game, a rather noisy press box habitue kept repeating, “Boy, UCLA’s sure going to miss Beban. This Dow is sure no Beban, that’s for sure. He’s sure no Beban.”
At the time, he wasn’t. He missed a couple of passes in the first quarter and didn’t run much (twice for minus yardage).
But by the time the fourth quarter came around, the man had changed his mind. “Ya know, this Dow has sure played a good game. He’s made some terrific runs.”
In a frighteningly quiet USC locker room after the game, Coach John McTray had to agree with the fourth quarter observation.
BEST QUARTERBACK
“I’d say he was the best quarterback we’ve faced this year. He was the only one to make us look that bad.”
It was not Gary Beban, the probable all-coast quarterback, who wrecked USC this year, it was his shadow Dow. who started his first game in three years at UCLA. He looked like an all-coast quarterback himself.
He scored UCLA’s first touchdown on a five-yard run and was the Bruins’ leading ground gainer with 82 yards in 19 carries, but he really killed the Trojans in the fourth quarter, when he scrambled through the Trojan defense for 26 yards.
What made the run so important was the situation. It was second and 27 with the score tied, 7-7. Four plays later. Cornell Champion scored the winning touchdown.
BIGGEST DISAPPPOINTMENT
Dow’s ran was the most disappointing moment of a disappointing afternoon for McKay. Three men had clear shots at Dow and missed.
Nobody was particularly anxious to talk when the Troian coach sat down and asked re-porters to fire away. No one spoke. Finally, one reporter said. “All right, who’s going to be the first bastard.”
They finally got around to asking him about Dow and the big play.
“It wjas a broken play,” he said. “Normally that’s the best situation to have them in. He made most of his big gains on broken plays.”
McKay said he couldn’t compare Beban and Dow. “I couldn’t compare his passing. He ran well. They didn’t pass a heckuva lot.”
To be exact, they passed eight times and completed two. Both teams stayed on the ground.
When Troy went on the ground, they went best with Mike Hull, who had his biggest game of the year, but wasn’t a bit happy about it. He was in the same locker with safety Earl McCullouch and flanker Mike Hunter. Both dressed silently and left quickly. Hull was about to leave after gaining 148 yards in 14 carries.
He was disgusted.
“Our offense can’t do anything inside the 20. If you can’t score, you can’t win. Now all we can do is just wait for the vote. We never usually come out well on votes.”
NO ROSES FOR ROD
Rod Sherman, who was disappointed in his final chance to get to the Rose Bowl, didn’t complain.
“There’s no reason to cry. If you’re going to get mad, you should do it on the field, not here.”
The Bruin locker room was happy, but not as happy as would be expected. There was an initial outburst when the team stormed off the field and into the locker room, past a group of writers.
“Who’re you going to vote for now, writers?” challenged one. Blood streamed down his face from several cuts.
“Who said those Trojans were tough?” an asistant coach sq.id.
It quieted considerably after that. The players just smiled a lot.
Tommy Prothro finally came in, briefcase-in-hand. He was also grinning, like a thief. Bruin announcer Fred Hessler asked him what it felt like, and the big Southerner smiled again, and drawled,
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Is Troy second-hand Rose?
University of Southern California DAILY ® TROJAN			ROSE BOWL VOTE TODAY Athletic directors from AAWU member schools will reveal at noon today who will meet Purdue in the Rose Bowl January 2, 1967. The vote, always a cause of consternation at USC, was held thi" morning. It is expected to center on USC, the conference champions and UCLA, who defeated the Trojans Saturday, 14-7. If the Trojans get the nod, there will be a rally held in front of Tommy Trojan at noon, featuring Coach John McKay and the team.
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7	he winning touchdown	WOULD GIVE THEM BID	
mt KtHrREE'S HANDS TELL IT ALL AS CORNELL CHAMPION OF UCLA SCORES The 21-yard touchdown run broke a 7-7 tie. Diving Trojan is Mike Battle.
Trojans praying for tie in Pasadena vote
ROSES WILTING?
By STEVE HARVEY Co-Sports Editor
The Trojans are playing for a tie today. A tie in the Rose Bowl vote.
If they can get it, they will go to the Rose Bowl because UCLA was the last of the two schools to go.
By noon today, the vote of the eight athletic directors of the AAWU schools probably will be announced. The Trojans need the vote of three other schools.
SOME HOPE
They beat Washington and Stanford and Cal and Oregon State this year and most of the players from
“We thought they might run a reverse instead,” said McKay. “They faked to Farr and he was the guy we thought might get the ball.”
“Coach Prothro sent me in with the play,” Champion said, “and told me to tell Norm to check the linebackers at the line of scrimmage and if they looked like they were going to blitz to call it off.
WENT FOR FAKE “But the linebackers went for the fake to Farr and left the left side wide open. I saw Shaw coming toward me and a little in the direction I was
running. He hesitated just long enough for me to make it.”
On the first Bmin touchdown drive, Norman had an 18-yard run and it was he who ran it into the end zone from the five yard line.
For a man who had played a total of 62 minutes in three years and was making his first start ever, Norm had a pretty good day.
He was the Bruins' leading rusher with 82 yards in 19 carries.
The only bright spot for Troy was Mike Hull, who ran for 148 yards in (Continued on Page 6)
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use	4~	1 0	.800	10!	44
UCLA	3	1 0	.750	55	38
Oregon State	3	1 0	.750	85	k 2
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California	2	3 0	.400	74	102
Oregon	1	3 0	.250	« 42	47
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the schools agreed after the losses that USC was the better team.
So it’s not impossible.
But the chances would be a lot better if the Trojans hadn't picked Saturday to play their poorest game of the year.
Norman Dow and UCLA killed them, 14-7.
It wasn’t like last year, either, when the Trojans outplayed UCLA for 56 minutes before losing, 20-16.
The Bruins beat them all the way. They were on the USC 10 yard line when the game ended.
NO ALIBIS
John McKay didn’t want to call it Troy’s worst game of the year afterwards.
“That would be taking something away from UCLA,” he said, but you knew he wasn’t thinking it was their best game of the year.
The man they were all talking about in the loser's dressing room was Dow, the squib kicker - PAT holder -substitute quarterback who was playing for injured Gary Beban.
“He played a fine game,” said McKay. "We thought all along that he was a pretty good football player. Second and 27, and three guys on him, and he gets away.”
If one play in particular did in the Trojans that was it.
27 TO GO
The Bruins were tied with USC at 7-7 and had the ball on their own 33 yard line. They needed 27 yards for a first down.
He ran 26 yards, and a few playa later threw to Ray Armstrong for 13 yards and a first down.
And on the next play Cornell Champion took a handoff on the 21-yard line and ran for a touchdown.
This may be the play remembered as the one that knocked Troy out of the Rose Bowl.
Daily Trojan photo by ED STAPLETON
'WHAT CAN I DO' — A PERPLEXED JOHN McKAY No way to stop Trojan defeat from sideline
Daily Troian photo by ED STAPLETON
DEFEAT COMES HARD-ESPECI ALLY IN THIS FOOTBALL GAME Bud Baccitich (from left), Bob Klein, Steve Barry and Mike Hull on the bench
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