PACKERS TAKE ON NEW LOOK FOR 49ER TEST SUNDAY

NOV 13 (Green Bay) - The Packers took on a new look today as they launched preparations for the San Francisco Forty Niner battle at City stadium Sunday afternoon. Packer coach Liz Blackbourn performed three deeds in the process of drawing a bead on a third NFL victory as follows: (1) Placed veterans Breezy Reid and Jim Capuzzi on waivers; (2) Signed former Cleveland and Chicago Bear defensive back Ken Gorgal and rookie offensive halfback Bill Roberts of Dartmouth. (3) And named rookie Bart Starr as the starting quarterback for the Forty Niner game. Blackbourn also revealed that Howie Ferguson will remain at left halfback and that Fred Cone will work at fullback next Sunday. Ferguson had been shifted from fullback to left half for last Sunday’s Bear game and Cone handled the FB’ing. Reid, drafted by the Bears in ’50, was in his seventh season with the Packers. He had been a regular left half and also shared fullback when needed during his pro career, gaining nearly 2,000 yards and averaging 4.3. Capuzzi joined the Packers in ’54 as a quarterback, but was shifted to defense. Gorgal is in his fifth pro season. He was a high Browns’ draft choice in ’50 after starring as a quarterback and defensive back at Purdue in ’49. He was among the top defensive backs in the NFL in ’50 but served in the Army in 1951-52. He played with the Browns in ’53-54, and then was traded to the Bears in ’55. The Bears cut him loose when Stan Wallace returned from service two weeks ago. He intercepted six passes as a Bear last year. Gorgal hails from Peru, Ill., and he’s the son of a former Rock Island, Ill., pro gridder, halfback Alex Gorgal, who once played against the Packers. The newcomer stands 6-2 and packs nearly 200 pounds. Roberts looked good during the Packers’ training season, but Reid showed signs of having one of his best seasons. Bill remained with the squad and is ready to go. Roberts, all All-Ivy leaguer in 1949-50, gained his reputation as a pro prospect in two seasons with Marine football teams. He packs 200 pounds, stands six feet tall and hails from Dubuque, Iowa. Oddly enough, Roberts and Gorgal, despite the difference in pro experience, are the same age – 27. Starr will be making his first professional start and his second early-in-the-game appearance. He was ticketed to open against Baltimore in Milwaukee Oct. 14 but veteran Tobin Rote was called in when the Bays got the ball on Baltimore’s 11-yard line by recovering a fumble on the opening kickoff. Rote drove the team in for a touchdown. Starr went in on the next series for two plays. Bart, one of the top surprises in the 1956 draft, saw considerable action late in the Los Angeles Ram game and both Bear tests. In all, he threw 26 passes and completed 12 for 170 yards. He had two throws intercepted – both by the Bears last Sunday. Keeping Ferguson at left half is a real tribute to Cone’s hard running this season. Blackbourn pointed out the other day that “Fred’s running harder than I’ve ever seen him run.” Cone had his best season in ’52 when he averaged four yards on 70 carries and scored 53 points. The field goal specialist, who has tried only five three-pointers thus far this year, won the field goal title last season…The Packers settled down to work on a “new foe” this morning in the classroom at 349 S. Washington. The Forty Niners are new in that the Packers didn’t play ‘em along the exhibition trail and have yet to meet ‘em in league competition. The outdoor phase of practice will get underway this afternoon and from then on the general theme this week will be “win” period. The Packers came out of the Bear game in good physical condition, although Gary Knafelc is a wee bit sore from his battle with a brick wall in Wrigley Field. Joe Johnson went into the game with a sore shoulder and still has the trouble. Ferguson will has something of an ankle injury but will be ready for next Sunday.

'56 PACKER-BEAR TILTS HAVE HAD SIMILARITY - JUST BEFORE HALVES

NOV 13 (Green Bay) - The two Packer-Bear games this season of 1956 has a striking similarity in the two scores (37-21 here and 38-14 there) and in the few seconds before the halves. Both before-intermission incidents had a tendency to change the thinking between halves. Near the end of the half in the game here Oct. 8, the Bears had fourth down and one to go for a touchdown with 20 seconds left. Quarterback Ed Brown sent Bobby Watkins into center but there was no hole. He fumbled the ball as he hit the wall of Packers and Bears. The ball popped into the air and into the hands of the surprised Brown, who, after deliberating for a fleeting second, ran around end for a touchdown. It was a disgusting break for the Packer loyalists and because of one “odd” play forced the Packer strategists to think in terms of catching up instead of going ahead. In Chicago Sunday, the Packers found themselves deep in Bear territory just before the half due to Al Carmichaels’ 73-yard kickoff return, with the score 28-7 in favor of the Bears. The Packers had third and two to go for a first down on the Bear eight-yard line when Tobin Rote threw what has become virtually a cinch touchdown pass to Gary Knafelc – the short strike over the line. But the Bears actually sat on Knafelc on the goal line and McNeil Moore intercepted. The officials (hoorah) saw the obvious holding and the Bays had the ball back again on the four with 10 seconds left. Rote then called a play that had been perfected every Friday afternoon in practice for the last few weeks – a fake field goal by Fred Cone and a pass to John Martinkovic. The Packers, of course, couldn’t get the break the Bears did on Brown’s surprise run in the first game. Martinkovic was held at the line (no penalty, thank you) and Smith intercepted as the gun went off. Thus, instead of facing a fairly even 28-14 score during intermission, the Bay strategy had to figure out a way to get three quick touchdowns. The third quarter was only six minutes old when the Pack sailed for seven but the count was 28-14 instead of a comebacking 28-21. The Bears might have been ripe for a licking Sunday but any difficulty they might have encountered mentally was wiped out by the short pass. On the first two plays of the game, John Hoffman made four yards at his own left tackle and Martinkovic dropped the same ball carrier for a two yard loss in a sock at right tackle. Thus, the Bears had to make eight yards on third down for a first down. That they did on Brown’s 23-yard pass to Gene Schroeder. The Bears had five third-down situations in the first quarter and made gains of 23, 2, 13, 15 and 14 yards – all but the two-yarder coming on passes. It did seem good to see Packer-Bear ball carrier – a rare sight since the Los Angeles Rams game. Now, if the Bays can start stopping those tantalizing short pitches, this season might turn out better than you think!

49ERS WILL HAVE TO HUSTLE - OR ELSE: MORABITO

NOV 13 (San Francisco) - Tony Morabito, clearly irked by the “country club” tag which hangs on his cellar-dwelling San Francisco Forty Niners, served notice today that some of the members will have to hustle the rest of the season or get the axe. “This is the second highest paying team in the NFL and we’re last in the standings,” the harassed president said. “One reason is because some players were attracted out here because they heard we were a country club. Well, we don’t want guys around who just shrug their shoulders when we lose and only give the team lip service.” Morabito added he wasn’t “threatening” anyone but that it is up to the so-called country club set to show in the team’s last five games whether they want to stick around. Morabito had nothing but praise for Coach Frank Albert, whose initial venture at running a ball club has resulted in a disappointing six defeats and one victory.

NO EXPANSION OF NFL IN NEAR FUTURE: BELL

NOV 13 (Philadelphia) - There will be no expansion of the NFL in the immediate future, Commissioner Bert Bell said Monday night, following revelation that Denver, Minneapolis and Buffalo had renewed bids for franchise in the wake of Louisville's offer to the Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers. "I would not favor, not can I see expansion, either geographically or in the number of franchises, until the last place teams in each division can win four or five games," Bell said. "In the first place, it would be bad business as well as a breach of faith with fans to move a club into a city if that club could not be a winner," he continued...CALLS TERMS 'FABULOUS': Louisville officials created the expansion situation last week when they propositioned the Redskins, and then later the Eagles and the Steelers to move into the Kentucky state fairgrounds on terms which George Marshall, owner of the Redskins, described as "fabulous". Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have evidenced interest in the Kentucky proposition and are scheduled to meet with Louisville representatives this week. Meanwhile Mayor David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh has suggested that the University of Pittsburgh stadium be made available to the Steelers to keep the team in that city. Bell indicated he was not in favor of moving clubs, even if circumstances were favorable to expansion of the league, which now numbers 12 franchises in eleven cities...BOTTOM MUST IMPROVE: "When the bottom clubs in both divisions are able to win four or five games, then we will have enough good football players to add a couple of teams," he said. League standings indicate that the teams have not yet reached this Utopian balance. San Francisco has won only one game in seven starts and four other clubs - Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Los Angeles and Green Bay - have won only two with the season more than half over. Bell credited television with the sudden interest in National league franchises. Video, he explained, has taken professional football into every nook and corner of the nation in the last few season. Several teams have special widespread networks. The Chicago Bears, for example, telecast their games live over 68 stations from Jacksonville to Harlingen, Tex., to Denver through the middle west every Sunday. ..NO ONE GETS RICH: "Also," Bell added, "professional football has reached the stage where one cannot lose a lot of money in it. No one gets rich in it; in fact, no one ever got rich in any professional sport. But with television, radio and the growing interest in the game, it has become increasingly attractive as an investment." Although he does not expect that there will be any change in the league this year or next, for scheduling purposes, Bell hopes that some day it will be possible to increase the membership so that at least six teams will have playing sites other than major league baseball parks. "With six open parks, it would be possible to schedule the weaker teams against each other and pair the powers at the start of the race. In this way," he explained, "you would not force the weaker clubs to battle the powers in the opening games, and ruin their seasons before the race is actually underway. Number in the 'win' column create enthusiasm and enthusiasm creates better football."

BEARS OR LIONS? PACKERS, 49ERS DISAGREE ON LIKELY WINNER

NOV 13 (Milwaukee Journal) - The Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions are even in the NFL's Western Division race with five games to go. No other team is in it. Which is the better team, or better yet, which team will make the playoff? "The Bears," say the Green Bay Packers and their coaches. "Detroit," says Frank Albert, who will bring his last place San Francisco 49ers to Green Bay Sunday to play the Packers. After the Bears had beaten the Packers Sunday in Chicago, 38-14, Lisle Blackbourn, Green Bay coach, was asked how he thought the Bears would fare in their two December meetings with Detroit. "I'd say they will break even," Blackbourn said. "And if they're tied for the division championship and meet again in a playoff?" "The Bears will win," Blackbourn said, firmly. "They have too much offense, even for Detroit's fine defense." Albert thinks differently. His 49ers have lost twice to each leader, by big scores to the Bears and by close scores to the Lions. After Detroit beat San Francisco the second time, Albert said, "I said two weeks ago that Detroit has a better all-around team. That still goes. The Bears roll up the points, but you've got to respect that Detroit defense." Blackbourn said Sunday night, "The way Brown and Blanda are throwing those passes, nothing can stop them. Their receivers are big and maneuver well. Then the passers give them the ball exactly in the right place. The only way to stop them would be to run around them out of bounds and come back onto the field. There's not time for that." Detroit has a bit of an edge in the schedule, but on the basis of its 18-17 upset by Washington Sunday, that may not help. "The Bears will win it now," Ray (Scooter) McLean, Packers backfield coach, said. "The Lions are going down and the Bears are getting better." Someone mentioned that Detroit's defense had been carrying too much of the load. There had been talk of Bobby Layne's comeback at quarterback and the running of rookies Hopalong Cassady and Don McIlhenny, but the defense, after all, has done the job. It has held the opposition to 16, 14, 21, 17, 7, 13 and 18 points, respectively, in the first seven games. "Anytime you can hold the other side to four touchdowns or less in this division," said Wally Cruice of Milwaukee, Green Bay scout, "you've got a pretty good defense." Against the Bears is the fact that they must meet the first and second place teams on the Eastern Division, the New York Giants and Chicago Cardinals. But if Detroit could do no better than lose against Washington, their easier interdivisional schedule might not mean much. Tobin Rote, Green Bay's quarterback, shook his head in agreement. "Those Bears," he said, "are the greatest offensive team I've seen in my years (seven) in this league. There just isn't much they can't do. I guess I didn't have a very good day out there, but, shucks, I'd say their defense has improved a lot, too.

BLACKBOURN EYES DRAFT AS SALVATION TO PACKER PLIGHT

NOV 13 (Milwaukee Sentinel) - There's nothing wrong with the Packers that some rich new blood wouldn't cure - like grabbing the long lost bonus choice in the upcoming draft and getting a shot at the cream of the 1956 college crop. Sunday the Wisconsin pros didn't belong on the same field with the Bears because they were outclassed position-wise from the start. The Packers were on the short end of every statistic except punting, kickoff returns and fumbles. The Bays' 62 yards gained on the ground against the Chicagoans was indicative of what has happened most of this dismal season. With no rushing to speak of and all passing, an opponent knows an all out rush against Tobin Rote stops the Packers cold. Coach Liz Blackbourn admitted Monday that the early draft, which will take place later this month, is Green Bay's salvation. "We need the best players available at the time," Blackbourn said. "It's not a question of drafting for position." The Packer head man gave his explanation for the club's downfall. "We got off to a bad start losing to the Lions and Bears," Liz observed. "But the thing which really killed us was Baltimore. We were physically beaten up there and lost our hope for staying in contention. Our game against the Browns was just one of those bad days. And against the Bears, well, we couldn't stop their passing, especially Brown." Blackbourn called the Bears "the best team we've seen." And he considered Detroit the only team which could beat them. While Rote hasn't had a good day since he passed the Rams dizzy four weeks ago, Blackbourn wouldn't comment further about his veteran passer and his stuff. But when asked if Bart Starr deserves more consideration after his best performance as a Packer pro, Blackbourn said "Starr probably will start against the 49ers next Sunday." Starr played the entire fourth quarter against the Bears. He completed five of nine passes for 119 yards and ran for five on a keeper. His best effort was a 53 yard completion to Bill Howton. However, Starr had two touchdown-bound heaves intercepted. Blackbourn's biggest problem at the moment is getting the club up for next Sunday's game. "Sure, the boys are disappointed," Liz said, "but there's nothing like a victory or two to bring that confidence back." The Packers' best chance is against the 49ers, the team with the worst record in pro ball (1-6). And if the Bays don't succeed here, they'll probably have to wait until next year. The Packer coach made one change Monday morning, releasing halfback Breezy Reid, a veteran of seven seasons in pro ball. Others might be coming.

burly fullback who was waivered early in the ’51 campaign, just missing a final shot with Pittsburgh? As years progress, people don’t ask the reason why a player was released during a season. People merely think in terms of what the athlete did during his career. And one of our town’s taxpayers, Breezy Reid, did a lot of wonderful things during his Packer career. He played 72 games as a Packer – 11 in 1950, 12 each in 1951-52-53-54-55 and seven in ’56. He scored 18 touchdowns, including 13 by rushing. He gained 1,972 yards in 459 rushing attempts for an average of 4.3 and caught 72 passes for 868 yards and an average of 12.1 yards per catch. Reid was a bread and butter rusher, a read hard-noses bumper and one of the best backs in the league on the dive play – a quick opener. Breeze led the Bays in rushing in 1953, with 492 yards and a 5.2 average for eighth in the league, and in 1954, with 507 yards, a 5.1 average and ninth in the circuit. Reid wasn’t exactly a breakaway runner, but he’s been credited with gains of 57, 60, 69 and 81 yards along the way. The two longest came in City Stadium – a 69-yard touchdown dash on a dive play against Pittsburgh in the 1954 opener and an 81-yard aerial from Tobin Rote against the old Dallas Texans here in ’52. He caught a 60-yarder from Rote to break the Forty Niners’ back in San Francisco last December. Those are some of the “remember” highlights of Breezy’s career here – not to mention those many two and three-yard first down blasts. Reid actually started his pro career with the Chicago Bears who drafted him No. 3 in 1950. He came to the Packers after the first league game and found a home. Let’s hope he stays in our town because he’s a right fine citizen.

PACKERS' HOME CROWDS CAN'T TIE MILWAUKEE

NOV 14 (Milwaukee Journal) - Even a third straight capacity crowd for the Green Bay Packers in their home finale against San Francisco Sunday will not permit them to catch Milwaukee attendance-wise this season. The three NFL games here this fall drew 77,004 fans. With two sellouts in little City Stadium thus far, Green Bay has drawn 49,336. A third capacity crowd Sunday, which is not certain at all, would push Green Bay's total to 74,004. At best for the season, then, Green Bay will trail by 3,000. A year hence, of course, the Packers expect different things. They will have their new 32,000 seat stadium completed and they confidently think they will have 30,000 crowds as a regular thing. Only once in four seasons of play at County Stadium have the Packers drawn as many as 30,000 fans - 40,119 for the Baltimore Colts and Alan Ameche on a Saturday night a year ago. Since County Stadium was put into use in 1953, Milwaukee holds a slight edge in the little intercity attendance duel. For the three full seasons, 1953-55, Milwaukee drew 200,298 fans, Green Bay 197,221. The year before County Stadium was ready, 1952, the Packers averaged 21,884 per home date in Green Bay; only 13,833 per home date in Milwaukee (Marquette Stadium).

'MIRACULOUS' WORD FOR BUSINESS IN NFL: BELL

NOV 14 (Philadelphia) - “Miraculous” is the word NFL Commissioner Bert Bell used today to describe the booming business in the professional loop. An 8 percent gain over last year’s record figures, which in turn represented a gain over the previous year, and so on back for three more years had the voluble commissioner in a happy frame of mind. “At this stage of the game, the way the attendance is up is simply miraculous,” Bell said. “We’re slightly better than 8 percent above the figure for the corresponding time last year.” The top came last year 2,521,836 during the regular season, a gain of 15 percent over the previous year. And at the halfway point in the 1956 league race, the total attendance was 1,559,799…Speculation that the Pittsburgh Steelers might take their NFL franchise to another city just about ended today. Art Rooney, president of the Steelers, indicated strongly Tuesday night the club will stay and continue to play its games at Forbes Field – home of the National Baseball League’s Pittsburgh Pirates. Rooney was optimistic after a conference with Tom Johnson, vice president of the Pirates. Johnson will take up the Steelers problem, with the Pirate board of directors after his return and said there should be no difficulty working out a new rental agreement with Rooney. The Steelers’ 10-year rental lease expired at the end of last season and the club has been playing on a game to game basis. Rooney wants his rent reduced, claiming other NFL clubs using major league baseball parks don’t pay as much as he does. He pays 15 percent of the net gate as rent. Rooney admitted he would like to shift to the 60,000-seat Pitt Stadium if legislation can be passed making that possible. Capacity of Forbes Field is 34,000. Recently, the Steelers have received directly, or through the NFL commissioner’s office, bids to move their franchise to Louisville, Denver, Minneapolis and Buffalo.

SHARKEY AND SMITH RELEASED BY 49ERS

NOV 14 (San Francisco) - The San Francisco 49ers, tail-enders in the NFL race with a 1-6 race, yesterday announced the release of linebacker Ed Sharkey and defensive halfback Ernie Smith to make room on the squad for two former 49ers players returning from service. The returnees are Ted Connolly, a 240 pound offensive guard from Santa Clara, and Floyd Sagely, 200 pound defensive halfback from Arkansas. Both played as rookie for the 49ers in 1954 before entering the Army…FOURTH CHOICE: Connolly, who finished up at Tulsa University after Santa Clara abandoned football, was the 49ers’ fourth choice in ’54. Sagely was their fifth draft choice the same year. The two worked out with the team yesterday and will leave with the club Friday for a three game road trip in the East. Sharkey, a 10-year veteran, was picked up by the 49ers in midseason last year. He formerly had played for the New York Yankees, the Baltimore Colts and Philadelphia Eagles. Smith, who was with the 49ers for their last three games in 1955, was released and then resigned after the third game of the current season…GREEN BAY NEXT: The 49ers’ first engagement on their eastern swing will be against the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay next Sunday. The temperature in Green Bay yesterday was below the freezing point. The other two stops on the 49ers’ road trip are Philadelphia and Baltimore. They play the Eagles November 24 and the Colts December 2. Dickie Moegle, whose work as a defensive halfback has been one of the few bright spots in the 49er picture, may not get as far as Baltimore. The former Rice All-American has been ordered to report for induction into the Army, November 28. Unless he is granted a deferment, he will miss the game with the Colts.

FINALE! LION LOSSES! ONE-VET BACKFIELD

NOV 15 (Green Bay) - Three particular items of interest keep coming to mind today, as regards the Packer-San Francisco game at City Stadium Sunday afternoon, that is: First off, the Packers’ last league game in the old wooden stadium! Next, the Forty Niners’ two losses to Detroit! And, third, the Packers’ one-veteran starting backfield! The last-game pitch is strictly sentimental. A lot of folks – or rather, fans – grew up with the old ballyard, watched it sprout from a couple of wooden bleachers to an elegant 25,000-seater. And they’ve also watched it become ancient and out of date – all in the last five or six years. Green Bay citizens took note of their “model T” and last spring voted to split the cost of a new stadium with the Packers. Groundwork on the new stadium is now being finished and the opening is set for the start of the ’57 league season. The usual non-league games may have to be played in the old stadium, but barring unexpected delays in construction, the shift will be made with the ’57 league opener. There won’t be any old-stadium burial ceremonies at City Stadium Sunday. Rather, the Packers hope to close a quarter-century of pro football in the arena with the best salute they can give – a victory! But speaking of victory on any day but Monday can be touchy. The Forty Niners may have a one-six (1-6) record, which is just one notch below the Packers, but don’t let it fool you. They’ve been playing in difficult luck, so to speak, and two tight, heart-breaking losses to co-leader Detroit would seem to prove it. They lost to the Lions in Detroit 20-17 on a late-minute field goal by Bobby Layne. The Forty Niners gambled on a one-yard-fourth-down situation on their own 41 and missed, to set up the loss. It was tougher in San Francisco where the Lions made off with a 17-13 game. The Forty Niners’ John Henry Johnson scored on a plunge from the one-yard like for 19-17 lead (they never got the extra point), but, bejabbers, the Frisco’s were offside. Two plays later, Detroit intercepted a pass and sweated out the win. On the matter of a one-veteran backfield, Packer coach Liz Blackbourn said he plans to install Howie Ferguson, the ploughing fullback, as the balance wheel in a rookie starting backfield. The unit when the Packers open from scrimmage will have Bart Starr at quarterback, Jack Losch at left halfback and Bill Roberts at right half – all first-year men – and Ferguson. Blackbourn also plans to work Ferguson at a left halfback spot and veteran Fred Cone at fullback as a two-some during the game. On this score, Blackbourn pointed out at last night’s Quarterback club meeting that “our primary concern is winning more games this season but we’ve also got to look forward some to next year,” thus explaining his actions in starting the three rookies. Blackbourn figures the squad will be good condition Sunday. “Gary Knafelc bruised his knee banging into that stone wall in Chicago but it’s coming along fine,” he pointed out, adding with a smile: “That wall should be padded!” Asked about Ken Gorgal, the veteran defensive back obtained from the Chicago Bears, Blackbourn said Gorgal played “well against us when he was with Cleveland and the Bears. He has four years of experience, covers well on passes and we’re in hopes he’ll do the job. He’ll play in Billy Bookout’s place and we may shift him with Bobby Dillon at times.” Blackbourn said that Forrest Gregg will have to go into service after the season and “that’s a tough loss; Gregg now weighs 234 pounds and he’s still growing. He’ll be a real good one when get a little more know how.” The Packer mentor paid tribute to Breezy Reid, the veteran back who was placed on waivers this week, pointing out: “Breezy was a fine runner, a good blocker, a good man to coach, a good team man. He had his best non-league season and then hurt his leg and never seemed to regain his speed.” Speaking of backs, Blackbourn pointed to the Forty Niners’ Hugh McElhenny as “the best outside runner in football and he’s fourth in the league in rushing.” Al Carmichael, the Packers’ ace kickoff and punt returning back, was named as the most valuable player in last Sunday’s game. He received a watch from the Fairmont Foods Co. The Packers mixed a bit of offensive and defensive practice in today’s session in the Bluejay outfield. The area was pretty sloppy after last night’s heavy rain. Although some snow is predicted for today and Thursday, the weather is expected to clear for the weekend. The Forty Niners played in 105-degree heat in Los Angeles Sunday afternoon. They’re flying into Chicago Friday and will come into Green Bay by train Saturday afternoon.

BOYS’ PARENTS MUST PAY FOR RAIL VANDALISM

NOV 15 (Green Bay) – Three Green Bay youths and a fourth boy from Preble were returned to the custody of their parents Wednesday afternoon after a Juvenile Court hearing in which they admitted entering Chicago and Norrth Western Railway property at W. De Pere Oct. 14, stealing four bottles of wine, and being responsible for damage of $1,068.19 to railroad property. Judge Donald W. Gleason ordered the boys returned to their parents’ supervision on condition that the parents make restitution of $273.30 each for damages and for an insurance company claim involving a car the boys admitted stealing and driving to Oshkosh later on the same date. C.F. Frederickson, special agent for the North Western, testified during the hearing that the youths broke into the road’s De Pere tool house by prying a staple off the door with a section of long signal pipe. Two of youths are 14, and the other two are 13…BROKE INTO CAR: Frederickson said the youths also admitted breaking into a box car and stealing four fifths of wine valued at $1.80. Later, Frederickson said the youths confessed that they placed a North Western section hand car in the path of a North Western passenger train which was carrying the Green Bay Packer football team and fans back home after the Packer-Baltimore game at Milwaukee. The head diesel engine of the passenger train struck the section car, knocking it off the track. Damage to the car was estimated at $480.88 and an estimated $585.81 damage was done to the locomotive. The four youths testified that they had no intention of damaging or derailing the train but were attempting to get the hand car on the track and travel to Oshkosh on it. They said they had run away from home on Saturday, Oct. 13, spent the night at the North Western depot and hopped a freight train the next day, getting off at the Red Owl Warehouse in Ashwaubenon and walking the rest of the way to De Pere. The boys said they later attempted to take the car off the track, but were scared away by an older boy who yelled at them and gave chase. Frederickson testified that the youths later stole the 1949 auto of Pat Aerts, W. De Pere, Rt. 2, and drove it to Oshkosh where they were arrested and returned to De Pere. Total loss to the road resulting from the theft and vandalism was $1,068.93, Frederickson stated. The $25 sought by the insurance company in the car theft brought the grand total for which the boys’ parents will be held responsible to $1,093.19. Hubert Vaessen, De Pere police chief, filed the Juvenile Court complaint against the youths.

PACKERS OF WEEK - GREEN BAY CLUB HONORS CARMICHAEL

NOV 15 (Milwaukee Journal) - Al Carmichael was named "Packer of the week" by the Green Bay Quarterback club Wednesday night for his fine play on kickoff returns against the Chicago Bears at Chicago last Sunday...Thanks to their 494 yards against the Packers, the Bears increased their ground gaining lead in the NFL. They have gained 2,928 (1,609 rushing and 1,319 passing) in seven games. Their closest pursuer is Los Angeles with 2,538. The Bears will meet the Rams at Chicago Sunday...Emlen Tunnell, veteran defensive halfback from Iowa, started his 98th straight game for the New York Giants last Sunday...ROOKIES TO START: Two rookie quarterbacks will likely start when the Packers meet the San Francisco 49ers at Green Bay Sunday. Earl Morrall, Rose Bowl here from Michigan State, already has beaten out veteran Y.A. Tittle with the 49ers. Coach Lisle Blackbourn of Green Bay said Thursday that Bart Starr would start for Green Bay in place of Tobin Rote. "And we will go with Bart for quite awhile, too," Blackbourn said. Starr, from Alabama, was Green Bay's 17th choice in the draft last winter. Morrall was taken by San Francisco in the first round.

PRO SCOUTS OBSOLETE - 49ER COACH

NOV 15 (San Francisco) - The football scout who walks, talks and breathes is obsolete in pro football, Red Hickey of the San Francisco 49ers football coach staff said yesterday. Commenting on the 49ers’ preparations for their game against the Packers in Green Bay Sunday, Hickey pointed out that moving pictures will give both sides more intimate knowledge of the opposition that a whole troop of scouts scribbling X’s and O’s with both hands. “We’ve spent an entire day studying the Packers,” Hickey related, “and we should be able to stop what they ordinarily do best. But, then, of course, they’ve studied pictures of us just as much, so both of us have to change our offenses and defenses somewhat.” This is the first year that the NFL has authorized an exchange of movies….SCOUTS, BUT-: To guard again mechanical failure, the 49ers still have a scout at every game, Red said, but once the movies arrive, “we forget about the scout report. If you study a player in pictures, you can find weaknesses you wouldn’t notice if you sat in the stands and watched him all day,” Hickey said. “You find which linemen you can trap and which ones you can’t, which defensive backs rush up fast so that you can get a receiver behind them and which ones you have to pass in front of.” In spite of all the high echelon strategy, there’s still one drawback that the 49ers face. “When you go out to execute it, it’s still a matter of having the horses,” said Hickey…CARR MISSES DRILL: Paul Carr, defensive wingback, missed practice yesterday because of infection in both ears. Floyd Sagely worked in his spot. Ted Connolly may see considerable duty as offensive right guard. Lou Palatella, the regular at the position, has leg trouble, and Ed Henke may have to shift to defensive end because of Charley Powell’s physical ailments.