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Alouette majorettes won the hearts of the crowd, even though their team lost.

ks beat Als on merit,

keep Grey Cup in West

For the second consecutive year Edmonton E the Grey Cup final—and this year it was no-ifluke. Came roaring back in the final two On the long end of a 34-19 score. Th

failed to score a point in the

As expected, it was a quarter backs’ duel all the way, with ackie Parker having the edge Over Sam Etcheverry because Of the vergatility of his attack.

Etcheverry depended ‘on his 800d right arm, completed 30 of

Passes for 508 yards—good “Nough to win any ball game but this one. Parker completed “ight of 16 passes for 128 yards.

On the ground it was a dif- ferent story. Edmonton rushed for 449 yards, a new Grey Cup record, while Montreal gained a feeble 72 yards.

The Eskimos proved that a §00d ground attack can always eg an air offensive (something

at Army proved to Navy 14-6

€ same day, in a dramatic up- Set which knocked the midship- t €n from contention for a Cot- °n Bowl bid). at ackie Parker turned in a

rling game in every depart- ent. He was just as effective the defense as when rolling up $50 field, and richly deserved the i 0 awarded him as best player n the 1955 final. th aturday’s game drew more

8n 39,000 spectators to Empire

Stadium and grossed an esti-

quarters to completely

second half.

skimos beat Montreal Alouettes in Trailing 19-18 at halftime, the Esks

dominate the play and finisly

e Als. noted for their dangerous late air attacks,

Field Goals Tried

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Ist Qtr. 2nd Qtr. 3rd Qtr. 4th Qtr. Totals

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te 285,000 for an all time- eee moe is a good possibility that next year’s Grey Cup game will be staged here, because foot- ball moguls love money and no eastern stadium is big. enough to handle more than 30,000 people.

This Saturday the East and ‘west all-star teams meet at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, and at least 24 players who fone part in the Grey Cup classic wil

Individual performances —

‘ EDMONTON ; Kwong — 29 carries for 135 yards (4.7 per carry).

Teceptions for 21 yards.

Three pass

Bright — Eight carries for 82 yards (10.2 per carry ). One pass

*eception for 22 yards, one kickoff return

“ch he recovered.

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) off r 69 yards (11.5 per carry)

for 13 yards, one fumble

Parker — Completes eight of 16 passes for 128 yards. Six car-

. One pass interception, one kick-

nd one fumble, recovered by Kwong.

Miles — Six carries for 75 yards (12.5 a carry). One pass re-

4@pon for 30 yards, one kickoff, two kickoffs run

back for 24 and

yards, two fumbles, one recovered.

“eption for 25 yards.

Se Heydenfeldt — One pass reception for 14 yards an

Nand one pass interception.

re- indley — Seven carries for 52 yards a carry. One pass

d a touch-

endiak — One pass reception for 16 yards.. ' MONTREAL Yr Belec — Four carries for 22 yards (5.5 per carry). males eer ceptions for 31 yards, four yards lost on a punt return and 0

covered fumble. Bass Teceptions for 55 yards. aroline — Five carries for Teception for 44 yards.

Ties queverry — Completes 30 of

Pass

bruzzi — Seven carries for 18 yards (2.5 a carry) and two

18 yards (3.6 per carry) and one

39 passes for 508 yards. Six car-

be a loss of 12 yards (2 yards loss per carry).

Quinn — Eight pass receptions for 140 yards. : eat atterson — Five pass receptions for 100 yards, one pass inter- on, :

Bewley — Three pass receptions for 31 yards. Pa) 122 _— Three pass receptions for 36 yards.

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Four pass receptions for 58 yards. ° ¥ — One pass reception for 13 yards.

be on the field facing each other again. The, game is slated to ‘become an annual event, and ewill ‘be held either in the East or West, i 'Grey Cup game is staged. Fans | are beginning to demand that | the Grey Cup final be held | alternately in the East and West, ‘thus allowing them to see it lone year and the all-star game ‘the next.

The Grey Cup game, which attracted thousands of outside visitors to Vancouver, including large contingents from Toronto and Montreal, helped to develop a rising spirit of Canadianism. |So did the fine parade, with- its ' all-Canadian floats, bands, march- lers and high-stepping majorettes.

Sensational newspaper head- lines about the “hoodlums” and ‘Suvenile delinquents” who staged a “riot” in the Georgia-Granville area Saturday night have tend- ed to over-emphasize this de- | plorable but minor aspect of the big celebration. Hooliganism must \be curbed at future public car- nivals of this kind. But what the downtown crowds demon- /strated, in the main, was that 'Canadians from East and West could mingle, have fun and be- ‘eome friends as the result of the | staging of a football game. The ' gridiron has helped establish an East-West friendship grid, based ‘on a mutual pride in Canadian football teams. | Vancouver, in staging the big- |gest festival in’ its history, has ‘helped to break down barriers | between East and West. The | week-long carnival went off with | searcely a hitch, the city has won countless thousands of friends, ‘and country-wide opinion is that this was “the biggest and best |Grey Cup celebration ever held.”

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x Gert Whyte s

SPORTLIGHT

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, * heartily agreed, he even quoted

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

HAT’S me, folks, after the Grey Cup game. Alouettes were doing fine the first half then the roof fell in, the Esks rolled on to victory, and my prediction went kerplunk. Guess I should have known, as an old army man, that a ground offensive weuld. beat an air

attack.

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I’m turning over the column this week to John Stewart, editor af the Canadian Tribune, who visited hockey-mad Prague during his recent European tour and wrote‘ back his im- pressions, which Canadian puck fans will find interesting, I’m sure. Take it away, John:

I was able to take in a game the other night and had an opportunity after of chatting with two of Czechoslovakia’s players — Vladimir Zabrodsky, who rates next to Zatopek in popularity here, and Charles Gut, who will captain Czechos- lovakia’s national. team in the Clympic Winter Games in Italy next February.

Remember all that wordage about how “rough” the Cana- dian Penticten V’s were when they played here last year? I asked Zabrodsky and Gut about it in my lead-off question.

They don’t agree. They don’t think the Canadians were rough (not even the Warwick brothers, who are known to more people in Prague than Louis St. Laur- ent or the capital of Canada).

“They played hard and handed out hard bodychecks— but that’s something we need to learn too,’ Zabrodsky told me in English. Gut noded his head when the question was translated for him. *e

“As a matter of fact,” the star centre of the Prague Spar- tak team continued, “we could use two or three good Canadian coaches to teach us your hard game.”

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The Spartaks made monkeys of the Swiss team in the game here. The score was 12-1 and should have been twice that.

The Prague players are still a bit weak in shooting, tend to look lost around the _ goal, mediocre in goal and indulge in too much passing. You’d often: see a player (against a wide open Swiss defense) well in front of the blue-line and in a position to drive right in on goal. Instead, he would pass often blindly.

I mentioned these criticisms to Zabrodsky and he not only

me in the next morning’s Prague sports paper !

But don’t let me overstress the weakness. They're a smart team, good skaters and play- makers, good backcheckers and strong defensively even with- out the bodycheck. And Za- brodsky, Gut and one or two others can also handle their sticks-with-puck as good as most Canadian players these days. If the Czechoslavak Olympic team is made up of such players, they’ll be a mighty hard team to’ beat.

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Czechoslovakia has more than 50,000. hockey players today and 17 artificial ice rinks. It is becoming a national sport— even more popular than foot-

ball (largely, I suppose, because

the Czechoslovak football team is, very weak).

And they are deadly serious about winning the Olympic Games at Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy. The newspaper Czechos- lovak Sport says: “We are not modest. Even if we were content with third place in the sixth Olympic Games in Oslo in 1952 ...this year we believe our representatives will achieve an even. better result...We ex- pect both fair play and good behavior on the part of our players as well as success.”

Vladimir Bouzek, coach of the national team, will choose his team and take it to the High Tatra mountains for. training on natural ice, such as they ex- pect in. Italy. Before that, visits to France, Britain and Sweden.

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As for the games, Zabrodsky sized up this way: “Not only is Canada now. fighting for the title of Olympic champions, but another four as well the USSR, Sweden, the U.S. and Czechoslovakia. The par- ticipation of the USSR has in- troduced new elements into ice hockey and together with bet- ter performances by. Sweden and Czechoslovakia it can be as- sumed that the Canadians will have to send their really best team to Europe,”

He admitted, however, that European hockey did not yet measure up to Canadian, especi- ally. in body-checking and goal tending.

He believes players here must also learn to master many dif- ferent positions, and used the Penticton V’s as his example, explaining how coach Grant Warwick had constantly changed

his lines at last year’s World Championship games. ;

_ Czechoslovak hockey players in action: PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 2, 1955 — PAGE 11