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Rout of Giants Leaves No Doubt of Packers’ Right to Rule Pro Grid World
The
Sportlight
Disposition Main Asset
Of Ideal Gridman
By GRANTLAND RICE,
Special Correspondent of The Star.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11 (N.A.
N.A.).—Three thousand miles to
the north and east football Is over
for another year, with the players
turning to other sports or giving
full-time attention to their books.
Out here—and through the rest of
the sun belt that stretches across
the South, with the Rose Bowl, the
Eugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, the
Orange Bowl, the Sun Bowl and
the North-South and East-West
games on up ahead—there still is
plenty of action on' the gridiron—
and plenty of football talk to be
heard in the towns.
Sitting around with some foot
ball coaches the other night, I asked
them for their outline of the ideal
football player. The composite an
swer didn't surprise me. It stressed
size, weight, power, speed, and,
above all, disposition.
That's the main requisite—dis
position. I have seen—and so have
you—boys who became great foot
ball players on what we sometimes
call spirit. Big or little the thing
that drove them and made them
great was their spirit. Only the
coaches call it disposition.
Football s Ideal Player
'Optimistic Pessimist.'
A long time ago Bob Zuppke
broke that down for me.
"The ideal football player,” he
said, "should be an optimistic pes
simist.”
That sounded like a rare com
bination.
“Sure it’s rare,” Zup said. "So
are ideal football players. But
that’s the way they must be. Look
^here’s what I mean. Ta'king the
field a boy must hope for the best
and believe he'll win. That's where
he is an optimist. But if things
break badly for him or for the
team he must not be shocked or
surprised He must be able to say
to himself, ‘Well, I expected some
thing like that,’
"That's where he's a pessimist.
But remember, he's an optimistic
pessimist. So he says to himself
that in spite of the bad break, if he
just keeps banging away, everything
is going to be all right,”
Ployers' Mental Slants
Govern Upsets.
Coaches know- the answer to what
we call upsets in football. They
hinge on the rise or fall of the boys'
mental slant on a game. Remember
that college football players, for the
most part, are only kids. They are
likely to be up one Saturday and
down the next or, if not down, in
a mental state where it is impossible
to rouse them for a game.
That often is the case where a
first-rate team, having knocked off
a strong foe one Saturday, falls
before a weak one the next. The
letdown from the first game finds
them incapable of being steamed up
for the next because the opposition
isn't strong enough to fire them.
Throw’ them in against another
strong team and they would be
likely to w’in. But there is nothing
in a weak or ordinary opponent to
drive them to the pitch they knew
when they scored that victory the
week before.
Bores Many Seniors.
Don't always feel sorry for the
coach who loses most of his regulars
by graduation in June and has to
start all over again with a squad
composed largely of sophomores in
the fall. Sometimes it means a
heavy burden and inevitable defeat
for the coach. But sometimes he
welcomes the shift.
This is because, when a boy is
!n his third year of varsity football,
he has put seven years of competi
tion behind him—four years in high
school, one with the freshmen and
two with the varsity. And it might
be—as it sometimes is—that he is
growing more than a little tired and
bored.
He isn't tired of playing the games
on Saturdays. The practice every
other day is what gets him down.
Just as veteran ballplayers dread
spring training and veteran fighters
hate training camps and gymna
siums, the football players—some of
them, at any rate—grow weary of
the practice field.
The only game in which he really
Is interested, though, is the last
game on the schedule—and the
weeks seem long between the begin
ning of the schedule and the end.
Hockey Hornets
Fight Home Jinx
B* the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. IT—
Hopin to shake loose a ‘‘home
jinx." the Pittsburgh Hornets will
don their road regalia in the
International-American Hockey
League game with the New
Haven Eagles here Wednesday
night.
The superstitious Hornets ex
plained that although they lost
only once in seven starts while
on the road, they won only two
out of seven in Pittsburgh.
The road outfits are red letters
on white Jerseys. The home suits
are vice versa.
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i* -
Completes Conquest
Of East's Best, Puts
West Up in Titles
Outdone in Every Way,
New York First Club
Shut Out in Playoff
By BILL DISMER, Jr.,
Star Stan Correspondent.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 11.—
Prospects of the long, cold winter
nights ahead lost some of their
cheerlessness for natives of this foot
ball-mad State today as prospects
of endless and Joyful hours of dis
cussion of Wisconsin’s favorite topic,
the Green Bay Packers, arose to
warm the cockles of thousands of
hearts.
Anri they’ll be telling for years
of this Packer team which finally
ended the invincibility of the Giants
by scuttling their line, skirting their
ends and bombing their secondary
with passes which found their mark
70 per cent of the time, while com
pletely bottling up the defending
champions’ scoring threats even to
the extent of a single field goal.
In short, of a team which clearly
proved itself worthy of profes
sional football’s diadem of 1939 by
winning the Western Division title
and by scoring over the two best
teams of the East, the Giants and
the Washington Redskins.
Adding to the universal pride in
the Packers being undisputed cham
pions of the professional gridiron
for the fifth time since the National
Football League was organized in
1921 was the fact that the Packers
were on the pinnacle again as the
result of a thorough and convincing
humbling of a team that had been
called unbeatable.
Never since playoff games were
instituted in 1933 has any team
taken such a beating in the title
classic as the once-proud New York
Giants took yesterday, and the
Packers took added pride in the
fact that their 27-0 triumph was
the first whitewashing ever dealt
out in the post-season fray. Green
Bay’s victory also gave the West a
4-3 edge in the playoff series with
their Eastern rivals.
Defeat Was Convincing.
Again “outstatisticked” in every
department, the Giants were out
scored for only the second time this
year, but the margin of the Packers'
victory over a team that had won all
but one of its games since early in
the 1938 season (and suffered its
j lone defeat by only three pointsi left
I no doubt as to the Packers’ class.
Unlike the Redskins, who stayed
in the game with the big Bay team
and were beaten by only 10 points,
the Giants were out of the running
midway the third quarter, when
many of the 32.329 spectators started
heading for the exits, and although
i they were only a touchdown behind
as they took the field for the sec
ond half the ex-champs never gave
; indications of threatening to tie the
: score before the Packers started to
sew up the decision.
Without an intent to express a
“sour grapes’’ attitude, there is little
doubt that the Redskins would have
provided a far better game and
given the largest crowd ever to see
a professional football game in Wis
consin chills as well as thrills. They
did in October, when they held the
Packers to a 24-14 score.
Keeps Opposition Guessing.
we woman t Know wnetner tne
Packers rightfully can be called the
best of the pro game’s champions,
but we would say that they have as
powerful and clever all-around at
tack as the Redskins of 1937. whom
Washingtonians liked to think ol
as the best team they'd ever seen.
With such exceptionally fine backs
as Cece Isbell. Andy Uram. Arnie
Herber, Ed Jankowski and Joe Laws
j the Packers must be recognized as
one of the most powerful combina
tions in the history of the game,
with an attack that clicks either on
the ground or through the air.
complementing such punch is a
cleverness and finesse in attack,
which continually keeps the opposi
tion guessing.
Certainly they are a refreshing
contrast to the 1938 champion
Giants, a team which won by put
! ting out only enough to outscore
the other fellow, but which never
staked a claim to all-around great
ness.
And. for George Marshall’s edifica
tion, it should be pointed out that
; the Packers still carry a dependable
field-goal kicker in Tiny Engebret
sen, despite an attack which would
seem to preclude the necessity of
depending on three points.
The Packers were not long in in
dicating the trend the game was to
take yesterday, scoring the third
time they had the ball and on a
54-yard sustained march.
Score in 11 Plays.
Mixing passes with fake passes,
spinners and end-arounds, it took
the Packers only 11 plays to
score the game's first touchdown
after taking one of Ed Danowski's
J punts on the Giants' 46-yard line
midway the first quarter. Big Ar
| nie Herber. inserted into the game
as Coach Curly Lambeau sensed a
score, faked one of his copyrighted
1 passes on his first play to run
to the Giants' 35 before firing
a trio of passes which culminated
in the score.
On these, the Giants—like most
teams facing the Herber-to-Hutson
combination—were caught flatfooted
Hutson being wide open on the 6
to put his team in scoring position,
and Milt Kantenbein fooling both
Kink Richards and Johnny Del Isola
Packers Heroes in Milwaukee
As Giants Slink Out of Town
By a StaB Correspondent ot The Star.
MILWAUKEE. Wis„ Dec. 11.—
Like a small college town whose
football team has just received a
Rose Bowl bid—that was Milwaukee
Bnd Green Bay last night after the
Packers’ rousing 27-0 rout of the
Kew York Giants.
When the Packers arrived back
Bt their hotel here, they found bed
lam to have broken loose, with cheer
ing. singing throngs packing the
lobby and main dining room. In the
absence of an official Packer song.
“On Wisconsin” was the tune of the
hour, but there was no doubt as
to whom it was hailing. Crowds
•wept up and down Milwaukee’s
main streets for hours, singing and
•halting "We’re the champs now.”
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Reports drifting southward 250
miles indicated that Green Bay,
official home of the State’s favorite
eleven, was captured by the same
frenzy and was preparing a mon
strous reception for its “boys."
The Giants, meanwhile, sneaked
out of town as quietly as possible,
no relief in sight from the gloom
that has gripped them since the
death of their coach’s mother. Most
of the Giants believe that they have
played their last game together,
as it has been known pretty gen
erally that Owner Tim Mara and
Coach Steve Owen were planning to
break up their 1938 championship
outfit, regardless of the outcome of
yesterday's game.
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CAUGHT FROM BEHIND!—Despite loss of his helmet on the play. Kink Richards, Giant left
halfback, carefully held onto the ball for a short gain in the New Yorkers’ 27-0 rout by the
Green Bay Packers yesterday at Milwaukee. Buford Ray, Packer tackle, is shown nailing him
from the rear. No. 53 is Bud Svendsen, Green Bay center.
Giants Collect More in Losing
Than Redskins as Champs;
Milwaukee Rated Game
Bs a Stan Correspondent of The S'*r. i
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 11.—If
it's any consolation to them, the
New York Giants scattered to their
homes today with guarantee of mure
money coming to each than the
Redskins received when they won ,
the world's championship at Chi
cago two years ago. Yesterday's
record gross gate of $83,510.35 for
National League playoffs means that
every Packer player will receive
$703.97 and every Giant $455.57.
Members of the 1937 champion
Redskins got little more than $250
apiece for beating the Bears.
Marshall Had Wrong Slant.
Twould have been a crime to have
I deprived Milwaukee of the playoff,
as George Marshall suggested two
weeks ago when he moved to have
the classic transferred to Washing
ton in the event the Redskins were
the Eastern champions. Milwaukee
and Green Bay are just as rabid
over the Packers as Washington is
over the Redskins, and native
; populaces would have braved any
kind of weather for their first
glimpse of a championship game.
As a matter oi fact, Milwau
; kee awoke to unseasonably warm
weather yesterday morning, but
i clouds blotted out the sun and
a strong wind arose just before noon.
Notwithstanding, nearly two-thirds
of the 32,279 spectators were in the
stands a half hour before the
kickoff. Hardy folk, these North
ern Midwesterners. The overflow
crowd set a new sports attendance
record for Milwaukee, and Packer
officials fully believe 20.000 more
would have seen the game, had ac- ,
commodations been available. The
previous local record was the 22.800
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when he took Herbers bullet pass
in the end tone.
Only once during the first half
did the Giants pierce the Packers'
35, Tuffy Leemans snagging one
of Danowski’s passes to run to
the 14 just before the half-time gun.
Otherwise, the Giants were stopped
cold in Packer territory and both
Ward Cuff's attempt at a field goal
from the 42 and Len Barnum's from
the 47 were wide.
Interceptions Pave Way.
Tw'o of the Packers’ six pass inter
ceptions paved the way to both
of their toucndowns in the sec
ond half to turn the game into
a rout. After Tiny Engebretsen’s
field goal from the 29-yard line
increased the score to 10-0, an
alert Packer defense capitalized on
Danowski's desperate measures to
score, Gantenbein intercepting one
of his passes on the Giants’ 33.
Here it was that the Bays made j
monkeys of the Giants, Isbell
fading back on fourth down and j
passing to Joe Laws, who was as
open as the uncovered stands. Not
a Giant was near Laws, who caught!
the ball on the 7 and waltzed across
to make it 17-0.
And, after Ernie Smith comple
mented Engebretsen's eflorts with
a field goal of his own from the
42-yard line early in the fourth
quarter, Center Bud Svendsen inter
cepted one of Barnum’s tosses to
start the Packers on the way to
fViatr loct crnrn Sv^rrtvn nrac nin
out of bounds on the New York 15
and Jankowski climaxed three line
plays by bucking over from the
1-yard stripe.
Tradition Is Upheld.
In the final analysis, it was a
great team, raised to a fever pitch
to satisfy a rabid following, that won
the game. Although the Packer
line yielded only three less first
downs than the Giants, most of
them came late in the game when
the New Yorkers’ cause was lost,
and the winners’ 131 yards gained
in rushing to the Giants’ 56 showed
the decided superiority of the Bay
runners. And no better proof of the
greater effectiveness of Packer
passes is needed than statistics
which show that Green Bay's 10
passes accounted for one more yard,
99. than 26 Giant heaves.
Thus, tradition that a champion
never repeats In the National League
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crowd that saw the Redskins play
here last month.
Redskin-Giant Film Unshown.
Redskin Chieftain Marshall is
headed home today with films of
the Redskin-Giant game still un
shown to his colleagues or league
officials. George just couldn't find
a spare moment to get them to
agree to start disagreeing ias he
was sure they would) when they
saw the movies.
Marshall and Coach Ray Flaherty
parted company for the first time
in four months, Flaherty leaving
immediately after the game for his
home in Spokane, Wash. Assistant
Coach Roy Baker and Trainer Ray
CDoc) Mauro, here for the game,
were to start coastward today by
auto.
They all planned to reunite for
the pro bowl game in Los Angeles
next month when the Packers meet
an all-league team.
xiiciuemauy. nrixsixuis aiiu) rar
kas. Wayne Millner and Turk Ed
wards are in the thick of the running
for places on the all-league team,
according to Promoter Tom Gallery,
who was here for the game. Ed
wards, he says, seems assured of a
place, with votes pouring in for the
big Washington captain. Frank Fil
chok apparently is running ahead
of Sammy Baugh as the onlv other
Washingtonian with a chance to
make the squad.
Bert Bell, owner-coach of the
Philadelphia Eagles, still thinks
Davey O'Brien “the greatest football
player I ever saw. When you real
ize,'’ Bell explained, "that Davey
played 59 minutes against Green
Bay, 59 minutes against the Chicago
Bears, 58 minutes against the Pitts
burgh Pirates on a Sunday and 60
minutes against the same team four
days later, you must believe that
he's shown he can stand up and take
it in football's fastest company. And
if you think his size is a hindrance,
you should have seen him tackle
that Osmanski head-on. As long as
he's got it here,” concluded Bell,
pointing to his heart, “Davey will do
all right. Sure he'll be back next
year.”
All-Star Picking Next.
All that remains to end the 1939
professional football season officially
is the naming of the coaches' and
writers' all-league teams. Standouts
for both appear in Brooklyn Quar
terback Ace Parker. New’ York Center
Mel Hein, Redskin Halfback Andy
Farkas. Green Bay End Don Hutson;
but a lot of votes will have to be
counted before the remaining places
are filled.
Yesterday’s crowd may have been
slightly smaller than the average
World Series game turnout, but press
accommodations smacked of the best
baseball ever produced. Three tiers
of seats provided spaces for nearly
100 writers, nine-tenths of whom
came from out of town.
Regal Booters Beaten
By Maryland Park
Regal’s soccer team might prove
formidable next Sunday in Wash
ington and Suburban Soccer League
competition provided it has 11
players on the field. Yesterday,
playing with only nine men, due to
a misunderstanding about the meet
ing place, it gave Maryland Park
a good fight before losing, 1 to 3.
In another close game Heurlch
Brewers beat Southern Maryland
Democrats, 2 to 1. Sandy Spring
defeated La Plata, 3 to 1, and in the
biggest scoring spree of the day
Marlboro licked Silver Spring, 5
to 2. Washington Sport Club, one
of the league leaders, won on a
forfeit from Sun Radio.
MATINEE jH
I Sat.—Sun.—Hal. I
s 2:30—5:30 P.M. S U
I NIGHTS, 8-11 P.M. ID
I^PhonaJAt^gO^^^^J
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Oklahoma's Langston
Rated Top Negro
Football Team
Wins Seven Games, Ties
In One; Virginia State
Third Nationally
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Dec. 11 —Oklahoma’s
powerful Langston University Lions,
undefeated and tied once this sea
son. were rated national Negro col
legiate football champions today.
Tire Langston team, which fin
ished at the top of the Southwest
Athletic Conference, piled up 98
points and yielded 26 in games with
eight opponents.
Lucious (Melancholy) Jones, sports
editor of the Atlanta Dally World,
Negro newspaper, said Langston
earned a season’s average of 26.07
by the Dickinson rating system,
based on wins, losses, ties and qual
ity of schedule played.
Florida Team Second.
Under the rating arrangement, an
average of 30 theoretically would be
equivalent to a perfect season, he
said.
Florida Agricultural and Mechan
ical College at Tallahassee, last
year’s national champion, finished
as hunner-up with seven wins, one
tie and two losses.
Playing before more than 9.000
spectators in the seventh renewal
of the annual Orange Blossom con
test at Orlando Saturday, Florida
A. Ac M. whipped Wiley University
of Marshall, Tex., 42-0, for their
fourth Blossom victory.
Virginia State College of Peters
burg, Va,. for two years champion
of the Colored Intercollegiate Ath
letic Association, was ranked third
nationally, with seven wins, one tie
and one defeat. The Trojans, un
beaten since 1937, were turned back,
13-7, by Morris Brown College of
Atlanta Saturday in the first annual
Peach Blossom game, a newcomer
in Negro post-season football. The
rankings:
„ . W. L. T. Ave
1. Langston tOklat_7 0 1 •’« 07
2. Florida A A M_7 2 1 ua'oi
3. Virginia State_7 11 03 p-i
4. Wilberlorce lOhiol __ fi 2 0 23-67
5. Alabama State_ 5 2 2 •>•>'88
8. Morris Brown <Ga.i_. 8 2 2 2‘>'i4
<• Bluefield iW. Va.I. 5 2 3 2187
«. J C. Smith in. C.)— 7 2 0 21.87
0. Lincoln iPa.l _o 2 1 21 50
10. Tennessee State_4 3 1 2107
11. Le Moyne cTenn.)_3 3 1 2107
12. Xavier 1L9.1_ 5 4 0 20 71
13. Agr'l A Tech <N. C.i. 4 2 3 10 84
14. Lar.e (Tenn >_4 3 1 10 84
In. Morehouse <Ga.>_ 4 3 1 19 84
18. Kentucky State. _8 1 ft 19 29
II Noith Carolina State 4 3 1 19.29
is. Hampton Inst. iVa.i_ 4 3 1 18.92
19. Arkansas State _ 5 3 1 18 21
20. Prairie iVew iTex.)__ 4 2 1 18.10
Nugent, Phillies Prexy,
III With Bronchitis
By the Associated Press
CONSHOHOCKEN. Pa.. Dec. 11.—
Gerald P. Nugent, president of the
Philadelphia National League Base
ball Club, was confined to his bed
with an attack of bronchitis today.
Dr. H. Cotter Boyle ordered
Nugent to bed when he returned
from the Major League baseball
meeting in Cincinnati yesterday.
HAPPY PACKERS—It was a joyful bunch of Green Bay grldmen who celebrated their smash
ing triumph over the Giants in the National Professional Football League championship tilt.
Here are half a dozen who were instrumental in beating the Easterners. Left to right, back
row: Milt Gantenbeln, Cecil Isbell, Paul Kell and Paul Engebretsen. Front: Gus Zarnas and
Ed Jankowski. _A. P. Wirephotos.
Brewers Lose Bennie
After Gaining Lead
In Basket Loop
Vet Resigns Following
Stirring 35-32 Win
Over Haymakers
With the Heurich Brewers at the
crest of their career in the Amer
ican Basket Ball League—they now
lead the circuit—Ralph Bennie,
popular court veteran, who has been
an outstanding performer here over
a span of 16 years, today retired
from their ranks of active players.
One of the District's foremost
athletes, having gained a mild
measure of fame in golf, bowling and
baseball in addition to basket ball,
Bennie resigned following the Brew
ers' stirring 35-32 victory over the
Troy Haymakers at Heurich gym
yesterday.
A former Eastern High court
captain. Bennie also performed with
the Skinker Bros. Eagles of some
seasons ago. The resignation of
the 33-year-old Bennie was volun
tary.
The Brewers are faced with four
tough games within a period of six
days.
Tomorrow night the local pros
will stack up against the Kingston
Colonials at Kingston. N. Y.. and
on Wednesday will face the Hay
makers at Troy, N. Y. They return
to Heurich gym Thursday night
for a meeting with the Philadelphia
Sphas and entertain Kingston here
next Sunday afternoon.
Kit Carson, former Washington
and Lee star, sparked the Brew’ers
to their third straight triumph yes
terday. Entering the game with
only five minutes remaining, he
pumped five vital points through
the nets as the beer boys rallied to
nrm
Troy G FPts. Heurich. G FPts
Polch a f __ 1 0 2 Shore f ..000
Boardman.f o 0 o Carson f_ "15
Kupperb g.f 2 2 8 Lee.f '2 1 5
Synnot.e.. 1 1 3 Goldfad'nrf 204
Frankie.g5 3 13 Bloom.c__. 2 1 5
Stanton*. non Wilson.a .102
Shabach.R. .3 2 8 Posnack.a. 10 2
Dubiller.g- 4 4 12
To-als .12 8 32 Totals. 14~T35
Referee—Soladare 'American Basketball
League*. Umpire—Lieb iC. U.i.
Decisive!
Pas Giants. Packers.
L. F Pool? - Hutson
L. T-Cope _ Rot
L. G ..Dell Isola _ Letlow
£ Hein Svcndsen
R O-Tattle-Goldenbere
R T.-Melius _ Lee
RE. — Howell -Gantenbein
Q B-Danowskl_Crale
L. H-Richards _ Isbell
R H-Cuff _ Laws
F B-Lalaschl -Hinkle
Giants- non n— 0
Packers - 7 n 10 10—2T
Touchdowns—Gantenbein. Laws. Jan
kowski fsub for Hinkle'. Points from try
after touchdowns—Eneebretsen fsub for
Letlow'. 2 iplacekicks 1 Smith (sub for
Rayt 1 place-kick>. Goals from field—En
aebretsen (placement!. Smith 'placement'
Substitutions: Glints—Walls Kline. G?
latka. Parry. Widseih. Oldershaw Cole.
Lundav Shaffer. Leemans. Burnett. Bar
num Owens. Soar. Miller Packera—Ja
eunski. Mwllereaux. Moore. Smith. Kell.
Schultz. Engehretsen Tinsley, Zarnas.
Brock. Greenfield. Herber Uram. Jankow
ski. Bruder, Balazs. I awrence. Weiseerber
Referee—William Halloran (Providence!
Umpire—Ed Cochrane (Chicago'. Lines
man—Tom Thorne (New York). Field
Judge—Dan Tehan (Cl"rtnnatl>.
STATISTIC*.
_ Olanta. Packers.
First downs_»_ 7 10
Yards gained rushing (net)__ 58 131
Forward passes attempted_28 jn
Forward passes completed_ 0 7
Yards by forward passing- 08 pp
Yards lost, attempted forward
passes _12 8
Forward nasaes intercepted by 3 8
Yards gained, runback of In
tercepted passes _ 27 3P
Punting averages (from
scrimmage' 32 38
Total yards all kicks returned PS 35
Opponents' fumbles recovered n n
Yards lost by penalties_jn 50
Varied Sports
BASKET BALL.
American Fro Leagae.
Heurich Brewers. 35: Troy Haymakers.
32
Philadelphia Sphas. 32: Brooklyn Jewels.
24.
Kingston, (N. T.J Colonials. 34: Jersey
Reds. 28. 1
National Pro Louse.
_Hammond (Ind). 52: Akron Firestone*.
Missouri Valley A. A. V.
St. Louis. 44: Chicago Cavaliers. 27.
Cards' Team Going to Sun Bowl
Deemed on Par With Sturdy
7936 Orange Bowl Victor
By LEWIS F. ATCHISON.
Catholic University's football war
riors buckled on their battle arma
ment again today and plunged into
a two-weeks’ training grind to gain
the sharp edge they hope will enable
them to carve out a victory over
Arizona State Teachers in their Sun
Bowl game at El Paso on New Year
Day.
The boys were as chipper as a
lark in the spring, confident of up
holding the East's standard in the
intersectional attraction and even
Boss "Dutch” Bergman grinned a
bit as he started them through their
paces.
"If I could only bottle some of
that ginger and hold it for the
game I think we'd beat Arizona on
sheer spirit. These kids want to
play football, they want to win and
if we can bring them up to the
game without losing that attitude
we’ll do all right "
"Dutch" said the workout re
minded him of his Orange Bowl ag
gregation of four years ago. Now.
there was a team for you. ready for
a good gridiron fight or a frolic any
hour of the day and one of the most
colorful elevens in the Cardinals'
history. We wondered out loud how
the Sun Bowl crew compared with
them and Bergman neatly stiff
armed the question and went around
it for a nice ggain.
Don't Know Meaning of "Quit."
“The Orange Bowl team was bet
ter balanced." he admitted, "but I
think this team has more speed and
power, although I wouldn't want to
pick the winner if they played one
another. One thing they have in
common is aggressiveness. By golly,
that 1936 team couldn't be dis
couraged by anything and this
present team is the same way.
They don't know the meaning of
the word "quit.” and it hasn't been
wiv/uuvoov, wuv CJV, T O 111 iO
season I've almost had to go out on
the field to get a player out of the
game when trying to make a substi
tution. They don't want to come
out—even when injured.'’
This reporter accompanied Cath
olic University on its Orange Bowl
I invasion Rnd can vouch for Berg
man's testimony concerning that
, team's h-1-bent-for-leather at
titude. There were big Hermie
Schmarr. the lad with the bushel
basket hands, and George Mulligan
at ends. This combination won the
Detroit game that year with a 59th
minute lateral pass, the most breath
j taking play of the season. They
' were big and as tough as a movie
gangster and they played a lot of
1 football for the Cards that season
Joe Carrig and Lou Shine aren't
as colorful as that pair, but we'll
have to admit they are faster,
tackle as viciously and catch passes
as well. Bergman can rest assured
| his flanks will be well protected at
El Paso with this duo in the game.
Current Guards Deemed Best.
The Orange Bowl tackles were
"Col.” Ed Clements and Ed Kar
powich, the latter since re-christ
ened Ed Karp for the sake of fcrev
j ity. Karp is with Pittsburgh in the
j National Football League and doing
! well for himself. The tip-off on the
tackle situation that year is that
Leo Katalinas. a grizbzly gent who
later developed into one of Berg
man's best linesmen, was a sopho
' more substitute, making rare ap
pearances on the field.
We doubt if Jim Conlen and
Carmen Plrro surpass Clements and
Karp, although it is difficult to
overlook Pirros place-kicking ability.
which accounted for 18 points this
season. All things considered, the
Orangemen have a slight edge in
this department.
Bergman rates A1 Calabrese and
Art Sabo the best guards he's hall
since coming to Brookland, and that
is a superb compliment in itself, for
there were Nick Monaco and Dr.
Jim Lyons before him. and the
Orange Bowl couple of Bill Lajousky
and Joe Anthonavage. The last
two named were steady, hard driving
boys who could pull out of line in
high gear and go like backfield men.
Calabrese and Sabo, however, well
deserve the commendation given
them, for they have been the kay
men in the Redbirds’ success this
year, and as thef go in the Sun Bowl
so tvill their mates go.
Centers About on Par.
Johnny White, currently at centen
and Joe Yanchulis of the 36 squad
are about on par and here again
the current center is honored by
such competition. Yanchulis. a
lanky, loose-joined chap who always
appeared in danger of being swept
away bv a brisk wind, did everything
asked of him. H° could charge with
the snap of the ball, back up a line,
guard against passes and diagnose
plays like a pro. He was brilliant
against Mississippi in the Miami
classic and if White measures up to
that performance Bergman need
have no fears about center.
‘ Dutch'’ would give the edge in
backfield to the '39 quartet, but there
is ample room for argument. The
'36 delegation had Irish Carroll to
lug the apple through a broken
field; Pete Dranginis to call the sig
nals and do the blocking; Bill
Adamaitis for the passing, and Bob
Makofske at fullback. There wa3
speed and power—not to mention
deception—for you, but what about
the Sun Bowl ball toters?
Well, Pete Sachon is about the
brainiest field general the Cards
have had in a long time and a good
blocker, too, despite his 158 pounds.
Charley Moutenot is a good man to
shake loose in any broken field and
a mite faster than Carroll
Cards Favored to Win.
Brostek falls a trifle below Aria
maitis because of the latter's throw
ing ability, but Rocco Pirro offset*
this at fullback, where his tre
mendous piston-power gives him the
edge on Makofske.
Orange Bowl team supporters hate
one thing in their favor, however,
when they say, “They beat a good
team in Mississippi, now let's see
how this crow-d makes out against
Arizona.”
It may be all even again by sun
down New Year Day because w*
think this team is going to chalk up
the Cardinals’ second straight bowl
victory.
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