tienmg ^kf ̂ parts _FRIDAY, November 26, 1943—A—16 *

Win, Lose or Draw By WALTER McCALLUM.

Here's One Timid Vote for Navy's Goat Tomorrow Army and Navy will face off tomorrow with only a football and a

lot of acreage between them in the comparative isolation of around 15,000 ardent customers, at West Point’s Michie Stadium. Instead of the traditional spectacle before 100,000 people, with the corps of the two academies doing their military marching miracles, card stunts and other things that make the service game the finest show in college football, a mere handful will see two of the great teams of the year on the Plains below Storm King Mountain.

Sammy Weiss, top football minded member of Congress tried hard to get the game transferred to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago or any- where it could be played before a real crowd, but no dice. Sammy, the same black-haired gent who pries those pro football hefties apart on sunaays, started asking tne War Department about this game months ago, but got exactly no- where.

As a football game it can be one of the best. Both teams come up to the final test of this war year with only one licking, by Notre Dame, top team of the college sche- dule. Both have had good seasons apart from that one loss and both have smart, fast backs and bulky lines.

Army uses the T formation, Capt. Johnny Whelchel and Lt. Comdr. Rip Miller, Navy coaches, know’ plenty about the T. They've gone over it with Redskin Coach butch Bergman, who did a passable job of stopping the Bears, using the T. last Sunday. Navy uses a com-

bination system with only an occa-

sional man in motion, usually em- ploying a shift to the right.

Smart Backs to Collide In Hal Hamberg, Bob Jenkins and

Hillis Hume, Navy has three great backs. Hamberg is the main threat, at 150 pounds, a deceptive, fast man who carries dynamite in his legs and arms. Army has a pair to match Navy's fusillade in Glenn Davis and Doug Kenna, the latter one of the better backs of the year in any company.

If comparative scores interest you, Notre Dame licked Navy, 33-6, before a sellout crowd at Cleveland Octo- ber 30 and a week later before an-

other sellout at New York the Irish iced Army, 26-0.

Against Penn it was a different story. The Quakers deadlocked Army. 13-13. A week later Navy ran

roughshod over the same Penn team, 24-7.

One timid vote for the Navy goat In this one.

It happens to be the first meeting between the two service academies j at West Point in 51 years. They last met on the Plains in 1892.

Navy Keeps Em Busy Jocko Miller, former amateur

lightweight boxing champion of the District of Columbia, now sporting a

Navy CPO's chevrons, is en route to the Pacific Coast with a bunch of Navy "boots.'’ Jocko is stationed at Bainbridge, Md., where Burt Haw- kins, a former conductor of this pillar of sports, now is a "boot” and doing all right.

The Redskins, for the first time In their history* in Washington, will play every game before a sellout crowd. The Philpitt game Sunday is a cinch to collect another capacity- crowd of more than 35.000 and the final home game of the year, against the Giants December 12, also is reasonably sure to do so.

George Preston Marshall, Redskin prexy, says he is not mixed up in the proposal to erect at the University of Maryland a stadium ultimately to seat between 80,000 and 90.000 per- sons, so the folks who saw' in Mary- land President Harry Clifton Byrd's announcement of the amplification of Terp football facilities the fine Italian hand of G. Preston are

wrong again. However, if the Skins

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go as they've been going all season, a future deal to transfer such big games as those against the Bears, or the playoff championship game, to Maryland might come about.

Zimmerman on Spot The deal to transfer the 1943 pro

league football game to Los Angeles fell through because Chicago wanted the game and because of transporta- tion difficulties. It would draw 90,000 at L. A. and about 35,000 at Chicago. Perhaps not that many at Wrigley Field if the day is cold.

Sunday’s Redskin game, if Sam- my Baugh is on deck, will put Leroy Zimmerman, Philpitt passer, square- ly in the middle again. Leroy was Sam's understudy and alternate Redskin signal caller for four years before going to the Philpitts this year, where he has done all right. But Roy always was in the shadow of the great Baugh, and often re-

gretted he wasn't a Redskin starter. If Sam starts on Sunday, which he may do, Zimmerman will have his chance against his old rival.

Sam, by the way, has completed 20 touchdown passes in seven Red- skin league games and needs five more to pass the record of Cecil Isbell. Sid Luckman already has tied the record.

Beaten Texas Aggies, L. S. U. Rematched For Orange Bowl By the Associated Press.

MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 26.—The Orange Bowl is coming up this time with something new—a rematch of a reg- ular season football game between the Texas Aggies and Louisiana State.

Texas A. and M. whipped L. S. U., 28 to 13, when they met October 9. and in the game touchdown-minded Orange Bowl sponsors saw possibili- ties of a repeat performance on New Year Day which could give the Miami crowd of 30-odd thousand its money's worth.

As a departure from usual bowl I procedure, sponsors announced the signing of both Orange Bowl teams immediately after they had lost their regular-season finales.

News of Louisiana’s hid was given out last Saturday following the Tigers’ 27 to 0 loss to Tulane, and yesterday the Aggies hardly had left the field where they were trounced by Texas. 27 to 13, before the invita- tion and acceptance were made public.

Had A. afld M. whipped Texas, the Orange Bowl would have been on the hunt again, because the game decided the Southwestern Confer- ence championship, and the title- winner usually is bound to go to the Cotton Eow'l at Dallas.

It was the first defeat of the season for the Aggies.

Maryland Evens Long Series With V.M. Lin21-14 Win

University of Maryland closed its 1943 football book on a season re-

garded as reasonably successful for its freshman civilian team and one in which the Old Liners did at least as well as expected. They polished off with their fourth win in nine starts by topping Virginia Military Institute. 21-14, in a thriller yester- day at Roanoke, Va., before a crowd of 7.000.

This evened the long series with V. M. I. at 10 victories each and two ties. It also left the Old Liners with a perfect record for their two South- ern Conference starts, they having upset Wake Forest in October, and puts them in second place behind Duke.

Old Liners Are Alert. Yesterday's victory made up for

the poor showing against Virginia, only game in which the Old Liners should have done better than they did. Maryland's alert ball hawks recovered two Keydet fumbles in- side the Old Line 10 and put to- gether a touchdown in the first period, a touchdown and safety in the second period and another six- pointer in the final frame, while V. M. I. got touchdowns and con-

versions in the first and third periods.

A 31-yard pass from Dick Tuschak to Charles Ryan set up the first

Football Results Loral.

Maryland. 21; Virginia Military, 14. Wilson. 12; Tech. 6. Washington-Lee. 24; George Wash-

ington High, 0. East.

Pennsylvania. 20; Cornell, 14. Colgate, 21: Brown, 14. Bucknell. 21; Franklin and Mar-

shall, 13. South.

Vanderbilt, 45; Tennessee Tech, 7. N. C. Preflight, 21; N. C. State, 7. Camp Gordon Bombers, 31; Georgia

Tech, "B.” 0. Camp Gordon Tankers, 61; Fort

Benning 300th Infantry. 0. South Carolina, 13; Wake Forest, 2. Camp Davis, 42; Fort Bragg. 0. Richmond, 20; Charleston Coast

Guard, 6. Hampton. 19; Camp Pickett. 7. W. and M. Frosh, 72; Norfolk Fleet

Marines, 0. Tuskegee, 19: Alabama State, 13. Morgan, 46; Virginia State, 0.

Southwest. Tulsa. 61; Arkansas, 0. Texas, 27; Texas A. and M., 13.

Midwest. Fort Riley, 22; Kansas. 7. Miami (Ohiot, 52; Xavier, 7. Kearney Air Base, 21; McBank Ail

Base, 7. Pittsburgh Teachers, 32; William

Jewell, 6. Far West.

6t. Mary's, 34; Utah, 0. Oklahoma A. and M., 7; Denver, 8.

Maryland score on the Keydet 7: and Tuschak tallied two plays later. The try for point was blocked, and V. M. I. came right back to go ahead on Garvin Jones' 37-yard pass to Mac Davis and Bryant Hicks' conversion.

The Old Liners were stopped on the V. M. I. 14 early in the second quarter, but went ahead after that when Frank Doray tackled Dick White, Keydet halfback, behind his goal. A few plays later Ryan pro- vided another thriller when he scooted 64 yards to give Maryland a 15-7 edge after Doray converted.

Cadets Make Quick Score. V. M. I. bounced back to score on

three plays after the second-half kickoff with a pass from Garvin Jones to Billy Collins the payoff maneuver. Hicks again converted to pull within one point of Mary- land. The Keydets thereafter made two real threats deep into Maryland territory, but Bob Troll recovered one fumble in the third period and Frank Daly hugged in another early in the fourth to save Maryland.

After that the Old Liners added their clincher on a steady march paced by Ryan. Troll and Tu&hak, with Ryan scoring shortly before the final whistle.

|Pos Maryland (21). V. M. I. (14). :,V' g'-Doray-Stapleton

L. C.-Schneider __Harris C Hursch -Little g §- Karaneelen-Jarrett g I-Ko odne-Smith R. E- Daly. -Davis ® B- ---Morris -Jones L. H— Tuschak_ White g 'T --Ryan-Collins R B— Tioll- Allen Maryland _fi p II r>—21 V. M. I. _7 n 7 u—14

Maryland scoring: Touchdowns—Tus- chak. Ryan, 2. Point after to ichdown— D.oray (place kick!. Safe’y—White it-c- k.td by Dorayi. V. M. 1. scoring: Touch- downs—Davis, Collins. Points after touch- downs—Hicks. 2 (place kicks).

! Gubstltut.ons: V. M. 1.—Ends. Gibbs. Vandervoort: tackles. C. Jones. Hawkins; guards. Hudson. Simpson: backs. Stewart. McCarley. Brown. Maryland—End, Terry; tackle. Tcslovich; guard, HofTman; center. Bobenko; backs, Pirronello, Hickman.

Statistics. V. M. I. Md.

First downs __ 10 15 Net yards rushing_ 85 257 Net yards passing_183 3ti Forward passes attempted_ 17 8 Forward passes completed_ 9 2 Forward passes Intercepted by. 1 2 Yards gained by interception 2 5 Punts average from scrimmage 34 33.5 Total yards kicks returned 91 34 Opponents' fumbles recovered- 0 2 Yards penalized__ 5 30

Utah Finishes Worst Season in 40 Years

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 26.— Utah's civilian gridders, losing 8 34-to-0 Thanksgiving Day game to St. Mary’s of California, wound up with a victoryless season—the worst record at the school In 40 years.

Navy Tops Army at Soccer ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 26 t/P).—

Army’s mule was kicked around yes- terday as the Navy soccer team pulled out in front in a second- period uprising to beat the Cadets, 3-1.

Army-Navy Air Duel Looms as High Light of Grid Windup Service Rivals Clever Passers, but Cadets' Defense Is Weak

By HAROLD CL A AS SEN, Auoclatcd Press Sports Writer

WEST POINT, N. Y„ Nov. 26 —

Victory through the air is the new- est theme of the military minded, so it is no surprise that the experts dissecting tomorrow’s Army-Navy football game in advance are ar-

guing along the same lines. Tiny Hal Hamberg, Navy's pigskin

mortar, has tossed 79 aerials in the Middies’ eight games this fall, and 34 of them have reached their mark for 503 yards. In most of the de- bates he is conceded to be the best passer in tomorrow's semi-secret clash.

But the Army’s statistics a» the more imposing. With Glenn 'Davis and Tom Lombardo doing the fling- ing, the Cadets tried the air lanes 122 times in their nine games, and 62 were completed for 914 yards.

That’s an average of 101.6 yards a

game through the air, while Ham- berg, who does virtually all the Navy’s first-string tossing, has a

mean of 64 yards a game. Army’s Air Defense Weak.

The experts, however, figure that Army’s previous weakness against the overhead attack will crop up once more as the Middies try for their 19th victory in the 44th game of the series. Army has won 22 of the games in the past, and 3 have been tied.

Even Brown, which the Cadets mutilated by a 59-to-0 score last Saturday, completed exactly half of 36 aerial tries, while Pennsyl- vania earlier grabbed a tie with a

fourth-period pass that gained 71 yards. In addition, Johnny Lujack opened his career as a Notre Dame regular by completing his first three tosses, one of them going for a

touchdown. From the same batch of figures

the experts learned that Davis, a

19-year-old freshman whose razor rests from Sunday to Sunday, has gained approximately 30 per cent of the Army’s yardage this season, al- though he was benched by poor grades in one game and effectively held in check by both Yale and Notre Dame in two others. The youngster, who was a California high school star only a year ago, has registered 957 yards gained by running and passes in eight games. Army has a combined total offense of 3.413 yards in nine games.

Broadcast to Be Worldwide. Tomorrow's game, involving two

of the East’s best clubs, will be played in the comparative secrecy of 10.000 fans who qualified under the governmental order that ad- mission be restricted to residents in a 10-mile radius.

It will, however, have one of the largest listening audiences, being radioed to all parts of the world for the entertainment of Uncle Sam’s fighting nephews.

The Middies, with a first-string traveling squad of 52. will arrive in time for a 3:30 pm. workout before spending the night in the Bear Mountain Inn, which also will house the Cadet eleven.

Nelson, 16 Up, Is Virtual Victor Over McSpaden

PORTLAND, Oreg., Nov. 26.— Byron Nelson took a 16-stroke lead and virtually clinched the 65,000 War Relief Golf Derby by scoring a 70 while Harold (Jug) McSpaden carded 73 at the Waverly Country Club course yesterday.

The 72 holes remaining in their contest will be played at Sacra- mento and San Francisco.

Seabees Use Goat As Greenkeeper Brthe Associated Press.

A report on the "Yankee Bee Country Club’’ somewhere in the South Pacific reveals that the Seabees who constructed a jungle golf course have only four worn- out golf balls and nine clubs, made from scrap iron and sand- ed-down pick handles.

Chief greenkeeper is “Jimmy,” a pet goat who trims the grass wherever he is tethered.

A lost ball there doesn't mean

just stroke and distance, but a month’s suspension of play.

GEORGE CAN DO IT —The I Redskins really picked up an ? "ace in the hole” when they I obtained George Cafego of the

Brooklyn Dodgers to under- study the great Sammy Baugh. <

Cafego has proved in two games here that, in addition to his triple-threat talents, g there is nothing wrong with 1 his noggin.-Star Staff Photos...!

Being a Redskin Gives Cafego His Biggest Football Thrill; All of Tribe Except Farman Ready to Take On Philpitts

By WALTER McCALLUM.

George Cafego, latest sensation of pro football, has had a lot of thrills in the gridiron sport, among them twice being chosen all-America, but his greatest thrill of all time is being with the Redskins. It isn't hard to figure out why. Here was a man

hailed in 1939 as one of the great all-time football players, placed on the pro waiver list two weeks ago yesterday, turned down by all the National League teams but the Red- skins, who bought him from Brook- lyn for the waiver price of $100. Even the Chicago Bears turned down red-haired George. He played a prominent part in licking them nine days later in one of the great pro games of the year.

Cafego says he is 28 years of age, but looks older. At 167 pounds he is one of the lightest halfbacks in the league. But as a triple threat in the Redskin backfield he wdll do, no

matter what he weighs. Starred as Schoolboy.

From the time he was able to kick a football in the little town of Scarbro, W. Va., in the coal mining country, Cafego was a standout player. He went to Tennessee car-

rying a great high school reputation. He did nothing to destroy that repu- tation at Tennessee, where he

quickly gained the name of “Bad News’’ for his outstanding perform- ances against such teams as Vander- bilt, Georgia, Mississippi and Tulane, and was chosen all-America in 1938 and 1939. On January 1, 1940, Ten- nessee met University of Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Ten- nessee took a bad licking in that game. Cafego played only 15 min- utes. The rest of the time he was out with a football knee, a result of some of the bruising tackles he made. The knee bothers him once in a while today, but an operation repaired the tom cartilage, and he can run, pass and kick with the old dash that won him the name of "Bad News." which decidedly he was to the Bears.

Will Alternate With Baugh. Cafego is one of the top triple-

threat men on the Redskin roster, but under the present setup he will alternate with Stunmy Baugh in the team-running spot. And is he happy to be with the Redskins? Let him tell it: “In all my pro football days I've never seen such a line as the Redskins have. You can't imagine what a pleasure it is to play behind a line you know will hold off the opposition until you get under way,

Great Lakes Looks to Big Line To Curb Notre DameT Plavs

GREAT LAKES, 111., Nov. 26.— Great Lakes' Bluejackets are facing their most difficult task of the season tomorrow—that of halting an un- beaten. untied Notre Dame football juggernaut.

All week Sailor Coach Lt. Paul (Tony) Hinkle has drilled his charges in the art of stopping the Irish T attack and the aerial shots of Johnny Lujack.

The Bluejackets expect to field A

Season's Records Of Service Foes By the Associated Press.

WEST POINT, N. Y„ Nov. 26.— Here are the season's records of the Army and Navy football teams, opponents in tomorrow’s annual service clash:

Navy. (Won seven, lost one.)

21 N. C. Navy _0 4H _Cornell _ 7 14_Duke _13 14_Penn State _6 28-Georgia Tech_14 (t-Notre Dame_33

24-Pennsylvania _7 HI-Columbia___0

224_Totals _80 Army.

(Won seven, lost one, tied one.) 27_Villanova_0 42_Colgate _0 51 -Temole _n 52 _Columbia _H 30-Yale _ 7 13-Pennsylvania _13 0-Notre Dame _2fi

ifi-Sampson Naval_7 59_Brown _0

200 Totals _53 Previous Army-Navy games: Army

won 22. Navy won 1«. three tied.

starting line averaging 200 pounds to turn back the smashes of jarring Jim Mello, Creighton Miller and Julie Rykovich. Joe Schwarting and Cecil Plrkey will be at ends, George Perpich and Graham Martin at tackles, Liberto Bertagnolli and Russ Letlow at guards and Mike Saban at center.

Four Great Lakes backs are on the injured list. They are: Steve Juzwik. right half; Steve Lach and Ray Jones, left half, and Ken Roskie, fullback. Lach has played only 20 minutes in the last four Sailor games and Juzwik, who’ll be showing against his former mates, spent the last couple of days under a trainer’s heat lamp.

The Sailors will be gunning for their ninth win in 11 starts, only Purdue and Northwestern holding decisions over the Naval Training Station.

The usual capacity crowd of 22.000 recruits is expected to fill Ross Field Stadium to see the teams in a rivalry that has settled exactly nothing since 1918, when the teams tied, 7-7. Last year the Irish struck twice in the final period to earn a 13-13 deadlock at Chicago’s Soldier Field.

T-J Eleven Wins Title HOPEWELL, Va., Nov. 26 UP).—

Thomas Jefferson High School of Richmond took a 14-7 win from Hopewell here yesterday and clinched the first State Class A title won since Thomas Jefferson was founded.

either to pass, kick or run. These men are good football players. Being with this team is my greatest thrill in football."

It won’t do him any harm in a financial way either, for it is obvious that the Skins are on the way to another Eastern division champion- ship, and a slice of the playoff game receipts. That cut probably will amount to about *1.000 for each player if the Skins beat the Bears in the playoff, and about *650 if they lose. Not too bad for a fellow turned loose by an inept Brooklyn team a

fortnight ago. The Redskins were to resume late

afternoon practice today at Griffith Stadium, following their 10 am. workout yesterday. They wanted the early hour to permit the mar-

ried members of the team to have dinner with their families, some of whom invited teammates to a tur- key dinner.

Treat Him “Wonderfully.’' Dr. Robert E. (Pete) Moran, club

,physician, invited to his suburban home all Redskin team members who did not have previous commit- ments. to join him at dinner. Cafego and Ted Lapka accepted the invita- tion. “These people are real," said George. “Every one connected with this club has treated me wonder- fully."

Missing at yesterday's practice were Sammy Baugh, Dick Farman, Ray Hare and Willie Wilkin. Big Willie came down with ptomaine poisoning two days ago, but will be in shape to play against the Phllpitts

Sunday, say* Coach Bergman. Far- man will not play.

Cafego was in the ROTC at Ten- nessee and was drafted in August, 1941, spending the next two years in the Army. He received a medical discharge in September, 1943, and, promptly was picked up by Brook-1 lyn, the club that owned him in aj previous pro football hitch before

i going into uniform. A lot of people, viewing the sparse

West Virginian against the Bears last Sunday, agree with Coach Berg- man that here at last is the replace- ment for Sammy Baugh for whom the Redskin coaches have been crying for months.

And the name is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable, as if it was "Caflf-ey-go.” 1

Football's Final Card Colorful; Big Crowds At Holiday Games

By JACK HAND, Awoelatcd Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—Football's second wartime season closes in ap- propriate martial surroundings to-

morrow with the servicemen privi- leged to enjoy two of the year's best bets almost without civilian at- tendance.

With a few bowl-bound excep- tions, teams that didn’t close yester- day will store the moleskins for the winter after the week end.

When the Army and Navy meet for the Eastern championship, the only folks present will be Military Academy cadets and the gentry living within 10 miles of West Point.

The Sailors of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station will be the only spectators when the Notre Dame Irishmen try to hurdle their 10th and final obstacle to a na-

tional title.

60,MO See Penn Top Cornell. There wasn’t any ban on crowds

Thanksgiving Day when Philadel- phia turned out 60.000 to watch Penn outscramble Cornell, 20-14. Thirty-two thousand watched Texas qualify for a Cotton Bowl bid and the Southwest crown by whipping Texas Aggies, 27-13. The losers earned an Orange Bowl date with L. S. U.

When Colgate stopped Brown, 21-14, on a blocked punt that bounced 34 yards for a touchdown, 10,000 were present. A like number saw Bucknell ruin Franklin and Marshall's perfect season, 21-13. Tulsa drew 15,000 as the Hurricane

(See FOOTBALL, Page' A-llT)

Pennock Debates Job With Phillies By the Aesociited Pres*.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26.— With Herb Pennock still unde- cided about accepting an offer to become general manager of the Phillies, Bob Carpenter, the club's new president, meets his field manager for the first time today.

Baseball-wise Freddy Fitzsim- mons and Carpenter, 28, young- est club head in the major leagues, will discuss "routine matters."

Meanwhile Carpenter confirmed that Pennock, manager of the Boston Red Sox farm system, is the man he wants as general manager.

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