European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse 19ss the stars and stapes 19 makers rate tire Dame Over my by 1 Point Tork Dames fighting Irish were made slim favourites Over army wednesday for their saturday College at South Odd makers rated the resumption of this traditional rivalry closest games on the weekend notre Dame is t third nationally and the cadets fourth of the United press in i Board of leading the nations 1 is a seven Over Kentucky for their Southeastern conference showdown night at Ohio state is seven Over Illinois National televised game at i1l Michigan state by so Over Pittsburgh for their clash at East Ligan is the Choice by five Over Navy at Ann up picks of Academy Martin coach of week after tying Iowa Colorado up from now on when you talk about the big military Academy football be Sura to include the air Force Academy army and Navy because the Falcons 1313 tie with Iowa saturday Means there now a big time More than 800 air Force who paid their own Way to Iowa City to see the saluted the new Era who a wild Celebration on the and United press International also salutes h by naming Falcon coach Ben onetime two sport Star at football coach of the Hie air Force got its football program into orbit right on m aimed for the the first year that the wild Blue yonder boys have seniors is six Over Baylor at duri Maryland six Over atm College t Virginia 14 Over Boston uni 1 at and 15 Over Utah at of Rucj in other top internal is one even Gurne on this is the big eight i Between Nebraska and Kan Minnesota is picked by j Over Northwestern and by the same margin by t by Are the Point i on other leading games id Brown two Over i Princeton six Over Penn Yale 10 Over Columbia j 13 Over Cornell mkt Iowa state Vik Over Wisconsin six Over no innate seven Over Xavier Iowa 18 Over Indiana Wake two i Carolina state Tern Over Vii thru Fwilliam Georgia file state Crimson i Vanderbit North Carolina South Carolina t Rice Over tevas Christian 12 Over i Tern Oklahoma state seven Oklahoma 13 Over Oregon six Over Washington Stanford Oregon state Wyoming Colorado 21 Over nine Wen the Middle Eastern col i athletic fall haae Rutm Hront far the second beating St Peters penned downed Reto a Wilna la already falling a pet states garb a Bob Anderson 21 make Sura Dawkins hits the turf after a five Yard the who to Are first in the Button m total Presa photo army College total offence Leader Auburn stays 1 defensive team new York up Irish j first in the nation in total in South wont be i second in second in passing smiling when they read these fig1 third in Rushing ures seventh in total eight in army football which meets notre Dame this is quarterback Whitley ids nation in total offence York up Renee Whit hardworking quarterback has replaced the col Pacific Dick Bast As total what try to offence Lender among the nations major College football Whitley has handled the Ball on running or passing plays 95 times in three games for a gain of 520 who was Idle last been involved in Only 42 plays but has accounted for 479 Yards in two according to figures released wednesday by the Mcaa service 10lnrh 168pound Hen has gained most of his yardage by Means of in which department he is second in the in 70 Whit Rushing has allowed the Ley has completed 37 aerials for 459 Bob Washington is third among the total offence smallest percentage of completed passes arid us one of Only 11 teams that have been scored on no More than weekly major College football statistics released tuesday by the National collegiate athletic Bureau made it Clear that notre Dame is in for a lot of trouble in saturdays clash it South with new quarterback Joe Calr Weil sending halfback stars Pete Hawkins and Bob Anderson on rampaging has rolled up 515 Yards gained per that includes on the which is third behind College of Pacific 373 0 and Purdue and also through the second Only to Washington states the team ranked 1 Canada team for equestrian meet Toronto up Canada has its equestrian team to defend leaders with 442 followed i entries from four other by Billy also of nations in the International jump with and californian Joe Kapp competitions at the 1958 Royal Winter fair despite the fact he was Idle the team Captain Tom Gay last retained his Rushing and other members Lead by a wide the were Jim Moffit footed halfback has run for 427 Yards in 41 Don continued on Page it and Melvin All of and Doug ont in the nation by the up Board of is doing it with defense allowing Only Yards per that than half of second place Purdue average of army is seventh with Auburn also leads in Rushing defense with Yards allowed per army is eighth with Kentucky has allowed the least number of Yards per game by to for second place but army has Al Lowed the lowest percentage of passes Only eight out of 40 for a the statistics one army the cadets Are All the Way Down in 67th place in punting on six Treyve averaged Only 34j8 Yards per trouble to Force army to punt youve got to Stop Dawkins and the statistics show notre dome 10th in total Lith in Rush ing and not among the leaders in the other Purdue and Wisconsin Haven allowed a touchdown but Colorado gave up a Field goal to Kansas Holt to its lowest win Ning score in 13 years in beating Oregon by Only tumbled in the statistics this first to sixth in total first to 10th in and first to 13th in Oklahoma Only lower score in recent years waa in its shutout upset by notre Dame last j on the the season got off the launching pad a week ago with a 376 trouncing of Detroit and the tie with which Hail been ranked 8 was confirmation of an Iowa started As if it would shoot Down the air Force in the Hawk eyes zipped to a touch Down in the first five driving 38 Yards in seven plays without bothering to the Falcons struck Back with a first Quarter touch Down on a 23yard sprint by Mike Quintan and went who a second Quarter touchdown on a pass by George Iowa stopped another drive on the on foot line in the third period and desperately drove 99 Yards in 15 plays for the tying Martins explanation is simple the am realized it had to do its beat or die after All those cadets came All the Way to see the versatility displayed by the Falcons is a Tipoff to the coaching there getting from mar an assistant coach at Navy for nine years and former head coach at we have a versatile Martin for against Iowa we threw to nine different receivers we dont have to pick on one boy to carry the Martin said he concentrated on offence in coaching this didst think we would be Able to Stop them defensively because of their size and passing Star Randy we knew we had to match Iowa offensively to ont gained Iowa result the air Force had the Ball for 09 Iowa for 66 the air Force gained 355 Iowa i would say that we Are at the stage where we can compete with army and said though our program Stilt has three or four years before it becomes 37yearold native of Prospect was a Star end and halfback at Navy and also won his letter three times in he was graduated from the naval Academy in 1945 but his naval career was Cut Short when he was injured aboard he retd Ned the Academy in 1947 As assistant coach and served there under Tom George Sauer and Eddie How does a Navy Man feel about helping to boost the air Force team to big time status As an a Navy Man in extremely pleased to have the Opportunity to take an Active part the growth of this he i feel i definitely the air Force has naval Academy and West Point graduates in Martin says his coaching is kind of a mixture of my background and the experience of All the coaches Ive worked but More than he says its a custom built program we try to give the team the things they do Falconer Ben air Force Academy was named coach of 4he week by United press International Fol lowing his Falcons 1s13 tie with
