Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1945, Cairo, Egypt F j Ssiss november 1945 stars and Yob Jef Spedrl writer that has Felt the the kit Toto Over the Art or Lack of same of the winners in a tops Turvy football j some 12 Days ago the football forces of Purdue shackled oho Bates potent buckeyes and the spotlight focused immediately on Home of the Purdue boilermakers for they were Many the team that win the Western con had beaten Northwestern without a great of difficulty and no one figured Lynn Waldorf rather tame wildcats would Cut any fancy but that was where they were very much generally you can count on Pappy Waldorf for a couple of games a Yean notre Dame usually gets the Best there is out of the but this time the boilermakers Drew for Northwestern routed Purdue last thus shaking the the football Hall of if had counted on the wildcats to Stem the tide of Victory Purdue has Northwestern has for several years been very much on the Inan Dout the at even claw their Way out of a Good paper but Therese been other times could tame a and they did it from time to Lynn Waldorf May not be the greatest coach in the but he knows a lot of sound football has won his share of the big this Northwestern Victory Over Purdue coupled with Ohio states rebounding win Over Minnesota truly throws the Western conference race into a Muddy maybe the fighting Irish have something As matters now stand the big ten has no unbeaten Minnesota has been Purdue steamroller was Ohio state has Felt the Indiana went notre Dame alone of the major teams in the Middle West is unbeaten and the fighting Are not officially members of the big the of have their Best tests upcoming in the next for they will engage the army mule and the Navy and if a team hurdles the two big service clubs it has some we shall see but definitely we ten notre Dame meets who strangely enough had to rally terrifically in the last minute to whip Perm in a very dramatic game last exclusive of notre the Middle As this Distant observer sees had to go outside for its prestige last week when Indiana overcame Tulsa is and has been for several years now one of the finest teams in the defeat of Tulsa robs Oklahoma of two grand football for Oklahoma m is now one of the great with Bob a sensation of a year again in the role of a the aggie have consistently crushed their opponents and Indi cations Are that come new years Day a will be in one of the major that they lost to Indiana does not mean Tulsa wont be in another bowl but that close loss does take away just a Little from still it be Nice to see them in one of the new years Day one neck goes Way out for army having gotten Over the Complete Shock of army 4813 Victory Over this reporter is ready to admit the cadets have if there was Ever any doubt of army superiority in our that has ceased to exist what with the sound thrashing of Dukes big i have never been one to use comparative and they Arent taken into consideration at All when we select army to beat Navy one month before they a football team just Doest ordinarily beat Duke by 35 that just aint done Clown in the tobacco Wallace Wade always coached his teams too Well on defense for they employed the punt too effectively As a defensive and offensive Eddie Cameron tried much of the same coaching and they dont lose Ball games by 35 we were amazed when Navy whipped them by in but this army thing is shocking unfortunately the vital statistics of army crushing win Over Duke have not yet reached but on the strength of the score alone we feel army will Shell Navy by two evidently Felix Blanc humid and Glenn Davis has just begun to and weve noted in some of the previous games where colonel Earl Blaik has shorty the Mississippi running on the second that in itself is sufficient to win admiration for army because Mcwilliams normally Doest hibernate with the Blaik has in once a Tennessee playing in and we take it is backing the he used to be quite a line himself when a it this manpower situation at West Point must be evidently Treyve got so Many men up there Blaik just you and you will be the Backfield some huh maybe the babe was world series the recent world series saw Many records written into the base Ball Harold Newhouser set several among them the new Mark for the Detroit in earning for themselves the world shattered Many a and so did the Chicago notably Stan but the old records were not All and it May be some time before All of the old Marks will go up before the new for Many of the modern players cannot be compared with the stars of there Are for who remember babe Ruth still holds Many of the old Ruth was essentially a famed for his terrific Home run and it is in this department that his greatest records still the babe might even be called world for Hes played in than any other 10 All he played in them in Lilg 17 and u8 with Boston red then with the new York Yankees he participated in the fall classic in and in six of these series be batted above the celebrate the finest Bitting in that number of series and in 193s against the cardinals he batted Only a Mere whew what Guy can do it today As a tottering old Man in the Bam bit against the twice he hit three borne runs in one game against the new York giants in 1936 and the cardinals in the old Bam has his Many of them Are As Safe As Gold in the but its pretty strange that the old after All these still has no official place in Organ vied Robert army it being stopped by John Welsh 9 of the Miel Volfe torpedo boat training Center and another unidentified1 Tacker in the game won last week by cadets spark plug Navy defeats 14 to in last 24 seconds of play Philadelphia in a dramatic finish which outdid even any thing that Hollywood could have the fighting Navy eleven scored a touchdown in the final 24 seconds to defeat before at Franklin in the Sunset of the glorious finish to Navy Fate nominated Tony Star of last year with to cast in the role of hero in beat incr his scooting into the end zone with a pass from the 23yard line tossed by Bob Minisi scored the touchdown that broke a Revenall tie and preserved navys perfect it was Iron Seldom seen on the Minisi was Penns Lead ing gainer last year and though a Good player with Mavy ii had not been a standout be cause of the of stars in the middie the tally which knocked Penn out of the undefeated class climaxed a final period drive which saw Navy score two touchdowns after trailing 70 for nearly three fourths of the facing defeat at the hands of Penns the infuriated middies began their Gam Clinch ing1 onslaught Midway in the final period As Hoernschmeye passed 24 and 26 Yards to Captain Dick do Den who went Over from the ten Currence kicked the Point and tied the a few minutes later Navy drove 43 Yards in two plays and Hoernschmeye tossed to Minisi for the winning Penn dicer stare Penns score came on the play in the second period when wearer of the distinguished flying tossed to end Frankie Jenkins who lunged Over from be the defeat was a distinct Dis appointment to Penn which had hoped to present coach George Munger with an upset Munger was confined to univer sity Hospital with Grippe and was unable to attend the he Savy the contest through a Tele vision set in his the Youthful quakers lost the game in their failure to capitalize on seven Navy Penn drove into middie territory time and again but lacked the necessary punch to Orange bowl prospects Miami hold Columbia and All undefeated and were listed by Orange bowl scouts As current first choices for a bid to the Florida new years Day other teams still under they were Penn Mississippi Georgia Oklahoma Colora do and Gay Dalton Dies Gay Dai Fivey Earold Champion of the died of Colic at hol Lywood Gay Dalton won the Handicap de la americas in 1944 and Felix Doc army All american last who contributed two touchdowns As Tho cadets rolled Over Western Downs 26 to 14 Northwest erns wildcats fastened their talons deep into Purdue boiler makers As they scored a stunning 26u upset Victory before delighted Horn Comers in Dyche it was Northwestern first West Ern conference Victory since 1943 and Purdue first setback in six games his Northwestern had to come from behind twice and having finally obtained a healthy they fought off three frantic scoring bids Purdue scored in the first seven de Cody crashing Over from the one Ami fumbling with Tom Hughes recovering for the Hughes Northwestern tied it up As Bill Mckinley scored from the three after the wildcats took the Ball on a Fumble on Purdue Farrar Northwestern moved ahead in the second Quarter As Bruce Bair Stow Slid Over but Farrar missed the conversion and Purdue regained the Lead with another tally by Bob Demoss on a Hughes kicked the but the tainted in the second half and Northwest in rang up two More Mckinley going Over from the followed by Viv hmm the Cadet Stock i im1 after Duke h its worst defeat new Mig Fety Gridiron machine ground a Fine mixture at the Polo grounds As the crashing ca4et8 rolled to their 14th consecutive Victory by handing Tho Blue vils the worst defeat in their his Cadet backs romped to seven touchdowns and two others which were called Back because of army took com Mand from the Start As shorty me former Mississippi state hot footed 54 a ats for the opening score after 24 utes of the cadets two others from the same distance As they uncovered another Backfield Star in Bob Jackrabbit Stuart of the former Tulsa Ace raced to two touchdowns go with a pair by Felix Blan Chard and singles by galloping Glenn Mcwilliams and Clyde Duke was never in the Ball the bruising Cadet Forward Wall stopped George Dukes honeymoon and the hew bridegroom was Able to strut hid stuff Only in the waning moments against army his Bullseye passes to Kelley Mote accounted for Dukes two touch real result of the game was to prove to chilled crowd of that it will take a powerful Ball club even to give army a work the cadets scored As they pleased against the opponent Navy had beaten Only the first team played to More than half the classic ends in scoreless tie Columbia Clem son was held to a scoreless lie by South Carolina before a ate fair crowd of the 43rd annual Clemson got the Ball inside the Carolinia ten Yard line four Marion Clemson threw a 50yard touchdown pass to Eddie Freeman in the last Quarter but an offside penalty nullified the Urcla mauls Oregon to keep alive bowl Hopes los Angeles the University of California at los Angeles beat Oregon 120 before Friday Jack Boyd ran 14 Yards for the first touchdown in the third Cal Rossi scored in the last the Victory Kewit the clans bowl Hopes Navy and Irish still Lead new notre Dame and Navy retained the first three places among the country top ten football teams in the weekly poll conducted by the associated press but the remainder of the group underwent a three new teams Rose to the first three others took new places and Only beaten Pennsylvania retained its Alabama happen sixth to fourth and was followed by India Ohio marys of Oklahoma aggie and Ohio state Oklahoma aggie and Michigan Are newcomers to the top ten although its u return appear for both Ohio state and i the ten were holy Mississippi Loui Iuliu Duke and
