Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-08 | Page 19 | Army Has Edge over Irish for First Time

Army Has Edge Over Irish For First Firs Time By iy Lawton Carver NEW YORK YORI Nov 8 INS INS The 1944 Notre Dame football team is ison ison ison on the worst vorst spot ever occupied by byone byone byone one of the elevens clevens that customarily y come ome rolling out of South Bend to wreak football havoc up and down the he land The Navy seemed to Indicate that hat the Irish haven't got much this his season affer after all and that is the he news the Army has been waitIng waitIng wait- wait Ing ng to hear The Army meets Notre Dame in New Yorks York's Yankee stadium Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- and and assuming assuming that human nature is about the same sam everywhere everywhere every- every where in inthis this broad land Jand of ours ours ours- will vill go out to do two things 1 trample Notre Dame and 2 do it by a bigger score than that 32 to 13 run up b by Navy The two service elevens have felt the he heel hecl of the Irish for years Navy hadn't whipped Notre Dame for eight years until Saturday and then promptly made It the most sided one-sided defeat in the sc series se- se ries No Score in Five Years Army hasn't scored a touchdown against Notre Dame in five years cars has scored only seven points In seven years and hasn't won a game from rom the Irish in 13 years Notre Dame has won 22 lost Jost five and tied led three with Army going back backo to o the first game in 1913 which Notre Dame won by 35 to 13 The game is so unpredictable that it is within the realm of possibility possibility pos pos- that Notre Dame will wilt beat Army or hold the score close but nothing like that is indicated at this time Army is on the move and patently keyed up buoyed bolstered and eager for this chance to o avenge enge all that has transpired in n the past with the result that it may be a rout This army team hasn't met anything quite up to the standard of or Notre Dame But this army team cam has made good and fair teams look silly in running up points against 21 for the greatest scoring year in the history of the acad acad- emy Notre Dame will have to be beabout beabout beabout about two touchdowns better than the game played against Navy and the Army eleven will wilt have to be off- off stride by about four touchdowns to make Saturdays Saturday's encounter anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where near neal close That combination tion doesn't seem to be in the cards Latest t Comparison Arm Army beat a fair Villanova Villano team last Saturday b by 83 to 0 as a fol fol- fol- fol up low-up to a 27 to 7 win over the Duke team that earlier held Navy to 7 to 0 and last Saturday beat the rampaging Georgia Tech C eleven cleven I even Army beat Villanova this way The first team scored three touchdowns in the Ule first period the second team scored six times in the second period The Army's odds and ends of players scored three more in the last two periods which were serc cut to eight minutes by the Army to keep the humiliation humiliation atlon from mounting higher On top of it all Arm Army resorted to such tactics as kicking for field Held goals goalson on second down and they played without the services of oC Doe Doc Blanchard Blanchard Blan- Blan chard and Bobby Dobbs two of oC their more devastating backs There will be close to spectators in the stadium Saturday to see sec this renewal of the Army- Army Notre Dame rivalry and it seems almost certain that they must witness witness witness wit wit- ness finally nn Rn Army triumph something something- some sonic of them have grown rown long white beards waiting wailing for Notre Dame is underdog is the strange headline that is about to pop out in the New York public prints Many wont won't even believe it ft