Show r S SPORT PARADE J f I 1 By Oscar Fraley V Zi k WEST VEST POINT N. N Y Sept 22 The CUP UP The ramrod backs of the Army Cadets were straighter than ever Friday as the young war dogs doRS fixed their sights on a game called football while the guns of battle roared long-due long vindication They'll risk a record of 20 games sames without defeat on the grid gridiron ron this season and while they talk little they think much about another such era in inVest West Vest Point football That was in 1944 45 5 and 46 when Army football teams then I as now were running roughshod I over all opposition and building a string tring of 32 games before dropping a decision Despite the victory parade grade it wasn't a n happy happ era These were men it was said who should hould have been fighting a aar war ar instead of playing a game War-Born War Immortals The grim walls was of the towering erin gray ra- ra buildings at West Vest Point bear I the names of the nations nation's military tary heroes war born immortals created at Bunker hill hm Bull Run San Juan hill hiU the Argonne and Omaha beach Many l of them were men of the corps More l names soon will be added to that legendary list from a Cains Cain's half acre called Korea orea Many of them too will be men of the corps But to the kids playing football at West Vest Point today these names will wm mean even en more than the others For many of them were ere criticized as criticized as these boys might be if the holocaust flames as it did before for before for dodging a duty and I I being men playing a boys boys' game against bo boys hois S Remember that l 1944 H team It pulverized pul Notre Dame 5 59 to 0 flattened Pitt 69 to 7 and blasted Pennsylvania 62 And the grumbling grumbling grumbling grum grum- bling grew as it rolled on unhindered unhindered unhindered un un- un- un hindered in 1915 whaling the Irish again 48 to 0 O. O an and once more mauling maulin Penn 61 to 0 O. And that roughshod rout continued in 1 1946 The names will be he familiar familiar- Glenn Davis Doc Blanchard Cas l Tom Hayes Bob Wayne Vayne Jack MacMull Arnold Jack Trent Jim Irons Arnold Tucker and many more They were great but they absorbed absorbed absorbed ab ab- ab- ab a certain amount of scorn Davis is out now but he served his hitch in Korea as the blaze They're Ready Blanchard is in Alaska flying jets and ready read for whatever orders are issued l only pounds but butan butan butan an America all-America center is in Korea today Hayes and Trent Tient were typical typical typical cal of the men criticized for playing pla football against boys six- six foot two-inch two giants getting a free ride You know where the ride ended Korea They're there today along with Irons Wayne MacMull Galiffa Tucker Fuson and a lot of other guys who ho scour scourged ed the boys in 1944 45 and 46 They had their brains knocked out with words back then now they're taking it physically an America all-America team without headlines |