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Show SPORTS Br ED SIMS FOOTBALL . . . With the big teams of 1945 being pushed harder and harder to maintain war-time records, the climax of the current gridiron grid-iron campaign in that department depart-ment has drawn near. It will occur on the 9 th of November when Army's great powerhouse meets resuxging Notre Dame. Not many weeks ago Alabama rode into Knoxville with an undefeated un-defeated record (in 1945 and 1946) and took on Coach Bob Neyland's Tennessee Vols. The Tide outgained the Vols, they made more first downs, but they couldn't make as many points and the Rose Bowl champions bit the dust in spite of a great hurling display by Harry Gilmer. Gil-mer. Fans are wondering if Notre Dame can treat Army that way on the 9th. x- Army barely got by Michigan, 20-13 on October 12. The Cadets had to come from behind to win that one Doc Blanchard pushing push-ing his way over for the winning marker late in the game. Glenn Davis just missed an early touchdown touch-down that would have given Army a more respectable victory vic-tory margin, however. He sneaked sneak-ed behind the last Michigan defense de-fense in the opening minutes and Tucker heaved him a long one. Davis had it In his fingers and was moving off to pay dirt when a desperate tackle by that last defender jolted the leather from his arms before he could properly pro-perly tuck it away. It was Michigan who scored first and then third to go ahead in the second half. The Cadets pulled that one out but Notre Dame is planning no such ending. end-ing. In hopes of avenging last year's 48-0 trouncing, the Irish are working for Saturday, the 9th, with deadly objectives. In rifle -armed Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame has a passer who ranks with Gilmer, of Alabama, and Layne, of Texas. The stalwart stal-wart quarterback, whom Coach Frank Leahy calls "The Playing Coach," is one of the main reasons rea-sons why the Irish are sporting an unblemished record. Livingston Living-ston and Silko provide the break away power, and in the forward wall, Mastrangelo, O'Connor and Zarobski open the kind of holes through which a third-string halfback could pick up considerable consid-erable yardage. On the other side of the ferwe, little need be said about Armv. The power of Earl Blaik's Black Knights speaks for itself. Those twin-ignition annihilators, Davis and Blanchard, can wreck a team single-handed, and with the aid of Tucker, Poole, Fuson and company com-pany look out. However, Notre Dame alumni are clamoring loudly for the Army mule skin, and many feel that Frank Leahy, a true foot-, ball fundamentalist, has the; team to do the skinning. Thisj sellout is sure to be one of the top games of the '46 season. . In games of local interest on the 9th, Colorado State takes on Colorado College in a good one; Colorado U. meets Missouri; Denver plays Wyoming and Colorado Col-orado A. & M. meets Utah U. Out far in the west, Southern Cal meets California in their only contest this year (the two teams played twice in 1945, So. Cal. winning both games); Oregon Ore-gon States, topples Idaho; U. C. L. A. meets Oregon U. and Stanford' greets Washington U. in the big games. |
