FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1958
THE MCITGAN DAILY~
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By AL SINAI
"There's no football like pro
football."
Whether or not this statement
is true seems to make no difference
to football fans who have flocked
to pro games this year in record
numbers.
Browns Set Record
The Cleveland Browns drew a
record home opening day crowd
of 65,000 last Sunday, while last
year's defending champions, De-
troit, sold 42,000 season tickets in
a stadium reported to hold only
52000 people.
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What is the element in pro foot-
ball that draws the fans?
Perhaps it is the knowledge that
any pro team, on a given day, is
practically unbeatable. Or, maybe
it is the elements of suspense and
drama every pro game provides.
The Western Division of the
NFL is a prime example of the
impossibility of predicting the
standings. San Francisco and De-
troit, who tied for first last season,.
are now fifth and sixth, respec-
tively.
Colts Lead
Trie Prex
"Says Team,
To Remain
CLEVELAND (M)-The Cleveland
Indians' front office today put to
rest speculation that the Tribe
will fold up its teepee and move
this year.
"We're here to stay," William
R. Daley, chairman of the board
of the baseball club, 'told a group
of civic leaders who are 'part of
a "Back the Indians" group.
The group went into action last
sumner after Daley first hinted
that "because of dwindling at-
tendance the Tribe management
was beginning to listen to tempt-
ing offers from other parts of the
country,
Daley picked World Series -week,
while he was at Milwaukee, to an-
nounce that a final decision would
be made soon by the directors on
whether or not to mote.
"In spite of some very attrac-
tive offers we think the baseball
club is a good thing for Cleveland
and we think he can restore Cleve-
land-towhere it is again a leading
baseball tity," Daley declared at
a news conference following, the
meeting with the civic group.,
Home attendance, which hit a
record high of 2,620,627 in 1948
under the leadership of Bill Veeck,
had fallen off to less than one-
fourth that total last seasori, when
only 663,804 went through the
turnstiles at Cleveland's Municipal
Stadium..
Leading the division are the
unbeaten Baltimore Colts, a team
who very few people figured to
finish higher than third place this
year.
The Colts have been getting top
performances from two slim men
by pro standards, quarterback
John Unitas and end Ray Berry.
Unitas, a lean 190 pounder, has,
passed for more touchdowns (7),
and gained more yards passing
(686), than anyone else in the
league. Last year he thre, v 24
touchdown passes to lead the NFL
in that department, while finishing
third in average yards gained with'
8.47 yards per game.
Berry Top Pass Catcher
Berry, only a 20th draf1t choice,
of the Colts in 1955, now leads the
league in passes caught with 19.
He has scored three touchdowns
which is tops for NFL ends.
Pro football mays bea rough
game, but the littlest quarterback
in the league, 5'7" Eddie LeBaron
,of Washington, now leads the NFL
in passing'efficiency with 25 com-,
pletions in 44 tries for 426 total
yards and a 9.68 average gain.
Besides the unpredictability of
the standings, pro football can
hold more drama for the fans
than a three-act murder mystery.1
"Miracle Men"-
Quarterbacks have learned to
make the most of the final min-t
utes of a game. The Lions, in their
championship years called "mir-
acle men," won many games when
all appeared lost. -
The effect of all this has beent
to leave the fans breathlessely
hanging at the edge of their seatst
in suspense. The other effect hasf
been to convert pro football fromt
a relatively unknown, losing
proposition into one of the most
popular and profitable sports to-e
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DETROIT UP) - The surprising
Chicago Black Hawks blasted the
Detroit Red Wings 7-2 tonight,
with ex-Red Wing Lorne Fergu-
son and Eric Nesterenko each
scoring twice.
The Hawks, who lead the Na-
tional Hockey League with three
victories and a tie in four games,
got a 2-0 lead in the first period
on goals by Nesterenko and Fergu-
son. The closest the Red Wings
got was 2-1 when rookie Len Lunde
got his first 1-1, league goal at
the 3:37 of t' cond period.
The Hawks i-de it 3-1 before
the period was over, then scored'
fcur times in, a wild final period
and got one of their goals while
they themselves were shorthanded.
The Hawks fired only 30 shots
at goalie Terry Sawchuk but Fer-
guson beat him twice cleanly even
though Wing defensemen were
hanging on him both times. Nes-
terenko, who started the Chicago
scoring in the first period just
seven seconds after Detroiter
Forbes Kennedy went off for
charging, got a break from Saw-
chuk on one of his goals.
Montreal 4, Toronto 3
MONTREAL (RP)-Dickie Moore's
goal at -17:09 of the third period
last night pulled the struggling
Montreal Canadiens to a 4-3 Na-
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RANKED NUMBER ONE:
Cadets Defeat First Three Opponents
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By JIM BENAGH.
Earl "Red" Blaik and his Army
football squad are doing more to
confuse college grid fans than ny
team in recent years.
The "Colonel," as. Blaik is called
at West Point, has his Cadets
ranked first in the nation and off
to their best'start since 1950 when
they posted an 8-1-0 record.
First Tbre( Are Easy '
Army ran through its first three
games with surprising ease. It
dominatedI South Carolina, 45-8,
after'belig cast a one-TD favorite;
next came Penn State, 26-0, with
all the points coming in the first
half; and then it won a key game
with Notre Dame, 14-2, last week,
that boosted them to the number
one position in grid polls.
Tomorrow's opponent, Virginia,
should be no obstacle to the "Black
Knights" in the national cham-
pionship' drive. In fact, with the
Notre Dame contest in the past,
only Pittsburgh (Oct. 25) and
Navy (Nov. \29) are expected to
trouble the Cadets in their final
six tilts.±
All of this glamour has been
accumulated with a "team named
desire"-comparable to the Navy
eleven of 1954 that surprised every-
one with a 27-20 victory over the
Cadets in the season finale.
Only Three Regulars
Army started the fall with a
fine pair of halfbacks in Pete
Dawkins and Bob Anderson. But
there was only one other regular-
guard Bob Novogratz-to support3
them.-
Dawkins, captain of the team, is
the most colorful Cadet in West
the year without a proven quarter-
back, a letterman center, experi-
enced line, or a good crop of
sophomores.
The outlook was questionable
until the season opener. Then
things started falling in line faster
than plebes at the 5:30 morning
call.
A junior' quarterback, Caldwell
failed to win a letter in 1957. But
now he is being called "the first
Army quarterback since Pete Vann
(1953) who can make the ball
'spiral."
Five non-regular lettermen of
1957 nailed down line positions
with what Blaik calls "miraculous
desire." Another non-letterman,
Bill Carpenter earned national
fame as "the lonesome end," since
he flanks -very wide and doesn't
always return to the huddle.
Only One TD Given
This line has been sensational,
allowing only one touchdown thus
far. This is unusual for the West
Pointers. Last year they had 19
scored on them while posting a
7-2-Q mark.
With the great halfback punch
available, fullback Harry Walters'
doesn't get many chances to carry
the ball, but the stubby, 195-
pounder's blocking makes him the
unsung member of the squad.
In this topsy-turvy football year,
no one is unbeatable. But Army
won't give up that number one
ranking without a fight,
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Point's history. He presides over
the senior class, ranks in the top
five per cent in academics, leads
his brigade and is one of the East's
outstanding hockey players.
He was 19th in the nation in
rushing last year. At present he
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