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By OTTO PENZLER
Special To The Daily
NEW YORK - Two major
strategic innovations were intro-
duced to the Army football team
when Coach - of - the - Year Paul
Dietzel left Louisiana State to take
over at West Point.
On the negative side, he disposed
of the famed "lonely end" forma-
tion which flourished when Pete
Dawkins and Bob Anderson were
writing headlines.
Of a more positive nature, and
of even greater interest and sig-
nificance, is the inauguration of
the three-platoon system that is
spanking new to the Military
Academy, but not to Dietzel, who
gained national prominence at
LSU with his Chinese Bandits.
Individual Practices
This method of gridiron opera-
tion requires a minimum of 33
healthy, aggressive, young football
players. They are divided into three
separate and very distinct organi-
zations, so much so that each
group holds individual practice
sessions. Also, and this is vital,
each of the three platoons has a
different colored set of socks.
These teams also have names.
They could be called the Reds, the
Whites, and the Blues, or the of-
fensive platoon, the defensive pla-
toon, and the Heroes. But at West
Point, they are known as and
solemnly referred to as the Regu-
lars, the Go team, and the Chinese
Bandits.
Regulars Best
The Regulars are the best all-
around players on the team, good
both offensively and defensively.
Here is where you'll find Joe
Blackgrove, the number one quar-
terback this year and the number
one halfback last year, and John
Ellerson, the massive end who
many consider a powerful All-
America candidate.
Forming the Go team are the
eleven offensive specialists, and
the Chinese Bandits, of course,
excel in defense.
In its purest form the system
operates something like this:
The Regulars start each quarter.
At the halfway mark in each of
the four sessions, they are with-
drawn in favor of one of the other
platoons. If Army has possession
of the ball, the Go team takes
over. The Chinese Bandits are
called upon if the opposition con-
trols the pigskin. The succeeding
exchange of the ball ordinarily
calls for the entrance of the other
platoon.
Bandits Go
The Go team, it should be noted,
never remains in the. game on de-
fensive, but the Chinese Bandits,
the fair-haired boys at West Point,
occassionally run a few offensive
maneuvers.
The Bandits have an apparent
weakness in the pass defense de-
partment. A reserve quarterback
for Wake Forest, John Machovic,
riddled and confused them with
quick, over the middle tosses two
weeks ago. Against Syracuse on
Saturday, many would-be receivers
frequently found themselves in
the clear, only to have the quar-"
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terback miss his target by about
two and a half miles.
The Bandits have been more
than adequate against running
plays, however, as they stopped
powerful, 235-lb. sophomore full-
back Jim Nance cold. Nance is the
third fullback in the sequence that
began with Jimmy Brown and
continued with Ernie Davis.
Nance is considered the most
powerful of the three, although
whether he can run in the same
class as his predecessors remains
to be seen. The important thing
is that he is very good now, but
picked up negligible yardage
against the hard-hitting Bandit
tacklers.
Color Scheme
The colorful names of the three
squads were not entirely picked
out of a fedora.
Where the Go team got its
name should be fairly obvious.
The Chinese Bandits were named
after some cartoon characters in
a strip called "Terry and the Pi-
rates."
These names followed the coach
all the way from Baton Rouge,
and seemed likely choices at West
Point. The naming of the Regu-'
lars, however, is credited to Mike
Soth, a cadet from Ontario, Calif.
He came up with it in a contest
for the Corps of Cadets.
His inspiration for the nickname
was a drawing by H. Charles Mc-
Barron, Jr. which depicted the
22nd Infantry Regiment attacking
at Chippewa, July 2, 1814, a scene
in which General Winfield Scott
is leading his troops in classic bat-
tle formation. Following endless
defeats, the American victory at
Chippewa was a Godsend and a
moral boost greatly needed by the
country, and Scott became a na-
tional hero.
Noting the grey uniforms, Bri-
tish General Phineas Riall thought
he was facing American militia-
men, but when they continued to
advance with closed ranks he,
rapidly changed his mindrand, be-
fore leaving the scene even more
rapidly, the old fellow found time
to shout, "Those are regulars, by
God."
By MIKE BLOCK
In an effort to win its first foot-
ball game of the season, the Mich-
igan football team is doing any-
thing but standing pat.
Earlier this week, head coach
Bump Elliott announced several
lineup changes to take effect in
today's bout with Army. Some of
these maneuvers were made neces-
sary by injuries which occurred
during last week's game and this
week's practice sessions; most,
however, came as a result of the
subpar play of certain starters in
last Saturday's loss to Nebraska.
Now that starting senior tackle
John Houtman is out of action mages, will take Hood's place be-
indefinitely with a badly hurt hind Dave Raimey and Dick Rind-
knee, junior Tom Keating will fuss.
have a chance to show his talents Still Waiting
as a member of the first team. Elsewhere in the backfield, El-
With Houtman sidelined, the other liott is still waiting for sophomore
two players assigned to the left fullback Mel Anthony's sprained
tackle slot, Jack Lehr and Jerry ankle to heal. But in the mean-
Mader, will move up to the second time, he's made another switch-
and third teams, respectively. Wayne Sparkman, a junior, will
Ed Hood, third string right half- play for the number one platoon
back, suffered the only other ser- today. Bill Dodd, who started
ious injury of the week with a against Nebraska, moves down to
shoulder separation sustained in the defensive specialists, while
Tuesday's practice session. Tom former guard Roger Schmitt re-
Miheve, a sophomore who has mains on the third team.
shown occasional indications of One other backfield shift sees
fine running in intrasquad scrim- ex-second stringer Jack Strobel
move up to take Harvey Chap-
man's place on the first team. It
was hardly Chapman's running in-
ability which cost him his job,
considering the fact that he didn't
once run from scrimmage last
week. Instead, he exhibited a had
case of dropsy-dropping forward
passes intended for him, that is.
On the other hand, Strobel made
a couple of fancy receptions, so
Elliott has decided to promote him
and see what Chapman can do
working mainly on defense.
Former signal-caller Tom Pri-
chard stays on as third-string .eft
half.
Ends Shuffled
As usual, Captain Bob Brown
will start at left end, but there'll
be changes made on the right-
hand side of that position. Senior
Jim Ward, who had moved from
halfback to fullback to right end,
has been dropped from the first
to the third team. Bill Laskey,
who's been showing some promise
of late, replaces him today, and
similarly promising Ron Kocan
advances to the second squad.
One other change involves the
switch of junior letterman Dave
Kurtz to starting right guard, a
station formerly manned by John
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THE ARMY MULE
For more than 50 years the mule has been identified as the
mascot of Army football.
In fact, probably no other mascot save Navy's goat has received
as much national attention as the mule. The "mulenapping" and
"goatnapping" activities of the two service academies each fall before
the Army-Navy game hardly ever escapes attention.
Selected by the Corps of Cadets near the turn of the century,
the mule was probably picked because it was the best known animal
to be identified with the United States Army.
Currently, the West Point mule stable numbers four, one of
which has been retired. Pancho, 31 year old burro presented by
former Ambassador Colon Alfaro of Ecuador, has been put out to
pasture.
Pancho II, another burro, Hannibal, seen at Army games the
past 13 years, and Trotter, the newest and largest, weighing 1,500 lbs.,
are on hand for all Army home games. When transportation is feas-
ible at least one of the animals travels to away games.
Last fall, when the Cadets invaded Ann Arbor none of them
made the trip. Not to be without their mule, however, one was
imported as an imposter from nearby Dexter.
Three Deej
BILL LASKEY WAYNE SPARKMAN
..end of end problem? ... rises to top
JACK STROBEL
..help at halfback
DICK NOWAK
... Bandit leader
BRINGS BANDITS, TOO:
Dietzel Keeps LSU Tactics
Army
LEFT END
80-McMillan (195)
81-Clark (180)
82-Bedell (180)
LEFT TACKLE
77--Hawkins (220)
73-Heim (228)
75-Sherrell (217)
LEFT GUARD
62-Schillo (211)
61-Kempinski (218)
53-Butterfield (205)
CENTER
56--Grasfeder (203
50-Nowak (215)
52-Miller (208)
RIGHT GUARD
60-Ryan (215)
63-Vaughan, G. (195)
64-Vaughan, C. (205)
RIGHT TACKLE
70-Sarn (225)
71-Kerns (214)
76-Zadel (217)
RIGHT END
87-Ellerson (200)
83-Chescavage (195)
89-Woodbury (193)
QUARTERBACK
16-Blackgrove (170)
25-Sipos (177)
12-Lewis (195)
LEFT HALF
44-Stichweh (180)
42.-Waldrop (200)
43-Seymour (204)
FULLBACK
37-Paske (207)
30-Cunningham (200)
33-Wright (215)
RIGHT HALF
20-Stanley (196)
22-Johnson (194)
31-Parcells (200)
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2nd-Chinese Bandits
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Army Individual Statistics (Season)
By GARY WINER
Chinese Bandits, red coolie caps
and colored knee socks? Where did
all of this lingo come from?
Paul Dietzel, head football men-
tor at West Point this year, can be
blamed for the new terminology.
He rocketed from obscurity just
five years ago to be heralded as
one of the best coaches of our
time.
As a matter of fact, he was vot-
ed the best collegiate coach in the
country in 1958. This distinction
followed the selection of his Loui-
siana State team as the number-
one team in the nation that sea-
son.
Long Apprenticeship
players throughout the game, sub-
stituting individual players, but
Dietzel decided to use 33 men in
three shifts. He gave them names,
too-the Whites, composed of of-
fensive and defensive players; the
Go unit, offensive men; and the
Chinese Bandits, defensive special-
ists.
The names caught on and built
the morale of his LSU charges.
The Bandits gained such popular-
ity that the students (and now
the Cadets nonetheless) donned
red coolie caps every time they
entered the playing field.
Gets Paid Off
Things paid off in 1958 when
LSU went through an undefeated
season, 9-0, and then won the
Sugar Bowl game from Clemson,
7-0. To say the least, Dietzel was
HAULS 'EM IN - Captain John Ellerson is just a plain old right
end this year. He's not lonely any more. Paul Dietzel has dropped
the formation that distinguished the Cadets in past years and
installed the three-platoon system he made famous at LSU.
awarded another five-year
tract.
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Knights Roll
"Nonconforming" would be the
best word to describe his coach-
ing methods. His three-platoon
system was judged by many na-
tionally known coaches as too radi-
cal to be successful.
Also, Dietzel had only six hours
of practice per week with no prac-
tice on Fridays; he eliminated
scrimmages once the season got
underway; and he did not show
the game movies to the players if
they had won the game the pre-
vious day.
Soft Head
"I once-told Dietzel he was too
soft to make a head football
coach," exclaimed A 1 a b a m a' s
coach, Paul (Bear) Bryant. Dietzel
had served as assistant under
Bryant at Kentucky.
Dietzel's big test is now with
Army. With only 18 lettermen re-
turning from a squad that com-
piled a 6-4 record last year, Diet-
zel had his work cut out for him.
Figuring that his tactics were still
good, he installed his same three-
platoon, Chinese Bandit, red cool-
ie cap system at staid West Point.
His methods have been a bit
upsetting to those personnel who
believe in strict militaryproto-
cal. Dietzel's success also rests with
his own recruiting system which
he carried to the Point.
Make Sale
"Sell the parents first, then sell
the boy" has always been his poli-
cy. LSU's football fortunes can
still be traced back to Dietzel's
work in this department.
So far, "Pepsodent Paul" has
proven his techniques at Army.
The Black Knights, rated as aver-
age opponents prior to the start
of the year, have won their first
two ball games. Wake Forest went
down ignominously, 40-14; last
week Syracuse tasted defeat, 9-2.
RUSHING
Att G L Net
Seymour .............. 25 154 2 152
Parcells .............. 16 64 2 62
Wright ...............10 48 0 48
Pappas ..............8 29 0 29
TD
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
Paske ................ 10
Stanley..............12
Lewis ................ 15
Stichweh .............. 3
Blackgrove ............ 3
Eckert ................ 1
Cunningham ...........2
Waldrop..............4
29 0
30 1
50 21
29
29
29
Avg.
6.08
4.00
4.80
3.63
2.90
2.42
1.93
14 0 14 0 4.67
9 0 9 1 3.00
7 0 7 0 7.00
4 0 4 0 2.00
5 3 2 0 0.75
Eckert ............
Totals
PA
Bedell..........
Ellerson ..........
Parcells ...........
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1
25 13 0 203 4 .520
SS RECEIVING .
Caught Yds. TDs Avg.
........... .. 3 58 1 19.3
.3 53 1 17.7
.3 38 1 12.7
W right ...................... 1 21 0
Seymour .............. .... . 1 16 1
Woodbury...................1 11 0
Pappas ........................ 1 6 0
21.0
16.0
11.0
6.0
Totals
109 443 29 414 3
PUNTING
No. Y4
Peterson .....................14 47
Stanley .......................... 3 11
PUNT RETURNS
Returns TD's '
Waldrop.....................5 0 6
Stichweh .................... 2 0 2
Stanley . ........... 2 0 1
Sipos.......... .............1 0
4.25
Avg.
34.1
37.0
PASSING
Att Co.I
21 9
.3 3 1
Totals
13 203 4 15.6
INTERCEPTIONS
Yds. Avg.I
9 13.8 Sarn ........................
1 10.5 W aldrop ......................
.7 8.5 Blackgrove ....................
6 6.0 'Grasfeder .................. ...
No. Yds. TD
1 12 0
1 8 0
1
1
2
0
Int. Yds. TDs Pet.
0 152 1 .429
0 53 1. 1.000
0 8 . 1 1.000
Lewis. . .
Blackgrove
0
0
Avg.
12
8
2j
0
4.0
3.0
4.0
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First Downs
Rushing
Passing
Penalty
No. Rushing Attempts
Net Yds. Gained Rush.
Passing Attempts
Completed
Intercepted
Net Yds. Gained Pass.
No. Plays Rush. &
Pass.
Total Offense Yardage
Punting Number
Average
No. Punts Ret.
Net Yds. Punts Ret.
No. Kickoffs Ret.
Net Yds. Kickoffs Ret.
Penalties
Yds. Penalized
Fumbles
Ball Lost
vrmy Opp.
35 25
24 8
10 13
1 4.
109 62
414 128
25 54
13 24
0 4
203 269
134 117
617 412
17 13
35 35
10 8
113 70
3 10
41 174
14 7
170 65
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Michigan Individual Statistics
(one game only)
RIUSHIING
Att.
G
Raimey ................17 69
Timberlake ............7 36
Dodd................. 6 22
Sparkman.............3 21
Rindfuss .............. 4 18
Glinka ........... 1 8
Evashevski............ 3 8
Strobel ................ 1 2
Hood ..............1 0
L
10
0
Net
59
36
TD
0
0
1 21 0
0 21 0
0 18 1
0 8 1
3 5 0
0 2 0
0 0 0.
Ave.
3.5
5.1
3.6
7.0
4.5
8.0
2.7
2.0
0.0
Timberlake ............4
Prichard .............. 1
Totals..............21
2 0 16
1 0 3
8 0 83
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PASS RECEIVING
No. Yds.'
.2 26
............... 2 24
.............:.. 1 23
TD
0
0
0
Ave.
13.0
12.0
23.0
9.0
3.0
-2.0
W ard ...................... 1 9 0
Hood ........................ 1 3 0
Raimey .... .... ............ 1 -2 0
Totals ..............43 184 14 170 2 4.0
PASSING
Totals ................... 8 83 0 10.4
Att. Co.
Glinka................ 8 3
Evashevski ............3 1
Chandler ............. 5 1
Int. Yds.
0 30
0 17
0- 17g
Ave.
3.7
PUNTING
5.7 No. Yds.
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Ave.
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