SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1949 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE SEVEN PAGE SEVE?~ Irish Army Horde Hits Harvard Hard,_54-14 Gil Stephenson Stars for Cadets CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-(P)-Con- tinuing its drive to the nation's highest football peak, mighty Army, with its supposedly ailing Gil Stephenson scoring four times, cverwhelmed an out-manned but hard fighting Harvard team, 54- 14, yesterday t the Stadium. The Cadets' terrific power shocked the 48,000 crowd that viewed the most humiliating de- fensive stand Harvard has made during its long history. The prev- ious highest score against it was Yale's 48-0, victory back in 1884. WHEN THE hard - smashing fullback Stephenson was not tear- ing the Crimson line to shreds, numerous other black - shirted West Pointers were. The only res- pite Harvard had was during the third period, when Coach Red Blaik, bent on mercy, had his third and fourth stringers in action. The Cadets scored thrice in both the first and second ses- sions, were blanked in the third and then, with a breath-taking demonstration of the attack that toppled mighty Michigan last week, added two more touch- downs in the finale. Jim Cain accounted for two of the other Army touchdowns and the others were made by Vic Pol- lard and Elmer Stout. The latter's was the most spectacular play of the game, a 76-yard dash with an intercepted pass. 'ARVARD, previously beaten by Stanford, Columbia and Cor- nell, made a brave showing after taking the game-opening kickoff. But it soon put itself hopelessly out of the running by fumbling on Army's 28-yard line. Thereupon, the Cadets settled down to scoring business in grim fashion and their first two tallies were registered within the short space of 38 seconds. After being banged and bruised about almost at the Cadets' will for nearly half an hour, Harvard gained its second wind against scrub opposition and Jim Henry ended a 98-yard drive, mostly through the air, by smashing over from Army's one yard line. Blaik had his top performers back in action when the fourth period opened but a half-dozen Harvards appeared to block a punt on Army's 30 and, after six plays and two Army penalties, Henry smashed over again from a foot out. lun Wild, 46-7; Gophers Swamp oSU, 27-0 -q Coutre T allies Thrice In Opening Ten Minutes Vicious Blocking Clears Way for Bye's Running C-- - I SOUTH BEND-()-In just 10 blazing minutes, thunderous Notre Dame pounded Tulane's touted Green Wave into a helpless ripple yesterday. The stunning 46-7 vic- tory made a debacle out of the "football game of the season." If there was a hero for the furious Irish who reached terrific inspirational heights in their seven-touchdown explosion it was halfback Larry Coutre who scored the first three touchdowns of the game. THUS, the top ranked Notre Dame, for the first time this sea- son, demonstrated its crunching potentialities for a fourth straight win. In all, the Irish slashed through Tulane for four first period touchdowns, but it was the first three within the open- ing 10 minutes of play which completely whipped a bewil- dered Tulane eleven. Notre Dame scored a touchdown each in the final three periods which only emphasized that pre- viously unbeaten Tulane was in far over its head. THE LONE Green Wave score NFL Teams Clash Today NEW YORK-()-All ten teams in the National Football League will see action at once for the first time, this season today, with the defending champion Philadel- phia Eagles meeting the Chicago Bears' on the latter's field in the feature game. Two tussles also are carded at widely separate points in the All- America Conference, which got its week end program off to an early start last night. THE EAGLES again top the standings in the Eastern Division of the National League with three victories in as many starts. The Bears, who have won two out of three, hold second place in the Western Division. It will be the 13th meeting of the Eagles and Bears. The Eagles won last year, but the Bears had won ten of their pre-. vious encounters, the other end- ing in a tie. Other National League games today will see the Pittsburgh Steel- ers at New York for a game with the Giants, Los Angeles at Detroit, the New York Bulldogs at Wash- ington and the Chicago Cardinals tangling with the Green Bay Pack- ers in Milwaukee. * * * LOS ANGELES heads the West- ern Division standings with three] straight triumphs and should, make it four for four over the tail-I end Lions, who have dropped all three starts to date.E came on a pass play covering 76 yards, from Bill Bonar to George Kinek in the third period. For the pulverizing Irish, who outrushed Tulane 280 yards to a mere 23, it was their 32nd game without defeat, a skein stretch- ing from the opening of the 1946 season. Tulane which proudly came here after wins over Alabama, Georgia Tech andSouth Eastern Louisiana didn't know what hit it in the tremendous Irish open- ing period. IRISH BACKS never were stopped at the first impact, which is why Coutre streaked 81 yards for his second touchdown and Billy Barrett in the final quarter scooted 59 yards to score. Quarterback Bob Williams, who did a magnificent job in calling plays against the sag- ging Tulane defenses completed eight of 11 passes for two touchdowns and 177 yards. Halfback Frank Spaniel grabbed a 34-yard pass from Williams for the first of his two touchdowns. That was the fourth touchdown in the devastating first period. Spaniel's second touchdown came in the third quarter on a slashing 12 yard run. * * * THE SEVENTH Notre Dame touchdown materialized with ri- diculous ease on Williams' 18 yard shot to hulking end Leon Hart in the end zone. Steve Oracko booted only four of his seven conversion tries, but it was not a day for the Irish to worry about extra points. Tulane took into the game a fourth place ranking in the A.P.'s National Poll of sports writers. The Wave was supposed to have an excellent chance to avenge a 59-6 trimming when last it faced Notre Dame in 1947. * * * BUT ALL THAT faded into bit- ter ashes as the Irish performed in the first half according to a post-game statement by Coach Frank Leahy, "As good as any Notre Dame team I have ever coached." The last half was anti-cli- mactic for the over-flowing crowd of 58,196 which had ex- pected to see a knock-down, drag-out battle between two supposedly evenly-matched teams. Fullback Eddie Price, Tulane's Southern terror, was held to 26 yards in 10 tries, although the fleet back had to perform on an ailing leg. The only spark in Tulane's futile attack was provided by the passing of Joe Ernst and Bonar, who completed 11 of 21 attempts for 186 yards. Notre Dame's aerial yardage was 179, all on Williams' eight completions. AP HOCKEY: Canadiens Ice N.Y., 2-1 Black Hawks Tie Leafs By The Associated Press TORONTO - Syd Smith's goal at 9:22 of the final period earned the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4-4 tie with the Chicago Black Hawks in Toronto's opening . National Hockey League game last night. A crowd of 13,427 saw the game. * * * THE LEAFS went into the lead three times but the hard-driving, Hawks came rack each time to get past Turk Broda in the Tor- onto nets. The Leafs outshot Chi- cago, 29 :to 21. The Stanley Cup champions threw four and five men at the Hawk nets time after time but Frankie Brimsek held' them out. The Leafs played without right-winger Bill Ezinicki, who' was out with an injured leg. Chicago showed a slight first period margin with seven shots on goal against five forthe Leafs but the Toronto club came back in the second to make it 15 to 8 in shots on goal and nine to six in the final period. Only four penalties were handed out - three to Toronto including a major to Captain Ted Kennedy and one to Chicago. By The Associated Press MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens won their second straight victory of the National Hockey League seasonlast night by downing the New York Rang- ers, 2-1. Billy Reay, Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard scored the Canadiens' goals while rough Pat Egan tallied the New Yorkers' lone marker. It was a tough struggle for the Montrealers who had to come from behind from a first period goal scored by Pat'eEgan of New York before a crowd of 10,803. * * * BIG BILL DURNAN, Montreal goalie, was struck over the left eye by a puck just before his team went ahead in the final period. The wound required six stitches. The shot came front the stick of Bud Poile and was a hard screened drive from well inside the Montreal blue line. The game was held up 15 min- utes while Durnan underwent re- pairs in the Forum Clinic and the Canadiens made ready to dress an amateur goalie from the Montreal Royals. But Durnan returned, ac- claimed by the crowd. HOLDING THE LINE . .. Cap- tain Al Wistert (above) and End Harry Allis (left) continually kept the Wildcats from gaining yardage on the ground. Every time a Northwestern back came into the left tackel slot, he met a stone wall in the person of "Big Al." Although Allis missed one of three conversion tries, his defensive work was stellar. The fact that he made a few catches adds to his prestige. Stanford Rips Huskies,_40-0 SEATTLE - (P) - A gang of spring-driven Stanford backs led by Bill DeYoung had the Midas- touch for tallies yesterday after- noon to earn the Cardinals a 40 to 0 Pacific Coast Conference foot- ball victory over Washington. A game which the crowd of 33,- 500 had expected to be a toss-up dissolved into a rout when the flame-shirted Californians racked up 21 last quarter counters. The Washington Huskies, draw- ing a touchdown blank for the second straight conference game, crossed the Stanford goal once but lost the tally on an offside pen- alty. Charles K.O.'s Pat Valentino SAN FRANCISCO-(P)-In the wake of his knockout victory, Ezzard Charles, the NBA heavy- weight champion, asked yesterday "what more must I do to get rec- ognition from the New York Ath- letic Commission?" Charles flattened Pat Valentino, California State titleholder for the full count in 35 seconds of the eighth round of their scheduled 15-round bout. A record indoor boxing crowd for this state of 19,666 saw Charles end the fight with a smashing right cross to the jaw. COLUMBUS - (A)-Minnesota moved a lengthy piece down the Rose Bowl road yesterday by belt- ing Ohio State, 27-0, in a Western Conference football game before 82,111 fans. The running of halfbacks Billy Bye and Dick Gregory, with the help of savage blocking, sparked the Golden Gophers' four-touch- down parade. THE RESULT never was much in doubt after the first few plays.' Minnesota's giant line took command of the situation al- most immediately. Led by center Clayton Tonnemaker and tackle Leo Nomellini, the Minnesota forwards simply smothered any Ohio Stye attacks that became even slightly dangerous. Bye counted the first Minnesota touchdown late in the first period, going 14 yards over Ohio State's right guard. End Gordon Soltau kicked the first of three straight conversions. * * * GREGORY SET UP the second touchdown with a 51-yard run around his own right end and an- other 20-yard scamper. He scored it on his second plunge from the eight-yard line. Balked on the ground, Bye tossed a 20-yard pass to Quar- terback Jim Malosky in the Ohio end zone early in the fourth quarter. The final marker came a few minutes later after Ohio's halfback Jim Clark fumbled on his own 13. Fullback Ken Beiers- dorf threw to end Bud Grant on the Ohio one, then dived over two plays later. With the victory Minnesota grabbed the inside track to the Western Conference Rose Bowl se- lection. Unbeaten Minnesota ap- pears the only logical choice- barring late season upsets. Neither Northwestern nor Michigan, the Conference's representatives in the 1948 and 1947 Rose Bowl classic is eligible to return this year. The Pacific Coast-Western Conference pact bars for three years a re- peater in the January 1 contest. * * * MINNESOTA collected 14 first downs to 10 for Ohio State, 284 net yards rushing to 48 yards for Ohio State, 55 yards passing to 183 for the losers. But, cold figures don't reveal the savagery of the Minnesota blocking and tackling. Many times Ohio State blockers just seemed to melt before the rushes of Tonnemaker and Nomellini. Minnesota began moving again in the fourth period. From the Minnesota 18, Gregory broke loose for 30 yards around his own left end. Again the Minnesota runners slowed down on the Ohio 20. There Bye slipped his touchdown pass to Malosky. .NavyLoses 48-13 Tilt To Badg9)ers MADISON - (A)-An alert and capable Wisconsin football team capitalized on Navy errors and smashed to a 48 to 13 victory yes- terday. The Badgers passed and ran for four of their seven touch- downs and intercepted Navy passes to score two and set up a third. IT WAS THE largest score run up by a Wisconsin team since 1930. A capacity crowd of 45,000 turned out. Navy exhibited a powerful ground game in spurts. The Middies went 84 yards on the ground and in the air for one of their scores in the first pe- riod. And in the final period they went 78 yards for another. But in between the Badgers completely dominated the play. The opening -period indicated a bruising battle with the Badgers getting off to a 7 to 6 lead. 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