Evening star., 1939-11-27
Peak Reached byD.C.
Team as L Drubs
StubbornLio
Record Football Turnout
Here Sees Detroit Bow
To Great Air Attack
By BILL DISMER. Jr

1SoS NdtlOlldl ,rOOIUdll LedS ue
championship and the Redskins
opportunities to avenge the only
two causes for grievance they have
experienced all season were all that
was needed today to give the Capt.
tai the biggest climax to a football
campaign it ever has known.
In the wake of the most sensa-
tional game ever played here, a
game in which the Redskins re-
moved the last vestige of doubt that
they truly are great squad by
shellacking the Detroit Lions, Sit
odds were better than even that
both aims could be accomplished.
Called to meeting tomorrow OF
the two remaining contenders in
each division-the Redskins and
Giants in the East and the Packers
and Bears in the West-OWner
George Marshall will leave for Pitts
burgh tonight with persuasive ar
guments for shifting the title game
to Washington.
Marshall Has Talking Points.
Assuming that his Redskins will
beat the Giants next Sunday (and
there can't be many who still think
him presunrptuous), Marshall will
use Washington's milder December
weather and its record football
turnout of 36,l83 yesterday as in
fluential talking points for having
the Western champions come East
instead of playing in 40-degree
colder Green Bay, Milwaukee or
Chicago. until the Packers beat
the Lions next Sunday the Bears
still have chance to win the West
ern DivisionD
And with Washington fans al
ready having demonstrated that
they II turn out despite the most
unfavorable weather, the prospects
ii nearly twice the crowd which
would see the title game herewith
its resultant greater profits for club
owners and players-may swing the
deal.
Meanwhile, trusting that the
Packers win the Western champion
ship and thus give them the chance
to prove that first appearances can
be deceiving, the Redskins are
making plans for revenge on the
only two opponents they haven't
beaten-Green Bay and New York.
The latter, of course, is the imme-
diate objective, but there is little
doubt that the Redskins will take
the Polo Grounds as favorites over
the Giants next Sunday despite the
New Workers championship status
and despite the 90 tie the two teams
played here in early October.
All Redskins Sparkle.
For with an offense which has
scored rs more points in the same
number of games, defense which
has yielded only one more touch
down and record which shows
them outclassing teams which gave
the Giants almost even battles, the
Redskins have shifted the burden
of proving supremacy on the cham
pions.
At the start of the year Coach
Ray Flaherty said that in his opin-
ion the Giants had everything a
winning football squad needed
man power, runners, passers, kickers.
At this stage of the game we'd
like to 60 on record that the Red
skins are the greatest all-around
grid squad ever formed and with
an esprit de corps sufficient to lift
them over obstacles which might
hinder them if they didn't have the
native playing ability they possess.
The question no longer is who was
the Redskins outstanding player?"
Instead you've got to ask if there
Is a Redskin who isn't outstanding
That's the kind of squad it has
become, a group of 80 players pos
sessing all the requisites of WIN
ing team, with always some one to
carry on where teammate has left
off and always some one to play a
leading role when previous leaders
falter.
Morgan Proves Great Help.
They're singing the praises today
mostly of Frankie Filchock, the
passer who accounted for 112 yards
with seven successful heaves IN II
throws and who was a ball-carryin2
fool on the side; of Ends Charley
Malone and Wayne Millner, who
made many of Filchocks heaves
click with miraculous catches and
who did demon work with path
clearing blocks; of Capt Turk Ed
words, who played like the Turk OF
old in throwing fast backs like
Dwight Sloan and Bill Shepherd fol
huge losses; of Jim Karcher, Box
Masterson, Glen Stralka, Jim Bar
Der and Bo Russell-all bulWarks or
defense; of Jimmy Johnston, who
raced "a yards with an intercepted
pass late in the game, and of Vic
Carroll, who played nearly go min
utes at center after Micky Parks hao
been forced out with loose carti-
lage in his foot early in the first
quarter.
But we're wondering if one of the
lesser sung heroes who might have
provided the break of the game isn't
Red Morgan, the rookie back from
southern California who hauled
Charley Hanneman down from be-
hind on Washingtons l6-yard line
when Hanneman, loose in an oper
field, threatened to race to a touch
down early in the third quarter.
Lions Checked in Drive.
The score at that juncture wa.
TT and had the Lions taken the
lead, the outcome might have beer
altorether different. Morgan, thu
onlv Redskin with chance to ger
him, chased Hanneman half thu
distance of the field before he made
his great score-saving tackle. Il
clearly took the starch out of thu
Lions, who, with first down II
scoring territory, saw Sloan rushed
into three incomplete passes ane
Hanneman's attempted field goal &c
wide.
The Redskin line, alert and ag.
gressive all afternoon, doubtless il
responsible for the failure of the
~