Evening star., 1940-01-02
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Defense but Lack
Attacking Drive
Each Side Has Two Good
Scoring Chances; Only
1900 See Bottle
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star Stan Correspondent.

BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star Stan Correspondent.
SUN BOWL, Ell PASO, Tex, Jan.
2.-One play can make a football
game, if the break comes in the
right spot, and Catholic University's
grid warriors are sorry today that
Joe Hernandez didn't step over the
goal line for the possible safety that
might we'll have put the flying Car
dinals on the winning end Of the Sun
Bowl game Mixed with regret that
they didn't win is tinge Of relief
that they were not licked in the
climax to a successful season for
Catholic University, for Dixie
Howell's Bulldogs from Tempe,
Ariz, spanked by a great fullback
named Wayne Pitts and couple OF
slippery halfbacks named Ybarra
and Hernandez played inspired foot
ball for 60 minutes here in the pic
turesque Sun Bowl to work out
scoreleSs tie with the visitors from
the East
A lot of rest and nothing else was
on the calendar today for the Car
dinals. They needed it, for they
haven't had as tough a game IN
season that gave them eight vic
tories in nine games. The Wash
ington boys will leave hospitable Ell
Paso tonight. heading for st. Louis,
and will arrive home Friday morn
ing. For IS of the c. U. squad this
post-season contest was their last
college football game.
Twice in Scoring Sector.
Perhaps the Catholic University
boys also are sorry that Carmen
Pirro, their field goal kicking ace.
didn't attempt boot from 25-yard
line in the second period OF the
game played before disappoint-
ingly small crowd of 10000 persons
on a cold, blustery afternoon, when
punts travelled IS yards down wind
and scant 40 against the breeze
which blew through the passes in
the mountains surrounding the
bowl. Twice the Cardinals were
in scoring territory, and twice, early
in the game, the boys from Arizona
State Teachers College at Tempe
threatened. Neither scoring attempt
got within the 5-yard line. But
Pirro, who made good 18 out of 81
tries during the regular Cardinal
schedule, might have tried a shot
from about the Is in the second
period and won the ball game. That
is another of the many might-have-
beens in the game out of which both
clubs emerged with glory enough
to share
A hard. fairly clean game of foot
ball it was. but without any climax
stuff, or any lengthy runs to bring
the spectators to their feet. Play
was largely between the 20-yard
stripes, and neither team took the
air to any great extent. That was
surprising to the boys from the
East. To 60 up against Dixie
Howell-coached team and find his
charges attempting only seven passes
was unexpected. Dixie himself was
pass specialist, and the Southwest
is known as the home of the for
ward pass. But both Arizona and
Catholic University played straight
football right down the line.
Pitts, the climax runner, shook
himself loose only once, and neither
Charlie Moutenot nor Rocco Pirro,
the powerhouse gang of the Cardi-
mails, were able to do much against
the hard-tackling Bulldogs. All in
all. it was disappointing game to
watch.
Serious Threat BOgs Down.
Twenty-one hundred miles is a
long way to come to play a score
less tie, but it looked far from a
scoreless tie as Tempe cracked down
in the first five minutes of play when
Pitts shook loose for 30-yard run,
and Pete Sachon, c. U. quarterback,
intercepted Bulldog pass in the
end zone and ran it back 8 yards.
After a kick, Pitts and Davis worked
the ball in successive plunges to
the Cardinals 9-yard stripe, and
there the offense begged down. Pitts
hit stone wall in plunge and then
fumbled a bad pass from center
That was the break, for Tempe
seemed to have the ball game all
its own way. When Moutenot
knocked down a pass in the c. U.
end zone, and then co-operated
with Rocco Pirro in a straight
plunging drive, the Cardinals were
out of danger.
After that neither team had pos
session of the ball within the 90
yard stripe, with the exception of a
Cardinal break in the second period,
when big Mike Cherello blocked a
Pitts punt, Guyon picked up the
ball and ran it to the Bulldog 8,
only to have the next play called
back on a 5-yard offside penalty.
At that point Pirro might have
kicked the goal that-if successful
would have won the ball game. But
might-have-beens don't win foot
ball games. Twice more Pirro tried
place-kicks. Late in the final period
he tried two more, one from the AZ
and another from the 36. The first