The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-11-18
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
By DOUG STEWART


Ho Hum! Notre Dame takes
Northwestern, rs to 6, to place them
one game nearer an unbeaten and
united season, a record that no
Fighting Irish team has been able to
put together since the days of Knute
Rockne.
Frank Leahy's great team has two
hurdles yet to surmount-the as yet
unbeaten and united Iowa Sea-
hawks, whom they meet next Sat
urday, and Great Lakes, the team
that walloped Indiana 81 to Z on
Saturday.
OF course upsets can happen, look
what North Carolina did to Penn
on Saturday IN. c. 9; Penn 81, but
l just can't see the Fighting Irish
powerhouse being stopped, or for
that matter, even extended.
My idea of Bowl game to end
all bowl games, would be between
Notre Dame and the professional
champions for 1943. What honey
that would bel
Navy, quite obviously out to bet
ter Army's So to in over Column
bia, ran hog-wild over Lou Little's
hapless squad, winding up on the
top of a CLIO score. There is not
much to write about the lopsided
affair Cranky l don't like those
top-heavy scores against an obvious
ly weaker foe), but it is worthwhile
noting two interesting items. First,
both coaches Captain Welchell and
Lou Little) were absent from the
game. Captain Welchell was ever
at West Point taking peek at Ar
my, while Lou Little was at home,
convalescing from an illness, and
second, Nays first string team, af-
ter scoring four touchdowns, retired
from the game early in the second
quarter and never returned.
Army came from behind to win
from the Sampson Naval Training
eleven, Is to T. The game, played
in rain and snow, produced any
thing but good football and can be
ignored as far as Army's strength
is concerned, particularly as neither
of their two star halfbacks, Glenn
Davis and Doug Kenna, saw action
during the afternoon.
Locally, st. James won from Bal
timore Friends, 20 to IA, while the
Maroon and Gray lost a heart
break to Fort Hill High, 60.
The st. James-Baltimore Friends
game seesawed back and forth dur
ing the first two quarters, the half
ending with score tied, IA all But
the second half was all st. James,
even though they couldn't put over
the winning touchdown till the
fourth quarter. A feature of the
game was the Baltimore teams run
ming the ball for the extra points,
play that isn't seen very often these
days.
st. James scored in the first quar-
ter on straight running plays, lar
son going over from the two-yard
line and Thorpe adding the extra
point. The Friends, however, took
the return kickoff and marched
straight down the field in a series
of ground plays, mixed with passes,
to the five-yard line, from where
they bucked over for six points, fol-
LONG this up by running the ball
for the extra point and tie score.
In the second quarter st. James
went ahead when a short pass on the
right hand fiat, Thorpe to Finn,
clicked, and Finn ran the remaining
80 yards, Thorpe again converting,
to put the locals ahead, 14-7. But it
didn't stay that way long. Taking
the kick off, the Baltimore boys re
peated their play of the first quar-
ter, marcing so yards for their sec
ond score and again they ran the
ball for the point that tied the game
up for the second time
There was no scoring in the third
quarter, although the local boys had
possession of the ball practically all
the time However, a few minutes
after the fourth quarter got under
way, Thorpe, on an off tackle play,
ran As yards for the winning touch
down His attempt for the extra
point was blocked.
Coming up to their final game of
the season with a clean slate and