The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-08
LUJACK HANDLES
BERTELLI'S SPOT
Is Year Old Lad Keeps
Strong Irish Club
Together

NEW YORK, Nov. 7. up -
If you are Notre Dame alumnus,
real or synthetic, and are worried
about the football team now that
Johnny Lujack has replaced the
transferred Angelo Bertelli at quar-
terback, forget it
If you are coaching the Great
Lakes, Northwestern University or
Iowa SeahaWk elevens and think
that the Irish may be softer be-
cause Of Lujack's presence, stop
it
And if you are just at a casual
football fan and are doubtful that
the Notre Dame outfit, called the
games greatest in some quarters,
can keep that ranking with the
erstWhile sub as boss, quit it
Because John GW Lujack is
good.
The 18-year-old youngster made
his debut as starting quarterback
for the Irish Saturday in their
26 to 0 victory over Army in New
York before some $4,000 fans and
completed eight of Is passes for
ITS yards, hit his target in the
end zone twice for touchdoWns,
banged over another personally
and played full 60 minutes of
rugged football.
His generalship was satisfactory
even to Coach Frank Leahy,
man hard tc please, and Lujack's
defensive ability brought recogni-
tic from 1t. Col. Earl Blaik, coach
OF the Cadets.
Notre Dame probably didn't gain
anything when the Connellsville,
Pa, youth took over but it is also
definite that they didn' tlose either
While the ramblers were tack
ing the seventh straight victory on
their record, Purdue remained un-
defeated by scoring in the final
40 seconds to beat Minnesota, IA
to 7; Michigan, Navy, Northwest
ern, Duke, Texas A & M, Georgia
Tech and Dartmouth all triumph
ed handsomely but Southern Cali
fornia was spilled by San Diego
Naval and its own errors, 10 to Z.
Little Harold Hamberg brought
Navy it's "a to victory over Penn
sylvania with Bob Odell getting
the lone Quaker counter; OFT Ora
ham virtually was Northwestern's
entire offense in downing Wiscon-
SIN, Al to 0; Elroy Hirsch engineer
ed Michigan's % to 6 win over
Indiana and Don Kasprzak was
Dartmouth big gun in the ATT to
10 verdict over Columbia.
Eddie Prokop and his Georgia
Tech mates stopped Louisiana
States bowl boom, apt, while Tex
as A & M blanked an out-manned
Southern Methodist aggregation, %
to 0. Duke, despite the loss OF
horde of naval trainees, trounced
North Carolina State, rs to 0.
There were other surprises in
Saturdays results in addition to
the Trojan setback. Texas Tech
blazed for % points in the final
quarter to down Texas Christian,
40 to 20; Villanova surprised Prince
ton As to %, and Brown nosed out
Yale, 81 to 20, on the two points
gained from a safety.
1t was a dreary weekend in the
Hawkeye state. Illinois spoiled
Is to 10; Missouri gave the same
treatment to the Iowa State Cy-
clones before returning alumni,
Is to Z, and Doane College showed
Drake from the unbeaten list, IL
to 6.
Oklahoma kept pace with Mis-
souri, in the Big Six by downing
Kansas, rs to ID, while Tulsa found
Oklahoma A & M easy, SIS to 6.
Ohio State approached that score
in drubbing Pittsburgh, As to 6.
Wake Forest caught the North
Carolina Pre-Flight outfit in the
midst of it's reorganization and
won, 20 to IL, and North Carolina
mastered South Carolina, q to 8.
Notre Dame invades Evanston
this week for its annual tussle
with Northwestern before closing
out its schedule against the Great
Lakes Sailors and the SeahaWks.
Michigan bumps into hapless Wis
consin and Missouri entertalns
Oklahoma for the Big Six crowd.
Army may have another rough
afternoon with the Sampson Naval
Station club, coached by Nal Ste
vens, late of Yale and New York
and Navy comes to
New York for a workout against
Columbia. Penn entertains North
Carolina while Georgia Tech char
ges into New Orleans for Tulane's
scalp.
Southern California bumps into
March Field, generally regarded
as a stronger team than the San
Diego outfit. Texas and Texas A &
M prep for their Thanksgiving Day
meeting by playing Texas Chris
tan and Rice, respectively.