Evening star., 1943-11-22
Upset Over Bears Marks Skins as Epic spiraonaI Team
ICHppIes Now Cinch to Capture
Eastern Crown; Bruins Duped
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
Move over, you inspired football
teams of history, and make way for
an injury-riddled bunch Of Redskins
who likely are just about to win the
Eastern division National Football
League championship land probably
the national title, for the second
straight year. If any clincher was
needed to stamp the current edition
Of the Redskins as one Of the great
inspirational pro football clubs OF
history, 1t came yesterday ut packed
to-the-roof Grifnth Stadium, where
36,672 astonished persons, largest
crowd ever to attend q pro game in
Washington, saw the Skins, minus
Sammy Baugh for 81 minutes, with
q makeshift line culled partially
from the reserves, thoroughly out
play the vaunted Chicago Bears,
tossing the Windy City crew for
their first loss In 23 league schedule
games in three years to the tune
Of 2l-7.
Now the Redskins need only one
more victory to clinch the Eastern
championship and move into the
playoh game December 10 against
the same Bear club. That victory
probably will come next Sunday At
Grifnth Stadium, where the Red
skins, with six wins and one tie, COL
lide with the Philpitts for the sec
ond time this year. Goal of the
Skins in this game, in addition to
the Eastern crown, will be to wipe
out the only blotch on their 1913
escutcheon, a 14-14 tie with the
Philadelphia Pittsburgh crew played
on November 7. If they lick the
Philpitts they'll put the Eastern
crown on ice, for the dogged bunch
coached by Greasy Neale and Walt
Kiesling are hanging on, two games
behind the Redskins. The Philpitts
pulled 4 thriller out of the fire yes
terday and kept pace with the Red
skins as they licked Detroit, 1854,
at Pittsburgh.
Need One More Victory.
But II the Skins whip them next
Sunday the Capital crew will be In,
for the Steagles will have but one
more game to play, against Green
Bay December 5. and the Skins then
would have a three-game edge. The
Giants, perennial Redskin rivals,
virtually are out Of the Eastern race,
with three wins and three losses.
Brooklyn. losing yesterday to Green
Bay, has no chance. The Skins
meet New York December S and II
IN the Redskins final league games
These two probably will be little
more than exhibitions.
Out Of one Of the finest perform
ances the Skins have put on this
year, comparable only to the in
spired game they played against
Green Bay October II, George
Cafego and Frank Seno emerged as
twin heroes. Cafego, subbing for the
injured Sammy Baugh, did every
thing a good pro football player
should do. He ran with the ball like
another Dick Todd. He passed &C
curately and cleanly, scoring once
by the aerial route and, despite one
bad kick which covered only Il
yards downfield. he outkicked the
great Sid Luckman, Bear quarter
back and pivot man In the T forma-
ton, with an average of 4O.7 against
405.
Seno. playing his first year of pro
football The was most Of the George
washington University backfieId
last year., made several gains of
just under first-down length and
contributed the longest single gallon
OF the day, a brilliant run of So yards
in the third quarter, which started
on the Redskin 36 and ended on the
Bear II when Luckman and Half
back Harry Clark ganged up on the
neet Mendoza ull) boy. Seno, er-
ratio and prone to tumble In other
SKIN games, retrieved all previous
mistakes by setting up the third
Redskin touchdown, the one that
cilnched the game. when, after he
mad iugged the oval to the 7, Cafeec
pitched a perfect strike to F1ankmar
Alex Piasecky In the end zone with
one minute to 60 in the quarter.
Substitution Rule Helps,
Redskin Coach Dutch Bergman
handling his men like q prestidisi.
tator pulling rabbits from a hat
was aided tremendously by the un.
limited substitution rule. He usec
Sammy Baugh, usually the onl,
Redskin scoring threat, as q decoy
Sammy, for the first time this wear
threw only one scoridng pass. Blu,
ne contributed plenty As q threat
The befuddled Chicagoans even fel
for the moss-covered Statute o
Liberty play for \ Redskin touch.
down when Baugh stood like ,
statue poised to throw and nee
Wilbur Moore grabbed the oya
from his hands. as the Bears wer,
drawn to the right on . Redskir
shift, and romped around the veal
left side for the first Skin tally
hurdling a brace Of Bear tackler,
to cross the goal.
The Redskins badly outplayed tn,
dazed Bruins, outthinking and out.
running them, the latter 4 new
angle on the 1913 Skins. Up t.
yesterdays game the Tribe hac
scored mostly via the aerial route
with Baush pitching. Yesterda,
some one stole the pitching script