Evening star., 1943-11-08
Lujack Just as Good
As Berte||i, Ayers
Cadets Mentor
BY TED MEIER,
Associated Press Sports Wri.e'

NEW YORK, Nov. 8.-Seeing is
believing.
Until Saturday We had kept our
fingers crossed while reading how
wonderful Notre Dame was in drub-
bing teams like Michigan, Navy and |
Georgia Tech, but after watching
the Irish trounce previously un-
beaten Army, $50, we hasten to
jump aboard the South Bend band
wagon.
The Frank Leahy-coached eleven
deserves its ranking as the No. ,
college football team in the coun- /
Try primarily because of a great
line, led by Tackle jim White, that /
clears the way for host of quick
starting backs.
The Irish weren't perfect against /
Army. They lost two touchdoWns
because they got their signals mixed
up on the Cadet 2-yard line early
in the game and because no one
got doWnfield to block for Johnny
Yonakor when he shared a 68-yard
pass from Johnny Lujack. These
errors might have ratified another /
team. but the Ramblers overcame
them with ease and it is doubtful if
many in the crowd of 10000 at
Yankee Stadium realized they had
slipped up.
- Blaik Sweet on Lujack.
The game supplied the answer .
to the question that puzzled fans
all last week How good would
Notre Dame be without Angelo Ber-
tell, the passing wizard, who was
transferred to the marine camp at
Paris Island? The answer, III the
words Of 1t. Gel Earl Blaik, Army
coach, "Lujack is just as good as
BeTtelH.'
All Lulack did WAS throw two
touchdown passes. score a third
himself. call the signals, do most
of the puntmg and catch Carl An
derson from behind when the Army
hack seemed on his way to a score
after intercepting Lujack pass into
the fiat. =
: Unless all signs fail, the Irish
should win their last three games
against Northwestern, Iowa Sea-
the first Notre Dame team since the
Knute Rockne era to so throug a
season lmbeaten and united They
play Northwestern this week at
Evanston. Ill
The Oher outstanding develop
rents Of the week end were Navys
surprising 24-7 rout Of Pennsyl-
vanla and Southern California S l0-7
defeat b. the San Diego Naval
Training Station, Both Penn and
q, S. c. previously were umbeaten
while the Trojans had failed to
yield a point.
Hamberg Sparks Navy.
Penn, which surprised by tvine
Army week earlier. led the Navy,
rs, at halftime, but faded in the
second half before 10000 as the
Middies, spanked by Hal Hamberg's
passing and running, rebounded
from 1876 Notre Dame licking
1t was Fl Nelson's field goal from
the l2-yard line that tumbled U. S p,
c. from the unbeaten. united ranks.
Late in the game the Trojans cot
a first down on the San Diegu 5,
bueElOst the hall on downs on the@l
Minus Tony Butkovieh. Pludue's
uadefealsd =. united Boilermakers
we're hard put to beat Minnesota.
14-7 but won their eighth straight
in the last 40 seconds on 19-yard
pass after recovering a Gopher
tumble.
Michigan, beaten only by Notre
Dame, walloped Indiana. 23-6. while
Cornell bounced back from its Holy
Cross defeat to take Penn State,
1870; Northwestern pasted Wiscon-
sin, 4l-0, and Great Lakes took
Camp Grant, 1910.
Other Major Results.
In other games Ohio State rolled
up 1875 score on Pitt. Dartmouth
whacked Columbia. Alb; Brown
STAYED off late Yale rally to beat
the Ellis, 2l-C0, Holy Cross Walloped
Temple. 42-6, and NiIlanOva, led by
AL Postus trampled Princeton. 45-22.
Duke slaughtered North Carolina
State, $50. in the South as Georgia
Tech Steam-rollcred Louisiana State
427, and Virginia thumped Mary
land, $50 In the Southwest the
unheaten but tied Texas Aggies
doWned Southern Methodist, 300:
RICE beat Arkansas. 20-7; Texas
Christian lost to Texas Tech. 1920.
and Tulsa, also unbeaten but tied.
shellacked the Oklahoma Aggies.
$50
Outstanding games this week end, /,
In. addition to Notre Dame North
western, include Cornell Dartmouth.
Navy = Columbia, Yale Princeton,
North Carolina Pennsylvania. Army
Sampson Naval, Temple-P Penn State,
IllinolS-Ohio State, Iowa Minnesota,
Wisconsin Michigan, Camp Grant
Iowa SeahaWks, Great Lakes
Indiana, Georgia Tech-Tul6ne. Vir-
ginia-Du Texas Ae9ies- Rice and
March Field Southern California.