Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-12
Cadets Run Wild
With Blanchard
Clearing Route
Count Is $50 Before
Irish Move to Their
Initial First Down
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

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NEW YORK. Nov. 11.-Army, kept
from the victory column for 10 years
by Notre Dame, unleashed all It's
pent-up fury today and played pat
ty-cake on the Irish goal line while
rambling to a 59-to-0 triumph
worst defeat ever suffered by Notre
Dame.
Seldom, if ever, has any team
produced points with the fury of
the Cadets.
Notre Dame. apparently set to
stop the slam-bang thrusts of Felix
(Doc) Blanchard, 205-pound full
back, was almost driven out OF
Yankee Stadium by the speed OF
Glenn Davis, Max Minor, Doug
Kenna, Dale Hall and q horde of
other backs.
Blanchard, employed primarily as
decoy in the Army attack, played
sensational game, bursting halt
the eardrums of the 74,437 spectators
in the third period with a block
that's made possible Minors 6l-yard
scoring return of punt.
Referee Is Knocked Out.
In the second canto he churned
his way inside the Notre Dams 90
yard line with such devastating force
that Head Linesman Dave Reese
suffered a dislocated elbow and was
unable to continue.
Blanchard, squirming for that
extra yard, drove ahead, f1attening
half the Notre Dame team. Reese,
unable to get out Of the way in time,
was knocked down, and the entire
left side of the Irish lipe as well as
Blanchard and his interferers fell
on him.
The defeat was the Worst ever
suffered by Notre Dame, surprising
the 5S-to-0 defeat handed the South
Bend Ramblers by Wisconsin in
1904. The poorest showing by No.
tire Dame in the past Is years was
the 27-to-0 shellacking by Army in
1925-also Knute Rockne's worst de-
feat.
Army's misunderstanding in its
easiness - kept the Cadets In the
unbeaten list with seven straight
wins. 1t was the second straight
loss by the Irish, who were spilled
week ago by Navy, 80 to 10. 1t
also was the first time Notre Dame
ever has lost to both service teams
the same season.
Army Makes Amends.
Army hadn't scored on the In
diana eleven since 1898, but the
Cadets rectifled that deficiency the
first time they got their hands on
the ball. Kenna skirted his own
right end for the final six yards to
climax a 45-yard march.
Two more tallies were tackled on
the scoreboard the first period,
Kenna setting up the first of them
by intercepting one of Boley Dance
wicz's losses on the Irish Al and
toting 1t Is yards before being
stopped. On the next play Minor
broke over his left tackle for the
score.
A 35-yard Kenna-to-Ed Rafalko
pass was the scoring play for the
next marker, which followed Blan-
chard's interception of Bob Kelly
attempted forward.
Only seconds after the second pc
riod got under way Davis grabbed
another Notre Dame aerial and
lugged it 80 yards to the Irish Z
from where he scored on the next
formation. A 34-yard punt return
by Kenna, set up by a resounding
block by Dewitt Coulter, made pos
sible the final tally of the half by
| Davis.
Last Score Gets Laugh.
1t wasn't until the count had
mounted to 80 to 0 against them
that the Irish registered their first
first down, getting two in succession
on spot passes by Dancewicz.
Minors long run and a Kenna-to-
Dick Pitzer pass produced scores in
the third period, but the two most
| spectacular counters were reserved
for the final canto.
Davis shot 81 yards for the first,
but the counter credited to Sub
Tackle Harold Tavzel that finished
the days work got the biggest laugh
Notre Dame, making a desperate
effort to score, had Joe Gasparella
trying to pass from behind his own
goal.
Tavzel. six feet tall, grabbed the
ball and fell to the ground for q
touchdown and then dashed Out
onto the field with his hands above
his head in fighters handclasp tc
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