Evening star., 1945-10-15
Victorious Redskins Back in Race After Epidemic of Upset.
Still Green, But Show
Versatile Talent in
Beating Stee|ers
By a Star staff Correspondent.

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 15.-The
Redskins turned over the record to-
day and on the other side Of I'll
Never Smile Again" found "Oh,
What a Beautiful Morning"
Their 14-0 win over Pittsburgh,
plus a tidal wave of upsets. had
them back in the race and victory
over Philadelphia next Sunday will
put them in solid. They think they
can do it.
They whipped the Steelers by two
touchdowns but it should have been
five. Two touchdown passes to Les
Dye were nullified by penalties and
their first drive ran out of gas on
the 2-yard line. There also were
couple of times when Wilbur
Moore and Steve Bagarus almost
got away, but two touchdowns were
enough.
The Skins still aren't in cham
pionship form.
1--WE still appear like the green
inexperienced club we are" COM
mented Coach Dud De Groot, but
the Redskins did some things yes
terday that showed they're improv-
ing. We're getting better"
Steelers' Line Strong.
Washington whipped a pretty
tough line yesterday. Although the
Steeler forwards didn't charge as
hard as Boston's. Pittsburgh also
flashed a couple of backs in Bus"
Warren and Johnny Lucente who
had to be watched as carefully as
small boy around cookie jar.
But the Skins controlled the ball
most of the afternoon and although
Sammy Baugh's passing was re-
sponsible for the first score and the
running attack got the second.
This department was much i'm
proved over the teams legaue debut
against Boston.
The second score had 36-yard
gallop by Frank Atkins for center
piece, with Sal Rosato plunging
from the 2-yard line to eliminate
the 78-yard march.
Baugh, using Dye, Bob Seymour,
Doug Turley and Wilbur Moore for
targets, engineered the first, cover
ing a similar distance. Dye caught
the payoff pitch.
Late in the fourth period the
Skins were knocking on the door of
another score but a series of mis-
haps cut them short. Rosato fum-
bled on the 7-yard line, Filchock
recovering for a'3-yard loss, and the
Tribe wound up back on its own As
with Pittsburgh in possession of the.
ball. The Skins loss a total of 19
yards on two pass attempts, but
the climax came when they were
penalized for holding after Baugh
had thrown one to Dye in the end
zone.
Steelers Halted on Nine.
Pittsburgh made a lot of passes
at the Tribe but didn't seriously
threaten until just after the above
incident. Then with Warren alter
nately running and passing the ball
the Steelers reached the 9-yard line,
but at that juncture Washington
took a hitch in it's belt and hurled
them back.
On the favorable side was the de-
fensive play of Marvin Whited and
Cecil Hare at halfback and AL Lolo-
tai's performance at tackle. Whited
seemed at home backing up the line
after beginning the season at guard
and Hare, although back in uniform
less than week, was his same old
rough and tumble self. Nobody's
going through him without an argu-
ment.
1t also is noteworthy that the
Skins came up with a lateral pass
ing addition to their repertoire of
plays that adds deception and power
to the attack. Rosato took one from
Baugh for nine yards and on the
next play Sam fired an over-the-line
forward to Dye, who lateralled to
Joe Aguirre for a total of II yards.
Both teams had good punting.
Sid Tnsley did some beautiful kick
ing for the Steelers and Baugh was
his old self. Going hand in hand
was the downfield tackling. Doug
Turley, Tom Miller and Hare
knocked 'em down like duckpins,
and on one play Baugh kicked to
Warren then went down to make
the tackle. LIZA.