The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-12-05
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Football
By DOUG STEWART


School Maroon and Gray eleven
rolled over the Golden Tornado OF
Waynesboro High, on Turkey Day,
to the tune of As to Z, to give them
an undefeated and united record
for the season, they not only estab-
lished a football record for the
school, but also established, beyond
the shadow of a doubt, that Eddie
Senior is the leading high school
coach in Western Maryland-and
points North, South, East and West.
The dedicating of the school foot
ball field as 'Semler Field" between
the halves, was nice gesture, but l
want to add my two cents worth to
what Frank Colley wrote in his col
umn in the Morning Herald on Fri
day
If the powers that be really want
to honor Eddie Senior, they will
leave no stone unturned in seeing to
it that before next fall Semler Field
is made worthy of the man whose
name it bears. A city the size of
Hagerstown merits decent high
school stadium - a stadium with
decent and adequate seating facili-
ties that would permit, not the six
thousand people who were crowded
in for the Thanksgiving game, with
seating accommodation for less than
half of them, but double that num-
Der, and all of them comfortably
seated.
If a decent school stadium cannot
be built with city and county funds
and what would be more fitting
than a joint city and county War Me-
mortal High School Stadium, where,
in years to come the sons and daugh-
tiers of the men and women who
fought in the war can enjoy healthy
recreation - then l suggest that a
committee be formed to raise funds
for the modernization of Senior
Field, to which l will be more than
glad to contribute.
My oft repeated contention, that
you can throw all records out the
window when Army and Navy
meet, was very conclusively proved
in Franklin Field, Philadelphia, on
Saturday afternoon, when an in
spired Navy eleven almost came
through with what would have been
the greatest upset in football his
tory. AS it was, the Middies cover
ed themselves in glory and, although
beaten by those slim three points,
were acclaimed by press and public
alike, the heroes of the day.
In my book, the real turning point
in the game was fuckers decision
to give the ball to Blanchard for a
line buck, on fourth down, on
Army 35-yard line, with one yard
needed for a first down. It was
just as if he had shouted out loud
in the huddle: eve don't need to
punt, you take it Doc" that Navy
line is a pushover for U.S."
Well, of course you know what
happened, Blanchard was stopped
and stopped cold, and from that
moment on the Army was never in
the ball game.
After listening to the Redskins
Packers game on Sunday afternoon,
I had come to the conclusion that,
either the Redskins weren't trying
too hard, or that they were a very
much overrated team. But after
talking to several men who saw the
game men for whom I have the
highest regard and who really know
their football, l am forced to change
my opinion.
These men, with one accord, told
me that in all the years they have
been following professional football,
they have never seen any team play
as near a perfect game as the
Green Bay Packers played on Sun
day, and, as one man put it: 81
doubt if there is a team in the
country that could have beaten them
on Sunday afternoon; they were an
inspired team, just as Navy was
against Army"
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