Evening star., 1946-12-31
5ca|ping, Gambling
By Public Seen as
Factors in Break
By Sid FEEDER
Assoeioted Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-The men
acing shadows of ticket "scalping"
and gambling generally were re-
garded today as factors behind the
football split between Army and
Notre Dame. Indications are that
the two schools will give the situa-
ton a chance to cool off before re-
suming relations, probably early in
the 1950s.
It is expected to take about that
long for big time football to get
back to the point where it will once
more serve the interests - OF
intercollegiate athletics.
That was the stipulation for the
resumption of the rivalry that both
Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, the
Military Academy superintendent,
and the Rev. John ]. Cavanaugh,
Notre Dame president, laid down
yesterday when they announced the
series would be suspended tempo
rarily because it was getting out Of
hand. Both declared conditions
surrounding the annual Army -Notre
Dame game were escaping the con-
troll of the two COLLEGES"
Al Game at South Bend.
A 1947 game will be played No
yember 8 in Notre Danes Sc ,O00-
seat Memorial Stadium in South
Bend, and then the series will be
discontinued until further notice.
The current series began with an
upset in 1918 and has grown through
the years into the homecoming
game" for the subway alumni all
over the Nation.
In 1947 the get-together will be
taken out of the big-time hullabaloo
of New Yorks Yankee Stadium for
the first time in Is years and re-
turned to the comparative normality
of a college campus where school
authorities will be in direct control
of ticket distribution.
Although there was no direct men
ton of either gambling or ticket
speculation, heads of both schools
remarked conditions were mot con-
ducive to wholesome intercollegiate
sports"
Ticket Speculation Cited.
One source close to the picture
said ticket speculation which
brought scalpers 5000 per ticket this
wear, and a boom in gridiron betting.
now estimated at $100,000,000 year
nationally, were chief reasons why
the two schools announced tenn
porary parting of the ways.
The break was seen in most
quarters as another step toward
taking some of the big buildup OIL
college football, a step that goes
along with the decision OF the Mid
vests Big Nine and the Pacific
Coast conference to tie up in the
Rose Bowl to freeze out schools
with too-hberal athletic policies.
There are some who limited that
another reason behind the break
involved fear by Army OF what the
Irish were going to do to the Cadets
the next couple of seasons, now that
the mighty West Point powerhouse
of the last three campaigns is going
with graduation. These viewers
Withdrawn pointed out that Notre
Dame wants revenge for the two
one-sided wallopings the Cadets
handed out in 1914 and 45-more
revenge that it was able to get from
this years savage scoreless tie or
from the fact that it leads the series
% wins to Z, with four draws.
Al Gard Not So Tough.
But don't feel too sorry for Army
Coach Red Blaik. He has lost Doc
Blanchard and Glenn Davis and
seven others of his three-year un-
beaten team, but he hasn't been
making any speeches about the
cards he's holding for next season.
Army announced a nine-game 1947
grid schedule regarded as not nearly
so tough as last falls 10-game cam
paign. Gone are such piledrivers as
Oklahoma, Michigan and Duke,
along with Cornell and West Vfr-
ginia. From the Big Nine, instead
of the Wolverines, will come Illinois.
In place of Duke from the South,
the Cadets take on Virginia Tech
and Washington and Lee. Colorado is
the only other newcomer, since Viii
lanova, Columbia, Notre Dame,
Penn and Navy will return.