Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
Redskins Set Attack Records Despite Poor Year
Battered Tribe Breaks
Three League Marks,
Baugh Snaps Two


Whatever is said about the Red
skins 1947 season, which ended in a
triumphant, but hollow, note yester-
day with 40-to-13 victory over the
Boston Yankees at Griffith Stadium,
the records show they had power to
spare. With any sort of defense,
Turk Edwards crew could have cap
tured the Eastern championship.
AS it is, the Skins finished next to
last in the East with four victories
in 10 games.
The Tribe surpassed the Chicago
Bears six-year-record of mostryards
gained with a total of 4,679. The
Bears also topped the old standard
OF 1926 yards with an offense that
rolled up 5,053 yards. The Redskins
shattered a five-year- old record for
most yards gained on passes when
they clicked off 1886 to top the old
mark Of 2,407 set by Green Bay.
The Sammy Baugh-sparked Tribe
broke two other passing marks, while
a third fell to the Bears. An Asso-
ciated Press tally showed the Red
skins completed 231 of 416 throws to
break the most competitions stand
AID Of 172 set in 1912 by Green Bay
and the most passes thrown record
1852 set by Philadelphia in 1910.
The Bears also broke these marks
with 1874 competitions in 378 at
tempts.
Baugh completed 21O of his 1854
passes, while Sid Luckman of the
Bears hit the mark 176 times on
326 throws. Both easily passed the
record of 295 pass attempts set in
1912 by Wilson Schwenk of the
Cards. Paul Christman of the Cards
also broke the record with 3o1
throws.
Van Buren, Cracks Two Marks.
The previous record OF most COM
pleted passes, 149, was made by
Baugh in 1913 when the Tribe won
the Eastern title under Dutch"
Bergman. Sammy's 2l0 target-hit-
ting throws carried for 1888 yards
while Luckman amassed 2,712 yards
through the air. Both bettered
Luckman's 1943 record of 2, 1874 yards.
The big guy of the year. of course,
was Philadelphia's Steve Van Buren,,
who cracked two National League
marks of long standing in pacing
the Eagles to victory over Green
Bay to tie for the Eastern Division
lead.
Steve piled up 1908 yards from
scrimmage to take the ground
gaining title for the second time in
his four-year pro-grid career. He
betered by yards the previous
record made by Beattie Feathers for
the Bears in 1884. He also surpassed
the mark held by Cliff Battles for
carrying the, ball. Battles packed
the pigskin 216 times for S74 yards
for Washington in 1887, and Van
Buren, wound up with a total Of
217 trips with the ball.
In four seasons of NIL play Van
Buren, has scored 262 points, in
GLIDING "a on IA touchdown runs
this year. He carried the ball $50
times for a total gain of 2,8l3, or
better than 5 yards a try.
Tribe R0mps Over Yankees.
The Redskins were in high gear
yesterday, despite the mushy grid
iron. They rolled up 28 first downs
to Boston's Z, gained 231 yards to
the Yanks' % on the ground and
piled up 339 passing to SO for their
guests. 1t was a far cry from two
weeks ago, when the Yanks handed
them a 27-24 setback in Beantown.
Boston scored first when Frank
Maznicki picked up Sal Rosato's
tumble and skidded 81 yards to the
end zone. They got another early
in the fourth period, after recover
ing Sammy Baugh's tumble. but be-
tween these scores the Skins COM
pletely dominated the game. HOWE
Maley pitched an 18-yard pass to
Bill Chipley.
Jim Castiglia and Dick Poillon
scored two touchdowns for the
Tribe, Castiglia driving over from
the for the Skins first six-pointer.
Poillon, after taking a short pass
from Baugh, pushed Maznicki an
additional five yards through the
mud for the second score. Castiglia
put up his final score shortly there
after, breaking over right tackle
and brushing aside Maznicki, who
had bad day, en- route to pay goo.
Doug Turley finally got a touch
down after his first attempt was
ruled out at the 1-yard line on q
pass from Baugh. Poillon took 1t
over on the next play. Boston
scored next and when Turley finally
got pay-off pitch from Baugh mid
way in the final period, he had to
ride Rudy Romboli piggy back the
last two Of the total six yards into
the end zone.
Sanchez Sets Up Last Score.
Johnny Sanchez set up the teams
final score by intercepting Maley's
pass on the Yank's 20. Baugh
heaved one to Joe Tereshinski for
the I'd.
Poillon had an on-day in the mud,
converting only four Of six extra
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