The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-11-17
BEHIND
HOME PLATE
By DOUG STEWART

there is another branch of athletics
at the School-the cross country
team, under Inc able coaching of
Johnny Kerr-that for several years
has been well up in the lead through
out the state, and they kept up the
good work on Friday when they
easily won the cross country race
held in conjunction with the foot
ball game.
The High School Senior team won
the race with low score of SO lin
cross country racing the low score
wins) with the High School Junior
team taking runners-up honors with
rs points The team to finish in
third place with 115 points was the
South Potomac Junior High School
A team.
1t was interesting to note that Al
Buehler, a former Hagerstown High
School ace runner, who is now
member of the University of Mary
land barrier squad, took part in the
event as a member of the alumni
team, and as was to be expected, Al
was first across the finish line, COW
ing the one-and-a-half mile course
in 7 minutes, 22.5 seconds.
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In the college football games on
Saturday, the big game Of course was
the Notre Dame-North Carolina tus-
sic, and too much credit cannot be
given the boys from down south for
the tremendous fight they put up,
which was much sitter than the score
indicates. Playing without "Choo
Choo" Justice, most fans figured that
the game would just be workout
for Frank Leahy's tremendous squad,
but that certainly was not the case.
AS a matter of fact when the North
Carolina boys blocked Notre Dame
punt right at the start of the game
and then converted it into a touch
down, they did something no other
team had been able to do all year.
The Notre Dame squad is without
question the finest college football
team in the country today, and they
had to be to defeat the inspired team
from North Carolina.
Jim Tatum's University of Mary
land team covered themselves with
glory in Boston when they came from
behind in the fourth quarter to
beat Boston University by the close
score of 14-13, putting them in line
for one of the Bowl bids.
The Terrapins are now tied with
the University of North Carolina for
the Conference championship, which
will be decided on Saturday after
noon when North Carolina meets
Duke. If Duke should win the game,
or it should result in a tie, the Ter
rapins will be the conference cham
piOns, but of course, if North Car
DINA wins it, it will put them on
top.
Next Saturday, in my book, the
game of the day will be between
Michigan and Ohio State, who will
be battling for the Big Ten Confer
ence, and as far as Ohio State is con-
cerned, for a bid to the Rose Bowl.
Michigan, of course, even if it
wins, cannot, under the Big Ten
rules, play in the Rose Bowl this
year, but if Ohio State can come out
on top they will cinch the Big Ten
championship, which of course
means the Rose Bowl game on New
Years Day I'm taking Ohio State.
A record unequalled since 1884
was made by the Philadelphia Eagles
playing against the Washington Red
skins on Sunday afternoon, when
they went through the entire game
without having to punt even once.
Needless to say, the Eagles won the
game easily and were far superior
to the hapless Redskins.
But those of you who listened to
Harry Wismer's account of the game
would have. got the impression that
the game was terribly close all the
time and that it was just the breaks
that gave the game to the Eagles.
When Wismer broadcasts college
games, he is one of the best in the
country and is absolutely impartial,
but when he gets in front of a mike
for the Redskins games, he becomes
the most biased Redskins fan in the
nation, and I for one get tired of
hearing him say that every pass the
Redskins make is sensational or
marvellous, whereas the just as diff
ficult passes completed hy the on