Evening star., 1950-12-03

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us all the way. I admire these
k!ds-I've said it from the first
They're a great bunch and they
wanted to win so badly today
don't think any team could have
beaten them"
Over in the Army dressing
room, gloom was the order of the
day. Army players quietly packed
their bags and hurried outside.
Coach Earl Blaik stayed behind
to talk to reporters.
eff we had to be beaten it
might as well be against a service
rival" the colonel commented.
"They were hungry for victory
and they're tough gang. We've
never had so many boys knocked
out-flve of them are still groggy.
Remember that Navy can rise to
great heights against Army-and
it did today"
Erdelatz Praises Line.
Erdelatz seemed to think that
the alertness of his line was the
major factor in the upset. Army
uses a fast pace" the Navy coach
pointed out. They don't take
much time in the huddle and run
0 on short signal counts. They beat
q lot of teams because they
aren't ready for them.
For two weeks we've worked on
quick stuff. AS soon as the referee
put the ball down our defensive
line ran over and got in position.
They took their rest at the scrim-
mage line while Army was in the
huddle and when it came out we
were ready"
1--WE changed our defense some
at halftime," ErdelatZ added. 1--WE
were ahead by IA points and knew
they would have to pass so we
played a f1ve-man line most of
the second half and dropped our
three line hackers way back to
knock down the long passes. Our
line was playing so well we figured
We could stop them on running
plays and that gave us men six
deep to break up the long passes -
Blaik said he didn't come up
with anything revolutionary at the
half. "We were being outplayed.'
he said, land there's nothing you
can do about that"
I'VE haven't generated any real
offense all year." Blaik went on,
"and against that big line we GER
tainly couldn't get going. You
fellows won't believe this but ]
think their line has been better
than ours all year. They're bigger
and that was one Of the differ
ences."
Two of the players had inter-
esting bits of information to add
Jim Baldinger, Navy end, who
caught Zastrow's pass in the end
zone for the second touchdown
nearly dropped it. he said after
the game.
"I caught the ball, was knocked
down and the ball fell between
my legs" he said. II squeezed it
for the touchdown. I was plenty
lucky"
Bob Cameron, Navy punter,
cleared up some confusion about
a play midway in the first period.
He was back to kick with fourth
down and three to go for a first
and when he got the ball from
center he ran instead. He was
stopped and Army took over.
Most press box observers
thought it was a fake punt play
but Cameron says no. IT saw an
Army end (Hal Loehlein was
right on top of me and I thought
it would be blocked if I had
kicked. So I ran"
Erdelatz said Bob Zastrow, Navy
quarterback called a smart, if con-
troyersial, play midway of the
first quarter. The ball was on
Navy's Is, fourth and inches to
go for a first down. Zastrow
scorned a punt and gambled sue
cessfully for first down by run
ming the ball himself.
"zastrow called the play but
when they came out of the huddle
and weren't in punt formation
could have sent in substitute to
have them kick" said Erdelatz.
II didn't because we had been
running well. 1t was gamble