Evening star., 1951-10-29
/ Monday Quorterboekine by stor stoff Writers
By MerreII WhittIesey
MARYLAND, 27; LSU, 0.

It's not very glamorous to fea-
Iture defensive football, but in the
ILSU game post-mortems at New
Orleans the Maryland coaches all
were pointing to the Terps' de-
fensive strength as the key to the
teams success against the Tigers.
Louisiana State is the type team
that just tries to ram the ball
down the throat Of its opponent.
But the Tigers had little success
in that maneuver against Mary
land. Repeated attacks at the
Maryland line just left the Tigers
frustrated.
They started running right at
Dick Modzelewski, but gained
nothing over his tackle position.
Then the Tiger offense started
hitting elsewhere. but Little Mo
moved to meet them regardless of
where they were hitting. 1t was
his finest performance of the
season.
Stop Tigers in Pinches.
Six or seven times LSU gained
up to eight or nine yards in two
downs. but in trying for the i'm
portant first down. either failed
to gain or lost yardage. That was
IA very important point to the
Terps' coaches.
Maryland figured LSU had the
best running attack Of any team
it played. and against the Tigers
the Terps came up with their out
standing defensive performance.
'LSU hasn't been too impressive
on offense against anybody, but
somehow it defeated Alabama,
Rice and Georgia. Yet the Tigers
didn't even score against Mary
land.
John Alderton again was bril-
liant at his defensive end posi-
ton. Bob Morgan at the other
tackle spot and Bob Ward at
guard.
Tommy Mont was quite amazed
that team could come up with
players with the offensive ability
Iof Ed Fullerton, Joe Petruzzo and
Bernie Faloney who actually pre-
ferred to play on defense. They
gave Maryland the best possible
protection in the secondary.
Together Only on Trips.
1t is Fullerton, Petruzzo and
Faloney on defense who have con-
tributed greatly to Maryland's S
fine spirit. They're completely
unsefish.
Somebody pointed out to Coach
jim Tatum that Maryland was
playing its best football out of
town.
That's because we're only to-
gether as a unit on our out-of-
town trips" Tatum said. Every
team on our schedule except
Washington and Lee, even George
Washington, has the opportunity
to live together and work and
think together. The only time
our boys see each other except
on trips is at practice. That
makes a big difference.
1t becomes increasingly evident
that Jack Scarbath, Maryland's
quarterback, is the type player
who Is at his best only against
top opposition. Scarbath saves
his bad Saturdays for the days
that his teammates usually can
come through without him. N. c.
State last year was an example
when they didn't.
Humidity Hits LSU.
Another factor in Maryland's
victory was its condition. Last
year heat beat the Terps in
Georgia. 1t was a humid rs in
Baton Rouge Saturday night, but
it was LSU. not Maryland. that
took the more time-outs and
appeared the wearier.
The Terps were given a rousing
reception on their arrival at Ma
tional Airport last night. although
they got back to town more than
two hours later than expected. At
8 pm. turnout Of about 1000
cheering students and the school
band filled the airport terminal.
The size OF the crowd had dwin-
died to about half that when the
plane finally arrived at 1l:15.
Police had things pretty we'll or
ganized and a parade of about
so autos was formed for the long
and noisy trip to College Park.