Evening star., 1953-11-20


Two years ago Maryland found itself in approximately
the position today Terrapns then ranked
No. behind Michigan State Their supporters
felt they deserved better The widely followed if not always
admired Associated Press poll stuck to the Vols to the end
of the 1851 and not until New Years Day in the Sugar
Bowl did the embarrassment set in. That's when Maryland
caught up with Tennessee and won soldly.
ODDLY, BOTH NoTRE DAME and Maryland will be
playing so-caed inx Alabama its only
meeting With Maryland upset the favored Terrapns last year.
just Bama had beaten those soupeup George Washington
teams the 930 Notre Danes experience with has
been, if anything more strange.
Although Irish an edge over Iowa. 6-3-2
1t worthy of that the Haweyes have tied when
either such outcome unexpected Consider for instance
the first time they met This in 1921 in Iowa City
and the Irish had 22game winning streak going Iowa
won, 10-7
The next time Iowa won was in 1885, Notre Dame had
sixgame winning streak and lost 76 In 1910 the Irish
again ptted six-game streak against Iowa and
beaten, TO
1t is the frank of the Notre publicity
Office time when it really necessary to sell any
tickets that against relatively Iowa teams in 1850
and 1851 the Irish couldn't win. Both years." Publicist
Charlie Callahan points he Notre Damers had to
from behind in the second half to gain 1414 and 1920
deadlocks."
THE EVIDENCE IS THAT Notre Dame will be meeting
pretty team in tomorrow, whose of
ve victories and three defeats bellies its The three
Hawkeye losses Michigan State the opener 217
Michigan by 14-13 margin, and Wisconsin, 1876
Iowa, like Alabama is fast closer Frank Leahy called
the turn the awkeyes weeks They will be of
the toughest of all Big the end of the season.
Leahy dourly predicted
Dourness is of LeahyS characteristics but in this
it would that he's right Iowa is charging and
Iowa. oo is geared for than oenSe The Hawkeyes
operate from split-T unbalanced ne plus
Michigan single wing.
1t just this sort of varied stuff that made Penn
tough for the Irish to crack The Quakers getting nowhere
with their T. shifted to single wing and indeed sort of
double wing Only by mixing their attack did they
the ball.
THE WORD is OUT that Dartmouth has arbitrarily
celed its contract with after years
and that other Ivy colleges will follow suit drop
both Army and Navy The reason? Too tough especially
when denied spring practice.
The Annapolis sports pubcst John Cox, that he's
heard nothing definite the subject "All know" he
lis that in January the schools supposed meet
and discuss the formation of regular league.
"As those colleges stand now they belong to the Ivy
group They league. But that Cornell
Princeton, Penn, Dartmouth Columbia, Brown, Yale and
Harvard organize and insist that each play six of their
eght-game schedule with member schools"
Dartmouth and Penn Navy's "a schedule and
cordng to Cox have given indication of dropping The
Navy spokesman didn't remark but says
would be Sorely missed by the Mdshpmen Penn
Notre Dame and excluding Army, always is Nays best
money foe The Mddes would find pretty tough to
earth another Penn complete with guarantee 10000
seout nearly every year.