Evening star., 1953-12-26
Terps Off+o Orange Bowl Promising: Were Up for Oklahoma
Co-Captain FaIoney
Speaks for Squad
As 81 Board Plane

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A confident but wary Univer-
Lsity Of Maryland football team
left Washington for Miami this
morning determined to solidify
its claim to the national cham
pionship by meeting and beating
Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl
New Years Day.
The ad-including 81 play
ers. Tommy Mont and Bob
Ward, assistant coaches, and
Martin Greenberg and Dave
Easton, team managers boarded
chartered Constellation at Ma
tional Airport and took of into a
clear morning sky at 9'o'clock
sharp. The plane was scheduled
to land at Miami's Municipal
Airport at 1890 pm.
Only Bernie Faloney's injured
left knee kept the team from
departing in perfect shape. as
did the Maryland Sugar Bowl
team two years ago., Mont had
nothing new to report on Fa-
loney after yesterdays statement
that the Terp quarterback had
showed remarkably fast recovery
from his torn ligament suffered
in the Alabama game more than
a month ago.
Uncertain as Starter.
HE. couldn't do a thing a week
ago: now he can do almost every
thing" Mont said at the airport,
referring to Faloney's workouts
during the holidays. I'm pretty
sure he will play some part of
the game, but I can't say whether
he will start or how much he
will play"
I'VE should have a better idea
after this afternoons practice, I"
Mont added.
All except Faloney. who stayed
on the campus during most of
the Christmas vacation to un-
dergo' treatment, cut short their
holidays and assembled on the
campus last night. After squad
breakfast at dawn today, the
team boarded the bus for the air.
port at 7:45.
The team was scheduled to
have lunch at the Flamingo Ho-
tel. Maryland headquarters, i'm
mediately on arrival in Miami
and then hurry out to Miami
High School for this afternoons
practice session, the first of seven
on tap before the game next Fri
day. Two more workouts are
planned tomorrow, two Monday
and one each Tuesday and We'd
nesday. A blackboard session
will be substituted for field work
Thursday. in keeping with Coach
Jim Tatum's custom Of resting
his team the day before the
game
Faloney Speaks for Squad.
Faloney, co-captain along with
Tackle Bob Morgan. spoke for
the squad shortly before de-
parture when he expressed the
determination of his teammates
thus: "We're looking forward to
playing Oklahoma: and we're up
for them because of the bad
things some people have said
about u.s." He was referring to
the unpopularity in some quar-
ters of the vote in the Associated
Press poll which gave Maryland
No. l ranking in college football.
The sentiment among airport
employees, judging from a
sign on the arrival and departure
board in the concourse. was with
the Terps. The sign read: "Capi-
tai Airlines Special - Maryland
over Oklahoma.
Painted on the side of the
,Terps' plane was a huge orange,
with large lettering alongside:
Maryland Orange Bowl Special"
Tatum mas been in Miami all
week and will meet the team at
the Flamingo for lunch. AS
sistant Coach Vern Seibert left
by q regular-scheduled plane
later in the morning, along with
Bill Cobey, graduate manager of
athletics; Joe Blair, Maryland's
athletic publicist, and other
Maryland officials. The other
assistant coaches will leave for
Miami from their homes this
week end.
The team will return by char
tered plane next Sunday. follow
ing a day of relaxation after the
game.