Evening star., 1955-07-29
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
The Old and Familiar

WEATHERWISE 1T IS far from appropriate but one of
the Oldest publishing houses in the country just released
its football annual led believe that Maryland
along with Michigan, Notre Dame, Army, Mississippi Rice,
Oklahoma and UCLA will be top this
There great fault to be found here with the fore
casts of Street Smiths experts with the
possible exception of Navys rating behind Army among the
Eass independents 1t would at first blush that Mr..
Jesse Abramson got it turned around but he
to say, he means Army No. / and Navy as No. 2.
Navys supremacy Of last is duly acknowledged.
That rousng 220 victory Army sandwiched between
the rout of Duke and the hiding of Ole Miss in the Sugar
Bowl certainly cannot be quickly forgotten. But Expert
Abramson has feeling that Navys loss of all top varsity
backs except George Welsh will swing the balance to Army
5.#.
WELL, NOW, WE'LL HAVE to wait and Certainly,
Army going to be followed closely only of Coach
Red Baiks highly unusual if unprecedented, expert
ment of switching his AAmerica end, Don Holeder, to
quarterback.
catching ends in college ball year ago. had somebody
to throw at him. too in Pete Vann. The combination
dynamite but Vann and Bak has put the finger
the receiving end of the battery to do the pitching
Baik is not to make many mistakes. Perhaps he
makes few coach in the trade If he thinks Hoeder
can play quarterback almost bet the young mans
transition will be But Navy still has Welsh and
he wound the 5 of the three four best
quarterbacks He stole the show from the highly
exploited Vann in the game and he played like
an old pro in the Sugar Bowl.
IT is ARMYs DEPTH in the backed that is impressive
Bob Kyasy left half could be the very
ana and there's Pat Uebe Mike Zeger,
too Plus few others of experience
But you've got to like Navy despite the loss OF S letter.
men. Welsh be the only rstgrade back hand but
he is dandy and the line there will some familiar
faces including that of A-America End Ron Beagle
over Navy with of its best pebe teams last
and those young moving up.
Maryland is conceded the top spot in the Atlantic Coast
Conference by correspondent Jack Horner of the Durham
Herald who practically lives Duke which second
Taum readily confesses the 1855 should my greatest
at MARYLAND Horner notes. and apparently he believes Big
jim Yet his loyalty toward Duke remains unmpared and
the Blue Devsquite properly tooare given good chance
to outrank the Terrapins
One thing that may escaped most of us-Duke has
an unusual schedule which features the champions of
New Years major bowl It includes Ohio State
OF the Rose Bowl Navy champion of the Sugar Bowl and
Georgia Tech the Cotton Bowl victor. the Blue Devils
play an ntra-squad the Orange Bowl wnner-Duke
nc less-will have been encountered, too.
THE MIDWEST ROUNDUP (independent diyision) is
interesting only because it printed lately that
Leahy the old COACH apparently went record saying
that Paul Hornung junior who's also played at full
back might be the best Notre Dame quarterback
Better than Ralph Gugelmi and quite few other
predecessors.
That isn't the way Tommy Devne of the Detroit Free
Press who Street and Smiths dwestern expert looks at
It, Brennans toughest job is to up with quarter
back Devne writes in part The problem is complicated
by the fact that his (Gugelms) undersudy, Tom Carey
also is gone"
Guglelmi was smoothie as he'll undoubtedly demon
srate when he plays for the Redskins this season.
observers believe the young Notre Dame coach is more
worried about the graduation of all but his starting
inemen
In any event. Prognostcator Devine differs from Leahy
when he mourns the loss of Carey well Gugem and
calls quarterback the main problem with which Terry
Brennan will have to cope.
Here's perhaps the snapper however One of the candi-
dates for quarterback at Noe good punter and
piace-NcKer-ls Frank Leahy jr, of the ex-coach