Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-08
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All, Those Good Quorterbocks

IL WAS DHHh AMI o11 EbL COuu d. JILL 1dtuIA .
assistants called a halt to Marylands practice for Okla
homa in the Orange Bowl in Miami on January 2. But there
was a lot of hustle being shown and Duke Wyre, the only
athletic trainer extant with a full Brooks Brothers wardrobe,
was looking happy.
This is not like the last time" Duke said. "You re-
member the last time we got ready for the Orange Bowl?
Against Oklahoma, too"
"Yes" somebody said. you mean Bernie Faloney?"
Bernie got hurt in our last reguar-season game with
Alabama" Duke said. I'VE never knew whether he could play
or not. There's this difference now-everybody so far is
physically able"
AS it turned out, Quarterback Faloney did not play, ex-
cept for a couple of minutes, and Oklahoma won a TO VIC
tory on New Years Day, 1854. They wired, patched and
needed Faloney for weeks, but to no avail. Coach Tatum
took the blame for the defeat, but it was obvious to Mary
landers that without Faloney the Terrapins were not the
young men who had gone unbeaten in So and won No. !
national ranking. IN y
T3 AT THE MOMENT, the Terrapins are struggling along
without Tatum, the coach who must be the nostest in mo-
ton. Flying back from Rochester after what is whinsically
called a speaking engagement, Big Jim scooped up a clean
shirt at College Park and, still on the run but now whistfing
Dixie" caught transportation to Norfolk to check on how
things are coming in the Tidewater region. Things" could
mean large young men who play tackle, but there is no need
to pursue the subject.
In the steam-heated office of Publicist Joe Blair there
was warmth for the chilled body and balm for the pessimistic
mind. I'm at least one respect" Blair sighed happily, I'VE are
better off than we were after the 1858 s~eason-before the
"a Orange Bowl game, I mean. Now we've got quarterbacks.
Healthy ones, I'm talking about now"
A visitor said:
"Joe, you don't have a quarterback as good as Faloney.
You know it -. Tatum knows it"
81 was talking about healthy quarterbacks," Blair cor
rected. "Faloney was a very good one. That was considered
Maryland's all-time backhed-Faloney, Dick Nolan, Chef
Hanulak and Ralph FELTON,. But the point is ths-Oklahoma
never saw that backfeld except briefly. Without Faloney 4.
well, you saw how it went"
BACK OF FALoNEY that season was a sturdy youngSter
named Charley Boxold, a junior. Boxold had a lot Of pressure
on him. First, he wasn't used to working with the No. ! team.
Faloney, Nolan, Hanulak and FELTON, were seniors who'd been
playing as a unit for three years. Scratching Faloney, as was
necessary, Marylands backfeld had to go along with Boxold.
It just didn't work.
Lets say that Faloney may have been a cut above our
uuarterbacks now" Blair amiably conceded. But look at it
this way-Frank Tamburelo is healthy and so is Lynn Beigh-
toll. Each has worked with the first unit. Tamburello is the
No. / quarterback. He got that way in the "a season-aoout
halfway through it, as l recall, or against South Carolina
and the guy he ousted was Boxold. Mind, now, Tamburello
was a sophomore at the time.
"In other words, he dethroned Boxod, a senior. Now
Beightol is No. 2. No Jack Scarbath, no Faloney. no Boxold
ahead of him. Only Tamburello, and it's my feeling that
Beightol did as much to get US in the Orange Bowl as anybody
else"
Above the kissing of the ~brand-new steam units in the
brand-new $3L5 million indoor arena in which Blairs office
is housed, there seemed to be a brand-new hiss from Joe
himself.
"As sure as we're sitting here, thawing out" Blair said,
"Beghtol won us the Clemson game, and that was the one
we needed" .~f
LOOKING BACK, it could be simple truth. Quarterback
Tamburelo was battling some infection, or whatever happens
to key players, and Marylands chances looked dark when
Clemson took a 1910 lead.
"Beightol, father of three, saved the day" Blair pro-
nounced. I'VE came from behind to win, 25-12. He completed
four passes for &3 y~ards-two for touchdowns-and directed
one other scoring drive. Tamburelo scored the final touch
down, but Beightol did the spade work on that one, too"
so Tamburelo-Beghtol a combine, might unseat the
Oklahomas?" asked a guest.
tits a better pair of quarterbacks I'm thinking, than
what we showed Oklahoma in the other Orange Bowl" Blair
argued. "Tf you study it a little bit, this whole thing is cock
eyed. Nearly everything Is reversed"
TO INTERRUPT JOE BLAIR, positions are, indeed, at
least different.
Last time-and hrst-that Maryland faced Oklahoma,
the Terrapins were No. l and the Sooners No. 8. On January
2, it will be reversed, exactly-Okahoma No. ! and Mary
land No. 3.
Its the top defensive team in the Nation, us, versus the
top offensive team, Oklahoma" Blair was saying. And never
mind what happened the other time. I only say this:
We've got a better team than the one that whipped
Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl of SO and a better team than
the one that got beat, 10, by Oklahoma In the "a game.
Lots Of people don't believe 1t. but ! do"