Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-26
ne MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBAcKs
Close Coll Means Navy Shokeup;
CIV Looks Good; Virginia Inept
Navy, 4; WAN. .
By BILL FUCHS

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By BILL FUCHS
The Navy coaching stan.
shaken up somewhat by that
marrow victory Saturday. win do
some shaking up Of its own.
Lineup changes will be the order
|of the day at Annapolis this
week.
Navy figures to have enough
anxious moment on its schedule
with Notre Dame, Duke and
Pittsburgh. Getting q scare from
10 21-point underdog 1t beat BY
l27 points last year and q team
THAT admittedly is rebuilding with
returning servicemen In key roles
comes under the heading Of UNI
desirable complications.
The Middies will be favored
Iagain Saturday when they take
lon South Carolina at Columbia.
Is. G. The Gamecocks won their
opener against Wofford and then
took q beating from surprising
Wake Forest, which also put the
lskids under VPI.
Misses Two Ends
In going over the william d
Mary game, Coach Eddie Erde-
llatz emphasized the need for new
faces on the starting team. said
Ihe missed his two top ends
lRonnie Beagle and Earle Smith
and threw Q bouquet toward
Bob Lusk, the 2l0-pound William
land Mary senior tackle from
Williamson, w. Va. who has Just
returned from two years tn the
Army. Last year he made the
lAll-Army team ct Fort Lee. Hes
the best tackle we've played
against In more than two years. !"
IErdelatz commented.
Smith suffered q hip bruise in
1.-THE opening minutes and was re-
placed BY Jim Barker. who
caught the touchdown pass from
| George Welsh. Beagle was out
with o hand injury. but win be
ready for the Gamecocks.
There was no doubt that Will
liam q Mary was up for this one.
|"The feeling around the campus
was that we would get mauled,
Coach Jack Freeman said. But
I knew Thursday that the boys
would give Navy . pretty good
ball game
| Loss Of Quarterback Hurts
What Freeman didn't know
even by game time Saturday was
that he would lose his top quar-
terback. AL GRECO. and would
have to rely on an INFESTED
freshman. Grieco left under his
own power. suffering from q
slight conclusion. No one In the
press box suspected he was In
jured. The assumption was that
Tom Secules, Q hrash 16-year-
Iold from Williamsport, Pa. was
doing 20 well Is his replacement
that Freeman decided to let well
enough alone.
II didn't see Secules until Sep
tember l." Freeman said. Hes
Just Q freshman and ! didn't plan
to use him more than four or
five minutes. But with GRECO
hurt I was forced 10 leave him
In the game. ! was pleasantly
surprised" k
The mud. the absence Of the
two big ends, W6sM,s desire
and the reluctance to bring
out into the open its entire bag
iof plays contributed to Nays
Jack Of steam. Only on that
touchdown drive In the opening
minutes did the Middies resem-
ble the Sugar Bowl champion
lship team Of last year.
Expects Improvement
| Maybe It came too easy"
someone ut the academy COM
lmented. THAT FIRST touchdown,
] mean"
| wen profit by the game, /"
Erdelatz said. These boys are
mot going to live on that years
reputation, and I think they've
Learned that. Well get better.
Frankly, I don't think we looked
too bad ct that"
/ That's o fact. Lest anyone be
Imisled, Navy did win the game,
Igiving them q iive-game streak
dating back 10 last seasons one
Touchdown loss to Notre Dame.