Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-02
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAH By FRANCIS sTANN
So Now They Know
ON THE BANKS OF THE


high good will regns supreme and the Midshpmen
now knoU they will go bowl game If they play good
football which means, of course beating Army
Capt. slade Cutter, the athletic director at the
Naval Academy thinks he is succeeding very good man
in Capt Elliott Lcughlin Il just hope I'm able to fill
his Shoes" Cutter says. "There1 be changes with
the exception of bowl policy"
Here is the way Slade, one-tme grid hero and a
submariner almost from the day he received his COM
mission, puts 1t:
Were definitely going to have Navy Marine Corps
Memorial Stadium We're going ahead with it with de-
termination. But it's So million proposition and not
nickel is coming out of public funds"
So prompted, you're going into the bowl
business"
Lets say that from now on the Academy will be
receptive bowl bids if % have good season, ca
We beat Army and go invited to major bowl"
49,
THE BIG OFFICER, whose kicking toe beat Army,
Metre Dame and Maryland IN 1884 shapes practical
man Bowls are big business One teams end Of the
Sugar or Cotton Orange Bowl we'll 100000
That will buy lot of concrete and quite few seats
in Navy's dream" stadium.
Navy players and coaches alike still are ranked by
refusal last fall to permit the Mddes to play in the
Cotton Bowl The team had good season, winning six,
losing only to Tulane early in the campaign, and tying
Duke and Army, both at TT But after the Army dead
lock the big brass apparently expecting in game
that's almost always doghght, refused to sanction
bowl bid
That's all over with now The players and coaches,
Capt. Cutter assures know beforehand they will play
New Orleans Dallas if the Middies record warrants
it. And if Navy is invited
This is not believed to be major problem, meaning
the invite Navy in bowl spells big business and although
the Middies have played in only two32 years apart
they were slightly terrific
BACK IN 1928 NAVY played Washington in the Rose
Bowl and it ended in a 14-14 tie Then, January /,
1855 Navy went to the Sugar Bowl the strength Of
an 81 record Including 27-20 win over ArmyD and
decisively upset favored Mississippi team 21-0
The audacity and dash of Eddie Erdeatz' Middes
captvated the Sugar Bowlers, intrigued the Cotton
5cwlers and thrilled the audience on the Tv network
at didn't hurt recruiting either Cutter says 1T was
not only good promotion for Navy but for the Marines
Army and Air Force
I'm in favor of bowl games for Navy If we have
the team. If do we pay for that stadium intend
to have ready by 1859 that much sooner"
Slade thinks right now that Navy has potentially
Of its best a-time teams That's not safe remark
to make" he admits You can run into a little hard
luck injuries and that sort of thing and wind
up losing five games will say this much-we have the
finest coaching staff in our history"
SLADE COACHED TWO YEARS-l937 and l938-at
Annapolis He was, Of assistant because he
was ensign and not too long out Of the Academy.
But we coaches the amateur side" he points
cut. "Erdeatz and his aides pros They train the
players in the pro style.
Il can't tell you how much impressed, watching
practice for the first time not long There isn't a
minute wasted In my days used to hold wind sprnts
Erdelaz doesn't need them. Say you're guard working
with a certain unit. When coach tells you that now
it's time to drill with the passblocking unit 100 yards
away another side Of the field you damn we'll sprint
there in II or IL seconds fiat, maybe faster"
SHADES big year 34-and it was big. one
for Navy too The Mddes lost only to Pitt and Cutter
kicking from placement was tremendous guy The
margin Notre Dame 1916 but it field goal
by Slade that turned the tide 1t another field goal
that beat a good Maryland team, 1913
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with Army. 1t a rainy day at Franklin Field in
Philadelphia The service rivals sogged up and down
in the mud Finally Navy got the ball Army's 2O-yard
line and Cutter pulled out Of the line TO kick
1T was big moment in my life" says the man
whose forays against the Japanese entities him to
lot Of fruit salad including the Navy Cross Billy Clark
our punter, held the ball He the best-real quick
with his hands-and he placed 1t right the spot"
Capt Cutter doesn't remember too much else after
putting his foot to the ball But wet muddy and heavy
Il sailed true and 1t wound up Navy 3; Army O.
Then the Midshpmen pouring out Of the stands
and enveloped their heroes And sade Of course headed
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