Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-23
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DKAW By FRANCIS s1ANN
Properly Close Together

FOR A COUPLE OF LONG overdue testimonials the
dinners honoring Eddie Rosenblum and Dutch Bergman
strangely and yet properly close together EddieS
affair Tuesday at the willard Duchs two nights later
at the Statler They could have made combined test
monal because this pair began to enrich the Washington
sports scene at about the time
Eddie Rosenblum is pleasant guy who came to town
from Bayonne NJ j., and, while he is affiliated with many
organizations boxing fans will remember him best per-
hapS for his part writing the bill that legalized boxing
in the District of Columbia.
We had been bootlegging the SPORT if you recall
There fights at Portner'S Arena and Twin Cities
GaureD and Fort Washington among other sites just
past the of the District law And then an under
standing Congressman from New Jersey, Fred Hartley,
the farce.
That in 1884 and while boxing might not be today
what should be- it is legal and convenient for the natives
DUTCH BERGMAN CAME HERE from Peru, Ind,
via Nore Dame and the Army Air Corps in World War
He to coach football and be athletic director at
Catholic University. Gu never had it so gamorous.
BY 1891, the old Notre Dame halfback fielding
team that eight of nine games He took the 1885
Catholic u team to the Orange Bowl and thrilling
2Ol9 victory Mississippi Four years later he took
another team to Ell Paso for the Sun Bowl against
Tempe of Arizona which ended in scoreless deadlock.
Those were good and colorful teams that Bergman
turned out at Gu They sorey missed from the college
scene Dutch an imaginative coach and, while his
squads deep, there always a Sprnkling
of stars.
Bergman developed such stars Tommy Whelan, Bus
Sheary, Tommy Oliver John Jankowski, Bingo Flynn,
Vince Fraatz Whitley Ambrose and flock of others of
similar caber Bergman, himself, elusive ball
carrier at Nore Dame Some of the technique rubbed off
on the likes Of Whean and others.
DUTCH WAS PRETTY good pro football coach, too
Back in 1943 he head man. to George Preston
Marshall of the Redskins The Bergman coached Redskins
didn't quite go all the way but they did win the Eastern
Division championship.
AL Fiorentno manages the Touchdown Cluh
days, of Bergmans linemen in 49, He recalls
the crucial game that up December 49, when the
Redskins meeting the New York Giants in playoff
for the Eastern Division
Wed just lost twice in successive weeks to the Giants"
AL remembers. 1.-THE Giants licked in Griffith Stadium
3l7, December H. and December they beat us in
New York, 14-10
Dutch charged us in the dressing room before the
payoff," Fiorentno recalls HE said that he made no
plans to go to Chicago to play the Bears for the big title
because he confident the Redskins ready
cede to the Giants. You've given up he told u.s. and
want no parts of you"
That a hopped-up Redskn squad AL says. They
had begun to hate their coach but mostly they hated the
Giants SO they went out and waloped the Giants, $780,
in of the greatest performances Redskn team
turned in. Needless to say their hate for Bergman
vanished.
THESE ARE TWO VERY versatile guys who are being
honored by their friends Rosenbum belongs to more
committees than is possible to list Bergman on the
other hand, merely COACH athletic director, radio
and televson commentator newspaper coumnist after
dinner speaker and currently general manager of the
National Guard Armory. Hardly has any talents at ALL
These are two real nice guys and they've contributed
a bit to the community and it's high time that proper
tribute was paid There is no way of overlooking their