Evening star., 1960-10-24
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAVV By FRANCIS sTANN
Of the Pros and CoIIeoes

ON THE COLLEGE football front these days are a
number Of rare items. Who would have thought for
instance, that Notre Dame would lose four in a row?
Some people beginning to wonder how secure is the
coaching job of Joe Kuharich
The Washington area teams, which weren't supposed
to place in the top 10 or even 20 maybe suddenly have
come up with hot club in Navy. The Mddes were No
in the Associated Press poll last week and may move up
anough that ITO win over Penn was both lackuster and
automatic. 50 y
The Air Force Academy which got off to quite start
year ago against Army of its dedicated opponents
now has dropped three in row. including decision to
Navy that could have run up to something like 5O-3
AT Fort Worth, Pitt and Texas Christian played to
TT tie that featured hstcufing brawl ended,
apparently by the tried and true method of playing the
Star Spanged Banner The law also had to take hand
to break it among spectators after that Ole Miss
Arkansas ending at Little Rock.
THE NATIONS NO team, Iowa. beat Purdue by
21-14, with an 84yard scoring by scrub lineman
paving the This close squeak for the Iowans
and could have cost them top ranking
But the No. team Ole Miss also had it close pulling
1t out 1O7 with that aStpay 39yard field goal that had
to be kicked twice Some say it wasn't kicked successfully
although went the scoreboard Coach Frank Broyles
OF Arkansas still Is holering that the kick missed
and that everybody in the park, with the apparent
cepton of the referee, knows it.
AS for the rest of the APPS 10 ranking teams none
lost except Purdue There will be revsons possibly but
hardly drastic ones.
The AP has selected panel of sports writer's and radio
doing the voting 1t used to be that any paper
radio station that felt like it could send in its VOTE
there suspicious that sectional prejudice pride
sometime colored the results.
MEANWHILE, BACK ON the RANCH Maryland was
wonderfully dramatic for the second straight week. The
Terrapns all but left for dead after the Texas
defeats squeezed out twoponter Clemson and then
outscored Wake Forest 14-13 last Saturday
Maryland could be the best second-haf team in the
Atlantic Coast Conference for the second straight year.
but it would appear the league title already has been
locked up by Dukes surprisingly potent Blue Devils
Duke is 40 in the conference with only Wake Forest
and North Carolina ahead All other teams in the con-
ference except c. State and South Carolina at least
twome losers and the single conference defeats of the
Wolfpack and the Gamecocks inflicted by Duke
Sophomores have betrayed Clemson's defending
champions both ofense and defense. If there's bowl
team in the ACC this year it probably will be Duke
although the Blue Devils have lost to Michigan and
Georgia Tech, Navy and UCLA ahead N. C. State which
handed Mississippi Southern its first defeat Saturday
night still has lost only and could be hopeful
BUT THE SUPER THRILLER-and this was two weeks
in the Redskins 2727 tie with Pittsburgh Last
week it was PAPA with the Giants George Preston
Marshall president of the Redskins felt the officials were
not up to par which is not precisely approach
Mike Nixon, the coach, seemed to think 27-27 tie
with the steelers was fair days work But in the club
house after the deadlock Mike saying the Redskins
could have won it.
could have should have?" asked an interviewer
Gould have" Nixon replied, with little luck
and we had some-we could have won."
For Redskins reject" it was suggested, Rudy
Bukich sort of passed the Redskins dizzy"
Hes great thrower," Nixon said II don't know if
Bobby Layne he able to pass, could have done
any better.
"Bukich did hellava job. He threw low but those
are the passes you don't pick off,"
"on the other hand" Mike was reminded, "you don't
run very far with low passes"
yeah" Nixon agreed sadly. "All you do is pick up
first downs"