Evening star., 1960-10-20
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New Hero III. Town " +

WE HAVE A NEW football hero in town. as you must
know. Name of Ralph GugieImi He's been around more
esS since 1855 but amounted to much People
were beginning to wonder about his billing as Notre
Danes last great quarterback" :" '@Fs-<
The hero of that 2424 hanger against the Giants
last Sunday sitting in the clubhouse Griffith Sta
dium and saying that of his old problems were
mental.
after drafted No by the Redskins in IS had
pretty good night in the College An-Star game in Chi
cago," Ralph saying. Then got on plane and
flew to California to join the pros You know what the
first words Joe Kuharich said to me? He said:
Ralph, you're our right safety
"A thing like that spins around, especially high
strung emotional guy like me-" Goog said. "At Notre
Dame well, you know how it was there"
At Notre Dame he fabulous Handsome and
free and 20 years DID, the pet of Frank Leah who called
Ralph the greatest quarterback coached" He
considered cnch to step right into the Redskins quarter
backing job Eddie LeBaron or no Eddie LeBaron.
MAYBE THIS ISN'T apt Smile," Ralph was say
ing, "but what Kuharch told me like sports editor
with Is or 80 years behind him moving to paper and
being told he to write the ovelorn column. He'll
was an offensive quarterback, not right safety"
Goog stood in the shadow of LeBaron for five years.
less time in the armed forces Playing for service team
is better than not playing at all" Ralph saying "but
it's preparation for rejoning the pros It may be all
right for lineman but for quarterback left half
back it's no good You get sloppy and pick up bad habits
about the mental problems" he prompted.
well, there only two, really" Ralph said with
LeBaron gone I'm No. L. know it, feel differently.
know I'm running the ball club win, lose or draw
'The other thing is my bum knee talk to myself. I
say You haven't go bad knee! say to myself There's
no LeBaron. It's all up to you
TAKE THAT GAME in New York last Sunday. I
didn't have good first half. The Giants smeared me
pretty good. Now If LeBaron the club wouldn't
have played at all in the second half know that much
And people would have said, Well, he's the old
Gugliemi'"
Actually, Ralph is far from old. He's 26 now and ap-
parenty approaching his peak as pro. He throw
he's command type of guy Tim Temerario of Mike
Nixon's coaches, talking of Goog the other day.
Hes told the guys in huddle that if they didn't
feel like blocking for him to get the hell off the field"
"I didn't make it that strong" Ralph says although
in effect that's what meant get keyed up chew out
guys but say get the hell off the field Some
body might tell me to do the same thing"
Ralph thinks his couple of of service football
hurt him to the extent that football of that type
for lazy mind 'In the pro league" he pointed out,
you're up against many 13 ID different deenseS
In Army Air Force Navy football there's no such
problem. It's far less complicated"
NOT MANY HOT-SHOT college quarterbacks make it
big in their first year two years. Bobby Layne and
Chuck Conery tops in their profession considered
early failures An exception Bob Watereld Yet for
the Goog it's been long wait =,
Temerario probably has had as such to do with
Guglielmis improvement anybody "Its been a state
of mind with Ralph Tim says He getting clobbered
when his protection failed him. Lots of times he used to
throw the ball to target and it would be intercepted
"Notice against the Giants, though that nobody was
ntercepting. And when Ralph in danger of being
cobbered he ran out of bounds We've tried to tell him not
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