Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-08-17
HEGH AT LARGE
Luckmun Recalls
$50 Holocaust
By MORRIS SIEGEL

ACCORDING TO NUMBER of the survivors who
still show the effects of footballs most explosive detona
ton there good that out of the 1870 walop
ing the Chicago Bears pastered the Redskins of %
years ago.
Parents found a message in the rout about which to
pranksh young IF you don't behave" fathers
Of that threatened their male offspring "I make you
play for the Redskins against the Bears when you get
bigger"
The result was a community of well-behaved young
boys The threat of another 1910 holocaust had
effect potential delnquens than bogeyman stories
the strap.
SID LUCKMAN TALKED about the unbelievable exhibit
ton the other night and Luckman, of course, speak
of it with authority He the Bears quarterback that
day.
Luckman VOLUNTEER quarterback coach for his
niercial alma mater, but you it you could
forget it.
"I guess the perfect football team that day
can't imagine any club having hotter day. But today
we never could do that again. The teams are too good
The players better the coaching superb and the
defenses just too smart for it to happen again..
If there was turning point in that epic it came
three weeks before Griffith Stadums most beieve-itor-
not performance The Redskins whipped this Bears
teams 7-3 defeat which Luckman thinks bless
ing in disguise although George HalaS and Of his
Bears regarded it as fondly then as they do now
REDSKINS REDSKINS REDSKINS that's all
heard for almost three weeks, day in and day out
Luckman said "Ralas did fantastic psychological job
building us up for the playoff game.
And George Marshall helped, too. He said we were
bunch of crybabies, firshal football team, and he
promised his Redskins would give real shelackng the
next time played.
In the dressing room before the game HalaS didn't
bother with the last-minue technical stuff he normally
went before game. And there pep talk from
him, either. We didn't need We had been fired up
for almost three weeks.
All he did tell us to go over to a wall where he
pasted the Washington newspapers quoting Marshall
calling cutters and frst-half team Several OF our
players including Joe sydahar and Bulldog Turner were
mad they practically through wall to get TO the
field"
THE GAME WASN'T ONE MINUTE old when Bill
Osmans scooted So yards for touchdown the second
play The Redskins took the following kickoff to the Bears
26-yard line where second down Sammy Baugh fpped
the unattended Charlie Malone in the end zone Malone
dropped the sure-fire tying touchdown.
This play, many felt, the turning point Baugh
was an exception IF Malone had caught it," Sam still
laughs, 1.-The score would have been 1871 that's all"
Luckman is inclined to agree BY halftime the Bears
we're in front 2S-O comfortable bulge for team
that had been labeled "firs-ha ball club" Haas, at
haftme, read Marshall's blast once more.
ut like lighting new fire under u.s." Luckman
recalled II remember in the third quarter when we were
in 'front.' 400 something like that of substitutes
suggested let up awhile.
HE was almost lynched in the hubble"
LUChMAN WAS With tne BEATS LoF IL years his
heart still belongs to them. There he said pointing at
Halas us the man everything to- Through him and
through the Bears what am today. II could have
a second father, Halas is my choice"
When Halas signed Luckman off the Columbia Uni
versty campus 1899 he paid the Brooklyn prospect the
second highest salary any Bear had earned at that time
Iuckmans contract was for $4,000 Only Red Grange had
ever made from Haas.
Today player makes almost that much out of one
game-the championship payoff.
But the world has been good to Luckman. He Is
millionaire manufacturer but still Bear at heart.