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CLOUDBUSTER
September 19, 1942
’Busters Cop Opener, Gun for Harvard
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Pre-Flighters Win First Battle
The Cloudbusters unleashed a bit of lightning football in their
first gridiron clash of the season last Saturday night at Bowman
Gray stadium in Winston-Salem to defeat a stubborn-fighting
Catawba College eleven. The future flying aces of the U. S. Navy
took control for a few fleeting minutes in the second period to
smash out a pair of touchdowns.
In the upper left photo Leonard Eshmont, former Fordham
star, leaves a Catawba tackier flat on his face as he races around
end for a gain. In the upper right photo Bob Blood, Navy back,
side-steps to avoid a Catawba tackier in a dash for yards around
left end. Blood is a former Amherst gridster. At lower left Artie
Jones, former Richmond back, is snapped piling into the arms
of Holshouser, Catawba back, after missing his stiff-arm in an
effort to break into the clear. (Photos courtesy The Winston-
Salem Journal and Sentinel.)
Mid-West Track Ace
Stepping high, wide, and handsome.
Cadet William T. Benn, of Minne
apolis, Minn., was state high school
champion of high hurdles in ’35 and
’36, finalist in the national intercol
legiate track meet in ’41, and place win
ner in the Big Ten conference meet in
’41.
Former Airline Employee
Traveling airman was Cadet Peter
Alexander Marcusson, jr., of the
Fourth Battalion, before coming here.
He was for five years with American
Airlines working in many different
cities throughout the country; his home
station is Hollis, N. Y.
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Shirts
Stationery
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sity football games.
Those familiar with Navy
cheers are particularly needed,
but any experienced rah-rah
leader is invited to answer this
call.
Various types of Cloudbuster
cheers are also needed.
Interested parties are urged
to see Lieut, (jg) Frank L. Gil
lespie, assistant welfare officer in
Room 113, Alexander Hall.
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Seven Cadets
To Serve As
Football Managers
By Cadet Robert Flavelle
After a week of strenuous competi
tion, seven cadets have been chosen
to serve on the managerial staff of the
Cloudbuster football team.
Each manager will make at least one
trip with the “Busters” during the
season, and will be head manager dur
ing the week preceding his assign
ment.
Although the cadets selected have
taken on extra duties as managers,
they will not be excused from activi
ties that come in their regular Pre-
Flight training. They must take ex
ercises with the grid squad, and are
required to run two laps around the
field with the gridders at the end of
each workout.
Those selected for the cadet man
agerial staff are S. K. Fitchijian (King
fisher), Erie, N. Y,; J. M. Shields
(Kingfisher), Pelham Manor, N. Y.;
E. C. Grimshaw (Mustang), Glen
Ridge, N. J.; W. C. Parrish (Sky
rocket), Greenville, N. C.; L. S. Mu-
larski (Skyrocket), S. Bound Brook,
N. J.; W. C. Young (Skyrocket),
Wilson, N. C.; and W. C. Bono (Devas
tators), Passaic, N. J.
Cadets Fitchijian and Shields ac
companied the team to Winston-
Salem, N. C., for the opener with
Catawba College, Sept. 12.
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Schedule
A rock ’em and sock ’em football
team that may be one of the best in
the nation will give the cadets some
thing to write home about this season
when Lieut. Comdr. Jim Crowley’s
Cloudbusters undertake a stiff sched
ule against the top aggregations in the
East.
The team made its debut at Winston-
Salem, N. C., Saturday night, Sept.
12, by overcoming a surprisingly
strong Catawba College eleven, 13 to 2,
and next Saturday invades the Ivy
League for a clash with Harvard’s
Crimson at Cambridge, Mass. From
then until Dec. 12, when the Iowa
Cadets close the campaign here, the
Cloudbusters have week end dates
with the Georgia Cadets, North Caro
lina State, Boston College, Temple,
Syracuse, Georgetown, Manhattan,
William and Mary, Fordham and
Colgate.
Against Catawba the ’Busters
sparkled individually but the coopera
tion that makes a team click as a unit
was missing. Faulty downfield block
ing muffed at least two touchdowns and
unfamiliarity with the plays cost more
than a few yards. Such, however, was
expected and no one was disappointed
in the showing made.
Working with an ever-changing per
sonnel and faced with the task of
teaching his intricate Notre Dame sys
tem of play to men who learned their
football under mentors using many
different styles, Lieut. Comdr. Crow
ley and his staff have done an excellent
job in building a squad that is a credit
to the Navy. They block and tackle,
run and roll and sweat and swear for
two hours daily after fulfilling their
assignments on the station. They ask
for and receive no concessions and
every man on the 50-man varsity unit
can go sixty minutes.
Today Coach Crowley has a scrim
mage on the docket that may go far
in determining who will make up the
33-man squad that will make the trek
to Cambridge for the tussle with John
Harvard. Since Catawba completed 11
of 21 passes, the Headman has been
concentrating on a defense against
aerials to discourage any attempts by
Harvard to try the overhead route
when running plays break up on the
Cloudbusters’ double-tough line. Rough
work on the Emerson Field sod also is
scheduled for Tuesday and Wednes
day. The party will leave Thursday
night and arrive at the scene of action
in time for a workout Friday after
noon in Harvard Stadium.
Catawba, a hustling hard-charging
outfit, got off to a 2 to 0 lead when Bill
Krywicki, ’Buster quarterback, was
tackled in his own end zone after in
tercepting a first quarter pass. In the
second period the Navy started an of
fensive that resulted in two touch
downs, one the result of a blocked kick,
and dominated the game until the final
gun.
Early in the second session, Art
Jones, Navy halfback, quick-kicked to
the Catawba 12 and one play later End
Hayward Sanford crashed through to
block a punt and Tackle Herb Maack
covered the ball in the end zone for six
points. Sanford missed the conversion
and the ’Busters led, 6 to 2.
A few minutes later End John Wit-
kowski took a 39-yard pass from Jones
on the Catawba 10 and trotted across
for the second score. This time San
ford place-kicked the extra point and
that ended the scoring for the night.
Sharing honors in the backfield corps
with Jones was Cadet Joe Martin, for
mer Cornell star, who reeled off runs
of 42,, 25 and 18 yards during his stay
in the contest. Statistics show a top-J
heavy majority for the Navy. First!
downs were even, 7 to 7, but the Cloud-j
busters gained 235 yards by running]
plays to 43 for the Indians. I
Depth at tackle and center is Crow-
See ^BUSTERS WIN, page 8