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SPOjVJ By • Prof, M, L, Turner ■ --- •^■ Perhaps you remember that baseball was th^ chief-'-.tppic o;^ articlc on'sports in last month*s issue. The world series*> had just ended with the St, Louis Cardinals emerging conquerors bf the St. Louis Brovflis. Since that time about the only piece of news concerning the realm of sports to come from St, Louis informs the world that the Cards are planning to construct a million dollar basef- ■ball park pretty soon after the war is over. At this particular time the sports news' that is knocking some o: us mentally cockeyed comes from the gridiron. For instance, it was only three days ago that Notre’-Dailie suffered its most humiliating de-\^ feat in all its history. Arid the'responsibility of tliis‘terrible set back to the Irish rests squarely upon the shoulders of the Cadets from West Point, For thirteen long years the teams representing the army had been denied the taste of victory over the Fighting Irish. But on last Sat urday ?i“ter-noon the army floodgates T;ere 9pened, And what a deluge of touchdowns! For sixty minutes it literally rained points for the Army, After the lightning and ■‘.ho thundering had ceased and the skies ,^ad. cleared, : it vjas revealed that , the Cadets had amassed the amazing total of fifty-nine points*r. All that the Irish from Notre Dame could clain for their pains for the afternppr> was the proverbial little v/hite ^ goose egg, Statistici£ms point out to us,^that it. exactly forty years ago that * Notre Dame'suffer^ed.a defeat of fifty-eight to-nothing at the han^s of Wisconsin, Once again, on last Saturday afternoon Army defeated Notre Dame by the ^core of fifty—' nine to nothing^ this being the worst defeat ever suffered by the boys from South Bend, By the way, we are sure that the boys in the navy were glad l^o learn'that the Midshipmen didn*t do so badly in their game with Cornell last week. True, they were able to garner only seven touchdowns while holding Cornell scoreless. But a forty- 'eight to nothing win is not to be sneezed at. We feel sure that the boys, in service are thinking, and no doubt talking, a great deal about what is going to happen when the Army and Navy teams meet in December, Relative to this grpsi;, game Ted,Meier, writing from New York, puts it as follows: "There is np longer any doubt that l^he coming Amy--Navy game at Annapolis on December 2 will ^ the game of the yeai: .^lith the national football championship at stake. On the heels of Army*s awesome 59-0 rout of Notre Dc?jne>‘ir^—Monday quarterbacks through-out the country and on our farflung sea and land battlcfrorits_,already are debating the merits of the two mighty service elevens," It is quite likely that those boys in service -who road the Hoover Rail would like to know hcT/ North Cardinals football tejims are faring this year. Well, up until Ihst Saturday the V/ake Forest team was leading the parade, boasting dh unbeaten and untied record. Prior to this time the Duke Blue Devils had suffered four successive defeats at the hands of-.Pei}nsylyania, North Carolina ^Jpe-Flight, Navy,/£xnd the povferful Army tepjn. The terjns thr.t had fallen before the onslaughts of the Demon Deacorjs were of somewhat smaller calibre than ^ycre=the opppnents of the Blue Devils, But'hopes were running high on the ^campus over at V/ake Forest, The Duke-iVake Forest game was, accord ing to all indications, going to be a natural. Enthusiasm vjas at high pitch. On the Saturday before this game with V/ake Forest Duke.'had beaten a stubborn eleven from Georgia Tech, They had demonstrated very conclusively, that, despite their several losses, they really did have a great team, T^he great question was; v^ould the Blue i''^/j.ls upset the apple cart and.-spoil Wake Forest's fine record and, furthermore, el- iivdnato a possible bowl bid toward which the Deacon adherents had been casting bewitch ing eyes. The teams met, The game was played*- 'After an .hour*-s tornadic rushing and gazelle-like cavorting on the part of the Dukq Blue Devils, the Wake Forest Deacons (Continued on next page) . ‘ .
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