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»OLID DEFENSE KEY TO
UNBEATEN RECORDS
by The Associated Press
A solid defense, something
which most football coaches
and very few fans appreciate,
seetms to be the key to an un
beaten record this season.
Nine undefeated and uni:ed
major college teams and one
that’s unbeaten but tied, show
14) among the first dozen in
. the total defense figures re
leased today by the NCAA sta
tistical bureau'. Two others
are in the top 10 in “score
board defense” and that’s all
the top-flight teams there are i
who haven’t lost yet.
Boston College edged into
first place in defense against
both rushing and passing after
Navy was unable to preserve
its spotless record against
Penn State last Saturday. BC I
limited Detroit to 105 yards
and now have given up an ev- ’
• en 135 yards a game to three
opponents. Navy, which yield- 1
©4 218 yards to Penn State, i
has a 135.5 yards defense av
erage for four games. 1
Behind these two come once
tied Auburn, Maryland, Holy
Cross, Duke, Army, Colgate,
Syracuse, West Virjgdnia, Yale
and Michigan. Of these teams
only three — Army, Colgate,
and Syracuse — have been
beaten.
Colorado and Oklahoma,
who couldn’t edge into this
group, are fifth and tenth, re
spectively, in the points-allow
ed-a-game totals.
Navy, whose goal line was
(untouched until Saturday, tops
this list with 14 points in four
starts, an average of 3.5 a
game.
Maxylanuis imupenctraiDie
line has compiled the best rec
ord against ground attacks, al
lowing only 39.8 yards a game
(by rushing. Boston College is
second with a 48.7 yard allow
ance. Nebraska has displayed
fhe best defense aigainst pass
ing, yielding only 32.4 yards
0 game. Second place in this
department tgoes to Penn, ^ a
four-time loser, writh only 33.8
yards a (game through the air.
Syracuse is third with 34.7
yards.
*MURR¥IN’ HUGH” GETS
NEW FOOTBALL, NAME
SAN FRANCISCO (/P) The
■‘Hurry!n Hugh” tag they hung
rn a halfback named McEl
henny when he (broke in with
the San Francisco 49ers four
seasons ago has been revised.
Now he’s “Hurtin’ Hugh.
The stpeedy 'back from Wash
i^ton, one of the National
hurry all year — and the 49ers
offense has (been '“‘hurtm as a
result.
McElhenny sutrerea au ^
i.uf'y ito his left foot in an ex
hibition game back in August,
lie sat out most of the pre
aeason games and, until other
injuries came along to hamper
other 'backs, saw litftle action
when league play opened a
month ago.
®The foot still hurts, he said
Thursday, but it’s getting bet
“It’ll be another week, may
be two, before I can run the
way I ought to,” he said
“When I try to cut to my right
it hurts.” . .
Just how much the injury
has hurt the 49ers, too, is evi
dent in the ball-carrying sta
tistics. In four games this sea
son, McElhenny hais carried 21
times for a net gain of 33
yards. Last year, in the first
six games (before he was knock
eel out off action for the season,
he had packed the ball 64
times for 515 yards and a lea
gue-leading eight-yard average
Last year '.he 49rs were un
beaten until the sixth game,
when McElhenny was hurt.
This year they have a 2-2 rec- i
ord. !
In the 49ers four NFL
games so far, McElhenny has
been used primarily as a decoy j
as is obvious from his ball-!
carrying total.
Sports Trail — I
by Whitney Martin
i
NEW YORK (/P) Army and
Navy might as well gets,ready
for it. One of these fine years
a robust voice will come boom-.
ing out oif the west demanding
‘■"Hey, how albout me?”
Nestled against the beautiful
backdrop of the towering Rock
ies near Colorado Springs is
the new United States Air For
ce Academy, already trying its .
wings, you might say, in this j
game called football, and imipat
iently awaiting the day it can
challenge its service rivals.
It’s really starting from
scratch. It has no glorious tra
ditions such as can be boasted
by West Point and Annapolis.
It has no ralbid alumni follow
ing. sending moral support from
alf parts of the globe. It doesn’t
even have, at the moment, up
per classmen.
But every great institution
had to have a beginning. Time
alone will take care of the oth
er factors, which include the de
velapment of a representative
football team.
The 'ires'nman, or pieoe, or
whatever such Igrouip may be
called, class of ::he new acad
emy already has started its foot
ball program. It defeated Den
ver freshman team the other
day, 34-18. indicating that a
working knowledge of the sport
isn’t considered a detriment
when a prospective student lists
his accomplishments.
It will take ifour or five years
at a minimum before a Varsity
team .will be able to compete
on equal terms with establish
ed schools.
Next year it will be strictly
a sophomore team; the follow
ing year a mixture of juniors
and sophomores, and the year
after that third year men will
be competing. *
Assuming that the academy
gets its share of (good prep ath
letes, and that the coaching is
top-drawer, there is no reason
to believe the Falcons, as the
academy teams will be called,
will not develop into a real
gridiron power.
We don t know, hut we nave
an idea that the problem of foot
ball schedules for the next few
years already is being consider
ed. Most large schools line wp
heir schedules at least two or
| three years, maybe more, in ad
j vance, so the immediate prob
; lem would seem to be to try to
{squeeze into schedules already
! pretty well set.
Assuming that the ai.hletic
j development of the 'fledgling
'academy proceeds as milgfht be
expected, it also is assumed the '
school will want to meet the
Army and Navy teams, the sit |
uation thus presenting some-.
thing of a problem.
The Army-Navy game, now
played in Philadephia, IS the
game as far as those two schools
are concerned. It is the one
game world series of the service
you might say, and adding an
other contender would crea'.e
a situation something like a
third major league would create
in ibaselbalL
Through tradition, the Army
Navy game'probably will con-!
tinue as the service highlight, |
but it might not necessarily de
termine the service champion
ship. If both Army and Navy
played the Air Force academy,
and lost, the Army-Navy (game
would be for the runnerup spot
This is all speculation, of
course, tout there is no reason
to believe the bright young men
who attend the Air Force sch
ool will be less athletic mind
ed, and less qualified physical
ly for football, than those at
West Point and Annapolis.
Anyway, the development of
the fine new school athletical
ly will be followed with inter
est. And just wait until they
get their opponents in 'that
rarified atmosphere for home
games! They’ll know why it’s
ealled "‘Air” Force.
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