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myth of Irish Dies; Catholic Central 8-0 Wins Prayer Pass Gives Sailors 19-14Upset Last-Second Toss Travels 46 Yards Detroit Free press PART TWO NOVEMBER 28, 1943 i i (ii uui hi i ii n.nj' i miii i mi' w-'1J nm.ui.iK.ii.. THE RECORDS To Wliom It May Concern By Dale oiut. int. uui lilvLAK of Stafford war the American public has been told repeatedly that the members of the armed forces were vuauy interested in sports and wanted them to continue. Usually me remarks came from individuals having a financial interest in the uninterrupted operation of athletics and the statements were based on hazy information acquired from individuals rather than groups.

In its December sports poll, Esquire magazine has reduced to figures the attitude of the soldier on wartime athletics. The results are interesting and in some instances fairly surprising. Thirteen camps were polled in various parts of the country to obtain this cross-section viewpoint. NOTRE DAME GREAT LAKES 41 Pittsburgh 0 20 Ft. Riley 19 55 Georgia T.

13 13 Purdue 35 Michigan 12 21 Iowa 0 40 Pittsburgh 0 13 Ohio State 6 0 N'western 0 41 Marquette 6 32 W. Mich. 50 Wisconsin 47 Illinois S3 Navy 26 Army 25 N'western 14 I. S'hawks 13 12 C. Grant 14 Gt.

Lakes 19 21 Indiana 25 Marquette 19 Notre D. BY CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN Associated Press Correspondent GREAT LAKES, 111., Nov. 27 The Great Lakes Bluejackets came in on an arm and a prayer today to make a myth of Notre Dame's invincibility. Big Steve Lach, the former Duke University and Chicago Cardinal star, looped a fantastic desperation pass 46 yards into the arms of Paul Anderson for a touchdown in the last 30 seconds of play which gave the Sailors a 19-14 triumph before a screaming crowd of 23,000 trainees. It was the first defeat this year for Notre Dame and ruined the Irish chance for their first unbeaten, untied season since 1930.

Anderson, ex-Western Reserve gridder, hugged the spiraling ball on the goal line and stepped into the end zone witnout an opponent within 15 yards of him. GRIDIRON DRAMA The dramatic finish was of the variety which will be talked about as long as football is played. For the fighting Irish had just ended a 75-yard scoring march in a duel with the clock to go ahead, 14 to 12, with a minute remaining in the game. Notre Dames kickoff went out on the 39. Lach tnen pitched lo yards to Cecil Pirkey to reach the Irish 46.

On the next play Lach faded back and with End Paul Limont virtually hanging around his shoulders like a necklace, he shook free and catapulted the ball to Anderson, who was hovering Turn to Page 4, Column 4 1 The first question deals with a soldier missing sports. A total of 57.49 per cent said they missed participating in athletics while 70.84 per cent reported they missed watching sports. And SWEET AND LOW Ed Burgess (64) drives across the goal line for the only touchdown in Saturday's annual Catholic-City prep football battle to put an 8-0 upset on ice for Catholic Central. The way was open and Burgess' low, hard drive was too much for the secondary. Dick Lane (61), Cooley head in an effort to stop him, but Ed wasn't to ree lress l'holo left half, gets his hand on Burgess' be denied.

84.21 per cent reported they hadn't forgotten all about games. mm Bigger, Better Baseball Predicted SOLDIERS TO THE tune of 91.43 per cent believe there will be a sports boom after the war with baseball leading with 30.43 per cent. Football is second with 29.34 while boxing is a distant third with 11.95. Baseball received more votes as the National game when the soldiers were asked what event would give them the biggest thrill. The World Series polled 31.76 per cent of the votes.

The Rose Bowl football game was next with 26.05 while a heavyweight title fight ranked third with 11.66. Then came the Kentucky Derby, the National Open golf champion-t ship and the National swimming championships. As the soldiers see it, football is the sport giving the training that helps in combat. Its vote was 45.77 while boxing was second with 19.34. Tennis finished well back, which is a trifle strange in that a recent poll of airplane pilots saw the net game win out.

Turn to Page 4, Column 1 Inspired Shamrocks Still Rule the Preps hy Surprising Cooley IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME AT HUDSON'S HUDSON STORE HOURS: DAILY, 9:45 to SATURDAY, 9:45 to 6:00 Gifts for a Man's WE SUGGEST HANDSOME LEISURE COATS Cooley team, 8 to 0, in the sixth annual Goodfellow championship game. In chalking: up their second sue cessive City football championship, the Shamrocks repeated a performance of 1938 when they upset the powerful Hamtramck team, 19 to 13, in the first game of the series. There was never much doubt about the ultimate victory, with the smashing Shamrock forwards tearing huge holes in the Cooley line to completely crush the Cardinals' vaunted running attack. All year those Cooley backs had galloped around the ends and inside the tackles to score eight consecutive triumphs, but the Shamrocks wouldn't yield an inch. Lack of reserves was supposed to be Central's big worry, but the Shamrocks played with few substitutions and carried the fight to the City League champions even at the final gun.

The Shamrocks were supposed to fold but they never got around to it. Ed Burgess, a hard-driving halfback, was the hero of the Shamrock triumph. His kicking and running were responsible for both Central tallies. Burgess sent long spiralling kicks out of bounds inside the ten-yard line twice in the first quarter, and these boots were the underlying cause of the Cardinal defeat. SMALL BEGINNING The Shamrocks collected their first two points when one of Burgess' kicks sailed out of bounds on the sevemyard lirie.

and two plays later Joe Miglio, Central's 80,000 Fans See Chicago Prep Tilt Special to tne Free rrtsi CHICAGO, Nov. 27 St. George High defeated the highly-touted Phillips High team, 19 to 12, today in Soldier Field to continue the Catholic City League's rule in the Mayor Kelly Football Bowl Series for the third straight year. Nearly 80,000 fans turned out to see the tenth game of the annual series, proceeds of which will be donated to the service men's centers of Chicago. right end, tossed Dick Lane for the safety in the end zone when Lane tried a wide sweep around the flank.

Another kick, which rolled dead on the Cooley two-yard line, set up the other marker. After two running plays failed, Cooley was forced to punt and Central took over on the Cardinal 48. That was where Mr. Burgess the runner took command. He slashed inside the end for 29 yards to the Cards' 19 and then hit Turn to Page 2, Column 5 At Left: This coat has a wool-and-ray-on gabardine front with sleeves and back of houndstooth-check wool.

Leather buttons. In brown, tan and blue combinations 15.65 Grid Scores SATURDAY'S RESULTS HIGH SCHOOL Catholic Cent'l 8 Cooley MIDWEST Great Lakes 19 Notre Dame Iowa Navy 32 Minnesota Oklahoma 26 Nebraska EAST Navy 13 Army Lafayette 58 Lehigh Brooklyn 12 Rutgers SOUTH X. Carolina 54 Virginia CampLejeune 13 Jacksonville So. Methodist 20 TCU Southwestern 21 Rice Georgia Tech 48 Georgia SW Louisiana 6 Randolph Field 0 FAR WEST Del Monte P-F 47 California 8 S. California 26 UCLA 13 O'Neill Signs vith Tigers Move Puts Halt to Talk of New Pilot BY CHARLES P.

WARD All doubts that Steve O'Neill would be the manager of the Tigers for the 1944 season were ended Saturday when it was announced that he had signed a ntw one-year contract. The salary was not disclosed. In announcing that O'Neill had bften signed for another term. Jack Zcller, Tiger general manager, also STEVE O'NEILL Remains at Tiger post signed to take the place of Dr. Gustav F.

Nemitz as Tiger trainer. Dr. Forsyth has been employed by the athletic department of the University of Detroit for a number of years. He also served as trainer for the Detroit Lions this season. O'Neill will journey from his Turn to Page 4, Column 7 Six other Shamrocks played the entire game against Cooley, but, impressively as they performed, Burgess overshadowed all.

Burgess gained 103 yards rushing while the entire Cooley team, with all of its highly touted backs, netted only 54. Burgess scored one touchdown; he did all of Central's Free Press Picks All-City Eleven The 1943 All-City High School football team, selected by Bob Latshaw with the co-operation of the coaches, appears on Page 3 of today's sports section along with the second and third choices and photographs of the players picked for the all-star i Navy Beats Army vdth Late Surge Middies Roll Up 13-0 Margin in Last Half STATISTICS AKMV NAVY First ilotvn Yard cainrd rtithing Pansea attempted Passes completed Yards sained passing Passes interrepted by I'mitinv average Opp. fumbles recovered Yards penalized av.T 57 40. 65 7 i 1: Scoring: Touchdow Point after ttuichduwii' enkips. Pettit.

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Nov. 27 Navy's football machine, stymied completely by an alert, aggressive Army team for two quarters, turned on its power today in the second half of a bruising, bitter contest to steamroller the Cadets, 13 to 0, in the semi-privacy of Michie Stadium. The defeat marked the fifth consecutive year the Middies have turned the trick. An estimated 15,000 spectators, residing within the 10-mile limit, saw a football show which kept them in various stages of hysteria throughout most of the afternoon. For two violent periods it was the kind of ball game that was a masterpiece of midfield offensives, featured by savage blocking, violent tackling and dogged all-around play which kept either team from presenting a robust threat.

There was a feeling of expectancy among the fans between halves as the rival cheering sections, both Army, strove to outdo each other. HAMBERG SPARKLES A break was bound to come, and it came midway in the third period. Hal Hamberg, a stocky chunk of rubber, and not synthetic, who bounced off and on all afternoon, sent a punt to Glenn Davis on the Army 6, and Davis stepped outside as he caught it. Davis was caught back on the 3 a moment later, and Max Maxon's punt was run back by Hamberg 10 yards to the Army 43. Here the long throttled Navy power began to function, and, with a Hamberg Hills Hume lateral pass play good for 25 yards, the big factor, the Middies advanced to the 6.

Three more plays found Turn to Page 4, Column 3 punting and passing; he kept Cooley in hot water most of the afternoon. In fact, he rocked the bigger Cooley team so often that even on the last play of the game Catholic Central was knocking at the touchdown gates from the Cardinal one-yard line. After the contest the jubilant Shamrocks carried Burgess off the field on their shoulders. In the locker room regulars and subs hugged and kissed actually kissed this slender halfback. That's what those joyful Catholic Central boys thought of Burgess big afternoon.

It. was an ovation richly deserved. Alex Chesney, Catholic Central coach, paid tribute to all his boys. 'They played better than we could Turn to Page Column 8 BY BOB LATSHAW The Shamrocks of Catholic Cen tral still reign supreme on the Detroit prep gridirons. Before an estimated crowd of At Right: A California styled coat with wool twill front and wool tweed sleeves and back.

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Has leather buttons 13.15 BY JOHN N. ABO This is the story of Ed Burgess, the Iron Man of Catholic Central. It is the story of a team without sufficient reserves turning in one of the big high school football upsets of 1943 in beating Cooley, 8 to 0, Saturday in. the Goodfellow championship game. The No.

1 iron man was Burgess. To look at him you would never think this 155-pound halfback was an iron man. He's on the frail and friendly side. Yet Saturday, before 17,500 fans, Burgess finished one of the real iron-man careers of Detroit high school football. Catholic Central has played nine games this fall.

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