Word: dame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army's highly rated line was outcharged by underdog Navy (apparently nobody had given Navy sufficient credit for the hardening quality of its tough schedule, including such top opponents as Michigan, Notre Dame and California, which Army did not have to face). The Cadets' two prize running backs-Gil Stephenson and Bobby Stuart-earned no new medals; both were below par due to injuries. It took the wonderfully accurate passing arm of Quarterback Arnold Galiffa to keep the Cadets in the game. Two Galiffa passes set up two touchdowns, and Army went ahead at half time...
...good old days, when Carnegie Tech made no bones about buying football talent, Halfback Wild Bill Donohoe was a pigskin hero. One unforgettable Saturday in 1926, after he and his teammates whittled Notre Dame down to size (19-0), Wild Bill was toasted far into the welkinrung night. But, alas for heroes, the same Wild Bill Donohoe, on the same campus, was now the goat...
...South Bend, an unbelieving crowd of 59,305 saw mighty Notre Dame trail Northwestern into the last period, 7-6. This, too, looked for a time like the upset of the year. Then by sheer power, the Irish hacked and hammered at Northwestern's sturdy line, and finally managed to walk off field with their 20th straight victory since Nov. 9, 1946. The game ended with Notre Dame ahead, 12-7; it was Northwestern's last game with Notre Dame-at least for a while...
Elections might not be sure things any longer, but Notre Dame, Michigan and Army seemed to be. They had no trouble getting past another Saturday unbeaten. But a few really big toes were stepped on last week, relieving the monotony of what threatened to be a cut & dried football year...
...Hickman rates Bill, a 195-lb. center, the equal of any center he coached at West Point during the war. Then there was Bob (ex-Dartmouth jayvee), Jack (ex-Georgetown), Tim (ex-Williams), Bud (ex-Yale jayvee), and Mary, who married Tom Conley, the captain of the 1930 Notre Dame team...