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...either. Back it went to Gifford, who was now over on the right sideline looking for someplace to hide. And he lobbed it in the general direction of Giant End Aaron Thomas-but only in the general direction. As confused as everybody else, the referee assessed the Giants 15 yds. on general principles. "Y. A. was laughing," said Gifford. "I should have tossed it right back-that would really have fractured...
Then the war began-and for the first three quarters it looked as if the oddsmakers were right again. Army scored the first time it had the ball, Quarterback Stichweh slicing over from the ten after driving his team 65 yds. in eleven plays. But then Navy's Staubach went to work-on the ground, not in the air. Sending Fullback Pat Donnelly ripping through the line, throwing just enough to keep the defense honest, Staubach put together three drives of 47, 80, and 91 yds., capping each with a touchdown by Donnelly. With ten minutes left to play...
...Army's greatest enemy was the clock. There were still six minutes left -plenty of time for a team to travel 49 yds. with time-outs and sideline passes to stop the clock. But Army had no time-outs left, and Stichweh was no passer. Steadily, Army marched down the field; relentlessly, the seconds and minutes ticked off. "Touchdown! Touchdown!" Army rooters screamed. "Stop them! Stop them!" pleaded the Navy stands. With a third down on the Navy four and less than one minute on the clock, the Army team could not hear Stichweh's signals. The referee...
...Bears are the dullest team in pro football- to anybody but a connoisseur of crunch. They hug the ground defiantly, pass only under duress, rank No. 8 in the fourteen-team N.F.L. m scoring (with 233 points) and No. 11 in total offense (with 3,329 yds.). That kind of football is hardly calculated to win friends and influence fans: last month, when the Bears beat the lowly Los Angeles Rams 6-0 on the strength of two field goals they played most of the second half to the accompaniment of home-town boos But the Bears make no excuses...
...thriving business practically overnight. Drawn by such magical names as Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski, fans swarmed to see the Bears play; in 1925, 70,000 turned out for a game in Los Angeles. No slouch himself as a player, Halas set an N.F.L. record by running 98 yds. with a recovered fumble (the fumbler: Jim Thorpe)-but he is better remembered as perhaps the best illegal user of hands in the game...