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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 858845, member: 289"] THE GAME The crowd exceeded the listed capacity of the stadium: 40,053.”Syracuse University, glorying in the power of its football team, thrilled a record-breaking crowd yesterday with a spectacle unmatched ever before for its splendor….Spectators turned out in fall clothes. Saltine Warrior female fans wore yellow mums with a blue S while Army rooters sported gold poms with black bows. Immaculately dressed in in gray uniforms and hats with bright gold buttons, 1,200 West Pointers marched onto the field promptly at 1PM. A 112 piece enlisted Army band, wearing black coats over their blue uniforms, led the Cadets into the stadium…Hill coeds gave the Cadets rousing cheers as they executed perfect formation. ‘Come on girls! We’ve seen men before’ yelled on coed. Another girl screamed ‘Oh, they’re so gorgeous.’ ‘I never saw anything like it.’ Another Cadet-struck coed signed. All the Cadets, from the 1st regiment saluted Syracuse University with an awe-inspiring cheer in unison that echoed through the stadium.” Army’s last visit to Syracuse was in 1907, the year Archbold Stadium opened, so few if any of the fans had ever seen such a display. “After the Cadets were seated the Army’s famed mascot ‘Pancho’ and another mule ‘Hannibal’, galloped into the stadium. The riders dragged a Cadet dressed in orange to the middle of the field, where they symbolically ‘chopped him up’. Minutes later, the ‘Orange’ man was seized by West pointers who rolled him up and down through the block of seated cadets.” I wonder how ‘gorgeous’ SU fans thought that was. “Spirited Army rocked Syracuse to the teetering point on its Eastern championship perch before a sell-out crowd in Archbold Stadium…it was an old-fashioned game- the kind that the 50 year old stadium, the first concrete bowl in the nation – used to see right after the turn of the century. Army won the toss and elected to receive but Mike Morales fumbled Jim Brown’s kickoff and Ed Coffin recovered at the Army 29. But SU gave the ball back on downs at the 23. There was an exchange of punts, which would have been unnecessary except Bill Brown dropped what seemed like a sure pick-six at the Army 30. Later Bob Kyasky returned the favor with a similar drop. Jim Ridlon created some excitement with a 20 yard punt return but SU was again forced to punt. The second team got a couple of first downs to the 50 but that drive stalled, too. This time Morales had a 20 yard punt return. Army got to the SU 40 but had to punt again- into the Syracuse end zone. From their own 20, Syracuse put on a drive that must have warmed Ben Schwartzwalder’s heart. 11 plays, all on the ground for 80 yards and what turned out to be the winning score. “Brown and Coffin teamed up for hard shots at the line, with the occasional pitch-out play, to move the ball to the Army 41, where the big play was sprung. On third down, Brown took a pitch-out from Kuczala, got a fine block by Dick Lasse at the line of scrimmage and shook off three tacklers in quick succession. He dashed down the right sideline where Walters, who had been playing deep, slanted over and brought him down at the five. Then, on first down, Ridlon took a handoff, cut to the short side, was met at the two but fought his way out of the grasp of two tacklers to score.” Brown’s conversion produced what would be the final score, Syracuse 7, Army 0, with 8:51 left in the second quarter. The rest of the game was about making that score stand up. Of course you can make a lead stand up by extending it. Army been charged with a personal foul on the conversion and Cann “flat-kicked” the ball to the 15. Army was forced to punt. Syracuse penetrated to the Army 35 but had to give it up on downs. “Ridlon made the game’s only interception, grabbing a long heave by Dave Bourland, as the half ended. Bob Kyasky had been shaken up in the second period and was replaced by Bourland. It had been mostly a running game, (as most games were in that era), and Syracuse had dominated on the ground, 131-36. The second half would be 99-129. Jim Brown returned the second half kick-off to the SU 35 but the teams went back to punting the ball back and forth. Army made its big move late in the third period after getting the ball at its own 25. A pass from Bourland to Saunders got the ball to midfield and then Morales, “a dervish reserve wingback”, bolted to the Syracuse 29. “Barla’s plunging made it a first down on the 19 then two plays moved it to the five…Here, Bourland started an option play to the right but pitched poorly to Munger, who raced back and scooped up the ball on the 15 . Pusued by Al Benecick, Ted Warholak and Joe Krivak, Munger retreated to the 32, where Krivak dropped him. …and then, as the third period ended a fourth down pass was knocked down by Jim Ridlon.“ Another Syracuse punt was followed by a stand at midfield where Bourland was stopped on a 4th and 4 after gaining only 2 yards. Syracuse moved to the Army 33 but a fourth down pass was incomplete. The Orange was handicapped by an injury to end Don Althouse, who was also their best punter. At this point came the most dramatic drive of what must have been a pretty dull football game to this point. Army’s Gil Rossler “took a hand-off to the right, cut back through the secondary and seemed home free when Brown tackled him at the (Syracuse) 17. Army was hopped up by now and, in three plays, with Barta going for seven, the Cadets roared to the six yard line and a first down there. Then Barta hit for three. Morales went for a yard and a half. Barta made another yard and, with half a yard to go….everyone in the packed house was on their feet as the Cadets lined up…. the fourth down smash by Barta was halted inches way form the final stripe…. Ridlon made a terrific play at linebacker to prevent the threatened Army score. He dived in to meet Barto head-on and hurled him backward just as Vince seemed to break loose from Jim Brown and Ed Bailey for the three inches he needed to tally. The upper part of Barta’s body actually was in the end zone but the he was carrying the ball low and Ridlon jumped the ball, holding it with his hands (to prevent it) from reaching the goal!...Field judge Field Judge Clifford J. Montgomery, (Columbia’s hero of the 1935 Rose Bowl), who was sighting down the line, said it was ’no score’. It was one of the greatest goal-line stands that the ancient bowl had ever seen.” “Syracuse didn’t let the Cadets get the ball again, although there was 3:27 left and the Army used up its times-out to stop the clock. Here brown was particularly effective as he carted the ball away for the goal posts, added a 15 yard drive off right end and finished with a 10 yard gain which ate into Army territory as time ran out.“ Who says you need a lot of scoring for an exciting game? [/QUOTE]

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