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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 754964, member: 289"] THE AFTERMATH “We beat one of the finest teams in the country” said Schwartzwalder, “and all of our boys played a great game. They were really up for this game. They wanted to win and they did.” Ben praised his defense, singling out Bill Brown, Jim Ridlon, Dick Lasse, Rudy Farmer, Mike Bill, Joe Krivak, and Ron Luciano. He also praised his second team. “I’d like to have the players get the idea that it’s not who starts but who does the most work that really counts. There seems to be too much emphasis on starting line-ups anyway. “ There still is. The Old Scout didn’t show up yet for his Monday morning discussions with Arnie Burdick, as he would for so many years to come. (He’ll show up before the season is over.) But Arnie had a few observations of his own. To him this was a blow for the prestige of eastern football. “Fans who watch eastern elevens in action are seeing good, well-coached classy teams, and that on any given afternoon are dangerous enough to defeat any of the more highly-ranked, more heavily-promoted machines in the nation. This does not mean that they would win all of these intersectional battles- it merely means what it says- that they’re dangerous enough to win and, therefore, the brand of football that they’re playing must be deeply respected.” “These four eyes can’t recall witnessing a game that was more punishing from kickoff to gun…not dirty but hard, rugged, legal contact. It was this furious ‘hitting’ by the New Yorkers , both on offense and defense by both its first and second teams that first stunned, then captivated the sun-splashed audience, about 90 percent of whom were Confederates who had come to see a rabbit-hunt and who had to finally marvel and approve of the way their heroes were being hammered into submission. The Syracuse Aces…were a bunch of pent-up tigers who smashed relentlessly at the nationally-ranked Marylanders until they had them on the run. Their defense pressured the Southerners into repeated errors and their well-balanced offense not only controlled the ball but rolled constantly with a variety of plays that were almost always well-masked.” “A good many observers felt that Dick Lasse’s 65 yard jaunt with a popped fumble which he plucked off in mid-air for Syracuse’ second score was the turning point in the battle. It was a big play, a great effort on the part of a lot of boys…but it says here that the courageousness that the Orange demonstrated after Maryland tallied first following a swirling 67 yard punt return, unlocked the door to victory. When ben Schwartwalder’s poised boys were scored upon and then immediately steamed downfield for the equalizer with the ensuing kickoff, there was no doubt that the Terps were not going to push this crowd around.” Bill Reddy predicted that Maryland would win most of their remaining nine games. “But they’ll never come up against a more determined and more solidly poised team than the one which beat them…There were plenty of chances for the Orange to crack wide-open but they showed no sign of buckling under the Maryland pressure. Instead, they kept pressure on the Terrapin line- a line which included three All-American candidates- and they went over, thought and around that line for 357 yards. That’s twice as much as the Terps managed to gain on the ground and in the air.” Reddy reported that “There’s a feeling among Marylanders that it would have been a different game if Frank Tamburello had played. Tamburello himself didn’t feel that way. He thought Maryland would ‘crush’ Syracuse while he sat out the game. …Sure Tamburello would have made a difference because Chuck Zimmerman made a big difference to the Orange attack. But at half time, with Maryland trailing and obviously in trouble, somebody reported, (incorrectly) that Tamburello was dressing and would play in the second half. A Syracuse assistant coach echoed the sentiments of the Orange squad when he asked “What of it?” The Orangemen were just as ready to stop Tamburello as any of his understudies and they feel a bit irked that they didn’t get the opportunity.” “There were several keys to the Orange victory. For one, the shifting Syracuse defense, which moved after Maryland had made its initial shift, confused the home team. For another, Zimmerman’s ability to change signals quickly, once he had spotted openings in the Terrapin defense, meant a lot of mileage that wouldn’t have been gained otherwise.” That’s always a good quality in a quarterback. “In this game, the Syracuse defense was superb, but its offense hit a new high, too. The Orange backs used more shortside plays than Maryland was deployed to cope with and there was more variety than we can remember. The word which was used over and over in the press box after the game to describe the Syracuse attack was “imagination”. Imagine that! The AP writer said that Syracuse had “humiliated” Maryland, 26-12. He said the Terps were “as jittery as a bunch of freshmen going up against the Cleveland Browns, (the defending NFL champions- who would add an Orangeman to their roster after the season was over). But he also said that Pittsburgh was “The Class of the east”. The Panthers had defeated West Virginia 14-13 in Morgantown and would be Syracuse’s next opponent. As the season wore on and the losses mounted for Maryland, who wound up a dismal 2-7-1, it became apparent that this victory wasn’t quite as earth-shaking as it appeared at the time. But as the victories mounted for SU, it also became apparent that a new power was on the college football scene. 31 years later another Syracuse Glory Era would begin with a 25-11 victory- almost the same score- over a Maryland team coached by Joe Krivak, who had played for the Orange in the 1956 game. [I]Next: Pittsburgh[/I] [/QUOTE]

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