Tradition is rock solid at Wes .# l l ' • • '%.* ' 4 4 1 1 t‘. WEST POINT, N.Y. The U.S. Military Academy. The I school that produced Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur, and Dwight Eisenhower also once educated Edgar Allen Poe, Frank Zappa and Timothy Leary. Things at traditional West Point are not as rock solid as they sometimes seem. ..Last year Army decided ,113 cut back its football schedule and in January the brass at the Point asked Penn State Athletic Director Edward Czekaj to end the series for the next ten years. The two teams haveplayed 22 times in the past. Czekaj then muzzled Joe Patemo's "easy schedule" critics and dropped Army, filling the open dates with Utah, Missouri add Ohio State. The Army series will continue next year and in '76, but then it ends until 1987 except for a game at Penn State in 1979. But in reality, Army is following a tradition it established after its 1946 team graduated. This is the second time the Cadets have backed down from "an opponent they couldn't beat. Notre Dame beat Army almost regularly until World War 11. But during the War the quality of Army teams inflated remarkably. The pinnacle was reached between 1944-46, the era of "Doc" Blanchard and Glenn Davis. Army coach Earl Blaik picked the '45 team _,as Army's greatest, but in a telephone address to the crowd at Leone's restaurant in New York honoring him as coach of the year in 1946, he said the 1946 team "was the team that accomplished the most with what it had and is the closest to my heart." Army was without a loss in 1946 for the third straight year, but Notre Dame and Army tied 0-0 in New York, and the Ar . e you a tube freak? If so and you also happen to like football, then you'll probably want to tune in tonight on TV Quarterbacks at 7 p.m. over WPSX, channel. 3. As usual, Fran Fisher hosts and the guests include Walt Addie, Joe Slowik and assistant football coach Booker Brooks. 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Writers at the time listed only one honest reason, though. Army; now that the war was over, knew it could no longer dominate the series as it had during the war (in 1944 Notre Dame was beaten 59-0, and in 1945 it was 48-0). Army backed down, and didn't meet the Irish on the field again until 1957. The funny thing about the latest Army retreat is that, the announcement was made just as the team was improving, although the decision came on the heels of a winless season. Homer Smith, the current coach at Army, talked about the decision to de-emphasize the schedule following Saturday's 21- 14 loss. to Penn State. "It hurts us painfully ... painfully," Smith drawled, refer ring to the loss. "Some of our men are outweighted 40 and 50 pounds a man. It's not our intention to put people out on 'the field at such a physical disadvantage." To even things up, Penn State was replaced by Villanova and Ivy League opponents that have not yet been announced. In one sense, dropping Army lifts up Penn State's schedule, but it always hurts to lose a yearly opponent, and who is more colorful and unique than West Point. Certainly not Utah\ or Ohio State or Missouri, even though they play football better. From high up in the stands at Michie Stadfurn all the sights and sounds really draw you away from the game itself. The cannon goes off after every Army score, the Cadets pass the ' Lion up and down through the stands, and then there is the setting of the stadium itself. , The greendnountains part for the Hudson River. A lake sits on the mountain right behind the stadium, and across the river is perched the Castle of the Wicked Witch of the West, the house used by Dorothy and MGMIn "The Wizard of Oz." It's too bad Penn State is losing Army for ten years. But at West Point, tradition must be followed. .1515161'.51E --8 ' Sys tern ! ! 11= rimilVtc i'At; A _At a goatiad dat7yCol4gffl s Bucs wallop Dodgers 7-0 LOS ANGFT PA (APl—Pitts burgh's batting power ex ploded with first-inning home runs by Willie Stargell and Richie Hebner that propelled the Pirates ~ to a 7-0 victory over the Los and Dodgers yesterday and kept them alive in the National League playoff. The victory left the Dodgers holding a 2-1 advantage in the best-of-five series, which con tinues Wednesday in Los Angeles. Pittsburgh's vaunted bats were silenced without an extra base hit in the first two games, but the Pirates made some loud noises Tuesday, bombing left-hander Doug Rau off the mound in the opening inning. Both Stargell's three-run homer' and Hebner's two-run blast wound up in the left field pavilion, about no feet from home plate and gave the Pirates a quick 5-0 lead. The. 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A crowd of 55,953, a record for the baseball playoffs ;and also for Dodger Stadium, watched under skies that remained dark most of the af ternoon even though the threat of rain faded.
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