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Coa t, and It's slo11iy hut urelv t'Xpirlng ei e11h rP, If this sounds like a cracked record. pl asf! for i~e. This tQlwnn mo t certainly ha~ Faid o before, da ng way bark to the eirly 1950s, slightly befoTII proud and stubborn Santa C ara (the Broncos had tasted Sugar and Orange Bowl glory) tossed In the towel of surrendPr. But many of our readers &till refu to face up to the economic facts of football life. \ rt I t • aturday 'Ill u a particularly black one for Catholic Independents foolishly fighting out of their clas§ in an agf' dedlrated to pro roolball. The day deno~ment hrought sharply and perhap§ bocklngly Into fo~ the fact that uppo,ed hlgtlme football In our grhool Is sick, sick, glck' If, lndel'd, not alread) dead, Mad, dead. Wmless an Diego, last frontier for Catholic college foo ball in the West, dropped a 6-111 dec1s on to hitherto bopele s Pepperdine, a notorious doormat 1 hese days. As reported here weeks ago, ·San Diego dra tcally cut back its grid program following the resignation of Coach Bob Mc- Cutcheon, thl' architect who had dreamed of buildmg another 'otre Dame of thP West. ow there·~ a rumor riding breezes off Point Loma t hat the beautiful Bnrder tty diocesan , 11chool, "hich boas s a rn,,gnihc•nt campus 1n Alrala Park h sh abm e maieshc 11, on \ 'alley, soon :may abandon the t game altogether - pornbly following thi ~eason's costly l calistheni cs. t Up at Stockton Saturday, winless Colle,g,. of Pacific out- classed Marquette 22-13. It was the fifth successive setback for the Warriors. The coaching switch of Lisle Blackburn for t disillusioned Johnny Droze hasn't made too much difference. 1 The big ?.Iil\\aukee Jesuit chool goes right on losing ball games, money and prestige giving football the btjl try in competition with the Big Ten and allied po\\ ers. Clearly things have come to a hecku\a pass when the Warriors can't cudgel the hkes of COP. Villanova·s Wildcats havP fizzled five for f11·e. It wasn't rat Boston College, Dayton, Detroit and Xavier. Unbeaten Hui Cross, on.. bright spot of the early season, was slaughte S turday by Syracuse's Orangemen 42-6 Cromwell and h RI ndheads couldn't have done a more workmanlike job of e ecuting the innocents of Worcester, Mass. Now all h a hes /,Jr atholic Independent fans everywhere. ·otrP Dame, always last re!u e for the football faithful, hasn t achieved anyt hing sii::mficant or soul aa r mg this geuon-save perhaps by ho1stmg ~1gn1>osts of hope Some gay ~uper ~ophs and acqm~ition of Coach Kuhanch gua antee app1er days ahead. In any case old 'otre Dame, whlrh has been around since football 's p1onPer days wh~n Dorais and RocknP popularized the forward pa6 , isn't exactly tottering on the brmk of grid oblivion. But how much longer ca11, the doggedly determined Daytons, Detroits, Marquette~ and Vl!lanovas continue to pa v the price? Today bi~ime football is a luxury our schools can't afford. San Diego Umvl!rsity attracted an estimated • house of 4500 for its homecomini spectacular ith Pepperdine Saturday, probably fewer than 3000 paid. You may he rea- sonably c~rtain MarquettP and Villanova aren't dom any bett~r comhatting wmter's cold and correspondmg fan frost with identical 0·5 rid record<. .\II the \\Ord )ou a ln,·er, but nobody love a loser, particularly at $2 or $3 per pa te- board. The Jig' up for ill save the Irish of ol' ND. 'the re&t may as well re5ign them~elves now to g1vmg up the valiant fight and iettmg back to the books, basketball and black mk on the athletic ledger. even mld~eason when Coach Francis Xavi hanged in effigy on campus and, shortly the ln an act of great lueidity. Times aren't rnuch b

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