[NU Sports] Alamo not interested in Wisconsin

[Roy Lamberton]

Air Force took out our only defensive Senior, MLB Pat Durr on the 3rd play
of the opening game of the season in Colorado, after purposely chop blocking
his knees the two previous plays. I talked to Pat during the spring when he
had decided to come back on a medical redshirt and play one more year. He
was itching to get out on the field against Air Farce and get some payback,
altho Fitz, the LB coach at the time, didn't want him to get fixated on that
one. 

The next year, we lost at home to Air Farce by one point, but the QB of the
team threw a punch at Pete Peterson that was ignored by the refs. The
attitude of the AF players, however, led to an investigation of their play,
and a major shakeup of the the program that next summer.

In defense of the service academies, Navy runs a triple option and has not
been charged with chop blocking to get a player out of a game to my
knowledge.

IMHO, that season would not have been as bad if Pat Durr had been in the
middle the entire season to stabilize the defense, altho it would still have
been a rebuilding year.

Go Cats

rsl

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate & Unix Guru.
Computer Applications & Support Associates
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Retired Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician [R]
Commissioner Delaware American Legion Baseball
Northwestern University - Sp 1974 - 
Chi Phi: Pi74, KD68
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The Nebraska game showed up NU's offense and the fact that the Wildcats' D
could do nothing to stop a strong option running attack.  This was
reaffirmed a couple of years later as NU was killed 52-3 at Air Force
(2002).  Fortunately, 2008 has shown us that the NU D is much improved and
that a strong defense can win as many, if not more games, than a strong
offense by itself.