Navy at Syracuse

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 15, 1962, page 1

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  Syracuse Has Two Humans But Then There’s Mackey Jim Camp says Syracuse will have q couple humans” play ing against his George Wash ington team Saturday, which is his manner Of describing a normal football player. He points out that the Oranges starting center, Gene Stancin, weighs only 1876 pounds and one Of the guards. Dave Meggyesy, sis only 210,” as the CIV coach puts it. but don’t ask him about any of the others. Especially don’t bring up the subject Of John Mackey. Mackey stands 6-feet-2 and tips in at 215 pounds, which isn’t unusual for an end, except that he’s now playing right halfback. Army used a 2153 pound halfback against CIV three weeks ago but he wasn’t exceptionally fast afoot and didn’t cause any more trouble than the other Cadet ball car riers. Mackey’s fast, though. AS q dash man in high school at Freeport. Long Island, he was repeatedly clicked in 10.1 sec onds for 100 yards. Mackey corrected that early this season. His best was go, he said. Returned to End But 10.1 is not to be Sneezed at, and Coach Ben Schwartz valdez tried the strapping athlete at halfback in his sophomore season two years ago. Everything went well enough. apparently, but with Ernie Davis providing the necessary halfback heroics and heading for the Heisman Trophy last fall, Mackey went back to his old post at right end. That, too, suited everyone just fine and before the current campaign the Syracuse publ city mill was working hard for Mackey as an All-America, “Mackey has looked just great this fall” Schwartzwalder said before the first game. HE blocks, tackles, catches passes. runs does everything we’ll” But the orangemen did not throw the ball very often and through the first six games Mackey, although drawing raves on defense, had caught only six passes for IS yards and no touchdownS. A 24–⁠6 whipping by cratic Pittsburgh was their fourth defeat against a mere two victories. Pleasant Afternoon Last week Schwartzwalder made the shift, much to Nays distress. Playing wingback behind the strong side of SYRIA cuse’S unbalanced line, Mackey carried the ball six times for SO yards and a touchdown and Snagged one pass for another score on a 51-yard play. The score was 34–⁠6 and the Orangemen collected All yards in total offense, their greatest day in that department since the Colgate game in 1860. On his 36-yard touchdown run Mackey actually ran through three Navy tacklers converging on him at once. On a 13-yard dash he repeatedly stiffarmed one defender so

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Syracuse leads 19–⁠8 in 27 meetings, counting the 25 since this game.