Zero Hour

It was like watching Joe Louis fight a Joe Louis: two champions in action--so tough, skilled, wary and evenly matched that they were a standoff, and nobody won. The big game of the season, Army v. Notre Dame, ended in a scoreless tie.

For the first time in three years, Army's touchdown twins--Davis and Blanchard --were stopped cold; but so was Notre Dame's brilliant quarterback, Johnny Lujack. As a spectacle it was dull: two superdefenses canceling each other out. The question of which was the nation's top team was not decided, only put off. It remained to be seen whether either team, having given its all, might now drop a game to a lesser opponent and thus give fans a chance to crown a champ by defaultl

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