Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-27
ARMY And NAVY
ADVANCE GUARD
ARRIVES TODAY
City Will Be Invaded To-
morrow by Militant Wear
ers of Gold Lace-Cadets
Are Favorites.
BY EDWARD r.. BUSHNELL.

BY EDWARD r. BUSHNELL.
Two more battling football squads, each
with it's thousands Of followers. will in-.
wade Philadelphia tomorrow for the Uni
verslty city will be hosts to the Army and
Navy elevens. This game will be followed
to the minutest detail in every army
camp, naval station or battleship where
tho stars and Stripes float The repre-.
sentatives of the two services of Uncle
Sam are Just rs keenly interested in the
outcome OF this game as any Pennsyl-
vania or Cornell man was i'm the game on
Franklin Field yesterday
This Is the one big game OF the year in
which the teams and their play are not
the centre Of attention. The elite OF So
Ciety the diplomats at Washington the
members of Congress and other high dig.
nitaries come in for the greater share Ot
the attention. But they are not subject
to analysis such as we give to football
teams.
Most people who follow football have
already announced their preference for
the Army to win. Reduced to It's final
analysis this conclusion is based upon ths
Army's unexpected victory last year and
its better record this fall, together with
the fact that the Army retains more 1919
veterans than does the Navy
This of course, is logical reasoning, hut
iO'tbAh SuUltS uOIl always turn out this
way. For instance the Navy was a
stronger favorite last year than the Army
is this year Yet the Army won In 1913.
so possibly the Navy will confound tho
critics this time. The score last fall was
22-a The Navy scored three goals from
placement while the Army got one such
goal and three touchdowns
But It wasn't SO much n stronger AZ.
tack that beat the Navy last fall as Il
was the total lack of defense for the for
ward pass The Army's first two touch-
downs were made on long forward paszes
over the goal line and the third was due
largely to forward passing. If the Nav
had prepared defense for tho forward
pass, such ms Harvard prepared for Yale
last week. doubt II the Army would have
Won There Is no doubt that the Middies
coaches have profltcd by that lesson, Thev
nave tried to do so in two ways, one BY
perfecting the play themselves, the other
by preparing a defense for IT,
The Army has made n notable record
this year. The soldiers are one of the feyv
teams which have gone through the sea
son rnscorod on and undefeated Only
Two teams have crossed their goal line
this year, Colgate and Notre Dame. The
Navy on the other hand. has not been
so successful. but the Middies have PLAYED
stronger set OF opponents than the SOL
diers. The two teams which have beaten
the Navy are Pittsburgh and Pennsyl-
Nania' Both won by exactly the same
score, 13-6. Al that time Pittsburgh was
at tho top CT its game and Pennsylvania,
too, was at Its hest
How much progress the Navy has made
since then the game alone will tell
against Pennsylvania the Navy had a
team which was remarkably we'll built
IN fact the Middles had as much weight
ns was TO be found in their Pennsylvania
opponents and the Quakers were then
me heaviest team In the country. Since
then the Navy coaches have made a mum.
per OF important changes and although
tie changes have reduced the average
weight of the team they ave Increased its
offensive and defensive strength. II the
coaching has been thorough and skillfnf
the Mlddies are sure to have improved
greatly by Saturdays game.
IL isn't likely that the drop or place
hcklnE VIII count as much as they have
usually done in the past. The Middles
nave always been strong on scoring by
Ihe held goal route, but since they lost
Brown by graduation last June thev
haven't round a man who could take his
place as goal kicker. A study of pre-
Nous Army-Navy scores reveals some
very curious thing4. One is that in the
last hve games, three OF which the Navy
won, its team has not scored a sInpis
touchdown. In 1893 the Army won Ca. a
goal from the field that year counting r
points There was no game in 1909. In I
islO and 1911 the Navy won so, Dalton
Kicking goal from field in each game. In
lSIS brown sot into the lmelight as a
place kicker and scored twice i'm This way.
me Navy winning 6-i. Last year Brown
contributed all Of the Navy's points with
three held goals, while the Army got ons
Held goal and three touchdowns II
won't seem much like a Navy team IL
place kicker.