South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-11-14
ARMY AIDED BY
REFEREE s BOOT
Notre Dame is Goat When
Soldier Lads Are Award
ed 90 Yards.
By Prank &. MenLe.

~ften football referee boots
Iecision-and dire things happen 10
the team that ne makes the uncon-
~cious victim, as Is shown los that
nrmy-Notre Dame game Of week
ago.
And the saddest feature Of b. is
that teams wronged by laundering
officials cannot appeal In baseball
and other sports contests are order
ed played over when IL is proved
that a glaring foozle by judge has
harmed one q the competitors 8ut
the football lawmakers have jost-
ed themselves into believing that
the enforcers OF their rules are in
fanfble beings. And so the team
that loses an important battle be
cause an umpire or referee is ignor-
ant OF the regulations Is deprived OF
a chance Tor redress.
: Charles Ham - Harvard. was
the offending official I'm that Army
NOare Dame affair. lie showed lack
Of knowledge Of one of the most
important Of the new rules. Iis
ignorance gave Army a 30-yard gain
10 which IL was not entitled and
minute or so later krTny converted
the gift into touchdown which
einched the combat If Haan nacn't
made a ''boner" the result; ;ht
have been vastly different
How Ham Pulled "Boner."
In the third period with the
score 10 to s in favor of Notre
Dame. Army had the ball on about
3ts own 35-yard line Oliphant made
= forward pass TO House who was
thrown on Notre DANES 35yard
line. making an apparent gain of 80
yards However 10 was discovered
that Notre Dame man had inter
fered with the ball. making the pass
incomplete and NOtre Dame liable
TO a 15-yard penalty for Interior
ence.
Rule IL. Section >. stateS-That
in case of interference the ball must
be- taken back 60 the point Of orig
iuaI play and the penalty inflicted
from that spot. Therefore. Haan
should have moved asc ok the pigskin
to Army's 35-yard ine. advanced
il Is yards to midheld and given it
20 army there.
But Ham showed ne lacked even
casual acquaintance with that rule
by doing this amazing thing. He
penalized NOtre Dame from the
spot where the incomplete pass had
ended. thus moving the ball from
Notre Danes 35-yard line to Notre
Danes 2O-yard mark giving the
bali 20 Army there. Army. there
fore had the ball ON NOtre Danes
2O-yard line instead of on midheld
9-here the oalI belonged legally.
Army. taking advantage OF the
3O-yard gift from Haan. forward
passed the ball over the Notre Dame
line soon afterward which made
score. Army Is. Notrc Dame 10. And
that touchdown cinChed the game
for Uncle Sans soldier boys
Army should Beat Navy.
Navy hasn't made "a touchdown
against Army since 1901-and 1916
isn't pregnant with hope. Army
has real team this year while that
of the Navy seems only biz
stronger than mediocre.
Army has PLAYED six gUmes So
far-and won all Navy. IN six con-
tests. has won but three, losing two
and tying the ether Army has
rolled up count Of lS6 TO "a while
Nays totals are - 10 a..
Probably tine best tip-off as 10
how that Army-Navy CONT bat Will
end on Nov % is tho results of the
games each has played AGAINST
Washington and Lee Army. beat
the southern eleven. Il TO E. but
Navy. with its strongest team in the
deld. went down 10 defeat. 10 TO o.
When IL comes 20 forward pass
ing the ARMY battery
and vidal must be ranked among
the top notchers OHphant is
wonderfully accurate tosser OF the
pigskin and Vidal as receiver
has few equals in the game The
pair scored three touchdowns
against Nogre Dame by tine use OF
the aerial play and rarely did they
fail 20 make gains when attemptns
the sky attack.
Vidal. by the way. is a sterling
halfback HIS brilliance has been
clouded somewhat by OHphant who
has shone So brightly i'm the Army
backheld bat there isn't any doubt
as TO the great value of Vidal lie
IS as fine an end runner as OHphant
a drop kicker par excellence and a
heady player.
NcEwan Met Master
II remained for fellow with
the name OF Rdzewsli 10 really out
piay McEwan. the great Army cen
ter for the first time i'm his career
The soldier boy has ranked as one
of the greatest mi5dlemen I'm the
Same-the man whC never met a
zoe whom ne could not subdue Bus
that was before the Notre Dame
frolic.
In that affair. Rdzewsk triumphed
over McEwan. Whenever he was
called upon 20 NOW down McEwan
ne did And whenever McEwan
tried 10 bowl over Rdzewski ne
found that II couldn't be done The
Notre Dame center was the strongest
part or the strong Notre Dame line
Ia star of the first magnitude