The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
ARMY ROUTED
BY NOTRE DAME
In HARD GAME
Hoosier Team, by Superior
All Around Work. Wins
by ~ to L..
GIPP'S BRILLIANT PLAY
Walter French's Long Runs
Redeeming Feature Of
West Points Game.
GIPP'S BRILLIANT PLAY
ny DANIEL.

ny DANIEL.
gSectal Despatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
WEST POINT, N. T.. Oct. 30.--Notre
Danes speed. power, cunning and
stiffness, Notre Danes versatility
and above all one George Gipp. made
combination altogether too effective
for the Army football team to cope
with on the plains this afternoon. AS
the time honored war cry of tho cadet
battalion, Eight" roared repeated en-
enlargement across the field to the
aggressive stalwarts who bore the
West Point standard they struggled
hard, and they fought with most COM
mendable grit But in so far as VIC
gled in vain Notre Dame triumphed
by a score Of 27 to II, and that after
the cadets had held the lead at the end
Of the first half by II to IA
n was a football exhibition well worth
5 gring many miles to see. It was a hard
contest, fought with vigor and vim by
be tn sides all the way. but il also was
the greatest game, both for attack and
3 Oe1enCe, WHICH mas Deen seen III lH-
East this season. The Army was beaten,
hut even in defeat 1t covered itself with
glory. The points which it did score
was a striking tribute to the fighting
qualities of the West Pointers and their
splendid morale in the face OF odds
In so far as the comparative strength
Of the Army and the HOLSTERS was con-
oerned. the Cadets had no license to
score. In the development of offence In
n orOnnd effart yanpsg IN both the old
and the new football. in sheer brilliancy
the eleven from Indiana, with the scin-
tiiiattng Gipp always in the van, prac-
t.cally outclassed the Army. Notre
Dame made twenty first downs, as
against only four for the Army. We
do not think that any team in this
country could have won over the team
I from the West as 1t played here to-
day.
Army Starts Well.
The first half saw the Army out
score Notre Dame in spite of the fact
that the Hoosiers greatly outplayed the
home eleven. But Notre Dame had a
bad habit at that stage of fumbiiny
away its advantages after 1t had Tough!
hard for them and appeared on the way
20 a touchdown. Every break was taken
: advantage OF by the Cadets. But despit,
the fact that the recess found the Army
In the lead, it was very eviden that
Notre Dame would win the game. L.
: was felt that the Hoosiers had not We.
started In earnest and that once they
went on their way there would be no
stopping them. Events in the second
hslf justified that feeling.
1t was O. contest replete not only with
great team effectiveness on the Notre
Dame side. but with sensational indi-
vidual deeds. Notre Dame had practl-
cally two teams on the field Gipp was
one and ten mates composed the other
The Army could not stop this man
Gipp, 10 matter what he did. He was
q Titan In attack and a concrete wall
In defence. Gipp ran like deer. He
rounded ends like Harold Weeks and
broke through tackle like a Ted Coy.
Tie threw forward passes and punted In
q manner TO satisfy the most exacting.
He kicked the goals from touchdown.
II there was anything which could be
done on . football field which Gipp
could not, and in fact, did not do. 1t
was not CIscernible to the naked eye.
This man Gipp is an all American. or
there is no real all American eleven
this season.
French Army Hero.
The Army was defeased, but it was
not without its doors of sensational
deeds. What Gipp was for Notre Dame
. Walter French was for the Army. This
, Is French's first year at West Point,
but he came here not without a reputa-
ton. When he played with Rutgers last
, reason he earned reputation az one
of the most remarkable backs in the
East. Then he was injured and had
to stay out of the big games. Foster
Sanford at that time declared that
French was a player on par with the
best In the country. And this after
noon French showed that Sanford was
right.
French turned the biggest individual
feat of the day when in the second
period he received n punt on the Army's
40 yard line and dashed sixty yards for
q touchdown. Breidster kicked the goal
and tied the score at II TO II. That
sprint of French's was about as pretty
n run as anybody would want to see.
F'rench's chance to make the run had its
origin in Notre Dame direct pass which
went wrong and left the visitors on their
own 20 yard line. A penalty of fifteen
yards also helped and put the Hoosiers
In ono of the very few bad positions In
which they found themselves this after
noon. 1t was up to Gipp to punt and
go he did. French received the ball on
minute stood stock stlll. Gipp for once
on the Notre Dame side, fell asleep.
The Hoosiers were bit overconfident
In their ability to stop anybody on the
Army side and they did not go after
French with their usual vlgor.
French turned as IL to run toward
his right but quickly reversed himself
and fooled the Notre Dame defence. per-
haps the only time 1t really was fooled
In the game. Over toward the side line
went French and down toward the Notre
Dame goal line he scooted like thing
which was almost too fast to be human.
While the Army stands roared him en-
enlargement French kept right on his
way running through nearly the entire
Notre Dame team and eluding tackler
after tackler. II was a decidedly pretty
piece OF work was this run. French
kept right on until he had crossed the
anal chalk mark and put the Army back
on even terms In struggle which APP
reared TO be far from even.
Army's First Touchdown.