The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-11-23
NAVY TO ENTER
SERVICE BATTLE
HEAVY FAVORITE
Year of Upsets, However,
Gives Army Hopes
Of Victory.
BY ARTHUR ROBINSON.


will enter the. Army game heavy
favorite to win, but form has been
subjected to some startling rever-
sails this year. and the Army de-
riVes feeling of almost unwar-
ranted comfort from the belief that
this is the year of the turning
worm.
The Army, of course, won the
war but the Army has won rttle
else since then. The Navy beat the
army In sea of mud in 1919 as the
result OF two field goals by Clyde
King and last year Noyes, Navy
substitute, was the deciding factor
IN the Army's second annual de-
feat.
The thing is becoming entirely
TOO annual and the Army proposes
TO DO something about II. Twenty
Two games have been played by the
service teams, and of these the Navy
mas won eleven and the Army ten,
The other game was a tie.
IL is only In recent years that
the Navy has emerged from under
Gil Dobie, the present Cornell
coach, developed a team in 10
which enabled the Navy to catch
up with the Army in games won
and lost and last year Bob Folwell,
who had been coaching PAnnsyl-
vania, resumed where Dobie left
off.
Line Holds Navy's Hopes.
The 1913 team was machine
which functioned with amazing pre-
cision and last year the Riddles
played with almost the same
smoothness. This season, in addi-
ton to fast, penetrating attack.
Folwell has organized the best line
In the East and 1t is upon this line
that the Navy builds its homes for
another victory.
The defense is even better than
the onense and in the Penn State
game IT was question whether the
Navy defense could stop the Penn
state attack, with Kill EN-" Kill
linger leading the assault against
the Middies.
The Navy failed by a narrow mar
gin, but since then the offense has
oeen attuned to higher pitch and
the feeling in Annapolis is that it
VIII bring forth the song of victory
from the Army game.
In Barchet and Moves the Navy
mas two uncommonly shifty backs
and IN Cruise, koehler, Hamilton.
Conroy, Mckee and a few others the
navy has surplus of good back
held material. Barchet and Moves
dominate. and as against them the
Army has French, one of the best
backs in the East.
Last year the Navy made special
| preparations to stop him, and sue
| ceeded. This year French has been
handicapped by injuries and has
been unable to take part in all of
the Army games. The result is that
the Navy is at loss to determine
10 what extent French fits in with
| the Army scheme of attack, and in
this respect the Amy is better fixed
than it was last year.
Cadets May Surprise.
The West Point line was torn 20
tatters by the Notre Dame backs.
and the Army defense was utterly
unable to cope with the Westerners'
| forward passing attack. For that
matter, no team in the East could
do this, but the Army swallowed
the bitter with the sweet and, as
in other years, learned sometime
| from Notre Dame
The cadets showed flashes of
power against Yale earlier in the
season, and it may DE taken for
| granted that the team will be bet
ter against the Navy than it was
against Yale. The Navy, of course.
Is rated one of the best teams in
the East. Its victory over Prince
ton brought it into the light, and
SO did the Penn State game. The
Navy lost little prestige as the -e-
suit of that defeat.
The Army, on the other hand, has
been working in the dark. No one
knows just how good or bad the
cadets are. and since Harvard's vic
tory over Yale no one ventures to
predict the outcome of Saturdays
game with any degree of absolute
| certainty.
| The Navy, perhaps, is at disad-
vantage in that it made special
preparations for Princeton and Penn
State and then found it necessary
| to slow down so that 1t could take
the Army game at the height of it's
| stride.
The cadets, contrary wise, kent
their eyes only on the Navy game,
and took the Yale and Notre Dame
games as just so many Obstacles
to be hurdled on the way to the