The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-11-27
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New York, N. Y, Nov. 27.-There
is talk among service men today
that Major Charles DAILY may retire
from Westpoint as football coach
and turn to other duties in the
Army. If this is true he will leave
the academy not only the reputation
Of having made the most of his ma
terial-win or lose-every year he
has served at the Army institution,
but with the credit of having de-
vised and furthered perhaps the
most effective system of sport for
all that exists in any seat of learn
ing in this country. So far as inter-
collegiate football is concerned, he
has the faculty of teaching the
game, inspiring his men and sur
rounding himself with precisely the
proper assistants.
The feat of the Army coaches is
the greater when one pauses to
consider that victory on Saturday
was obtained against an eleven bet
ter equipped in the matter of per-
sonnet for victory. The writer,
knowing what the Navy had in the
way Of running and an overhead,
stated in this column on Friday that
the Navy had the better chance 10
win this game. The facts upon
which this prediction was based still
stand.
Charts of the game made by the
writer show with what proficiency
the Navy advanced the ball in a
variety of ways. They also show
how all this advantage was set at
naught by the fiery genius of one
Army man, Smythe. A game such
as Smythe played is something
that no one can dream or imagine
in advance. So it is in all the &C
tivities Of life where one individual
is suddenly touched with the divine
spark and scars to the stars.
Take the first period. The Navy,
putting the ball in play upon her
2O-yard line, advanced it by a for
ward pass and a series of rushes so
yards to the Army's 30-yard line be-
fore she was held. Later in this
period she made another sequential
50-yard advance between her own
20 and the Army's 30-yard mark.
And still later the Navy advanced
35 yards in three plays from her
own 30-yard line to the Army's So
yard mark. Here the period ended.
AS soon as the second quarter
started, the Navy resumed her
march and made a touchdown. So
here was an uninterrupted advance
OF 70 yards for score.
The end of this quarter saw the
one straight advance over any dis
lance that the Army was able to
make from scrimmage throughout
the game. Putting the ball in plav
in midfeld the Army by forward
passes and rushes carried the bail
40 yards to the Nays 10-yard line
where a penalty for holding set the
ball back to the Nays 25-yard line
and the half ended.
In the fourth period, which open
ed with the Navy in possession of
the ball on the Army's 4O-yard
mark, line plays, sweeps and two
forward passes took the ball over
the Cadets goal line. With a lead
of IA to 10 thus established it re-
manned for the Navy with a high
wind at her hack to play safe and
thus hold the advantage. 1t was
Smythe who turned the tide BY
catching punt upon his own 80
yard line and running through the
entire Navy team to the Nays 10
yard line whence a touchdown was
scored by forward pass after the
Cadets had lost Is yards in trying
to advance the ball by line plays.
1t was hard game for the Navy
to lose, but Yale had as bitter a
dose against Harvard. The Cadets
had Smythe and the Crimson had
Owen-Owen whom the Ellis
stopped through the line and yet
let him run S. yards to Yale's 9
yard line through the whole Blue
team after picking a rolling punt,
which had it been properly covered,
would have Harvard in trouble. On
the, other hand, between the 20-yard
lines Yale outrushed Harvard mate
rally and played the overhead
game better. Why Is it that III the
past two years, q better Yale team
from . manual standpoint--has
been defeated by Harvard? The Ellis
would seem to need a dose Of DR..
Coue's medicine.