Evening star., 1925-11-29

any big game ever has measured up
or mea sured down, whichever way
one cares to look at it, to the one
today in the matter of forward pass
ing in dangerous territory. Right at
the beginning of the game, Just as
soon as Army got hold of the ball.
it threw long passes from its OWL
territory, and after it had kicked to
Navy, that team also opened Up from
we'll within its own part of The field
with long throws from kick rorma-
ton.
The Army-Navy game is no longer
a game where one team runs TWO
plays into the line, then punts.
Chances and more chances are taken
by both teams. At leas. they were
| today.
In one respect the game vas re-
markable for mediocrity of the per-
formance-punting. Kicks by both
teams many times were poor and
during the whole game not once was
there one of the exceptionally long
spirals that once or twice in almost
every game sail way down into
erritory of the opposing eleven. What
appeared to be the longest kick of
the day from standpoint of final
yardage hardly carried Is yards
while in the air. 1t was Navy
boot that went a mile" in the air,
came down, hit on one end and
rolled from midfield to the Army lS-
yard line. Such kicking as one nf
the Washington high schools had done
all during it's season would have been
brilliant and one of the fea lures had
it been shown this afternoon.
Army Shows Confidence.
The pre- game predictions as to the
probable outcome seemed to be re-
f1ected somewhat in the demeanor of
the players. The Army appeared
quietly confident that 1t would win
and seemed in every action to feel
that way. And it showed the real
reason for that confidence by the
dash and power 1t put into it's Of
fensive play imediately after the Navy
scored it's field goal. Prior to that it
had not been able to make much
headway against the Navy defense ex-
cept for Wilson's run just after the
game started.
The Navy, on the other hand, SEEM
ed to realize it was against more
capable eleven, but was out there to
do, no matter what 1t was up against.
Certainly no Navy team ever fought
harder and no Navy team ever de-
served greater credit for that feature
of its play.
Plenty of Stars.
Individual stars there were aplenty.
Hewitt and Wilson--but of them no
more need be said. DAILY. Army cen
ter, played a game that, carried
throughout a season, would place him
in the forefront of pivot men. No
Navy players seemed to stand out
especially above their fellows, al
though Shapley's defensive play
against forward passes was excellent.
He also was the main cog in his
teams offense. The whole Navy team,
though played with a dogged de-
termination that. cannot be commended
too highly.
Interference by the backs of both
teams was never especially good
Either that or the ends of both teams
were out of ordinary.
The backs of neither team never
seemed able to. get an opposing end
out of the play, and more than once
it was because the ends were never
really hit. Blocking and charging by
the lines was good, as 1t always Is in
Army-N Navy games. And very little
fault could be found with the tackling.
But an Army Navy game is just
that, and whatever may be faults of
| play, whatever may be the heights to
which the teams or players of the
| teams as individuals rise, or what
, ever the depths to which they fall, the
game still is Il great one.