The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-30
NOW
HAS REAL
At TACK
Jack owsley, Former Yale
Star, Gives Middies What
They Needed Most

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IntsrnstionaI News Service sports
Editor
DETROIT, Oct. 30.-tWe think
We have something" said Jack
owsIey this morning as the Navy
made ready to entrain for Ann
Arbor for the international game
with Michigan. eyes. sir, we
think we have something"
Nothing original about this.
From time to time various people
have. thought they had something,
and some. Of them proved to be
right. They had dyphtheria. How
ever. Mr.. oWsley thinks he has
. firstrclass football team.
It has been Mr.. Owsleyes first.
Echance to do much thinking, OF any
kind and he is making the most Of
1T. For years, he had been called
the unseen force behind Yale foot
ball and his appointment to the
Naval Academy this season az.
forded him the opportunity to
come into the open for the first
Tie result was Of mutual
beneficence. The Navy gave
Ows;ey $50 men playing football
and a lot OF them were big, fast
and altogether adequate. 0Wsley.i
In turn, has given the Navy an
attack for the first time in years,
using his adaptation of the Yale
system with Folwe1l's Pennsylvania
defense as ground work.
In consequence. q lot Of push
overs have been thoroughly
utlsIled over during the early sea-
son and the single big game with
Princeton ended In q tie. Not
the most impressive record on
the books, yet the Navy has an
answer.
1t saws the team was short for
the Princeton affair. yet should
have won by. two touchdowns on
the run Of the game. - : - 2 =
AUST an off day. Owsley de-
cIared. But that tie was the best
thing that could have happened 70
us. 1T convinced the boys that.
everything is not bedded down with
rose petals
The Navy also says Inat II otlly
wanted to win two games, anyhow
Z The other is with Michigan.
Rated as the best team In the
conference, the Wolverines. nave
been more heavily secuted than the
Army to date and the Middies APP
parently think they have seen
enough to convince them that they
have at least an even chance In the
west.
Eastern football critics seem to
agree with them There Is little
doubt that prevalent opinion is to
the effect that Owsley has taken
over a competitive pommeranlan ana
made it into q competitive woif'
hound.
Players like LentZ, at guard;
Shanley at fulIback, Hamilton at
quarterback and Banks ana RIP
sin at the halfbachs, have been
around and about for some time
without going anywhere the
nresent season. This has seen
ShauIey develop into one OF the
best running and kicking back
field men In this section, with
Flippin, former Centre College
man Of slight repute, also coming
along to his best. -7.'
There is no outstanding line
plunser in this quartet. but the
Foundation of a staunch Navy run
ming attack Oft TACKLE was laid at
Annapolis some years ago By Bob
Folweil. To this. owsley has ADDED
deception and, in consequence,
Shapley and F'lippin have come into
their own.
Lentz, an ex-Rutgers man, prob
ably will never be any better than
he Is but his running mate, Ed
wards, has remarkable possibilities.
He is surprisingly fast for big
man, giving Caulkin, Princeton
quarterback, running start and
then catching him in the open
field.
bernstein and Eddy. tackles, and
Hardwick and Bernet, ends, have
come on very rapidly In recent
weeks and right now are said. to lie
as good as the next and better
than most.
and by some is said to be the
keystone of the defense.
The strength of the line, however,
seems to be found in the number
and quality of its secondary men,
Williamson and Kaufman being
rated almost on a par with Hard.
wick at one end position, whils
TrusIow and Kirk have been bat-
Ting Bernstein for the odd tackle
post right merrily. Incidentally,
Cross is making Captain Lentz step
out with his best in order to. hold
his place at guard.
An in all, it should be quite a
spacious OCCASION at Ann Arbor to-
morrow.