Seward daily gateway., 1927-10-28
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THE ARMY WINS 1e TO 12
. (By Cannon Ball")

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 i And what a game it was! Wow! More real action was crowded into those 10 minute quarters than the writer ever believed possible The difference between the two teams was
 very marked, the High school team
 looked like nymphs fitting here and
 there about the floor, which made it appear that the Army boys were tied i to the boards.
 ] Now let us stop for few minutes and consider why, such a fast team as
 the High school squad should lose to team admittedly much slower on J their feet, to the tune of 19 to 12, not
 much difference in the score, to the casual observer but, of tremendous ! import to the actual participants. First and foremost was the total lack of anything like an offense when
 they had possession of the ball, poor passing when in a position to score and lastly they failed to cage the ball when they did shoot; many of the shots for the basket going entirely over the
 blackboard. On the other hand their new five man defense was we'll nigh impregnable and it was an awe in- spring sight for the soldiers to have such a stonewall defense, to have to face when they got possession of the
 pill. Coach Bath, affectionately known as Saturday Night" took his squad over the coals after the games for not executing properly some of the finer points of the game he had daily been drilling into them which he fig ures, should have placed his boys in front at the end of the first quarter. 1 Leslie and Howard Hays starred for the High school squad and had these two boys any support at all, the final result of the game would have had an entirely different aspect.
 So much for the High school quintet now, let us go over and look at the game from the Army squads point of view. Perhaps few of the spectators
 realized that last nights game was the first time that the Army has
 been able to get all five of the 1st team on the floor playing together at one time, which speaks volumes for the masterful manner in which Coach
 Smith has rounded his players into some semblance of a basKetDaH team. It might be said in some quar- l ters that the High school didn't put up their usual scrappy game, if you have any such delusions they were purely and simply outgamed and out fought by the most courageous team that the Army has ever, fortunately, been able to get together in Seward. They fought without any letup, thru the whole game, knowing just exactly what they were up against and con- trary to what they claimed thru our Daily Gateway" in previous state- ments, were none too confident them selves about "pinning back the ears" of the High school squad when they met them in deadly combat.
 The picking out of individual stars from the Army lineup is difficult proposition but perhaps in all fairness we might mention the standing guard "Skeeter" Clancy, who the writer fore told in last nights paper would cer- tainly break up many of the High schools attacks, if they infiltrated thru the Army defense far enough He played a pretty game on the defense and sunk long shot from the middle of the hall in the only chance to shoot he had. Capt. "Gimpy" Harris, Skin -..s r a-lc-I .- . ur, ,Mo~sor~,s r 11oxyo1y