New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-08
huge CROWD WILL
WATCH GRID GAME
NaVy-Michigan Contest to Be
Seen by at Least 10000 People

crowd Of 10000 persons goes to see
a football team that lost its first
three games play a team that lost
its first four, there must be some
thing of importance behind it. That
attendance has been predicted for
the Navy-Michigan encounter at
Baltimore $. urday and the attrac-
ton for the uge crowd lies in the
prospect of Il lrilling battle between
two teams thai have come back bril-
lantly after making poor starts a
battle that should be as close as any
game in the east.
With their morale impaired by the
tragic death of Miles Fox during an
early season practice, the Midship-
men got off to a slow start and
dropped close games to Davis Elk
ms, Boston College and Notre Dame
before they won their first game
from Duke. The next Saturday they
burst into the limelight with a vic
tory over the highly rated Pennsyl-
vania team and followed it up by
trouncing West Virginia Wesleyan,
81 to y.
Michigan. suffering from a COM
plete lack of Friedmans and Ooster-
baans,, also has had a checkered sea-
son, losing to Ohio Wesleyan. In
! diana, Ohio State 4 and Wisconsin.
Last Saturday the Wolverines sud-
! denly came to life and eliminated
Illinois, previously undefeated, from
the Big Ten race.
| The Navy Michigan series has a
| brief but surprising history. In
1925 Michigan walloped the Midship-
| men by 81 to 0 count. Next year,
with the same teams, Navy turned
the tables, winning 10 to 0. In
1927 Michigan won again. 81 to II.
overlapping this intersectional
battle interest is another east-west
encounter. which may have an i'm
portant bearing on the race for ma
tlonal championship honors between
Army and Notre Dame. The cadets
! have gone indicated in six games,
three of them against Southern
| Methodist, Harvard and Yale. To
complete their hard schedule with
out a defeat they must take
| Rockne's team in their stride and go
on to games with Nebraska and
! Stanford.
! In spite OF an in-and-out season.
Notre Dame looms as formidable
obstacle il, Arms's path. 1t can re-
deem its carly season failures by one
| triumph and is ready to stake every
| thing on this one game.
Among the all-eastern gam IS the
Gcorgctown-C Carnegie Tech encoun-
! ter OIL a neutral battlefield at Al
bany and the Harvard-Pcnn game
at Cambridge lead. Georgetown and
carnegie rank among the few undc-
! f,ated and united teams in the cast
and will be fighting to keep their
records clean. Penn and Harvard
, Eoth have been defeated. by the
! fighting Navy team and by Army.
! but little interest has been taken
from their meeting by these set
| backs.
! and united team in the east, will
not have an easy time with Temple.
| which was tumbled from that list
last week by Schuykill after going
| through f"e games without having
a point scored against il.
The traditional rivalries between
Brown and Dartmouth and Pitts
burgh and Washington and Jefferson
also will be settled for 1928 this
week
Although they no longer are con-
tenders for high honors all four
teams are strong and should put up
good struggles.
West Virginia which has won six
games from strong teams after los
| ing its first game to Davis Elkins.
! takes on another dangerous oppo-
ncnt in Oklahoma Aggies while SYRIA
cusc completes the intcrsectional
schedule by entertaining Ohio Wes-
! lcyan, conqueror of Michigan and
| five Ohio conference opponents.
Yale and Princeton have breath
Ing spells against Maryland and
Washingt on and Lee. The opponents
OF Cornell and Columbia, st. Bona
venture and Johns Hopkins. also
would be considered as easy were it
| rot for tie games that these same
| teams inflicted last year.