Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
EAST is PUT TO SHAME
BY STANFORD'S TRIUMPH
Pacific Coast Eleven, in Routing Army, Shows Suck
Superiority That 1t Is Difficult to
Make Fair Comparison.

| so the reasons were never apparent
Early in the game it began to throw
| forward passes, more or less random
passes, too, from right in front of its
own goal line. And it kept up that
| plan Of campaign all afternoon. Near
| the end of the first half, when STAN
ford was leading by only to o, Army
threw forward passes from its own To-
yard line. And not only threw one,
but threw several. And Stanford inter-
cepted these passes several times; one
of its touchdownS was made shortly
after one was intercepted.
In the second quarter Army got a
chance when it put the ball on Stan
ford's 10-yard line, but its choice of
plays was not productive. Two plays
were wasted to get the ball outside, so
that it would be brought in Is yards.
And, of course, after the ball had been
brought in only two plays remained to
put it over.
Army Passes Futile.
A freak forward pass, in which
eagle ran far to the left side of the
ward the right side and threw pass
to a waiting Army player, was one of
the plays. The pass was incomplete,
and the other was short pass over
the center of the line, but which also
failed to go through. The same freak
pass in the second half gained 40
yards when eagle tried it from his own
20-yard line. At the beginning of the
second half eagle ran the kickoff back
to midfield but then tried an aSsort-
ment of long passes that got nowhere
and would wound in tumble as he
dropped back to throw another that
cost 40 yards.
Whenever the Army got within a
position where it seemed it might get
count it apparently forgot that the
one man who might break through
for that touchdown was eagle.
The whole game, and the COMPARE
son between the two teams, might we'll
be summed up in the statement that
Army was a team that lacked CO.
ordination and depended almost en-
tirely On the individual brilliance of one
played; that Stanford was powerful
machine that brought into action all
its integralS as one unit.
Only one thing happens anytime that
kind of situation develops, whether it
is politics or in war, and what happens
on a foot ball field when such COM
parison takes place is just what took
place this afternoon.
Stops Everything.
Army had nothing In its offense that
Stanford could not stop. 1t had moth
ing in its offense that was very decep-
tive to the Stanford. Stanford. on the
other hand, had an offense that kept
the Army at bay all during the game.
and its machine-like driving, powerful
attack was never consistently halted
by the Soldiers
Just as eagle was the brilliant star
of the Army, SO were two players for
Stanford. It was Hoffman. whose
superb handling of the ball behind the
line of scrimmage, fine kicking and
powerful deceptive lunges through CEN
ter really made the Stanford offense go.
1t was a fine attack, but it took Hoff-
mans perfect taking and passing to
produce what almost amounted to per-
feet results. And in Stanford'S line
was one young man, who, If he is not
selected when all-America elevenS are
picked, will not get the honor he justly
deserves, if his performances all sea-
son have measured up to his perform
ance today.
That man is Heinecke, center. He
did everything that anybody could do
in the position and more than ever has
been seen on an Eastern gridiron. He
intercepted passes Is yards behind his
own line of scrimmage, he tackled
down under punts. He stopped every
thing directed at him in the line of
scrimmage, and he was just about
everywhere that the ball happened to
be- How he got there could not be
seen. But he was there and his in
telligence in diagnosing Army play and
being all the time where he ought to be
was uncanny.
The Army lost, but the East, as rep
resented by nearly all foot ball coaches
in this section, and many from the
West, and by about $4,000 and odd
other spectators left the Yankee Sta
dunn we'll satisfied and somewhat
astounded at the crushing of the team
they had looked 1lnon as their hest