The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-04

produced so much as a IalnC 1l1cKer
of interest. In short, the current
attitude of the football f1lbert in
these parts when reference is made
to the season which expired Satur-
day is one of great WEAKNESS and
extreme embarrassment. The drab
situation is without parallel in re-
cent history. Generally there is
much in the aftermath of a football
season hereabouts over which to
chortle and cackle. This season,
strangely, there is little or nothing.
IL may be that the result of the
invasion of two teams from the
far west last week-the Oregon
AggieS and StanfOrds-contribut-
ed something to the widespread
morOseness that exists among the
boys.
TT MAY BE RECALLED THAT THE
AGGIES SOUNDLY WALLOPED THE NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY TEAM THANKsGIv-
ING DAY AND AT ALMOST THE VERY
MOMENT WHEN ALL THE CRITICS HAD
GOTTEN TOGETHER TO AWARD THE
EASTERN CHAMPIONSHIP TO CHICK
MEEHANS TEAM.
THIS defeat might not have been
l. SO disastrous to eastern pride if
the Aggies had been a first-class
football team, but they Weren't-not
as flrst-clasS teams are rated out
where they come from. Before COM
ing east they had lost three games,
including 1910 game to Southern
California, champion team of the
Pacific coast.
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But pitted against N. Y. u, they
were plenty first class, nor did they
show any effects from the 5000
mile trip into new climate, nor did
the fact that eleven of their squad
had the flu in varying degrees of
seriousness on the day the game was
played cut into their driving power.
AS Mr.. Meehan phiIosOphicalIy adj
mits, it was just as well the squad
was not physically fit.
After the Oregonians came Pop
Warmers Stanford team from Palo
Alto, Cal, to play the Army, beaten
only once and rated along with NJ
Y. U. and Carnegie Tech as the
three bulwarks OF eastern football
class. No man with a fluid ounce
of pity in his soul can relish the
task Of setting down in type what
Mr.. Warmers team did to the
Army. There is a peculiar psy-
chology that stills the tongue and
darkens the memory of eyewit-
nesses to scene OF carnage and hor-
ror.
THOSE white -shirted giants
l. from the Golden Gate rolled
over the Cadets in unending waves
of force and destruction. For all the
value it served the Army line, save
for the first FIVE minutes of play,
might have been made of cardboard
instead of bone and muscle and
heart.
AFTER EACH FRESH CHARGE THERE
WOULD BE ARMY MEN SCATTERED
AROUND THE LANDSCAPE OF THE
YANKEE BALL YARD IN SUNDRY PAT
TERMS OF DISFIGURATION. so GREAT
WAS THE IMPACT OF MANY OF THE
sTANFORDIAN BUSHES THAT YOUR
CORRESPONDENT FEARS SOME OF MR..
BTFF JONES' FINEST PLAYERS MUST
HAVE BEEN DRIVEN MANY FEET
UNDER THE GROUND AND HE FEELS IT
WOULD BE FOR THE BEST INTERESTS
OF ALL IF RESCUE PARTIES WITH EX-
PERT EXCAVAIORS WE'RE SENT OUT
IN THE VICINITY OF CENTER FIELD,
WHERE SOME EARLY TRAGEDIES oC-
CURED, TO SEARCH FOR THE MISS
ING.
Mr.. Jones reports that sixteen Of
his men were injured in the battle,
including Red Christian eagle who
came out of the merry little froIic
with Scared and Dubious nose.
eagle, however, was the only Army
back to play the full game. 1t
might be closer to the fact to say
he played the whole Army game. He
is one OF those smalIish fellows
made of whaIebone and grit and
capable of standing a terrific
amount of bouncing around.
IF there has ever been any doubt
4 as to his right to rank as the
best back in the east-not excepting
the Strongs, the Harpsters or the
Schulls-his flaming performance
against o. POSITION that outclassed
his own t. n SO far that there was
no comparison, ought to settle the
issue beyond any further debate.
EVEN IN DEFEAT HE WAS TO ME ONE
OF THE BIG THRILLS OF A GAME THAT
REEKED OF THRILLS TIME AFTER
TIME ON RUNNING PASS PLAYS THE
WHOLE STANFORD TEAM SIFTEp
THROUGH THE BATTERED ARMY LINE
AND SURROUNDED eagle, FORCING
HIM NARDs BACK INTO HIS OWN TER
RITORY, DRIVING HIM FROM ONE SIDE
OF THE FIELD TO THE OTHER, A PACK
OF HOUNDS CoRNERING THE FOX, BUT
ALWAYS THE RED HEAD MANAGED TO
ELUDE THEM LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE
A LONG ACCURATE FLING TO ONE OF
HIS RECEIVERS.
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The experts, of course, will tell
You this is bad football; there is
never any excuse for running away
frOzra the OoaI limo Won orc haa ded