Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
TWO BAD BREAKS"
FATAL TO SOLDIERS
Statistics Favor Army, But
Alert Zuppke Line ContriveS
to, Stop eagle.
BY ALLAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor.

W Arn1yS invasion OF Llle WeSC-
ern Conference today crum-
bled on the Plains or Illinois
as a throng of $1,000 saw the Big Ten
champions gallop to victory by the de-
cisive margin of II to in series OF
spectacular breaks"
The swift and stunning turns of the
wheels of foot ball fortune saw Bob
Zuppke's alert, hard-charging eleven
stage a great comeback, get the jump
on the Soldiers and run up flst-half
lead that clinched the game.
These two astonishing breaks each
resulting in a touchdown, came in the
second quarter and left the Army forces
dazed.
The first bombshell to strike the Cadet
ranks was freak punt by Hertz Muir
rell from behind his own goal line,
twisting, lofty spiral that travelled less
than 20 yards and was converted into
touchdown by Ed HAWAI-, big Illinois
center, after picking up the bounding
ball only 8 yards from the Army goal
Intercepted Pass Costly.
The second break" came after Red
eagle had led a forward passing counter
charge deep into Illinois territory. It
struck as Arnold Wolgast, an alert end
and youthful opportunist from Aurora,
Ill, broke in to intercept short lateral
pass from eagle to Murrel and race 80
yards to another touchdown.
In little more time than it takes to
tell, Illinois, with the aid of a first
period goal by Douglas Mills from the
20-yard line, had run up its entire total
of II points. The Army, led by Capt.
eagle came back gamely in the second
half but its most gallant efforts pro-
duced only one touchdown and never
seriously threatened the lead of the
Big Ten champions.
The famous Cadet redhead personally
took the ball across for West Points
only touchdown, on a 3-yard dash
through the line, but the best he could
do otherwise was to haraSS the Illini
with a long range passing attack that
repeatedly produced big gains.
There were plenty of thrills for the
big and colorful crowd, which included
tary of War Good and Gen. Summer
all, chief of staff. There were long
runs, passes that were almost as long
and as wiefd a collection of breaks"
as any game has witnessed in some time,
but there was not much question about
the outcome after Bob zuppke's charges
romped out in front in the first half,
outcharging and outguessing the Army
with as fine an exhibition OF line play
Line Due Most Credit.
The victory, in fact, belonged almost
exclusively to this alert Illinois line.
Not only did it check the running at
tack of the Army through most of the
game, keeping Capt. eagle from get
ing of on single spectacular dash
from scrimmage, but two OF the for
wards registered the touchdowns that
settled the issue Capt Crane, at guard,
and Louis Gordon, giant tackle who
spilled Army plays all over the grldiron,
shared the main honorS with HAWAI-
and Wolgast, the opportunists.
Its running attack checked, the
Army and eagle took to the air. With
anything like a break" the Cadets
might have turned the tide and won
the game, for they seemed well on
the way to a touchdown twice in the
second quarter, only to be checked once
and see Wolgast dash to touchdown
on the next drive. Twice again, in the
third quarter, the Army made over
head advances toward the opposing
goal line, failing by inches to score
the first time after having five chances
to make only 3 yards. On the sec
ond drive, Capt. eagle took matters al
most entirely in his own hands and
finally scored, passing to Messenger for
20 yards and making the remaining
yards to the goal line in two slashes
at the line.
Figures Favor the Army.
Altogether the Army gained lis yards
through the air, averaging % yards for
passes completed out of IL attempted.
Illinois gained only 38 yards on 2
passes completed out of thrown.
The Cadets registered IL first downs
to only for Illinois and just about
held their own at rushing, with l22
yards to show for the attack from
scrimmage to 1913 for Illinois.
eagle saved his biggest shot through
the air for the third period. With the
ball on Illinois 35-yard line, after a
22-yard run-back of punt by Red
| Carver, quarterback substitute, eagle
made one of his famous see-saw dashes
He dropped back, started an end run,
! reversed, and while on the run near
! midfield heaved the pigskin toward the
goal line.
Dick O'Keefe shared it on the side
| lines, 8 yards from the Illinois goal
| for a net gain of 80 yards, but the
Army did not have the punch to put
| the ball across, although they got an
, extra down. Five chances altogether
! through a double offside. Frost Peters
| gave a great exhibition for a man who
| spent yesterday in hospital. He kept
Illinois out of danger. The alert Mr.
| Peters also was busy knocking down
eagles passes besides intercepting one
around midfeld.