Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
Sense Of Direction.
- OBJ ZUPPKE, that lively breeze or
> young gale from the Midwest,
blew in for a. short address be-
fore hitting the trail again.

~ OBJ ZUPPKE, that lively breeze or
young gale from the Midwest,
N blew in for short address be-
- fore hitting the trail again.
Zupp still admits that he
would like to have had that Illinois line
in front of the Stanford attack as it
struck the Army, and he thinks there
would have been g large surprise. He
was discussing the Roy Riegels episode
in the Georgia Tech game, with TINS
interesting comment:
Foot ball players frequently lose their
sense of direction in hard game. I've
seen a number of players-smart play
ers-who. after being tackled suddenly.
place the ball feet nearer their onuo-
nent's goal before getting up. They
would admit later they had been turned
around. The Riegels case was just an
accident, net a matter of bad judgment
or bonehead playing in any way"
DR.. Zuppke, coach, painter and phi
losopher, has one of his hardest sched-
ules next year, including battle with
the Army. And it might be suggested
here and now that any Eastern team
lot of foot ball. For Zupp'.e takes
keener delight in beating the East than
anything else in foot ball. Even this
far in advance, it might be suggested
that not vacant seat will be left in
that big Illinois Memorial Stadium when
the Army arrives for action.
The Strongest Left Side.
1t may be some ball club can show a
stronger left side of the infield than
the Giants, but where Is it? Jackson
and Lindstrom make one of the best
combinations base ball has seen for
years. For the right side, st. Louis can
claim Bottonfley and Frisch, as the
Cubs offer Grimm and Hornsby. or the
Yankees present Gehrig and LaZZeri
who will do we'll enough. But Jackson
and LindStrom are the class on the
other side of the diamond. One of
the greatest left-side combinations was
that of Long and Collins-Herman Long
and Jimmy Collins of Boston. This
probably was the greatest-although
there have been Barry and Baker,
Tinker and Steinfeldt, Bancroft and
Groh, Turner and Bradley, Wagner and
Leach. Wagner and Leach of the old
Pirates form another combination that
might challenge Long and Collins.
"Anchors Aweigh."
Sir: It may be interesting to your
correspondent "Orpheus" to have one
Vi Tic UOuOOiul pOuACS III Il4S IeGCeI,
published in THE Spotlight" this
The Navy song, Anchors Aweigh,"
was originally the class march of the
class of 1907. 1t was the custom of
BandmaSter zimmerman in the old
days Il don't know whether it still
holds or not) to compose each year a
march which he dedicated to the new
first class. 1t was 1907's good luck to
profit by his happiest inspiration, and
somebody in that class IF remem-
Der rightly, chap named McClure)
saw that Anchors Aweigh' was not
only an AL march but had the markings
of first-class foot ball song. So he
wrote the words to it.
That was in 1906 and the new song
was first sung publicly at Franklin
Field at the Army-Navy game that
year. That was q great Navy year
the first Navy victory since 1900-and
that provided the final clincher to es-
tablish Anchors Aweigh" as a lucky
song. So 1t has been Nays war song
ever since. It is, you see, an original
song, both words and air native to the
Naval Academy, and yet it does not
quite meet the specifications Of OR
pheus," since the tune was composed,
not by a midshipman, but by the Acad-
envy band leader (and grand old chap
he was, tool.
Incidentally, that was quite q Navy
team. that 1905 one. Jonas Ingram
played fullback on that team and scored
a touchdown on Army by catching a
forward pass from Bull" Norton, which
had been intended for "Cracky" Dague.
Forward passing was in a rather prini-
tive state in those days. That was