The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-11-24
Midshipmen Got Off to a Poor
Start, but Have Been I'm
proving Steadily
LOU KIRN IS DECEPTIVE
Notre Dame Game Saturday Is
Expected to Take Snap Out
Of Cadet Squad
By WILLIAM
NEA Service Sports Editor


what a tough break for the Navy"
Thus spake the experts when 1t
was announced that Army will con-
descend to play the Navy Dec. Is IN
New York City for the benefit OF the
unemployed. For q time, I thought
so, too, but lately I have begun to
wonder if the Army will have so much
good clean fun sinking the Middies,
after all.
A football team eve Is beaten,
they tell me, until 60 minutes have
been played. The Navy appears to
be the underdog In this scuffle, but
so was Princeton against Yale. And
I always will think Princeton beat
Yale this year, though the score in
dicates that Yale won. You can't
cash a moral victory at the ticket
windows, Of course, but the profit
from a fat mental wager often is just
as satisfying.
The Army has a swift, deceptive at
tack. Major Sasse has shown the
Kaydets how Pop Warner got that
way. There is no eagle at the Point.
but the team functions rather well
| IS a unit, with all hands turning to
! with healthy vigor. There are a cou-
| pie of charming ends In the persons
| Of Carlmark and Messenger. In the
| front line there Is some bulk and
| strength at spots, especially where
Captain Polly Humber, numbers
around. Even without Cy Letzelter,
who has been ruled out because of
old age. the backfield, with Spinner
Herb, Fields, Kilday. and q couple
Of others. is smart and strong.
The Army has been taking trench
after trench, without q setback in its
first eight games. It is true, the
schedule hasn't been 50 very tough,
that a victory was barely eked out
over Harvard and that Yale held the
Soldiers to a Z to Z tie. Army has
achieved, however, the habit Of VIC
tory. and the coaches say that's a
good habit to have.
AT first glance. the Navy seems to
have done rather badly this year. Out
Of its first seven games, Navy won
three and lost to Ohio, Southern
Methodist, Notre Dame and Duke.
However, one of the Nays victories
was a 10 to 6 win v e William and
Mary, the team that Harvard had to
hump along to tie at Is all.
The Navy was beaten by Notre
Dame long enough ago to have for
gotten about 1t a little, while the
Army still has to go through that or
deal. Teams that have played Notre
Dame this year have never been quite
the same after the game. II the Army
loses by any outlandish score, the
Kaydets' fine faith In their own
ability may become tinged by just a
little Skepticism, which is something
fatal to football aspirations, they say
The Navy has not shown any great
deception In attack but there Is pow
er in the forward line, where Hag-
berg, from down Fallansbee. w. Va.
way, is one of the standouts. The
Middies lack guile on offense, If q
repertoire of tricks is what you mean
but Lou Kirn helps to make up foa
the lack of deception. The milwaukee,
boy can take a football on q common
cid cutback play and lope right over
the hills. taking a couple of tackler:
along for q ride.
Besides Kim in the backfield there
is Johnny Cannon. a squatty lac
from Lodi, Calf, who throws out.
curves with the pigskin.
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The people who pay their bucks tt
attend the proceedings. besides get.
ting q load OF Army-Navy color ane
tradition, and helping the cause o,
charity, may be buying attendance Al
an actual football game, even though
the Navy might appear, after cur
sorry examination Of the two teams
to be q setup. The newspaper writer'
will be admitted at a cover charge O
$50 per seat, and wen at that, I an
told. several Of them are going
thinking the event a night club op'
ening or ar auction sale Of a few
b~attleShipS.