The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-01
TALKING
IT OVER
: BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Dec. well, that
IN Army-Notre Dame game is all
over and I don't know whatft was
all about yet. Considering that l
am probably the worlds worst foot
ball expert this should not be sur
prising.
mean 10 say that even when the husky
Young gIadiators are out there on dry
Geld performing their hocus pOcus In
bright sunshine. am not always exactly
clear as to what they are doing or trying
to do. But when they put me in q press
box a mile high and far removed from
the game as +. Scott McBride's philosophy
Is from Dwight Morrow's ] am In a bad
way.
And when It happens. as was the case
on SATURDAY. that the game Is pi aye ~ and
after the hrst two or three scrlmmases
ali the players look like Amos n Andy
! am totally lost
Somebody told me a travelling salesman
nv the name Of MarchmOnt Schwartz
scored the Notre Dame touchdown that
closing gun to break scoreless deadlock.
bonc he wasn't kidding me. All that
actually know about the episode is that
sorneope stvljsbIy clad in fresh coat Of
muck tucked something resembling large
driuping divot under his right elbow and
vent sloshing down the field great dis
tance with twenty-one other mud bathers
swimming in his turbulent wake
-
who was that?" I inquired Of Ed Doc Doc;
lev the reformed Dartmouth back nelo
star who sat back Of me in the opseIv va
ton tower that shot high into the grow.
5ng s schWartz." replied Dooley. He al
ways gets of one long run. ,, AppaIpea ny
the system is TO IDENTITY the No'Ie DSni'
touchdown maker BY haolt.
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IT was unfortunate that the Army
1 boosted no particular ball carrier
addicted To similar traits, because
when the Soldiers blocked a Kick
and scored a touchdown minute
later credit for the performance
was given to everybody from the
Four Marx brothers to Black Jack
Pershing.
An Army captain connected With me tsd
that Miller had blocked the kick and Arm
strong had slid across the goal line on NJ ms
ineiv MS information vent singing its way
over the wires to the rest oil the co1ApIy'
Il
Some time later a courier came painting
m to the pres box from the Army dressing
room to announce that King. a substitute
end, had not only blocked the kick but
had straddled ii in mid air and stayed in
the saddle until the leather bad flown
safely across the scoring zone. Amid such
crashing Of teeth the experts and the non
experts rewrote their pieces to conform to
the latest bulletins.
Ultimately. it developed that this was
only half the truth and while King blocked
the kick q Young soldier BY the name OF
Trice escorted it through the mi. mire ~, TO- the
formation had reached the press box the
occupants. had surrendered wholeheaTtetdil ly
credit Ted Of frankie and johnny. the yellow
Taxi Company and the man on the hying
trapeze.
A S q football game, those who
"A were able to see it say it wasn't
much. and in view of the conditions
it didn't figure to be. The best
team won, though the set-up was
such that the result might easily
have been different if the breaks
had gone the other way couple
of times. The figures show Notre
Dame outrushed the Cadets 1873 to
So yards and this manifestly be-
speaks a, much more effective Of
fensive in spite of the existing dis
couragements.
Carideo was kicking when King toT
Miller, Armstrong. Three or Major Flem-
ing) broke through and blocked the at
tempt They say il is the first time a
kick OF Carideo's has ever been blocked.
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THIS isn't greatly important. The
L ball was Clearly s.ocked, and
bounded backward TO roll Jerkily
across the line furiously pursued by
some unidentified stranger thought
by the police to be either Legs
Diamond or Judge Crater disguised