Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-09
CADETS OVERCOME
/. PLUCKY lL|NL, $50
West Point Eleven, Held at
Bay for Half, Rallies
for Victory.
By EDWARD J. NEIL.
Associated Press Sports writer.


" YORK, November S.--With
Il one fash of sustained pow
er that blasted the 1ighting
Illini apart and one individual feat
of brilliance, Army's unbeaten
eleven humbled battered but dog
ged Illinois, Is to 0, in one OF the
prime intersectional duels of the
day.
The Him, beaten on successive Sat-
urdays by Northwestern, Michigan and
Purdue back West on the more familiar
grounds Of the Big Ten Conference,
fought Army to complete standstill in
the FIRST half. dominating the play all
fire wore out. A brilliant forward wall
crumbled, and the 10000 who saw the
colorful ''Kaydets' In their sole metro
politan appearance Of the season rose
with them in the second half to yowl
them on to victory.
Aside from the brilliant play of two
fine lines, youngster almost new TO
Army varsity foot ball stole the show.
Stecker Army Star.
Stecker, big 17O-pound halfback
Kilday, another big, hard-running fell
low from San Antonio, Tex, to smash
the Illinois line for the first touchdown
in the third quarter.
In the Anal period, when the Mimi
passed in desperation, Stecker inter-
cepted one Of Charley Halls passes on
the Illinois 45-yard line and scampered
around the startled Westerners 70 score
All through the second quarter and
the final half, after replacing Ken
Stecker fought q brilliant kicking duel
with Stan RodYnan, Illinois tackle, and
both averaged 40 yards from the line
An through the first half Illinois
threatened to score one Of the out
standing upsets Of the season and
In the second quarter played almost
entirely in Army territory. Pete Yanus-
kus, hard hitting Illinois back, and Gil
Berry, ace Of the invaders, punched or
passed at Army's bitter defense within
the Cadet 25-yard line.
Twice Rodman put the pressure on
Army by kicking outside within the
Cadet 15-yard line. Always the war
attack and went back to swapping
kicks.
Cadets Get Going.
The second half, with Stecker, Kilday,
until he was hurt in the third quarter,
and 'Appleknocker" Bowman Of Harrf-
man. Tenn. packing the freight behind
q line that crushed Illinois weary for
wards. was entirely different. re
swok <~rtwHn after 1nraU Hfa1r4ur
duel when Bowman carried one Of Bod
mans kicks back 8 yards to his own
40-yard line. Stecker, ripping at the
tackles, reached the 25-yard line before
q clipping penalty Of IS yards forced
Stecker to pass to King TO make up
almost all Of the distance.
Kilday spun through tackle, Steeker
raced to the 15-yard line on q lateral,
drove to the in two plunges and
then turned right end for the score.
Once Army led and Kilday left the
game, the Cadets kicked at every OPP
portunity. Illinois strove to get back
In the game with forward passes in the
final quarter and gave Stecker his
chance TO begin again.
Carver's Run Longest.
The longest run Of the day went to
Rosy Carver, Army's starting quarter
back, who ran q kick back AZ yards,
but without scoring effect In the final
quarter. Letzeller kicked the first point
after touchdown but to the amazement
OF the Cadets Charley Broshous, drop
kicking specialist. went in for his custo-
mary one play after the second touch
down and failed to make the point. He
never had done that before.
Illinois failure to penetrate the Army
defense in important moments showed
IN the statistics. The Big Ten eleven
gained only 40 yards from scrimmage,
completed 3 out of f3 forwards for
p yards of gain and made only two first
downs. Army ran up 153 yards from
scrtmmage, made two successful passes
Tor Is yards gain in eight tries and
intercepted three others. Army rolled
up eight first downs, five OF them in the
third quarter.
The Illinois line was brilliant until
y weakened in. tine third quarter Hud-
dleStun, giant center, was particularly
effective, along with Hills and Bodman,
the tackles. Wilson and Swanson also
turned IN some end play.