The Washington times., 1931-11-19
PLAN
To USE AIR
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ATTACK
BY HARRY COSTELLO
Georgetown BackfieId Star 1908
FIGHT fire with fire


Georgetown BackfieId Star 1908
Fight fire with fire.
That's the campaign plan Of
Navy Saturday in it's battle with
the strong, fast, and versatile
Southern Methodist University
eleven from way down in Texas.
The game, charity one, takes
place on Farragut Field in An
napolis.
All of which forecasts a sensa-
tional game.
You see, these boys from the
Southwest, called Mustangs, are
most adept in the use of the for
ward pass. They do not hesitate
to hurl the ball at any time.
And when they decide to throw
the sphere they throw it, I mean,
and, as rule, one of the many
Mustangs in there to catch it.
MethOdists Rate High
Coach Edgar rip" Miller makes
no secret of the fact that his
team will take to the air in an
effort to upset the MethodistS.
RIP" meant forward pass against
forward pass when he said:
Flight fire with fire."
However, one wonders what
Navy will do when the Mustangs
turn on the power. How will Navy
match it or combat it?
Southern Methodist is a real
football team. So real, in fact, ,
that Navy's scouts Just about :
know that it is toSs-up between :
Notre Dame and S. M. U. as to
which is the superior.
Navy to date has stopped indi-
vidual stars of opposing teams
cold. No individual grid hero has
run wild on the Navy youngsters
this season. The extraordinary
aggressivenesa of the Navy units
&"ecludes an indi-
vidual perfornace by fast back,
an elsuive back, or a strong run.
ming back. :
Players Are Seasoned
However, against team play,
such as that flashed by Hunk"
Anderson's Notre Dame eleven,
the Navy has not Jared any too
well.
Southern Methodist has power,
all kinds of it. It's players are
fine physical specimens, seasoned,
mature. They glory in rough
going, plenty of which they will
run into Saturday. Even under
rough weather conditions the
Mustangs remain a cool, shrewd
and always relaxed outfit. Ray
Morrison, coach of S. M. u,
doesn't go in very heavily for
football players who become rat
tied and panic stricken when the
going gets rough or tough.
The $4,000 odd spectators who
will witness Saturdays game will.
see, for sure, a courageous, ag-
gressive Navy team. They win
see eleven most willing scrapperS
on Navy's side at all times. The .
Middies will fight it out to the
bitter end. It'll be a game as
long as Navy has anything to do
with it..
Takes Football Seriously
On the other hand, there Is ,
another team to consider. S. M.
U. takes its football mighty seri.
ouSly. The Mustangs do not fool,
They mean it, when they play
football. And, no person that
this writer can recall ever had
the temerity to suggest that the
can't fight it out to
the bitter end also. -.
S. M. U. is best as a football
team when it turns on the power.
1t plays double wing back sys.
tenn from which are developed q
very powerful off-tackle slant and
mighty sweet short end run.
The Mustangs also coutrive to
mask very cleverly their criss-
cross plays, and their spinnerS
with the ball carrier going into.
the line without a leader. The
interference is very capable, and
i the Southwesterners are q
shade inferior to Notre Dame it
is only because their blocking is a
shade inferior to the perfect ar
Jicle offered by the Fightin' Irish.
Navy will make it a game, due
n most part to the aggressiveness-
If the Middies when aggressive
1esS win accomplish things where
ability would not Fl