Evening star., 1931-12-14
OLD RIVALS LIKELY
TO RESUME GAMES
Service Schools Expected to
Meet on Grid, Other Fields
Next Year.
BY H. G. BYRD.
l IEW YORK, December IA
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The chances are just about
i Y 999 to l that Army and
Navy resume athletic re-
lationShips next year. Not only is
it likely they will meet in a for
mally scheduled foot ball game,
but also in all other sports in
which they had been meeting
prior to their break
No statement has been made by any
body connected with athletic affairs
either at West Point or Annapolis, and
very little is known of what has taken
place in some more or less informal
conferences, but little observances picked
up here and there in recent weeks not
only indicate that relationships will be
resumed. but seem to make resumption
almost a matter of certainty.
The attitude of the Army toward the
foot ball game Saturday was entirely
| different from last year, and DISPOSE
tion to eradicate by compromise the
differences between the two big service
institutions is apparent.
When the Army and Navy formally
resume their meetings in the various
sports it is doubtful if there will be any
statement OF the agreement under which
he games are to be resumed In all
probability an understanding will exist.
put purely as gentleman's agreement,
With each school to carry it out as it
eels best and most opportune
The game here last Saturday had
bout 1t nothing of last years purely
erfunctory performance. OF the Army,
bis is especially true The pomp and
ageantry Of the greatest spectacle of
port were present in all their color and
pterest. 1t was an Army-Navy game
such as the public knew before the
break. And not one who watched the
contest has any doubt that it is, and is
likely always to be, the most attractive
OF all gridiron competition.
A RMY in time gone by probably has
"A had material for a foot ball team
about as good as that which made
up the eleven this year, but no other
Army team has shown the finish that
comes from good coaching that was
evident against Navy Saturday.
The line charged low and hard, so
Low and hard that on some rare oc-
caslonS 1t overShot its objective and
allowed a good gain by Navy back
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own daring power. The forward pass
plays were better conceived and the
whole attack more fundamentally de-
ceptiye and powerful and varied than
former Army elevenS have had.
Army had great foot ball team on
the field against Navy, one that it is
doubtful If any other eleven could have
whipped.
THIS chap Stecker is a great back.
l. There seemed to be nothing Sat-
urday that he could not do with
greater effectiveness than any other
player. Unlike most fine ground-gain-
ing backs, Stecker is good on defense.
Or, at least, he was good in that game
with Navy.
He stands with Oliphant, Wilson and
eagle as the greatest of all Army backs,
and possibly as the best of them all
The writer has seen Army Navy games
Tor many years, has seen among them
contests in which one back stood out
for his remarkable brilliance as
ground gamer or in some other depart
ment of play, but never yet has watched
any Army-Navy contest in which any
other back so completely dominated
the game In every way.
A ND Lou Kirn, playing his last game
"A in the backfeld for Navy, should
carry with him through life a
feeling of satisfaction over a Job we'll
done when he thinks of his final efforts
on the gridiron. Kirn was every ounce
a great back and took the same part
for Navy that Stecker did for Army. |
And had Stecker not been in the Army
backfeld, Kirn might well have played |
the part in Navy victory that Stecker |
played in Army'S.
TWO guards in the Army-Navy game
l. have hardly been given the credit ,
this year they should have had if |
their play in previous games measured |
up to Saturdays, Summerfield of Armv
and Underwood of Navy. Both acquit-
ted themselves in way that left moth
ing much more to be desired.
NAVY put up wonderful exhibition
1 v against its traditional opponent. |
Its play was such that, could pos
terity know the circumstances which
surrounded the game and the coura-
geouS, efficient efforts of the men in
blue, there would be nothing in the re-
suit to occasion regret.
Navy was we'll coached, its individual
players delivering all that could be ex-
pected of them, and sometimes more
CamppellS S defensive WOrK IN packing
up the line was brilliant, while Tuttle !
at center and James at tackle played |
fine foot ball James, by the way, is
former Washington Central High |
School boy, with his home at. River
dale, Md.
lust what happened to Georgia |
j against Southern California is not
known, except the score, but 1t must
have been plenty.
No man in the country would have
expected the eleven that walloped Yale
and New York University to lose to any
opponent by 60 points. The Athens
machine must have broken down and
then completely disintegrated
Georgia undoubtedly slipped toward
the end of its season against Southern
elevens, with the exception of its play
against Georgia Tech, but nobody would
ever have expected any such result as
60 to in its final game on the coast.
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