The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-03
SERVICE STRUGGLE RICH IN TRADITION,
 SHOULD BE CLOSE
Soldiers and Sailors Bee gan Football Clashes AZ Years Ago
BY JIMMY DONAHUE NEA SerVice SnOrfs Writer


 Philadelphia, today, the ghost of a famous army general, who died fighting for his country in the charge up San Juan hill during the war with Spain, will hover. And on the other side group of blue-clad middies will cheer on a raging football typhoon from Honolulu-a young football stalwart named Cor don Chung -Hoon.
 For Army and the Navy. are to battle not with bombs, field .,ieces, anti-aircrast guns and tor pedoes, but with footballs.
 This game, steeped with foot .,all lore that dates back to 1890, owes it's origin to bold band of Navy buccaneers who brazenly is- sued a challenge to West Point to nave it out on the football field that year and who, adding insult to injury, proceeded to drub the ca dets 24-0.
 The ghost who enters the picture is that of Dennis w. Michie, cap- tain and coach of the first two football squads produced at West Point. He had won an Indian let ter and receiving the challenge rom the Navy upstarts, hastily organized an Army squad and coached it.
 Michie had played football at Dartmouth prior to entering West Point. He had wond an Indian let ter, and when the challenge came, he got together the Army's first football squad.
 Since that inaugural game on Novem Der 20, 1890, there has fol- lowed string of 32 games, broken by a four-year lapse between 1894 and 1898, one-year break m 1909, a two-year interval due to the war in 1917-18, and another two-year lapse due to broken rela- tions in 19zS-29 eligibility regula- tions.
 Of those 32 games, Army has won IT, Navy 12, and 3 have been ties. After the first four games, two played at West Point and two at Annapolis, the teams have stag ed their annual encounters on for eign fields, alternating between Philadelphia and New York. with one game in Baltimore and one in Chicago.
 The situation his year gives every indication of producing one of the best football games seen in the country. Navy, coming along slow, revealed unexpected defen- sive strength in it's tilt with Notre Dame. Army, mountain Of SCOT ing punch up until its 21-O drub- ping at the hands of the Irish, IS still plenty good.
 The Irish scored only 12 points against Navy, as against 21 run up on Army Those figures should make the Navy a touchdown bet ter defensively than the Army. Yet, anyone who has witnessed the quagmire in which the middies and Irish battled at Cleveland can see why the boys from South Bend didn't run up a bigger score.
 The West Pointers are bound to be a bit peeved at that beating by Hunk Anderson's boys last week. They'll be out to take Navy's scalp and run up big score, but mayoe Navy'll have a lot to say about IL.
 Army has "Pick" Vidal, a fiashy quarterback whose family name Navy ha a lot of reasons 10 re- member. Picks" big brother, GCNe, WcHL tO Ahhy SOAAtS ago and was responsible for the cadets win over the middies Tn 1916.
 In the line Army has a guard who's in there fighting when the rest of the boys are ready to quit for tea. He's Captain Milt Sum- merfelt, a guard who was practic- ally unanimous choice for All America this year. Then there are Kopcsak, end; Ben Fields, half back; Johnny Buckler. half; Kill day, full ,and two tackles in Lin- coin and Armstrong who are good.
 And the Navy
 There's that valiant forward wall of Captain Jim Rcedy, guard; Kane, tackle; Butch Harbold, cen ter, and Murray. end. that held the Notre Dame stalwarts in check during most of the game at Cleve- land.
 In the backfield are that Hawai-. ian flash, Gordon Chung -Hoon; Buzz Berries, half; Soupy Camp bell and Erck, fullbacks.
 Navy has had two weeks rest since it's brawl with the Irish; Army is still recovering from it's bruising at the hands of Notre Dame. Coach Rip" Miller has had time to rest his squad and prep 1t for the Army game.
 The Army mule may do lot of kicking around in the game, but the Navy goat will be in there with a few hefty butts that may get the middies somewhere.