The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-01

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 In ordinary years, it could be said off-hand, with a querulous lift of the eyebrows, You don't think the Navy has got 8 chance, do you, George ?"
 Somehow this year the situation is altered. It is true that the Navy did not burn up the league last year, but the sailors played some fine games, including that 17 to z defeat sustained at the hands of the Army, and the 6 to o victory scored over Penn. These battles came at the close of the season, and indicated that Rip Miller's sys- tenn was beginning to click, and that the team had begun to find it. self.
 Army Vets Lost
 West Point has lost some fine players this year, and the situation at the Military Academy is fraught with uncertainty. There are II letter men from 1891 as a nucleus for this years team. The backs in this group include Fields, Brown. Kilday and Spinner Herb; the cen- ters are Evens and Senter; the ends are King and Kopcsak (and that fellow Kopcsak, however you pronounce it, is fine end if there ever was one); Jablonsky and Cap tain Surnmerfelt are the guards, and Lincoln Is the only tackle.
 Players who have gone along bore names easy to remember. Graduation took away Stecker, Price, Suarez, Trice, Carver, Lank- enau, Lazar, Simenson and Hifl- berg, seven of them first-string players. Most of the letter men reporting this year were reserves last season.
 The squad is hard hit, and there is no denying it at the Point. Though there are 1SS candidates for the plebe and varsity squads, Lieutenant Gar" Davidson, coach of the plebes, has 80 of these, and Major Sasse, head coach, seems to first the first 108 mne the hardest, as far as the varsity is concerned.
 It is a year of turnover at the Point, and the prospect is not rosy for a great team. It will be gam ble with the new men, and the kind of a gamble that could either make" Sasse as mentor. or ruin him. The major knows it; there is no need writing to tell him that the Army can fall very hard this year.
 Navy Has Improved
 Over at Annapolis, decided i'm provement has been shown during the year in which Hip Miller, form CT Notre Dame man, has been steering the squad. This year. about l75 men indicated they were ready to try to play football as Miller wanted 1t to be played. But only about 50 could be used. Those who do not make the varsity squad will keep their hands in by playing interclass. for line positions, and they LOOK tough. Navy has brighter pros, poets this year than for several seasons past. That story about Navy seeking material. rather than waiting for 1t to fall into the lap, may contain more truth than
 Cantain Reedy, a bruiser of, 19S pounds, will be left guard. liar bold, who weighed l91 lasl season' will have an edge at center, though the 205 Cutter seems to pc an apt pupil. u
 Most of the places in the me are being contested for by candi, dates weighing between 1So ana 190 pounds.
 Has Shifty Backs
 Miller is devoting a great deal of attention to backfield that has Becht at quarter; Bamberger ana Samuels at the halves, and camp bell at full. It Is Q shifty pack field, with just enough weight.
 Navy seems to have taken on a new spirit since relations with the Army have been resumed. Tne nsychologists might explain 1t py the theory that Navy knows it has to be good to make sho"lns against the Army. You have my word for it that Navy is far pet fer outfit than it was at this time last year, whether the Army mas anything to do with it or not.
 The Navy is building surely ana rapidly, and thiis activity will De felt keenly at the Point.