Evening star., 1932-11-27
RAMBLERS' ATTACK
ASTOUNDS CADETS.
Passes Get Two TouChdoWnS,
tumble 0ne-PIay Shocks
Crowd of 10000.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

ElChluS up IIle IdUIIS VI q
v cyclone somewhere along
the way East, a green
jerseyed whirlwind carried Notre
Dame to an overwhelming victory
over the Amy, 81 to 0, today be-
fore 10000 spectators in the most
startling upset of the intercol-
legiate foot ball campaign.
Big, powerful and dazzlingly swift
the Ramblers struck the gold-helmeted
soldiers with an attack that was as
brilliantly executed and as devastating
as it was effective. Before 1t was all
over and the Army's weary, battered
forces gave ground for the last time
near their goal line, Notre Dame had
tailed three touchdowns, narrowly
missed putting over about five more and
put to rout one of the East's greatest
teams
Notre Dame not only gained ample
revenge for the crushing defeat handed
to it by the soldiers a year ago, but
handed its rival the worst setback an
Army team has met in this series
since the $50 triumph of the late
Knute Rockne'S 1921 outfit.
THE tornado in green, led by the
l. vicious charges of two spectacular
tackles, Joe Kurth and Ed Krause,
sweeping along on the terrific momen-
tum of Koken, Melinkovich, Banas and
q half-dozen other ball carriers, SIM
ply was unbeatable once it got under
way. Except for two brief flashes, in
the first and last periods Army not
only failed to display its yaunted of
fense, the power that had ripped Yale
and Harvard to pieces, but its hither-
to sturdy defense crumbled under the
Green impact.
Almost a lone tower of strength in
q defense that previously stopped every
team except Pittsburgh Capt. Milton
Summerfelt's heroic stand could not
cope with Notre Danes super-power.
The Army captain repeatedly broke
through to smear whirling dervishes
in green, or pile up the Swift-moving
wall of blockerS that preceded every
Notre Dame ball carrier, but he was not
equal to rallying his men against an ir-
resistible force all afternoon. When
Notre Dame was not punching holes
through the line, it had the aerial
resources to penetrate the Soldier de-
fense and did so with sensational ef-
feet.
THE first two touchdowns, by George
/ Melinkovich. fullback, and Hugh
Devore. substitute end, were the
direct result of passes into the Army
end zone The third score was the re-
cult of a tumble by Ken Fields, Army
triple-threat back, in the end zone,
where big Jim Harris, guard, fell on
the ball as it bounded loose. There
wasn't a missing cylinder anywhere in
this astonishing Notre Dame offensive,
as all three touchdownS were converted.
Army at no time justified the pre-
game odds In its favor and the tremen-
dous crowd, including the corps OF
cadets, was shocked by the failure OF
the soldiers to come even close to scor-
ing with an attack, which Felix (P1cD
Vidal had led to succession OF oaz-
zling victories.
out after one solo dash that brought
the crowd to it's feet in the first period.
Army had turned back Notre Dame
first threat. on its 12-yard line, and
looked to be on the loose as Vidal broke
around his right end, shook OF Tour
tacklers, and romped 36 yards TO Notre
Danes 40. Here Ken Fields gambled
with fiat, bullet-like passes, three OF
them in quick succession. All 1alleo,
however, and Army never was that close
20 the opposing goal line again. except
on the last play of the second quarter
when it didn't mean anything.
rRoM there on the Cadets were SC
thoroughly outplayed in every de-
partment of the game, SO badly
whipped that they seldom had the bal
long enough to make any threatening
gestures.
Notre Dame registered is first downs
to Army's 5, piled up 29l yards py rush,
ing TO the Cadets meager 66 ana galnec
n yards by passing, as compared 10 II
for the soldiers.
Only the stalwart goal-line defense
of the Cadets, who five times either toot
the ball on downs or otherwise checked
the Notre Dame assault inside then
15-vard line, kept the score from being
twice as great as 1t was.
Notre Dame took complete command
of the proceedings from the moment the
first-string backfeld, consisting OF JaSK'
which. Koken, Brancheau and Melln'
kovich, entered the game IN the secone
period.
Steadily pressing ever deeper int
Army territory, they finally put ovel
q touchdown on two quick passes II
the last few minutes of the half, attel
twice being stopped near their objective
NEELINKovIcH's tumble, recovered
vi by Fields on Arny's 3-yard line
checked the first drive from mid
field. The next begged down wheI
Army's greatest defensive stand OF TN
day, on .ts 4-yard mark, hurled pact
four successive plays for no gain.
But the Soldiers failed to capltalz
this. They left themselves wide opeI
to air. attack. Mike Koken's pass u
n his captain, Paul Host, was good for
33-yard gain and put the ball on Army
S. on the next play Koken passed u
Melinkoyich, who was standing in tn
end zone, and the deadlock was broken
The Ramblers reached the peak o
their onslaught in the third quarter
sweeping down the field from kickoff
"a wards all told, for their second touch
down. This time the second-strin
backfield was unstoppable as Kurth an,
4. Krause continued to raise havoc witt
NJ the Army's first line Of defense.
Banas and Lukats drove through 10
consistent gains until the attack flnalI
was bottled up on one side Of the fiel
on Army's 81. On fourth down, Wit
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