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 chance, do you George?"
 \ Somehow this year the situation is altered.s It is true that the Navy year, but the sailors played some 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 Milier's sys- tenn was beginning to click. and that the team had begun to find it. sef.
 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 1881 as nucleus for this years team. The backs ir this. group include Fields, Brown KiIday and Spinner Herb; the cen ters are Evens and Senter; the ends are King and Kopcsak (and that fellow Kopcsak, however yor pronounce 1t, is a fine end if there ever was onel Jablonsky and Cap tain Summerfelt 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 Hill- berg, seven of them first-strine 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 eitnel make" Sasse as a mentor, or run him. The major knows it; there
 is no need writing to tell him that the Army can fall very hard tnis year.
 Navy Has Improved Over at Annapolis, decided i'm movement has been shown during the year in which Rip Miller, form CT Notre Dame man, has peer steering the squad. This year about 175 men indicated they were readv to try to play football al Miller wanted 1t to be played. Bu' only about 50 could be used. Tnost who do not make the varsity squae will keep their hands in by playing | interclass.
 There are big men working ou for line positions. and they loot tough. Navy has brighter pros nects this year than for severa
 seasons past, That story abou Navy yeekfng material rather tnai
 waiting for 1t to fall into the lap l may contain more truth thai
 CaDtain Reedy, a bruiser of 19' nonnds. will be left guard. liar hold who weighed 197 last season u,,il have an edge at center though, tlse 205 Cutter seems to D' an apt pupil. - u,.
 Most of the places in the Iin' are being contested for by canal dates weighing between lso ahe 190 pounds.
 Has Shifty Backs
 Miller is devoting great dea
 of attention to a backfield that na! Becht at quarter: Bamberger an' Samuels at the halves, and camp
 hell at full. It Is shifty pacK
 fieid. with just enough weight.
 Navy seems to have taken on new spirit since relations with tn' Army have been resumed. m
 psychologists might explain It D! G
 the theory that Navy knows It na'
 to be good to make snowlnt , against the Army. You have m' word for it that Navy Is a Tar pet lter outfit than it was at this tim' last year, whether the Army na' anything to do with it or not.
 The Navy Is building surely ane
 "a nidIv and thiis activity will b' felt keenly at the Point.