The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-14
NAVY TEAM DEVELOPED
 BY TOM HAMILTON
Coaching Sensation of the Season Uses No Spe-
 ciaI System
By HARRY GRAYsoN


 Young Tom Hamilton and his 15 assistants have taught the Navy team to meet tight situations con- fronting 1t.
 To this Annapolis new football coach attributes much of the suc- cess the Middies have enjoyed in piling up seven consecutive vic- tories, including the topping of Co.umba and the defeat of Notre Dame.
 Commander John H. Brown brought Lieutenant Hamilton from California because he wanted a man with a thorough understand and training life. The latter is dif- ferent from any type of college life. Above all, Commander Brown sought 3 man who would teach the Middies to fight.
 Commander Brown helped Lieu tenant Hamilton organize two of three West Coast Navy arrays that played fine football on the golden slope. That is why he had the raven-haired Scotsman in mind when he was appointed graduate manager of athletics.
 Hamilton played fullback on the 1926 Blue and Gold squad that tied Army, 21-21. Navy hasn't licked Army since 1921.
 "But we're going to beat Army this year." says Lieutenant Hamil- ton, land we've night hopes against Pittsburgh, too"
 Didn't Miss Much
 Hamilton was taught football by four different coaches at Annapolis.
 John Wilson, now Navy's back field coach, tutored Lieutenant Hamilton in his plebe year. Jack Owsley, Yale man, Bob Folwell, and Navy Bill Ingram were head coaches at Annapolis in Lieutenant Hamilton's sophomore, junior, and senior years, respectively. So Lieu tenant Hamilton learned a mixture of football, and could not have missed much.
 we use a system best adapted to the material" explains Lieuten- ant Hamilton. "We discarded the Notre Dme plan after three years because ordinarily we haven't the manpower and the finished players to carry it out. Oddly enouh, this is one season in which the Notre Dame scheme might work at the academy, for we have splendid ends and four versatile backs would get Navy any place over a period of years, because it requires individual blocking by the ends and all the backs and depends upon the all-round ability of all backs.
 Navy uses no more plays than VI lnfA for more plays nowadays. A coach has to put in plays to take advan- tage of the opposition's weak spots Execution Does it
 ''It is the execution, and not the play itself, that counts. Take tha- pass, from Berries to Dornin. I ! put the ball in position for Cutter placekick against Notre Dam, right under the gun in the secont quarter, and it brought us ou touchdown with scarcely a minute to go.
 Tt is a simple thing that W, have worked on other teams, ant which naturally has been vel secuted.
 "It works because Berries is q tremendous threat to the outside It is only human nature for the de- fensive right halfback-Melinko vich in the case of Notre Dame to move to his left to protect his team against a cutback.
 This pass repeatedly has been successful because of the fine act ing of Berries and Dornin, Borries getting off to the right behind in- reference as though he meant to run it out, and Dornin faking the blocking of the defensive right halfback.
 Much of our success also has been due to the coaching attention given thep layers by Rip Miller now in charge of the line, and the IA others who assist me. All save Miller are old Navy players who instruct in various departments al Annapolis. Four of them, Howard Caldwell. who played fullback; Harry Hardwick, who played end; and John Cross and Ben Born, who played guard, were classmates ot mine.
 We are going to be hard hit by graduation. We are to lose Berries and Fullback Clark; oDrnin. Mini and Mandelkorn, ends; Cutter and Lambert, tackles; and Captain Burns, guard. But we have some excellent reservists and a good plebe team, and wouldn't be sur prised if we were up there or whereabouts again next fall.
 "I am positive of one thing. Nc team is going to outright Navy"