The Washington times., 1934-11-20
ARMY POINTS
FOR IRISH
ELEVEN
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
Times Staff Writer

Army. beaten only by Illinois
this season, prepares for its ira
ditional battle with the Rambling
Romans of Notre Dame in New
York on Saturday. Lieut.. Moe"
DAILY and Lieut.. "Blondy"
Saunders, of West Points coach.
ing staff secuted Navy on Satur-
day, and before flying back to
the Plains volunteered the in.
formation that the South Bend
team is far stronger than the
result of the battle with Navy
would indicate.
"You know the Notre Dame
Army games" said Saunders. I'VE
thought we had them clicked last
year, but in the second half they
rioted and beat us. That's the
way with Notre Dame. They can
be pushed around but they
always come back against Army"
Lieutenant Saunders spoke
with the warm feeling of young
man who had fought his battles
with the South Bend host. He
has full respect for the prowess
of Notre Dame and is not going
to be caught mapping.
Navy has two weeks" said
Moe Daily with a shake of his
head, They'll be back in fight
ing trim by the time we meet
them. The Midshipmen were
overpowered by that Pitt team.
There was a great football team
for a day. But Navy proved
that it has a complete football
repertoire and is equipped to
battle the ordinary team"
With these statements Saunders
and DAILY hoped into their ship
and were lost in the drone of a
perfectly tuned motor speeding
into the purple shades of
evening.
Notre Dame did to Northwest
ern on last Saturday what it did
to Army last year. The Wildcats
put over d touchdown in the Sec
ond period and led at half time
by count of 7 to 0. But in the
second half Notre Dame tore loose
and piled up the score.
William Shakespeare - where
fore art thou Shakespeare-is no
bard, but his runs off tackle are
poetry of motion. He has cracked
every line encountered up to date.
OF course, he didn't score every
time, but the kid has shown his
a ability beyond all argument.
Army's scouts have a notebook full
on him as he has flashed and
ducked and cut through the line
and around the ends.
Melinkovich, the 6-foot halfback
Of the Nomads, played slaShing
game of football against the Wild
cats, both on the attack and de-
fense. Melinkovich, according to
both Army and Navy scouts, is a
whizzbang in forward pass de-
fense. He is so tall that he can
reach into the ether and get
passes that ordinarily would es-
cape the clutches of the ordinary
player.
One of the reasons-or rather
two of the reasons-that North
western failed to go very far with
Notre Dame were Vairo and Mill
ner, two Slashing ends. The CEN
ter of the Notre Dame line gave
ground in the Northwestern march
of 66 yards. In the first half
Northwestern made six first
downs, but in the second half the
Irish-just can't get away from
that name for Notre Dame-came
on and won.
It passed and it ran, and it
filled the hearts of Army scouts
with woe. Army men wondered
how Moose Miller and the others
of that forward wall would endure
against the slashes and SlantS Of
the South Bend boys.
Army's schedule builders moved
wisely in scheduling the gritty
Citadel team for last Saturday.
It was not expected to produce
much football. and it didn't. But
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