Evening star., 1937-11-21
Great Football Teams, Coaches and Games
Recalled by Writer Who Remembers
Laced Canvas Jacket Days.

afterward became commander of the
fleet, the Navy won, to 0. Hugh
Douglass was captain of the Navy
and made the touchdown. which was
the only score Of the game.
The Navy was now winning its share
OF victories, and as the term of the
first eligibility agreement had ex-
pired nothing was thought of renew
ing it. Games continued without re-
striction of any kind upon the use
of players.
The Army won tight contest in
1903. to 4, and there was no game
in 1909, owing to the death of Cadet
Byrne, the Army captain. who re-
ceived a fatal injury in one of the
matches played by his team.
Jack Dalton, admittedly the Nays
greatest back until Buzz Berries en-
tered the arena of service football,
was a member of the teams Of 1908
and 1909 and continued during the
seasons of 1910 and 1911. He was a
fast. rugged youth Of 185 pounds. a
great ball carrier. blocker. defensive
player and kicker. The Navy won
the games of 1910 and 1911. each
time by to 0 and each time through
a placement goal kicked by Dalton.
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IN 1910 JOHN n. (BABE) BROWN,
another great Navy player. came
to the eleven. Brown. big. powerful
guard, played in every minute of four
games with the Army, probably a rec
ord for a service player. Each year
he was designated on an all-Ahnerica
team OF some division-on the first Sc
lection in his final year.
In 1910 and 1911 Brown saw serv-
ice games won by Dalton's placement
goals, In 1912 the Navy won by 6
to o. and its score was made up of
two placement goals kicked by Brown.
In his final year. however. though he
continued his goal kicking, the Army
won. % to g.
The Army won three more games in
a row-in 1914 by 20 to 0, in 1915
by IA to and in 1916 by Is to 7.
Two years passed during the World
War without meeting. and in 1919
the Navy team, under Gil Dobie, won
by 6 to 0. The Navy teams of 1920
and 1921. both coached by Bob Fol-
we'll. each won by to o..
The Army struck its stride again in
1922, winning the game by II to IA
and marking the beginning of dole
full season for the Navy, which did not
win again until 1884, when its team.
coached by Bob Hamilton. won By
3 to 0. The points were scored by
Slade Cutter on placement kicked
goal from boggy field. The Army
won by % to in 1885 and the Navy
by 7 to 0 in 1886.
A series of players who had al
ready won their laurels at other COL
leges had followed each other with
the Army during the period which be-
gan with the entrance of Charley
DAILY. Torney, Bunker, Pullen. OIL
phant, Smythe. Wilson and eagle are
some of the great names which became
attached to Army line-ups. Also tke
Army. with its higher age limit. de-
veloped many powerful and capable
players of its own.
THE Navy struggled gamely, but
unsuccessfully, against these odds,
adopted the usual eligibility rules for
its own team and insisted upon the
Army doing the same The most the
latter service would do was to adopt
the freshman rule. and this did not
seem enough to the Navy. Finally
relations we're broken and there were
no games in 1923 and 1929
The games we're restored unohicial-
ly for 1880 and 1881, and the Army
won both, 6 to and II to s. The
Army won two more games and then
the tide turned. The record for the
whole series on games Uoo Is: Army,
20; Navy, IA; tied, 3.
The feeling between the services
is excellent. Apparently Navy does
not worry about Army eligibility rules
now. It is getting much more and
better material than 1t used to ana
feels sure that 1t can win its share
of the games, rules or no rules.
More than 5000 will attend the
next Army-Navy game. which will
take place In Philadelphia municipal
stadium at the end of this, week. q
contrast to the few hundred who wit
messed the first game on The Plains
of West Point just Al years before.
The student bodies at West Point
and Annapolis are six or eight times
as large as they were then and the
services have expanded in proportion.
So has interest in the game and all
features which surround a contest
which has become. perhaps, the most
interesting of athletic events Of the
year.
The spirit of those who took part
in that first game and those who will
play next Saturday, has not changed.
for it's the spirit Of our great services
on land and sea. our Army and our
Navy.