Evening star., 1952-09-12

uay gain 100 cent parity the League did
baseball in the early 190Os damnation personaity
was what the AAnerica Conference wanted they got
in Jonas Ingram.
The admiral gave it real pitch He was in there trying
But there were too weak links many shoesrng club
like the who operate the Miami Seahawks
and the ones who lost out with the Baltimore Colts trying
compete with the established Redskins Ingram
abandoned Ship handwriting and bowed out
Inc conference gave up after the 1949 season.
1T WASN'T William who was the football PLAYER
of the family which brother named Homer
and the son of Jonas also William the Navy
ords there also is listed Gordon Ingram part
OF the brood it will surprise.
Some OF the obituaries misleading They pictured
Jonas Navy gridron wasn't that good His fame
in other fields contributed extravaganza on
part of historians This is occurrence Gen.
Eisenhower wasn't standout football player Point
although his recent might suggest it, Neither
Hay one OF Navy greatest fubacks When Estes
was hot item not long ago. his fame as
football player had grown the years.
AS statement recalled Kefauver dryly remarked:
When was State Senator read where had been regu-
lar tackle at Tennessee When United States sena
tor became former ASouhern Conference tackle When
ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. learned
that A-America choice. truth is that was
second-strnger all the time in football"
Jonas Ingram than a srnger Not until
his senior year did varsity when he did Jonas
made it with memorable bang. Anybody stepped in Navy
football lore will stack of Navy Regs Jonas
Howard Ingram scored the first forward pass
in Annapolis history. And against Army, too
THIS WAS IN 1906 and Navy had played in desultory
fashion all which embraced games The Mdshipmen
had beaten North Carolina, times have
changed they only tied little Dickinson Buckne It
wasn't real good Navy team that faced Army final
game of the looking for its first win Cadets
since 1900.
But this afternoon Navy leading of
long field goal by Percy Norhcro Ingram into
the picture On the last down. Quarterback Homer Norton
dropped back to punt and Ingram protect him. At the
last moment he that Army had depoyed punt
and Jonas forgot his blocking duties wide Norton
sensing the emergency threw Ingram yards
after catching the ball and scored to victory
final 100.
Jonas returned to football Annapolis from 1916
1917 but the most accomplished of the Ingram the
game was Navy Bill his brother Here player
Navy Bill who died in 1943 For three years U917-18- he
quarerbacked for Navy and he and rowing
asset well.
FROM MEMORY, NO other football coaching team of
brothers at the school to mind coached
and Navy Bill took charge the Severn from Right
OF the bat Bill Ingram sensation Many say his 1925
team featuring Tom Hamilton Wckhorst was the
best in the Naval Academy's history
That was the Navy tied Army 21-21 in memorable
game In Chicago The Mdhipmen who swamped by
Michigan $40 the previous and who hadn't Army
since 1922 beat Purdue Drake Richmond Princeton Colgate
Michigan, West Virginia Wesleyan Loyoa Georgetown
before the epic test with Army.
The 1ngramS won't readily be forgotten at Annapolis If
the football fan recalls that Navy the best athlete
the Bureau of Naval Personnel that u
matchabe on the deck of ship At Annapolis only
room for all the 1ngrams of the past welcome