Evening star., 1955-11-28
WIN, LOSE or
DRAW ), FRANCE, ,rAu~
The Philadelphia Story

PROBABLY NO MAJOR football issue in many years
has been decided with such dsdan for the forward pass
as the Army game Two attempts completions Army
BY i4s Except IN the matter Of executing It's infantry
neuyers Army turned back the calendar half century
Navy went into the game with one Of the real good
passers in George welsh came the fracas having
convinced the last Of the Doubling Thomases there had
bean But compilations for 7o yards plus running
attack didn't add up to the victory which probably would
have sent the Alddes to the Cotton Bowl.
Losing 70 Army not losing the Cotton Bowl should
have been the berer pill to swallow for Navy. Not among
the players perhaps but Of the top brass there
was no great enthusiasm for the trip to Dallas Once In
while Is ne as was year at the Sugar Bowl But for
the Naval Academy which had waited 80 between bowl
accepance twice in succession deed consistency Of policy
And. anyway to be blunt about it. Navys 1855 team
wasn't good the 1854 outfit matter how the record
reads Those good hafbacks Weaver, Hepworh and Craig
and those good guards Benz and Aronis, were gone
IT is SIGNIFICANT says here that Nays only
early after Coach Eddie Erdelaz had unveiled Paul
Reanuts) Gober Annapolis running threat Subbng
for the injured chet Burche the little guy from Buck Rum
Pa sparkplug in that 76yard touchdown drive Inn
mediatey after the opening hckon.
Weshs didn't do alone and It was patiently ev
dent, later, they couldn't carry the offensive load
The big question, the tide Of battle swung from al
Navy to all Army. whatever became Of Gober who
hurting his 100 pounds with such ferocity and success against
that tough Cadet line The to that Is simple
the keener football minds insist Navys Dick Guest got his
nose broken.
Guest is the big blocker Of the Annapolis backneld
while Gober carrying the ball Guest knocking down
Army tacklsrs True he back in the second half.
wearing special headgear but he wasn't up to Besides
Arnys strength was glowing, Nays waning.
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WHEN GUEST WAS helped OF the held in the second
quarter most people didn't realize it but with the No full
back went Nays hopes young who for evident
sons prefers to be called Vince rather than oger Monte
replaced Guest those who him last year and this
one felt immediate quams They knew Monte to be quite
q runner. Better than Guest.
But on the Navy bench they knew he wasn't yet In the
class Of Guest blocker None Of the Navy backs gained
much ground the Of the afternoon and 0obes total Of
SO yards mostly compiled in the st 20 minutes stood
up as high for the day Only for Navy not Army that Is
pat Uebe personally for l25 yards and Dick Murtand
for H. And Murtand only played after the brittle Bob Kyas
was hurt 8st
II was solid triumph for solid team even taking into
consideration that Navy lost the ball times fumbes,
which you seldom do and win Army should know The
Cadets lost TO Michigan Syracuse and Yale party or chiefly
because they couldn't hang onto the ball
How Yale licked Army-for that matter how South
ern cobbered Nore Dame by 422os almost beyond
comprehension Judging the Bulldogs on their defeat by
Princeton they have neither the line nor the backed TO cope
with Army But what counts Of Is that Yale did It,
COL RED BLAIK, who had suffered enough punishment
ou losses in ve years. at the hands OF that upart Erde
atz played real smart Saturday He believed what he
had read and heard about Nays Ron Beagle and John Hop
kns who happen play left end and left tackle respectively
Il thought Army tried their side twice. Capt Elliott
Louglin Nays athletic director said "Tat would have
been few enough times Later told Army exactly
play to their side II in Blaiks shoes would have
done the thngayoid that pair like the plague"
With all due credit to Armys Uebel and others who got
their ground in the dyed turf at Municipal Stadium
there wasn't gamer guy the field than Hopkins captain
Of the Navy In one OF those pos-game, nowwe-can-te
utterances 1t disclosed ocialy that compound
fracture or the Jaw that Hopkins suffered nearly two weeks
before the and that he had spent upward Of ye days
In the hospital
Oh yes the Navy lineup told story too Hopkins played
the entire 90 minutes Wired might say to make sound