1939-11-29 [P C-1]

vviioxixxNuxi^iN, u. u., vv u v HiiviiiJiin. zt>, xvov. Li—1 « r~~ __. __ T-M-Tl— ll«M MilILM_M Another Crazy Chapter Promised in Screwy History of Army-Navy Grid Game _- .— THE HOT-AIR LEAGUE —By JIM BERRYMAN I Cadets Formed fTTinilll.iiM'HIIIMi.i'nl.iiiiirM'ilTllllliilnllUlIjnil-... I Pacifists at War Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN. First Team in A*Y BUOQETFtK. f to Avert WHO CAN I CALL BUT l COULD TARE Trying tJ// The Latest Gilded (and Armored) Hero T'GIT ME A TICKET? A LATE SATURDAY 1 ^lAYDE TH BABY52J 5 The gilded heroes of the town’s sports galleries still are the Redskins, I'VE TRIED STAN AN' TRAIN -OH-OH •' fjT. ^ ,K\ THOMPSON AN' BILL BANK HAS SOME » but down at Riverside Stadium these nights a grinning little tow-head Two Weeks l Jus* REMEMBER- J®JV-i^SUPPOSE5 I Grid Disorder Is making headway and preparing to take over when the last football customer is led back to his padded cell. With his oversized stick and grotesque armor. Goalie Gordon Lee is doing all right, thank you, for Pressed Che€r Leader Parade of what is to be a fair country hockey team. Military developing pretty Tars i The Washington Eagles met the class of the Eastern League last Into Battle; I QU ET PLEASE' ir^K^^rgK/^tr^S msrsss. |KS Units From L. S. U. night in the New York Rovers. Twice before the Eagles had met the Invented Unies t Rovers. The first time they lost, 5-1. The second time they were beaten, .sssrs-'- And Tulane Is Out MUST COULD GET SOME Last to roll. The turned in a EMPLOYEES L 10-5. night they began Eagles stunning JOHN S. REFRAIK1>^UUu^w«V,^R\^TH W ^ rf By GROVER, FROM TALKING EXCEPT/ W'F SUGAR,PADDY To By the Associated Press. 2-to-l victory and, dripping with glory, emerged Mr. Lee. Press Sports Writer. ^ ST, V T Associated ^\v NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 29 — Not long ago Mr. Redvers Mackenzie, who coaches the Eagles, was ANNAPOLIS. Md„ Nov. 29 —When ONCCWP<NV Tulane and Louisiana State Univer- saying that hockey players had to love the game. “It’s a brutal game,” Army and Navy get together in are so hard to their he was saying. “Just money alone—the kind hockey pays—isn’t enough Philadelphia Saturday, they may sity trying keep add another to a his- football here from to make men and boys go out and skate their bloody legs off. And the chapter long game Saturday tory of cock-eyed football in a grid toughest spot of all is goalie. nding in a roughhouse that they classic 49 years old today. "I’ve seen a lot of tough jobs in sports,” added Mackenzie, who are getting downright mad about it. Navy challenged West Point in crack “I've seen backs used to be a newspaperman and golfer. blocking 1890 and Cadet Dennis Michie, This year, student councils and and guards and tackles in football, catchers in baseball and human father of Army football, whipped officials of both schools agreed, they worst punching bags in boxing, but in my book a hockey goalie takes the together a team in two weeks. Navy would preserve the dignity, teeth and which have become beating. Why a boy plays goalie in the first place is something I can't won the first game on November goal posts skate 29 of that an lost in melees at some previous answer. Usually, I suppose, it’s because that, as a kid, he can't year—after Army cheer-leader named had games. as well as the others. And for some reason he carries on from just in McClung gone into the game because the The student councils front of the net.” got together Cadets ran out of subs. and decided to present the winning Smart Navy men invented foot- school a flag on the field after the Rover Victory Prize Eagle Achievement ball uniforms and headgear. They game, the idea being that spectators out noticed wet canvas was mighty hard would be awed the of it all Lee is no Tyrone Power, even from a distance, but when he is by spirit to hang onto furling sails. So they and stay put. on the ice as he was last night, blocking those 2-mile-a-minute pucks made laced jerseys of canvas, which from his stick to his teeth, he looks the part of a pre- President Paul Hebert of L. S. U. with everything was plenty slippery when sweat-wet. His shin are thought it would be nice to have his figure. The illusion is due to his armor. guards Is Pioneer. possessing Middy Headgear cadet on are encased ; corps parade the field be- three times the size of a baseball catcher's. His shoulders Midshipman J. M. Reeves—later ; fore the game with the Tulane naval Over his he wears several Suits of long, old- actmirai—wore tne nrst To in leather pads. body neadgear— /I HATE THINK OpVv reserve unit. President Rufus C. underwear. a moleskin cap with a PLAVIN' IN A BIG fashioned woolen padded flap =*JF ANl>y \ Harris of Tulane and several com- was far their best. to protect a torn ear. That victory the Eagles earned last niglft by They CHY LIKE THAT WITHOUT^: ; mittees thought otherwise and de- Navy wore red and white stock- had beaten the Messrs. Hockey Guys of the league and, in the process, Mt BEIN’ THERE To ! dined permission for the cadets ing caps in the first '% game, Army WV ****** \.*Al had stamped themselves as titular threats. Tn the first period the Eagles Orange and Black. The referee wore | the crowd across two scores. Coach Mackenzie played Fear Parade Would Incite Disorder. amazed by pushing a derby hat and frock coat. this He ordered defensive hockey and the the percentages after spree. Army finished one game with 10 The L. S. U. student newspaper on Lee. brunt of the burden, of course, fell men when its last substitute got a and student body raised indignant We The Rovers bombarded the Eagles' net in the last 40 minutes. broken jaw against a hobnailed boot howls,, and Dr. Hebert said he -THE SECTION OP THE LEAGUE WHICH SPENDS "saves'’ with which Lee was credited, but every couple —legal in those days. wouldn’t let the cadet corps go to forget how,many 7 HOURS A DAY THE COLLAPSIBLE BUILDING records after one of 4b AT the game, as it seemed Tulane didn't of minutes or so he was batting down the bullet-like shots stopping Army the mass-mavhem affairs ASSOCIATIONS UNDER A SEVERE HANDICAP, want them. His students scheduled them w-ith his skates, stick, shins, stomach and schnozzle. Invariably he early con- tained this comment: “If this game BUT IT THINKS A GOOD GAME-15?/MORTGAGES a protest meeting. dropped on the hunk of black rubber and smothered the puck for a face- only would get a foothold in the '^sa. /kRE RUNNING A POOR SECOND. Last night Dr. Harris explained, off. In Mr. Lee did all right. short, Army, promotions would not be so in effect, that Tulane really wanted slow. Football is quicker than old the L. S. U. students and cadets, Goalie Gordon Is No Glamour Boy age and seems to be more fatal.” but merely feared that if they Three hundred curious spectators paraded some ardent spectator might Down in the hot, steamy little dressing room the Eagles were of the saw the first game, but by 1893 shout from his cups something to and said so. Gordon Lee, stripped of his Sir Lancelot same opinion, there were 10.000 in the stands and Texas start the riot everybody was trying accoutrement, is no heroic figure. He is a little youngster who. clothed the Tennessee, 'Bama, to avoid. contest already was the No. 1 Ags, Baltimore in a pair of ragged purple trunks would pass for the typical fall sports event. There matters stand. four-rounder at a lightweight fighter who meets Joe Doakes in the opening Army hired Yale grid graduate Tulane and The game, expected to draw a as Uclans, Army, Turner's Arena. He weighs 133. but not after he finishes a tough game. the first service coach in 1891, and record Southern football crowd of didn't think was Then he comes dangerously close to the featherweight division. simon-pure Navy it more than 50,000 if the weather is cricket. But they hired a Yale man is Tulane’s last hurdle to a A newspaperman walked up and congratulated him. "What do you Ford ham Seen Victors good, right back at Army in 1892. Bowl invitation. In fact, the do with that puck?” asked the ink-stained wretch. "I never saw Sugar Cleveland Barred Rough Game. By HF.RB BARKER. a major game. As far as this guesser latest rumor—entirely unsubstan- "I eat it,” grinned Lee. Then more people walked in the dressing President Grover Cleveland barred A**oc.ate<i Press Sports Writer. is concerned, this is an absolute toss- tiated—is that Tulane will be an- room and asked the same thing. Lee stopped kidding. "Listen.'’ he the games as too rough in 1894, and NEW YORK. Nov. 29—Taking up, so the coin spins and says— nounced as a Sugar Bowl participant "I had a The last time we the Rovers the said, just pretty good night. played ban held for five years.

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