Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1934, Page 31

GOAL BY CUTTER DECIDES 30 FRAY Tars, Scoring Early, Outdo Cadets on Miry Gridiron Before 80,000. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. PHILADELPHIA, December 1.—The boom of Slade Cutter's mud-incrusted boot, like the crash of a battle cruiser broadside in some far rolling sea, roared out the end of Army’s 13-year foot ball domination over Navy today as 80,000 hysterical, rain-drenched partisans howled at as fine a battle as these great service rivals ever have | staged. It was by the measure of that boot | —a placement as dead on the bull's-eye as any the giant midshipman from Oswego, Il ever will draw when he comes to man the Navy's guns—that the Sailors rocketed to 3-to-0 triumph, the first time Army has crumpled under their fire since 1921. Twice since then, in 1923, when nei- ther could score; in 1928, when 110,000 saw them struggle to a fantastic 21-21 tie in Chicago, there was no de- cision. The remainder of these great cli- maxes of the regular season have all been Army's, including the last five | in a row. So it was that the greatest throng since that 1926 duel, filling every nook | and cranny of the buge Franklin Field horseshoe stands, roared through | their discomfiture in extra glee, as| Cutter, a magnificent right tackle, | smashed his shot home from the 19- | yard line almost at the close of the | first period to restore the Navy tra- dition of” field-goal victories in the classic, established by the great Jack Dalton, and carried on by Babe Brown in the days before the war. Navy Needs All Power. All the might, though, all the alert- | ness, the agility and stamina of Cut- | ter, of the All-America ball-carrying jack rabbit, Fred (Buzz) Borries of | Louisville, Ky.; of Fullback Bill Clark, | from Garner, Iowa. a remarkable | kicker, of every man Navy could heave | in there, in fact, was necessary to hold | a luckless Army on a battlefleld that | was a mess of slime, a shiny, slippery table andas green as pea soup and Just as gooey. Army could do little on its own | behalf with the morass of playing | field and with Texas Jack Buckler, | from Waco, Cadet counterpart of the irrepressible Borries, helpless in the first_half, and not even able to play in the second due to & leg injury he has suffered most of the season. What opportunities Army did have, Navy gave. Once in the third quarter, when Borries tossed the sticky ball in; the only Sailor attempt at a forward pass all day, Maurice Simons of Fort Leav- enworth, Kans, the big gun in Army’s attack as Buckler’s replace- ment, intercepted the heave and came back 15 yards to the Sailors’ 35. The Army surge carried over into the fourth quarter, but it died on Navy's 22 as Bill Clark, a heroic figure in the mud-plastered setting, dragged down Simons’ pass. This was | one of five passes Army attempted, only to have three intercepted, one incomplete, and one complete for a bare l-vard gain. Clark made the interception on Navy's 15 and blasted West Point's best scoring chance. Miller Gives Army Thrill, Burly 202-pound Carl Miller, Army’s left tackle from Bath, N. Y., gave the storm-tossed Cadets a final thrill after Clark had kicked Navy out of that | hole with a boot that sailed from his own 19-yard scrimmage line all the way over Simons’ head to Army's 12, 69 yards in all. A few plays later, Miller smashed through of Clark as the kicker was trying to’hit the coffin corner as he had dome earlier in leading up to Navy's score in the first period. Miller smothered the ball, picked it up on his own 40, and got to Navy's 46 be- fore Barries, who was everywhere, dragged: him down from behind. Chuck Meyer of Fort Sheridan, II1., 8 substitute for Simons, promptly fumbled. the ball away on Navy's 43, Where Clark grabbed it, and Army, as far as this ball game was concerned, was done for the day. Navy made only three first downs and gained 109 yards from scrimmage. | Army made two first downs and picked up only 0.yards running. The con- dition of the playing field, applying to all but Borries, accounted for that. But to Borries, named today an all- America back on the Associated Press first eleven, it meant nothing more then all the other tremendous odds he has faced all season as the Migshipmen walloped Columbia, Penn and Notre Dame in major vie- tories up to today, losing only to the crushing power of Pitt. Borries Gains 81 Yards. ‘Borries, who gained 81 of Navy's 109 yards, and Clark set the scene for Cutter® perfect smash, the fourth he has kieked in four attempts this sea- son, against Penn, Maryland, Notre Dame and today Army. Borries whirled off a 22-yard run around his own right end, longest run from scrimmage, on the second play of the game to set Army definitely on the defensive. In the kicking duel that followed, Clark steadily outpunted Buckler and set Army back until Borries galloped 19 yards to Army's 36 with a punt. Clark joined in again, as the attack faltered and booted to Army’s 1-yard line, where, with the ball faltering on the sidelines, Bob Dornin of San Franciseo, Sailor end, shoved it out- side. It was:only & question of time then. Buckler kicked out 35 yards, but Borries and Clark teamed once on a shovél pass that gained 10 yards. Th of the time it was Borries, tea! inside the tackles, play after play, unt{l he reached the Army 6. ‘Then he was tossed back on an end sweep, and on fourth down the Mid- shipmen gathered around their masto- donjc tackle, Cutter. le tossed off his headguard and his curly brown hair glinted in the sun that- had broken through the drip and the fog for a few moments. He wiped his hands and he wiped his right foot. The ball lay slightly ) “(Continued on Page 12, Column | Government's SPORTS SECTION Che Sunday Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1934, Navy Beats Army First Time Since 1921 : Terrors Outskid Hoyas, 13 to 0 ‘Water-soaked foot ball, propelled by Slade Cutter's foot. is seen on its flight to 3 Navy points, all that 80,000 spectators saw scored in annual classic on Franklin Field in Philadelphia yesterday. He made the kick from the 19-yard mark in the first period. On right, the Middy and Cadet lines are locked in typical combat as Buzz Borries (10) makes a scant gain with Bill Clark (32) running interference for him. Y H. C. BYRD. HILADELPHIA, Pa, De- P cember 1.—Long centuries lie between the ancient Roman Senate and the great amphitheater which is Franklin Field. It is a far cry from Cato and his “Carthago delenda est” to Tom Hamilton and “This year we must beat Army,” but nature makes her ‘ changes slowly and human psy- | chology then was about as it is now. The same thought that actuated ©ato in his desire to impress upon the Roman people an idea worked just as well in this year of 1934 to drive into the minds of Navy foot ball players that inevitably Army must be de- feated. - The long morale - building process which Hamilton began early in September and contin- ued implacably until Army was defeated today, worked. 1t is, more than any other one thing or combination of things, responsible for Navy's triumph in the annual grid- iron struggle between the Federal two great training schools for national defense. As foot ball players, man for man, Navy had no margin by which it could have won. As a group, as an eleven, rather, Navy players were bet- ter organized, had a finer morale and generally made much more of their | opportunities. And the Navy eleven went even further than that. It created opportunities, one of which it turned into the only three points scored. Teams' Strategy 0dd. T MAY have been that the muddy | fleld hampered Army's offense, made its defense less effective than it might have been, but, whatever the cause, Navy seemed to know more what it was doing and why than Army. 1t seemed to be more of a team with a purpose. Perhaps it was just a lit- tle bit superior coaching, maybe any one of a number of things, but more likely it was the result of the applica- tion of that principle embodied in “Carthage Must Be Destroyed.” Whether or not Army tackles were taught to do so, they made a very real mistake at the begin- ing of the game in playing in- side of Navy's loose strong side end. It was that which enabled Borries to run more than 20 yards around Army’s left end at the very beginning of the contest, to carry the ball to the middle of the field, and thus throw Army on the defensive in its own ter- ritory, until Navy got the opportunity to score its field goal. Both teams made mistakes, and two or three times committed almost inexcusable tactical blunders. For instance, Navy, in the third period, with { .e score 3 to 0 in its favor, bound by every principle of known or unknown foot ball to protect that slender margin, especially so on a rain-soaked, muddy field, tried, on its own 37-yard line, to throw a forward pass. Army intercepted that pass and got possession of the ball on Navy's 48- yard mark. * Instead, then, of doing the one thing, punt, that should have put Cutter “Passes” Credit to Clark By the Associated Press. HILADELPHIA, December 1.— To Slade Cutter, the 210- pounder who abandoned flute playing for foot ball and gave Navy a field goal victory over Army to- day, kicking a placement over the crossbars, isn't much when the right man is holding the ball. “Shucks,” he modestly announced in the dressing room after the game, “anybody can kick a field goal with a fellow like Bill Clark holding the ball. Clark deserves as much credit for that goal today as I do—more, in fact.” And with that, Cutter noncha- lantly added: “I wasn't nervous when I was waiting for that pass. I was just afraid that ball might be too heavy to boot high. There was a lot of mud on it.” 4 Navy’s Morale Built by Coach Hamilton Tells Against Army. Navy in a hole by backing it up against its own goal line for the remainder of the half. the Soldiers themselves elected to try a forward pass. | | This in turn was intercepted by | King, and Clatk then proceeded to | boot the ball out of bounds on Army's | 30-yard line. Clark's Long Punt Tells, ROM that time on Army was backed up in its own territory, except for three or four min- utes in the fourth quarter, when it, as | a result of a poor punt by Navy and | three falr gains inside end outside | of Navy's left end, put the ball 20 | | sards from Navy's goal. Here, how- | ever the Army discarded its success- ful crashes and tried another pass, | which again was promptly intercepted | by Navy. Then Clark got off a remarkable | punt which went with its roll 69 yards and Army found itself with its back to the wall again, with only a few | yards between the ball and its own goal. That punt of Clark’s settled the issue. There was no more chance | of Army scoring after that than | that a light cruiser armed with six | pounders would put out of commis- | sion a heavily armored battleship. | All the Navy had to do was to| keep punting from midfield to deep Army territory. With only a minute |to go. Army let one of those punts drop and Navy recovered it on Army’s | 12-yard line. Time was up after two | plays were run. If Army had punted close to Navy's goal line early in the half it might have kept Navy in a position where a Navy mistake would have been disastrous. Navy's center, Robertshaw, passed remarkably well, end his superiority over the Army passing was one of | the big factors in keeping Army in | a hole. Clark’s punting and Borries’ returns of punts were invaluable to Navy. Borries was dangerous at all times and the outstanding player of both teams. The charging of men on both teams on defense was excellent, the blocking not nearly so good. But aside from every other thing, and with all due respect for the men who carried out their assignments, the one big factor in the Navy vic- tory is the way the Navy team was developed and handled. To Lieut. Tom Hamilton, Navy man who 1is Navy head coach, belongs the laurel, TENNESSEE BERTH BECKONS BIERMAN Nashville Newspaper Says Gopher Coach Is Almost Certain to Succeed Neyland. | \ By the Associated Press. ASHVILLE, Tenn., December 1.— To the list of assertedly possi- ble successors to Maj. Robert R. Neyland as head foot ball coach at the University of Tennessee, the Tennessean today added the name of Bernie Bierman, now coach of the championship Minnesota Gophers. ‘The paper said it had been reported that Tennessee is offering Bierman a $10,000-a-year salary to take over the job which Neyland leaves with the close of this season to go to Panama on an Army assignment. It said that Bierman's present salary is $7,500. The Tennessean said that “Bler- man is almost certain to be the next. mentor at Knoxville,” citing the re- ported $2,500 increase offer as a major consideration. Bierman is the second coach of a championship eleven to be talked of in connection with the Tennessce posi- tion. Frank Thomas of Alabama had recently been mentioned as a possible successor to Neyland, but N. W. Dougherty, University of Tennessee director of athletics, denied any offer had been made Thomas. YALE ELECTS WHITEHEAD. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 1. —Mather Kimball Whitehead of Westfleld, N. J,, has been chosen cap- tain of next year’s Yale foot ball team. He was elected by the 23 players who earned their right to vote by taking part in either the Prince- ton or Harvard game. A A part of the throng of 80,000, with Midshipmen shown marching to their seats. 1935 ARMY ELEVEN BOOKS NINE GAMES EST POINT, N. Y., December 1.—A schedule of nine foot " ball games for Army's 1935 season, which features a big home game with Harvard, has been an- nounced by Maj. L. D. Worsham, graduate manager of athletics at the United State Military Academy here. In addition to Harvard, Army, will play Willilam and Mary, Gettysburg, Mississippl State ‘and Vermont at home. Yale, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Navy will be played away, The schedule: October 5, William and Mary; Octo- ber 12, Gettysburg College; October 19, Harvard; October 26, Yale at New Haven November 2, Mississippi State Col- lege; November 9, University of Pitts- burgh at Pittsburgh; November 16, Notre Dame at New York; November 23, University of Vermont; November 30, Navy at Philadelphia | 'y OLE MISS PREVAILS IN LAST 5 MINUTES By the Associated Press. 'ACKSON, Miss, December 1.— J Turning apparent defeat into vic- tory in the last 5 minutes of play, the University of Mississippi scored a 7-to-3 victory over its anclent rival, Mississippi State, before & crowd of 10,000 fans today. Tralling, 3 to 0, with only & few ) - —Associated Press Photo. minutes remaining in the final quar- ter, Mississippi launched an inspired drive that swept over the Maroon de- fense to a well-deserved touchdown. The battle had been on even terms until the final quarter, when Missis- sippi State opened an attack that car- ried the ball deep into Mississippi territory. Unable to penetrate the line, Capt. Jess Haley dropped back on the 35-yard line and booted & perfect one through the uprights to send his team out in front, 3 to 0. then took the kick-off and made a sustained drive down the field for a touchdown in the dying minutes of the game, SHEPHERD EARNS TITLE AT SCORING Makes All Points for His Unbeaten Team to Cinch National Honors. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. | ALTIMORE STADIUM, Decem- | ber 1.—With two rapier-like ! scoring thrusts on a rain- | flooded battleground before 13,000 drenched spectators, Western | Maryland's vaunted Green Terrois | fairly skated into the Nation's charme circle of unbeaten elevens today with & 13-to-0 victory over Georgetown. By the same token, the Terrcrs made another bid for national fame when | Capt. Bill Shepherd registered all of the 13 points to become 1934s in- dividual scoring champion with 133 | boints. Georgetown, beaten in four of its five previous tilts with Western Mary- land, was utterly bewildered by the Terrors’ two early charges, and when the Blue and Gray finally recovered, its own offensive proved unequal to the task of even seriously threatening the | goal line, which only 14 Terrors—all winding up their collegiate carecers— | 50 stoutly guarded. Only once were the crippled Hoyas able to penetrate beyond midfield, and only once did they register a first down Handicapped by the absence of Capt. | Joe Saverine, hard-running halfback, and Mike Chappa, crack end, George- town was unable to display any r ning attack, and only through air was the Gray eleven able to make any | headway. Shepherd Leads Attack. | ('HEPHERD, tied with Johnny Cra- vec of Williamette for the scoring lead previous to today's game witn 20 points each, was the spearhead of both of the Terror offensives. Before | the game was more than a minute old Western Maryiand cpened its first broadside after Joe Meglen had re: turned the kick-off, with a punt to the Terrors’ 45-yard line. With Shepherd Bomber Schwicker and Pete Mergo alternating at the ball carrying, the Terrors reeled off five successive first | downs to plant the oval in an inch- ! deep puddle on Georgetown's 1-yard line. Here Capt. Shepaerd was han | the ball, and, tucking it under his 3 | dove and skidded head first over the | goal line. His placement kick of tne | water-logged leather also was good. With the sky dropping a heavy rain Georgetown elected to play a kicking game and await a break, but before the initial period was ended the Terrors were knocking at the door again. Shepherd, ever versatile, faded back from his owrf 45-yard stripe and whipped the dripping, mud-covered ball for a successful 20-yard pass to Andy Gorski, end, the only heave com- pleted by Western Maryland. Gorski was grounded on Georgetown's 35, but | Schweiker kept the ball rolling by | knifing through tackle for a l3-yard Cravec Is Finished. \HROUGH the same hole in the Hoya line, Shepherd plunged for 10 yards more as the period | ended, and, with the resumption of | play, Mergo promptly skidded 9 more yards to place the ball again on Georgetown's 1-yard line. What en- sued was practically a duplication of the first-period score, Shepnerd taking the oval and slithering over to add 6 more points to his imposing total, which 1s 13 points higher than that of Cravec, who ended his season Thanksgiving day. Shepherd’s extra-point attempt was wide. Only once thereafter was a score in sight for Western Maryland. The inimitable §hepherd started the threat when he wallowed 23 yards from mid- field before he was drowned almost in the mire on the Hoya's 27. He was pulled out of the mud by anxious teammates, only to be thrown back into it on the next play by the Hoyas, but not until he had moved the ball 17 more yards closer to the Hoyas’ goal. At this point, only 10 yards irom another score, the Western Maryland attack flivvered, and Georgetown took the ball after a last-down pass went over the end zone. Georgetown enjoyed only & single brief offensive moment. Late in tne final period, Charlie Parcells grabbed a pass thrown by Shepherd and raced from midfield to the Terrors’ 30-yard live, where he was chased to the side- lines and brought down. On the next play Georgetown lost the ball when Schweiker intercepted a flat pass tossed by Wally Herron, enabung Shepherd to kick to safety two min- utes before the final whistie. Terrors Lose Whole Team. HE Hoyas were outclassed by the veteran Tgrrors in every depart- ment except passing. Western Maryland chalked up 15 first downs for a total of 242 yards by rushing and 10 more by passing. Georgetown made only one first down for an ag- gregate gain of 35 yards by rushing, and 25 by . By way of show- ing how completely the Terrors got the jump on the Hoyas, Dick Har- low's charges made 93 yards from (Continued on Page 13, Column ) Sports Events In Local Realm TOMORROW. Boxing. Riding and Hunt Club—Main bout, Morrie Sherman, Detroit, vs, Frankie Hughes, Cleveland, welter- weights; 10 rounds. Twenty-two other rounds. Show starts 8:30. THURSDAY, Wrestling. ‘Washington _Auditorium—Main match, Rudy Dusek, Omaha, vs. Christy, California, heavy- weights; two falls out of three, Three other exhibitions. Show starts 8:30. SATURDAY. Basket Ball. [}