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They examined the field, then planned the placing of explosive wiring beneath the midfield turf and the stationing of the detonating point under the wooden stands behind the 30-yard line...
...Indiana, Butch, who was playing at tackle next to one Arthur Valpey, was running the Hoosier backfield in the first quarter. He had accounted for about 10 tackles in as many minutes when on one play he collided head-on with fullback Bert Hoffman and collapsed dizzily upon the turf. In his dazed condition he only realized that his left thumb was broken, but the trainers on the bench surmised more. They rushed out onto the field to investigate and started plying him with question to find out how hard he had been hit. They asked him his name, they...
Even the touch football artists could tell from the shouts that the Varsity was building a bonfire. And ironically enough, just as Art Valpey's team was firing up for the game, the remains of the "B" on the Stadium turf were being burned up by the maintainence crew...
Next day, on the green turf of Baltimore's Babe Ruth Stadium, Notre Dame's old reliable T-formation worked so well against Navy that the U-formation was never used. In fact, Leahy's big problem was to keep down the score. In the fourth quarter, he pulled out his first-stringers, forbade further use of the forward pass, and limited his second-stringers to a few elemental plays. Final score...
When the Crimson taken to the Palmer Stadium turf tomorrow afternoon, football fans will view this forty-first renewal of an ancient rivalry an a friendly, ivy-covered rivalry indeed. But things were not always this; and, for a period of several years, it looked as though the two schools were never again to face each other athletically...