Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 6 | On the Sidelines at the Army-Navy Game

i ON TilE SIDELINES j jat atthe at the I 1 NAVY ARMY GAME I SOLDIERS FI FIELD LD Chicago Nov 27 AP In AP-In In the boxes and banking tiers of seats were many notables of public life Including Vice President Dawes who declared that he had witnessed a display of citizenship that made him proud of his coun coun- try Chicago is honored by this visit of the military bodies and the city has responded in a fashion of which any municipality might be proud I For one I 1 am tm happy to be here and i glad I am a Chicagoan I Knute Rockne famous football coach at Notre Dame viewed the spectacle from rom the press box In the capacity of a n. reporter Hundreds of other noted coaches were also here for the game While Rockne was pounding a type typewriter his team lost to Carnegie Tech the only defeat defeat defeat de de- de- de feat of the season for Notre Dame One hundred thousand or more saw the game but that figure was beaten in the number of words sent out on telegraph wires by n newspaper news newspaper news news- ws- ws paper men who followed the contest play by play Six press stands on both sides of or the stadium were filled with clicking typewriters and buzzing telegraph instruments and telephones as thousands of words poured out to all parts of the coun coun- try Telegraph officials said more wires were used us than in any other game on record Tiny Hewitt captain of the Army bade goodbye to his football career today without taking part Inthe in inthe inthe I the game His part in the cont contest st was ended when he met the Navy I captain in the midfield at the start of the fray for the toss I Veteran football followers who have seen many of or the most spectacular spectacular spec spec- contests of the past de declared declared de- de dared today's game was the greatest great great- est eat they ever had se seen n. n Time after atter aftertime aftertime time the Arm Army was set back five rive yards because of or backfield shifts the referee rul ruled d that the players were in motion when the ball was snap snapped ed It was the Notre Dame shift shirt Army was using As the play ended huge floodlights floodlights floodlights flood flood- lights on the top columns gleamed I across the vast spaces of the amphitheatre amphitheatre I theatre but were not strong enough to bring Into view the white topped caps of the midshipmen At the south end of the stadium a huge double 21 in electric lights was a final reminder to the multitude as asIt asit asit It moved out The 1500 police who handled the crowd had little to do but direct the tue ticket holders Two of them however however how how- ever led from the stands during an intermission an inebriated spectator who waved an Army pennant ju Ju Ju- as he lie made de a bolst boisterous rous exit He He was the only person ejected A touch of or winter was added to the scene by areas of snow at either end of the gridiron Spectators Spectators Spectators tors did not need that however to remind them that the temperature wan wall below freezing Overcoats I mufflers blankets galoshes and all other appurtenances of winter days failed to quite k keep ep out th the cold winds blowing off the lake