Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 6 | Navy Fights for "Hage" Rawlings

Navy Fights for Hage Rawlings s if Grid Hero HeroDies Dies Before the Big Game if Little M Mother ther Gives Grid Team Spirit CHICAGO Nov 27 AP The AP-The The Navy fought the Army today for something more than the honor and glory of of the Annapolis school the school the I I pledge of a victory for a comrade who passed on with a last wish for foran foran foran an Army defeat The Navy eleven heard the story yesterday from the mother of Hage Rawlings of ot Newport K ICy Ky former midshipman who died re recently recently re- re in Denver Colo Cob from a f fall fallon fallon ll lla I on a destroyer Rawlings was a Navy halfback ck I three years ago After his Injury the doctors said he lie could not live long so he went home to Newport Hage Rage said he would live for a Navy victory in m 1925 Just before the game the I players sent him a lett letter r by naval I pane ane saying they hoped they could fight as well as he had done The I navy department placed a radio i alongside his bed for or greetings greetin s from the field but it was not a a. Navy year Hage Rage still smiled and said They will do it next year and Ill I'll fight light to live and see it He asked to be sent to Denver and unable t to move off orr his back bad withstood the long trip Daily he got news of the 1926 team and his health was better Then the Michigan game Experts Experts Experts Ex Ex- picked Michigan l but Hage said They cant can't do it this Is a Navy year After the excitement his health failed and he lie called for his mother Mrs Elizabeth Rawlings of New New- port He asked her to take a personal message to the the team Coach Navy Bill Ingram Introduced Introduced Intro intro- Mrs Rawlings The The- little mother told her story and from the expression on the boys' boys faces and the set of or their jaws Hage Rawlings Rawlings Raw- Raw lings could be assured his spirit hovered over the field fled today and the Navy fought for him and his mother as well as for the colors