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Show ogden mm GIVEN PRAISE Eastern newspaper men term Vincent Vin-cent Conroy. former Ogden high school star, one of the greatest field generals ln the east during tho football foot-ball season which Just recently closed. cne Philadelphia scribe stated that Conroy would have looked mighty I In S Vale uniform at quarterback, quarter-back, while a New York sports writer termed him one of the greatest field i,, rals ever produced at Annapolis. Biany football fans and, authorities K'le Gil Doble credit for being tho greatest football coach In America. Dobh was the mentor at Annapolis the first year Conroy went out for th. t tam, later going to Cornell university uni-versity where ho has met with won derful success. Doble witnessed the Army-Navy game from tho Navy bench- After the game he paid Conroy the following follow-ing tribute: "1 havo heard Conroy was a mechanical quarterback but I have never seen such perfect choice: of .lays as he made today. I wish I had a quarterback like him." Coach Bob Pol we II of tho Navv eleven paid this tribute to Captain Conroy. "You havo been a damned sight better captain than Larson and he was a hell of a good ono. Larson's Lar-son's team was picked before practice prac-tice in the fall ever started, but vou had to build up your own team " A. L. Olasmann, editor of Tho Standard-Examiner, who returned from the east last wook. attended the Army-Navy eontest and sings tho praises of Conroy. He terms tho former for-mer Tiger ono of tho best field generals gen-erals ln tho country, a man that uses the right play at the rik'ht tlmo. Conroy will graduate from Annapolis Annapo-lis in June. His football career has placed his name In the hall of fanio at Annapolis, the Ugdenlte being ono of lew western men to have the honor of captaining an eastern eleven |