West Virginia Wesleyan at Army

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  Evening star, November 20, 1932, page 53

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  ARMY IS SATISFIED WITH LONE SCORE Regulars, in Game 8 Minutes, Register 1t Against West Virginia Wesleyan. w VEST POINT. n. Y, November Nh 19-The Army regulars, rest v Y ing for the coming big games with No.re Dame and Navy, played Just five minutes against West | Virginia Wesleyan today, struck once and swiftly for a touchdown and then retired to watch the reserves hold safe lily for TO victory. There was just one hull in a storm that had ragged all night and continued through the game. and in that period the Cadet big team sent Felix (Pick) Vidal s3ampering rs yards for the only score, a brilliant dash that saw the little Army back dodge and twist his way through the entire wesleyan team. Only few hundred spectators, aside from the always loyal corps, huddled under raincoats and umbrellas in Niche Stadium to watch as queer foot ball game as probably ever was played. The gridiron was anklc deep in mud and the rain, sweeping the fields in gusts that almost blinded the players, made the ball as slippery as though it had been creased. THERE were at least 20 fumbles, none J. of them at very critical points, how SNC4, anu tIlC Ddll 1LSHoCAASAg lost his footing before he had hardly started The strange sight was presented through most of the f1rSt half Of both teams kicking on first down, waiting for the break” that never came. Hail. lanky Bobcat quarterback, and Buckler, reserve Army half. waged q brilliant duel Of punts all through the game, Buckler getting off one kick that sent the soggy ball soaring 60 yards ON the fly to roll dead on Wesleyan’s 10-yard line The regulars, going in to start the second half, we’re not long in scoring. Stopped once on the Bobcats 38-yard line when Ken Fields fumbled and shortly thereafter set back to their own Is by 25-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness, they sent Vidal from there en- his scoring dash. EIELDS tipped lateral to the little l. ewiFel-hipped Army back and Pick” started goalward. A wave Of Wesleyan tacklers closed in on him at mid field but he side3tepped the first two, slowed up to let his interference form and then cut back as his fellow players cut the opposition down to run untouched to the goal 1DeT WOTk d0re, lac regulars Tetlreo to watch the second and third string players hold safely to the lead. Wesleyen made only one real scoring threat eerly in the fourth quarter, when they recovered a tumble on Army’s 49, yard line. A pass was declared COM pleted for interference on the Cadets 25 and another short pass. Hall to Rine, Bobcat end. took the ball to Arny’s IS. Two line plunge5 failed, two passes were knocked down and the game was practtcally over.

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Army leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.