Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Repercussions of the Army-Michigan football game are being felt at West Point, Harvard, and Congress, thanks to Professor William H. Hobbs, former head of the geology department. Professor Hobbs, after gathering information on the game from several observers and officials who saw the game, claims that it was not played according to Hoyle...
...From the start of the game, when Ortmann (first string tailback) was kicked between the eyes by Army halfback Gill Stephenson to other plays when Erben and Farrar were put out of commission the same way by the same halfback, Army was obviously out to cripple their opponents, Professor Hobbs claimed...
...Professor Hobbs felt that Army should be banned from playing with all University teams, as Notre Dame once was for the same reason. He added that there was no adequate penalty for deliberate kicking except an occasional 'unnecessary roughness' penalty, which Army got only once during the game...
There are some obvious factual flaws in the above dispatch. For one thing, Earl Blaik stated after the Harvard-Army game that Stephenson had appeared in but four plays against Michigan. For another, Professor Hobbs' Harvard correspondent apparently thinks Noonan and Roche are the same individual...
...other hand, the Stanford players which this writers talked to all considered the 1948 Army-Stanford game the dirtiest contest they had ever been in, and one implied that Emery Mitchell, start fullback and the team's best passer, had been deliberately crippled in the first quarter of that game...