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...analogy stops there. West Point has a better line, more balance in the backfield and more defensive grit than last year. Jim Kelleher, elongated end and plebe frank Merritt are the standouts of a tremendous forward wall that repulsed Lafayette, Cornell and Columbia's Governali so well. In the Columbia tussle the Lion's ace pitcher was rushed unmercifully by these behemoths, resulting in the complete throttling of their pass attack...
Prize pupil was tall, lean, handsome Benjamin O. Davis Jr., first Negro ever accorded the traditional "recognition" by upperclassmen at the end of his plebe year at West Point. (His father, a Brigadier General, is an assistant to the Army's Inspector General.) Tuskegee's Negroes were as proud as all get-out when young Davis won his wings...
...Hurd succeeds Jim Manning, who left Boston to take over duties as plebe crew mentor at the United States Naval Academy...
...kindly, jealous Hugo Matuschek, Frank Morgan (who has a flair for Central European roles) turns in his best perform ance since he was Diana Wynyard's husband in Reunion in Vienna. William Tracy (the much hazed plebe of Brother Rat} is the typically brassy errand boy who, after saving his boss from suicide, badgers him into making his rescuer a clerk. James Stewart walks through the amiable busi ness of being James Stewart. Joseph Schildkraut, as usual in a minor part, as 'usual acts rings around everybody else...
...first year boat-was regarded as the favorite after their sterling performance against the Plebe crew last week; but they have been disrupted through the ineligibility of Willerton and Fisher, and the illness of Hooker...