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...first quarter Saturday, although the Crimson offense looked sharper than heretofore, the game began to develop according to the usual pattern. After an exchange of punts and fumbles put the Cadets on their own 45, quarterback Pete Vann threw a scoring pass to halfback Tom Bell, who was all by himself behind the Crimson secondary. The play, however, was called back because the over-anxious Army backs were in motion...
...pair of plebes, Meyers and Pete Vann, keep the quarterback position from being the weakest on the team. (West Point, in accordance with the N.C.A.A. ruling, allows freshmen to play varsity ball.) Meyers, a good T ball-handler and passer, brought a leg injury out of the Northwestern game severe enough to keep him on the bench while his mates bowed to Dartmouth. Vann is a bullet-passer, who is fortunate enough to have ends who can hold onto the ball. Because of line deficiencies, the first-year Cadet has been buried far behind scrimmage several times in the opening...
Allegedly ahead, of Vann, as second quarterback, is junior Dick Boyle. But, although Boyle is a better ball-handler than Vann, the more experienced man's forward passes have a distinctly unstable end-over-end tendency...
Army's backfield tottered off on the wrong foot with first stringers quarterback Fred Meyers and halfback Tom Bell out of commission and with second quarterback Dick Boyle recuperating from an injury and comparatively ineffective. The majority of the quarterbacking was done by Pete Vann, a hard-passing freshman. And there is little doubt that ends like Weaver and Sisson made Vann look better than he actually was. Another freshman, fullback Dick Reich, developed as the workhorse of the Pointers...
...lack of "big names" in particular. This year again, due to a Faculty ruling that no one shall be forced to teach three terms in succession, many of the courses will be given by visiting professors and local instructors. The distinguished quality of some of the visitors--C. Vann Woodward of Johns Hopkins University, for example--and a few sparks from the local stars--Associate Professor Louis Hartz will give Government 1b--take some of the curse off this situation. It remains, nonetheless, far short of ideal...