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Lade in the afternoon, with darkness setting in, and all the glamor of the half-light and the white ball spurring them on, the top teams ran through a really jazzed-up signal drill. Joe gardella continued to alternate from wingback to bucking back. When he worked as wingback, big Ben Smith was the bucker. On the "B" eleven Ray Jones, elevated since Bob Burnett's ankle injury, took over the wingback post...
Delirium tremens may not be the result, but the Sophomore potentate. Joe Gardella, should be getting slightly confused shuttling back and forth from fullback to wingback, for yesterday Harlow revealed that Gardella will probably play at both positions Saturday since the second-string wing reserve, Bob Burnett, night before last stepped out of a car the wrong way and temporarily disabled himself...
...every enemy backfield which boasts such names as Woodrow Wilson and Huey Long, but the Army starting quartet includes them both. The Cadets use a single wingback offense with Wilson at tailback to the right and Long at tailback to the left...
...days of Army's great Jack Buckler, Wilson takes the ball and runs sideways faking or actually passing to the "three-points," an end running deep, a wingback medium deep, and a blocking back up close. Against Columbia, Wilson did not throw at all, utilized these three as blockers, and romped to the first Army touchdown...
Altogether the battered Harlowmen will tomorrow stack up against their third really high-class team in a row. Not the beef trust that Cornell was, nor boasting quite such satellites as wingback Peck or end Holland, Army is, nevertheless, a high-riding organization, led by Wilson and Long. The Service elevens always hit the hardest of all the teams, as any player will tell, and this Army team will certainly give Bob Green and his men a real Soldiers Field battle...