This was the Navy's day and it.|was just thet Major Swede Larson's fighting eleven should have carried it, though it is only fair to point out that the-execrable weather conditions militated against the wea: pon Army counted on most. With the ball slippery and the light and visibility so poor that receivers were hard to locate, it was a bad day to use the forward pass, though the Navy secondaries appeared to have no difficulty spotting the ball and made five interceptions.
In the final analysis Navy won because it played the harder and better football, adapting itself to the conditions and cashing in on its tremendous will to win and the greater speed of its backs, particularly the brilliant Shafer and Lenz.
Major Larsen and Rip Miller had spoken their confidence in their two Strong lines, and their forwards vindicated them. They had it all over his and the other hard-hitting forwards in mustard-colored shirts.
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