Army v. Navy

Football games in the Autumn rumble gently through the end of September, thump through October, thunder through November until late in the month, on a bleak windy afternoon, the Autumn storm breaks with a great roar of band music and cheering voices. This is the afternoon when the four eyes of a nervous Army mule and a tattered Navy goat are alone too frightened to watch their teams tussle on a darkening field.

From now on the football season may lack this fine and frenzied final, the Army v. Navy game. Last week letters went from Annapolis to West Point stating certain differences in athletic rulings which made football games between the two unequal contests; requesting that these differences be removed. The Army could not agree to remove the differences; returned the 1928 game contract unsigned.

The differences between the two, which will no longer be forgotten upon a trampled gridiron, are these; men may enter West Point at any age from 17 to 22; at Annapolis, 20 is the maximum entrance age. At West Point a man who has played football at another university may continue to play; at the Navy three years of collegiate football is the limit for any player. Though the Annapolis enrollment is 50% larger than West Point the Army has the advantage, has beaten Annapolis with more than fair frequency in recent years.