Brief description:
The Army needed Bob Matthews’s football talent to win, but Cadet Matthews was in disgrace.
CHAPTER I. RISING STAR.
EARLY in the season, at the Army-Harvard game, fifty thousand people saw a new star rise in the football firmament. He was the quarterback of the black and gold team of W est Point, playing in his first big game. For the previous year he had been a plebe, and therefore had not been eligible for the varsity. His name was Robert E. Lee Jackson Matthews, but his classmates and friends called him simply Bob.
... . The Matthews being a proud and distinguished army family (his father was a major general in the Regular Army), it was but natural that young Bob Matthews should come out of the South -- Richmond, Virginia -- to West Point. It was a vindication and a relief to the new and youthful coach of the Army team, First Lieutenant Hugh Ford when Bob Matthews went into the game as substitute quarterback, so changing an almost certain defeat into a decisive victory. The only person in vast stadium at Soldiers Field, Cambridge, Massachusetts, who refused to admit the flowering of football genius, was Harvey D. Jones, the replaced quarterback. Jones was the team captain, and was playing his last year.
CHAPTER I. RISING STAR.
EARLY in the season, at the Army-Harvard game, fifty thousand people saw a new star rise in the football firmament. He was the quarterback of the black and gold team of W est Point, playing in his first big game. For the previous year he had been a plebe, and therefore had not been eligible for the varsity. His name was Robert E. Lee Jackson Matthews, but his classmates and friends called him simply Bob.
... . The Matthews being a proud and distinguished army family (his father was a major general in the Regular Army), it was but natural that young Bob Matthews should come out of the South -- Richmond, Virginia -- to West Point. It was a vindication and a relief to the new and youthful coach of the Army team, First Lieutenant Hugh Ford when Bob Matthews went into the game as substitute quarterback, so changing an almost certain defeat into a decisive victory. The only person in vast stadium at Soldiers Field, Cambridge, Massachusetts, who refused to admit the flowering of football genius, was Harvey D. Jones, the replaced quarterback. Jones was the team captain, and was playing his last year.
Publication
Argosy Magazine, vol 242, no 1, Oct 21, 1933