The Army had the word straight from an old West Point superintendent now in Tokyo. Messaged General Douglas Mac-Arthur: "There is no substitute for victory." If West Point's tough, all-conquering football squad needed any further goad last week, it was supplied by pre-game gibes from the Navy cheering section. With President Harry Truman and 102,442 others watching in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, Annapolis banners flaunted some sore subjects.
One asking "After Davidson—Smith?" hit at the breather games on West Point's comparatively soft schedule. Making capital of West Point's unwillingness to play
Notre Dame (which...
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