Ann Arbor, Mich., which had come to regard itself as the capital of the college football world,* found it hard to take the Army team seriously. Local opinion was that West Point had been incautious, if not downright foolhardy, in scheduling a game with the University of Michigan's rebuilt postwar juggernaut, pride of the Western Conference and No. 1 ranking team of the land. But since somebody had to be Michigan's 26th consecutive victim, and Army was sure to put up a stout fight, some 97,000 went out to the university stadium to see the...
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