China Bowl

In Shanghai, 13 hours before the big game in Philadelphia, Army kicked off to Navy in the China Bowl game. It was strictly G.I.: 10,000 uniformed Americans jammed Shanghai's Canidrome (dog track). Navy won, 12-to-0. That made the day perfect for Navy's coach, craggy-faced, beaming Lieut. Commander Andrew James ("Swede") Oberlander, Dartmouth All-America, a football immortal of the golden '20s.

He had had three weeks to whip the Navy team into shape. Plans for defense and kick-off drill on the day before the game were frustrated when the players arrived to practice on the Shanghai race course. The reason: the city government was shooting six criminals on the field.

Asked what stuff he had given the squad, Oberlander answered: "Oh, we have a T formation—just the same old stuff we had at Dartmouth 25 years ago. The game has been through the double wing back, the single wing back, Notre Dame shift, military shift and all the rest and we were lucky—right back in style again."