Since the 1930s the game was played at the 102,000 seat Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia which is located on the site where the Wells Fargo Center is now located.  Alfred Wright wrote that even at that mammoth stadium, "Army, the host team, could have sold it out three times."

The big story was how gracefully Cadet Don Holleder had made the switch from end, where he had been an All-American the year before, to quarterback when four other candidates were not available to play. 

The 187-pound Holleder learned to make the pitch-outs to the running backs, could throw long or even run the ball himself.  Former Army assistant coach Herman Hickman wrote in the

Источник: Bleacher Report