Western Reserve at Navy
Saturday, October 30, 1920 Share
Navy beat Western Reserve 47–0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Navy led the series 6–0–1.
FinalHigh 55°F, low 39°F
In the newspapers

New-York tribune, New York, October 31, 1920, page 20
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| ne summary Western Reserve Easy For Navy; Score AZ to o ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 3O-Western Reserve was easily defeated by the mid shipmen in their annual football game here to-day. AZ to 0. The middies bowled over their opponents almost at will. Only three times were they forced to punt. The Reserves took the defensive most of the first half. In the final stage. they launched an aerial attack in vain effort to score The line-un.

The Wheeling intelligencer, Wheeling, W. Va., October 30, 1920, page 7 (results column)
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EAST At FRONT ON GRID TODAY Middle West and Southern Teams Come East-Prince- ton Plays W. Y. u. Now York. oct. 29.--Whilc the east crn football schedule for the final sat urday of October does not offer the attractive features Of a week ag”. inter sectional games still hold the fore rank “n the grldlron card. The middleweSt will be represented by the Nrtre Dame eleven at West Point and the Western Reserve at Annapolis. From the South will come the University of Virginia To meet Harvard and. ut the sam” hour, Princeton Will b. lining up with West Virginia. Dame. none of the invading teams appears as formidable as n year ago. The Indiana combination in four games to date has amasscd n total score Of l25 points against ten by opponents. Ne hraSzak is the only eleven which has succe eded in crossing the Notre Dame goal line. while Valparaiso. which Har, ward defeated 81 To 0. scored field goal although the final score was rs to 3 in favor OF Notrc Dame. The Army has run UP heavy scores against every OPP ponent played this season, but has shown rather weak defense against overhead attack and as the western team has SPECIALIZED in this for ~ Of Tense for years. the Cadets will have TO Sho weDced and alcrtness to hold the visitors IN check. Harvard defeated Virginia ~ to 0 last season. and expects to win again tomorrow. although the southerners are considered to have one OF IN” best lines of forwards in this section. Except Tor Il defeat ny Virginia Military Academy. which established its calihrc by decisive “ winn!r” from Pennsylvania last week. tho Nirgirians have won all their -arncs to date. including Il to vic tor; over Rutgers. Harvard is not likely 10 find Virginia rs strong as Centre COLLEGE. but will require her first. string players Cor major portion or the game at least. university Princeton West Virginia shorn or her great full back Rodgers, is far from being as i’m prcsSivc as twelve months nGo. Pitts, burgh and Yale have already defeated the Mnunta inecrs and l.chigh held them to n tie score With the powerful ma chine developed at Princeton. the Tigers probably will cndravor 10 equal or encoed the a to Q score made by Yale against West Virginia last saturday. \ somewhat similar situation. will exist nj New Haven whore Colgate Is scheduled 10 play Yale. The New Workers are but a shadow Of their 1919 eleven and have yet to win n game this season. rannSylvani aand Pittsburgh have NOT drawn such comparatively easy assign ments for the Quakers face Hugh Bedck’s Penn state combination and La Penn State has swept through five games for total of 2n4 points with but two touchdownS scored against her. Dartmouth was the only team to hold the state payers III TeaSOHiDIe CIltCh. Last year Pennsylvania went down before the State College 10 to and unless tho OuakNrs have improved radically since their defeat Of 4 week ago. Penn State is likely to repeat. Lafayette is another strong eleven but iS not expected 10 rive Pittsburgh the hard hattie TINT Syracuse or Georgia Tech did Tnth Pennsylvania and IN” Army have defeated this team and while Tafavcttc is reported TO have made some roma rkahle Strides In both offcnsi’ve and defensive play during the past two wccks. il does not appear proha bic that tho FL Ston collc=iarS can conquer team OF tho power turned out by Glen Warner ut PITTSBURGH this season. Tcday’s Zig Ganos Tho leading Games Of Saturday. togcther with the scores OF last season whore the same colleges met. follows: Teams Results 1919 virginia ~ harvard 0–47 Colgate n Yale Did not meet Penn s, atc Ut Pennsylvania 100 West Virginia ut Princeton $50 Rutec-. RI Cornell Did not meet Notrn Dame ut West Point 12–9 Western Reserve Mt Navy Did not meet Syracuse ~ Holy Cross Did not meet Vermont NJ Brown Did not meet Williams at Columbia $50 2faYcttc n Pitt Shurgh Did no. moot Tufts Mt Dartmouth Did not meet Franklin md Marshall nj Swarthmnrc o-25
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Navy 92% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Western Reserve–Navy gameNavy leads 8–0–1 in nine meetings, counting the two since this game.
| 1922 | Navy 71, Western Reserve 0 | |
| 1921 | Navy 53, Western Reserve 0 | |
| 1920 | Navy 47, Western Reserve 0 | |
| 1917 | Navy 95, Western Reserve 0 | |
| 1914 | Navy 48, Western Reserve 0 | |
| 1912 | Navy 7, Western Reserve 0 |
Around this game
Western Reserve
- Next gameat NavyOct. 8, 1921
- SeasonWestern Reserve in 1920
- ProgramWestern Reserve history and records
Navy
- Next gamevs. GeorgetownNov. 6, 1920
- SeasonNavy in 1920
- ProgramNavy history and records
