Navy vs. Army

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  The New York herald, New York, N.Y., November 28, 1920, page 1

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  NAVY ELEVEN FINDS LATENT POWER IN TIME Seizes Opportunity After Courageous Defence, Says Parke Davis. BETTER TEAM WINNER Statistics Show Superiority OF Middies in Running Attack plays Similar. ] by fAhnts H. IA Navy put upon the defensive by the / first play OF the game, the Armys kick off, and kept upon the defensive / through three fiercely and furiously fought quarters, brilliantly burst upon the offensive in the closing period OF | play and oy a mighty fash of power scored a single touchdown, kicked the goal and defeated Army, 7 to 0. IL was a game thrilling and stirring from start to finish. Navy” said the experts before the game, will win. but Navy will have TO fight every inch for it’s victory” This prediction was correct, but it did not prophesy ar curately the tremendous odds which the Navy was forced to faye and which the Navy gloriously overcame. Six times in the first half did the Army stand upon the Nays 80 yard line. On four of these assaults the gold and gray banner reached the 80 yard line and twice the 20 yard line. Three times did the Army in these six stirring drives attempt to score by goal from the field the kicker stand ing twice OH the 40 yard line and once on the 80 yard line. with the goal post squarely in front of him. ! In all three instances the Army failed. Not once during the first three quar- ! ters was Navy within striking distance of the Armys goal line or cross bar. In fact throughout these three trying, | gruelling quarters Navy continually but ! courageously was extricating Itself from one difficult position and predicament after another. In the fourth quarter. ! however bad kick of fifteen yards out ! OF bounds On Army’s 40 yard line gave | the Navy its first opportunity of the day. | Opportunity did not beckon in vain. for the Nays tremendous latent power sud denly materialized and in seven plays the Navy had swept over the eight glistening lines of lime and scored a | touchdown. The winning Play. The touchdown was scored by Ben q. Koehler. the left halfback. The Navy at the time stood on the Arnly’s yard line for a first down. The Navy formed in close formation. The ball was passed ! TO Conroy, the Navy quarter. who tented to run 10 the left. but who handed the ball to Koehler. The latter | in “A wide sweeping end run circled the / Armys left outpost across the line for the winning score of the day. Clyde w. King, the Nays right tackle, kicked the goal Army Immediately afterward kicked off and Navy. confident in its power. instantly launched its second great smashing drive Of the day. sweeping for ward eighty yards in a chain OF five first downs and finally standing on the | Army’s IS yard line for second down ! with ten yards 20 go Here Noyes OF the Navy fumbled Army captured the ball and the Navys final attack Of the day terminated The astounding ability OF the Army eleven thus 10 have outplayed the Navy distinctly and decidedly for three fourths OF the game is due primarily | to the tremendous defensive strength OF it’s line OF forwards. Mulligan and Davidson. the Army tackles. and White and Storck the Army ends. played with surprising brllliance, sternming assault after assault and frequently cutting | down Koehler and Conroy. the fleet | Navy backs behind their own line. So stout was the Army defence throughout the three first quarters against the Navy that the Navy’s longest chain OF first downs in these three periods did not g. coed three links. Fighting and for’-‘n1 gsya eta Army | during these Three quarters repeaged opportunities TO score. NAVY however, in every instance raised auch fn.Elf~ bulwark OF defcrca HuI sent losNN | fierce counter a. lf trat in nrt NJ stance the Arm. ralltl. u the middle ] OF the first quar- Army had reached the Nays 30-yard line. SO fierce was A IA. Il 1trN “a by the Blue and Cold that Army could not advance another inch. French fell back to try for a goal from the field The giant Navy forwards crashed | through upon him 50 furiously that he was unable TO deliver the kick accurate ~. Precisely the same play was at tempted twice In the second quart and again defeated by the treme1dols charges OF the Navy forwards. Formations sir tlne Both elevens presented GUESTS nEigliy the same type Of FORMATIONS nad glaya Each used tho ae-F uCGirrstien az Aas tandem whio1 $3.50 vac Used rr isA by Harvard. Prhrcgou sna many other teams Of the Uniie1 states This con sists OF three OF lhe Sacks forming In an oblique line behind nr centre. with the fourth back deployeg slightly 20 the out ! side Of the end. This close formation or the baci, was imposed in the majority OF Instances behind the unbalanced line or forwards in which four men formed one side OF centre and two 20 the other. The | Army disclose, a divide formation OF tina same type as that used by Princeton against Harvard but lost ground in each Of the two instances in which the divide made It’s appearance. Both elevens. or course. frequently employed the kick formation fror. which to launch running attacks The Army achieved It’s greatest offensive successes OF the day from the close formation Of the backs. whereas the Ma accomplished most Of its advances m the Kick formation. Defeusivelv the systems OF the two teams we’re Identical. and presented no variations from the present standard methods OF defensive play. In none OF the major games Of the season has a bet ter exhibition OF precise tackling been given than that put up yesterday by the Army forwards Although opposed by one OF the most 20 yerful rush lines n the country. that OF the Navy. Army repeltedly tackled behind the Nays lines

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  The Birmingham age-herald, November 27, 1920, page 10

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  ARMY MULE BUCKS UP AGAINST NAV GOAT AT NEW YORK TODAY Army Has One Victory More to Its Credit Than the Navy. Many Turned Away In Rush for Tickets to Historic En-. counter By Associated Press New York, November 26.- Amid stage setting unique and different from any other football game of the year, the Army and Navy elevens will play their annual gridiron contest at the Polo grounds here tomorrow afternoon. | Other intervarsity football struggles may draw greater attendance of spec tators or be surrounded with gr eater tradition and classic atmosphere, but none approaches the battle of the clevens from the United States 4Saval and Military academies for martial pomp and splendor. The marching West Point cadets and the Annapolis middies, headed by blar- ing bands, the army mule and the navy goat, present a picture entirely foreign to any other field of American foot ball. The huge rectangular blocks of cadet gray and the sailor blue. where the rival academy cheering squads are located on opposite sides of the field supply a color scheme not matched in iany football stadium in the country. 1 MILITARY ATMOSPHERE There is in addition marked differ ence in the appearance of the specta- tors as a whole. Field boxes and grandstands are fleclSed with the gold braided and starred uniforms of ols- tingushed naval officers sitting sho1l- der o-shoulder with generals, colouels and captains of the army. In the more drab uniform of the civilian may De seen high officials from Washington diplomatic circles, while filling m the background of the scene may be found thousands of plain football enthusiasts who never miss the opportunity to Wit ness the Army–Navy game, the closing act in the gridiron drama of the year, providing they have enough influence to secure tickets from the few availa- I ble sources of supply. TICKETS HARD TO GET Admission cards for the Army Navy game have always been hard to rro- cure, whether played at Philadelphia, Princeton or New York, and seldom fas l there been public sale of the coup oas. This season the situation, so far as iseats are concerned, is undoubtedly the worst in the history of the series be- tween the two arms of the service. In 1 keeping with the popularity of football lin general this fall, the demand for tickets for the Army–Navy game has liar surpassed any previous year. While /, the Polo grounds grandstand have been enlarged to accommodate close to 50,- 1000 spectators, that number of persons Ihave made application for seats from either the athletic association of West Point or Annapolis, or through oromi- lnent government officials, who are sup tf, fo a of the precious pasteboards. Tho few | tickets ‘. hich have fallen into he hands of speculators are bringing fab lulous prices, and are being snapped up without hesitation or haggling by those who are determined to witness the play regardless of the cost. WORTH PRICE ! Viewed from certain angles, the game is worth the price being asked 1 by those who have tickets to sell, for the atmosphere and setting are that of a huge open-air, spectacle filled with music, cheers and action such as never lseen outside this particular and dis tinctive American athletic contest. The rival academy cheering squads armed with megaphones and brilliant -colored Istreamers furnish the noise, while the P rival players on the field supply i.c- tion and thrills enough to any devel- loped by the best of the big varsity football classics. | KEEN RIVALRY No keener rivalry or harder, play is ever seen in any gridiron climax in any ipart of the country than that displayed in the football meeting of the soldiers and sailors. { Close and exciting contests are he rule rather than the exception, and the very intensity of the series is shown i by the almost equal allotment of hon. ors after 22 years of play. Since 1890, when the initial game was staged, the Army has won II games and the Navy 10, with one-that of 1905 played at Princeton--resulting in n 6 to s tic. RECORDS | The records of the two academy elevenss for the present season; the results of all past games between the Army and Navy and the probable line- up offthe teams with statistics.of both academy squads follow. ARMY’S 1920 RECORD 1 october Army B, Union 0. l October 2-Army 3S, Marshall O. October 9-Army 27 Middlebury O. October t6-Army 26, Springfield l. l October 2S-Army 2S, Tufts 6. l October So--Army IT. Notre Dame 27 l November 6-Army 5S; Lebanon Val 1 ley o. November 1S-Arniy 90. Bowdoin O.. i November 20--No game. l Total for Army. S14, against op- I ponents’ total of 40. NAVY’S 1920 RECORD l October Navy 2. North Carolina IA. | October 9-Navy 12, Lafayette [. 1 October 16-Navy 7 Bucknell ?. October 2Sz-Navy Q, Princeton If. 4 october S0-Navy 47, Western Re | serve 0. sf 1 November 6-Navy 21, Georgetown G. 1 November 1S--Navy 6s. South Caro- | lima 0. 1 November 20---No game. l Total for Navy, 157 against op- l, ponents’ total of 43 RECORDS OF PAST GAMES 1S90-Navy “A. Army 0. {. 1s91---Army 32 Navy l6. l 1S92--Navy 12. Army f. 1 1ss3-Navy 6, Army 4. ! 1S99-Army 17, Navy 5. l 19o0-Navy II, Army [. | 1901-Armv II. Navy ,. l 1so2-Army P, Navy s. | 1903-Army 40, Navy ,. l l904--Army II, Navy 0. 1 1905--Army 6, Navy 6. Mo h.

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  Albuquerque morning journal, Albuquerque, N.M., November 28, 1920, page 1

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  NAVY FOOTBALL TEAM DEFEATS ARMY, 7 TO 0; DARTMOUTH is WINNER over WASHINGTON u” Sailors Plunge Through the Soldiers Lines and Triumph in Annual Gridiron Clash; Koehler’s Playing Features; $4,000 Spectators Witness Game on Polo Grounds. New York, Nov. q. - Line plunges with uperdroadnaugh backs, aided by smoke screen of delayed and double passes, enabfed Navy to triumph over Army z to 0 in their annual gridiron clash at the Polo grounds today, When, early in the fourth period, Ben G.. Koehler. of Geneva, Neb., former star at the University of Nebraska, crashed over the Armys last white line on a double pass play that started seven yards from the goal, Navy officials among the $4,000 spectators could draw an analogy between the main reliance of football offense and that of actual battles at sea. Both elevens had found the forward pass ineffective for great gains. Modern Tactics Discarded. Discarding modern aeriag tactics, Navy relied on the battleship tackle, smashes from a close square formation, so efficiently that after the touchdown was made another was prevented only by a tumble fourteen-yards from tho goal. “Come eleven” had been, the Navy slogan In preparation for the game and eleven came, meaning the eleventh victory for Annapolis over West Point, which makes the series even. While future admirals gamboled in a snake dance over the gridiron, Josephus Daniels saw his last Army Navy game. as secretary of the navy end in victory for the seamen. He and Secretary Baker, General Pershing, General Nevelle of France and other officials joshed one another boastingly on the field between the halves when the score was Gall. While sailors and wounded A. f. F. veterans, who were side line guests, gathered round, the army chiefs felt conf dent, for In the first half the Navy never had ball in Army’s terri tory, and the Army had been near enough to Nays goal to try to place kick three times. Break Came In Third Period. The break came near the end OF the third period. A punt by the Army fran it’s thirty-four-yard line went outside and netted only twelve Yards. A forward pass OF eight wards and a six-yard line buck by Conroy gave the Navy first down twenty-five yards from the Armys goal as the fourth period opened. Then came the change of tactics Toball seven yards from the Army } goal and gave the Navy a tlrsl down there. On the next play, smoke screen was thrown OUT: Hamilton, Navy fullback, started from a close formation as II to buck Armys right guard. Conroy’ instead, passed the ball to Noye then to right fullback, and in turn gave it to Koehler, who plunged through Army’s left tackle for a touchdown. King kicked goal. Nays First Down. Receiving the ensuing kickoff on its own 17-yard line. Navy ran II back fourteen yards and after four teen line plunges had a first down fourteen yards from the goal. Con- ROY and Koehler again worked the same double pass play. 1t led 10 one 20-yard gain by Koehler IN the course of this advance ana Conroy himself made several smashes of five and six yards. Noyes fumbled. however, and the Army on its own 14yard line start ed a desperate effort to tie the score. French made a 14-yard run from kick formation on the first lineup and raised the hopes of the cadets, who were waving mega phones that formed the letters ~. s. A.” In gray. black and gold. The rally was short lived. however. The Army tried forward passes, but the sailors knew how to check them and Army’s hopes died when a for ward pass was intercepted in mid field by Waters. substitute full back. When the game ended Navy had the ball on Army’s AZ yard line. The figures show that fifty-five rushing plays gained Navy 1856 yards net. of which eighty eight yards were gained in twenty-five plays in the last period. The Navy

• The evening world, November 27, 1920

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  NAVY DEFEATS ARMY, 7 TO 0 IN HARD FOUGHT CONTEST BEFORE CHEERING THOUSANDS Polo Grounds a Mass of Color and Bedlam of Noise as Fighting Branches of Government Line Up in Annual Football Clash-Generals Pershing and Frances Yer dun Hero, Neville, Enthusiast cally Greeted by Throng.

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Officially, Navy leads 64–⁠55–⁠7; as played, 63–⁠55–⁠7 in the 125 games on file; the official count covers all 126 meetings, counting the 103 since this game.