Western Reserve at Navy

• 

  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 8, 1922, page 73

  Read the text

  eto, Takes Its Opening GidHon Game Maryland Scoress Battle navy HAS A WA[K0VER WITH WESTERN RESERVE ANNAPOLIS. Md. October THE Naval Academy foot ball team onsned its season today by winning from Western Reserve by II to 0. The game was played on a wet field and Reserve offered weak opposition, but it was full Of elements Of satisfaction to tho Navy contingent. Fifty-three points were scored in the first half. and the second half was curtailed. while a second team was used. Barchet did some brilliant run ming in the opening portion Of the game, ably assisted by Conroy and Cullen. while Norris and Hughes gained most of the ground In the latter portions. The Navy was particularly success full with forward pass plays of many varieties. Barchet and Conroy gen. orally tossing the ball to Taylor or Parr. Late in the first quarter Taylor received the ball from Barchet on a thirty-yard pass and ran twenty yards for a touchdown.

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.

Navy leads 8–⁠0–⁠1 in nine meetings.