William & Mary at Navy

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  The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, September 30, 1923, page 12

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  NAVY WINS FROM WILLIAM & MARY BY 39-TO-IO SCORE ANNAPOLIS, Md. Sept. 29.-Unable to cope with a bewildering series of forward passes unleashed by the An napolis midshipmen, In the early stages of play. William 11 and Mary down to defeat today by score of ss to 10. The middies also circled the ends for substantial gains at times, but had little success with plays di- rected between tackles. so strong ‘~as the work of the visiting for wards, the Todd boys playing an es- pecally creditable game. The Southerners played second string team to a stand off in the second period. each scoring a touch- down. An eighty-yard run from scrim- mage by Flippen, Navy. featured the game. Line-up ! Navy (sO)-Taylor, left end; Clyde, left tackle Carney. left guard; Mathews. center; Levensky. right guard; Walker. right tackle; Stolz, light end: Mckee, quarterback Flip pen, left halfback; Cullen, right half back; Shapley, fullback. William and Mary 1o)-Chalkey’ left end; Elliott. left tackle; Young, left guard; J. Todd, center; House, right guard; L. Todd, right tackle; Jordan, right end Matsu, quarter back: Koffer, left halfHack; Irwin. right halfback; Cain, tullDack, Score by periods: Navy 19, :, 0, IS; William and Mary O. 2, 8, 0. Navy scoring touchdowns: Mckee 3; Shapley, Flippen, Taylor. Point score after touchdowns: Mckee 2. (Place- ment kick); Ballinger (sub for Flip pen) (drop kick.) { [ William and Mary scoring: Touch down: J. Todd. Point score from touchdown: Matsu (dyropkick). Referee Crowell of Bowdoin. Um- pire, Gillinder of Pennsylvania. Head iinesman, Conney of Princeton. Time of periods two of Is and two of 12 minutes

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Navy leads 35–⁠6–⁠1 in 42 meetings, counting the 41 since this game.