Duke at Navy

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  Evening star, October 23, 1927, page 74

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  Navy Scores in Quick Order To Win From Duke by 80 to E The Middies resumed the attack with renewed fire in the third period but. thwarted by three penalties for holding, were unable to stop two passes in the last quarter that brought the Sailors two more touchdowns. Navy tailed Is first downs, Duke II.

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  Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, October 23, 1927, page 1

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  NAVY SWAMPS DUKE ANNAPOLIS, Nd, Oct. 22.-(Pp- In less than Is minutes, two husky backs-Joe Clifton and Whitley Lloyd Duke University’s defense 10 shreds today and, with the assistance of four intercepted passes, rolled up five ~touchdowns before the game ended TO beat the Tarheels 80 TO 8.

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 20–⁠15–⁠5 in 40 meetings, counting the 39 since this game.