Navy vs. Army

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  The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, November 26, 1927, page 1

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  Notre Dame, Army Winners Rockne’s Men Win from Southern California by / Polnt--Army- Navy 14–⁠9 Capt. Harry Wilson Scores Both TouchdOwns For Army Through Sensational Spurts In Third Quarter – Navy Gets Score in Final Period OetS score IN El08I Fefl0Q Score by Quarters Army ............ Ola Oil Navy ............ Z 9 BY BRIAN BELL Polo Grounds, New York, Nov. &c. -F-A sensational squirt in the third period, when Captain Harry Wilson scored two touchdowns, enabled the Army to conquer the Of $4,000. The midshipmen came back to score q touchdown in the final period but were stopped in another drive by the whistle. Army was sluggish in the first half but came back after the intermission full Of fire and fight. Navy too, had punch left and with the game on its last legs came back to score . touchdown through = for. ward pass thrown by Lloyd to Sloane nearly half the length Of the field. Sloane caught the ball as he slid over the goal. The game was q triumph for Cap tain Wilson, who is leaving Army football for Army life. The Army leader, long star at West Point. scored the first Army touchdown as a single-handed performance. carry ing the ball six times for q march Of 46 wards, ending over tile goal lire. He carried the ball across for the second touchdown on a short buck after Kcener eagle intercepted al pass by Lloyd and raced SO yards to- Nays four.yard line. First Period Navy gained on the first exchange OF kicks. After receiving the kick oft, Army could not advance and Murrell punted to Navy’s 35-yard line. Navy used a quick kick in | punting back and grounded the ball ! on Army’s five-yard lire. Murrell had to kick right out ID Lloyd ran out of bounds on Army’s 42-yard line. The Middies gained 80 yards on the exchange of kicks and imme. diately launched q rushing attack. Navy plunged to q first Gown on Army’s 29-yard line, then made an other to the 19-yard marker. Cliff ton picked up eight more and then made it first down on the five-yard | line. Army stopped Clifton before | he could start and NAVY was set | back 10 yards for holding. Lloyd | and Ransford failed to gain on a double pass. Lloyd’s sweeping end run WAS spille. and when Clifton made only six yards through CEN ter, Army took the ball on its 10 yard line. Neither could gain an,’ another exchange Of kicks was made. Navy kicked again, the ball going out Of bounds on Army’s 27-yard line. Army failed to dent the Navy detense and Murrell kicked to mid field, where Ransford fumbled as he was tackled. A swarm Of Cadet players covered the ball on Navy’s aS-yard line as the first period ended scoreless. Second Period eagle passed to Murrell for . gain Of IS yards on the third play Of the second period, placing the ball on Nays 22-yard line. Twol line plays were unproductive and on the third eagle was blocked before + he could get . pass off. and tackled for . loss Of Is yards. MurrellI then kicked to Navy’s eight-yardl line. Lloyd returned the kick and eagle ran it back to Navy’s 35-yardl line. Wilson got five yards off tackle, but on the next play q poor pass stopped him without gain. Navy failed by inches to catch Cagle’sl pass and another incompletcd pass gave the ball to Navy on its oWnl SO-yard line. Clifton at once rushedl through center for IL yards and first down. Lloyd added four. Navy gSt : “break” when ! pass. Lloyd to Ramsford, was completed by way Of . partial block BY anI Army player. It placed the ball on Army’s 44-yard line. y Navy’s run ming game was stopped, however, md Lloyd kicked to eagle inside Army’s 10-yard line. Navy scored , : safety when Murrell’s kick against his own goal line was |, blocked and bounced out Of bounds h the end zone. The play was automatically . safety and gave the i Navy two points. Army put the ball in play on q free kick and Ramsford ran it to the Army’s 43. , yard lire. Lloyd tossed : pass to Ransford ! - -

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  Evening star, November 27, 1927, page 80

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  ARMY BEATS NAVY IN THRILLER, 14–⁠9 frills. that while almost timeworn, always are pleasing. One change today, though, was the taking OF both goal posts by the cadet corps instead of Just one, although the writer is not quite sure that was a change, BECAUSE last year in Chicago the game was q tie and neither eleven got II chance to do that. Sloane. who made Navy’s touch down, has to his credit one of the most remarkable catches Of a forward pass in the history of foot ball. Lloyd threw the bah from the 40-yard line and it WAS going direct for Sloane. who was turning alone on the Army one e-yard line to receive it. As he turned. Sloane slipped and fell, but as he struck the ground almost fiat on his back he reached out his arms, gathered in the ball and rolled over the goal line for the score. The k.ctonS were not very good. although ArmyS return of one was beautiful. 1t was perfectly placed by the Navy kicker for the Army TO gather its whole interference in front of Wilson aud he dashed up the field with four Army linesmen and three Army backs around him. 1t was ef feCtiVe rs well as beautiful too. because Navy did not down Wilson until after the middle Of the field had been passed. The game was productive of some good punting and some poor. which usually is true of all foot ball games. The charging and blocking also was excellent. although that is a part of the game that is more or less indefmite to the aVeraSe spectator It was an Army Navy game in all things. From the time the colorful crowd began TO gather. while the reg iments of Cadets and Midshipmen marched on the field and took their places in the stands, until the Army hugle and drum corps finally stood in front of the Navy side of the fed to sound taps, it was an afternoon of frillS and thrills. No spectator. no matter how far he or she may have come, unless it he some intensely partisan Navy adherent. should feel that the afternoon was not we’ll spent. y good game, we’ll played by machinelike teams, with spots of” exceptional individual brilliance. in colorful setting in Il wonderful athletic plant. formed n combination seldom found at n Foot ball game or elsewhere. Probably never found except at one of the an nual Army Navy struggles.

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  Douglas daily dispatch, November 27, 1927, page 5

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  ARMY DEFEATS NAVY, l4–⁠9, But MIDDIES OUTPLAY THEM DURING FIRST HALF OF GREAT CONTEST POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK, Nov. 26 Pj-Rallying from poor start, Army conquered the Navy today, IA to 9, under the indonlitable leadership of the blonde and battling cadet, Captain “Lighthorse” Harry Wilson, While colorful. wildly yelling crowd of 10000 looked on, Wilson pulled his wobbly team together between halves, came out to lead a charge that saw him twice across the Navy goal line and then stand fore most in the defense that checked the desperate and dangerous closing squirt of the sailors. Army’s victory over gallant Navy team that played superior football in all but the third period was a personal triumph for the veteran Wilson, playing his last year for the Army and his seventh against the Navy in a varsity career that began in 1921 at Penn Gate. 1t was Wilson who plunged in and tackled with his forwards as they put up stonewall defensive barrier in the first half, beaten back and once yielding a safety on a blocked kick, but also twice stopping the Navy at the threshhold’ of the goal line. Once the Middies we’re turned back with only five yards to go. But even more disheartening, in the second period, was the Navy thrust that was stopped by the Cadets only a foot short Of touchdown. It was Wilson who came trotting out in the second half to lead a thrust that turned the tide and clinched the game. Wilson. frequently dragged three or four tacklers along with him, as he reeled off 23 yards tc the goal line. With the winning spark thus ignited, “Red” eagle, fleet running mate of the Army captain, grabbed opportunity-in the form of an inter cepted sand raced 36 yards to the Nayy’s four yard mark. 1t took only two bucks by Wilson to put the bali over, and eagles toe added the extra point for the second time. 1t was just as well for the Army that they produced this third period scoring punch, for they had been out

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  Seward daily gateway, Alaska, November 28, 1927, page 1

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  ARMY SINKS NAVY GR|D|RON BATTLE BY SCORE 14 ID g CAPTAIN HARRY WILSON, SCORES TWO ToUcHDoWNs DURING THIRD PERIOD NEW YORK. Nov. 8. (H1--The sen- sational spurt in the th!rl period when Captain Harry Wilson scored two touchdowns enabled the Army to cen Quer the Navy II to ! before 76,o0o. The midshipmen came back to score on a touchdown n the final period but were stopped in another drive by the whistle. The thrilling exhibition of; football was played at the Polo grounds. With the score 2 .o } against them at the end of the firs- half the Army led by halfbacks Wilson and Cagle slashed thru the NavI defenses for two t,uchdowns in the third period. The Navy’s touchdnwH came ill the final minutes of the game when Lloyd threw long pass 10 Y’d Sloan who caught it while lying on his back be hind the goal line.

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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 96 since this game.