Duke at Navy
Saturday, October 19, 1929 Share
Navy beat Duke 45–13. It was their third meeting; after it, Navy led the series 3–0.
FinalHigh 63°F, low 39°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 20, 1929, page 1
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MILDLY OFFENS|VES /. RIP DUKE ASUNDER Navy Wins, 45 to 13, After Benched Regulars Get Into the Fray. BY the Associated Press. NNAPOLIS, Md, october 19.- “ Nays mighty MILDLY team used “A the Blue Devils of Duke Uni 4 \ versity today as stepping stone for a rew start toward foot ball honors, showing the Southerners under a As to IS score. The Blue Devils against the Navy revamped team which saw five regulars benched, and trotted off the field at the end of the first half on the long end of a Is to IL count. Then those benched regulars were put into the game and thereafter Duke backs could not make first down. Navy linemen broke through and nailed South ern backs for big losses, and then tore gaping holes in the Duke line through which CaStree, Kohlhas and Williams tore for long gains and five touchdowns The utter-fingers Of Buie. Blue Devil halfback, playing in the safety, were costly for Duke Three times he FUN bled in receiving kicks, to have Navy recover and march for a touchdown. Navy scored in the first period, after Spring. whose return OF puntS was a feature of the afternoon, took one and raced to the Duke 45-yard line. A pass and series of line plunges to the vineyard line resulted in Spring scoring on wide run around his own left end. Duke Takes Lead. Duke came back in the second period and took the lead with a touchdown at the end Of a 49-yard march. 1t started with long pass, Buie to Hyatt, taking the ball to Nays 3o-yard line and was completed when Beaver, from the 19-yard line, skirted left end for the tally and kicked goal. A few plays later Warren grabbed a pass from Springs hands and raced “a yards for another touchdown. Navy then put on the longest drive of the day, scoring at the end of 64-yard march when Kohlhas. substitute. plunged over. AS the third started. the regulars held the Blue Devils at bay while rip ping through for long gains and touch down after touchdown. KohlhaS, one of the men benched in the Navy shake up during the week. and williams furnished the highlights in the last half drives

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1929, page 5 (results column)
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GRID GAMES ON SATURDAY The following are scores of i’m portant football games played last Saturday afternoon in various parts of the states Uni versity of Washington 13; Washington State 20. Fordham ‘; Holy Cross O. Dartmouth 34, Columbia O. Georgia 19; North Carolina 12. Harvard 20; Army 20. Wittenburg 13; Hidelberg O.. Carnegie Tech o; Washington and Jefferson O. New York ‘; Penn State 0. Dickinson T; George Washing ton 6. Navy 45; Duke 13. Northwestern 14 Minnesota 26. Notre Dame 19; Wisconsin o. Ohio State 2; Michigan 0. Cornell 13; Princeton ‘. California 12; Pennsylvania 2. Yale IA; Brown 6. Utah 40; Colorado 0. Stanford 40; Oregon State ‘. Oregon 34; Idaho T. Southern California a GA; Occi- dental 0. Amherst 21; Hamilton 6.
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.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Navy 67% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Duke–Navy gameNavy leads 20–15–5 in 40 meetings, counting the 37 since this game.
| 2013 | Duke 35, Navy 7 | |
| 2010 | Duke 34, Navy 31 | |
| 2008 | Duke 41, Navy 31 | |
| 2007 | Navy 46, Duke 43 | |
| 2006 | Navy 38, Duke 13 | |
| 2005 | Navy 28, Duke 21 |
Around this game
Duke
- Next gameat VillanovaOct. 26, 1929
- SeasonDuke in 1929
- ProgramDuke history and records
Navy
- Next gameat PrincetonOct. 26, 1929
- SeasonNavy in 1929
- ProgramNavy history and records

