Army vs. Navy

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  Evening star, December 2, 1934, page 8

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  NAVY IS VICTOR OVER ARMY, 50 Berries. Cutter and Dornin Star on Muddy Grid iron. tCOntlnueQ from F1rSC PaSe.D made-three by Navy and two by Army. A game in which four Of the five forward passes were intercepted, a game where open play had no chance at all in the greasy muck Of the water-SoaKed gridiron. For just before the game a black cloud shut out the sun and torrential d0wnpIur soaked both field and furS before the sun came out again. The Navy won her first Army game since 1921 through the combined brilliancy of Buzz” Berries, Bill Clark, Slade Cutter and her two crack ends, Bob Dornin and Bob Mandlekorn. The rest of the Navy team was in there delivering a full count, but these were the Navy leaders against a grim. scrapping Army team that could make but little headWay against band that had made up its mind to win “Spike” Webb Confident. “It’s a tough field, Spike” I said to Spike” Webb, the Navy trainer, just before action. Tough field or not we are going to win this one. - Spike” answered And one of his boxing champions. heavyweight Who has never lost bout, carried out Spikes” cocky prophecy.

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  , December 2, 1934

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  FRANKLIN FIELD. Phlladelphia. Dec. 1-P-The boom % Slade Cutters mud-encrustsd boot. like the crash OF q battle cruiser broadside. reared out the end OF Army’s 13-year football DONNA ton over Navy Saturday as 10000 hysterical. rsin-drenched partisanS howled at as great a battle as these great service rivals ever have staged. II was hy the measure o. that boot that the Sailors roCkated 10 3 to 0 triumph. first time Army has crumpled under their fire since 1921. Twice since then there was no decision. The greatest throng since the 1926 duel, roared through their discontinue as Gutter. a magnificent rirt tackle. smashed his shot home from the l9-ysrd line almost at the close OF the first period 70 restore the NAVY tradition OF field goal victories In the classic. e5tablished BY the great Jack Dalton and carried on BY Babe Brown. All the might though, Of the All

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, December 1, 1934, page 1

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  NAVY 5; ARMY . PHILADELPHIA, Dec. LA field goal was the margin of victory here today as the Navy beat the Army in the annual service foot ball classic, 3 to 0. The Annapolis team scored the kick late in the first quarter and thereafter man. aged to hold the desperate Cadet team scoreless. It was Nayy’s first victory over the West Point eleven in many years.

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  The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], December 3, 1934, page 1 (results column)

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  College Football Navy, 3; Army, 0. Washington, IA; Southern Cali fornia, Z. Holy Cross, 7; Boston College. 2. Western Maryland, 10; George town, O. Detroit, s; Washington State, O. Florida. IA: Stetson @. Duke, 80; North Carolina State, O.. Georgia, Z; Georgia Tech, 0. Southern Methodist, 10; Texas Christian, 0. Rice, 80; Baylor, 0. Tulane, 10; Louisiana State, II. Mississippi. Z; Mississippi State. 8. Florida A. and M. VS.. Howard, postponed. st. Augustine, 3; Shaw, 0. Morehouse, Is; Xavier New Or leans, 0.

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.

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 91 since this game.