Mercer at Navy

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 6, 1935, page 33

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  NAVY’S AER|ALS SUBDUE MERCER All TouchdoWns Scored in 27.O Victory Are Made With Passes. A NNAPOLIS, Md, October S. n The Naval Academy foot ball ~ warriors took the pelts Of the 4 n Mercer Bears of Macon, Ca, 81 to 0 in the Thompson Stadium today. launching an aerial attack that drove over four touchdowns In the first half A crowd of 5000 spectators in the sun-drenched stadium saw the brilliantly garbed Georgians turn back the first Navy attack shortly after the game started by holding for downs on the 1-yard line. They repeated again in the fourth period by stopping q Navy advance on the 4-yard line. The Mercer players were in troubic soon after the kickoff, q 58-yard punt by Robert Antrim, Peru, Ind, Navy right half, putting them in q hole. After the surging MILDLY team, mixing passes with running plays, had been stopped in its first assault, the aerial attack really began. Standing on Mercer,s 39-yard mark, Newell Thomas, Kaufman, Tex, speedy Navy left half, tossed a 20-yard forward pass to Antrim. who dashed across the goal line. Irwin F. Fike, Normal. Ill. sophomore end. kicked the placement.

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Navy leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.