Navy at Yale

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  Evening star, October 20, 1935, page 1

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  MIDSHIPMEN WIN HEARTS OF $4,000 Lose Foot Ball Game, but Please Yale Crowd With Songs and Drills. BY Lne Associated fIeSS. NEW HAVEN, Conn, October 10 Navy lost and won today-lost to Yale on the gridiron, to 6, but won the hearts of $4,000 fans with its cheers, songs and drills that made the game one of the most stirring spectacles seen at the bowl since pre-depression days. It was one round of cheers and applause after another for the blue clad middies from the time that they arrived at the station for their first invasion of New Haven until they left the bowl. The crowd, the largest to witness a took kindly also to Navy mascot-a solemn, bewhiSkered goat. Yale kept its mascot, handsome Dan, undercover, still reluctant to for give the dour-faced bulldog for permitting itself to be dognaped couple of years ago by a Harvard raiding party which released him only after subjecting him to the ignomnity of licking the feet of the statue Of John Harvard at Cambridge, Mass. The thousand or more middies, given a rousing cheer as they marched into the bowl, climaxed their off, gridiron activities during the half time intermission. Using variegated cardboard, they spelled out “old Eli” and then flashed the greeting Navy says, ahoy Yale” With these same cardboards the middies pieced together several pic lures, among them that of bucking goat and a scowling bulldog. They topped of their pictorial gymnastics by putting together the American flag. Thousands lined the streets to watch the middies march from the railroad station after a mass break fast there to the Yale campus, and later from the campus to the bowl. The midshipmen left for Annapolis on special trains soon after the game.

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, October 24, 1935, page 13

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  q Yale’s 7–⁠6 victory over Navy was made possible by perfect execution of 8 deceptive play off the short side, and poor tackling by three Navy men. Above is diagram showing how the play was good for 20 yards and 8 touchdown. AS Frank took the ball from center, after the team had lined up with the strong side to the right Capt. Kim Whitehead ran to his left as if to take the ball from Frank. However, he faked receiving the oval and continued running off left end. Al Hessberg, the brilliant sopho- more halfback, followed Whitehead to the left and, when Kim had ex- ecuted his fake, Al grabbed the ball and sped wide to the left. He elud- ed Robertshaw, Navy center, just over the scrimmage line, and then outran Pratt and Schmidt, Navy backs.

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Yale leads 5–⁠4–⁠1 in 10 meetings, counting the eight since this game.