Army vs. Navy

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  Evening star, November 29, 1936, page 1

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  NAVY WINS, I TO 0, IN LAST 6 MINUTES Of THRILLING GAME Schmidt Goes Over From Three-Yard Line After interference Ruling. SULLIVAN, ARMY HALF, “GOAT” OF CLOSE FIGHT Midshipmen Strike Back Down field in Scoring Drive-Crowd Of 100000 Sees Battle. PHILADELPHIA, November 2S.- Through six wild minutes near the hnish of a spectacular gridiron struggle today, Navy struck swiftly to beat Army, Z to o, before a record Eastern foot ball throng of 102000-but 1t rode to victory on an out-and-out break An illegal pass interference, coming ing when it appeared the Midshipmen had been checked on the Army 20-yard line, gave them the ball at first down within yards OF goal. Then Sneed Schmidt, St Joseph, Mo-, lad, in three solid smashes at the Army line went across with less than minutes left for play. Bill Ingram, scion of family IA NOUS in Navy foot ball history, kicked the extra point. As Schmidt was the hero of the game, so was Henry Sullivan, Army halfback, from Mount Stirling, KY. the goat” For it was Sullivan who was held guilty of illegal interference on the 17-yard pass Ingram had in tended for Bob Antrim. But for the ruling against Army. the Navy might we’ll have been checked short of goal for it had been showed and shuntec all over the gridiron the greater part Of the game. But with the recovery on its 25-yarc line of tumble made by Army’s jim Craig, the Navy suddenly had swung back into the game to strike with binding swiftness and be aided by not one, but two pass interference rulings Claiming the ball when Schmidt recovered Craig’s tumble, Navy launched its only bona f1de thrust Of the day when Ingram faded back and whipped q short, hard pass toward Antrim Into the picture leaped Army’s big fullback, Jim Schwenck, who batteo the ball to the ground. On this play interference was ruled by Field Judge Z. E. Miller of Penn State and Navy given q first down on its s5-yard line. Again the Navy found the air was the road to Army territory when Schmidt threw pass to Antrim, who caught this heave for 15-yard gain and q second straight first down in midfield. Then, shifting tactics, Schmidt, In gram and Schmidt again pounded the center of the Army line for a first down on the 40. Ingram masterfully set up Navy’s next great thrust by skirting end for 8 yards. On second down he started as if to duplicate the run but, instead. stopped and heaved long aerial to Irwin Fike, an end, who grabbed the twisting oval and raced to the 20-yard stripe before he was brought to earth Sullivan’s Play Held Illegal. From the Army side reserves rushed into the fray in an attempt to stem the tide Of battle, but Ingram, on the next play, calmly picked out Antrim just short of Arny’s goal and sent the oval streaking toward his target. This time, instead of Schwenck rushing to bat it down, Sullivan leaped from his halfback position and groped for the ball. It bounded off the fingers of the two men-Antrim and Sullivan-into the air and eventually to the ground. Groans from the Navy side of the field echoed over the stadium as Ref cree c. M. Waters of Williams College started to bring the ball back to the Army 20, evidently regarding the play as an incomplete pass. But Field Judge Miller rushed in, called the pen atty and Navy had the golden opportunity to score its second victory In three years and fourteenth in the series Of 81 games. But those yards were nothing easy for Navy. Schmidt plunged into the Continued on Page B-6, Column -

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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 89 since this game.