Army at Yale

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 22, 1939, page 24

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  Yale Beats Army in Wild 20–⁠15 Contest Marked by Blocked Kicks, Intercepted Passes going over for three touchdowns each by different route. In each case, though. the stocky figure of Fred Burr, Yale’s senior quarterback, and the rangier form of Hovey Seymour, Yale’s sophomore backfield hope, stood out. It was Seymour’s punting that pushed Army back and eventually gave Yale the ball on the Cadet % from where Burr passed to Alan Bartholemy for the first touchdown and q 7–⁠6 half-time lead. Yale Piles Up Lead. In the third I’d another Bur, pass to Jim McLlelland gave Yale first down on the Cadet IL. Johnny Hatch apparently stopped that threat by intercepting another o1 Burr’s pitches, but on the first play Cape Burnam broke through tc block Hatch’s punt, Bill lilly re. covering for Yale on the Army 3 and Tom Lussen, taking the bal from Burr on an end-around, car ried over the second tally. In the final quarter it was Sey. mour who, starting wide around Army’s right end, cut back behind exceptional blocking to run SIS yards for the final Eli touchdown. After the first two, Howard Kaye had added the extra points. Army, stopped twice by pass in Perceptions and once by q barrage Of tosses for which there were NO receivers, didn’t get going again until the last few minutes of the last quarter. Then. on three short ground gains, two passes that COW cred SO yards and Q 26.yard gain on X6 =

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, October 23, 1939, page 12

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  NEXT STOP-MICHIGAN! Thus, with @ record of two wins and one loss, the Ellis prepared to face a mid-western team ranked among the highest in the nation. Even at this early time. Michigan was established the favorite and the Yale bulldog found itself cornered. It was pretty wild game the Ellis and the Army dished up for a huge crowd in the Yale bowl Saturday. When the excitement was over, the scoreboard said the blue had won, 20–⁠15. There wasn’t too much good football, but 1t was of Q type the crowd liked-wide-open stuf-and everybody, including Herbert Hoov- CT, Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin, Tom Dewey and other dignitaries went home happy. Hovey Seymour’s 55-yard run in the final quarter was the sparkling play of the day. He movered the dis tance behind perfect blocking. That touchdown gave Yale just enough points to win.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 21, 1939, page 8 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES The following are final grid scores of football games played on the nations grids this afternoon as received up to o’clock: University of Washington 2: Ore gon State 13. Carnegie O; New York U 6. Notre Dame IA; Navy ‘. Duquesne 2l; Pittsburgh 13. Princeton IA; Columbia ‘. Penn 2; Harvard 2. Yale 20; Army 15. Syracuse 6; Duke 33. North Carolina IA; Tulane IA, tie. Ohio State 8; Minnesota 20. Lafayette 0; Dartmouth IA. Holy Cross 20; Brown 0. Penn State 0; Cornell AT. North Carolina State 6; Detroit 21. Coast Guard Academy 6; Rens- Selaer Poly 12. Temple 0; Boston College 19. Georgetown 13; Bucknell T.

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.

Yale leads 22–⁠16–⁠8 in 46 meetings, counting the nine since this game.