Lehigh at Navy

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  The times, Washington [D.C.], October 28, 1900, page 8

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  WON BY LINE tBucK1ne. Annapolis Cadets Drscnt Lehigh I’m n We’ll Played Gnme. ANNAPOLIS. Md. Oct. 27-The Cadets defeated Lehigh here today by score OF Il TOO. 1t was fine played game through out. In the first half, Which lasted TWEEN ty minutes. Lehigh kicked Off After an exchange of punts. Land; right halfback OF the navy. broke through the line for a gain of fifteen yards. Hy hard line buck ing the middies brought the ball within five yards of their opponents goal line and pushed Adams over the line for a touchdown after eight minutes of play. Belknap failed at goal. The ball was then brought to the centre Of the field and Lehigh kicked off. The navy. by bucking the line, carried the pig skin down to Lehigh’s 10-yard line Lehigh braced up and held the middies for down, and then Long. the Cadets quarter back. kicked beautiful drop from the field. The half ended with the sphere in the possession OF the Cadets in the middle of the field. The navy kicked off in the second half. Lehigh tried to return the kick, but was blocked by BeIknap who fell on the ball on the visitors 40-yard line. Here Fowler made a twenty-five yard run. the longest of the game. The niddies found weak spot in the visitors line. and pumped 1t until the sphere was on the visitors 5-yard line, when Williams was pushed through the line for a touchdown, Belknap again failing at goal.

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Navy leads 15–⁠6–⁠1 in 22 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.