Navy vs. Army

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, December 1, 1946, page 1

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  CADETS NOSE OUT MIDDIES. 21–⁠18 BLANCHARD, DAVIS FINISH CAREERS MUNICIPAL STADIUM, Phila. delphia, Nov. 80 - @‘- Army. careening Cadets wound up their three-year run unbeaten today, but only by the squeaky margin oil three extra points, as the Navy picked itself off the floor from its worst season in history to battle the mightiest gridiron machine o1 generation to a standstill. The score was 81 to 10, and the only reason the impossible didn’t happen was because the monster and his play-mate”-Doc Blanch. ard and Glenn Davis-set off all their sizzling fireworks in the frs. halt, and the middle kicking toes couldn’t hit the bullseye. From the start Of the second half it was Nays ball game, as the up-to-now meek middies, maui ed. and manhandled in seven straight starts up to today, gave the Cadets the fight Of. their lives before they were able to come home with that bare three point edge. It was a. slashing, smashing battle these fiercely fighting future adnhirals put up--a fight that saw them dig in on Army’s five yatd line and still rolling when the clock ran out of time to put an end to what appeared the makings OF one of the most amazing upsets this game Of moleskin mayhem has ever seen. ! Jack Ray, the. Texan with the thread 4 needle toe, booted the point after each one Of these tai les and that did the trick. That was enough to put this third unbeaten season Of the black knights. on ice. a. string that saw the Army banners flying ever since they lost the 1913 Navy game, 13o. In that startling stretch, they piled up x victories in 20 trips to the post, with only their score less standoff with Notre Dame three weeks ago marring the run. But it never came closer to being broken than it was on this cripst sunshiny afternoon, and the faithfulAsone Of whom had paid ticket spectators as high as $50 apiece Tor the privilege Of sitting in on twill never forget it. Before lit started, there had been nothing to recommend this as a red-hot brawl, what with a Navy team that hadn’t won a game since it nosed out Villanova in its seaso opener and a 32-point underdog among the betting boys today. They drove 80 yards between Army’s. first and second touch downs for. one of their own, that put them behind only rs, with the second quarter started. Then they and dug and inched their way 70 yards more in the third period, and finally, capitalizing on a queer quarterbacking stunt by the usually ~errorless Arnold Tucker late in the third period, they click ed for IS yards in a hurry for their last marker early in the fourth. Their fierce front-line blocking, with center Dick Scott. q Commute man from. Highland Falls, N. Y, and Jim Darlington, a 198-pound block OF cement from Riverside, Conn, leading the attack, took charge Of Army’s rarely-bent front wall time after time. And in Reaves (Base) Baysinger, tail, slim Syracuse, N. Y, quarter back who never did any signal calling before the Notre Dame clash three weeks ago, and Bill Hawkins of Richmond, Va, fresh off the hospital list, they had the scoring punch. Base scored the first marker on a vineyard sneak through the line, and Hawkins hit the jackpot for the second one, from two yards out. . And for the final one, for which they got the opportunity when Tucker called for a fourth-down rush well in his own territory and Blanchard failed to make the dis lance they unfurled Bill Earl, a tiny 160-pound pitcher from Airing ton, Va Bill tossed a short one which. Leon Bramlett, the Navy captain from Clarksdale, Miss. caught in the end zone. After the first touchdown, Bob Van Summern’s place-kick wal blocked. Hawkins tried the other two but he was wide on one and had the other partly blocked.

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  Evening star, December 1, 1946, page 1

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  0utpIayed Army Lasts 10 Defeat Navy, Il 70 18 Middies Miss Seasons Biggest Upset by Yords In Huirbreudth Finish PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30.-In one of the most dramatic dis plays of spirit ever witnessed in football, an indomitable Navy team, beaten seven times in sue cession, outfought and outplayed the national championship West Point eleven today in Municipal Stadium, only to bow finally under heart breaking circumstances, 81 to Is. A capacity crowd of $4,000 spec tators, which included President Truman, watched in an electric atmosphere as the amazing Naval Academy forces matched the Mill tary Academy touchdown for touch down. Then they came to the verge of pulling one Of the great upsets of all time by having pos session of the ball on first down on Army’s 3-yard line with 30 seconds of play remaining. Try as they would, Navy couldn’t quite make it and on fourth down, with the ball resting on the 4-yard line, the big twin electric clocks wiped out the final II seconds before the Midshipmen could line up or before substitute, racing from the bench to stop play at the expense of a 5-yard penalty, could locate an official. Thousands Leave Stands. Thousands In the huge crowd poured down from the stands In the final minutes and formed q human fence around the field.

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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 79 since this game.