Army vs. Navy

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  Evening star, November 28, 1948, page 1

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  102,581 Watch Fighting Navy TieArmy, y,21-21 Underdog Middies Rally for Stunning Upset on Gridiron PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 27.-A gallant, never say die Navy team that lost 13 straight games since October 18 of last year, twice came from behind today to hold mighty Army to 21–⁠21 tie in one of the most stunning grid results of the year. Before President Truman and 102,58 wildly roaring spectators. Navy jumped to TO lead, lost 1t in the second period, tied it again in the third quarter and matched the Black Knights at 81 to 81 with a final touchdown in the last thrill ing stanza. Army, a three-touchdown favorite to win the 49th service classic and a fifth consecutive triumph over the Midshipmen, actually was outplayed during good part of the contest. 1t was the fourth tie in the long series which otherwise shows Army with rs victories and Navy with 10. Injured Fullback Stars. LII UO0dS l1CtC1 SOtSCAl classic, the plucky Navy warriors were led by their injured fullback, William Hawkins of Richmond, Va Hawkins, in pain and dog tired” led Navy to tie the score late in the final period and then, as the game was drawing to a close, battered down a forward pass to halt Army’s ~-;1 tho ,iv11nrHnO Middies of tie. There was enough glory for both sides at the end of the brulsing, dramatic battle. 1t left Army enthroned as cham pion of the East, its unbeaten rec ord still glittering, but for Navy 1t was the greatest sort of moral victory. 1t was a contest that will live in record books and memories with the 81 to Is classic in 1946 and the 21–⁠21 deadlock at Soldier Field. Chicago, in 1926, along with other history making service gridiron battles. 1t was a great day for George Sauer’s Navy Squad and for the most spirited and defiant brigade of Midshipmen to wear the blue OF Annapolis. They came marching into Munlcipal Stadium, 3,317 strong, and for three hours rocked the giant horse shoe with cheers for team which this year had lost successfully to California. Cornell, Duke, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Notre Dame, Michlgan, Columbia and, on occasion, to the Annapolis Piebes in practice sessions. Hurl TauntS to Army. The Midshipmen taunted the Army “rabble” on the opposite side of the field. They gave President Truman, Sec retary of State Marshall, Secretary of Defense Forrestal. Secretary OF Army Royal, Secretary OF Navy Sullivan and Secretary for Air Symington several hearty laughs. In an unprecedented formation, members of the Navy Band lined up as sideboys for their battered team as it came running from the dress ing room to the field, paying rare tribute to the only Navy team in history to finish a season without single victory NAVY scored its astonishing up set by outgaining the Nations No. l team on offense, rolling up net rushing yardage of 256 to Army’s 1877 and outpassing the Cadets, 83 yards to rs. The Midshipmen nm ished with 10 first downs to only IL for the Horde from the Hudson. Navy Jumps Into Lead. Less than seven minutes after the start, Navy’s audacious battlers held a TO lead following an 8S-yard march on the ground. An Army punt by Jim Rawers rolled dead on Nays 12-yard line. A scoring drive from this point seemed i’m probable, especially after Jim Green and Co-Capt Pete Williams picked up only five yards on pair of plays. But Hawkins touched off fresh spark of hope when he, playing fullback despite a painfully injured shoulder and arm, rammed to a first down on the 81. Green drove for six more yards and, at this point, Williams took lateral hand off from Quarterback Reaves, Bay singer, jr., and sprinted SO yards Navy’s longest gain of the season. to Army’s 13. Navy Is Inspired. Navy now was on fire. Green ground out two tough yards and Williams fought his way down to Army’s for first down. Baysinger, ON a quarterback sneak Continued on Page B-1, Column -

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  The globe-independent, Hagerstown, Md., December 2, 1948, page 12

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  FOOTBALL The Hagerstown Hubs wound up their season with the annual Thanks giving game against Waynesboro High School, and although they lost the game, they gave good account of themselves. As a matter of fact, the score would have been quite different if the boys had been able to work out a defense against Waynesboro’s end runs. The Waynesboro boys pulled this wide end run around the left side of Hagerstown’s line at least five or six times, and although the play was perfectly obvious each time it was started, our boys were unable to stop it. In my book, if Army had played the football schedule that Navy played, they certainly would never be one of the unbeaten teams, and in Saturdays game, which was fortunate enough to see over television, Navy was far the better team, and you can’t get over the fact that Army was unable to score one first down during the entire first quarter. Perhaps the best summation of that classic 21–⁠21 tie on Saturday afternoon was given by Jesse A. Linthicum, sports editor of the Bal timore Sun, who stated that it was a case of the Army, who had been running in claiming races all season, being suddenly stepped up in company into an allowance race, while the Navy, who had been in nothing else but allowance races, was suddenly dropped down into a claiming race. In the professional ranks, the Philadelphia Eagles have won the National Football League Cham pionship in the Eastern division, and they will play either the Chicago Bears or the Chicago Cardinals in the play-offs, while in the All-Amerlean Conference, the Cleveland Browns have won the Western division title and will play the win ners of next Saturdays game between Brooklyn and the Baltimore Colts, in their play-offs. The Maryland Terrapins, who started out the season in fine shape, never seemed to recover from the licking they took from North Carolima, and they wound up their 1913 season with another defeat on Saturday, when the West Virginia Mountaineers came from behind in the final quarter to win. However, with the reinforcements that Jim Tatum will get from the Plebes next year, it looks as if the University will have a much stronger team. Here’s hoping so, anyway.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 30, 1948, page 3

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  MICHIGAN TOP TEAM THIS YEAR Wolverines Nose Out Noire Dame ia Final Ballot of A. P. Sports Writers NEW YORK, Nov. 30-tB Nigh ty Michigan is collese footballs team of the year” As a climax to a series of daz- zling successes, the Wolverines he’d the No I place today in the As sooiated Press final rol ef sports writers and broadcasters. Trey beat out their old rival for national honors- Notre Dame-ill ballating that gave them 3,448 points to 3,325 for the Irish. In the final regular season poll of 1947 it was Notre, Dame on top with Michigan a close second This time, however, the unbeaten and united Wolverines received 192 1irst place votes of the 387 casting ballots while the Irish drew only 97. Notre Dame will try for it’s 22nd straieht victory and it’s 18th game without defeat Saturday against Southern California at Los An- geles. North Carolina, with only tie against it’s record, moved up to third pos ton in the final stand ings as Army, surprisingly tied 21- 21 by Navy, fell from No. 3 to No. 6. California held fourth and was followed. in order by Oklahoma, Army, Northwestern, Georgia, Ore gon and Southern Methodist. Michigan completed it’s second perfect season and retained it’s Western Conference Championship The teams achievement was a credit to Coach Ben Oosterbaan, who suc- ceeded Fritz Crisler when the latter stepped up to athletic director at the end of tho last campaign. Seven of the first ten will see ac- tion in pcst-season bowl games. North Carolina and Oklahoma clash in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans. California and Northwest ern are Rose Bowl foes at Pasadena Oregon and s MU will meet in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas. Geor- gia opposes Texas, which didn’t land in the first twenty, in the Or ange Bowl at Miami. The second 10 was composed ot Clemson, Vanderbilt. Tulane, Mich igan State, Mississippi, Minnesota William and Mary, Penn State, Cor nell and Wage Forest.

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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 77 since this game.