USC at Navy

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 22, 1950, page 45

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  Inspired Navy Eleven lis 27–⁠14 Winner Over Southern California Continued From Page BID 8-yard line and 1t looked as if the Tars were in for another rough afternoon. But at this point, Navy piled up the use running attack, forcing Quarterback Frank Clifford to go to the air. Clifford had no better luck here, either. finally lobbing a fourth-dow lateral wildly. The ball stopped bouncing on Navy’s 33 and it no longer belonged to the invaders. But use had another good shot at Navy’s goal almost Immediately when the Midshipmen missed first down by inches on their AZ and the Trojans took over. They quickly drove to first down on the IL, but a penalty for illegal use of hands set them back. Wild Passing Helps Navy. Still, if Clifford had been able to pass well enough, use easily could have scored. With the ball on Navy’s 81, Clifford threw four consecutiVe passes over the heads of open receivers in the end zone. At this point Southern CALIFORNIA; S diversified offense-a mixture of split and winged T, double and single wing and short punt formations-seemed to have Navy’s Sec, ondary in a dither. After the first two use thrusts had failed, Navy began to gather momentum. Very late in the open ing period Powers returned a punt Ia yards to Southern California S 33 and five plays later the Mid shipmen held a touchdown lead. Powers banging across from 6 yarGs out. The second touchdown followed a similar pattern. Powers carried a punt to his own 40 and Sundry broke lose for % yards. An off side penalty and plunge by Franco moved the ball to the Trojan’s IA, and, when the run ming game faltered, Zastrow rif1ed a pass to End Jim Baldinger, who was dropped inches from the goal. ZastroW promptly sneaked over and Drew added his second point to make it 14–⁠0. Apparently convinced his ball carriers couldn’t gain against the Navy line (USC rushed for only 73 YARDS Coach jeff Cravath experimented with passers., In the third period. Ed Demirjian was nominated to play quarterback and he did fairly well until he fumbled on a handoff and Guard Bill Steele recovered for Navy at midfeld. A 10-yard run by Powers and a long pass from Zastrow to End Larry TreadWell more than offset a 15-yard penalty and Navy picked up first down on the use 80. The Midshipmen continued to move until the 14-yard line. then Drew was rushed into the game. Standing 7 yards back, he kicked perfect field goal from difficult angle to make 1T ITO. | Demirjian was the goat few minutes later when he lateraled wildly and End John Gurski fell on the ball for Navy on the use 8. Stopped cold. Navy again asked

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, October 23, 1950, page 6 (results column)

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  GRID STARS OF WEEKEND Stars of Saturdays football games that produced the many upsets were: Bob Saztrow, Navy–Passed and ran Navy to a 27–⁠14 victory over Southern California, scoring two touchdoWnS. Charley Ortmann, Michigan = Passed for one touchdown, ran and passed to set up two others in 26-l3 win over Wisconsin. Bob Reynolds, Nebraska = Ran 10, 26 and AZ yards for touchdowns in 1910 victory over Penn State. Ernie Stockert, UCLA – Caught two touchdown passes in 21–⁠7 up set over Stanford. Dick Raklovits, Illinois – Made numerous long gains, scored two touchdowns in 20–⁠13 win ovel Washington. Bobby Robertson. Indiana = Dashed SO yards for touchdown ran up 1876 yards in 10 tries in lead. ing POT win over Notre Dame. Kyle Rote, Southern Methodist = Scored two touchdowns, set up an. other in 1921 victory over Rice.

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.

USC leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings, counting the one since this game.