Tufts at Army

• 

  The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., September 30, 1906, page 32

  Read the text

  west POINT VICTOR ]: OVER TUFTS COLLEGE Forward Pass Was Not Success. full When Used by : =: Cadets. j.; Special to The Journal. Special to The Journal. .s~[s T.. West Point, n Y. Sept. 2e.-1n the hrst football Of the season the cadets deteated the Tufts team by a score Of II to 0. The cadets made three touch down, but the last. was not allowed on account of an error of the timekeeper, extending the half. West Points sec ond touchdown was the result of misunderstanding Of a rule by Tufts The cadets style of play was principally end runs. with Beavers circling for long gains. The forward pass was tried once. The pass being short the ball hot the ground and went to the OPP ponents-. The only trick play that appeared to be of use was the short kick, which usually resulted in short gains. is+.1 y y The general opinion here is in favor Of the more open play, and comment was made on the few men injured.

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.

Army leads 19–⁠0 in 19 meetings, counting the eight since this game.