Vanderbilt at Navy

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  Evening capital, Annapolis, Md., October 14, 1907, page 1

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  NAVY Strikes A KNOT. MIDsHIPMEE HAVE TOUGH GAME ON CRIDIROH Vanderbilt Plays Tie Seofe-Iiigh Wafer MARI Of Southern Football. THE cOMMODORES GIVE THE ADMIRALS A LIVELY TUSSLE. The bigb-waier mark Of southern football Was exhibited here on Sat urday. when the team Of Vanderbilt | University, for several seas0ns cham / Di0ps u that section, were able 70 play . draw game with the midsbipmen, the score being - 9. The local team scored IN the first half after nine minutes 81 play. soon after the kickoff, which WAS executed ~ Vanderbilt. one ~ Douglass pBnts bounded ever C0sten’s head, sBd Dag0e, the swift end u the Sayy team, downed II on the VISITORS 10 yard line. This gaze an advantage 90 the DidsbipD1eD, which resulted IN a touchdown = little later. Jones. who played tie position ~ fDllback Tor the first time In big game, carrying the ball over. NOrtbcrOft kicked the goal. ~ tie second half, the Nayy team was Changed – some extent ~ sub stIEuti0Bs According 70 the regular policy u the Sayy coaches, and IL must be admitted that Vanderbilt had the better u tie half, as tie score shows. JB fart, during this half the visitors made the most con sisteBt gains made by. either team 4 interesting game, having a variety “ forward pass and quick kick plays, which several times nearly resulted ~ clear field for runner. Their touchdown vas made on a GBc- ~ executed triple pass, the last one being = tremendously long forward pass from j.. Blake 70 y. Blake. Tie play had been attempted several times ard had resulted IN . substantial gain ones before. but IT other times bad miscarTied. However, when six min utes ~ play remained, IL worried 10 perfection and Waugh Blake canned tire ball over for a touchdown. Boz Blake kicked the goal. II was the policy 81 the Savy team 20 kick whenever possible and tie punt % Douglass, the Navy captain, were ~ long IS those u y. Blake, who did tic fOOtwOrk for the visitors and were better placed. One Of these kicks which COsteD fnmbled, was recovered ~ Dague, the swift SaVy end, on EaBdeYbiIt’s Ze-yard line, and after gains by Douglass and Clay, jones carried the ball over, North croft kicking the goal. During tie remainder Of the half neither goal line Was IN danger. Vanderbilt scored its touchdown when six minutes Of play remained. The Navy had q chance to win victory just rs time was called, but LaDge narrowly miss ed fine try for a fcsd goal from al most the side line. In some ways the Nays friends are not sorry that the midsbfpmen had a close call. Tie team is thought 10 be very strong this season and IL Is felt that “A narrow escape from defeat will not be a bad thing to show them that there Is room for Improvement. 1t must also be said that the Navy team is somewhat crippled and several regulars could not start the game or were compelled to drop out. UHiversal commentator is given the Van derbiIt players for the clever and sportsmaBIike game which they put up. The line up;

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  The Washington times, District of Columbia, October 13, 1907, page 1

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  .anderbilt. Ties Navy By 6 to 6 Nashville Team Scores With Triple For ward Pass. ANNAPOLIS. I’D, Oct 1.-THE great game between the football teams OF the Naval Academy ana Vanderbilt UnIversity today ended with tie score. S to 6. but Il should really be considered a VIC tory for Vanderbilt, whicE. undismayCd BY a score against q In the first half. went in and lied n the second. after keeping the ball in the euemy’s terri tory for almost the whole [ me. II was a Rrelt game, and was played with the greatest spirit ant sportsman ship. AS a result, cOnteyts between The Navy and Vanderbilt are likely TO be on annual feature 4 the Navy can make It so. How Navy Scored. Navy scored its touchdown nine min utes after play began in the first half. One OF Douglass Ions punts got by COsten. and Dague was on it like flash, giving the Navy the ball within twenty yards Of its opponents goal line Gains by Douglass and Clay carried tho ball TO the 3-yard line. from which point Jones carried it over. Northcroft kicking to goal After the kick-oe~ the Navy played a punting game. Douglass doing the boot variations or The forward pass play. ono OF which, triple pass. looked danger GUS. but IL generally resulted IN the bail going 10 the NlGshipmen. ana Douglass would kick out OF danger. The half ended with no further score Vanderbilt went into the second half undismayed. ard kept the Navy tear on the defensive from the start. Triple Pass Succeeds. Craig and Morton were the principal ground gamers. and the visitors kept plugging away at their triple forward pass play whenever II looked promising. When only six minutes Of play remained this at last worked beautifully. V Blake getting long pass from B. Blake, and carrying the ball over the line: B. Blake tied the sccre by kicking the goal. Just as time was called at the end of the game, Navy held the ball on Van derbilts 4-yard line, and LANCE mar, rowly missed goal from the field in a desperate attempt to give victory to the Navy. I frarfp-

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, October 13, 1907, page 9

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  NAVY FIGHTSADRAW Vanderbilt Eleven Gives the Sailors a Hard Battle. sOUTHERNERS’ PLAY IS GOOD Hold on Future AdmiraIs and Score Near End of Second HRIf-MiddIes Held Upper Hand in First Part of Contest, but Weakened Toward the End of Second Half of Game. nscial 10 The Wnshinrton Herald Special 10 The Washington Herald. Annapolis, Oct. 12.-Navy and Wander bilt University gave one Of the finest exhibitions OF football ever seen on a local gridiron this afternoon, the game ending in draw, 6 TO s, each side scoring a touchdown and goal. Navy scored its touchdown after hard work within nine minutes after play OF the first half began. and although the Southerners had beeen fighting desperstely throughout, they did not succeed in saving themselves from defeat until near “ fifteen minutes OF the second period had expired. After carrying the ball inside Of Navy 30-yard line. where they were held for downs. they duplicated the performance shortly afterward. and on the third down. with yards to go. the forward pass was neatly executed by the Blake brothers. who played a star game for their team. V Blake receiving the ball on Navy’s 20-yard mark, and getting past Lange for the touchdown. B. Blake easily kicked goal. Annapolis had an advantage in the first half. but in the second the visitors played rattling fast game, and the Middies, apparently bewildered, could not stop the terrific onslaught Vanderbilt had triple crisscTOss and forward passes down to perfection. and they were worked sue cessfully on several occasions. On the whole, Vanderbilt slightly outplayed An napolis. Lineup and summary:

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Navy leads 3–⁠2–⁠2 in seven meetings, counting the six since this game.