Tufts at Army

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 17, 1907, page 13

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  ARMY DEFEATS TUFTS. ! EASY GAME FOR SOLDIERS. Vest Point Uses Many Substitutes, but Scores FreeLy. West Point Nov. 16--The Army had an easy tine with Tufts to-day and won by a score of y 70 Q. The soldiers made attempt to run up large score and made changes until finally their line was made up of substitutes. The visitors were never dangerous, and though the game up hill one, they were fighting gamely at the end Iuits worked the old fashioned double pass several times for good gains. and a trick play which teN sprung bewildered the soldiers for a short time Greble out-punted Hope, and the cadets gained on every exchange. Green. at quarter for Tufts played star game. and Smith also was a great factor in the visitors ground gaining until he was hurt. The Army’s first score came before the sound of the whistle had ceased 10 echo. Besson mailing a tumble on Tufts’s 35-yard mark made fifteen be- Into the line FOR five yards 4 time and Surles scored the first touchdown. but Weeks failed to Kick the goal \ poor pass gave the Army the ball ana another chance to Tufts’s 15-yard mark Grable going over and Weeks kicking the goal as the frs half ended. Mountrrrd started the scoring IN the second half with pretty drop Kick from the 25-yard line. y tumble save the Army the bali in midheld and Il forward pass, nicely executed by Greble to Kern, made it first down Tuftss 25-yard line From here ChamberIn and Smith tore through for s. yard s;ins and Chamberlin scored, Weeks kicking the goal. \ tumble end or the second half lost the Army the ball Tufs’s 1-yard mark after they had carried il forty yards. When time was called the Army had the ball the visitors 6-yard mark The lineup and summary follow

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  The Washington herald, District of Columbia, November 17, 1907, page 1

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  The Lineup. ARMY OUTCLASSES TUFTS. West Point scores 81, While On pOnents Fail TO Cross Line West Point, y. Y, Nov. l6.-In rather one-sided game. the cadets defeated Tufts here to-day by a score Of n 10 O. The visitors fought a pluc6y fight. but were unable 20 face the fierce attack Of the cadets. nor were they able TO penetrate the Army line. They made several good gains through trick plays. and worked the double pass to advantage but only tried the forward pass once. and this effort went 10 the bad. The visitors fumbled badly. and this fault alone gave the cadets the ball on dan gerOus ground several times Near the end Of the last half the soldiers had a costly tumble. which gave Tufts the ball on their 1-yard line. when one plunge would have carried the cadets over for q touchdown

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