Colgate at Army

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  Evening capital and Maryland gazette, Annapolis, Md., October 20, 1913, page 1

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  DICKINSON BURIED UNDER SCORE 29 TO 0 Visitors Were Strong in First Half But We’re 0verpOwered in End. ARMY HAD A HARD TIME. Barely NOsed 0ut Colgate Eleven St. Johns SmOthered by F. and M. IS Too After being played almost to standstil in the first half of Satur. days game with Dickinson College being able to score but once, and that largely the result of a favorable break in luck, the midshipmen went into the last half an literally swept the visitors off their feet, piling up a total of z3 points. The final score was Navy. %. Dickinson, 0. Though outweighed by tie middies, Dickin presented a somewhat heavier team than was expected, and while the backfeld was quite fast, they could make no real impression on the heavy line, nor were they able tC gain much around the ends. They stood the pace we’ll in the first half but the heavy charges of the Navy line set telling pace, and one that the Dickinson lads could not with stand as the game wore on. At no stage of the battle did the visitors endangtr the locals goal line, but there was one man in the Dickinson lineup who proved a real terror for the sailor lads to stop. This was Dunn, at fullback. Indeed his individual work stamped him as the star of the game. He bore the lions share of the VOL rk in the Dickinson attack. frequently getting through the Navy line for couple of yards or so, and besides he was bulwark of strength in Diekinson’s sec ondary defensive battery. The plucky fullback showed keen ness in diagnosing the Navy offensive play, and he was in the thick of practically every scrimmage. But the strain, however, proved too much for him, and toward the close of the third period he retired from the game, thoroughly fatigued, in favor of Dalton. His absence from the lineup soon made itself evident, for the middies were able to tear through for great gains more readily than before. Except for an unfortunate tumble by Dickinson, which contrib uted to the middies first touchdown, there probably would not have been any scoring at all in the first half. The opening of the second half found the middies putting a little more ginger into their playing and by old-fashioned football they rushed the ball for a total of so yards, Mitch ell finally going over for touchdown. Leonard kicked goal. Three more points were added in the third period by Leonard drop-kicking for goal from the 35-yard line. In the last quarter the Navy coaches ran in a number of substitutes and by this time the visitors were apparently so worn out by the gruelling work that the middies’ pace did not lessen a bit. Two more touchdowns and cne of the resulting goals made UP the scoring for the period. The visitors got off two clever forward passes in this period for gains of 16 and 90 yards, but play was we’ll in their own zone at the time Though the mi1dies worked the ends oftener and with greater sue cess during the game than at any time this season, they are still far behind in the mastery of the forward pass. Their attempts along this line all proved fizzles. And, in spite of their strength in other respects, the middies would be up against re al danger if they found team that showed much aptitude ia the modern game

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  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, October 19, 1913, page 6

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  ARMY DEFEATS COLGATE 7 TO 6 West Point Team Noses Out victory in Last Minute Of Play. limited Press Leased wire Service i WEST PoINT. n Y, Oct. 49, The Army defeated Colgate today only in the last minute Of play and then rosed out a victory when Woodruff Picked goal The final score was to 4 Colgate scored in the second quarter when Robinson ran sixty.fve Yards for u touchdown. The Try for GOA vas missed IN the last minute OF play. Prichard broke away from the field for the Army and ran seventy-fve yards for touchdown Woodruff kicked the goal and the whistle blew

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Army leads 24–⁠5–⁠2 in 31 meetings, counting the 23 since this game.