The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-03
THE ARMY'S GAME.
West Pointers Have
Things All Their
Own Way.
MANY NOTABLES PRESENT.
Both Secretaries of War
and Navy Witness
Proceedings.
MANY NOTABLES PRESENT.

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 2.-The army |
whipped the navy on Franklin field to-
day in hard fought foot ball battle
by a score of II to 5. The result was
a surprise, not only because the West
Pointers won, but because they won by
such wide margin. The Annapolis
Cadets, before the game, were looked
upon as winners because of their good
work throughout the season.
The soldiers won because they played |
the better foot ball. They were mas
ters of the situation all through the |
game, except in the last four minutes
of the contest, when the "Middies," by |
mighty effort, managed to score a
touchdown.
The game was the most notable one
ever played here. Many army and ma
val officers were present. Secretaries
Root and Long received a great oya-
ton when they entered the grounds |
Secretary Root and party occupied a |
box on the army's side of the field, |
while Secretary Long watched the game |
from naval stand on the opposite |
side. Between the halves, Secretary
Long was escorted across the field and |,
graduated Secretary Root on the |
good work done by his boys" This in |
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NOTABLEs PRESENT.
The weather was beautiful, and the
scene was grand. Every seat was oc
cupied, and every aisle was damned |
with enthusiastic spectators. Over 81, |
600 persons saw the contest. Banked on !
the south stand We're the followers of
thu army and the air was thick with |
the black, gold and gray of West Point |
Their mascot, a donkey, bedecked in
the three colors, was constantly para
ded in front Of the stand, and caused
much merriment. There were major
generals, colonels lieutenant colonies,
captains and lieutenant5 and privates
scattered all through the crowd.
The north stand, where the navy had
its headquarters, was covered with the
colors cf the naval academy, blue and
old gold. Among those noticed in the
crowd were Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Allen, Rear Admirals O'Neill and
McNair, Fighting Capt. Bob Evans,
Col. Tenny of the marine corps, Lieut.. |
Sidney A. Stanton, who was with Rear
Admiral Sampson as flag lieutenant at
Santiago; Lieut.. Plunkett, Gov. Voor-
hees of New Jersey, and Mayor Ash
bridge of this city.
SOCIETY IN FORCE.
Society, too, turned out in full force
DUH dCduGlIlltS Ildu lIGlT DIdSS DdIuS
with them, and there was no end of
music during the contest. Soon after
play began, it was seen that the game
would be stubborn one. The repre-
sentatives of the army and navy had
not met in six years, and this had
much t. do with the fierceness of the
battle.
The soldiers made one touchdown in
the first half. They secured The ball on
downs on their own 43-yard line, and
by a fine exhibition of line bucking
gradually carried it to and over the
sailors goal line The 'Middies" could
not stop them, almost every attempt
netting from one to eight yards for the
soldiers.
THE SECOND HALF.
In the second half the West Point
team made two touchdowns by simply
pegging away at the Annapolis line,
carrying the ball each time more than
the length of the field. The soldiers sell
dom attempted an end play, because
they easily made their ground by solid
line plunging. Clark, for the soldiers,
did the best work, both at line buck
ing and whenever he was given the
ball for spin around the ends.
Annapolis only touchdown was in
the last few minutes of the game, and
was made after the hardest kind of
W n
The sailors got the ball on offside play
on the army's 25-yard line, and by
steady plunging carried it Is yards,
where they lost it on downs. The pig
skin, however, was Immediately re-
gained on off-side play and then the
"Middies" took it over the soldiers line
by good bucking.
The soldiers were almost wild over
their victory, and started in to cele-
brate. They paraded the streets and
wound ZIP at the Hotel Walton where
their heroes were staying, and opened
things up. The entire corps of cadets
and the whole naval battalion left to-
night for their respective academies.
| The lineup:
WEST POINT. ANNAPOLIS.
Smith (Capt). e ...........l e, Long, Read
Hopkins, g...............f. i g, Halligan
Boyers, r g.........,r &, Belknap Fremont
| Bunker Nelly, r t..r t, Nichols. Williams
Burnett, Zeal e....r e, Berrien, Weaver
| WeSSon, q b...........,....-.q b, OSterhauS
| Casad, h b..........l b. Fowler, Freyer
clark, b. .................r h b, Cannon
Rockwell, h b,.................r b, Land
Jackson, b........................f b, Wade
Score, West Point II, Annapolis 5;
| touchdowns, Rockwell 2, Jackson l, Ware
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