The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-30
Attack Too Strong for An
napolis Football Team.
BUNKER STAR OF The GAME
-Four T ouchdowns to One With
the Final Score y to 8.

peSt 81 InrOn8 OF 1S,UOO-A LONE
Run Across the Goal Line by Each
SIDE With the AIiddies Using Yales
Famous Fake Interference Device
Soldier Only Two Points Ahead
1t End OF the First Half. hut Blank
Their Lighter Opponents In Second.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20. -Outweighed
thirteen pounds to the man ard outplayed
in every depart ment, the Naval Academy
eleven went down before the powerful
Army team frcm West PoiLt on Franklin
Field this Il ernoon, the fral score bein &
70 to 9. But the future Admirals were rot
disgraced. for they played with great pluck.
even when the result was a foregore con-
olusion and six of their regular players
had been compelled to retire in favor of
substitutes because of TEMPORARY injuries
In running the ball. Ia defensive tacti r.
In putt & and also ia point Of pkysioa
endurance, West Point showed to big ad-
vantage. Not an Army player was forced
70 leave the fray, though several Of them
were at different times in rather serious
trouble.
The West Poin, rush line held like a
stone battement all through the game
except upon ons occasion, when the Mid
shipmen cleverly executed Yaes famous
trick of opening up a hole through Viii h
Strassburg ger was hurled for run of sixty
1--WE yards and a touchdown, from which
the same player kicked a goal. This hap
pened ia the first half and. with a safety
touchdown made by Harvard's former
captain, Charley DAILY, who, in attempti x
to run buck a field goal trial, which fell a
couple Of yards short of the posts, was
forced over his own goal line, Increased
the Nsvys total 10 points
BUNKER STAR OF GAME
The Army. meanwhile, had made two
touchdowns one by Bunker on straight
line bucking and the other by Hackett
Who caught a punt and hustled back forty
yards over the line, but as Hackett failed
to heel down the punt-out for the first
goal trial and as Torney missed the second
the score was held down TO 10 points.
With Annapolis Only two points behind
therefore. when the second half Logan. the
Navy crowd felt tina, there wac still chance
to pull victory out of defeat, but the West
Point eleven soon demonstrated its su-
periority al d before the struggle was er ded
had scored twice more. Bunker ar d Hackett
going over the lire AZ DAILY kicking both
goals. The Navy was fairly Oh the run
a few momsi.ts before the final whistle
blew. as West Point was again merac il. z
the goal lie with a ferociouhLets Of attack
that swept all before IT,
Tho star Of the game was West PoiEt 4
right half back, Bunker. As he wore &c
leather helmet the great crowd Of rs ~,
spectators could not help d.stiL gliisiuh <
him because Of his long yellow hair NhcI
he vac Tot deshil. < into the Navy limo viii
irresisti bls pluf. GEES for big gain s. he was
draggii.g q comrade through holes or wac
laying oppoi eits low with tackles that were
deadly in effect
ii ere was hardly an instarce where
Bunker. when called upon to advance H..
ball, failed 10 do 30. Once he stun
landing on his head. The crow d thought
that his reck had teen dislocated, But
he got mp ard complail ed Of a wrerci &c
h &c which was 70 lin drarce to him fy.
minutes later. Bur ker had an able pair OF
r,nEing mates in Tor ey, tie former Cor,
rel man, az Hacke,t, who made plc,, y
~ ground al d played a s'rpi & steady game
On The defensive all the way through
QUARTER BACK pALY's BLrNpER
DAILY. who il probably tie headicst quar-
ter back in America to-day, made school
hoy builder VIXEN hc tried TO run lacA
me KICK tT0t fetulVtU III. SAFETY.
should have allowed the ball to roll ovel
The goal liz But this wac biz o, ly erIor
he ran the team with corsummi'e skill
,liQ some cod tacklLg alt ough lie failed
10 stop S'raseburGer in lis loLg run for q
touch down, ard purted well. But taklrs
Tho phenomenal form displayed at Harvard
or in the game year ago, which he Iiac
ideally won Sin gle handed for West Pom
with . long run and magnificent goa
from the field
West Points ends, Farnsworth ano
NcAndrew, were very fast but 80 wer'
hose Of the Navy, Whiting and Soule
II was about a stand Of between the w
teams in these positions, although DAILY
punted for his ends better than did Belk
nap. The Army'- tackles. Hammond anc
Graves. were powerful factors in attack
They we're used ternately in a tandem
formation, which the Army used exclusivel,
and which the Navy found TO be the hardes
was Pull Of puzzling variati tons, which mad
il Impossible for the Nays forwards
bucking up against the Army's heavy line
'obreak up thu PLAYS soon enough'o proven
spent the Afternoon in ripping up the An
napohs line until II was torn 10 ribbons.
soLpIERs' STRONG CENTRE TRIO
West Points centre trio was equal 10 a
emergencies, so much so that most Of Ia
Army's gains were made through the OF
posing guards and tackles. capt, foyers
who went into the game in suppose
crippled state. played the game throug
and finished like a lion. For the Nav
every man showed that he Possessed larg
quantities OF sand, the best work being don
~ Strassburger. Belknap, Whiting Soul
add Grady. Smith. the regular quartz
back, was injured toward the close OF th
frst half and though scarcely able to stant
ne would not cult until several NavG
Academy officers ordered him to go to III
side Nnes. His place was taken by McNa
who played q clean, pretty game, especial
in the way Of handling kicks.
The Navy's defence, from sCientif
point OF view, lacked skill, but the me
laced the terrific battering 10 which the
were constantly sub ected, without fnchin
ADD Il was 10 this remar kable exhibition {
pluck that West Points inability TO run up
larger score was due. In attack, the Nav
c',:rc 20 straight football. seldor, usin
Ire guards or tacl:les In the formation
behind the line, and bucking the line Wit
frequency that, in view Of The small gain
made the Navy crowd proud OF their repr,
sentatives.
There was fumbling by both teams an
each tried several trick plays, includin
the double and DELAYED passes, with fair su'
ce~s. There was no smuggling 20 speak q
and an absence Of III feeling that made n
game all the more ENJOYABLE,
NOT A VACANT SEAT
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