The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
ARMY And NAVY
FOOTBALL TEAMS
PLAY TIE GAME
Darkness Closed a Pretty Contest
With the Score Standing
at sc.
President Roosevelt One Of the
Attractions Of the Day at
Princeton.
By Publishers Press.

By Publishers Press.
Princeton, N. j., Dec. 2.-Battiing
against the strong West Point line,
which for the greater part of the game
lad proved invulnerable to all attack
and, within four minutes Of the call of
line in the early darkness, the navy
football team this afternoon finally
'ushed the ball over the army goal
inc, scoring touchdown from which
Norton kicked an easy goal, tteing the
score on the apparently victorious West
Point warriors.
With victory in sight; West Point
weakened at the critical moment and
her hitherto stonewall line was pierced
for gains which meant a touchdown.
Given her opportunity, by the action
OF Referee Wrightington, who gave the
ball to the navy on West Point s %
yard line, after foul tackle and off
side play by the army, the navy boys
took brace that was too much for the
tired soldiers and Douglass went over
the army line. There was no time for
West Point to retrieve herself and the
game was called on account of dark
ness with the score standing tie
West Point, 6; Annapolis, 6.
The last few moments of play in
which Annapolis scored were as excit.
ing as can be imagined Annapolis
had worked the ball to the army 30
yard line twice, only to be held for
downs and see the ball brought back
by West Point. The second time Smith
punted the ball in the navy's terri
tory. Howard ON the next play kicked
back. The ball rolled across the army's
goal line, where West Pointer downed
it, expecting an opportunity for free
kick. Referee Wrightington, however,
brought the ball out to the 25-yard line
because Of holding on the part of West
Point and of foul tackle, and gave it.
to the navy.
Annapolis at once resorted to the use
of tackle-back formation, which had
been used effectively against her in the
first half, and gained her distance, the
tandem gained another five yards, and
then Doherty tore off seven yards be-
tween West Point s left end and tackle.
Doherty and Smith made good plunges,
carrying the ball to the 3-yard line.
Then Douglass went over for the touch
down.
Navy hooters Jubilant.
The navy rooters went wild in their
10y at the sudden change in the for
tune of battle. When Norton dropped
pretty goal between the posts, thus
insuring the tie, the crowd in the west
stand gave vent to the widest kind of
cheering. An attempt was made to re-
new the game, but the darkness was
coming down on the field so rapidly
that it was decided, to call time, and
the game ended with the ball in the
possession Of the army team well within
it's own territory.
Aside from the interest centering in
this game, the last Of the big gridiron
struggles OF the year, the fact that
President Roosevelt, Secretary of State
Root, and Secretary of War Taft, with
! other prominent Washington officials,
J were in attendance, give great promi-
mence to the to the event.
: President Cheered.
President Roosevelt was the stellar
, attraction Of the contest, rather than
any Of the gridiron heroes, and when
, he made his appearance on the field and
, marched across the muddy battle
ground he was cheered to the echo. The
president and his party occupied seats
among the navy rooters during the first
half of the game. During the intermis-
sion Secretary Taft, escorted by de-
: tachment Of cadets, marched over from
: the army seats, where he had been sit
ting, to greet the president. The chief
: executive greeted the secretary and
. then, under the same escort and accom-
panied by several secret service men,
{ walked back across the field and took
seat among the cadets for the balance
!, of the contest. AS he stepped out on
the field, the president raised his hat
in response to the salute of the cadets
: who stood on either side of the pas
. sageway. AS he appeared on the field
: both West Point and Annapolis bands
: struck up the national anthem, and the
crowd cheered wildly, waving the flags
;, with which they had greeted the foot
IL ball heroes shortly before.
The march across the field was con
tinuous ovation and the president was
obliged to raise his hat time and again
When he approached the army bleach
iers, the cheers were doubled, and thu
le cadets rose in a body and waved thei
flags. The changes the president mad,
in his position on the opposite sides o.
lc the field, led to the suggestion that b,
a must be a hoodoo. When he sat in tn,
g navy seats West Point scored on tn,
es navy. After he had gone over to tn
al army stand, Annapolis took a brac
e end made her six points, which tied tn
i score.
n Game Was on Trial.
r. Another feature Of today's gam
y. which was Of unusual interest, was tn
.. fact that in way the game of football
Il was played on trial. The utterance
F. which President Roosevelt has made i
regard to the brutality in footbal
have done much toward arousing tn
present criticism of the game. The play
ers knew they were really on trial, an
NJ in this respect the contest was satisfat
tory, as it proved that the game ca
81 he played without unnecessary rough
O5 ness and with the absence of rowdyisn
in In only one instance was there an e.
a hibition of rowdyism which demande
on the attention of officials. Weeks, Yves
ed Point left guard, was the victim q
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