The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-02
KILLED FOR THE
LOVE OF ANOTHER
ARMY IS AGAIN
DOWNEO BY NAVY
POLICE FIND NEW MOTIVE FOR
WHOLESALE MURDERS OF A
PHILADELPHIA WOMAN.
$4,000 PEOPLE SEE SENSATIONAL
AND BRILLIANT FIGHT ON
FRANKLIN FIELD.
RESULT WAS IN DOUBT
Until the Very Last, So Close Was
the contest-Trick Play BY
Middies in the Last Half
Soldiers Undoing.

Soldiers Undoing.
y Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. I'm
IS game replete with br.lliancy, The A
s. napolis midshipmen, today ol Fran
n lin field, defeated the West Poir
II cadets in the annual football gan
4 by a score of 10 to 2 made by a go
Q from placement and a touchdown an
Il q goal
, 1t was the fifth victory for the mi,
2 hpmen in the history of football cor
d tests between the two fighting brancf
: es Of the government and the secoY
time the cadets had failed to eros
the navy's goal line
Probably not in the history of thu
TWO institutions has there been a more
spectacular game than that witch 10
| day electrified 25,jO0 spectators. and
surely none was more uncertain as
to the final outcome until the line.
mans whistle put an end 10 hostiI.
tiles
The climax was most remarkable.
For fully half an hour after the close
0 fthe contest, the spectators sat al
most motionless as the Annapolis lads.
de'Erious with joy marched around
Franklin field waving flags. casting
hats, canes. miniature megapbonns
and nearly everything ;ney could lay
their hands on .ato the air. It was
slight long to be remembered by those
who TStnessed the game.
Navy Worried in First.
The contests was fierce from be. /
to end Yet there was no /
unnecessary roughness. the. NAVY I
boys handicapped by the stiff winds
IN The opening half played with re-
markable fierceaess Nearly the en-.
'ire first half they We're forced to the
utmost . prevent the West Pointers
nearing the goal Time and again
hey were driven back 10 within
lew feet Of their goal, but there the I,
me was held and Douglas brought the
'all out of immediate danger.
For the frs thirty yards, the Navy /
vas on the defensive but when The ,
econd half opened there was an on. Y
irely different proposition. West
'oint was pushed back foot by f-ot i
ard by yard until the Navy had fbe !
all within gtrtking distance of the $
rmys goal Beavers, for West Point c
cnt a high SPIRAL from his ten yari s.
ark 70 Spencer on the Navy's forty Ii
ard line Spencer heeled and made 81
clean catch emitting the Navy to CT
free kick. W
The ball within ten yards of tho ST
re a. remarkably difficult anglo
oiiheFoft was called upon 10 mako "
e attempt for score. Scarcely \ nj
uld could be heard in either stand 70
the Zig right tackle calmly directed th
'iion how 70 hold the ball. Win r,
g ey" riveied upon the goal posts Of
d another on the ball. Northcroft ca
We the p's. kin a terrible boost ami tn
went straight as an arrow between
pos S. -
ne spirits cf the West Point lads
re c1rrespondingly depressed
Trick Play sturs Army.
scarcely had the jubilation of the
napolis rooters ceased when there
cause for another explo. ion of
talic joy. The Navy had. on the
hanges of punts, worked the BAN
i into the Armys territory. With
hird down and four yards 10 gain 70
ION dropped back as though to try
goal from field. He had done this
g or twice during The half ami
81 20 Mt APPARENTLY was not antici
ng the play that was 10 deveIoo
'am. full back had drawn close TO r
lire. ostensibly to protect the pres
.er But the instant SlghIuf me
)ped the ball Ingram was off like to"i
lot He frashed Norton a beauti. Gris
onward pass and dashed away for ate
Armys goal One West Point Wcu
go within striking distance. but -
vas warded off and a touch down red
the result. was
Ie cadets joined in the spirit of had
Try gold naturedly The two ele. was
were evenly matched. but the
failed TO take advantage Of the d. -,
10 such an aprec c'able extent in d
pening half az did the Navy o'7'g
n in the closing period. 'ie
Social Side Was Brilliant.
p social side OF the match alwavs
AT feature Of the occasion. was
rliliant as the game itself al "a
u the aesence Of the president or
nited States and secretary oil Nhi
and the secretary Of the navv hlnss
.egreited. IT was the fr.t time l'''9-s
the Army and Navy game has @H'
played on Franklin field that an mana
were missing from the annual ili' y
IT, himse
Dite their absence # seemed as '' '
the capital 0f the nation had
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