The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-27
JACK ALTON'S TOE WINS GAME FOR NAVY Like Hero in Melodrama He
 Clinches the Victory TEAMS WE'LL MATCHED Neither Army Nor Navy Can Score a Touchdown and DaIton's Kicks
 Goal From Placement After
 Six Attempts
TEAMS WE'LL MATCHED
BY J. J. o'NEuL

BY J. J. O'NEILL Philadelphia, November 26-(Spe- cial. )-F'rom time beyond memory the name of Jack Dalton has been asso- ciated with heroism. In the most lutefd of meodramas the man who rescued the girl, who stopped the buzzsaw, who dved in front of the Empire State | express, has always been named Jack Dalton. He has invariably been the fictitious handsome man, the supersti- tious city chap, the real hero. | Today on Franklin Field in foot ball game between the Army and Navy, 2s,OOO spectators saw genuine Jack Dalton make good, and thereby justify all the forgotten playwrights and bring undying glory to the name. John Patrick Dalton. midshipman of 1 Broken Bow, Neb red headed, six feet and something tall and left halfback of the Navy team. kicked goal from the field and enabled the Navy to triumph over the Army by a score of | 8 to 0.
 | Therefore, let the Daltons, and es- pecially the Jack Daltons. hereafter be a heralded tribe. They have proved | themselves heroes.
 | For three periods of the game the | soldiers and sailors fought just as Yale and Harvard fought last week. Their supporters-this time uniformed and | more picturesque-ch eered and sung | in just the same way. It was do or die, just as it Is with the big down east college. Navy, like Harvard, was bet | ter technically, but could not score a touchdown. The Army. like Yale, | fought.
 Jack Dalton to the Rescue
 But then. into the gridiron drama came Jack Dalton. The Navy. big blue clad fellows, who outweighed their op- ponents, got the ball on the Army's so- yard line. They have megaphone an | nouncer over here and his next an nouncement of the play was: | Dalton, on fake kick formation, | goes through Army right wing for 1 yards, placing the ball on the Arny's l 24-yard line"
 | The midshipmen snapped out a cheer with Dalton" added to the end of it. | Rodes carried it three yards further. Aeain the mighty Jack was called upon A similar distance through the cadets left wing he progressed. And there the oval lay, IS yards away from the Army | goal. Preparing to Kick
 Sowell, the Navy quarterback, looked
 
 the coaches. He got it. Whatever it was. raised hand or a f1irted walking stick, 1t said Goal from field
 Many times previously the Navy had tried this play. So had the army Hope less, respecting each others strength, of carrying the ball over the line for a touchdown. each had long since decided that a kick was the only possible SCOT | ing means. e
 Sowell crouched low to receive the pa ss from Weems, his center. Jack Dalton | carefully scraped the grass from between the cleats of his shoes. Then there was a | Shrill vocal signal, a snap of the ball. Sowell put it down, pointed at the proper | angle, Jack Dalton swung his trusty right leg against it and over it went, very high above the goal crossbars, but just as certainly over 1t as the Moissant, De Lesseps, Grahame-Whi monoplanes went over the Statue of Liberty few | weeks ago.
 That was all, all of the Army-Navy | game. Thereafter when the ball went | iIto~the possession of the midshipmen they promptly punted away up the field | They did not want to swamp their friend | ly rivals from West Point (and probably couldn't anyhow), and so were quite con- tent just to win.
 | When the whistle blew ending hostilities everybody was satisfied that the wisest course had been pursued. The Navy had | triumphed, thanks to Jack Dalton's high ly educated feet, in a game where a field goal was the only thing that either side could possibly have scored. | Teams About Equal
 From the beginning it had been ap- parent that the Army. victors though they were over Yale, could not penetrate the Navy line. The blue-clothed warriors, particularly Browne at right guard. were | instantly upon any play to smother it. The black-sweatered cadets, especially Gillespie at right end, who deserves to rank almost with the mighty John Kill patrick of Yale, were likewise through on most every Annapolis endeavor. | What technical credit is to be bestowed must go to the Navy, for, chiefly with the Yale shift, they gained three first downs in the game as against not one of the Army. Dalton and Clay Ia left-footer, outkicked Dean and Searles. But 1t was not likely. that either side could have tallied a touchdown. l The lineup:
 | Annapolis Position West Point. Hamilton and
 Elmer. E................W Wood Merring and
 | Douglas. .....-...L. T....-....-...D Devore Wright. .............L. G............ .Hueston Weems. ms.--........-... .C.....-s Arnold Brown. -...--..-....R Weir l.oftin. ...........R. T.....--..-.... .Littlejohn