The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-12-12
ARMY WINS GAME.
SERVICE ELEvENS ENGAGE IN
DESPERATE BATTLE RESULT
ING IN SCORE OF 22-9.
FORWARD PASSES Is FACTOR
West Pointers by Open Field Play at
Critical Points Accumulate Win
nlnq Total-Presldent Wilson Sees
Game In New York.

tame IN new foTk.
New York, Dec. with the presi- |
dent of the United States and mem
bers of his cabinet, together with Az
600 patriotic Americans, surrounding
the gridiron In the Brush stadium, the
West Point football eleven furnished
a stunning surprise by conquering the
midshipmen from Annapolis by a score
Of % to 9.
Spectators Get Thrill.
From the standpoint of the specta-
tor, the game and it's setting lost moth
ing of its thrilling grip and interest as
result, and the $4,000 persons pres
ent gasped and cheered by turns at the
kaleidoscope playing scenes depicted.
The uses OF the forward pass repeat
edly by the cadets opened up the play
to far greater extent than the more
conservative line attack and runs or
the middies, thus-furnishing the spec
tators with many brilliant football pic
lures and the army vehicle OF VIC
tory 1t was in the execution OF this
play that the army advantage lay ana
the final score demonstrates how sue
cessfully it was worked.
In the opening quarter the two
elevens played the usual eastern
game, with the attack directed princl-
pally at the line and outside tackle. At
this period the advantage lay entirely
] with the middies, who used their
weight and speed for consistent gains.
Near their own goal line the army
held firmly and Brown, the middles
! right guard, was called back to the
cadets 20-yard line, whence he kicked
a placement goal. In the second perl
cd he duplicated the feat, after Hodg-
son dropped one of Nichols punts
and Gilchrist recovered.
Army Scores Touchdown.
The army got into action in this
quarter also, and sent the score see
saving with a field goal and touch
down. Early in the period the soldiers
gained the ball on the navy's ten-yard
line as a result of blocked punt from
Nichols toe. The West Point backs
could make no impression on the navy
line. and Woodruff, who replaced
Jouett for the occasion, kicked an easy
goal from placement On the navy's 20
yard line. Just before the quarter
ended Prichard caught one OF Mich
oils high punts at midfield and raced
Is Yards toward the middies' goal be-
fore he was downed.
Three times in succession, then
2 Prichard hurled forward pass. The
: first two were uncompleted, but the
r third shot squarely into the hands oil
S Merrillat, the army right end, who hao
: run across the middies' goal line, thus
West Point registered the first touch
S down of the game, leaving the score al
q the end of the first half to in favor
e of the soldiers, for McEwan failed te
y kick the goal from touchdown.
The navy added another goal from
placement in the third period wheI
: Nichols. by clever running back o
Jouetts punt, placed the ball on tn'
s army's 25-yard line. Checked by tn
soldiers defense, Brown scored hi
third and last goal from placement
kicking from the 30-yard mark.
Y Merrillat Proves Star.
I With the points nine all the cadet
q opened another brilliant attack. Mel
n rillat, with little or no interference
g ran from the army's 45-yard line Z
d the middies' one-yard mark before d
T. was tackled from the rear by Gilchris'
,e Two line plunges, with Captain Hog
CARRYING the ball, scored the secon
10 touchdown, and McEwan kicked tn
n resultant goal, making the score, arm
g 16; navy, 9.
G. Immediately following the openin
i'd of the final period Captain Hog
caught one of Nichols low punts O
,e the army's 45-yard line and ran III
Of aided to the middies' 20-yard mark b'
n fore Brown pulled him down.
J" On the next lineup Hoge tor
!" through the fast-weakening sailors
y. line for eight yards. Again Prichar
Of elected to try a forward pass an
10 again II was Merrillat who caught tn
ID flying spheroid behind the navy gos
IS line for the third touchdown OF tn
n game. The ball was downed to tn
d. extreme right of the goal posts an
n. the punt out was a failure, leaving 10
final score: Army. %: navy. 9.