Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-12-05
ARMY DEFEATS NAVY
SOLDIERS SPRING SURPRISE OF
YEAR BY WINNING FROM
SAILORS.
ARE oUTcLAssED AT START
Cadets Change Style After First Peri
cd, Using Open Plays to Turn Tide
President Wilson Attends Game
in New York.

New York Dec. 2.-The president of
the United States and members of his
cabinet, together with $4,000 patriotic
Americans, surrounded the gridiron in
the Brush stadium on Saturday and
saw the West Point football eleven
furnish a stunning surprise by con-
quering the midshipmen from AnnapoF
lis by a score of % to 8.
From the standpoint of the specta-
tor, the game and its setting lost moth
ing of it's thrilling grip and interest as
a 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
eddy by the cadets opened up the play
to a far greater extent than the more
conservative line attack and runs OF
the middies.
In the opening quarter the two
elevens played the usual eastern
game, with the attack directed princi-
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 middies'
right guard, was called back to the
cadets 20-yard line, whence he kicked
a placement goal. In the second peri
cd he duplicated the feat, after Hodg-
son dropped one Of Nichols punts
and Gilchrist recovered.
The army got into action in this
4
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 a 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 25-
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.
Prichard hurled a forward pass. The
first two were uncompleted, but the
third shot squarely into the hands of
Merrillat, the army right end, who had
run across the middies' goal line, thus
West Point registered the first touch
down of the game, leaving the score at
the end of the first half to 6 in favor
of the soldiers, for McEwan failed to
kick the goal from touchdown.
The navy added another goal from
placement in the third period when
Nichols, by clever running back Of
Jouett's punt, placed the bali on the
armys 25-yard line Checked by the
soldiers defense, Brown scored his
third and last goal from placement
kicking from the 30-yard mark.
With the points nine all the cadets
opened another brilliant attack. Mer
rillat, with little or no interference,
ran from the army's 45-yard line to
the middies' one-yard mark before he
was tackled from the rear by Gilchrist.
Two line plunges, with Captain Hoge
carrying the ball, scored the second
touchdown, and McEwan kicked the
resultant goal, making the score, army
16; navy, 9.
Immediately following the opening
of the final period Captain Hoge
caught one of Nichols low punts on
the army's 45-yard line and ran un-
aided to the middies' 20-yard mark be-
fore Brown pulled him down.
On the next lineup Hoge tore
through the fast weakening sailors
line for eight yards. Again Pricharo
elected to try a forward pass and
again it was Merrillat who caught the
flying spheroid behind the navy goal
line for the third touchdown of the
game The ball was downed to the
extreme right of the goal posts and
the punt out was a failure. leaving the
final score: Army, %; Navy, 8.