The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-29
LA w. Up to the Minute "a |
VXSA SPORTlNGNEWS6 SgH
| ZZsgS From Everywhere. Z1
IG0OO BY"cLuon
NAVY UNPREP AIRED ALL-MYTH TEAMS
Wilson Saw Its Weakness at
Football Game Saturday.
Whole "Middieo Eleven Could
Not Stop Western Player.
Ne COURT tAARvfAl
From Everywhere.

New York, Nov. 29.--The Army
football eleven, showing a better state
of preparedness than the Navy team,
triumphed over their Annapolis rivals
here Saturday, 1 4 to 0. Twice during
the sixty minutes battle between the
competing academies, the Soldiers
hurled 42-centimeter she'll in the
person OF Elmer Q. Oliphant through
the protective armor of the Sailors
battle ship and in the gray dusk of L
drizzling afternoon the Midshipmen
craft sank with every gun working
desperately, but futilelY, against the
superior equipment of the Army.
Although the MILDLY team fought
with unflinching courage from the
opening shot until the naval academy
pennant sank from sight, the struggle
availed it nothing against the over
whelming power of the Cadets attack.
The irresistible charges of Oliphant,
the former Purdue university star,
could not be stopped by the Sailors
and the West Pointers time and again
pierced the first and second lines
of defense until the Navy was eA-
hausted.
Wonderful Charges.
Had Oliphant been injured in the
opening minutes of the conflict the
midshipmen might have had a chance,
but the middle Western football bat
tering ram refused to heed the savage
tackling that scarcely halted his mad
rushes. Through the line and around
the ends he crashed or Sprlnted,
hurting off tackler after tackler until
the Middies found that it required the
entire eleven to stop him at times
Since it was not always possible to
concentrate the whole squad in his
flying path his gains constituted
about 70 per cent of the distance
covered by the Army charges.
President Wilson and $4,000 other
spectators watched the battle between
the rival arms of the service, for
getting in their enthusiasm the gray
mist and the occasional drizZle of rain
which married an otherwise parfe It
gridiron classic fought out in set
ting never surpassed in the history
of the Army-Navy football series.
The imprOViSed gridirOn was sur
rounded by permanent and temporary
stands, which housed for few hours
a distinguished host of government
army and navy officers, as Well as
prominent social leaders from most
every city in the Union.
Students in Bodies.
In the midst of the gaily colored
throng two spots of unusually brilliant
hueS stood out where the two pat
talions from the academies were quar-
tered in the side line stands FROM
these points of vantage the cadets and
middies hurled songs and cheers
across the field, led by the blare of the
rival institution bands
While the play was of the usual
hard character that marks the an
nuaI meeting of the two service elev-
ems, it was extremely clean through
out and the best of feeling prevailed
among the players. The warm, misty
atmosphere proved very trying upon
the members of both teams.
The victory of the soldiers was the
third consecutive one in many
years and put West Point in the lead
in the series, which began in 1890
Since that year twenty games have
been played between the two acade-
mics, including the game Saturday,
and the count stands ten games to
nine in favor of the cadets, with one
match-that of 1900 tie.