Arizona republican., 1915-11-28
Fortv-four Thousand See Army Win Twentieth Intel'-service Foot D all Game In New York Polo Grounds; Score 14-0
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Republican A. F. Leased WlreJ NEW YORK, Nov The Army football eleven, showing a better state of preparedness than the Navy team. triumphed over their Annap- olis rivals here today by a score of II, to o. Twice during the sixty minute battle between the Academies, the soldiers hurled a 42-centmeter shell in the person of Elmer Q. U-l- phant, through the protective armor of the sailors batleship and in the gray dusk of a drizzling afternoon the midshipmen craft sank with ev cry gun working. desperately but fu-' rlely against superior equipment ot the Army
 Although the Middy team fought with unflinching courage from the opening shot until the Naval Acad- cmy pennant sank from sight the struggle availed it nothing against -Ae overwhelming power of the Ca lets attack. The irresistible charges of 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 bent and exhausted by it's efforts to check defeat.
 Had OHphant been injured in the CpeninS minutes of the conflict, the AIdshipmen might have had a chance. but the middle western foot Iau battering ram refused to heed the savage tackling that scarcely halted his mad rushes. Through the line and around the ends he crashed or sprinted, hurling off tackler after tackler until the Middies found that it required the entire eleven to stop him at times. Since it was pot 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 some 44,000 other spectators watched the battle between the rival arms of the ser vice. forgetting in their enthusiasm the mist and occasional drizzle of rain which marred an otherwise per feet CridirOn classic fought out in a setting never surpassed in the history of the Army Navy football series The improvised gridiron was surrounded hy permanent and tenn porary stands. which housed for a few hours a distinguished host o1 government army and navy officers as well as prominent social leaders from most every city in the union In the midst of the gailv coloret throng. two spots of unusually bril- liant hues stood out where the two hattalons from the Academies were chartered in the side line stands From these points of vantage thu Cadets and the Middies hurled songs and cheers across the field led hy the blare of the rival institutions bands.
 The vocal uproar was terrific anC sustained T~ was not a momen of waiting on part of either tn soldiers or the sailors. From tn minute the two elevens went into ac tion, the sound waves rolled to mid field where they crashed over tn heads of the steaming, strugglinj players, who fought on apparently oh livious to the hurricane of noise
 The Break Comes Early
 The break in the game came al most immediately after the kickof and it was the West Point team tha lrofited After the opening pla there was an exchange of punts in terspersed with a few drives at -h line, but neither team appeared t