Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-29
ARMY TRIuMPHs OVER NAVY.
Cadets Score Touchdowns-44,o 900
 Witnessed the Game.

The Army football eleven, showing better state of preparedness than Annapolis rivals at New York Satur- day by a score of 14 to o. Twice dur ing the SO minute battle between the competing academies the soldiers hurled a 42-centimeter shell, in the person of Elmer Q. Oliphant, through the protective arnor of the sailors battleship and in the gray dusk of a drizzling afternoon the midshipmen craft sank with every gun working desperately but futilely against the superior equipment of the Army. Although the Middy 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 at tack. Time and again the West Point CTS pierced the first and second lines of defense, until the Navy was ex | hausted by its efforts to hold the Sol diers in check.
 Had OIiphant been wounded in the ! opening minutes of the conflict, the midshipmen might have had chance, but the football battering ram from the middle west refused to heed the savage tackling that halted his mad rushes. Through the line and around | the ends he crashed or sprinted, hurl- ! ing 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 i 70 per cent. of the distance covered | by the Army charges.
 | President Wilson and some 44,000 | other spectators watched the battle. | forgetting in their enthusiasm, the l clamny. gray mist and the drizzle of l rain which marred an otherwise per- | feet gridiron classic. The improvised ! gridiron was surrounded by permanent | and temporary stands which housed. | for few hours, a distinguished host | of government, army and navy officers as well as prominent society represen- | tatives from almost every city in the | country. In the midst of the gaily ] colored throng two spots of unusually | brilliant hues stood out where the battalions from the academies were quartered in the side line stands. From | these points of vantage the cadets and the middies hurled songs and cheers across the field, led by the blare O1 the rival institutions bands.
 | The vocal uproar was both terrific and sustained. From the minute the | two elevens went into action the sound | waves rolled to midfield, where they
 crashed over the heads of the steam ing. struggling players, who fought or
 apparently oblivious of the tornado o1
 noise.
 The break of the game came almos
 immediately after the kickoff and il
 was the West Point team that profiteC
 thereby. Following the opening play
 there was an exchange of punts in
 terspersed with a few drives at the
 line, but neither team appeared tC
 have a marked advantage until Crais
 muffed a high twisting kick from tho
 toe of. the Army fullback, Coffin. Righ
 End NeyIand was following the bal
 and when Craig dropped the pigskin
 he dived through the mud and clutch
 ed the spheroid on the Navy's 10-yarC
 line. Coffin and Ford both hurled
 themselves into the middies' line, only l to be repulsed without gain. TheI Quarterback Gerhardt uncovered hi:
 masked battery and fired Oliphant into
 the Sailors left side of the scrimmagt
 line. The former Purdue universit!
 star ripped everything out of hi
 course and slid across the goal lint
 with three middies clinging to hi
 legs. To complete the task he kicked
 the goal and the Navy football craf
 began to founder.
 The lineup: