Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-26
Cornhuskers Trim the Hawkeyes;
Procession Starts in Second Period;
Outopaik is Shining Star of Game
NAVY DEFEATED
BY ARMY ELEVEN
West Point Team Wins Annual
Battle From Annapolis
Midshipmen.
SCORE FIFTEEN TO SEVEN

The Army defeated the Navy today
by score of IS to 7. 1t was the
twenty-hrst meeting between the foot
ball teams of the two academies and
the record stands eleven to nine .
favor of the Army The Navy,
which appeared to be outclassed in
the opening OF the game, rallied
strongly i'll the last two periods and
had the Army on the defensive to re-
tain their lead in the last half
Secretary of the Navy .Joscphus
Daniels occupied field box below
the navy rooters. Secretary of War
Newton D. Baker sat on the opposite
side near the cadet rootcrs.
Army Scores First.
Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels occupied a field box below the
navy rooters. Secretary of War New
ton D. Baker sat on the opposite side
near the cadet rooters.
Oliphant caught the kickoff on his
own fve-yard line and carried it to the
Navy hve-yard line before he was
downed by Ingram. Two more plays
carried the ball over. Oliphant missed
the goal. Score: Army, 6; Navy, 0.
Oliphant kicked goal from field.
Score end first period: Army, 9;
Navy, 0.
The army added six more points
soon after the opening Of the second
period when Gerhardt shot forward
pass to Vidal, fifteen yards to the
goal line. Oliphant again failed to
kick the goal. The Navy line braced
and forward pass from Ingram to
Orr, who took Welchels place at
quarter, brought the ball to within
striking distance of the Army's goal.
Jackson failed to connect with another
forward pass on the Army's fifteen
yard line and Oliphant kicked the ball
back to mid-held. Score, end second
period: Army, Is; Navy, 0.
Navy Comes Back.
The midshipmen showed a won
derful reversal of form at the OPEN
ing of the third period and kept the
army on the defensive. Vidal kicked
off to Roberts, who caught the ball
on the Nays five-yard line and ran
it back twenty-five yards. A series
of brilliantly executed forward passes
interspersed with an exchange of
punts, brought the ball to the Army's
twenty-fve-yard line. Here Ingram
broke through and blocked Vidal's
attempt to punt on the Army's fifteen
yard line, snatching the ball and car
rying it across for the first Navy score
of the game. Reifel kicked the goal.
After an exchange of punts the
Armys goal was again endangered
when the cadets were penalized twen-
ty-hve yards for roughness. Score,
end third period: Army, IS; Navy, 7.
The final period opened with the
ball in the Army's possession on the
Nays thirty-hve-yarC line. Roberts
intercepted forward pass and ran
twenty yards to the forty-fve-yard
line. Roberts then punted to the
Army's five-yard line Vidal kicked
from behind his own goal line to
mid-tield. Roberts caught the ball
and on the next play made ter yards
through tackle. After an attempted
forward pass the Army was penalized
twenty yards and the ball was on
Army's hfteen-yard line when Oil
plant broke through for a forty yard
run, bringing the ball into the Navy
territory. An exchange of punts left
the ball on the Nays thirty-yard line.
Final score: Army, Is; Navy, I.
The lineup: