The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-11-30
CROWD OF FIVE THOUSAND
!. SEE AVIATORS GO DOWN IN
DEFEAT BEFORE SOLDIERS

Before a crowd Of five thousand
people the army football eleven made
| up from the Ohio state troops at
Camp Sheridan, defeated the Navy
Aeronautic Station team 60 In Max
ent Park yesterday afternoon. Be
yond the spectacular playing of Speed
and Gage for the Aeronautic Station,
and Mcmahon and Fries for the visi-
tors the game was without high
lights, finally resolving itself into
q series of line plunges By the army,
and an effort of the navy to rally
and save the day.
Army won the toss up, choosing to
defend the west goal. Navy kicked
off, Mcmahon caught the ball. at
tempting right end run, but was
Watkms tried the same maneuver =
moment later, and met with less sue
cess, Navy taking the ball. Speed,
the resourceful general for the avia-
tors regained the lost territory in
one run, but the Navy lost the ball
on the next play on an intercepted
forward pass.
Palmer, quarterback for the Army
eleven, gained six yards, but the
follow-up play by Mcmahon was
broken before it could be carried
through. Lang made a spectacular
interference at this point. Army
tried punt, but the pigskin landed
out Of bounds, and the net gain was
nil. By series of short runs, Army
ploughed up the field to within fif-
teen yards of the Navy goal, but lost
the ball to the aviators. Speed again
came to the rescue, leading the inva-
sion into enemy territory, where it
~e% l..
punt.
At this point the Army introduced
its only feature play, a play though
unusual yet of little value, hurdle
over the line. Several times the play
was resorted to, and while it always
worker, the gains were small. With
the quarter well back in the forma-
tion, he received the ball, the first
line clinching the opponents, when
the quarter "goes over the top of
the scrimmage. 1t didn't take the
aviators long to fathom the flights of
the quarterback, and render them in
effective.
Second Quarter.
With the opening Of the second
half the Army was we'll into the
Navy territory, and tried to make
quick work of the game by forward
pass, which though successfully exc
cuted brought small results. Wat
kins carried the spheriod yet nearer
the Navy goal, where he was stopped,
though not without the sacrifice of a
man by the aviators. Welch was sub
stituted for Sistengen at left half,
Sisengen for Joahansen, at fullback,
and Adams for Jones at right guard.
No sooner had the navy line been
rearran1ed than Mcmahon drove
through the defense for the army's
only touchdown. Fhiling to receive
the ball on the kickoff the visitors
forfeited the chance for kicking goal.
Play had hardly started again wf1en
the whistle blew for the close of the
halt.
Second Half.
Though making a tremendous eff
fort to rally and tie the score. the
/ Navy team was almost Immediately
placed on the defensive, at the open
ing of the second half.
The army resorted to the SLOW
gnaw1ng process against the REM
forced lines Of the locals, and after
series of short end runs, lost the
ball to the Navy at midfield- With
this came q brilliant but short often
sive by the Navy, Speed leading the
attack against an almost impregnable
line. Apparently the quarterback was
everywhere, right end, left end, back,
receiving excellent support from
Gage and Welch. With the opening
play, Navy's ball, Speed made a short.
gain around left end, duplicated mo-
ment later by Welch around right.
Speed then tried a forward mass,
Continued an Pace Threel