The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Beauty in Bright Raimlent
andKhaki, Gray and Blue
Witness Flashing Game
West Pointers Outplayed for ThreeQuarters Ralying
in Last Period and Coming Close to Tying
Score Until Midshipman Hamilton
Intercepts Crucial Pass.
BY DANIEL.

pervading rain which poured persist
emily and malevolently from sites OF
battleship gray and transformed the
Polo Grounds into an arena truly
fitted for naval man9uvres an embat-
tied football team from the Naval
Academy yesterday sent another mes
sage of glory ringing round the world.
From out Of the dismal shadows
which made the panorama Of pomp.
the huge amphitheatre. the frenzied
, players themselves-only q blot on
that sodden landscape in the lee Of
Coogan's Bluff-a great eleven from
Annapolis, for the third year in Sue
cession, sent the word swapping over
the seven seas that the Navy had de-
feated the fighting old Army. And
again, as in 1920. the margin Of SUI
periority was a touchdown--the score,
to 0.
To naval stations at Guantanamo,
Guam, Manila, to cruisers riding In
dolently on the ground swells Of waters
in the exotic Orient, to sun baked
army posts wherever the Stars and
ST ipes float. to men who just had
heard the reveille and to men who
lust had fired the sunset gun. cracked
the message out Of the ether that to
the midshipmen from Annapolis had
zone a twelfth triumph in the famous
service classic.
To Navy men went the gladstone tii'
inss that remarkable Navy eleven had
exceeded itself In the ooze. For the
disappointed land forces there was the
consoling truth that game company
from West Point mad outdone- itself
had gone down fghting hard before a
foe of undoubted superiority.
Bnrchet and Conroy Star.
II was glitterinT march Of ffty-six
wards, studded with, runny gems b.
steve Barchet and Vincent Conroy, and
clirnaxed with smashing Berserker ef-
fort by the latter which gave to the
Navy it's precious touchdown just as the
first half was ending. 1t was Clyde
King--the very King whose two field
goals started the Annapolis eleven on
its victorious course in 1e1g-who
kicked the goal and sent a great big
'7" mastheading Cor tho Eavy-there to
stay.
A twenty-five yard run around the
Army's right by Barchet started the
Navy on It's parade of power. A great
dash for ten yards by Conroy--a few
short gains by Barchet damaging
penalty against the Army, then the ca-
fnactic crash by Conroy into the Army
centre--and Conroy was over the vail
antly defended goal line Of the battlers
from the plains on the Hudson.
With its back to the wall-baffied at
every turn, hurled back with surprising
yiror. alertness and physical determina-
zion when 1t threatened most-the Army
was in dire straits throughout the Sec
ond half. Up and down they struggled
now one running the ball. now the
Understanding struggling, fighting SUI
perbly. snarling, striking with every ele-
ment In their systems of strategy.
Then the Army Rises!
And then, as the battle was drawing
TO it's denouement-as the shadowy
forms hardly could be distinguished from
each other and the chill damp seeped
10 ones very bones. there was West
Point uprising. Just as the supporters
of the Army, ever beseeching, appeared
ready to give up hope. the cadets re-
ceived punt, put the ball into play at
mdneld, and initiated series OF de-
velopmcnts which made the onlookers
forget the chill. the rain, the dark
Army men saw q West Point eleven
which only a few minutes before had
appeared absolutely defeated crash and
crash. with Walter French dazzling In
the van, until II was only eight yards
from touchdown and a probable tie.
The bold, defiant, entreating Flight
Fight Fight time honored inspiring,
stirring battle yell of the Army corps
echoed through the steel rafters of tho
stadium, rolled across the Harlem and
went bounding back to the rocks OF
Coogan's Biuff. French had run 30
Yards around the Annapolis left. French
had dashed 10 yards more--and now
an insistent Army eleven was ham
mering at the Navy's last line of de-
fence. Only eight yards more and the
second tie In Army Navy football his
tory. stretching over thirty-one years.
would be accomplished.
French Halted at Last stand.
But those eight yards might Just as
well have been 100. The Navy had won
that touchdown through giving It's ut
most. II had earned that score dearly
and It was prepared TO defend II IL 10
had to go down senseless. II had been
n terrific fight.
Eight yards TO go. and now French
hammered once more. AS he went
crashing with determined Interference
an even more determined Navy host
tore in like eleven enraged bulls
The Army line was bent back. then
pierced as Ave Annapolis stalwarts fell
on French like n ton Of concrete.
French made no gain that time. Hc
lost seven yards.
Tho Army. more desperate than ever,
brought out it's forward pass--wcapon
OF last resort Into the murk went the
soggy leather--and into the leather went
Hamilton Of the Navy. The n,idshipman
seized that ball as II II were the pre-
cious Kohinoor-the Hone diamond IT,
self. It's pass intercepted, time short
and the Navy In the ascendant as ~
had not been that day. the Army was
beaten. 1t was stunning blow.
One Of Toughest Contests.
When the final whistle blow and the
Navy men gave their scrappy ante gon-
lists the cheer which tells Of a victorious
eleven's admiration for a beaten foe. the
service teams looked back on one Of tho
Tn1ost terrific battles Of the twenty-four
ought by the Cadets and Midshiprnen.
They realized that they had been In q
strugEie Of intense rivalry and undifnin-