The New York herald., 1921-11-27
CONROY- NAVY
Damp Notes of
a Damp Tussle

If the players were mud coated the
spectators were rain soaked; IL the play
ers fought gallantly the crowd stood its
ground. or rather held its seats just as
gallantly.
With SO much moisture around It was
only natural to expect it to be a Navy
day. The middies are the better per-
formers on the water, and there was
plenty of it on the Polo Ground grid
iron.
Unless you happened to be in the back
row, your umbrella might just as well
have been left at home. Nobody behind
you would let you use 1t except between
the halves. and by that time you were
so accustomed to the idea of Drawing the
hail and rain that you rather liked it.
When both the Army and Navy cadets
were barking their yells simultaneously
the combined roar sounded like the sue
cession of T. N. T. blasts.
The score was: Navy, z; Army. nearly
Z. More than one Navy supporter had
near-heart failure just before the close
of the game, when the West Pointers
yards of touchdown.
Navy cheered and jeered when the
Army mule SHE'D and baked as the pho
tographers aimed their cameras at him.
The Navy goat on the other hand looked
blase, as though tired of being made
goat of year after year.
The line of marching Army cadets
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game, and then some. They were headed
by band which was headed by the
mule.
Clyde King of the Navy, following the
touchdown, carefully wiped the mud off
his shoes with a towel before posing for
the kick for goal.
The naval cadets in the left field
bleachers all came armed with whisk-
brooms to sweep the Army remains off
the field after the battle Most of them,
however, In their exultation tossed the
brooms away when Conroy ploughed
through the Army line for the games
only touchdown.
Navy barely made its first down on
Army's yard line just before the touch
down The West Pointers were fighting
for the middies to take the ball the small
but necessary distance.
After the Navy had halted the Army
march only a few yards from their goal
they proceeded to try three plunges at
the line and almost lost the oval on the
last attempt through q tumble that
luckily was recovered. More than one
naval cadet crouching and nervous was
roofing hoarsely: why don't they punt
out of danger; why don't they puntT
In one respect at least the Navy was
outdone; 1t was outpunted all the way.
Army gained from ten to thirty yards on
every exchange.
With time out after every second
scrimmage the game needed more than
two and a half hours for completion.
1t was hammer and tongs football and
the players we're neither sparing them
selves nor their opponents at any stage.
The imitation of an army mule given
by two Navy cheer leaders with the cid
of an enveloping blanket did not make
a hit with the West Point cadets The
imitation accompanied the air OF Dom
key, Donkey, Donkeyv' sung to the
tune of "Tammany"
With the first half fast waning and
the Navy about thirty yards from the
Army goal II looked as though the Mid
dies might have tried a field goal on
the fourth down.
Navy, which was expected to rely
chiefly on It's battering ram attack and
the speed OF It's backs on end runs sur
prised everybody by trying a forward
pass on It's second play. II grounded, as
did every other pass during the game
but one The footing was too uncertain
for successful aerial attack.
BY the time the game had reached the
last period the uniform of DR.. Al
Sharpe, referee. white at the start, was
almost black. He was bespattered with
mud from his enrs down TO HIS heels.
Instead OF reaping the expected har-
vest the well known spectators for once
at least resped the well known lemon.
In the drenching rain few without
tickets ventured near the Polo Grounds
and the specs found no takers.
High School Results.
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