The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-26
ARMY BREAKS RUN OF VICTORIES FOR THEIR NAVY FOES.
Smythe Leads West Pointers to 17-14 Victory in We'll
 Fought Battle

Philadelphia, November 35.-Play- ing trus to their seasons form. the Army football eleven defeated their old rivals. the Navy, on Franklin
 field today hy the score of r to H. in hard. clean gridiron struggle,
 fThe score represented two touch downs and field goal for the Army and two touchdowns for the Navy, all of them hard earned. The Midship- men were not without honor i'll de- feat, for they played game that was worthy of any team that has come cut of Annapolis in years. En- ter.ng the game with the West Pint
 CTS as the favorite, the Annapolis crew fought their way to the front and only went under after bitter struggle.
 the star of the game. His running with the ball and his forward pass ing were surprisingly good.
 Barchet, sterling Navy star, played
 well while he was in the game, but Norris, his successor. was easily the outstanding figure of the Navy line
 up. He was used much In the last part of the game, and was in every play.
 55,0O0 Saw Game
 Fifty five thousand persons saw the contest. The President of the United States was represented by Vice President Coolidge. Secretary of War Weeks and General Pershing rooted for the Army, and Secretary of the Navy Denby and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt were among the Navy CO., horts
 Having defeated the Army In the
 last three years, 1t looked like an other naval victory in the first two
 periods. as the Midshipmen outplayed the Cadets. The West Pointers were unable to penetrate the Navy line ! while the Middies had no trouble In punching holes in the forward de- lenses of the Army. In the second period the Navy used It's aerial at
 sack, which resulted in the first score of sthe game, a touchdown by Mckee. A bad pass threw the Navy back for a big loss and tho Midship- men were forced to kick. Then
 Smythe made short run that put
 the ball within striking distance. and Garbisch booted a placement l goal over the bar for the Army's , first score against the Navy since 1916.
 Army Takes Lead
  third period on & touchdown by Wood. but the Navy again forged tn the front in the final period with a touchdown by Conroy. Then the Cadets won the game in the gather ing darkness on hard-won toueh- down by Tinberlake.
 The Navy started tho usual foot ball tactics by making desperate eff forts to score on forward passes, 1 but the Army succeeded in breaking up the play many times.
 i During the first period. the Mid shipmen came within striking dis tance of the Army goal. but Conroy | failed at a placement kick. In the second period, it was the I Nayy's ball on the Arny's s4yard | line.
 l Mckee passed to Taylor, who was I brought down 1s yards short of the Army goal line. Mckee was again 1 given the ball and this time he sho. i around the left side of the West | Point line for the first score of the | game. Barchet made the extra 1 point. Securing the ball near mid ! field the Army returned to the at l tack and after failing to open up ] the Navy line Gs-hisch was called upon for placement goal from the ! 4S-yard line and made It easily. | l The third period was full of action. ] Getting the ball and running it back ! to the Navy's S0-yard line. Smythe ! tossed forward pass to White. who l dodged his way to within two yards l of the Navy goal The Midshipmen 1 rnomentarily held amid intense ex- | citement but on the next play Wood !; shot across tho for the Army's first ! touchdown. Garbish made the extra 1 point.
 ! In the final period Carr of the i Navy caught ltng forward pass. 1 and was downed on West Points 2sr 1 yard fine. The ball was worked on 1 short forward passes and line plunges { to the Army .one-yard line. where ConroS went over for the Navy's last i touchdown. Norris kicked the extra 1 point after he was tackled by tile
 Army forwards.
 1 Smythe Gets AlOOse i Smythe was the hero of the Army $ | second touchdown. Receiving a kick | off from Cullen of the Navy, he ran l the ball back 50 yards to the Naey's ls-yarj line. A fiye-yard penalty mo- mentarily set tine army back. They
 kept plugging away and finally ! s'nythe hurled forward pass to
 Timberlake who shot across the hue
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