The Washington herald., 1922-11-12
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Sc0IELES BATTLE
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Crowley's sin Robs Game
Western Team Of Vic
tory in Final.
LOST BALL ON LINE
Cadets Toss Chances Away
BY Failure Of Overhead
Attack.
LOST BALL ON LINE

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They call him SLEEPY Crowley out
around South Bend and Notre Dame.
ana ON the plains of picturesque
West Point. he earned the title this
afternoon. S.<s
Through his slippery fingers. the
ball slipped as Ne was going over the
line for a touchdown In the final
period and instead of giving Notre
Dame = glorious victory. he muffed
the one chance and the game ended.
Army. o: Notre Dame. o..
Fifteen thousand spectators. cram
ming every inch Of the space around
the gridiron. saw a game bunch Of
Irish athletes from Notre Dame bat
tlo to = draw against every odd that
could be imagined on a football
field.
Array Stops Csstner.
Outweighed from man to man, end
TO end and back to back, Notre Dame
did nothing but fight and II was
heart and nothing else that helped
them to escape defeat.
Paul Castner. the big star OF Notre
Dame. was stopped cold Not be-
cause he lacked ability. but for the
reason that his line crumbled like
paper in front Of him and allowed
tho huge Army forwards to crash in
on him. His charge was stopped, his
passes were knocked down and his
kicks were blocked. His face was
smeared with blood soon after the
game started and II was still CORY
when the game ended just as the sun
down gun doomed and the Cadets
stiffened to attention as the flag was
lowered.
The Cadets had the only chances
to score in the first half. They were
both royal opportunities and they
were both tossed away by the In
ability of the soldiers to complete a
forward pass
Stealing some of the westerner's
stuff. the Cadets started right off
With the forward pass. but IL
wouldn't work. and Smythe. the
Army field general. resorted to run
ming plays which advanced the ball
to Notre Danes 15-yard line. The
situation was perfect for field goal.
but the Army was not playing for
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perate chance on a pass which fell
dead behind the goal line.
Notre Dame Rallies
Notre Danes line was badly out
rushed in tie first period. but they
came to earth in the second and
halted the Cadets. 1t was a break"
that gave the. Cadets their second
chance to score In the second period.
In the middle of the quarter. Wood
punted to midfield and the Notre
Dame quarterback fumbled when he
attempted a running shoe string
catch. Dodd recovered for the Army
and the Cadets rushed the ball to the
ls-yard line. Notre Dame rallied
and put up a stone wall I'm front of
the Army charges. Smythe again
tried q forward pass: but il wasin-
tercepted by Layden, the Notre
Dame halfback. as the period ended.
All OF the fireworks came out with
a brilliant burst in the final quarter.
after they had both milled, mauled
and kicked up and down the field
through the entire third period. TAX
ing desperate chances. both offenses
cast caution aside and went in for
radical forward passes and trials for
field goals that averaged from forty
to sixty yards After Crowley had
pulled his great error and had been
removed from the game. the left
footed Castner tried two field goals
one for forty-five yards and one
for fifty-five yards. but they were
blocked.
Twice the Army worked the ball
down within the 40-yard zone and
twice Garbisch tried long placement
goals, but they fell short and the
chances went flooey. The lineup: