Evening star., 1925-11-29

offensive efforts. For both elcvens
Army. there is a we'll deserved vi
struggle against a team that seemed
and almost superhuman courage.
ton that it made a splendid effort
went down with colors flying.
In any foot ball game usually it is
some bit of work by the winning
rleven that stands out as the most/re-
1uarkable effort of the day, but In TINS
game il seems that TO the Navy
should go that honor, and that shortly
after the game had begun, before
,ither eleven had scored. with the pan
N the middle of the field, Harry VII
son, Army back, got away on long
run that gave the Army a first down
almost at the Nays 10-yard mark.
Navy Makes Great Stands.
Withe Army stands yelling for
touchdown. the great Wilson, former
Penn State star, and Hewitt, who was
brilliant as a plunser at Plttsourgh
before he entered West Point. set
themselves for lunges at the Navy
line. 1t was here that the greatest
effort of the day on the part of either
eleven came.
Navy set itself under dangerous cir
Cumstances to meet the onslaught or
its rival. Three times the Army backs
tore at the Navy forward wall, but to
no avail They could not make appre-
ciable headWay. and the sum total OF
the three drives was about yards.
Then, having stalled off the rushes of
great backs, the Navy was compelled
TO face Reeder. Army drop-kicker.
sent into the game at that point, and
supposed to be one of the most accu-
rate men in the East in booting the
hall between the posts.
in situation
not easy, but Reeder's kick was poor
and barely went over the line of scrim-
mage However, ii was touched by a
Sailor and Born of Army recovered
it on the S-yard line. To have stalled
off the rushes OF a great team to have
got away from the menace of fine
dropkicker, then to be compelled to
face the same rushes from an even
closer position, was discouraglng
enough to daunt the courage of al
most any eleven. But not Navy.
Those future admirals dug their
cleats even more firmly in the ground,
and, Notwithstanding that Hewitt
Wilson and their mates had the goal
line to make and four attempts to do
il, again turned back their enemy.
The net result of three Army drives
was a loss of yards, and when the
Soldiers forward passed from the H.
yard line on the fourth down Flippin
Intercepted the ball and ran out to the
33-yard mark.
1t was heavy fire. but the Navy
bore up under it with a fortitude and
stamina and grit that stood out as q
pre-eminent feature of the contest.
The Navy got out of three trying
Situa tionS in the first few minutes
that few teams would have had either
he courage or the ability to over
come.
Losers First to Score.
Another big moment for the Navy
was when it got it's points, the first
score of the game. From its own
territory a 45-yard gain, as a result
of long pass from Shapley to Hard
wick, put the Navy in possession OF
The ball on Army's 11-yard mark.
Three plunges gained only yards,
and then Hamilton dropped back and
kicked a field goal from a difficult
angle. The Navy had scored first in
a game in which its opponent had
been rated far superior. The score
came so quickly and Unexpectedly
that the Army was astounded and the
Navy wildly jubilant.
But that was about all the chance
hat the Navy got to stand out as the
IGNORED team, except, that high honor
always should 90 TO any team that
lights manfully but finally goes down
under superior odds.
The Army touchdown i'll the sec
nnd quarter came after about cs bril-
liant advancing of the ball by line
crushing tactics as one ever sees.
After receiving the kickoff. Wilson
and Hewitt simply rammed and
lammed their way deep into Navy
territory and gave no indication of
being stopped until a 15-yard penalty
set them back a distance they could
not make up. But 1T was only mo-
ment or two after this that the Navy
fumbled at its own 40-yard line and
Born of the Army fell on the ball.
This time the great backs behind the
Army lire We're not to be denied and
after they had again crushed their
way to the very shadow of tn. Navy
goal, fake lunge into the line lol'
lowed by "a short forward pass pro-
duced the only touchdown of the DAY
Reedrr Gets Field Goal.
Army's other three points were got
on the first play of the fourth period.
ate in the third period it carried the
hau to the Nevy's 6-yard line, after
& combination Of Hewitt's line crush
ing drives, Wilson's off-tackle dashes
snI shoyt passes, in which Harding
baxter and Trapnell figured. On the
6yard line the Navy held for three
downs and the quarter was up just as
the Army was getting ready to try
again.
AS the teams changed in goals,
Reeder again was sent into the game.
This time he did not fail and on the
first play of the final quarter drop
Kicked the ball squarel:' between the
posts for the last acorc by either
team.
Army had possession Of IEs Eali
when the game ended il Il position
from which it might have made an
other touchdown had it had n little
more time. When the last whistle
blew, the Soldiers were just 3
yards from Navy's goal
In some respects the game, was
remarkable. In defensive line play
on the part of both teams such
work as was done is seldom sur
passed. Time after time the for
wards of each eleven broke through
and stopped backs almost before they
got started, and many times line
plays never even reached the line of
scrimmage.
The game was productive OF some
rema rkable line plunginis by Hewitt,
fine ground gaining by Wilson and
some desperate efforts on the part
of Navy backs who were behind a line
.thsf could not get the jump on their
opponents.
In. one particular it is doubtful II