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for slashing gains, mixed with sue
cessful passes, and finally carrying
the ball over the Army line on a
7-yard end squirt.
Except for Harbo'd's touchdown, all
Of the scores by either team came
as a result Of sustained drives. For
the Navy. Caldwell hurled himself
over the Army line in the first few
! minutes of play after 36-yard pass,
Hamilton to Hardwick, had put the
ball on the two-yard line. At the
opening of the second quarter Schuber
tore over the Army's fnal chalk mark
as the elimination of n 66-yard ad-
vance.
Wilson tailed the Army's first
| touchdown on a 17-yard dash through
| tackle. the climax Of four plays that
advanced the ball IS yards. eagles
long run in the third period for a
touchdown was the finishing stroke
to march Of 76 yards from kickoff.
Attacks Nearly Equal.
So we'll matched were these rival
attacks thar there was only 20 yards
difference in the distance either
gained by rushing-the Navy advanc-
was through the air that the Middies
shone, for they completed 10 out Of
II passes for gains Of 10 yards while
the Cadets, making only two passing
attempts, completed them both for
gains Of II yards.
Into the geometric vastness Of it's
hughest stadim, the Middle Wes.
heaped more than a hundred thousand
persons.
Long before the Cadets and Midship-
men swung into Michigan avenue to
march to Soldiers Field, the throng
began to gather in the stadium. And
when the marching legions of youth
wheeled into the broad platter Of the
amphitheater, the eager thousands sent
up a cheer which echoed across the
held until the men paraded in dark
ness from scene etched in heroic
proportions upon the Corn Belts con-
sciOusneSs
For more than q century the pomp
and glamor of West Point and Annap-
oils have been but legendary outside
the Atlantic seaboard. Today the ira
ditions of the schools were given form
and life, and the monstrous throng
frank deeply Of the sight.
The crowds emotion reached its
frenzied peak when the blue-coated
| midshipmen and the cadets in gray
flung their columns onto the field in
the colorful prelude to the game itself.
Crowd Sees Drill.
They marched and drilled and
wheeled, pivoting as one man and set
ting the multitude to keeping time
with hands and feet and heads to the
| strains of music which rose from the
bands of the two schools, drawn up at
either end of the field.
From the moment when the service
men broke ranks and swarmed into
their seats on either side Of the sta
dunn, the crowd moved and shouted
and sang with the men 1t came to see.
In the Navy side. the block Of blue
formed by the midshipmen, fiecked
with the white of their caps and
gloves, was the focal point for $4,000
persons automatically converted into
Navy zealots, while on the Army side
the cadets waggled their megaphones
and threw their gray caps in the air
to the pulse beats of all who shared
their half of the vast throng.
Navy on the east side and Army on
the west, they were the keystones in
tremendous human arch, which
stretched segment upon segment,
filled In at its tips by other thousands
Of spectators in temporary seats be.
hind the north goal posts.
Nor was such cheering ever heard
here as cadets and midshipmen
brought to the contest. The lusty
lungs Of the Army beloved defiant
"slum and gravy" at the Navy, and
back came the retort:
1--WE can lick the whole damned
Ar-mee."
We're the old Na-vee."
Weather Is Perfect.