Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
NAVY HOLDS HOYAS
TO SCORELESS TIE
Neither Team Able to Score
in CoIorIesS Fray Before
President Hoover.
BY JOHN b. KELLER.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, November g.
Neither Georgetown nor Navy added to
its foot ball prestige in their battle this
afternoon on Farragut Field before a
host of $4,000 headed by Herbert Hoo
yer, President of the United States.
After battling from early afternoon
until nearly dusk the teams left the
gridiron with neither goal line crossed.
And, as they had played, neither side
seemed deserving of score during the
affray. The 90 finish of what was ex-
pected to be a thrilling foot ball spec
tacle, red hot in every way, was quite
all right but 1t was tame game with
an ending just as tame.
From start to finish this foot ball
game was nothing more than battle
of good, stalwart lines. Georgetown
presented a superb forward wall, one
Navy rush line and was almost always
on top of the opposing forwards on de-
fense, but rarely was the Georgetown
line able to clear the path for the Hoya
ball toters to make any sustained gain.
The Navy forwards usually were found
dependable defensively.
Fashioned Foot Ball.
Neither team offered much offensive
ly. The Navy attack was marked by
the steadfast adherence of the directors
OF the MidShipmen's play to plain, old
fashioned foot ball. 1t was hit the line
time or two, try every once in a while
to sweep Georgetown flank and re-
sort occasionally to the lateral pass.
Only a few times did any Of these
plays net any progress.
Navy seemed determined to employ
aerial attack as little as possible and
on what it showed in this form of
offensive perhaps 1t is well it did avoid
1t most of the game. OF the six passes
the Midshipmen made, none was COM
pleted. Four of the heaves grounded
and two were picked out of the air by
wearers of the Blue and Gray.
Georgetown'S offensive tactics were
more varied than Navy's, but not par
ticularly impressive at that The Hoyas
contrived to outrush the MidShipmen
between the 30-yard lines, but once on
the goal eide. of this stripe nothing could
be accomplished by Georgetown, either
with running or passing attack.
Cold figures, though, show George
town to have been considerably better
than Navy at advancing the ball.
Georgetown made first downs to
affray, the Hoyas picked up only So
yards to Nays so, but in the second
it was a matter of 73 yards rushing for
the eleven of the National Capital,
while Crabtown team got but 81 yards
by this means. During the battling the
Hoyas attempted 10 forward passes and
made good with half of them. Two
tossed in the first half rounded. but
five were completed in the second half
for gains varying from to Is yards.
Neither Side Threatened
Neither side seriously threatened the
others goal. Navy never got nearer the
final Georgetown stripe than the 35-
yard chalkmark, and advanced that far
but once Georgetown twice was within
Navy's 30-yard line, once losing the ball
when a fourti-down forward pass
grounded and once being held for
downs within inches of the 20-yard
stripe. Twice Georgetown players
scurried across the Navy goal, but each
time the officials found it necessary to
recall the play. In the opening period,
Ken Provincial, alert Hoya wingman,
grabbed the ball from tangle of Navy
players and sprinted on As yards to the
final line. But, it was ruled that the
play had been completed before
Provincial got possession of the pigskin
and Navy resumed its attack. Early IN
the second period, it seemed that Spring
again fumbled as he hit the George
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