Evening star., 1936-11-29
NAVY WINS, I TO 0,
IN LAST 6 MINUTES
Of THRILLING GAME
Schmidt Goes Over From
Three-Yard Line After
interference Ruling.
SULLIVAN, ARMY HALF,
"GOAT" OF CLOSE FIGHT
Midshipmen Strike Back Down
field in Scoring Drive-Crowd
Of 100000 Sees Battle.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Stan Correspondent OF The Star

PHILADELPHIA, November 2S.-
Through six wild minutes near the
hnish of a spectacular gridiron strug-
gle today, Navy struck swiftly to beat
Army, Z to o, before a record Eastern
foot ball throng of 102000-but 1t
rode to victory on an out-and-out
break
An illegal pass interference, coming
ing when it appeared the Midship-
men had been checked on the
Army 20-yard line, gave them the
ball at first down within yards OF
goal. Then Sneed Schmidt, St
Joseph, Mo-, lad, in three solid smashes
at the Army line went across with less
than minutes left for play.
Bill Ingram, scion of family IA
NOUS in Navy foot ball history, kicked
the extra point.
As Schmidt was the hero of the
game, so was Henry Sullivan, Army
halfback, from Mount Stirling, KY.
the goat" For it was Sullivan who
was held guilty of illegal interference
on the 17-yard pass Ingram had in
tended for Bob Antrim. But for the
ruling against Army. the Navy might
we'll have been checked short of goal
for it had been showed and shuntec
all over the gridiron the greater part
Of the game.
But with the recovery on its 25-yarc
line of tumble made by Army's jim
Craig, the Navy suddenly had swung
back into the game to strike with
binding swiftness and be aided by not
one, but two pass interference rulings
Claiming the ball when Schmidt re-
covered Craig's tumble, Navy launched
its only bona f1de thrust Of the day
when Ingram faded back and whipped
q short, hard pass toward Antrim
Into the picture leaped Army's big
fullback, Jim Schwenck, who batteo
the ball to the ground. On this play
interference was ruled by Field Judge
Z. E. Miller of Penn State and Navy
given q first down on its s5-yard line.
Again the Navy found the air was
the road to Army territory when
Schmidt threw pass to Antrim, who
caught this heave for 15-yard gain
and q second straight first down in
midfield.
Then, shifting tactics, Schmidt, In
gram and Schmidt again pounded the
center of the Army line for a first
down on the 40.
Ingram masterfully set up Navy's
next great thrust by skirting end for
8 yards. On second down he started
as if to duplicate the run but, instead.
stopped and heaved long aerial to
Irwin Fike, an end, who grabbed the
twisting oval and raced to the 20-yard
stripe before he was brought to earth
Sullivan's Play Held Illegal.
From the Army side reserves rushed
into the fray in an attempt to stem
the tide Of battle, but Ingram, on the
next play, calmly picked out Antrim
just short of Arny's goal and sent the
oval streaking toward his target. This
time, instead of Schwenck rushing to
bat it down, Sullivan leaped from his
halfback position and groped for the
ball. It bounded off the fingers of the
two men-Antrim and Sullivan-into
the air and eventually to the ground.
Groans from the Navy side of the
field echoed over the stadium as Ref
cree c. M. Waters of Williams College
started to bring the ball back to the
Army 20, evidently regarding the play
as an incomplete pass. But Field
Judge Miller rushed in, called the pen
atty and Navy had the golden oppor-
tunity to score its second victory In
three years and fourteenth in the series
Of 81 games.
But those yards were nothing easy
for Navy. Schmidt plunged into the
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