Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-27
Army Rallies to Defeat Navy,
74to7 as 702, 1000 Watch
LONGS 79-Yurd Dash for Score
Tied by Tors in Opening Half
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.
Star Stan Correspondent.

surprising minutes today Nays
girdiron guns doomed with more
authority than highly-favored
Army's, but just when it seemed
that West Points defenses were
crumbling the Cadets snatched Gag
erly at break in the game, ad-
vanced 81 yards in a series of swift
thrusts, and won the hirty-eighth
annual all-service spectacle, IA
to 7.
So rapidly did the tide of battle
shift from the Navy to the Army
that the crowd of 100000 half
frozen spectators, looking down on
a weird winter setting, sat stunned.
With the score standing at TT and
Navy banging away deep in Army
territory, as it had done most of the
afternoon, Halfback Emmett Wood
of Williamsburg, Pa, a ground-gain-
ing ace who ranked second to none
on the field, charged into Army's
line.
Army Scores in II Plays.
His onslaught met with resolute
resistance. Hit with crushing force,
Wood fumbled and for an instant
the ball bounded crafty on Army's
19-yard line. Then. out of the pack,
leaped 210-pound Harry Stella, the
Army tackle from Kankakee, ILL.,,
who fell on the ball and claimed 1t
for the harrassed forces of West
Point and thereby set up the single
sustained Army drive of the day.
In II plays. running the gamut
from straight line thrusts to sweep
ing runs around Nays ends and
one unerring forward pass thrown
by Charles (Huey) Long, left
handed thrower, Army marched
forward and over the goal line in the
closing moments of the third period
with the winning touchdown.
Standing out among host Of
clever backf1eld players who per-
formed today on the verdant. green
carpet of grass, backdropped by
mountain of shivering humanity
and, outside, by foot-deep snow, was
Right Halfback Long, a 24-year-old
first classman from Chevy Chase,
Md. This 180-pounder, a sprinter
on the track team, was the differ
ence between the two teams, al
though Army was adjudged. by
some observers, as an 11-to-5 IA
vorite to win its 22d victory from
Navy, which has won IA games since
1890 and tied three others.
Long Is Army's Hero"
1t was Long who saved the Army
from complete humiliation in the
first half when he ran back to his
own 20-yard line, grabbed a nigh,
spiraling punt of the foot of Nays
Lemuel Cooke of fernando, Miss,
and ran 70 yards for a touchdown.
It was Long who added the extra
point from placement and who sim
gle-handedly presented the Cadets
with a 7-to-0 lead.
1t was Long who played a prom
inent part in the third-quarter vic
tory march, after Navy had come
back to play Army off it's feet, and,
finally, it was Long who ended the
game when he speared a long An
napolis aerial in the closing seconds
and made the game safe. Huey was
one of eight Army stars who closed
his grid career at the Point today
and he bowed out amid maximum
of glory.
The game opened in characteristic
fashion. Both teams were cautious,
kicking on second and third down
and preferring to wait for break.
Then, on the third exchange Of
punts, Long swung into action.
Cooke, passing and running star of
the Navy, kicked from his 35-yard
line with the wind behind him. 1t
was long, high kick and when Long
caught it on his 81 horde of Navy
tacklers were ready to bring him
down.
Dobson Helps Long in Run.
Huey broke toward his right,
toward the Army bench, and eluded
the first grodb of Midshipmen. For
a brief instant he stopped in his
tracks as a new swarm of tacklers
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how, he broke inside of them. Run
ming down the sidelines, precariously
close to the whitewashed line. he
benefited by some fine downfield
blocking by his Army mates, par
ticularly End Jack Dobson of Wash
ington, and then he cut back toward
the middle of the field, outran the
Navy safety man, and crossed the
goal line standing up.
The score seemed to whip the
Navy to fresh, high pitch. Cooke,
who went into the game with the
remarkable record of having COM
pleted 81 passes out of 100, began
to heave with remarkable deadliness
OF sudden Army found itself
constantly on the defense as Cooke
completed 9 out of IL passes
thrown in the first half. That
Army ran off only one play from
scrimmage in the entire second
period was convincing evidence of
Nays temporary supremacy.
To close the first period Cooke