Evening star., 1939-12-03
Leonard's Goal,
Tally
Down Cadets
101,600 See Middies
Clearly OutpIoy Old
Service Rivals
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Montgomery on Nays IS. This was
the game.
Despite the absence Of President
and Mrs. Roosevelt. who decided to
stay home and from under the
ominous clouds, and despite the
semblance Of any claim to prowess
by either eleven this year, 1t was
a typical Army-Navy game. As
usual, the vast arena was jammed
with everybody from the colonel's
lady to Judy O'Grady.
Army went into the battle as an
8-to-5 favorite and as winner
of ~ previous games, loser Of only
Is. -Four had been tied. The Cadets
were ranked above the Midshipmen
chiefly because they had held c.
lumbia to a 6-6 tie, while the Lions
had beaten Navy, 1913. Like the
Middies, the sons of slum and gravy
had not won a major game. They
came closest when they tied Penn
State, 14-14.
There was no question but that
Navy was the superior team today.
The sailors line consistently out
charged Army's and bottled up the
Cadets versatile Johnny Hatch, an
other Fort Sill lad who attended
Western High School in Washing
ton and who won all-high honors in
1885. Navy made total of eight
first downs to seven for the Army,
but three Of the West Pointers first
downs were the result of penalties
against the seamen. Navy, alert
and fierce in play, lost rs yards on
penalties which ranged from off,
side and too many time-outs to
clipping and unnecessary roughness.
Navy Clearly Superior.
On the ground Navy clearly was
superior, gaining 2o7 yards to only
86 for Army. This was not gross
yardage, otherwise Nays edge
would have been more marked. In
the air, Army outgained the enemy,
70 to 10, but the Cadets threw 13
aerials to only three for the Mid
dies, who, incidentally, intercepted
i've Army heaves.
After the greatest floor show In
sports had ended, the game opened
with Army failing to gain after TAX
ing the kickoff. Hatch pVnted and,
starting from their own 80, the
Middies staged an opening march.
With Lenz leading the attack, aided
by Cutting and Whitehead as ball
carriers and Edmond Gillette OF
Santa Monica, Calf, in the block
ing hole, Navy steadily ripped the
West Point wall. Despite 5-yard
offside penalty, the Annapolis eleven
made four consecutive first downs
to reach the 20.
Here the Army braced. Three
Navy thrusts gained a total Of only
3 yards and as the Middies huddled
for a fourth-down play Leonard
jumped from the bench, stripped of
his jacket and raced on the field to
kick the first Army Navy field goal
since 1894, when a boot by Midship-
man Slade Cutter brought 3-to-0
victory.
Tars Intercept Pass.
The rest of the opening period
was played chiefly in Army terri
tory and in the second quarter play
was characteristically cautious, both
teams punting. Late in the chucker,
Hatch got of a kick to Shafer and
the unsung Texan, one of five full
backs used by Coach "Swede" Lar
son, was downed on his own IS. Az
this point Navy was penalized 5
yards for delaying the game and,
finally, Shafer had to kick from be-
hind his own goal. He got of fine
boot to Heffner, who was brought
down on Nays IS.
When play was resumed after the
half intermission, the Army eleven
seemed to have shaken OIL its inde-
cision. From their own %, the
Cadets passed and ran to Nays
IS, Hatch leading the drive, but at
this point the West Pointers fell
back into their bad habits. Front
czak fumbled and lost 8 yards and
a pass by Hatch was intercepted by
Gillette.
Whitehead's Kick Helps.
It was late in this third quarter
that Whitehead, an able man In
the Navy back11elds this afternoon,
paved the way for the games touch.
down Another Hatch pass was in
tercepted by Lenz on Army's 46 and
after Navy had failed to gain White
head prmted outside on the
Cadets l..
With the stadium in an uproar,
Brown went back into punt forma-
ton for Army and put his foot
behind a spiral that Travelled at
least SIS yards on the fly. It was
carried back to Army's 47 by the
Navy safety, Whitehead, and the
sharp trip down the field, climaxed
by Shafer's 20-yard dash, followed.