Evening star., 1939-12-03
Navy Defeats
Favored Army
By 10 70 0
Two Sub FuIIbocks
Do the Scoring as
101,600 Look On
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Star Stan Correspondent.

fa1LADELfhlA,D Lee. IA navy
football team which had been in a
mental fog for all season woke up
today in real fog. On field 81
thickly shrouded by a murky mist
that players became blurs and punts
and passes were indistinct to the
101 500 spectators, Navy defeated a
favored Army eleven in the 40th
grid classic between the service
teams, 10 to o.
1t came up real Navy weather and
the Midshipmen showed they could
find their way around in the gray
cloud that settled over Municipal
Stadium and which was so bad at
the end that huge floodlights atop
the concrete bowl had to be turned
on to allow the customers to find
the exits.
While it still was comparatively
clear, however, Navy took a 3-to-0
lead on field goal by Fullback Bob
Leonard and, after it had become
dark, clinched the game when an
other fullback, Dick Shafer, lodged
furtively behind freshly-rolling
bank of fog and managed to lose
himself among the Army secondaries
long enough to run 20 yards for
touchdown.
Navy Line Awakens.
Thus Navy team, which hadn't
won a major game all year. broke
a string of six consecutive contests
in which victory had lodged the
Middle. After tying Dartmouth
in a scoreless struggle, Navy had
been beaten by Notre Dame, Glenn
son, Pennsylvania, Columbia and
Princeton.
The story of the game today was a
story of Navy line which dropped
its lethargy for full so minutes and
of the two substitute fullbacks, who
did the scoring Leonard. a 20-year-
DID, 160-pounder from Gainesville,
Tex, appeared in only two plays.
| The first time he came running on
to the field was midway the initial
period, after a 55-yard Navy march
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line. Here on fourth down Leonard
replaced Cliff Lenz, regular fullback
from Latrobe, Pa. and with Ulmont
Whitehead of Hartford, Conn, hold
ing the ball on the white chalk Of
| the 25-yard line, the Texan calmly
booted a field goal that was marked
three points as soon as it left the
Leonard toe.
| Shafer Dominates Game.
AS Leonard trotted off the field
to a tremendous ovation from the
1900 midshipmen and thousands OF
Navy adherents, Shafer picked up
helmet, took his place and pro-
ceeded to dominate the rest of the
game with his passing and running.
| Late in the game. when the crowd
began to leave not because the con-
| test was dull, but because it was too
dark to see the action, Navy took
| The ball ON Army's AZ after punt by
Cadet Ed Brown of Oakland, Calf,
from behind his own goal line A
forward pass, Shafer to End Dick
Foster from Piedmont, Calf, gained
II yards. Shafer rookie Back Phil
Cutting of Shelbyville, Ind, and
Whitehead pounded at the line to
reach Armys 20 as the third period
ended
With part of the crowd inching
! toward the exits. Shafer gave them
a final thrill on the first play of the
/ remaining quarter He took the
ball, broke to his right and through
a hole in the line, and raced through
the West Point secondary to score
with a head-frst dive.
Army Makes Late Bid.
For the second time during the
afternoon, Leonard trotted onto the
field, kicked the extra point, and
ran back to the bench.
In the dying moments, just before
the f1oodlights were turned on, Army
made its best scoring bid. Herb
Frawley, Fort Myer, Va, boy with
No. II on his back, faded far back
and threw pass that few in the
crowd near the top of the stadium
were able to follow. The aerial bomb
must have travelled SIS yards and
somehow Harry Heffner, an Army
lad from Fort Sill. Okla. caught it
! for a total gain of 35 yards.
This put the ball on Navy's 80
and in two plays Art Frontczak. vet
eran back from Dowagiac, Mich,
and Frawley clawed their way to the
10, marking the farthest point pene-
trated by the West Pointers all day.
But here, when it looked as if
Army might avert at least shut
out, Frawley tried another pass and
in the cleaning William Montgom-
cry, Navy end from Glendale,
Calf, rushed him. snatched the al
ready-palmed ball from Frawley's
hands and shot up the bleak field
toward the Army goal. Further en-
barrassment was saved the Cadets
when an inky figure wearing gold
helmet brought down Midshipman