The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
CADETS NOSE OUT MIDDIES. 21-18
BLANCHARD, DAVIS
FINISH CAREERS

MUNICIPAL STADIUM, Phila.
delphia, Nov. 80 - @'- Army.
careening Cadets wound up their
three-year run unbeaten today, but
only by the squeaky margin oil
three extra points, as the Navy
picked itself off the floor from its
worst season in history to battle
the mightiest gridiron machine o1
generation to a standstill.
The score was 81 to 10, and the
only reason the impossible didn't
happen was because the monster
and his play-mate"-Doc Blanch.
ard and Glenn Davis-set off all
their sizzling fireworks in the frs.
halt, and the middle kicking toes
couldn't hit the bullseye.
From the start Of the second
half it was Nays ball game, as
the up-to-now meek middies, maui
ed. and manhandled in seven
straight starts up to today, gave
the Cadets the fight Of. their lives
before they were able to come
home with that bare three point
edge.
It was a. slashing, smashing
battle these fiercely fighting fu-
ture adnhirals put up--a fight that
saw them dig in on Army's five
yatd line and still rolling when the
clock ran out of time to put an end
to what appeared the makings OF
one of the most amazing upsets
this game Of moleskin mayhem has
ever seen. !
Jack Ray, the. Texan with the
thread 4 needle toe, booted the
point after each one Of these tai
les and that did the trick.
That was enough to put this
third unbeaten season Of the black
knights. on ice. a. string that saw
the Army banners flying ever since
they lost the 1913 Navy game, 13-
o. In that startling stretch, they
piled up x victories in 20 trips
to the post, with only their score
less standoff with Notre Dame
three weeks ago marring the run.
But it never came closer to be-
ing broken than it was on this
cripst sunshiny afternoon, and the
faithfulAsone Of whom had paid
ticket spectators as high as $50
apiece Tor the privilege Of sitting
in on twill never forget it. Be-
fore lit started, there had been
nothing to recommend this as a
red-hot brawl, what with a Navy
team that hadn't won a game
since it nosed out Villanova in its
seaso opener and a 32-point un-
derdog among the betting boys
today.
They drove 80 yards between
Army's. first and second touch
downs for. one of their own, that
put them behind only rs, with the
second quarter started. Then they
and dug and inched their
way 70 yards more in the third per-
iod, and finally, capitalizing on a
queer quarterbacking stunt by the
usually ~errorless Arnold Tucker
late in the third period, they click
ed for IS yards in a hurry for their
last marker early in the fourth.
Their fierce front-line blocking,
with center Dick Scott. q Commute
man from. Highland Falls, N. Y,
and Jim Darlington, a 198-pound
block OF cement from Riverside,
Conn, leading the attack, took
charge Of Army's rarely-bent front
wall time after time.
And in Reaves (Base) Baysinger,
tail, slim Syracuse, N. Y, quarter
back who never did any signal
calling before the Notre Dame
clash three weeks ago, and Bill
Hawkins of Richmond, Va, fresh
off the hospital list, they had the
scoring punch. Base scored the
first marker on a vineyard sneak
through the line, and Hawkins hit
the jackpot for the second one,
from two yards out. .
And for the final one, for which
they got the opportunity when
Tucker called for a fourth-down
rush well in his own territory and
Blanchard failed to make the dis
lance they unfurled Bill Earl, a
tiny 160-pound pitcher from Airing
ton, Va Bill tossed a short one
which. Leon Bramlett, the Navy
captain from Clarksdale, Miss.
caught in the end zone.
After the first touchdown, Bob
Van Summern's place-kick wal
blocked. Hawkins tried the other
two but he was wide on one and
had the other partly blocked.