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2008 Commencement Address

“Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?”
“Then, I said,” “Here am I; Send me.” Isaiah, Chapter 6, verse 8.

Today we gather to recognize the cadets of the
Class of 2008, men and women who, in the spring
of 2004, answered the call of our nation, a
nation at war-, “Here am I. Send me.” This
afternoon, they will be commissioned as Second
Lieutenants. And over the next year, our Army
will send them around our Nation and around the
world to one of 80 countries where American
Soldiers are serving the cause of freedom.

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Herman Hickman

The Tennessee Terror

By Mike Gershman

Few men can recite Victorian poetry, wrestle professionally, and coach All-American linemen, but Herman Hickman managed it all with aplomb.

Once described as looking like “Friar Tuck in a high school production of Robin Hood,” Hickman pioneered special teams, was an All-America lineman, and turned out half a dozen more to pave the way for Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis at West Point.

Born in Johnson City, Tennessee, Herman Michael Hickman played fullback at Chattanooga’s swanky Baylor School before entering the university. A small sophomore tackle (5’10”, 203), Hickman switched to guard as a junior and became a standout; however, he had impressed only Grantland Rice enough to be named to an All-America team his senior year.

Then Tennessee played New York University in a charity game at Yankee Stadium. Early in the game, NYU got to the Volunteers’ 5-yard line and ran four plays right at Hickman; they surrendered the ball at the 23, and football writers scrambled to change their All-America ballots. When one said Hickman was “the best guard the South ever produced,” Coach General Bob Neyland snarled, “Herman Hickman is the greatest guard football has ever known.”

After graduation, Hickman won All-League honors with the NFL’s Brooklyn Dodgers and wrestled professionally as “The Tennessee Terror.” He spent five years at North Carolina State as a line coach (and also lectured on Rudyard Kipling) before moving to West Point,

in five seasons at Army, he developed six All-Americas — center “Casimir Myslinski”, tackles “Tex Coulter” and Al Nemetz, and guards “Joe Stanowicz”, Jack Green, and Joe Steffy.

Hickman became Yale’s head coach in 1948 and, used to larger linemen, immediately dubbed his troops “The Seven Dwarfs.” The next morning, all seven wore strips of tape on their helmets, that read “Sleepy,” “Dopey,” “Bashful,” etc. Captain Levi Jackson, Yale’s first black player, went along with the gag; his strip read, “Snow White.”

Even though Hickman’s teams rarely finished above .500 he had a successful 1950 because Yale beat Harvard, 29-6, in The Game. He said, “We needed that one. It fits into my policy of keeping the alumni sullen but not mutinous.”

When mutiny began to stir, Hickman resigned and became a regular on the Celebrity Time TV game show and a football columnist for Sports Illustrated. A member of AP’s Mid-Century Team selected in 1950, he was named to the Knoxville Journal’s All-Time Tennessee team just before his death in 1958 from surgical complications.

Herman Michael Hickman, Jr.

Guard – Tennessee

HS: Johnson City (TN); Baylor Prep (Chattanooga, TN)

Born: 10/1/1911, Johnson City, TN

Died: 4/25/1958, Washington, DC

Bill Harold Kellum

Big Bill Kellum

Army A Football Yearling, Cow & Firstie Year

Korean War —

Big Bill Kellum led a platoon in the 21st Regiment of the 24th Infantry Division, earning the Silver Star. After his capture, Kellum organized resistance to Chinese indoctrination at Camp Five – Ponktong near the Chinese/North Korean border. His punishment was confinement to a special section of the camp hospital (no prisoner left alive), where he died in June 1951.

Grads would walk next to the wire whistling “On Brave Old Army Team” to encourage Bill.

USMA 1950
Memorial Articles

William Harold Kellum
NO. 17975 20 October 1926 15 June 1951
Died 15 June 1951 (Presumed date) at Pyoktong, North Korea. Aged 23 Years.

COURAGE AND DETERMINATION. These were the words by which 1st Lieutenant William H. Kellum lived, fought, and died. Bill Kellum’s dedication to these words constitutes a capsule explanation of his outstanding athletic achievements, his extraordinary gallantry on the field of battle, and his uncompromising attitude toward his Chinese captors which was directly responsible for his untimely, tragic, but highly courageous and exemplary death.

It is clear that Colonel Earl ‘Red’ Blaik, under whose tutelage Bill achieved AII- East honors at the position of end in addition to three football letters, two of them with Navv stars, was impressed by these characteristics of courage and determination, as he recently recalled that:

“Bill Kellum … in his quiet, rather self-effacing, but uncompromising way … had a depth of determination which would not allow him to play a secondary position even though to do otherwise he was forced to overcome a limited … (physique by college standards). Bill’s competitive urge had a ferocity of purpose which earned him the lasting respect of the troops both on the field and on the field of battle.”

Again, courage and determination are amply evident in Lieutenant Kellum’s combat record as illustrated by the following excerpts from his Silver Star citation:

“…He was assigned the mission of maintaining a combat outpost approximately 3,000 yards in front of the main line of resistance…. At the break of day, he could observe the enemy almost completely around his position. Realizing the threat to his security, he immediately began placing his men to meet the new threat… He ran from position to position, continually exposing himself to enemy fire, in order to encourage his men and direct the fire fight. When last seen, he was running toward the right flank of his platoon to direct that group of men who were then heavily engaged with the enemy …. “

But there was more to Bill Kellum than athletic and military achievements. More even than courage and determination. He was a man of many capabilities and interests, a man who is remembered for his ready grin as well as his courage, a man considerate of and deeply attached to his family, and a man of strong beliefs in God and dedication to country and career. An account which does justice to Bill’s achievements and character cannot be told hit and miss: it must have a chronological foundation.

So let us backtrack to Eastland, Texas, on 20 October 1926, Bill’s date of birth. He was a strong, healthy baby which gave him a good start towards being the outdoor, athletic type he turned out to be. Bill received his elementary education in Sulphur Springs, Texas, and El Dorado, Arkansas. His high school education was at Haynesville, Louisiana, where in recognition of good grades and citizenship he was elected a member of the National Honor Society.

In forecast of football exploits at West Point, Bill was a much respected terror on high school football fields. He made All-State two years and All-Southern one year playing the position of end. Let us look briefly at excerpts from newspaper accounts of games in which he played, for courage and determination were as evident then as thev were to be years later playing for higher stakes in Korea:

“…Kellum is a scrapper from whistle to gun…his fine competitive spirit is an inspiration to his teammates… in spite of the fact that opposing coaches have had their linemen double up on the lanky wingman. He has been a standout in every game with his jarring tackles, precision blocking, and fancy pass catching ……

Of course, football was not Bill’s onIy avocation. He was greatly interested in scouting, an interest which may have been given impetus by the action of a Boy Scout who saved him from death from gasoline fumes at the age of four by administering artificial respiration. Bill was also an active member of the First Baptist Church. Another sporting interest, swimming, he turned to profitable use as he served as manager and life guard of the Haynesville City Pool during high school days.

Bill was close to his family in growing up. He and his brother, Herman, now a doctor, were inseparable. In the one letter he was able to write home from prison camp, Bill’s primary concern was not for his own situation, but rather for news of Herman’s first child. In Bill’s words,

“…Have been thinking about (the family) a lot and have wondered greatly about the new addition to the family …. Let the kid know about his Uncle Bill.”

Bill’s favorite fishing partner was his father who continually encouraged him in his athletic and career ambitions. Bill was close to and always considerate of his mother, never failing in the years he was away from home to call her on special occasions. His only and younger sister, Beth, was the recipient of much advice as well as special concern and protection. An age difference of 12 years was no barrier between Bill and his younger brother, Joe, whose active approach to life was so similar to Bill’s.

Thus did William H. Kellum’s full boyhood prepare him for the responsibilities of manhood.

Upon finishing high school, Bill served five months in the US Navy in the closing months of World War II. While in the Navy, he won a “golden gloves” championship, evidence of his interest and competence in the “manly art of self-defense,” an interest which was to bring further laurels at West Point.

As a recipient of an appointment to the US Military Academy, Bill left the Navy to attend Louisiana State University where he found time amidst his West Point preparatory studies to be first-string end on the football team and to win a second place medal in the ROTC boxing matches.

Matriculating to West Point in July 1946, Bill, by graduation day, 6 June 1950, was able to leave an enviable record behind him. Bill’s football exploits have already been related. In boxing, he won many more bouts than he lost. Skinny for a heavyweight, Bill is still remembered at West Point and by classmates around the world for “cutting down to his size” ring opponents who outweighed him frequently by as much as 50 pounds. Herb Kroten, one of his boxing coaches, accounts for Bill’s success (he went to the finals of the Eastern intercollegiate Championships one year and was elected co-captain of the boxing team his First Class year) by recalling his willingness “to take on anything.”

Athletics were not Bill’s only interests at West Point. He was a member of the Fishing Club and Radio Club and ranked relatively high militarily. However. Bill is remembered by his classmates as much for his personality as for his more objective achievements. The Howitzer was indeed right in asserting that “Bill’s warm Southern personality and ready humor will be long remembered by the Class of ’50.”

Only a few short months after graduation, Bill, in company with so many of his classmates, was called upon to utilize his West Point training on the field of battle sooner than he or anyone else expected. His country and his Alma Mater did not find him wanting! As a platoon leader of Company G, 21st Inf., he distinguished himself on the field of battle being awarded the Bronze Star Medal for valor, the Silver Star, and the Purple Heart. He had every reason to write home proudly when he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant only five months after graduation. Excerpts have already been quoted from his Silver Star citation. Equally stirring and indicative of his courageous spirit and military leadership are the following excerpts from his Bronze Star citation:

“During his regiment’s advance his platoon was the leading element …. With complete disregard for his safety Lieutenant Kellum exposed himself to a hail of withering fire in order to place his men in positions affording the maximum fire power and control. Moving far forward, he directed the effective fire of friendly artillery and mortars …. He then led an assault – routing the enemy … and permitting the continued advance of the regiment ……

Captured during an action in which he was heroically leading his platoon in defending a combat outpost 3,000 yards in front of the main line of resistance, Lieutenant Kellum was taken to a prison camp in Pyoktong in North Korea. Here he faced his final and perhaps his most formidable test of courage. A classmate whom Bill assisted while he himself was weak and sick reports that:

“…under these difficult conditions Bill was a model soldier. He resisted his captors’ every effort to organize a mass indoctrination program in the officers’ compound, and did more than his share of the work in helping his fellow prisoners to survive….

In spite of a complete lack of care and only crackers and rice for food, Bill, by sheer determination. recovered from flu, only to incur the wrath of the Chinese for organizing the ambulatory soldiers at what was, in name only, the prison camp’s hospital. Thrown into detention in a part of the “hospital” from which no prisoners ever emerged alive, Bill died a hero’s death staunchly defending his convictions and the traditions of his Alma Mater and country. Fellow prisoners report that Bill’s death occurred approximately 15 June 1951, a date which is more accurate than the year end date, 31 December 1951, assumed in AG official records.

In their tremendous and irreplaceable loss, Bill’s surviving parents and brothers and sister have been strengthened by a justifiable pride shared bv friends, classmates, and fellow officers in a man who died as he lived: courageous and determined to be true to his own high ideals whatever the danger, whatever the personal sacrifice.

–R.P.L. ’50–

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Joe Green

Korean War —- Joe Green Class of 50, another Army football player, was one of the pilots captured during this period. Although Green survived the war, he was held in solitary confinement for the duration of his captivity. Paul Roach remembers getting a glimpse of Green before the end of the war: “After that, a classmate and I always hummed –On, Brave Old Army Team — whenever we passed his compound”.

Football — Fullback Class Numerals and Monogram

Track — Monogram, Army A with Navy Gold Star

1958 Football Team and Undefeated Season

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Jack Morrison

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Ron Henderson

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Justin Koenig

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Max Minor

2 Army A’s in Football — 1943 and 1944

1946 Football Team

1946 Army 9-0-1 AP#2

09/21 Army 35 – Villanova 0
09/28 Army 21 – Oklahoma 7
10/05 Army 46 – Cornell 21
10/12 Army 20 – Michigan 13
10/19 Army 48 – Columbia 14
10/26 Army 19 – Duke 0 New York, NY
11/03 Army 19 – West Virginia 0
11/09 Army 0 – Notre Dame 0 Bronx, NY
11/16 Army 34 – Pennsylvania 7
11/30 Army 21 – Navy 18 W Philadelphia, PA

Coach: Earl Henry “Red” Blaik (February 15, 1897 – May 6, 1989)
Dartmouth 1934-1940 – 45-15-4
Army: 1941-1958 – 121-33-10
Overall: 166-48-14
Awards:
All-American, 1919
AFCA Coach of the Year (1946)
College Football Hall of Fame, Inducted in 1964

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By Rabble
Mar 13, 2003

Army-Navy 1946 – A look back at the 1946 Army-Navy game.

by Glenn Davis

14 Years after Glenn Davis played his last game for Army, he wrote an article exclusively for the Associated Press recalling one of the greatest Army-Navy football games in its long and storied history. The following is that story. Dateline—October, 1960.

GRID EXPERTS TALK

DAVIS CANT FORGET 1946 ARMY-NAVY GAME

By Glenn (Junior) Davis

3-Time All-America At West Point (1944-45-46) Heisman and Maxwell Trophy Winner ( 1946) College Football Hall of Fame)

This was the final football game of my college career and the one I shall always remember. It was the Army-Navy game, 1946.

The Army record for three years was 33 won, one tie and no defeats. If we could get by Navy it would be the most successful three years in modern college football. On the other hand, if we lost we might go down in the recod book as “just another team”.

Our team, was confident. Weren’t we playing a Navy team that had lost its last seven games? Hadn’t the newspaper so made us a solid 21-point favorite? Navy kicked oft, Army went right down the field and scored in fact, the first three times we got our hands on the ball we scored.

At half-time,the score was Army 21, Navy 0. In our dressing room you could hear such remarks as, “let’s make it 50-0,” and “they couldn’t break a paper bag the way they’re blocking today.” During the balf-time break, Col. Earl Blaik and the assistant coaches were trying to correct first half mistakes and make some new plays for the final two quarters. But no one was really paying much attention.

Running through our minds was a single thought, “how I will the papers play up a 50-0 game?” Army kicked off to Navy for the second half. The Middies marched right down the field and scored, but missed the extra point to make tht score 21-6.

Not much later a pass ihterception gave the Middies the ball deep in our territory and Navy went on to score, but missed the extra point again. It was now 21-12. Early in the fourth quarter on fourth down and one yard to go on our own 40 we elected to go to It. Doc Blanchard carried off-tackle.

There was no hole. Navy held. Eight plays later Navy scored its third touchdown. The score moved up to 21-18. Things were getting serious. Our three-year record was in jeopardy. Now Navy had the momentum and our chins were dragging on the ground. Navy was moving the ball easily and we couldn’t stop them.

With only five minutes to play Army fumbled and Navy recovered. Again the Middies started a drive. There wasnt much time remaining when Navy was on our 10- yard line. An off-tackle smash moved the ball to the 4 and only seconds remained. It was 2rd down and we stopped them for a gain of one. On the next play, Navy was stopped for no gain.

Time ran out before they could get off another play for the 4th down. The game was over. We had won 21-18. I shall never forget the game or the great lesson it is for all football players. Over-confidence can really ruin a great football team or individual star quicker than anything else.

Hadn’t we just seen what happens when you wake up to the fact that you are really in a dog fight out on the field only to find that you are playing a gang of supercharged Tigers? Sure, we won 21-18. But wernt we the 21-point favorites? Ill never forget it.


Sixty years later, it still bothers Joe Steffy. He and his former Army football teammates, now in their early-80s, still talk about the 1946 season. But this story starts in ’44.
Army went 9-0 that year, winning the national championship, repeating the feat in ’45. Then came 1946: Army vs. Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium. Army had beaten Notre Dame 48-0 and 59-0 the previous two years. The game featured four current or eventual Heisman Trophy winner, three current or eventual Outland Trophy winners and 23 current or eventual All-Americans. It ended in a 0-0 tie. In ’46, Army finished the year 9-0-1: Unbeaten, but not perfect. Even though Steffy begs to differ.

“They didn’t beat us, nobody did,” Steffy says. Still, the real disappointment came for Army at the end of the season. The Associated Press voters went with Notre Dame at No. 1. Back in those days, though, there was no official coaches’ poll and a host of national polls. Notre Dame was voted tops in five polls, Army in two and the teams were co-champs in three more. As you can see, even back then, the polls were far from perfect.

“We were still the national champs,” he says. “It’s like the heavyweight champ of the world, you have to beat him to take away the title. They didn’t beat us, I still can’t believe it””

By Justin Rodriguez Times Herald-Record December 23, 2007 Edited


1944 Football Team


1944 Army 9-0 AP#1

09/30 Army 46 – North Carolina 0
10/07 Army 59 – Brown 0
10/14 Army 69 – Pittsburgh 7
10/21 Army 76 – Coast Guard 0
10/28 Army 27 – Duke 7
11/04 Army 83 – Villanova 0
11/11 Army 59 – Notre Dame 0
11/18 Army 62 – Pennsylvania 7
12/02 Army 23 – Navy 7 W Baltimore, MD

Coach: Earl Henry “Red” Blaik (February 15, 1897 – May 6, 1989)
Dartmouth 1934-1940 – 45-15-4
Army: 1941-1958 – 121-33-10
Overall: 166-48-14
Awards:
All-American, 1919
AFCA Coach of the Year (1946)
College Football Hall of Fame, Inducted in 1964

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Army was crowned as the nation’s #1 team by 95 of the 121 writers who participated in the AP poll.
As in 1943, the AP poll included service teams, drawn from flight schools and training centers which were preparing men for fighting in World War II, and the teams played against the colleges as part of their schedules.
Half of the final Top 20 teams were composed of service teams, in addition to the two service academies at West Point and Annapolis.
Most colleges that had suspended their programs in 1943 were back in 1944, including the entire Southeastern Conference.

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The Army-Navy Game Nobody Missed

In 1944, No. 1 Army Met No. 2 Navy in a Game for the Ages

Huddled Around Shortwave

MORE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL

By RANDY ROBERTS

On the bitterly cold afternoon of Dec. 2, 1944, West Point’s Felix “Doc” Blanchard kicked the football to Annapolis’s Bobby Tom Jenkins to begin the biggest contest in the history of the Army-Navy series.

Sitting in the press box in Baltimore’s Municipal Stadium, reporter Al Laney wrote, “There never has been a sports event, perhaps never an event of any kind, that received the attention of so many Americans in so many places around the world.”

On that day the world was at war, but for a few hours, for the legions of American servicemen huddled around shortwave sets in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Pacific, the hostilities seemed to stop. This was a game played by boys training to be soldiers and sailors for the benefit of battle-hardened soldiers and sailors dreaming of being boys once again.

Clockwise from top left: U.S. Naval Academy (2), Time Life Pictures/Getty Images,

Clockwise from top left: The 1944 Army-Navy game; A program from the game; Future Heisman Trophy winners Glenn Davis (No. 41) and Doc Blanchard (No. 35) led Army to victory.

This year’s Army-Navy game, which takes place Saturday in Landover, Md., pits the 4-7 Midshipmen’s limping through their worst season in nearly a decade’s gainst a 3-8 Black Knights squad. Neither team can go to a bowl. The only intrigue is whether Navy has regressed enough to finally lose to Army for the first time since 2001.

But in 1944, this rivalry game was not only freighted with the unusual significance of the time, it was also one of the best and most hotly anticipated football games of all time. Army was 8-0 and ranked No. 1 in the country. Navy, at 6-2, was ranked No. 2.

At 2 p.m., with snow flurries in the air and servicemen around the world listening, the two teams finally met – both for college-football supremacy and for the greater honor of their schools and services.

The matchup almost didn’t happen. Slightly less than three years earlier, when the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor plunged the U.S. into World War II, there were calls from politicians and journalists for Americans to set aside peacetime frivolities. Pro fessional baseball and college football had no place in a nation at war, some thought. “You can’t train a man to be a fighter by having him play football and baseball,” said Cmdr. James Joseph “Gene” Tunney, the Navy’s director of physical training and boxing’s former heavyweight champion. College football, he said, “has no place in war or preparing for war.”

Others disagreed. Cmdr. Thomas J. Hamilton, the head of the Navy’s Prefight and Physical Training program and a former head coach at Annapolis, thought football was an ideal way to train men for combat. And since Hamilton had the ear of the Navy brass, his position carried the day.

Football became an integral part of the Navy’s V-5 preflight initiative. This training program was installed at select college campuses including Iowa and Georgia. Other larger Navy V-programs followed the V-5’s lead. The mammoth V-12 program, instituted in over 130 colleges just before the 1943 football season to train naval and marine officers, also permitted – and even encouraged – these candidates to participate in varsity sports.

While the Navy was underwriting the continuation of college football, the Army moved in the opposite direction. The Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), instituted in more than 240 colleges, prohibited cadets from participating in intercollegiate sports.

These decisions by leaders of the Army and Navy reshaped college football. Traditions were shed and the prewar pecking order was scrambled. Schools with Army Specialized Training Program were out of the running as serious football schools. Most could not field a team and discontinued the sport. Alabama, Auburn, Stanford and Syracuse didn’t field teams in 1943. Meanwhile, schools with V-12 programs, especially V-12 Marine programs, walked in tall cotton.

As some football programs declined or folded, V-12 schools like Notre Dame, Southern California and Purdue snapped up their best players. A player from Ohio State or Illinois, for instance, could enlist in a Marine V-12 program in July and find himself playing in the opener for Notre Dame in September (not surprisingly, the Irish won the 1943 national title).

The burst of football talent at these schools wouldn’t last. By late 1943, the Marines desperately needed junior officers to lead troops onto Pacific beaches. Football was no longer such a priority and V-12 programs were tapped for officers. No one was exempt. This point became clear on Nov. 1, 1943: Before the end of the season, the Marines called up Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame’s All-American quarterback, and shipped him off to Paris Island to continue his training.

As transient as college football had become, there were two teams left largely intact: Army and Navy. Although both academies had shortened their courses of instruction and training to three years from four, Army’s cadets and Navy’s midshipmen were not subject to sudden call-ups or shipped preemptively overseas. They stayed on post until they graduated. And the leaders at both academies believed that excellence on the gridiron was important to the war effort. The Army and Navy football teams, thry believed, should stand as proxies for the two branches of service.

In late 1940, when Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger was appointed superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy, Army’s football team was in a sorry state. Certain that war was imminent, Eichelberger decided he wanted a team that would reflect the excellence of the academy and the Army.

As one of his first important acts as superintendent, he landed Earl “Red” Blaik as head football coach. Blaik had led Dartmouth to a 22-game unbeaten streak in the 1930s.

As wartime rules tilted college football’s balance of power toward the academies, Blaik had little trouble landing talent. Army quarterback Doug Kenna, who is now in the College Football Hall of Fame, began his career at Mississippi – but when his team was gutted by the war, he accepted an appointment at West Point. Barney Poole, a future Hall of Fame end, also moved from Ole Miss to West Point, with a pit stop during the 1943 season to play on North Carolina’s V-12 team.

Then there was Army’s famous backfield of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis – tandem that’s widely regarded as one of the best in the history of the sport. Blanchard, the fullback who was known as “Mr. Inside,” had played his freshman year at North Carolina and spent time in the Army before ending up on Blaik’s team. Davis, the halfback known as “Mr. Outside” was one of the few big-name players on the Army team who had gone directly to West Point from the gridirons of high school.

Davis, Blanchard, Kenna, and Poole weren’t so superior as athleted that they could have been considered ringers, but on this day in 1944, they would skirt close to the edge of being so.

The game was close for three quarters. Army led 9-7 going into the fourth. Then came a nine-play, 52-yard Army scoring drive in which Blanchard carried the ball seven times and accounted for all but four of the team’s yards. On the final play of the drive, he ran over three Navy defenders and bulled his way into the end zone.

A short time later, Davis put an exclamation point on the game. Finding a sliver of space, he broke through the Navy line, dodged past several defenders and outraced everyone else for a euphoric 50-yard touchdown run. The 23-7 Army victory was Blaik’s first in the series.

After the game, the coach received a telegram from the Pacific: “The greatest of all Army teams. – STOP – We have stopped the war to celebrate your magnificent success.”

It was signed MacArthur.

Excerpted from “A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

1920 Football Team

1920 Army 7-2
1920/11/27 Army 0 – Navy 7 L

Coach Charles Dudley “Charlie” Daly (October 31, 1880 – February 12, 1959)
Army 1913-1916
Army 1919-1922

Overall: 58-13-3

Appeared in the film Daly, of West Point. 1902.

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1943 Football Team

1943 Army 7-2-1 AP#11
1943/11/27 Army 0 – Navy 13 L

Breakout Season under Blaik:
09/25 Army 27 – Villanova 0
10/02 Army 42 – Colgate 0
10/09 Army 51 – Temple 0
10/16 Army 52 – Columbia 0
In four games, the Cadets had outscored their opponents 172-0.
10/23 Army 39 – Yale 7
10/30 Army 13 – Pennsylvania 13
11/06 Army 0 – Notre Dame 26
11/13 Army 16 – Sampson Naval Training Station 7
11/20 Army 59 – Brown 0
11/27 Army 0 – Navy 13
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1937 Football Team

Army 1937 7-2
1937/11/27 Army 6 – Navy 0 W

Coach Garrison Holt Davidson (April 24, 1904 – December 25, 1992)
Army 1933-1937
1933 9-1
1934 7-3
1935 6-2-1
1936 6-3
1937 7-2
Overall: 35-11-1

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1926 Army 7-1-1 #8*
1926/11/27 Army 21 – Navy 21 T (Soldier Field, Chicago Il)

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read below – THE GREATEST ARMY–NAVY
By Ray Schmidt
“…No single game in college football history has ever so completely
combined the color, spectacle, national media coverage, public popularity,
and top-flight level of play as the Army-Navy battle of 1926 at Soldier Field.
Robert Kelley of the New York Times defined the game’s significance when he wrote
that day:
“Football had the greatest pageant, its high spot of color, and so did sport in the United States.”

http://www.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv17/CFHSNv17n2e.pdf

*”The 1926 college football season was the first to attempt recognition of a national champion.
The Dickinson System was a mathematical point formula that awarded national championships in college football.
Devised by University of Illinois economics professor Frank G. Dickinson, the system crowned national champions from 1926 to 1940,
and included predated rankings for 1924 and 1925.”

Coach: Lawrence McCeney “Biff” Jones (October 8, 1895 – February 12, 1980)
Army 1926-1929 – 30-8-2
LSU 1932-1934 – 20-5-6
Oklahoma 1935-1936 – 9-6-3
Nebraska 1937-1941 – 28-14-4 (1940 Rose Bowl vs Stanford AP#7)

Total: 87-33-15

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THE GREATEST ARMY–NAVY

By Ray Schmidt
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There was a time — more difficult to remember with each passing season — when the results of the annual gridiron showdown between the teams of West Point and Annapolis (that’s Army and Navy) were followed by football fans across the country, and often carried significance in the race for mythical national honors. Yet even more so, the game and its surrounding pageantry represented the best moments of college football. No other rivalry in college football consistently created such anticipation at the host cities, and then actually came through with the color, the excitement, and the spectacle that was unmatched — with even a good football game on occasion.

From this long-running series there is one game that stands above the others as the greatest Army-Navy clash ever, and one of the best in the annals of all college football history. In the early 1940s, Esquire magazine conducted a poll and named the game “the greatest in history” to that time, while the long-time prominent coach, Clark Shaughnessy, selected it as one of the 12 greatest games of all-time. Shaughnessy described it as one game “seldom matched for brilliant and courageous individual play, and for daring and spectacular team strategy.” It was of course the legendary 1926 Army-Navy showdown.
In those times the service academies alternated years in selecting the site for their annual game,and during the 1920s bids were frequently received from several cities — usually always along the Eastern Seaboard. In late 1924, a group from Chicago — supported by U.S. Representatives Fred Britten and Martin Madden of Illinois — entered the bidding to host the 1925 Army-Navy game. The other cities seeking the game included Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, and two different groups from New York (one representing the Polo Grounds and the other the relatively new Yankee Stadium). Chicago was under a handicap because of its distance from the two schools, and West Point officials (who would be selecting the 1925 site) were on record as opposing any site that would keep the Corps of Cadets away from the school overnight — a position endorsed by War Secretary John W. Weeks.

The 1925 game was ultimately awarded to the Polo Grounds — despite Yankee Stadium’s larger seating capacity — but Chicago businessmen were soon preparing another bid for the 1926 game which would be selected by Naval Academy officials. Again the Midwest city was challenged by New York, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, but this time it was better prepared The Chicago group announced its willingness to raise $100,000 for each academies’ athletic fund, in addition
to the approximately $600,000 which would be required to cover the expenses of bringing the teams and students to the game. Yet the Eastern cities continued in the role of the favorites.

Political pressure upon the academies intensified, as Midwest congressmen and service men’s organizations turned up the heat. No stone was left unturned — in December 1925 the Chicago Herald-Examiner ran an editorial stating that an Army-Navy game in Chicago would “arouse in youthful civilian minds a new understanding of love of country and eager appreciation of what education at West Point and Annapolis means” — this at a time when many leaders of America were urging the need for much better preparedness and training for the nation’s youth, given the recent experiences of World War I. In case patriotism didn’t strike the right chord, the editorial declared that, “Those great schools are not the exclusive property of the East.”

In the end, political pressure and big money carried the day — along with a stadium that could seat in excess of 100,000 ticket-buying fans — and so Annapolis officials awarded the 1926 game to Chicago. The Midwest city had built mammoth Grant Park Stadium on the banks of Lake Michigan just south of the downtown area in 1925. Some football games had been played there that first season — including Northwestern’s famous 3-2 win over Michigan in the mud — yet for 1926 the stadium was being renamed as “Soldier Field” in memory of World War I military personnel, and the Army-Navy game was selected as the formal dedication event.

Soldier Field was a U-shaped arena with a seating capacity of nearly 100,000, with many of the seats at the north end well beyond the gridiron itself. In anticipation of a large ticket demand for the Army-Navy clash, the Chicago Park Board was having temporary bleachers installed to close the open north end of the stadium — with no concern that these seats would be 30-40 yards beyond the goal posts. After holding out the seats for the two visiting student bodies and numerous dignitaries, there remained 40,000 decent seats which were priced at either $15 or $10 each, with the binocular-type seats priced lower. A full house scaled at these prices would produce gate receipts of approximately $800,000.

To say the least, the demand for tickets was overwhelming, as over 600,000 ticket requests were received for the 100,000 seats available on sale. Placed in charge of the ticket sales was Colonel H.C. Carbaugh — a 65-year old Army veteran who normally served as supervisor of the Civil Service Department for Chicago’s South Park Board Members of the public seeking tickets at times became so aggressive that it was necessary for Carbaugh to have body guards while at work, and police were assigned to protect the entrances to the Park’s Administration Building.

Of course it wouldn’t be Chicago without some hint of corruption, and it came to light when U.S. Representative John J. Gorman from Chicago charged that the South Park Board was violating an earlier agreement with the Chicago-area congressmen by only providing them with a hundred tickets each. Gorman added that rumors abounded that each of the park commissioners was receiving 1200 tickets. E. J. Kelly, president of the South Park commissioners, replied that everything possible was being done to distribute the tickets fairly and no attention was being given to the complaints of the congressmen.
Two days before the game Navy’s traveling party arrived aboard a special train via the Pennsylvania Railroad Coach Bill Ingram spurned a practice session at Soldier Field, and instead took his Middies to a workout on a secluded grassy island in the Sherman Park lagoon while guards protected all the bridgeways leading over the water. The Army team arrived soon afterward on the Michigan Central line, and Coach Biff Jones then drilled his charges at Soldier Field before the team headed for its accommodations at the South Shore Country Club.

The day before the game the visiting student bodies from the two academies were treated to a luncheon at Marshall Field’s giant department store in downtown Chicago, after which the cadets and midshipmen staged a big parade south on Michigan Avenue as they marched to Soldier Field for the formal dedication ceremony. Meanwhile, there was also a full slate of luncheons and parties planned to entertain the service personnel throughout the weekend.
Helping to fuel the already overheated college football fans of Chicago was the fact that the two teams were among the nation’s elite for 1926 — Navy coming in with a record of 9-0-0 and Army at 7-1-0, with only a narrow 7-0 defeat to Notre Dame marring the Cadets record. The Army team was slightly favored, and its powerhouse included such great players as Chris Cagle, “Lighthorse” Harry Wilson, Chuck Born, Gar Davidson, and Red Murrell; while Navy countered with standouts such as Tom Hamilton, Frank Wickhorst, Tom Eddy, and Whitey Lloyd.

When time for the kickoff finally arrived on November 27, 1926 — amidst concerns over the many counterfeit tickets which had been found in circulation — Soldier Field was jammed with approximately 110,000 fans, with thousands more standing atop every nearby building, water tower, and bridge that afforded any hopes of a glimpse of the action. A New York Times writer surveyed the scene from the rim of Soldier Field and reported that, “Looking off over the top of the stadium, there was nothing to see but people.” It was later stated that over 18,000 automobiles had been parked around the stadium, while Chicago taxi companies reported that they had made approximately 20,000 separate trips out to the arena. The massive crush of people and cars required the city to assign 1,350 police officers to direct traffic and maintain order. James Bennett of the Chicago Tribune described it as “a multitude that was worthy of the game.”

It was a cold day along the Chicago lakefront, and, except for the sun breaking through on one occasion, the game was played under a gray and heavily clouded sky. Snow banks surrounded the field from an earlier storm that had required 300 men to work the entire night before the game shoveling off the seats of the stadium. Around the rim of the stadium were large American flags which rippled in the wintry breezes off Lake Michigan.

Army kicked off to open the game, and surprisingly, Coach Jones of the Cadets had a half dozen of his first string players on the sideline. After the teams exchanged punts, the offensive fireworks began. Starting from its 45 yard line, Navy began to mix an array of short passes with its running attack. After several plays moved the ball to Army’s 34, Jim Schuber of Navy faked an end sweep but instead rifled a long pass that Hank Hardwick plucked out of the air at the eight yard line before being dragged down at the one. Two plays later Howard Caldwell blasted in for the touchdown, and Tom Hamilton’s drop-kick made it 7-0, Navy.

Again the teams returned to an exchange of possessions although Navy clearly held the upper hand, and writer Walter Eckersall later declared that “the Middies appeared unbeatable in the first quarter.” Late in the period Navy began a drive from its 43 yard line and, after a penalty set them back to the 32, Hamilton connected on a pass to Schuber that was good for 23 yards. After a couple more plays, Coach Jones rushed the rest of his Army first string into the game just before the quarter ended with the Middies at the Army 22. Several plays later Schuber blasted in from one yard out for the TD, and Hamilton’s PAT made it 14-0.

Later in the second quarter Army finally got its offense on track behind the hard running of Chris Cagle and Harry Wilson. Starting from their 37 yard line after a punt, the Cadets got rolling as Wilson broke off a dazzling change of pace run of 23 yards to the Navy 40. Two playslater Cagle swept around right end on a 21-yard gallop, and on the next snap Wilson slashed through the left side of the line and sailed 17 yards to Army’s first touchdown. Wilson’s placekick made it 14-7.

The next time Army had the ball it was unable to move, and so Red Murrell dropped back to his 20, from where he boomed a towering punt that came down to the Middies’ Howard Ransford on the Navy 25. Attempting a running catch, Ransford fumbled the ball and the bouncing pigskin caromed off the foot of Army’s Skip Harbold and toward the Navy goal line. Catching up with the ball near the 15, Harbold picked it up and rumbled toward paydirt, and despite falling down at the one, the weary cadet managed to squirm into the end zone for the touchdown. Wilson’s PAT made it 14-14, and the wild first half soon came to a close.

After the gigantic throng had been entertained by a mock battle between students of the two schools, the second half got underway as Army started from its 26 after Cagle’s 20-yard runback of the kickoff. Several plays later Wilson swept around left end for a gain of 15 yards to the Navy 44, and on the next snap Cagle broke up the middle and dashed all the way for the touchdown that put Army ahead 21-14 after Wilson’s PAT.

Despite the stunning comeback by the Cadets, the Middies returned to the attack. Both of the high-powered offenses fought back and forth until late in the third quarter when Navy started from its 43 yard line after a punt. Slowly the Middies headed up the field as the action moved into the fourth quarter. Hamilton completed two key passes to Alan Shapley on the drive, and Ransford chipped in a critical gain of eight yards for a first down at Army’s 15. The 12-play drive was capped off in sensational fashion when Shapley swept around right end on a fourth down and three play for an eight-yard touchdown run. With the entire stadium holding its breath, Hamilton calmly drop-kicked the extra point to tie it at 21-21.

With just over seven minutes left to play, the surrounding gloom and darkness had gathered to the point where it was increasingly difficult for fans and writers in the press box to distinguish the players on the field. Still, Army mounted one last attempt at the win, starting from its 27 yard line after the following kickoff. On the second play of the series Wilson broke through left tackle for a 28 yard dash into Navy territory, and then he and Murrell alternated in pounding the Middies’ line. Finally, checked just inside the 20, Wilson dropped back to attempt a place-kick from the 26. The ball was spotted directly in front of the goal posts, but incredibly Wilson’s kick sailed just wide.

The final couple minutes were played in “almost total darkness,” as the electric lights over the stadium’s entrance tunnels and on the Scoreboard twinkled in the gloom. On the last play of the game Hamilton attempted a desperate pass for Navy, but the aerial was intercepted by (and here’s where the darkness contributed to the confusion) either Wilson, Cagle, or Chuck Harding — depending on which game account you choose to accept. The runback was finally halted deep in Navy territory, and so the monumental battle ended in a 21-21 tie.

Combined with Notre Dame’s shocking 19-0 loss to Carnegie Tech that same day, undefeated Navy’s hard-earned tie gave its supporters plenty of ammunition to debate Stanford for the mythical national championship. Yet more significant was the 1926 game’s place in football history. Walter Eckersall described it as “one of the greatest football games ever played,” and it remains so to his day. No single game in college football history has ever so completely combined the color, spectacle, national media coverage, public popularity, and top-flight level of play as the Army-Navy battle of 1926 at Soldier Field. Robert Kelley of the New York Times defined the game’s significance when he wrote that day: “Football had the greatest pageant, its high spot of color, and so did sport in the United States.”

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Record of 4-4-1, Tie was Navy, Coached by Robert Boyers ’03 and the Team Captain was Alexander Gillespie.

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Army 1960 6-3-1
1960/11/26 Army 12 – Navy 17 L

Coach: Dale Stanley Hall (June 21, 1924 – August 23, 1996)
Army 1959-1961:
1959 Army 4-4-1
1960 Army 6-3-1
1961 Army 6-4
Army: 16-11-2
Total: 16-11-2

Schedule

Army 37 Buffalo 0
Army 20 Boston College 7
Army 28 California 10
Army 16 Penn State 28
Army 9 Nebraska 14
Army 54 Villanova 0
Army 30 Miami of Ohio 7
Army 9 Syracuse 6
Army 7 Pittsburg 7
Army 12 Navy 17

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“Jim Sarn” 82, Barry Butzer 60, “Dick Eckert” 10

Bill Yost 75, “Bill Clark” 26, 84 “Bill Harkins”

“Glen Adams” 16, “Ed Pillings” AAA Trainer on left

Tom Blanda 18, Al Vanderbush 64, Al Rushatz 31 with ball, “Bob McCarthy” 77, #44 unknown, Bob Fuellhart 80

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This was one of the finest games of the 4 years for the Class of 62. In the 4th quarter, Syracuse (defending National Champions) trying to come from behind, would attempt 3 passes, then hand off to Ernie Davis who would pickup 10 or 11 yards before Army closed on him. As Syracuse drove closer to the goal, Army stopped the drive with an interception and then drove to the Syracuse one-yard line, when time expired. It was a night on the town in New York City after that game.

One of our Fullbacks (probably Ray) is going to Bust Somebody – Al Rushatz & “Ray Paske” ran this play several times with success. There is a clear image in my mind of Al, right in front of the Corps, getting tripped up at the line of scrimmage, dropping his free hand as he is nearly horizontal, regaining his balance and rumbling for more yardage.

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‘on, Brave Old Army Team’
Backed by a legion of cheering cadets, the Army football team stormed into Yankee Stadium and beat favored Syracuse 9-6
Roger Williams, Sports Illustrated – November 14, 1960

For a disappointing, twice-beaten team, Army got a rousing send-off when it left West Point last week for its game with Syracuse. The corps of cadets disclosed and expended emotional reserves usually saved for the Navy game-signs, stunts, parades, a crackling determination all over the Point. Army, shouted 2,500 cadets, would beat Syracuse.

But Army was a 7-point underdog, and sportswriters noted that under Ben Schwartzwalder the Orange – in two varsity games, numerous freshman games and several preseason scrimmages – had never lost to Army in football. Still cadet spirit soared. At Yankee Stadium dedicated gray-coats plastered “Slash Syracuse” signs on sideline barriers and scattered oranges around a symbolic cross planted at midfield.

Army stole the on-field show as well. Playing their most inspired game in years, the Cadets forced Syracuse into costly mistakes. One penalty helped Army reach the Syracuse 12, where Tom Blanda kicked a field goal. A fumble on the Army 20 cost Syracuse its one real threat to score in the first half.

At half time, the Orange band marched and the “national champion” baton twirler performed. But the corps roared back with choruses of On, Brave Old Army Team. Then, in the third quarter, with Fullback Al Rushatz doing most of the carrying, Army moved swiftly and scored when sub Quarterback Dick Eckert faked two handoffs and cut inside end from the two. Army led 9-0.

Then Syracuse came to life. Ernie Davis ate up 37 yards on two runs and, when Army braced, Dick Easterly passed to Ken Ericson for a touchdown. Syracuse grabbed the ball again but Army stopped the Orange. With fourth and 10 on the Syracuse 39, Tom Gilburg dropped back in punt formation. Army scouts had seen the Orange fake a kick in similar situations and had alerted Coach Dale Hall. Hall played for the fake and, when Gilburg threw a pathetically wobbly pass, Army was ready. Roger Zailskas intercepted and that was all. The game ended 9-6 with Army on the Syracuse one and a mob of cadets jumping up and down on the sideline. They swept Hall and their team right off the field and on toward Annapolis.

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1960: Army vs Navy – A look back at the 1960 Army-Navy game.  go to – https://forwhattheygave.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/1960-army-navy/

to see story with  pictures

The following article was written the day after the Army team took the Navy down to the wire in a most thrilling Army Navy games of that era. Navy prevailed that year, 17-12. Described by the Dean of New York sports writers, Red Smith (1905-1982), he aptly describes the exciting action in his exclusive column.

RED SMITH

The Slasher

Philadelphia, November, 26, 1960—–The first time they gave Joe Bellino the ball, Armys John Ellerson leaped upon his sternum and spread him out like apple butter 14pon the painted meadow of Philadelphias Municipal Stadium The second tim, he faked a quick-kick, spun to run to his left, and was hit from behind by a runaway beer truck named Bob McCarthy.

On his third try he did no better, and up in the press box aan said, “Army’ll beat this team.” Just then Bellino took the ball again. He shot through a gap near the middle of Army’s line, veered to the left on a long slant through the secondary, and raced 58 yards before George Kirschenbauer hauled him down on the Army 42-yard line. Navy was off and rolling in the 61st engagement of its Seventy Years’ War with the football paladins of West Point.

That first daring dash by the swift and stumpy marauder from the Severn didn’t lead directly to a score, but in one stroke it changed the complexion of the struggle from Gray to Navy Blue. Taking the opening kickoff, Navy was smashed flat by the same clamoring Cadets who had smeared the dangerous runners of Syracuse and Pitt earlier this season. Then a punt by Army’s Paul Stanley pinned the Sailors down a yard from their own goal line.

There was Navy staring glumly down the throat of a howitzer, and then Bellino busted loose. Before the first quarter was over, Navy was in front, 6-0. At intermission the score was 17-0, and 98,616 witnesses had a premonition that this might degenerate into another rabbit-hunt like Navy’s 43-12 gambol last year.

Early Errors Nobody could foresee the heroics which the second half would produce, the wild excursions and alarums, the mounting tension as Army came clawing back in a frantic struggle against the stubborn foe on the field and the coldly impartial clock hung up against a bright blue sky.

At halftime it seemed a shabby show, in spite of the mildest, loveliest weather this production had enjoyed in years, in spite of all the elegant trappings of traditional pageantry, in spite of the exciting presence of the admirable Bellino.

Army had messed it up early through mental and mechanical error. After the Cadets smothered Navy’s first action and forced a punt, Joe Blackgrove unwisely tried to field the bouncing kick with his back to an advancing horde. Smashed from behind, he fumbled away Army’s first chance to attack.

Stanley’s fine punt, repaired that damage, and after Bellino’s long run took the ball into Army territory, the military braced and Navy tried a fourth-down field goal which Greg Mather missed. So it was still a scoreless game, but on the very next play Al Rushatz, the West Point fullback, fumbled the ball back to Navy, Needing 23 yards for a touchdown, Navy got ’em fast, Bellino slanting over for the last four wearing Kirschenbauer like a stole across his shoulders.

Up off the Rug

THERE never was another one-piece play like Bellino’s big run, but in the second quarter he was a constant menace, butting the middle for short yardage and slipping outside the tackles to wriggle like a brook trout through congested traffic. With Joe running and Hal Spooner passing handsomely, Navy pushed down into scoring range again and Mather made the score 9-0 with a 26-yard field goal.

As the first half sifted away, the Midshipmen put on still another foray, once more with Spooner passing and Bellino carrying. With 17 seconds remaining, the quarterback threw to Jim Luper, who fell across the goal line with Bill Sipos hanging on. Trapped trying to pass for two extra points, Bellino flipped the ball back to Spooner, who ran for the 16th and 17th points.

Navy seemed In complete control. The Army attack, such as it had been, offered little to cheer the 2,400 Cadets in the stands. West Point backs couldn’t seem to get traction on tile dyed green grass, kept falling before they reached the line of scrimmage. Even the fire of the Army defense seemed damped after Navy’s first touchdown.

Something happened between halves, though. The third quarter opened, and it was a different game. With Tom Blanda’s passes complementing the rushes of Rushatz, Glen Adams and Kirschenbauer, Army drove for one touchdown and almost immediately set out after another. Again misfortune balked the Cadets; a penalty for having an inengible receiver downfield on a pass play slowed one drive, and the score was still 17-6 when the last period began.

Last Curtain

The jubilant Midshipmen on the stadium’s west slope had just about had it. Now and then they whooped and brandished white caps aloft, but mostly they sat transfixed, watching and praying, Dick Eckert, Army’s second quarterback, engineered a solid advance that Rushatz consummated with a dive into the end zone. Now it was 17-12 with nine minutes remaining for Army to chew at a five-point lead. Navy stopped a drive, then fumbled, Rushatz recovered for Army, 17 yards from victory. Yard by yard, cudgelling the line for short gains, Army ground ahead to the 6-yard line. There a hasty lateral got loose, rolled back to the Navy 20. Blanda passed and missed, passed and missed again. The clock showed 1:55 remaining when his last throw fell incomplete and Navy took the ball.

The contest was over, needing only a final theatrical flourish. There was a guy on hand to furnish just that. Guy named Bellino. Unable to run out the clock, Navy punted to midfield. Blanda wound up for the last prayerful shot, took aim on Blackgrove and fired. Bellino got in front of the receiver, picked off the ball on the goal line and went swirling 45 yards back to safety as the curtain came down.
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1908 6-1-2
1908/11/28 Army 6 – Navy 4 W
Coach: Harry Nelly 1908-1910
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Rivals Leave For Big Game – West Point Cadets and Annapolis Middies Depart for Battle Field.
Youngstown Vindicator – Nov 25, 1908
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ARMY AND NAVY IN FOOTBALL BATTLE; West Point and Annapolis Cadets Clash at Philadelphia To-day. TEAMS FIT AND CONFIDENT Battalions of Both Academies to See Conflict — Social and Official Throngs as Spectators.
New York Times – Nov 28, 1908
The football season for 1908 will close this afternoon when the rival … To-day is a general reunion day in :Philadelphia …
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30,000 PERSONS SEE ARMY TEAM DEFEAT NAVY ON FRANKLIN FIELD; Grizzled Veterans of Uncle Sam’s Service Mingle with Youth and Beauty, While Embryo Generals and Admirals Contest for Football Supremacy. ARMY VANQUISHES NAVY ON GRIDIRON – New York Times – November 29, 1908,
PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Nov 28 — The thirteen engagement in the perennial strife of football between West Point and Annapolis went into history this afternoon with a score of “Army, 6, and Navy, 4,” to be emblazoned in Army archives, and to be recorded on the other side of the ledger at Annapolis.
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Army Vanquishes The Navy – Lewiston Morning Tribune – Nov 29, 1908
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1959 Football Team

Army 1959 4-4-1 1959/11/28 Army 12 – Navy 43 L 1960 USMA Howitzer: no longer available at archive.org Coach: Dale Stanley Hall (June 21, 1924 – August 23, 1996) Army 1959-1961: 1959 Army 4-4-1 1960 Army 6-3-1 1961 Army 6-4 Army: 16-11-2 Total: 16-11-2 source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Hall Captain Bill Carpenter 87, Bob Anderson is 21, Ozzie Oswandel 56, Joe Caldwell 12, “Don Usry” 89, “Mike Jesor” 68, “Steve Waldrop”42, “Russ Walters” 83, “George Everbach” 82, “Scotty Brown”71, Coach Dale Hall is center.

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Bill Carpenter &Bob Anderson

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