Football

On a warm, sunny afternoon, 75,000 people including taciturn Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams paid $400,000 to watch Army and Navy end the Eastern season with a charity game in New York. There was no doubt that Army had the better team. The season's records proved it and so did the first two periods of the game, when Navy's running attack stalled and Army scored ten points, on Travis Brown's field goal, a touchdown plunge by Eddie Herb after a long forward pass, and Herb's place-kick for the extra point.

After the half, Navy switched to passes, finally got off a long one for a touchdown, when Kirn faded back to throw to Taschirgi who caught the ball on Army's 20-yd. line and just distanced Tom Kilday to the goal. The crowd was on its feet through most of the last quarter, while Army inched its way clown the field, against an inspired Navy defense, to a first down inside Navy's 1-yd. line. For three downs, there was no more inching. On the fourth, Herb got through again, kicked the goal after his touchdown and Army won, 17 to 7.

At Los Angeles, Southern California beat Georgia--which had beaten every Eastern team it played except Tulane-- 60 to 0. It was a game like the Stanford-Army game in 1928, which made Eastern football look like a pee-wee imitation of the game played by the rugged, indestructible youths on the Pacific coast. Vernon ("Catfish") Smith played a fine individual game for Georgia, but Southern California scored twice in the first ten minutes, made touchdowns almost at whim thereafter--two each by Sparling, Shaver and Barber, one apiece by Hammack, Mohler and Clark. Eastern footballers wondered how Southern California had managed to lose to St. Mary's, what would happen to Tulane in the Rose Bowl game Jan. 1.

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