ARMY played NAVY at Philadelphia. Stadium,.on Saturday, December 1st. NAVY won
the game by the score of 34 to 14 . That’s a fact and here are some others.
The ARMY-NAVY rivalry is not only one of the oldest football rivalries m t e
country, but one of thb closest as well. ARMY has won 30 games, NAVY 28 and
there have been five ties... NAVY won five straight from 1939-43, but under
two different coaches... ARMY has won five games in a row; between 1927-33.
(There were no games, in *28 and *29.)... ARMY'S largest winning margin was 38
0 in 1949, while NAVY whipped the Cadets 42-7 in 1951...Bill Carpenter, ARMY S
Lonesome End was All-America in 1959, and Joe Bellino was NAVY'S last All
America... Bellino was the last Navy player to score three touchdowns against ^
ARMY. Doc Blanchard scored three for Army in 1945*.• Though, NAVY'S George
Welsh threw three touchdown passes in the: 1954 game, ARMY won the game 27-20...
Elwyn Rowan and Bobby Vinson, both.of ARMY, share the record of the longest
iun from scrimmage in an ARMY-NAVY Game. Rowan ran 92 yards in 1947 and
Vinson went 92 in 1949. NAVY shut out ARMY in both of those games, by the way..
NAVY was the host for this year's game, - with the Cadets parading on to^Phila
delphia Stadium's field first... Paul Dietzel is the first-noh-West Point
graduate to coach an Army football team against Navy... Dietzel was an Army
Air Force pilot during World War II, while Wayne Hardin was with the Coast
Guard in the Aleutians. Saturday's game .at Philadelphia was shortwaved to
United States servicemen in all parts of the world by Armed Forces Radio.Ser
vice. Van Patrick did the broadcast of the game for aFRS-HY. *
NAVY had the first break in the game when the pass from center was over the
head of the kicker for ARMY, and rolled into the end zone for a safety and two
points*. After that Navy had: their way for most of the game scoring 8 points
in the first quarter, 7 in the second, 7 in the third and 12 points in the last*(^|
Army scored 6 points in the second quarter and 8 in the fourth.
The Navy quarter-back was the outstanding player in-the game, running the ball
for two scores and throwing for three more. Navy's outstanding passing game
and fine running was just too much for the Cadets from West Point.
Each,year the teams try something new to throw off the other team. This year
Army’s try was to have no warm-up before the game and then appeared on the
field wearing white focvtball shoes. The Cadet’s Chinese Bandits never had a
chance against the on rushing Middies.
With NAVY winning this, Wayne Hardin became the first man to direct four
consecutive NAVY victories in the fall classic. . .
president KENNEDY was present for the game and watched from the Navy side
for the first half and then crossed over to the Army side for the second half.
A new box seat had been built this year'so that the President would have a
better view of the game than in the past. Having been a Naval Officer, the
President ■ surely enjoyed the view he had of the Navy win.