The teams changed goals and on the first scrimmage Shafer, in right formation, took the ball from centre, knifed through inside Army's left tackle and was away like a shot, outrunning the Army safety to score in the corner.
So two Navy substitute backs, Shafer and Leonard, beat the Army today, with the help of some twenty other fighting Navy players. Captain Bergner, playing his last game, bril-hantly led a Navy line that had been strong all year against a rushing attack and that finally got some real help today from a backfield that had been all but wrecked by a succession of injuries through the season.
For Army it was a bitter end to a campaign that fell considerably short of its high expectations. The cadets did not play as good football today as they did against Notre Dame and Penn State, and Coach Bill Wood saw all his plans of attack frustrated by the weather as well as by Navy's furious fight.
When you come right down to it, it was the unshakable thirst for victory and the great spirit of the midshipman that won the ball game. How much they wanted the victory was demonstrated by the record-breaking swiftness with which the midshipmen in the stands tore down the goal posts. Thirty seconds after the final whistle they were carrying the uprights triumphantly around the field.
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