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Show LIKES ELEVEN HIS HARQBATTLE Snatch Victory From Almost Al-most Certain Defeat in Last Three Minutes' Play. ANNAPOLIS, M., Nov. In one of the most bitterly contested games ever witnessed on a local gridiron, the eleven oC t lie Ureal .Lakes Naval Training station of Chicago, trailed the colors of Annapolis mld.shiprnen in defeat here this afternoon, o 6, the narrow margin of a, goal bed. The Tars from the middlewcst turned what seamed like ceitain defeat into victory vic-tory In the last three minutes of the closing clos-ing period of the game, when Kilnon sprinted nir.tty yards to a touchdown. Blacklock. the Lis Indian, put up a brilliant bril-liant defensive game at right taeiile for Great Lakes, and kicked tho goal that Sealed the fate of the middies' claim lor football supremacy in the east. The game was a thriller from star to finish, and was marked by a (sensational V incident one that is seldom witnessed on a college gridiron in these days. The sensation was coupled with Eiison's brilliant bril-liant dash to a touchdown. After the Great Lakes runner had sprinted to within the thirty-yard mark of the navy's goal line and the last of the pursuing taeklers had been disposed of by hiH interferers. Saunders, or.e of the middies' mid-dies' first-string substitutes, daslud from his seat on the bench out into the football foot-ball arena and brought the fleeing runner down from behind. General excitement prevailed for a time, and some of the supporters of Great Lanes mad( a rush for the intruding middle mid-dle and began pummelling him, but ejuiet was soon restored and the game proceeded. proceed-ed. Kilson had a clear field at the time, and the officials ot course ruled a legitimate legiti-mate touchdown. This Incident came virtually as a climax to the stubbornness of the fight that each team put into the game, although there were no other elements of unusual roughness. rough-ness. Finally a cleverly executed double pass between Coombs and Ingram i hat culminated culmi-nated in a long forward toss to Roberts at the far side of the field, counted for a gain of ten yards and a touchdown. Tho punt out for a try at goal went into touch. Another navy touchdown seemed inevitable inev-itable just before Lilson made his sensational sensa-tional dash. The Middies had plugged their way to the visitors' ten-yaid line, when the fatal fumble came. Kor a time during the second half it looked as though the Great Laks lads might crumble, but they were game to the end. Tho second period was equally ps stubborn stub-born as that which marked the first. 'Neither team gained any appreciable ad-r ad-r vantage and thirty-five yrrds was the nearest either got to the oilier gcal line. The Middies registered a well deserved touchdown about the middle of the third period. By line bucks and off tackle plays they carried the ball from midtield to Great Lakes' fifteen-yard line, from which a finely executed double pass be- j tween Coombs and Ingram terminated in j a forward toss to Roberts, the latter go- J Ning across for a touchdown. The punt ' out for a trial at goal was a failure. i XTo wards the close of the final period Wrent Lakes turned what seemed to be certain defeat into victory. The Middies were plugging away ten yards from Great Lakes' goal line and another touchdown seemed imminent, when Navy fumbled and Filson recovered and dashed ninety yards to a touchdown, and Blacklock, tho ginnt Indian, kicked goal. The teams played each other to a standoff stand-off in tho first period, although the Middies Mid-dies had a shade the better of it in general gen-eral ground gaining. Neither, however, got within striking distance except that Brlscoll of Great Lakes had a chance for a field goal from tho thirty-yard marie. I .ineup: Navy (6. Great Lakes (7). Low- le Rciehle Staffo It lOcklund Naunt'ers ig Keefn (c) Arthur c Knight I'erry rg Jones Murray rt Bku'kloek . Kwen re Hulas Ingram (c) cb Dri.senll Roberts Ihb Eriekson Orr .. rfib Kilson Coombs f b Ln u e r Referee, IX. T. Heneage, Dartmouth; umpire, Dr. Carl 'Williams, Pennsylvania; head linesman, B. W. Merriman, Geneva. Navy scoring Touchdown, Roberts. Great Lakes scoring Touchdown, Eil-flon. Eil-flon. Goal from touchdown, Blacklock.' Time of periods, fifteen minutes. |