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.
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