Sport: Taps

With one minute to play, Navy's supposedly small-bore football team was three yards from one of the great upsets in football history. There were scrambled emotions among civilians in the crowd of 102,000 in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium. They first made the underdog Middies their sentimental favorites—but in the last few seconds few seemed to want the Army's great Davis, Blanchard & Co. to lose. In the last few ticks, Navy fullback Lynn Chewning smacked center and bounced back one yard. With the seconds dissolving, a Navy rooter yelled, "Take time out!.Kill the...

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