| Army Wgt. Navy Wgt. |
| Neyland 170 L.E. Von H'mb'g 180 |
| Jones 200 L.T. Ward 177 |
| O'hare 192 L.G. Kercher 185 |
| McEwan 192 C. Goodstein 172 |
| Meacham 176 R.G. Smith 199 |
| Weyand 197 R.T. Gilman 187 |
| Redfield 163 R.E. Johnson 169 |
| Gerhardt 145 Q.B. Craig 147 |
| Ford 171 L.H. Westphal 184 |
| Oliphant 163 R.H. Davis 153 |
| Coffin 162 F.B. Martin 161 |
| |
| T'l weight 1931 lbs. T'l weight 1914 lbs. |
| Avg. wgt., 175.6 lbs. Avg. wgt., 174 lbs. |
| |
|Referee, W. S. Langford, Trinity; umpire, F. W. |
|Murphy, Brown; field judge, J. A. Evans, Williams; |
|head linesman, Carl Marshall, Harvard.[36] |
[36] _New York World_, November 27, 1916.
=251. Review Stories.=--Stories written days after a game are generally
of an analytical nature, their purpose being to review the play or
contest and explain why one team or contestant was successful and the
other a failure, or why one method of play, attack, or defense proved
better than others. Sometimes, however, such stories are merely
individual incidents learned late, but of interest nevertheless to the
readers. An analytical story is the following:
| =NEW RULES UPSET TEAMS= |
| |
|With the advent of October, the month which |
|generally ushers in the football seasons, the defeat|
|of Yale by Virginia was one of the most conspicuous |
|cases of the old adage that history will repeat |
|itself in football as well as in any other line of |
|athletic endeavor. |
| |
|In former years supposedly stronger elevens have met|
|with unexpected setbacks from teams which were |
|thought to be only tools in the helpful development |
|of the big elevens for the harder and more important|
|contests to be played later in the season. In th
|