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Army jumped off fast. After the Crimson had taken the kickoff and pushed from its own 26 to the Army 38, defensive center Lynn Galloway intercepted a pass and the Cadets were started. Fifteen plays later Gil Stephenson, playing his first full game of the season, bucked over from the four-yard line. The big gains in this drive came on two passes by Arnold Galiffa, to Dan Foldberg and Jim Cain, and a 13-yard run by Karl Kuckhahn...
...psychological" edge that Harvard might have had disappeared on the following kickoff, as Jim Noonan fumbled the kick on his own fifteen. Army leaped happily on the ball--this was the first of four Crimson fumbles that the Cadets grabbed--and scored as Frank Fischl cracked to the three and Stephenson again pushed over through tackle...
After one set of plays, Lowenstein punted from his own 22--the slim sophomore was kicking because both Charley Roche and Carl Bottenfield had been cocked out of the game in the first six minutes--and Army's Hal Shultz ran it to the Harvard 45. Seven plays later the swiftly-moving Cadets had scored again; this time a fake-pass-and-run by Galiffa (good for 20 yards) and two runs by Jim Cain (8 and 9 yards, the latter to score) did the damage. Jack Mackmull converted for the third time...
Earl Blaik put his first-string offense in again at this point and it got two more touchdowns before the game ended...
...goals in the first period gave Harvard an early start, and the team eased along from there, controlling the ball in Army zone most of the time. It was a far better Crimson forward attack than the one which feebly opposed Cornell and Amherst and lost during the past week...