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Great Football Wins: 1947 Upset Over Army

NEW YORK—On October 25, 1947, Columbia halted Army's 32-game unbeaten streak in a dramatic 21-20 upset before a crowd of 35,000 packed into Baker Field's 32,000-seat wooden stadium. Among the dozens of journalists covering the game that day were two of sportswriting's immortals, Stanley Woodward and Red Smith of the New York Herald Tribune. This is the account of that game as related by those two giants of journalism in a rich prose style no longer seen in sportswriting. The comments in italics, linking the sportswriters' accounts, are those of Columbia historian Bill Steinman.