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PHILADELPHIA _ In between the sharply angled parade of Midshipmen and Cadets and the moving renditions of both academies' alma maters, they played the Army-Navy game for the 102d time yesterday.
Army's 26-17 victory before 69,708 fans at Veterans Stadium was neither as artistic nor as dramatic as most of its predecessors in the flag-draped rivalry.
There were, after all, five interceptions and a handful of fumbles, and if any of these quarterbacks are destined for the artillery or a gunship, they might want to spend some time on the target range first.
"The game today was obviously not pretty," Army coach Todd Berry said after his first victory in a series Army now leads, 49-46-7. "It wasn't a perfect game, but I don't think I've ever been in one that was perfect. The only thing I know is that when you look up at the end and see who's won, that's the only thing that matters."
But it wasn't the only thing that mattered on this spring-like Dec. 1 in South Philadelphia.
America is at war, and, very soon, many of those Army and Navy ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Army tops Navy.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)