Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-11-06
THE MIDDIES WON AGAIN.
TROUNCED THE TEAM OF PENN.
STATE COLLEGE.
Handsome Women, Dashing Men
And An Ideal Day Added
To The Scene.
THE GAME WAS A PRETTY ONE
IN ALL WAYS.

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/ and persons among whom were the
English officers of Prince Louis fiees
and :, 500 Baltimoreans, drawn here
/ by the Prince Admiral's visit, Navy
Saturday afternoon defeated tine
| strong team of Pennsylvania State
| College by a score Of IL to 3.
The weather was ideal and the large
I crowd in unusual good humor, bank
| ed about the great rectangular field
| in a mass, made up of beautiful
women. dashing officers and humanity
| in its finest fuss and feathers, present.
edl beautiful scene. Interest and
| enthusiasm in the spirit of the hour
was heightened by the dispaly of Jap
| anese fireworks. sent up from the paia-
| tial houseboat of Col. r. M Thomp-
/ son, and the practioing of songs and
/ yells to be used at the Army Navy
game by the $50 members of the bri-
gade of Midshipmen.
AS these yells and songs, which. it
is hoped are destined for victorious
music, were sent floating beavenward.
they joined the floating paper. Ameri-
/ can and English flags, streameTs of
naval signals and other designs nm
| furled after the dischage of each round
/ Of day fireworks from Colonel
| Thompson's S yacht and were sent sail
| ing o'er the green.
Nays first touchdown was an ap-
parently easy one, and led her sup.
porters tokbelieve that the score would
be an overwhelming one. until later
| in the game when the visitors braced
| and fought them for every yard. Nor
/ ton kicked off to McGee almost under
the latter's goal posts, and the Navy
| tacklers threw their man in his tracks.
| The Pennsylvanians were unable to
| gain and MCGEE punted to Spencer in
midfield. The latter fell in his tracks.
| Then began a battle royal. Bernard,
Ghormley and Norton, between them
| ripped off four yards and then Pier
sol tore through tackle for ~ yards.
Ghormley got four and Norton was
| juggled back for loss on an end
play. This forced the Middies to
punt. The ball went high and Nor
ton fumbled, but Doherty got on the
coveted leather for Navy. A success
sion of tackle and end plays by Spen-
| Ger and DohertY sent the leather down
| to the 4-ayrd mark, from where Grady
was sent over. Norton kicked goal
Following the next kick off the visitors
were forced to punt almost Immediate
ly to Norton, who beeled for free
| kick. McGee caught the pigskin on
the 4-yard strip. but was forced to
| try another punt. He fumbled and
| Howard fell on the leather. From
here Spencer, Doherty, Piersol and
Ghormley took short gains and Ghorm-
| ley, aided by Causey's interference,
managed to add 10 yards more.
An otfside play and eight yards by
Doherty landed the pigskin on the 2
yard mark, from where Norton failed
at field goal try As the ball bound
ed into the air from the Navy's quar-
ter's toe, MCGEE plunged through the
center of the line, touched it with his
finger tips and drew it to his waiting
breast. With nothing between him
and the coveted goal but Norton, who
was off his balance from the kick, the
Penn. State full back dashed away up
the field. Although followed by 81
straining and excited men, he was
not touched until after he had made
a 75-yard dash for touchdown.
Miller, however, missed goal. This
ended the scoring for the half, which
was called with the ball in Navy's
possession III midleld.
Three times during the second half
Navy bucked her opponents back TO
within 20 Yards OF the goal and Norton
tried fer a field goal failing each
time. MCGEE punted out and Decker,
who had replaced Norton. was then
given the leather and tailed up 10
yards around left end. To this he
added yards on the next play and
then enve the leather TO Spencer. who
ripped off 20 yards. Doherty, Ghnrm-
lev and Decker each failed and the
ball went TO Penn. The visitors could
not gain aud MCGEE punted to mid
| field. Doherty and Decker failed to
gain and forced Howard to punt to
Yeckley 20 Yards away. It was the
same old story and the visitors had TO
rely on MGcee's toe to get out of dan
ger.
The punt was ont of bounds at the
| 35-yard line. Spencer broke through
| center foI two yards, Doherty broke
| tackle for the same number, Piersol
| followed suit, then Spencer ripped of
/ three more yadrs Two yards through
/ center by Ghormley and seven more
on Spencer's tackle play and the Mid
/ dies lined up TO do or die. Decker
| took the sphere and on a beautiful
/ quarterback run around left end, bur
| died one of his own men who lay
prostrato and had clear field foI 10
| yards and a touchdown. He failed,
however, at his attempt for goal.
This ended the scoring. although the
leather swapped hands twice, and the
Midshipmen, on the second possession
of the ball, hammered their way up
the field steadily. Aided by couple
of long runs by Decker and Doherty
and steady gains by Spencer. they had
landed the sphere within about three
inches of a third touchdown whe y
time was called.
Laying The Condaits.