Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-08
Good Men to Fill Vacancies.

The Navy loses several good men but has
a number of excellent men from whom to
fill the places of those who have graduated
Capt. Douglass is in excellent shape and
will. of course. be one OF the halves. Rich
ard~on. who played on the University OF
Tennessee. which gave Douglass his train
ing, played end last year, but IL begin the
season at fullbaek. where he is expected to
equal the work of the redoubtable Jonas In
gram captain and stroke of the Navy crew.
lange. veteran of the base ball nine. is
sure To make an excellent quarterback, so
that the back field is already outlined with
the exception of one halfback. This seems
TO be the position for which the greatest
fight will be made when the season gets in
full swing. Harris, probably the most
promising substitute back, has not recov-
cred from injuries to his leg received last
fall and will not play next season. posi-
b.lity for the position is Roger Spencer,
brother of Capt. Herbert Spencer of last
year team The younger Spencer entered
the academy this season and resembles his
brother in build and general makeup. He
has had experience as a back and will try
for the team.
. tn, The Navy appears to have an over
abundance Of husky candidates for the line
ana fast men for the ends. Slngluff cen
ter: Wright and Meyer. guards; Piersol
ana Northcroft and Dague. ends, will all
be back in the game this season. Other
candidates for the team who made strong
nights for positions last year are: ShafrOth
guard: Leighton and Magruder. tackles
Mccormick. Boyntof and De Mott, ends
These, with the new material, are sure to
make the strongest kind of competition
for places on the team this fall.
Nearly all OF the foot ball candidates will
report on September 81, week before the
opening of the academy. Consequently they
Will have nothing to do for a week but at
tend to the Instructions of Lieut.. Com
mander Joseph NJ Reeves. the new head
coach, who is stationed here. Mr.. John N
Gates, who Will be field coach again this
year. will return about week late and
DR.. Paul j. Dashiell. who relinquished the
position of head coach, will be at the acad-
envy little later and his counsel will al
ways be at the disposal of those who will
assume active charge of the foot ball in
struCtiOu.
This Years Schedule.
The schedule at Annapolis this year will
be one of unusual interest Beginning with
October . the Navy Will play Western
Maryland. Maryland Agricultural and St
Johns College in the order named on the
first three Wednesdays in October Dick
enson will be played on the 9TH, and on the
18th there will be the game with Wander
bilt. one of the most interesting on the
schedule.
Vanderbilt will play for the first time at
Annapolis, and ii is conceded to be the
strongest eleven of the south and south
west. ranking with Michigan and Chicago
Particular interest is lent to the contest by
the fact that Capt. Douglass and Richard
son of the Navy team are from the Uni
verSity of Tennessee. the dearest athletic
enemy of Vanderbilt On Saturday, the
18th. Harvard Will come to Annapolis and
give the Midshipmen the great game of the
local season AS in the case of Vanderbilt,
Harvard has not played foot ball at An
napolis.
The last October game will be with the
strong Lafayette eleven, on the 26th and
West Virginia will play here on November
= on the 9th, 10Th and 25d SWarthmore
Pennsylvania State and Virginia Polytech-
named. All are strong teams and capable of
giving the Navy the hardest kind of work