Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-12-20
TO BUILD STADIUM
Work To Begin AT The Naval
Academy First OF Year
TO SEAT $500 SPECTATORS
Naval Academy To Have lis First Per.
mauent Athletic Siructure-TO Be
405 Feet In Length-A LOnPfeIt
Want-Will Be A Center
For Field Sports

Tot TlSiu opOItS
Work will begin on January l, or
as soon after as possible. on the foun-
dation of a stand at the new athletic
field at the Naval Academy, the first
permanent structure of the kind at
the institution.
The stand will seat $500, while
40S additional can be seated on a
double row of benches which can be
placed in front of it. The stand is
to be 406 feet long, and will occupy
only one side of the field, so that
temporary stands could he arranged
if an unusually large crowd was ex-
pected,o additional permanent stands
could be built, should 1T be thought
necessary and the funds be available.
At present, however, there are no
plans beyond the one stand.
The work of erecting this stand
will be undertaken by the Navy Ath-
letic Association, composed of naval
officers all over the world. An
effort will be made to secure suffi-
cient subscriptions from members
for the purpose, and it may not be
necessary to draw up the regular
funds of the body. The stand will
fill lopg-felt want at the Naval
Academy, as nearly every season
there is some event which draws a
crowd which greatly overtaxes the
facilities.
The stand will be near the lower
gate of the Academy, with it's back
toward King George street and face
the present running track. The
track will remain as it is, and it
is proposed to construct a football
field and baseball grounds within
it. Lacrosse will probably be play
ed on Worden Field, as at present.
Underneath the stands will be COM
modious dressing rooms and baths
for the Midshipmen and visiting ath.
letes.
A notable fact about the stand
will be that the space of twenty-one
inches is allowed for each person,
about five inches more THAI in most
stands. The material will be con-
crete for the foundation and steel for
the framework. Wood will be used
for the seats only. The new stand
will prove great source of conven-
fence to members of the naval contin-
gent and others who desire to see
the different contests at the Acad-
emy.
Annapolis is distinctly the greatest
center of college athletics south of
Philadelphia. 1t is hardly likely
that the stand will be completed in
time to make it available this
spring. However, there is not like
ly to be any great tax upon it during
the coming season, as on each Satur-
day, which is the great day for sport
at the Academy, there are number
of events, and the crowd will be di-
vided. There is no one event that is
likely to draw to the exclusion of
the others, and bring particularly
large crowd together.
The stand will certainly be COM
pleted by the opening of the next
football season, however, and it will
be greatly needed, as next years
football schedule is likely to be much
better than the one played by the
Midshipmen last season. Princeton,
the Carlisle Indians and Pennsyl-
vania State College are among the
institutions which will probably
send teams to the Academy.
The baseball game against the
Military Academy will be played at
West Point at the end of the COM
ing season, but the stand will be
ready for the big crowd which will
attend the game at the Naval Acad-
emy theIfollowing year.