Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1910-10-31
LINE STILL UNCROSSED
Middies 0utcIass The Lighter
Crowd From Western Re-
Serve In Good Game
NO VARIETY OF PLAY SHOWN
Sailor Lads For Most Part Play Straight
Football And Visitors Can Work
Tricks

BY the one-sided score of II to O.,
the midshipmen downed the Western
Reserve aggregation on Saturday af-
ternoon and gave their supporters
much encouragement.
The team work showed marked
improvement, and the work of the
hackfield was good. Sowell showed
improvement at quarter, and Nc
Reavy was tried out for a time at
half in the latter part of the game.
The Navy, however, showed little
variety of play and stuck for the
most part to straight football tao
tics. Reserve several times tried
some fancy work, but was unable to
get away with any tricks.
Navy won the toss and aided by a
strong wind at his back, Dalton kick
ed off to Finaylson almost unuer Re
serves goal posts. The visitors
quickly put into play line shift
that was quickly solved by Navy
and Kagy was thrown for an S-yard
loss. When a run from a fake kick
formation was also upset the ball
changed hands in mid-field when Coch-
ran caught Kagy's punt.
Sowell failed to gain and Dalton
punted to Lind, whose Juggling of
the leather proved costly, as Gilchrst.
fell on it for Navy on Reserves 25-
yard line. Dalton clipped off a few
yards, Rodes was thrown for a loss
and then Dalton made it first down
on an 8-yard plunge through tackle
90 @hun1nh So,
and then for two yards, bringing the
leather close in on the visitors goal,
from where Sowell slipped through
from his position at quarterback and
tailed the first score inside of four
minutes after play started. Dalton
kicked goal, making the figures
to O.
Following another lineup and ex-
change of punts, Rodes fumbled to
Reserve on Navy's 20-yard line,
from where Bowie failed at a drop
kick. Rodes got the ball and after
carrying it on line plays, the sailors
let it change hands on the 20-yard
line and Bowie again was unsuccess-
full in trying field goal.
The play worked pretty evenly up
and down the field, punting alternat-
ing with line playing, the middies
gaining a bit on the exchange of
kicks and keeping the leather in the
visitors territory good bit of the
time until the quarter ended with the
ball in Navy's possession on the 40
yard line.
Getting the pig-skin in mid-feld
in the second period, Navy hammered
down and across the line, Dalton do
ing most of the work in the second to
touchdown and scoring the four
points. He failed, however, to add
goal to it. He redeemed this
shortly after, however, by putting
over placement goal from diff
cult angle and the half ended with
the figures Ia to 0 in favor of the
middies.
Another three points was added tc
the score in the third quarter,
when Dalton kicked another place.
! ment goal and this ended the scoring
for the game, although both goa
lines were threatened several times
and Reserves several times unsuc
cessfully essayed placement goal.
In the final period of play number
of substitutions were made in the
Navy makeup and the sailors became
bit careless and suffered a number
of penalties The forward pass was
tried couple of times, but fizzleC
out. AT one time the middies carried
| the pigskin down to their opponents
5-yard mark, where the Clevelander'
held for downs and Kagy punted th'
| leather ont of danger