Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-11-12
OFF FOR BALTIMORE
ST. Johns Will Do All Possible
To Defeat Hopkins AT Home
wood Field This After
noon
WENT ON SPECIAL CARS
Team And ROOttrs Left Al Noon Full
OF Confidence In Their Ability To
Win The Big Game

Why, We are going up there to
win this game and we feel confident
that we can do it. Last year st.
Johns was more the favorite than
Hopkins, but Hopkins won; this
year conditions are reversed as to
vino is the favorite and we feel that
once more the favorite is going to be
downed.
This is the way Prof. Byron V.
Cecil, head coach of the ST. John S
team summed up the Orange and
Black side of the Hopkins st. John
game at Baltimore today.
Each carrying a gaudily colored
megaphone, and all full of quiet con-
fidence in their teams ability to turn
the tables and win no matter what
the odds, the cadets of the college
left Annapolis on special cars over
the Maryland Electric Line at noon.
Just ahead of them went another
special bearing the team.
The squad dined lightly before leav-
ing Annapolis and Coach Cecil an
nounced that his men would go
straight to Homewood Field and their
dressing rooms from Camden Station.
Trained to the minute and with
every player prepared to fight his
hardest, the eleven at st. Johns
College wound up practice yesterday
afternoon. On the eve of the battle
the coaches are little uncertain as
to the final lineup. Ruhl, the regu-
lar quarterback is being bothered
with strained muscles and probably
will not play. In that event Mellon
will be shifted to quarter and either
Moss or Clark will take left end.
The final practice consisted entirely
of signal and formation work in the
course of which every play and there
is big crop of them, was gone over
several times. The team worked
with a precision that brought delight
to tie hearts Of the cadet cheerers
and adherents of old st. Johns.
1t is interesting to review Hopkins
St. Johns football history. The two
teams have been meeting since 1888,
and of the nineteen games played
in this time, not including the con-
tests that have been forfeited, st.
Johns has been victor eleven times
and Hopkins six. Three ties have
been played. Probably the most de-
cisive St. Johns victory was won in
1890, when the Black and Blue was
defeated by the score of 20 to 0.
Hopkins has lost one game this
season. st. Johns has not won a
single victory. Hopkins has defeat.
ed Randolph-Macon, Western Mary
land and Haverford. st. Johns has
lost to Navy, Gettysburg. University
of Virginia, Virginia Military Insti-
tute and Dickinson. The Black and
Blue has rolled up 67 points against
its opponents %. st. Johns has
not crossed the enemy's goal line
once. It's opponents have score
of 80.
In comparing the two teams, how
ever,it is to be remembered that st.
Johns has faced by far the stronger
eleve1s. The local team, when it
started its season. was composed al
most entirely of green material, for
two of the few veterans Of last year
who remained were injured in the
game with the Navy. Today st.
Johns will have its full strength on
the field, and If the players fight as
desperately as they always have done
against the Black and Blue, the
game will not be decided until the
last whistle has blown.