Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-11-18
IN GOOD PHYSICAL TRIM
Navy Team Shows Up Well
After Weeks Hard Practice
READY TO MEET THE ARMY
Officials For Big Game Will Be Shifted :
Navy Spirit Dominant

With the hard work of the week
behind them, after a stiff lineup
against the scrubs yesterday after
noon, the Naval Academy team and
its friends are congratulating them
selves on the splendid physical condi-
tion of the members of the squad. a
fact which is in marked contrast to
the situation at this period of sever
al recent seasons.
The team would be in tip top shap
to meet the Army lads tomorrow so
far as physical condition is concern
ed. but the coaches expect to put on
lot of finishing touches next week
along the line of the new plays which
have been practiced secretly for two
weeks.
The aim of the Navy coaches
will be to prev ent New York Uni
versity from scoring tomorrow, as
there have been no points scored
against the Navy team as yet this
season. No special effort will be
made to run up big score. and
several of the regulars will rest un-
less absolutely necessary to the
team. Those who will probably be
on the side lines will be Dalton,
left halfback; Rodes. fullback;
Douglas, left tackle; Weems, centre,
and Brown. right guard.
The work of the Navy eleven was
not so pleasing yesterday to the
coaches as it has been. Several of
the payers who have been regarded
as regulars, in their respective posi-
tions, have either fallen down in their
work or else they are showing q de-
cided inclination to loaf along on the
strength of their seasons showing.
However that may be, the one thing
that is foremost in the minds of
everyone connected with football at
the Academy just now is work"
and plenty of it, and as one Midship-
man expressed it, the great game is
drawing so near that it is a case of
think, falkland eat football
Dalton and McReavy, who are hav-
ing hard fight for one of the half
back positions; Weeks, centre; Gill
christ, end. and Brown, the husky
guard, all were somewhat off color
yesterday, and the coaches got after
them hot and heavy in the course of
the practice. Weems, at centre,
seemed to show up particularly poor,
and it is likely that Anderson a much
heavier fellow, who pitched on the
baseball team last spring, will start
the game against New York Univer-
sity tomorrow, and Wakeman prob
ably will start at guard in place of
Brown. The brigade of Midshipmen
further upset things when, bubbllng
over with enthusiasm, they piled out
of the stands, where they had been
seated, rehearsing the songs and CIV
ing yells, and ran on the field, where
their cheering interrupted the prac-
tice TO some extent.
The Middies wanted to show the
spirit with which they are backing
their team and they were given a free
hand for while. Though there was
a fairly long scrimmage with the
scrubs. no regular style of game was
followed. The varsity would first
be given the ball to work out their
offensive tactics, and then placed
on the defensive to see if they.could
hold the scubs down. One touch
down was scored and they held the
scrubs in check pretty we'll.
The Middies are anticipating
quite stiff contest with the New
York varsity lads, but the regulars
will not be worked too hard, with
the Army game so close at hand.
Herman Ollcott, who coached the
Middies several years ago, has
primed the New Workers for the
coming game. incidentally, OlIcott
expects to remain in Annapolis part
of next week and help the Navy
coaching staff.
Because Mike Thompson the we'll
known Official, does not wish to UNI
pire the Army-Navy game, it looks
now that the officials for the big
struggle will be shifted about, so he
will either act as referee, in place of
Al Sharpe, of Yale, or take the job
as field judge. In that event Dave
Fultz, of Brown, who has been agreed
as field Judge, could be shifted to
umpire.