Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-12
JOHNN|ES PLAY WELL
Naval Academy Team However
Shuts Out Local And Piles Up
Twenty One Points.
DALTON AND HOWE STAR.
Mellon For St. Johns Was Decidedly
On The Job-Hamilton And Gil
christ Speedy.

Making a much better showing
against their heavier opponents than
their own great rivals from Johns
Hopkins did on Saturday last, ST.
Johns plucky little team yesterday
afternoon met defeat at the hands of
the midshipmen, before the usually
large crowd that always attends the
games between the two institutions.
The final score was 81 to 0.
While st. Johns did not score on the
sailors, and Hopkins did, the Cadets
held the Middies down to six points
less than Hopkins was able to tie
them to. Though the collegians work
ed their utmost to cross the Navy
goal line their every effort was bent
principally toward holding their op-
ponent to as low a score as possible.
and their showing was surprising,
even to their most sanguine adherents.
Added to this was the brilliant
work of the collegians in the exploi-
tation of the forward pass. The
play, on three occasions, netted good
gain, one of them from a fake forma-
tion of field goal between Wilson and
Clayton being good for 20 yards. But
the collegians could not maintain the
pace in the face of the great odds and
the preponderance of weight that was
with the middies was really the tell
ing factor in the end. The actual
time of play was 81 minutes, the
first quarter being 10 minutes and the
other three of 8 minutes duration.
Getting the ball on St. Johns 40-yard
line, after an exchange of punts, the
middies by series of tackle plays
scored their first touchdown in about
six minutes of play. Dalton made the
score on a mighty plunge for five
yards. He also kicked goal
Undismayed, the ST. Johns boys
kept at it harder than ever. No more
scoring was done in the first quarter,
while the best the middies could do
before the close of the half was to
annex a field goal. This, too, was
booted by Dalton from the 23-yard
mark. 1t was in the second quarter
that the collegians got in their best
work. They not only opened the eyes
of the middies by skirting their ends
and tearing through the line, but the
stubborn defense which they exhibited
was enough to make the big sailor
lads hustle hard. In fact, the Navy
backs seemed somewhat bewildered,
and many of their plays were run
off very stupidity.
In the second half the middies went
at little livelier pace, and succeeded
in annexing touchdown and the re-
~ 49, -
they should have done better than
hat. While the collegians showed
brief bursts of speed in offensive tao
tics, they did not at any time endan-
ger the Navy goal line The nearest
| they got to score was the 35-yard
| mark This was in the last quarter,
| after Mellon, Wilson and Clayton
made some substantial gains. Failing
to advance further, however, Mellon
attempted a field goal, but it was
cleverly booked by the Navy forwards.
1t is doubtful whether the Middies
would have chalked up the touchdown
in the last quarter but for the mere
element of luck that came their way
1t happened when Wilson, of st. Johns,
attempted forward pass to Claude.
The ball was intercepted by Dalton
and the big halfback sprinted 65 yards
in an almost clear field. He was
tackled from behind by Mellon and
thrown on st. Johns 4-yard mark
1t took the Middies two more plays to
push the leather over, Sowell making
| the score.
While Captain Dalton was, as usual,
the Middies' tower of strength, the
work of Howe at right guard was shown
throughout the game. Howe was
there on the job and ready for any,
thing that came his way all the time.
Mellon was the particular star for the
collegians. Only once did he fail to
gain yard or more, while he was a
tower to the team in defensive play.
In fact, all of the St. Johns boys
played remarkable game, though