Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-11-13
MAKE RECORD SCORE
Middies Find The West Virginia
Aggregation Easy Meat In Sat-
urday Afternoons Game.
THE BEST FORM YET
Shifts In Formation OF Navy Team
Seem To Increase Whole Effect OF
Fighting Machine.

Literally playing their opponents off
their feet and piling up their record
score for the season, Navy's football
warriors on Saturday afternoon
swamped the aggregation from the
University of West Virginia in a 80
to contest.
Forty yards away was the closest the
visitors ever got to the MILDLY goal
line, and only once or twice during
the whole forty-eight minutes of play
did they make first down against the
stong sailor forwards 1t was the first
time this season that the Middies have
hit rapid stride, and they simply
played rings around the West Viz
ginias.
While there were a few rough
spots, the team, both in offensive and
defensive tactics played up to stan
dard that was most pleasing to Navy
adherents. And right here let it be
said that the punting of Dalton, the
slashing halfback, was superb. His
kicks ranged be ween so and 60 yards
and two of his punts during the early
part of the game sailed a distance of
65 yards. On the whole they were
very we'll placed.
Navy's splendid success is due al
most entirely to the shifts made in the
hackfeld positions in the course of the
past weeks practice The lack of
team work in the attack has been
the main failing of the Middies so far
this sea son, but the coaches now seem
to have hit upon a combination that
should give much encouragement for a
victory over the West Point cadets
when the two service teams clash on
Franklin Field two weeks hence.
McReavy and Rodes, who played in
the back field last season and who
have filled halfback and fullback, re-
spectively, in this seasons work, were
forced to content themselves with po-
sitions on the bench. In their places
were Collins and Bates, smaller fell
lows, who get off with play with the
vim and dash that counts for yards
Quarterback Sowell was also re. e.
Dated to the side lines, and Byrd, an
there fast nan, was in the pivotal po-
sition. Though in that place Gilchrist,
the regular right end, did the real
work of the quarterback. He played
the end position most of the time,
both on the offensive and defensive,
but he gave all of the signals and
frequently carried the ball. In the
latter particular he shifted his place
with Byrd.
incidentally, Gilchrist proved con-
sistent ground gamer, and the change
seems to be a good one. That Col
Inns and Bates were in the backfield
was due prinipally to injuries sus-
tanned by Leonard and Nichols in
practice. With these four fast men
available, all of whom have shown
much ability, it would seem that
Rodes and McReavy have lost out en-
tirely, as has also Sowell. The Mid
dies walked away with the Morgan
town boys in the first half, which end
ed with score of 20 to O.
In the first quarter they registered
touchdown and goal and Dalton kick
ed pretty goal from placement from
the 35yard line, while the second per-
iod counted for two more touchdowns
and the resulting goals. The second
half was marked by rather listless
playing, though the sailors managed
to tally touchdown in each of the
quarters. While the Navy backfield
men made number of short sprints,
there was but one Individual feature
deserving of mention.
That was Dalton's run Of 80 yards
from a fake kick formation. 1t was in
the final quarter that the visitors,
afte finding that they could not gain
through the line resorted to the for
ward pass and other fancy plays, and
while they netted substantial gain on
several occasions, they could not follow
them up successfully The lineup and
summary: