Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-11-06
LOOK OUT HOPKINS /!
St. JOhnnies Put Up Some Classy
Football Playing Against The
Aggies Saturday.
FIRST CHAMPION CONTEST.
Hopkins And Others In Inter- Collegiate
Contests Have Got To Keep Eye
On Locals.

Johnny Hopkins black and blue clad
football warriors, with the coaches.
trainers, rubbers and students, Of tn,
Baltimore Institution. are doing some
wondering today.
The cause of the wonderment is two
sets Of football scores made within the
past week or two. One reads "Hop-
kins, S, NJ. A. c. 2" and the other
reads est. John, 81, NJ. A. c., o."
The best Hopkins could do with the
Farmers two weeks ago was to bare
ly scrape out the two point margin
victory and it took work of ten hard
est sort to do even that, while on last
Saturday St. Johns, with apparent
ease, walloped the College Park ag-
gregation from start to finish and kept
their own goal line at all times free
from even the danger of a tally.
The result was a big surprise to all
the dopesters, as the game had been
looked upon as possibly one of the
closest of the intercollegiate cham
pionship series this fall. Instead of
which, the Farmer literally hadn't a
bare look in at any time during the
battle. The game was, however, re-
markably free from wragling, and for
q contest between bitter rivals it was
one Of the cleanest football games
ever played.
st. Johns rolled up twenty-five
points in the first half, and nearly all
of its gains were made by straight
football. 1t was not until the second
half that the Annapolitans tried the
forward pass, but when they got start
ed with this play they reeled off some
beautiful passes. The only danger to
st. Johns bright hopes of wiping out
last years defeat at the hands of Hop
kins when the. two come together again
on November 19, is over-confidenc :,
according to the wise ones who have
watched the local elevens' develop.
ment. However, it is understood and
generally hoped that the coaches will
take every step to safeguard such a
proposition.
In Saturdays game st. Johns dis
played more football throughout than
did their opponents, the one bright
spot in the play of the Aggies being
the line plunging and end running of
Quareroack Shipley, who was the only
Farmer to gain through the Annapolis
boys line. Shipley time and again
went around the ends for long gains,
and had the rest of the team displayed
the spirit that the fighting pilot show.
ed different score would have re-
suited.
Melon, the fast st. Johns fullback,
played a great game, hitting the line
time and again for long gains and was
a demon on the defense, while the
punting and end running of Clayton
was the best ever witnessed on the
College Park gridiron.
Claude, the St. Johns right end,
worked several forward passed to per-
lection, hiding near the side line and
taking the ball we'll down the field.
Thompson, the other end, did the same
trick once, getting the ball in the
middle IF the field and going twenty
yards, being downed by great tackle
by Shipley.
The work of the St. Johns team
stamps it as the best aggregation
turned out of the local institution in
many years, and that it will be the win
ner in the Maryland Intercollegiate
Legue seems to be an assured thing.