The Washington times., 1911-11-21

Army meets Navy Saturday next on
Franklin Field, Philadelphia and all
Washington atlc to get tickets will be
there to gee. Judging from the work
of the season, the soldiers should be
slight favorites over Captain Dalton
and his sturdy teammates. West Point
has defeated Yale. but Navy has held
Princeton and Penn State to no-score
tie games Minus Dean, tho cadets
from tho Hudson may find themselves
outkjckcd, and in these days Of open
football, this may mean a great deal
The soldiers have been scorel on just
twice this year. Bucknell has the credit
OF making the first tcore against West
Point when it forced the future gen.
ersls to make a safety. Last Saturday
Colgate, with one Of the best quarter
lacks of the year.' Huntington, scored
the first and only touchdown of the
season against the Army.
NAVY has had bat one touchdown
scored against II, that Ivy A. Sc NJ, but
PriRcetofs, Penn State, ard Chic West
ern Reserve held the middies to no.
seoie ties. Saturdays game wa, credit
shle to the Navy. for 1t was played
by lot of substitutes.
Many Good Players.
West Point has many excellent foot
ball players in it's lineup, but one of
the best, Dean, the great punting full
back, may not be seen in the game on
FRANKLIN Field. Dean is injured and
will hardly be in shape to perform.
However. there are Arnold, one of the
best guards of the season, Wood, Gil
lespie, and Cooke, three crack ends;
Hyatt and Keyes, drop kickers and for
yard passers; Hodgson, successor to
tn, tlA ~ ont,t. .
Browne, fine line-plunging halfback.
and Littejohn, strong tackle.
Nays star is Captain Dalton, expect
ed by many 10 make the All-American
eleven of 1911. Dalton Is strong line
plunger, fast end-runner, and one OF
the premier kickers of the season. His
punting is excellent, looked at from any
Viewpoint, and his field-goal kicking is
last years game from the Army.
Beside Dalton the middies look to
Gilchrist. transferred from end to guar
tefback; Overeseh, plebe end: Howe,
the fast guard; Rodes and McReavey,
good. hard-running haifbacks, and
Nichols, the fastest back at Annapolis
One of Strongest.
Navy's line is one of the strongest of
the year, holding its own easily against
Princeton. Its backfeld has weight
and spirit. Daton's kicking Is certain
to mean much before the final whistle
sounds The one possible weakness of
the middes will be that their play may
he built wholly about Dalton. If he is
injured, the machine may fall to pieces
before the savage onslaught of the SOL
oiers.
West Point has weil-balanced
eleven, able to fathom any style OF
attack, with line capable of playing
hard, straight football, backs who are
fast OH running plays, forward passers
who know this phase of new football
through and through, and p,inters who
can lift the leather for forty yards with
great regularity for sterling ends tc
cover He would be a good guesseI
who could pick the winner of ne&'
Saturdays game.
Army-NaVy games began in 1890
when the middies challenged the sol
diers for a battle. The contest took
place at West Point and was an over
whelming victory for the Navy, "a to 0
The following year. however, the Army
came back and won bitterly cen
tested battle at Annapolis, 81 to 16
Two more victories followed by tho
middies, ind then the authorities put
a stop to the annual combats on ac'
count of the rough playing and many
injuries.
Hiatus of Five Years.
For Ave years they did not meet, bu
in 1899 they got together once more
the soldiers winning the honors. Since
then but one break has come. In 1870.