Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-10-11
MIDDIES AND LEHIGH
TO CLASH TOMORROW
Second Of Seasons Football Games
at Naval Academy.
ST. JOHNS PLAYS DICKINSON.
Local CoIIesisns Journey to Carlisle
Navy Adherents Look for Decided
Improvement.

Whether or not the Navy foot
ball players have worked themselves
out of the crudeness that was so
strongly indicated in last Saturdays
opening game of the season when
they barely won over Johns Hopkins
University. will be demonstrated to-
morrow afternoon, when they go up
against the eleven from Lehigh
Though Princeton easily disposed
Of Lenigh, the South Bethlehem
lads, it is said, have quite a formid-
able aggregation, and unless the mid.
dies do show something far above the
exhibition against Hopkins, it would
not be surprising if the Brown and
White socked players trot off the
field at the final whistle with the lau-
rels of victory.
Not only have the middies displayed
a great tendency to tumble, a fault
which keeps any team up in the air,
but there has been no concerted play
ing as far as teamwork is concerned.
With the atmosphere just bit frosty
in the late afternoon, mighty good
weather has been offered for practice
this week, and several Of the back
held men have been doing encourage
ing work. And, another thing that
served as a boost to stock at the start
of this weeks work, was the return
of Brown and Howe, the big guards,
and Ingram, centre, to the game.
Brown was "laid off" for a week on
account of breaking rules by smok-
ing, while Howe and Ingram have
been nursing slight hurts. Captain
Peter Rodes, the fullback, also has
resumed work with his teammates.
Except for short scrimmage on
Thursday, the players have not been
given heavy work in preparation for
tomorrow's game. In fact the staff
of coaches was so disappointed at the
showing against Hopkins that they
started the weeks proceedings by
putting their charges to some of the
elementary work, such as handling
punts and tackling the dummy. With
Brown and Howe in the lineup, the
middes will face Lehigh with an un-
usually heavy combination. But like
all early season games, it is expected
that many shifts will be made in the
course of play, so that all first string
men may be given a workout.
Taking everything into consider
alton, che middies are somewhat be-
hind the standard of Navy teams for
this time of the year, but the wealth
of material available would seem to
foreshsadcw any doubt but that
winning combination will be developed
as the season progresses. The neavy
line men not only did not "show"
what was expected of them in the
game against Hopkins, but the work
of the backfield was of a miserably
ragged order.
There is any number of candidates
for positions behind the line, but
Leonard and McReavy are the only
two who have shown much ability so
far. The former is rather light, but
fast and aggressive, and splendid
in running and dodging through a
broken field. McReavy is of the
heavy line-smashing type Of back,
and is showing up better than Last
season Gilchrist, the former end, is
still being worked at quarter.
With clear cut victories over Rock
Hill ard Franklin and Marshall coll
leges behind them, St. Johns College
will tomorrow invade the camp of
Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa.
Though the Collegians are heavier
this year than last, they will be great
ly outweighsd by their opponents of
the morrow. The cadets, howsver,
are rounding into good form fast,
and with the fine success they have
attained with the forward pass, they
are pinning much hope on this play
to puzzle the Dickinson lads. Last
year st. Johns held Dickson to a
.rnal soora