Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-10-14
NAVY SMARTS UNDER
DEFEAT BY LEH|GH
Pennsylvanians Completely Out
played Middies on Saturday.
SwARTHMORE NEXT ON CARD.
Team That Humbled University Of Penn.
VIII Give Sailor Lads Another
Hard Battle.

nara DdItie.
Playing a game that could hardly
be called an improvement over the
disappointing showing against Johns
Hopkins on the previous Saturday, de-
spite the fact that practically all of
the regulars were in the line at
one tine or another, the midship~
mens S football team went up against
the eleven of Lthigh University
Saturday afternoon, and this week
they will smart on the sting of a
clear cut defeat administered by the
visitors TO the tune of Ia to G.
1t was a game doggedly fought
from beginning to end and Lehigh
won very deservedly. The most ar
dent Navy supports made no attempt
to shatter the glory of the victory.
And, another surprise of Saturdays
gridiron battles was Swarthmore's de.
feat of University of Pennsylvania
by to 8. The result of that game
will make the middies sit up and
take notice, as Swarthmore is on the
Navy schedule for the coming Satur-
day. Swartmore has fast as we'll as
experienced team, and to save them
selves from a second defeat this sea-
on, the mIddies must show decided
improvement in this weeks workout.
The defeat by Lehigh is the first
sustained by Navy team in three
years. The visitors were in fine trim
for the struggle, despite their over
whelming defeat by Princeton a week
ago, though hopes of triumph Sat-
urday were not at all strong. Scor-
ing touchdown in the first two min
utes as the result Of a spectacular
run by Pazetti, their quarterback,
who, by the way, played brilliantly
throughout, and then kicking the re-
sutant goal, served as a big boost,
and after that they had the middies
almost completely at their mercy.
From start to finish they played like
tigers, hammecing away at tn mid
dies heavy forwards for substantial
gains, and in the pinches they called
the forward pass into play, and with
this they had splendid success. 1t
was this play that resulted in the sec
ond touchdown in the opening period
of the last half of the game. The
visitors tried the forward pass about
dozen times and in half that num-
Der they succeeded for gains ranging
from five to fifteen yards.
On two occasions a double pass
terminated in a forward toss that
caught the middies entirely off their
guard. 1t as on these two plays
that they netted their longest gains.
T.ehigh displayed far superior team
work than their opponents, had ex-
celleht interference for the man
carrying the ball and handled punts
and ran them back in almost fault
less style. in this respect Pazetti
shone as the bright star Lehigh's
attack was more aggressive and
they got their plays off with greater
steam than did the middies The
middies were probably a bit heavier
than the visitors but the defense of
Lehigh was there with the goods all
the time.
They repeatedly forced the Sailors
to fall back on punting as may be in
dicated by the fact that the number
of first downs gained averaged two to
the Middies' one. And they counted
for ahout twice the distance. The
Bethlehem lads kept the middies on
the defensive during most of the
game and although the first half
closed with the score standing z to o
in their favor it was felt by Navy
supporters that che Sailors would GER
tainly come back strong. But the
expected rally did not materialize.
On the contrary the superiority Of
the visitors playing was greater than
in the opening sessions.
The play that electrified the specta-
tors occurred almost Immediately
after Lehigh opened the game by
kicking off to Navy. The middies fail
ed to gain on their first attempts and
Alexander punted Pazetti the dash
ing quarter received the kick in fac
style on the 30-yard line and after
eluding three tacklers, by clever dodg-
ing and squirming, practically all of
his teammates got into the inter-
ference and he lodged his way through
the broken field of players for a 40
yard run and touchdown.
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their hands on the feetfooted quarter
back, but they failed to brilg him to
earth. The second touchdown was
the resul. Of beautiful forward pass
in che third period. Both teams had
had possession of the ball on a couple
of occasions and each was forced to
kick. Leonard, of Navy, fumbled
Pazetti's punt, and Lehigh recovered
the leather twelve yards away from
Navy's goal. Two line plays failed
to net mucn of a gain, and chen bv a
forward pass between Pazetti and
Sawtelle the latter went across the
goal line for a touchdown. Hoban
kicked goal.
The visiting backfield was heavy
and fast one and time and again the
backs especially Hoban aid Crichton
plowed through the Sailors line for
substantial gains. On one occasion
they carried the ball forty yards in
this manner before beiAg stopped.
The whole Lehigh outfit seemed
primed for the struggle and thav