Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-09-28
ST. JOHNS DOWNS
ROCK HILL COLLEGE
COllegians Open Football Season
With IA to 0 Victory.
MELLON AND CLARK THE STARS
Local Lad Comes in for Couple Of Good
Sprints and Six Other Annapolis
Bows Are in Lineup.

ST. Johns College opened the foot
ball season of 1912 in this city very
auspiciously this morning, winning
from the eleven of Rock Hill College,
of Ellicott City, by Ia to 0.
more dashing attack, and a great
er variation of plays, in which the for
ward pass figured prominently, con-
tributsd to the victory for the locals.
They registered touchdown and the
resulting goal in the opening periods
of each of the halves.
splendid weather conditions COM
bined to make the season-opening even
more propitious. 1t was clear and
rather cool for so early in the autumn,
hence the players suffered but little
from the gruelling work, and fairly
large crowd of spectators turned out
to witness the initial battle.
The local collegians outplayed their
opponents at every angle of the
game and though they showed a de-
cided tendency to tumble, and their
team work was somewhat ragged, this
was to be expected in the first en-
agement Of the campaign. But on
the whole their work gave much en-
couragement to friends of the VEN
cradle institution. and clearly demon
strated that st. Johns will have the
strongest team in years.
The Ellicott City lads, too showed
flashes of good work, but they could
not stop the line assaults and end runs
of the locals. On one occasion, how
ever, they succeeded in holding St.
Johns for downs when the ball rest
ed only three yards from the coveted
goal line. Their best offensive work
was shown in the opening of the
second half, when they carried the
leather to St. Johns 20-yard line, only
to lose it on a forward pass.
St. Johns first score came after
they worked the pigskin close to Rock
Hill's goal, GLADDEN. falling on fum-
BILE across the goal line Long runs
by Mellon and Clark were responsible
for the second score. But for fumb-
ling the locals might have scored at
least once more.
Decided changes have been made in
the makeup of the St. Johns aggre-
cation since last season, as the lineup
indicates, Welch having been moved
from centre to end, were he did great
work: Clark from end 70 haIfback,
where he played most of the game
Woodward from guard to tackle, while
Thompson is probably a fixture for
quarterback, having been shifted from
end. Noteworthy is the fact that
seven Annapolis boys were in the line
up.
The team is much heavier than
last year, and there is a larger number
of second-string men from which to
draw. Bal weather conditions Of
this week were largely responsible
for the slowness of team work today.
Captain Mellon and Clark were
the bright particular stars of the
game. They did mcst of the ground
gaining, each tearing off from 20 to
90 yards on end runs, and Mellon was,
as usual, like bull in the secondary
defense.
The lineup and summary:
St. John n's-Welch, le;; Woodward,
1t; Gladden-Smith, lg; Dryden-Lewis,
c; McNutt, rg; Broadwater, rt;
Claude, re; Thompson, OBJ; Wilson,
lib; Clayton-Clark, RIB; Mellon
Clark, fb.
Rock HiII-Fink, le; Gateley, 1t;
Bernardo-Doyle, lg; Scales, c; Ma
lone-Crispo, rg; Taliafero, rt; Cor
bett, re; Fuccy, qb; Jamella, lib; Mil
Ter, RIB; Staley, fb.
TOuchdowns-Gladden, Clark.
Goals from touchdowns Mellon, 2.
Referee-Mr. Wheaton, of Yale.
Umpire-Mr. McCaffrey, of George
town. Time of quarters-12, 10, IL,
10. Score by periods-7-0; 90; 30;
90. Total. St. Johns, ID: Rock
Hill, 0.