Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-10-18
MD. FRIDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1912.
SWARTHMORE PLAYS
MIDD|ES TOMORROW
COnquerOrs Of Penn. Varsity Should
be Worthy Opponent.
CHANGE DATE M. A. c. GAME.
Local COllegians and Farmers TO Clash
October 29-0ff for Struggle With
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What sort of = showing will the
| Navy football team make against the
Big Red team of Swarthmore College
| tomorrow afternoon.
This question is being asked today
| by all local enthusiasts of the great
college game, and particularly among
| the adherents of the Blue and Gold.
| Barely beating the eleven of Johns
| Hopkins two weeks ago, and then
falling a prey to the onslaughts of
the warriors of Lehigh University
last Saturday to the tune of Ia to 0,
it would seem that the middies are in
rather pitiable plight.
Although rather early in the season,
the Navy pigskin chasers are much
| below the standard of former teams
at this time of the year. But exactly
where does the fault lie? Certain
it is that not one Of the large squad
of candidates, and many of them are
veterans of one or more seasons, has
developed anything like the calibrs of
ODDLY" Dalton, the stalwart cap
tain of last season, whose all-around
playing and kicking proved a great
| factor in the two consecutive vic
tories over the rival West Point
cadets. Judging from the two exhi-
billions so far, the real trouble seems
to be an utter lack of the spirit that
has been characteristic of Navy teams
for many years.
Lacking a real star, as well as the
absence of this team spirit, the mid
dies have done nothing that would
give the slightest encouragement to
| their followers, and on the eve of the
struggle with Swarthmore, it is out
of the question to make forecast on
the possible outcome of the contest.
Many, however, believe that the
middies are slated for another de-
| feat.
The Swarthmore aggregation will
come to town with all kinds of conf
| dence, largely because of their tri-
umph over University of Pennsylvania
last Saturday. The Varsity boys
were humbled by 6 to 0. Swarth-
more invaded the Red and Blue goal
| line while the best the latter could
do to save themselves from an appli-
cation of the white-wash, was to tally
field goal And the varsity aggre-
| cation is a pretty classy bunch, too.
Swarthmore's team will be made up
OF several of last seasons stars, not
ably McGovern and Messner, both of
who have played against the mid
dies
The Navy coaches have been bend
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team into some kind of shape, but
! hardly car it be said that any notice
able progress has been made. Some
how or other they have been utterly
unable to hit upon the right kind of
backfeld combination. With the
many candidates available, various
experiments have been tried, but little
in the way of concerted team work
has been developed.
| One shift that has been made since
the Lehigh game that should undoubt-
eddy prove a beneficial one, is that of
taking Gilchrist from quarterback
and putting him at his old position
on the end, where he starred" for
two seasons. Nothing praiseworthy
can be said of his work in the pivotal
position, at least in the two games
that have been played, although when
he was taken from the wing during
the later part of last season, he
showed up pretty we'll behind the
line. But he is better defensive
player at all odds and it is thought
that be will remain at end from now
on.
Mitchell, newcomer, is now be-
ing tried out at quarter, and so far
has shown up pretty well. Physical
ly, the middies will be in good trim
for the go tomorrow. In face they
are fighting mad since the defeat by
Lehigh, and when the sailors get their
blood up, they know how to play
football.
The eleven of st. Johns College,
which has Deen paying such strong
game thus far, will again journe !
away from home. They will leave on
an early morning car tomorrow
bound for Lexington. Va, there to
play the annual game against Wash.
ington and Lee University.
Although the local collegians were
pretty we'll used up in the hard game
against Dickinson College at Carl.
isle, Pa, last Saturday, that re sulted
in tie-6 to 6, they will be in good
condition for tomorrow's struggle.
Announcement is made of change
in the date OF the st. John Mary.
land Agricultural College game. The
contest, according to the origina
schedule, was TO have been playet
next Saturday. but has been post
poned until the following Tuesday
October 20. 1t will be played on st
Johns field, and will be the last hon,
game for the Collegians this season