Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-11-11
ARMY AND NAVY EACH
GIVEN HARD KNOCKS
Cadets SmOthered by Indians and
Middies Lose to BucknelI.
SAILORS STILL BELOW FORM.
Looked-FOr Improvement Goes Astray
and Visitors Easily Have Better
of Argument.

VI NSuAucNts
With the big game of the year now
less than three weeks off, the football
teams of West Point and Annapolis
each got hard slaps in Saturdays
contests.
The soldier boys went up against
most worthy foe in the team of
Carlisle Indian School, with Thorpe,
the worlds champion athlete, as one
of its members, and while the soldiers
succeeded in holding them in check
for the first half, which ended with
the score Indians z, West Point 6,
the Red Men walked away with the
Pointers in the closing session. The
final count registered Indians, %;
Army, 6. Thus the Indians main
tanned their undefsatsd record for the
season.
The midshipmen locked horns with
the eleven of Bucknell College, of
Lewisburg. Pa, team that has
proved easy picking in past seasons.
But the marked improvement of the
Middies that had been anticipated as
a result of a weeks hard practice, was
adly missing, and the Pennsylvauian
tucked away victory by the figures
of II to 6.
The same lack of good team work
that was the principal contributory
fault to defeats at the hands Of Lee
high and Swarthmore, was again much
in evidence, and as hard as they tried,
the Middies could not pull themselves
together. The defense showed up
pretty well, but the offenss on the
whole was lameHtably weak. The
Middies, as a rule, iesorted TO old
fashioned football, and it was a fash
of success in this respect thaC gave
them touchdown in the third period
of the game and saved them from
the whitewash. The visitors on the
other hand had a we'll varied style Of
play and fought the struggle with ex-
cellent judgment.
Bucknell showed much versatility
in the plays dominant under the re-
vissd rules Of the game, and ii was
two cleverly executed long forward
passes that enabled them to cross the
Navy goal line twice. The other
three points were the result Of a goal
from placement kicked by Sturgis at
a distance If 2S yards.
Neither team scored in the first
period, but in the second, taking adj
vantage of the wind. Buckuell kept
the ball almost entirely in Navy's
zone. Though they could Aot batter
down the heavy Navy line with much
suesE, they quickly brought into play
a splendid formation for the forward
pass, and it ounteJ for a touchdown on
the first attempt. In the pay the re
were four Buknellians far out on
right end, with Cruikshank, quarter.
back, about ten yards behind the line
of scrimmage.
The four players started down the
field as if under a kick, and Cruik.
shank hurled the pigskin forward foI
twenty yards into the midst of the
quartet of his team mates. Sturgis
caught the leather on Navy's 20-yarC
line and easily sprinted past Rodel
and across the goal line for a touch
down. Jordon kicked goal.
Three minutes later Bueknell agair
got the ball on Navy's 40-yard line
and in three plays carried it 70 the so.
yard mark. The. same formation a:
before, but with the toss of the bal
in a different direction, failed Il
count On the next lineup, however
it was tossed as OF the play that re.
suited in the frat touchdown. The
same player, Sturgis, again caught
the ball finely and as before got pas
Rodes.
The opening of the second hal
saw the middies fighting doggedly il
an effort to overcome the big lea,
secured by their opponents, and il
about -four minutes Rodes went across
the goal line for a touchdown, after
the ball had been carried thirty yard
by line-smashing tactics. Brown
kicked goal, and that made the scor,
look bit better from Navy stand
point. After that, however, the Wis
itors kept the Middies on the defen
sive most of the time, and the fna
period saw the visitors tearin,
through the Navy line for grea
gains. Just before the close OF tn,
game Sturgis kicked goal from
placement.
But there was another element tha
contributed largely to the defeat o
the Middies, ald that was the DOC
manner in which the team was han
died. And it must be said that tn
burden of responsibility fell upoi
the shoulders of Capt Peter Rodes
who played throughout at quarter
back. de scored the Middies' touch
down and made several other substan
tial gains in running with the bal
from his position, but it was his poo
generalship that proved a weak an
telling factor in the progress of tn
battle.
The sailor lads started the gam,
we'll, with the defense holding n
strongly, while the backs ofttime
went through the line for good gains
But IN spite of this Rodes freouentI
called for . punt on the second o
third down, when his team was eoin,
against strong northwest wind tha
retarded the ball materially. AS
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