Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-09-15
CALL OF THE GR|D|RON
IS NOW IN THE AIR
Practice at Academy Starts With
Big Squad Of Plebes.
VETERANS TO RETURN SOON.
Outlook is Good, as Only Two Of Last
Years Eleven Were Lost by
Graduation.

Football practice at the Naval
Academy, delayed on account of
warm weather and the uncertainty as
to the arrangements for the Army
Navy game. is now under way. A
SQUAD of ninety members of the new
fourth class rt sponded to the call OF
Lieut.. Douglas L. Howard. head
coach, and some preliminary work
has been done.
At present Lieutenant Howard has
only the assistance of Prof. c. v.
Crsachs, who has coached the fourth
class team with much success Tor sew
eral seasons J. J. Reilly, the form
ar Yale back, who has been named as
field coach, will report on September
%. Ensigns Shaw and Hall will as
sist with the coaching during the
whole season, and a little later
Lieut.. Jonas Ingram, former noted
Navy player, will spend some time
helping the team round into shape.
The material from the new class
: very promising, though a man will
have to show exceptional ability to
break into the strong company al
ready at the Academy. Much inter-
est is taken in the prospects of Blod-
gt tt, big fellow, who comes to the
Academy with a fine reputation in
football and other athletics. Blod-
gett weighs 200 pounds and is 6 feet
3 inches in height. He has made a
big reputation around New York as a
halfback on the eleven of the High
School of Commerce, and for two
seasons has been named as New
York's all-scholastic back.
Ii is stated that he is great pluug-
er and runner in an open field, and
is also an excellent punter. Blod-
gett has won nearly all of his base
ball games this summer, broken the
Academy record with the discus and
the class record with the shot. The
other promising men are Ward and
Sinor, both line candidates.
Only two of last seasons players
are lost to the squad this year. fhey
are Hall, the big left tackle, and
Rodes, quartz rback. The regular
PAYERS who are now available are
Ingram, left end; Howe, left guard;
Perry, center; Brown, right guard
Ralston, right tackle; Gilchrist,
(captain), right end; Leonard, left
halfback; McReavy, right haltback;
Harrison, fullback.
Others who took part in match
games are Nichols and Mitchell,
ouarterbacks; Failing, Bates and
Alexander, halfbacks Walker, CEN
ter; Vaughan, guard Redman and
Latimer, tackles; 0veresch and Graf,
ends. 1t is probable that Nichols, an
experienced player. will begin the
season at quarterback, while either
Redman or Latimore will FL the
place made vacant by the graduation
of Hall.
Captain Gilchrist has played a
season at quarterback, and it is pos
sible that he will be moved to the
pivotal position, with 0veresch as
| first choice for bis place. There are
a number of possible combinations,
| but all OF them may be upset by the
1 good work of some other members of
| he squad or of the new fourth class.
Coach Howard will let it be thor
oughly understood that all the posi-
tions are open to the best men, and
that class position and length of SER
vice will cut no figure unless the
players are there with the goods. In
/ speaking of the work of the season,
Lieutenant Howard said that he would
proceed along much the same lines az
in previous years, everything being
subordinated to winning the final
game against West Point.
Lieutenant Howard said, however,
that an effort would be made to wir
every game if possible, though nc
special pre- paration would be made
for any contest but the last. A large
percentage of the men graduate thi!
year, ana as they have won from
| West Point for three seasons, they
are going to MAX mighty effort t.
close their athletic career with ;
clean string of victories.
| The schedule flr the season follows
| October 4-University of Pitts
burg.
4 October 11-Georgetown.
October 1S-Dickirsou.
October rs Maryland Agricultu
raj College.
November l-Lehigh.
November 8-Bucknell.
November l6-Peunsy lvania State
November 22-New York Univer
sity.
November 29-Army.
The final game will be played a
the Polo Grounds, New York AL
the other games will be played on tn
J local grounds.