Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-11-08
BIG ELEVENS CLASH
ON EASTERN FIELDS
Harvard-Princeton; Penn, Dart
mouth Center of Interest.
LOCAL GAME ALSO ATTRACTS.
Contest With Bucknell Viewed as
Most Important Game Of Season
St Johns and Md. Aggies.

Harvard VS.. Princeton and Penn
VS.. Dartmouth are the leading grid
iron eve nts of the day with the games
at New Haven, between Yale and
Brown and between the Navy and
Bucknell, next in interest. 1t is an
open question regarding two Of these
college games at least. Harvard is a
big iavorite for the game with Prince
ton and defeat of the Crimson would
be an unexpected reverse.
If Yale or Dartmouth loses the
chances are slightly in their favor on
form-it won't be so much ia the ma
ture Of an upset as if Harvard loses.
Yet there is no reason why Princeton
should not see to il that the Cam
bridge men have the ir hands entirely
full. The football bugs have three
situations figured out for this game !:
If Princeton wins it will be by close
score; if Princeton loses she will hold
Harvard to low score; Harvard is as
likely as not to win by big score.
Add to this that the game may be
tie and the sharps will have COW
cred the ground for whatever hap
pens.
The Army has small opposition
after three exacting tussles. Their
late conquorers, Notre Dame. de-
ieated Penn State yesterday by Ia
to z, after hard game.
Weather conditions today were
anything but propitious for the Navy
Bucknell argument, viewed from all
angles as the biggest game of the
season here. With the skies heavily
overcast and misty fog that settled
last night and the weather vane point
ing to the southeast, foreboded the
falling of rain at almost any minute.
But the teams were primed and
eager for the opening of hostilities,
with the middies especially anxious
to avenge the defeat handed out by
the Bucknellians last season to the
tune of II To z. With one or two i'm
stances, perhaps, in cases of players
nursiag sight hurts, the rival teams
put their full strength into the field
for the game.
Despite the fact that most Of the
te Ims played this season have been
of minor calibre, the middies, on gem
eral form, were a slight favorite With
the football sharps, although Buck
nell, with practically the same that
ccomplished the defeat of the sailor
lads last year, has been playing a
strong game throughout this season.
Its most notable victory was that of
last Saturday over University OF
Pittsburgh by 9 to 0, whereas Pitts
burgh held the middies to a scoreless
tie, and conquered both the Carlisle
Indians and Cornell.
Football teams of St. Johns and
Maryland Agricultural Colleges clash
ed at College Park in their annual
game this afternoon, and the out
come will have an important bearing
on the intercollegiate championship
for 1913. Last years game was
played in this city and St. Jchn's
won handy. Washington College,
too, is a contender for the state
title Win or lose, St. Johns is
booked to meet Washington College
in Baltimore on November 20.
Practically every member of the
cadet battalion made the trip to
College Park today to "root" for
victory.
Extensive preparations were made
to handle the large crowd which was
expected at College Park today.
Maryland Agricultural College alumni
from Baltimore and Washington
were on hand. Two special cars were
chartered by the Washingtonians.
They marched from the cars to the
field behind band. The officials Of
the game were Crafts, of George
Washington, referee; Ssyler, Johns
Hopkins, umpire, and Lamb, of the
University CT Nebraska head lines
man. The Aggies were confident OF
victory. The student body, it is said,
raised a pool OF several hundred dol
lars to wager on the game.