Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-11-26
NAVY LINEUP FOR BIG
GAME IS NOW SETTLED
Failing to Go at Halfback and
Ingram on Left End
COACHES LECTURE PLAYERS.
Empress Them With Fact That Army
Has StEosg Team-POinters Pui
Lots Of Life 10 Practice,


Navy football coaches yesterday
removed all doubt as to the final
makeup Of the eleven that will meet
the rival Army cadets in the supreme
contest of the season on the Polo
Grounds, New York, Saturday after
noon.
Ii is stated that Failing will start
the game at right halfback ia place
of Leonard, while Ingram has won
out over overesch ia the fight for the
positi m on the left wing Though he
weighs 100 pounds. Failing is fast in
running the ends, and besides is q
bulwark in line-breaking. With Me-
Reavy, an ls0-pounder, at the other
half, and Harrison at .ullback. weigh
ing about the same, the Navy back
field trio is the heaviest in the his
tory of the Academy.
With these two positions decided,
the middies will take the field against
Army in the following order: In
gram and Captain Gilchrist, ends ::
Ralston and Vaughn, tackles; Howe
and Brown, guards; Perry, centre;
Nichols, quarterback McReavy and
Failing, halfbacks; Harrison. full
back. The average weigh. of the
team is 1870 pounds.
The pla Jers continued to practice
in secret yesterday afternoon, and
while they were put through q stiff
formation and signal drill, yet the
coaches are spending much time in
lecturing the players along the line
that they will meet the stiffest kind
of opposition in the Army cadets.
Based rpon the seasons work, the
niddies look to be good bet on the
game, but the mentors are impress
ing their charges with the fact that
the cadets will be tough PROPOSE
tion, and the warriors are peing
urged against too much confidence.
Yost hskes Army Hustle.
There was plenty of vim and dasn
TO the Army's work yesterday. Per-
haps the csdt Is imbibed much OF their
hurIyup from the fact that Fielding
II. Yost, OF Michigan, the original
hurryup man, was one OF the coaches,
driving them up and down the grid
iion throughout the afternoons prac-
tice.
Ham Fish, of Harvard, was also
on hand, and the Army men had a
strenuous time of IT, Head Coach
Daily gave the team what is expected
to be its last scrimmage before
meeting the Navy. It lasted only ten
minutes, but was full of fire anc
dash.
There was 40 scoring, the men
working in the centre of the field
with the open attempts and near the
goal line with the line-smsshing
plays. dodgson contented himself
with kicking drill, but Huston and
Benedict were used in the scrimmage.
Jouett, who has been playing end on
the second string, was shunced into
the Army ackfield in Hodgson's place
and did well. His punting was ex-
cellent, too.
Yost went into his bag of tricks
and extracted a few which the Army
men tried out in signal drill. They
worked smoothly and all are expect
sd TO prove effective against the
Navy on Saturday. The men did bet
ter work with the new signal code
and there were few mixups. The
NAVY plays used by the scrubs in
yesterdays sorimmage were compar-
atiyelY easy meat for the regulars.
All the Army's allotment Of tick
ets for the big game is gone, but
Coach Sutton said yesterday that all
those former Army players who won
their A" in football would be pro-
vided with side line badges if they
applied to him at the Hotel Astor in
New York on or before Friday.
In New York betting on the game
continues at odds of 10 to z, with
Navy the favorite.