Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-11-21
FOOTBALL SEASON IS
DRAWING TO ACLOSE
Harvard and Yale to Clash for
Eastern Championship.
NAvY'S LAST HOME GAME.
Will Meet New York University To-
mOrrow-St. Johns Expects Hard
Contest With Washington.


afternoon, when the midshipmen will
meet the eleven of the New York
University in the final game of their
schedule.
Tomorrow will also witness the
antisclimax of the season in the East,
as the only big battle booked for next
Saturday is that between the Army
and Navy. The Eastern champion
ship will be decided at Cambridge to-
morrow, when Yale and Harvard clash
in their annual battle.
Indications point TO a Harvard
triumph, but the Yale adherents are
confident and they fee that the Blue
is going to show the Crimson-clad war
riors a few surprises. Pennsylvania
and Corn I'll will meet in their annual
game at Philadelphia, and number
of other rival teams in the East will
wind up the season with their most
important games. West Point will
play Springfield.
The New York Varsity lads are
coming to Annapolis with an unsul-
lied record of not having scored a
single point this season, and they
have been beaten by Syracuse and
other teams by overwhelming scores.
Nevertheless, they have high hopes
of being able to make just one tally
against the powerful Navy aggrega-
tion, and they have just wound up
week of unusually hard practice,
with this one end in view. The
New Workers have devoted particu-
lar attention to the forward pass
play, with which they hope to worry
the middies.
Secrecy continued as the run of
practice for the Navy football players
yesterday in the closing stages of
work in preparation for the great
struggle with the West Point cadets
on the Polo Grounds, New York, No
vember 90.
The days work covered every de-
tail of football, beginning with the
usual preliminaries and signal drills.
and closing with a stiff scrimmage
with the strong scrub aggregation,
in course of which all of the men who
are likely to be used in the game
against the rival cadets, were given
a chance to get warmed up to play.
While greater attention is just
now being given to perfecting the
new formations, in which the forward
pass features with the other fancy
plays, yet the coaches are not over
looking the kicking end of the game,
including punting and goal kicking
from placement. Nichols, quarter
back, will do all of the punting so
long as he remains in the game,
though Blodgett, Alexander and
others among the fret substitutes,
also are being drilled. Nichols had
developed wonderfully along this
line. In place kicking, Brown and
Vaughn are the mainstays, while
Leonard, the feet little halfback,
is reliable in drop-kicking.
Billy" the goat, the official
mascot of the Navy eleven, was
measured for his Uniform yesterday
at local tailoring establishment.
His costume will consist of heavy
blanket of flannel in blde and gold
the Navy colors, embellished with an
anchor, and nine "stars" indicating
the nuber of times that his goatship
has forced the Army mule to retreat
in the annual struggles OF the grid
iron.
The scoring by the Navy team
has been done with more men taking
part in the touchdowns than is the
case with any other team of group
composed of Harvard, Yale, Prince
ton, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, the
Army aud Navy. Fourteen different
midshipmen have scored by that pro-
cess, McResvy being the leader with
ten. Harvard has had ten men TO
cross the line with the ball in their
hands, Princeton, 12; Yale, II;
Pennsylvania. 8, Dartmouth. IL;
Army, II.
The principal goal kickers from
touchdowns are Storer, Harvard,
with Is; H. Baker, Princeton, 13;
Ketcham, Yale, 9; Marshall, Penn
sYlvania, II; Hogsett, Dartmouth,
IA; McEwan, Army, IL; Brown,
Navy, aud Leonard, Navy, six each.
These converters include a tackle,
two guards, a centre, an end and
three backs. The converting detail
has been distributed literally at
both the Army and Navy. seven men
having attended to il at West Point
and a like number at the Naval Acad-
emy.
Brickley leads Harvard in touch
downs with seven, Sterit leads Prince
ton with eleven, Wilson leads Yale
with four, Hogsett anJ Llewellyn
leads Dartmouth with five each,
Hobbs, the Army, with sight, aud
McReavy, the Navy, with ten. Again
the middies are second in the list of
teas in number of points scored.
They have registered total of 247.
Although the eleven of st. John s
College is out of the running for the
State championship title, the cadets
are manifesting keen interest in to-
morrow's game with the team of
Washington College, of Chestertown.
These two institutions are old RI
walls. Last year ST. Johns crack
team rolled up over 60 points on
the Chestertown lads. Tomorrow S
game will he nlaved st 0rioIe Park.