Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-11-18
BRIGADE CHEERS AS
TEAM WORKS SECRETLY
Navy Eleven in Final Stretch Of
Seasons Campaign.
ARMY ALSO PREPARING.
Secret Practice Inaugurated at The
Point" and Cadets Are Encour-
aged Over Prospects.

Secret practice was inaugurated
at the Naval Academy this afternoon,
and the Navy pigskin warriors will
continue to work outside of the pub
lie gaze from now until their depart
ure for New York Thanksgiving Day
for the annual contest with the rival
West FONT Cadets on November 29.
The midshipmen have one more
game, that with New York University
IN Saturday. This should be a COM
psratively easy struggle for the sailor
lads, so that the remaining days OF
the seasons campaign will be devoted
to perfecting new plays and forma-
tions designed by the coaches exclu-
sively for use in the argument with
the soldier lads.
Though the Penn State game proved
the most grueling contest of the sea-
son, all of the Middies emerged from
the battle in good shape, except for
slight bruises, and reported on the
field for practice yesterday afternoon.
None of the regulars was given any
hard hard work. Hsnding of kicks
and formation drills were the princi-
pal order of things. The team likely
will have a scrimmage with the scrub
elevt this afternoon.
Scme local followers of the game
incline to the belief that the Middies
are not as strohg today as they were
two weeks ago. Without detracting
one bit from the ground gaining abil-
ity shown in several stages of Sstur-
days game, yet the powerful Navy
machine was held in check by State,
in the pinches, In a manner that has
not before been witnessed this sea-
son.
Nearly the whole brigade of mid
shipmen gathered on the stands yes
terdsy afternoon and sung and cheer
ed in order to stir the team to the
most desperate efforts. This will be
continued every afternoon until the
squad leaves for New York. The sing
ing and yelling of the midshipmen
brought home the fact that the great
game is less than two weeks off, and
the Navy people are more engrossed
than ever with thoughts of the battle.
The majority of the songs that
will be. sung at the Polo Grounds are
new. anchors Aweigh" and
you're In the Navy Now" are old
tavorites, but four others are entirely
new. One of them is eight, fight,
Fight, TO the tune of ROW, Row,
Row. Others are to the tunes of
''The Ocean Wave May Roll, "Whs n
| Get You Alone Tonight" and "Das
Haben Die Madchen So Gerue. -
A verse of the latter. which is sung
with much gusto, is:
Oh, the Gold and the Blue of the Navy
Are the colors triumphant today,
For the men of the sea are in battle
Ard there isn't chance for the Gray.
The Army will begin its Navy
game preparations in earnest today.
Secret practice has been ordered and
will be the program right up to the
Navy struggle. Encouraged by the
showing mad against Albright and
Villa Nova during the last two games
the squad resumed light work yes
terday consisting of signal drill and
the usual preliminaries. During the
signal practice much time was de-
vote d to the forward pass formations,
but they were dismal failures.
No injuries resulted from the Villa
Nova contest and it is expected that
Benedict and Huston, who have bee 4
out OF the game for over three weeks,
viii be able TO participate in the
hard workouts scheduled for this
week. Springfield will be at We
Point for the final home game on Sat
urday,