Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-27
MD. AGG|ES CRUSHED
BY HEAVY NAVY TEAM
Game Scarcely Afforded Practice
for MILDLY Regulars.
MANY SUBSTITUTES USED.
Eievens Batlled in Mass OF Mud, and
Two Of The Farmers Sustained
Injuries.

The heavy and powerful Navy
football team simply toyed with the
eleven representing Maryland Agri-
cultural College Saturday afternoon,
rolling up total of 76 points, the
largest score that has been registered
on the Academy gridiron in years.
The Aggies never had the slightest
lcok-in. In fact, they were forced on
the defensive most of the time, never
had the leather in their own posses
sion past the dividing line, and only
once during the game did they gain a
first down, and that was toward the
close, when Loomis reeled off a clever
forward pass to Moss for a gain of
l5 yards.
The game did not even afford good
practice for the Navy players, and
before the first half was over second
string men were run in one after an
other, and in the second halt third
substitutes found themselves doing
equally as we'll as the n re seasoned
players.
Played on field that was a sea of
mud and water, and with the advant-
age of weight greatly against them,
the visitors were utterly powerless to
make any successful resistance
against the heavy assaults of the
Navy machins. But they put up
plucky fight all the way, and the final
whistle found them playing dogge dly
and with as muchspirit as their tired
and bate red bodies would allow
them.
So fierce was the work of tn,
Farmers, in fact, that two of their
number were injured to the extent
that they may not be able to play
again this season. These are Shipley,
the star fullback, and Knode, the
fast quarterback.
Both were injured in the same
scrimmage. Shipley received frac-
tured collar bone, while Knode suffer
ed fracture of ths left ankle. The
injuries were due in large measure
to the slippery condition of the field
Shipley was carrying the ball at the
time. and Knode was in the inter
ference. Both were struck by sew
eral Navy players as the latter broke
up the play, aud in the mixup the
injuries resulted. They were carried
off the field by several of their fell
lows, Loomis taking Knode's place at
quarter, and Johnson going in at full
back.
In spite of the wet condition of
the field and the water-soaked ball,
there was very little fumbling, and
the Navy backfield men were able to
hold their feet remarkably we'll in
skirtiug the ends. McReavy, Leon
ard, Blodgett and Creig did particu-
larly good work in this respect, each
reeline off runs of from 20 to 4o
yards.
The game was virtually a steady
procession down the field after each
kickoff for the middies, the visitors
being swept back with comparative
ease, in sspite of their stubborn
eff ,rts. Eleven touchdowns were
the fruits of these proceedings, and
the Navy were successful in ten OF
the chances at booting the goals.
Blodgett, the big plebe, who for
merly played halfback on the High
School of Commerce in New York,
had his first chance in regular game.
He got away for 40-yard run the
first time he was given the ball. He
is a good punter and shows every in
dication OF coming player, but he
has some awkwardness to overcome.