Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-09-06
FOOTBALL SEASON NEAR
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Busy Scene On Athletic Grounds at
the Naval Academy--Light
Practice During Summer.
NAVY'S OBJECT TO BEAT ARMY
Coaches Whipping Middies Into Con-
ditiOn---Nucleus of Teams First
Game With Georgetown 0ct.2

Oame win Ge0rgetOWn OCt.Z
A visit TO the athletic grounds at the
| lNavalAcademy any afternoon this week
! will convince anyone that the football
season is at hand, and that it IS the in
tention of the Academy athletic author
tiles to leave nothing undone which
will tend to develop the strongest pos
sible eleven this fall.
The squad is at present composed OF
| 65 members of the new fourth class.
| but they have learned a lot Of football
during the summer, and it can be said
truthfully that along some lines no
squad OF new midshipmen ever gave so
much promise at this time During
the whole summer there have beenl ight
practices twice a week under Lieut.
| Jonas T. Ingram. the new head coach,
and for the last two weeks the whole
squad has been on the field in the after
noon every day.
AS everyone around Annapolis knows
the Navy team works with but one OBJ
iect in view-the defeat of the eleven
Of the Military Academy in the great
annual contest to be played this yearon
The New York Polo Grounds on Novem-
Der 27. There will be other contests
against worthy foes but not one of them
or al lof them together can count a
feather weight against the big service
game
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Army has won three games in sue
cession, and also suffered less by grad
uation than the Navy team, there is no
| encouragement here, and the Naval
Academy has set to work systematical-
ly and with determination to turn out
q winning team this year.
The first step was the selection of
Lieut. Jonas H. Ingram, welgknown as
a football player and oarsman. as head
coach Lieutenant Ingram viii be in
absolute charge, and enjoys the conf
dence of everyone interested in the
team. Il is believed that he possesses
in high degree the ability to secure
| the utmost efforts from his charges
| and keep them in good spirits
He mas secured as his chief assistant
HardwiclS, Harvard's noted back of last
season, said by competent judges to be
| the best all-round football player in the
country. Lieutenant Ingram does not
believe in a large coaching staff, and
the only other regular assistants will
be Ensign John II. Brown. the famous
Babe" probably the greatest lineman
the Academy has ever had, and Ensign
| II. L Ingram, an end, brother of the
head coach at the Academy.
The principal members of the squad
| # last year who were lost by gradua-
ton were: Captain Overesch, Graf
end Armstrong, ends; Roode, McCoach,
and Schlossbach, tackles; Perry, cen
| ter; Alexander, Pates, Collins. Culbert,
Mitchell and II. II. II. Harrison, backs.
| The most seriously missed of these will
be Captain Overesch and Perry, the reg
ular center for three seasons.
There are these men as a nucleus for
the team of 1915: Miles, Vail, Blodgett
Dashiell. Craig and Failing. behind tho
line; r. w Harrison, Jr., Woodward
lKenworthy, Broadfoot ard Jackson
ends, and these men for the positions
from tackle in: Daab, Jones, II. S.
Jones, Kennedy. Ward and Mills. with
out making use of any of the new men,
a team could be picked out now which
would be as strong on paper as the
final team last year, except at center
and left end.
For instance, with Miles, who has
been elected captain, at quarter, with
Craig at one of the halves, and Blod-
get and Failing filing the other posi-
tions, a backfeld, fast, powerful and
experienced could be formed at once
THE most definite find in the new fourth
class is Gilman. who played in the line
at both Cornell and Colgate, rowing on
the crew at the former college. An
other powerful fellow is Z. c. Smith
who played at Sewanee. Other big fel-
lows are Schilhauer, Cooley and vii.
liams. Two new men who are puntine
we'll and show aptitude in other phas-
es of backs work are Won Hinbere
and Olsen.
The first game of the season will be
against Georgetown, which plays here
on October 2. In view Of the veterans
on the Navy team, the work done by tn,
new squad, and the faithful spring
practice, there should be no difficulty
in getting together an eleven which
will trim the Washingtonians. On tn,
next following Saturdays the Navy team
viii have two of its hardest games O
! the season-against the University o
Pittsburgh and the University of Penn
sylvania.
On October 20, Virginia Polytechni,
Institute viii play, and on Octobe
80, North Carolina Agricultural an,
Mechanical College. The hard gam
given last season by this team will b,
remembered. On November 6, Buck
nell, which has not been particular,
strong for couple of seasons, will op
pose the Midshipmen, and on the fol
lowing Saturday, Colby viii play.
Colby played here for the first tim
last year, and the fast and clever gam
it displayed was one of the athIeti
treats of the year. On November 20
the Midshipmen will keep in trim 70
the Army by finishing the local season
against Ursinus.