Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-09-23
PERSONNEL OF SQUAD
NAVY VS.. GEORGETOWN
Local Aggregation Both Strong and
Active.
FIRST GAME OCT. 2.
Coaches Proceeding Slowly With Team
for Opening Game.

While the Naval Academy is not like
~ to have quite so heavy team as
| Georgetown, its first opponent. who pIav
at the Academy on October ., it is get
ting together an aggregation which is
both strong and active, and the able
stan of coaches which Lieut.. Jonas n.
Ingram, head coach, has assembled.
| should put the men in trim for the ini-
tial contest.
Following the policy of Academy
coaches, form any seasons, the effort
will be made TO develop two or more
first class men for each position. so as
to make possible the maintenance OF
fast game from start to finish Ex-
cept in possibly two positions, there is
plenty of material on hand. and a team
viii be up to the Academy standard
now seems assured.
In the line, the only position which is
giving the coaches any serious Difficult
ty is that of center Both Perry. the
first choice, and Kriner. the best sub
stitute, graduated last year. and left
the squad in something of quandary
new man, Goodstein, has played the
position TO some extent, and appears to
have the physical qualifications for the
place, but he is yet untried.
AT guard there are r H. Jones, s II.
Jones, Daab Mills and Schildhauer,
each of whom weighs in the neighbor-
hood Of 1870 pounds The Jones played
the position a large part of the time
last year Mills is a good man and
would probably have won one of the
places but for an Interpretation acct
dent. He gained experience at the
University of Arkansas.
The coaches had two good men for
tackles from last years squad i'm Ward
and Kennedy. but were very much
pleased when they found two huge lads
in the new fourth class Gilman ard
Smith both of whom had considerable
experience. Gilman weighs 100 pounds
and played on the squads at both Cor
nell and Colgate, though not making
the Varsity at either place. Smith
PLAYED in the backfield at Sewanee, and
hanles his 200 pounds we'll They are
most welcome additions to the squad,
as the coaches do not wish to rely upon
any one man to fiji place
At end. there should be no difficulty
in finding pair of good men from Har-
sison, Jackson. Martin and Won Helm
berg. The former are the veterans,
and most reliance is placed upon Har-
rison who has weight, speed and
strength. and who showed the greatest
aptitude of any Navy end last year in
receiving the forward pass. Much de-
pendence is to be placed on this play
at the Naval Academy this year.
Ii is not unlikely that the backfield
will be as heavy as last year, though
there are two big fellows in Blodgett
and Failing. These will be of the pow
erful. linebreaking type Of backs, but
the balance of the candidates are not
specially heavy Miles will start the
season at quarterback, with either
Craig or Vail as his change, while both
of the latter may be used at halfback
In addition TO these, there are West
phal, Dashiell and Stoudt as likely
backs. The team will miss either H.
Harrison or Bates. both of whom grad
uated last year. There is on man in
sight who is anywhere near so good as
either of these in supporting the line
or insuring a gain of a few yards
straight into the line
The coaches are proceeding slowly
with the team, and it is not likely to
have advanced very far by the opening
game or mastered many plays. While
every effort will be made to win all the
games, everything will. as usual. be
centered on the effort to defeat the
West Point team, and no chances will
ne taken by using players who have
not made themselves fit or by making
public too much of the style of play
which viii be used this year.