Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-04
M|DSHIPMEN DEFEATED
IN OPENING CONTEST
Georgetown Brings Fast and Heavy
Team and Wins 9 to 0.
ACADEMY TEAM is GREEN.
Navy Lads in BackfieId Show Poor
Form, But Team is Not Discouraged
Two Hard Games Ahead.

With a distictly superior backfelt
and a line OF forwards who were heav-
Ter and quicker than their opponents
/ Georgetown won from the Naval Acad-
envy bv 9 TO 0 Saturday afternoon. II
was the opening match of the local ;ea-
! son, and it was bitter blow to the
Navy contingent, as Georgetown has
not defes ted the midshipmen al foot
ball for many years.
The prime factor in the victory for
/ the Capital PLAYERS was Halfback Gil
roy. fast and powerful carrier of the
ball. but Wall and Maloney also gained
substantially The Navy team did not
have back who compared with lnv OF
these The superiority Of Georgetown
\ on the attack was distinct throughout
the game. but they lost a great many
yards for holding and OTIS ie pl1virg
In the second quarter after Gilroy
aided by Wall and Maloney. he'd carried
the ball from past midheld. Glroy car
ried it over for the only touchdown OF
tha game. Ward missed the goal In
the final quarter the visitors were held
on Navy's 15-yard line, and Dempsey
who had been in hospital with bad
leg up t. Saturday. was called from tine
hench.and stayed - tie gar,e c9ly Iors
enough to drop a nice field goal from
ihat point.
Besides its gains or vide end runs
runs, Georgetown pushed forward on
the old criss-cross play, in which Gil
roy and Wall were used. It drew the
Navy ends in on several occasions and
resulted IN goo@ Gains Neither side az
complished anything with the forward
pass. In a few cases 3he mi1shipmeu
| worked the play, but the end got il on
j g short pass while III bad position to
carry it. Vail, OF the Nevy,tr drop
FOR goal from the z0-yard line. It was
excelently aimed, but went low.
II. S. Jones, OF center and Harrison.
right end, put up a very good game.
but there was little use in the play of
The midshipmel 10 encourage their
friends Disappointed the friends of
the Naval Academy football team GER
tainly are over the defeat by George
town but there is no suggestion Of dis
| aoUrager1ent. md everyone connected
with the team will try all ;he harder to
develop strong team, while the mid
lshipmen and Navy folk ere Just as loval
IN their support as over There have
been numerous instances where an
Academy team which did poorly in its
early games, has turned out to be a
strong aggregation towards the end of
the season, and has defeated the Army
eleven. which is the great goal of the
seasons work
For the next two Saturdays the mid
shipnen have a hard road to travel.
They play the University Of Pittsburgh
next Saturday, and the University of
Pennsylvania the following week. Both
of these teams won from the Academy
last year, both scores being II to g.
Every chance faycrs repetition of the
result but If the Navy team shows inn
Drovement in these games, and puts up
a creditable article of football defeats
viii not make the local contingent feel
that the chances of winning from the
Army is any porer The coaches will
20 along the same lines they have laid
down, and subordinate everything to
winning the big final contest on the
New York Polo Grounds
Georgetown played a remarkable
game, with an unusually heavy and
powerful line of forwards. and a set of
backs who could all be counted upon to
take All efficient part in advancing the
ball, though Gilroy was its real star
both on the attack and defense The
team had been carefully coached by Ex-
endine. who. incidentally, is probably
the only Indian in the country who has
charge of a team OF such standing as
Georgetown. and "hurry-up" tactics
seemed TO be the rule. The team was
not underestimate by the midshipmen
or those who handled them and it was
thoroughly understood that only the
hardest kind of football would give any
chance for victory
II must be understood that the Naval
Academy coaches, though trying their
best to win every game. do not make
special preparation for any game ex-
lcept that against the Military Academy
The result of that determines the sue
cess of the season. and the effort is al
ways made TO develop the team slowly
and to bring it to its zenith of strength
lust before the Army game While de-
feat is not relished at any time. the
Navy contingent feels there is good
football in its squad, and that the team
! will improve steadily and Fut up stiff
Ter contest in the final game.
The failure of the Nays attack was
due rather to the lack Of individual ef-
nciency in most cases. though some of
the plays, notably the forward pass
plays, did not seem to be very promis-
ing Of substantial advances. The
coaches Went through nearly the whole
string Of backs. and found none who
could advance the ball materially
Miles and Craig both had innings at
4uarterbaek.ani reitaer. .ccll5 do much
towards gaining, though both have rec
ords for brililnat running with the ball
last year. as has Westphal ans Vail,
who PLACED at halfback. The rushes of