Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-25
HOPING AGAINST HOPE
FOR ARNY-NA GAME
Still Possible Big Classic VIII Be
Staged.
STUDENTS ARE ANXIOUS.
Suggested That All Tickets Be Sold
and Proceeds 90 for Red Cross
Society Benefit.

Agitation for an Army-Navy game
this fall is rife Notwithstanding an
announcement that the contest viii
not be played, indications are that
strenuous efforts are being made to
nave it take place Comment favor
ing the meeting is being printed in all
northern papers, and here and at West
Point everybody is anxious to play.
Cadets and Midshipmen want the
contest because it s-the one big thing
toward which each body of students
looks every year. West Pointers be-
lieye they can get their fifth straight
victory over the Navy, and the latter
thinks its rejuvenated machine can go
a long way toward redeeming failures
in the last four seasons. The Sailors
I probably are mighty desirous of an op-
p0rtunity to get a whack at that Army
mule this fall, and not without reason,
because their team unquestionably is
one Of the strongest ever turned out
at Annapolis.
Another suggestion worth while is
chat the game be played with the un-
derstanding that all admissions be
paid for and that the entire sum
realized be donated to the Red Cross
OF to some Army and Navy charity
fund. 1t is practically certain that
100000, or close to that, could easily
be realized from the gate money
When it is stated that between thirty
and forty thousand persons attend the
contest each year it is easily reck-
oned what the game would bring in
At the gate. Especially is this true
when every ticket probably could be
sold for SO per individual.
One good reason has been advanced
for not allowing the contest 1t is held
that the men to officer probably 75,-
600 sailors and soldiers would have to
be moved to New York, and that at
this time some attempt might be made
to incapacitate that body through
devious means A risk involving the
safety of officers for a battleship feet
IS not to be taken lightly, because
they are not so easily obtained as Off
GERS for an army.
1t is To be hoped that some step will
be taken to insure safe transportation
Of The student bodies of the two serv-
ice institutions, so that the game may
take place OF course. the game could
be PLAYED without the student bodies
being present, but much of the glamor
and worth of the Army-Navy meeting
would thereby be lost Under such a
condition it would hardly seem like
an Army-Navy struggle
The Middies are booked to meet the
eleven of Haverford College. of Penn
sylvania. on Saturday The Pennsyl-
vanians had a fast and strong team
last year, but their work so far this
season has hardly been even of medi-
ocre calibre. On the other hand the
sailor lads have been coming along
strong since their defeat at the hands
of the University of West Virginia
eleven This was amply demonstrate
ed last Saturday when they smothered
the Carlisle Indians under score of
81 to 0. and on the previous Saturday
swamped the Maryland State team by
So to 0. 1t is the general belief
among the followers of football about
town that the Navy eleven, coached by
Gilmour Dobie, the Western wizard,
is the strongest that has ever repre-
sented the naval institution.