Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-12
ST. JOHNS DOWNED
BY ANCIENT RIVAL
Nd. State Hammered Way To Vic
tory In LastQuarter.
FINAL COUNT WAS ls TO 3.
Cadets Virtually 0uiplayed Foe In
Early Stages Of the Contest
PllaSsnig Stars.


the score standing to against it.,
and having been fought to a standstin
during the greater part of the time
Maryland State came into its own and
| battered its way across St Johns
| goal line twice and won its annual
gridiron struggle by 13 to g. The
game was played at College Park.
ST. Johns gave State a real battle
and near the end of the third quarter
looked as IL it might win Superior
physical condition greatly aided State
and when it began driving desperately
in the latter stages of the struggle,
st. Johns could not hold up.
st. Johns Starts With Rush.
Right at the start of the contest st.
Johns showed exceptional offensive
strength by hammering the State line,
after receiving the kick off, straight
down the field to the one-yard line.
The Annapolis men looked to be in for
a touchdown, but the Gold and Black
players braced and hurled back four
charges of their opponents Never
after that was the Annapolis eleven
able to get inside the 20-yard line.
Once near the end OF the third quar-
ter the Cadets rushed the ball 0 yards
from their own territory to States 20
yard line, but were held, and Semler
dropped back and booted a perfect
drop kick between the bars for the
only score of the game until that
time. st. Johns students went wild
because it was the first time since
1912 that one of their elevens had
been ahead of State in any game.
Couldn't Develop The Punch.
Several times in the first half State
started to gain consistently, but when
it got down in ST Johns territory it
could not develop the punch to put
the ball across. In the first quarter
il had the collegians on the defensive
on their own 10-yard line.
ST Johns played better football than
State in the third quarter, brilliant
gains by Plassnig featuring. The
fourth quarter was all States. St
Johns began to succumb to the ham
mering it had been receiving and
when Stevens blocked put on the
30-yard line the State crowd started
pounding its way to touchdown.
1t was a steady march until
Fletcher drove his way through the
st. Johns forwards for the last few
inches which separated the ball from
the goal Shortly after that ST Johns
began to throw forward passes indis-
criminately in its own territory and
lost the ball on downs in its 35-yard
line
Arthur Carries Ball Over.
State started another march in the
goal line, and though it got a 15-yard
penalty as a setback during the trip
15-yard run by Snyder made up the
distance. With the ball four yards
from its goal, ST. Johns covered
Fletcher and stopped him dead on the
first play, but on the next Arthur took
the ball across. Knode kicked the
first goal, but missed the second
With the exception of the last quar-
ter when State started something
that looked like real football, about
all the fighting done in the game be-
longed to ST Johns
Cadets Grow Desperate.
The Annapolis institution played
desperate football and some of its men
did splendid work. Plassnig was the
only man in the St Johns backfeld
who could gain ground consistently,
and if his performances, when he
ripped off long gains through the
State forwards, is any criterion. there
is no better back in Maryland
Fletcher did the ground gaining for
State He and Knode ran back punts
much better than the visitors. With
these exceptions there was little in
the way of feature to States play.
The lineup:
State Pos ST Johns