Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-15
WEST POINT GAME
IS DEFINITELY OFF
Positively No Army-Navy Game
This Season. Other Big Game
Scheduled For November %
WITH GREAT LAKES TEAM

The supremacy among the football
teams of the Naval service, rather
than the colleges of the East, is the
ambition of the Midshipmen, now that
the meeting with the team of the Mill
tary Academy is definitely of for the
season. BY this, il is not meant that
the Naval lads will shun an encounter
with any other of the big college
teams; the contrary is quite the case.
Efforts have been made to bring near
ly every one of them to Annapolis, but
there has been remarkable unani-
nifty among them to avoid the trip to
Annapolis this year.
The big game of the local season, so
far is now indicated. is that which will
be played against the Great Lakes
Training Station team on November
23. This game is settled except for a
few details, and should bring together
two of the strongest, if not the strong
est two. of the teams of the Naval
service. The Lakes contingent is
tremendously anxious to get the Mid
shipmen to Chicago for game on
Thanksgiving Day. though the trip TO
Annapolis for the 23rd is in no way
contingent upon the return game.
This, the Midshipmen would be de-
lighted to do. but there is little chance
that the bars would be let down
enough to permit the trip.
There is one possibility for the
game, and that is that the proper rep
reservations should be made to Secre-
tary Daniels that the game would per-
nit the people of Chicago and vicinity
to see phase of Naval life that would
help to increase their knowledge of
the service and their good feeling to-
wards it, This, of course, could not be
put to him by those in the Naval serv-
ice, but there is nothing to prevent
representatives of the section from ad-
vancing this side of the matter. There
is tremendous interest in football at
the Great Lakes station, with squad
of over 500 enthusiasts and about
thirty teams. 1t is unnecessary to
point out the tremendous interest that
would be taken in such game in
Chicago.
The two other service games which
the Midshipmen have scheduled, and
which will be played in Annapolis,
will be excellent steps in the ladder
to the Naval supremacy. The season
will open next Saturday against the
eleven of the Naval Pay School, which
is located at Princeton, n. j., and on
the following Saturday, the powerful
team of the Newport Training Station
will be encountered Both of these
teams are understood to have many
notable college players among them.
The only college game definitely
fixed so far is against Ursinus, which
will be played at Annapolis on Nov
ember 16. A service team will prob
ably be played on November 2, but the
9th is open for college game, and
the management will be glad to have a
game either on Thanksgiving Day or
the Saturday. after it, if one of the
strongest college teams of the East
can be induced to make the trip.
There is a strong feeling here that it
would be patriotic and sportsman
like acs for some of the big colleges
to help make the Naval season a reas-
enable success this year So far,
marked reluctance to come to Annap-
oils has been evident.