The Washington times., 1918-10-08

with perhaps the most formidable
squad ever seen at Annapolis. war
time conditions have given the Mid
dies a terrific jolt The handsome
schedule, planned so carefully last
season, has been shattered beyond
repair. Opponents cannot be founi
anywhere.
The Governments. order against
travelling by training corps elsVen3
has caused most OF the difficulties at
Annapolis. II was hinted some time
back that exceptions might be made
where college teams were scheduled
20 meet either service school, but no
such information has been sent out,
at least officially, and both the Army
and the Navy have had a majority Of
their games cancelled by this new
rule.
EpIdemie II Hurting.
To make matters worse the cpl
demIc Of influenza has ended all
thought Of football for several weeks,
bringing new cancellations Dobie
may have TO stage practice scr.m-
images on Saturdays to keep up In
terest among the candidates.
The Navy eleven, too, has been hit
hard by the "hu-" Only two players
are left for the backfeld- Captain
Ingram is i'll at his home in India
napolis, and may not be in shape to
play football for several weeks. The
squad is large, but hardly a handful
are acquainted with the signals.
The graduation of the two upper
classes at West Point has stihed all
Army desires for a contest with the
Eevy Not q veteran player will be
left At the Point after November 1,
and It will be impossible to whip a
team into shape in three weeks to
oppose the powerful Navy contingent.
SO the Middies will now stop dream
ing Of battling the soldiers at Frank
lin Field. This, too, leaves another
date to Be nued-
Reserves Are Strong.
The Newport Naval Reserves. last
year considered the strongest Of all
the service eleyens in the country.
are in the field once more and al
most as strong as last year. They
will test their power SaturdAJ
against Brown at Providence.
Coaches Bull and Walker have In
their squad HanIon, OF Syracuse, and
ends; Conway, OF Holy Cross. and
Gaines, Of Dartmouth, tackles;
Youngstrom, OF Dartmouth, and
Lynch, last years Holy Cross cap
:ain, guards: Fox, a semipro player
Yrom Providence, center; Grant Uf
Academy, QuArterbacks; Nixon, OF
Brown, Goode, of Colby. Stearns, of
elaine, Payne, from the Pacific coast.
and Farber, from g Western college.
Tor the backfield.
A practice. game was played last
Saturday. Springfield. Y. NJ. c. A
being defeated, 8 to o. Efforts arc
being made to book games with col
.lege teams in New England.
Gets Dollar and Half.
Big BfI' HoIIenback, coaching
PennsyIyania's varsity squad in the
enforced absence OF Bob FoIwell, is
Tetting S1.5O for his toll Here's how
4 happened.
Entering the Quakers' office, HoI-
.ienback bumped into FolwelI. who
vas about to enter the hospital. a
victim of the "fiu" Hello. Bob, said
Bill. ~ just left the Navy Yard,
where saw BY Dickson, and offered
hiFu my services as a football coach
Gnder a Government contract"
whats a Government contract7''
Sueried FolwelL
"MilHonaire's contract; an agree
.n1ent 70 work for a dollar q year,
answered Hollenbsck.
g. Welt I'll tell you what I'll do. III
,aise the Government ante half a
dollar"
= You're on. I'm signed. I'm re-
porting this afternoon" replied Big
sLiIl," beaming.
Folwell grsvely handed over 81 1.5o
and HoIIenback went to work.
90 The entire West Virginia football
squad has been furloughed because OF