Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-20
SAILORS INVITED
TO PLAY WINNERS
Great Lakes Team Challenged Te
Play Visitors Of Georgia
Tech-Pittsburgh Game
SATURDAYS PROSPECTS,

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The management of the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station team has re-
ceived an invitation to play the winner
of the Pittsburgh Georgia Teach game,
and has Teen compelled to decline.
The schedule of the Great Lakes
eleven will carry them well into De-
cember, and includes trip to the Pa
cific Coast. It's opponents during this
journey have not yet been selected, but
there is no room for additional OPP
ponents The invitation was received
after the defeat of Rutgers on Satur-
day, and evidently assumes that the
Great Lakes team will defeat the mid
shipmen on Saturday, and that the
game with the winner of the Pitts
burgh- Tech contest will practically
decide the supremacy of the country.
However, the midshipmen are not all
willing to concede this, nor are the
members of the bluejacket team ex-
pressing any over-confidence in the
result Evidently, they have been
warned against the danger of any usch
feeling. and, when asked as to the COM
ing game, merely say that the midship-
men will know that they have been
playing football This sentiment is
not doubted in the least by anyone
here While amazed at the victory
over Rutgers. it is appreciated that
the Great Lakes Station has won
derful team, and that under ordinary
conditions should win from the Naval
Academy
Dobie feels that his team will suffer
from the fact that they have had such
an easy time up to the present There
is no question as to the ability of most
of the regular players on his team,
and that there are some exceptional
players. However, neither last year,
with the exception of one game, nor
this season, has the team met a real
I high class opponent, and it must be
remembered that most of the players
had merely high school experience be-
fore coming to Annapolis.
The greatest strength of Dobie's
team is in the backfield. Capt. Ingram
is weighing nearly 100 pounds this sea-
son, and is very fast and strong. A
thoroughly experienced back, he is a
very hard man to stop. Butler is also
big, strong fellow, rather clumsy in
the open, but a powerful driver, and
splendid defense man. Roberts, the
old Colgate back, is the best runner in
an open field on the squad, but he is
still suffering from an old injury. For
l . III.
choose either Orr or Rawlings, both
members of the new class.
There is no such certainty about the
line. The men who may be regarded
as practically certain of beginning the
game are:
Scaffe, left tackle; Arthur, center;
Even, right end. Snively and Cold
well are contestants at left end; Dem
field and Saunders at left guard; Perry
and Moore at right guard, and King
and Murray at right tackle. The line
has uniformly overwhelmed its oppo-
nents this season, pushed them back,
broken through them and opened up
for their own runners, but it has never
met such a proposition as that which
will be presented on Saturday by the
mighty tars of the Great Lakes Sta
ton.
1t would be an error to suppose that
the Naval Academy football mentors
were in entire ignorance of the
strength of the Great Lakes eleven
AS a matter of fact, reports from re-
liable sources have come to Annapo-
lis, telling of the strong material that
was at Chicago. Although it was be-
lieved that it was doubtful if all these
players, who had learned football in
such different ways, could be made to
work harmoniously. the reports of
those who saw the Rutgers game were
that a wonderfully coordinated ma
chine had been constructed, and that
the work on that day was of such a
remarkable nature as to stamp the
Great Lakes team as one of the best
ever formed
In spite of the acknowledged.
strength of the visitors, the midship-
men are happy to have real test, and
/ it may be taken as assured that there
will be fight to the last ditch next
Saturday.