Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-11-05
NAVY FACED BUCKNELL
IN LAST HOME BATTLE

/ The football season bursts into fun
/ bloom today. In great measure. all
that has gone before has been prelim-
mary, but this afternoon. on gridlrons
evorywheTe, the different elevens
plunge into the work toward which
the coaches have been pointing them
since early in the Fall While the
fr2cls letwoen those traditional
rivals, Harvard and Princeton. will
hold the centre of the stage. and Il
great deal of general interest will be
displayed in the clash between
Columbia and Cornell at the Polo
. Grounds, there are many other games
that are of more than passing mo-
ment The Navy-Bucknell game here
today. Of course. was the big goods"
in this section
Some OF the first fight contests are
between the Army and Notre Dame,
at West Point; the International aIair
between Syracuse and McGill, nj Mont
real; the ntersectional clashes be-
tween Yale and Maryland, at New
Haven and Pittsburgh and Nebraska.
Mt Pittsburgh; the tussle between
Fordham and Georgetown at Washing
ton; the annual meeting between The
elevens of Lafayette and Pennsylvania,
at Philadelphia and others
Big Game On Plains
match which is not unlikely to
furnish almost as many thrills as the
New Jersey battle is that scheduled
for the plains al West Point between
the Army and Notre Dame Last year.
with the late George Gipp in the bacIS-
field. the team from Indiana defeated
the future generals. 81 to Il. NOtre
Dame has no back this year of Gipp's
versatility and power. But il is a we'll
rounded. well-coached aggregation rhe
Army team will meet, one that has
averaged thirty TOiuts 10 it's credit
in each game played this season.
Notre Dame has been beaten once this
yearly Iowa. The Army has lost
twice-to New Hampshire State and 10
Yale. A special train TO West Point
will be run over the West Shore Rail
road, leaving CortlandL Street at noon.
BuckneII In Fine Shape
Formations and signals. kicking and
handling punts. made up the final
workout Of the Navy football crowd
for the argument with Bucknell Alto
gether, the practice was Of 4 light
order
With their goal line uncrOssed. and
not a point scored against them by
me aerial route. the Middies were
counted upon 10 take the mes sure of
the Lewisburg Collegians. although
coaches and players alike looked TO
the visitors 10 furnish rather stiff
game. While Navy perhaps Is a mucn
better balanced aggregation, the Buck
nelians are said TO have much power
in the backfeld, there being two sGJ5
OF ball carrying backs. orc known aB
the charged set" and the other the
pony combination The former with
big Bowser at full, was expected to
start hostilities, but there is no doubt
that the Pennsylyanians will draw on
all their resources with the hope Of
pulling victory out OF the fire, or hold
ing the score to a close margin. with
the exception OF right tackle King,
Navys full strength will take the field
al the start, for while several men
of the main squad are on the casual
list. they are not members of the
team.
The fact that the game will be the
last Of the season for Uncle Sans
naval wards, big gallery Of specta-
tors was expected. many visitors being
drawn 10 the city for the dance to be
given by the midshipmen in the oven
ing.
Next Saturday. Nays big game with
Pennsylvania State will be staged on
Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Tho
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