The Washington herald., 1922-10-31
Middies and Penn State
Point for Capital Clash
Gloom Disappears At Navy Camp - Folwell
Drives Squad in PreparationforS Sixteenth
Annual Game Wit. kions.

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ANNAPOLIS. Ma. Oct so.-oIoom
that peryaded the Nsvyl football
camp. following the defeat At the
hands Of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, on Saturday. has been greatly
dispelled, and the Middies. always
fmbued by the never say die"
spirit, went at their work .on Far
raGut Field this afternoon vita even
greater determination. especially In
view Of the. fact that another big
battle IL just n the offing. that with
Penn State. at American League
Park, Washington. on Friday.
= still smarting under the defeat ad-
ministered by the Nittany Lions at
Philadeiphia last year. the Naval
lads will be out TO avenge that sore
spot, and the contest 10 being looked
forward to with as much interest as
any Of the season. States victory
last year was due In great measure
to the brilliant individual work OF
Glenn Killinger. but the Navy con-
tfngent 10 not unmindful of the fact
that the Pennsyfvanians have first
caiiber backfield man In Wilson. q
heavy plunger. and q few veritable
giants In the first line Of defense.
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ANGLE. State IL held In the highest
esteem. regardless Of the fact that IL
failed to subdue Syracuse Saturday.
Practice OF the Middies was of the
light order. Several Of the regulars
were pretty badly battered in the
Pennsy contest. and did not get into
scrimmage at an, their work being
confined to signal and formation
drill, and other limbering tactics.
Annapolis will be well represented
at the game in Washington Friday.
The crowd will be quite as great
and perhaps greater. than many at
tending Army and Navy struggles In
the past.
STATE COLLEGE. Pa. Oct 30
The game between Penn State and
the Navy next Friday will be the six
teenth annual meeting on the grid
iron. and the Sittany Lions are
firmly decided to raise their end oil
the total score for this series Of en-
counters. though they know full well
that IL will be no easy task The
Middies' points for the games with
State now number 125. with the lat
ters reaching seventy-six. Eight
games have gone to the Navy. hve
to Penn State and two ended in ties
In preparation for the coming
struggle at the Capital City.
the first of the three days before the
team leaves was spent in a light
practice session, in which most OF
the time was given over to correct
ing the errors that had shown up In
Saturdays meeting with Syracuse
Every. man on the squad realizes the
quality of the teams that are to be
met between now and the end Of the
season. with the result that they
plunged into the practice TO elimi-
nate as quickly as possible the naws
that Coach Bezdek's critical eye had
caught in the tussle with the Orange
gridders.
With keen recollection Of the close
score In the game with the Middies
last fall, which ended 13 to In
states favor, the Nittany eleven has
added incentive for work. That vic
tory was the first since 1906, with
four games having been played In
| the meantime, one of them netting q
scoreless tie. The other tie wal
back in 1894. when the two teams
frst met After that State lost three
successive games. then came back
with. three straight wins. The next
two went to Navy and the follow
ing one. that of 1906. brought a s.
too win for State Navy won In
1907. State in 1908, and there was g
scoreless tie in 1911. The last en-
counter previous to last year was In
1913. when Navy won. 10 to o.