The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-09

Realizing this the Naval Academy
football candidates some fifty in
number who are Officially. booked
70 start practice Sat / Annapolis Oh
October; s16, have privately agreed
that they will be on hand just one
week earlier. and the coaches feel
that the time will be enough to PIE
Pare for the games against Maj
Quette and Princeton
Marquette won from Boston Col
lege, q to g., last year, this being
the only defeat registered against
the Massachusetts collegians. Vic.
tories over Detroit; North Dakota,
South Dakota and Vermont were
other high, points in its series OK
games, Needless to say, a team
with a record like this will not op.
pose; any team in the East without
hopes Of victory. 4
The game win be by far the
most notable in this section up to
this point in the schedule. Inter.
. sectional games are rare for the
Naval Academy team, and q clash
with such a strong team as Mar.
quette is sure to excite much IN
terest. It will be the first game
which is likely to fill the stands
at the athletic field, which have
been enlarged during the summer
10 more. than twice their former
capacity.
Bucknell is another team which
AyAeS5 hyr,rv 49, 49, -
mendous fight here. Bucknell is one
OF the Nays oldest opponents on
the gridiron field, and while the
Navy has the advantage in victories
by a considerable margin, BuckneE
has slipped in a. defeat every now
and then, and always gives the
hardest kind of a battle.
Bucknell has been working. hard
to, keep pace with the advance
which has marked so many institu.
lions in this section. It's student
body has been Increased, athletics
gystematized and more capably di.
rected, and it believes it made a
big step forward when it obtained
Charlie Moran, of Center College, as
Its football coach for next season.
Bucknell will play at Annapolis
on November Is. There will be no
game for the Naval team on the
22nds so that Bucknell tussel is the
last home game and the final oppor-
tunity Of seeing the Naval team in
action before it meets the Military
Academy eleven in the Baltimore
stadium, on November 20.
b While these two games will be of
MotabIe interest, the contest against
Penn. State at Annapolis, on NoVem.
Der ], retains its place as the mid.
shipments big home game. Except.
ing only the Military Academy,
Penn State is the greatest rival of
, the Naval Academy in football and
several other sports. The Navy will
make an effort to wipe out the
sting of the bitter defeat by Penn
State last year, the only game lost
by the Navy during the season.
These games will be the high
points Of a local season not ap-
preached in interest for many
years. However, all the games
will be worth seeing. William
and Mary, opening the season here
on October d, is the only opponent
which the Navy is likely to defeat
decisiveIy without great effort.
Even in this case, however, tue
Navy win take no chances it can
avoid.
West Virginia WesIeyans, playing
= here on October Is, comes between
Princeton and Penn State, and will
certainly be good enough to make
any letup on the part Of the Navy
distinctly dangerous. The Univers-
ity of Vermont, newcomer on the
Navy's schedule, will send its team
here on November 8, and can be
relied upon to make things inter-
esting.
+ The climatic game Of the season.
against the Military Academy, to
be played in Baltimore on NoveTn.
Der 80, will be almost a local game,
and will afford the AnnapoIic cor.
tingent the best. opportunity. Of see;
ing service game that. it has ever
had. %sy