Evening star., 1932-09-17
OUTLOOK PLEASING
TO COACH MILLER
Material, Though, Is None
Too Experienced and Sched-
uIe Very Difficult.
BY H. c. BYRD.

\n| some improvement over
Y last year"
In this way, Coach Rip
Miller voiced his opinion of prospects
for the foot ball team this year at the
Naval Academy.
And inasmuch as the Middies had
driving, fighting outfit that played with
credit to itself throughout the entire
1881 season, Miller's statement may
well be taken as an indication that
Navy should be one of the really good
teams of the East.
Last season Miller succeeded Bill
Ingram, now at California, as head
coach, and Navy people were very we'll
satisfied with what he accomplished.
The biggest achievements of the team
were victories over Princeton and
Pennsylvania. Navy lost to Army, it Is
true, in that charity contest at New
York, and under ordinary circumstances
that would be sufficient to blacken a
Navy season. However, the Army game
was informal and its result does not
appear in the record of either school.
THE 1881 season was looked upon
l. somewhat as a transitory period in
Navy foot ball, a considerable shift
having been made from the offense used
by Ingram to that installed by Miller.
The present coach is a product of Notre
Dame and naturally used that style of
play. That Miller himself is willing to
predict that the team now in training
should show considerable improvement
over last year should be cause for op-
timism at Annapolis
"Of course, it is too early to tell what
kind of O. team we shall have" says
Miller, but, unless I am badly fooled,
we ought to turn out much stronger
one than We had last year That may
be going just a little further than I
should, as our squad. while big and
strong, is green and without the expert
ence necessary to make really fine
eleven. The men are willing, though.
and it may be they can come through
even better than any of us expect.
One thing in our favor is that at
the academy we have almost ideal con-
ditionS under which to work. And the
Naval Academy authorities are very CO.
operative. In fact, if you are going to
write story about us. it would be only
giving credit where credit is due if you
would just mention that the people
down here look upon athletics as part
of the educational system and encourage
athletics as such. OF course, they do
not lose sight of the fundamental pur-
pose for which the academy is estab-
lished, but actually try to build up ath-
letics is way to help serve that pur-
pose.
I'VE have a hard schedule, one that
certainly is Just as hard as We ought
to play We are hoping to show we'll
in it. but, while coach may know ne
should have a stronger team than the
year before, no coach can tell what the
results of games are going to be. We
believe we should have better team
than last year, that We ought to play
good foot ball but beyond that your
guess as to prospects for winning
team would be just as good as mine.
NAVY lost several valuable men, in
~ cluding Tuttle. center: Tschirgi
and Kirn, halfbacks; but the loss
of a few players at Annapolis hardly
means so much as at other schools be-
cause of the much larger squad, IN
which most of the men are nearly OF
the same caliber. Bill Ingram once
made the statement that it did not
matter much at Navy if whole team
graduated. as men were constantly
coming along to take their places
William and Mary visits Annapolis
October l to open Nays season. The
Indians had the same place on the
Middies' schedule in 1881, and were
beaten by two touchdowns to one, with
virtually a second string team playing
most of the game for Navy. The second
contest is with Washington and Lee az
Annapolis. which team was not met last
season. Then comes Ohio University at
Annapolis on october Is.
1repR N9Vv makes its
first trip away, to play Princeton.
PENNSYLVANIA at Philadelphia is the
next opponent, and following it Colum-
bia is to be entertained at Annapolis.
MARYLAND follows Columbia, the game
to be played in Baltimore November II,
while the last two games, November ~
and December g. are with Notre Dame
and Army. Notrs Dame is to be played
at Cleveland and Army at Philadelphia.
CREATEsT interest, of course, will be
" centered in the Army game. Is Is
the first contest regularly Schedul-
ed since the break. those that have been
PLAYED in the meantime having no sig
nificauCe as far as scores are concerned.
That is. the scores of the charity games
do not appear in the records OF games
plaved between the two schools, and the
RESUMPTION of relationships this Fall
should be marked by an intensity OF
interest not shown in several years.
The Midshipmen. since their break
with West Point, have not had any
other game with which to wind up their
season in which interest anywhere ap-
preaching that in the West Point con-
test has been shown.
Navy has not won game from Army
in some years. and with the game re-
sunied this Fall, and prospects for a
much better team at Annapolis, Coach
Miller has a golden opportunity to win
for himself place in the Navy foot
hall sim