Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-13
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAV By FRANCIS STANN
Just q Natural Rivalry

DID NAVY RESCHEDULE Maryland because Jim Tatum
is gone? You remember Taum the one who recruited so
we'll Navy says ITS Just natural rivalry that should
have been perpetuated," one spokesman at Annapolis
unfinchngy puts it.
That's not the way the song sung few years ago.
AT time when Navy was thinking it turning out big
time football teams Maryland brought in the Middies to
open new Byrd Stadium in 1850 and slapped them down.
35-21
The next year the act was taken to Baltimore and
again Maryland prevailed, 4O-21 The final year-1s52-t
was 387 Maryland BY this time Navy had had it. Although
Tatum had been applicant for the coaching job
at Annapolis the Navy athletic group fed up knew
when it was overmatched.
why should play Maryland?" one spokesman of
the era asked IF can't beat Maryland, can't
be champions of our State"
NAVY FOOTBALL-any big time football for that mat
ter-is the nature of business Navy has only certain
number of games in which raise about $700O00 the
amount required to finance the sports program Annapolis
This kind of does not from lacrosse tennis
Navy-Notre Dame is not always contest but it is
moneymaker And of course there's Army The third big
source of revenue iSor waS-Penn That one a faded
power, hence Maryland.
At Annapolis yesterday they held one of those good
fellows Together uncheonS and announced Mary
land and Navy would in November of 1858 and 1859
In Baltimore.
Why Baltimore? Elementary, my dear Watson. AS a
spokesman put it, off the record Batmores stadium holds
$4,000 people Maryands stadium very nice and and
there certain conveniences But does hold $4,000
people"
ONE WHO WAS PERHAPS naive asked why one Of the
couldn't be staged at Griffith Stadium as
Have tried to do business with the Griffith
the answer
The Memorial Stadium in Baltimore costs Navy flat
$4,000 fee whether it's Dame or Johns Hopkins the
Middes are playing 1t cheaper in Philadelphia
perennial site of the AmyNavy game-a fiat nothing
it only makes to play Maryland where will pay
Naturally the Navy at the Yacht Club
and so were DR. Wilson Ekins president of the University
n fant
athletic director at Navy the guy who finds young
who excel at navigation football the same time
1t was suggested that Navy was taking Maryland again
at convenient time
BECAUSE TATUM is GOMEZ" Rip snorted do you
think that because Tatm North Carolina ruins Mary
land as a football school? That's ridiculous"
Obviously it is. If Maryland destined to become
the thrdrate power it once was, Navy hardly would
scheduling the Terrapins box-oice While he has
gone on record as opposing the gveaway scholarship for
football Dr. Elkins, old gridder himself hasn't said
either that he intends to retrench at College Park
Those probably will be good games-Navy versus Mary
land-in SO and SO They will be evenly matched squads
because Maryland keeps the national level Navy
intends to stay in the league No school replaces
Ron Beagle and George Welsh overnight but Navy will
come as close to doing it possible
Next to Pitt perhaps Navy likely will be tops in the
East this fall Anyway, it'll be Pitt Navy Army and Penn
State near the top and don't forget Ivy League The tip
is out pretty good that Yale Princeton will be awuy
rugged
MARYLAND? SOMEHOW MARYLAND is classified as
Dixie school The TerrapnS have got to be tough OF
Tatum left his riches behind Tommy Mont his successor
is smart young man. He'll exploit or PoSsums boys
indeed perhaps make them interesting More ofense
and less defense, etc.
At any rate, Navy knows is not booking the patsy of
old MISUNDERSTANDING the Maryland Aggies-used to be
soft touch for Navy Once the Mdds Terapns played
over stretch of six games-l897 to 19l3-and Maryland
failed to score point
1t wasn't until the 10th game that Maryland finally won
by 6O-tnis was in 1881 in Washington no lessand almost
TWO decades later the tide really turned The big-time
Terrapns took three straight never scoring less than as
points, and Navy properly wanted out
NOW Navy wants in Any conclusions which may be
oraWn are not necessarily those Of the sponsor.