 The season began with a game against St. Johns, one of the first contests in what would become a heated rivalry. Navy won the game with relative ease, 12 – 0. The following game was against Johns Hopkins, played on November 13. The contest was an irregularity in the schools'rivalry; all previous and most following games were played on Thanksgiving Day, as a part of the Naval Academy's Thanksgiving athletic carnival. Although the score was close, a 6 – 0 win for the Naval Academy, Hopkins was never a threat to the cadets. After this point, the Academy's luck shifted. The squad was upset 4 – 0 in a rematch with St. Johns, and barely defeated Johns Hopkins in a 15 – 14 contest, played as a part of the athletic carnival. The Baltimore American covered the Johns Hopkins game in detail:
