The midshipmen simply couldn't keep their minds from wandering to the gridiron.

It meant so much--to beat the Army! Then quickly enough the feverish day came.

Early in the forenoon the entire brigade of midshipmen, in uniform, was marched into town behind the Naval Academy band.

Scores of Navy officers, with their ladies, went along.

A lot of the townspeople followed in the big rush to Odenton and Baltimore.