The Washington times., 1903-05-04
GEORGETOWN TO BUCK
THE TIGER IN HIS LAIR
Blue and Gray Football
Team to Play Princeton.
OCTOBER H. DATE SELECTED
Will Be First Time in History of Jesuit
College That These Teams
Have Met.

For the first time in the history of
Georgetown University, her doughty
knights of the gridiron will buck the
tiger on the football field next fall. J.
Van Beary. the popular manager of the
Blue and Gray football team OF 1908, has
practically completed his schedule of
ten games. and one of the first con
tests to be played is with Princeton,
at Princeton, n. J. There are other
games on the schedule which do Van
equally as much credit, but the fact that
Princeton is in what is known in col
lege athletics as the big four, ="
composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton
and Pennsylvania. makes it all the bet
ter, and Manager Beary is to be com
plimented for his efforts in obtaining
the game.
When the Princeton football schedule
was announced day or so ago. it was
noticed that one of the first games will
be with Georgetown. for October IA.
This is rather early for the Blue and
Gray lads, but they will do their best to
get in shape for a gilt edge encounter
on that day. This game, contrary to
the belief of the average follower of
college athletics. was not arranged on
the spur of the moment or without some
good reason. To those initiated into the
inside workings of college athletics, it
will readily be seen that some unusual
force has been brought to bear upon
the situation in order to cause this
highly desirable effect.
Thompson the Arbitrator.
1t has just leaked out that the grad
uate manager of Georgetown. NJ. J,
Thompson was materially responsible
for the arrangement of the game, al
though he is reticent upon the subject.
1t is a long story. but interesting to
followers of college sports. To begin
with, Pennsylvania and Princeton play
this season for the first time in six
years The Quakers will cross bats with
the Tigers Saturday, the day on which
Georgetown was originally listed TO play
in Princeton Mr.. Thompson is said to
have been instrumental in settling the
Pennsylvania Princeton difficulty by Civ
ing over the Georgetown baseball date
TO the Quakers and arranging the Blue
and Gray game for a few days earlier.
In appreciation of this, it is said that
the Princeton people will do anything
Mr.. Thompson may ask of them The
best possible relations have always ex-
listed between Georgetown and Prince
ton, sand since Mr.. Thompson's advent at
the Blue and Gray University that
friendship has been more marked and
pronounced than ever.
Beary Is a Hustler.
Manager Beary is an energetic. hard
working football man, and has arranged
the best football schedule that George
town has ever had, inasmuch as it was
within his power to make arrangements
with one or more institutions which
Manager Frank Fitzgerald of last year S
team did not have a call on. There
is every indications that this years foot
ball team, under the capable manager
ship OF Van Beary and the captaincy of
Hub Hart. VIII be one of the strongest
and one of the best managed teams that
ever represented Georgetown.
Among the other games arranged by
Beary are those with Maryland Agricul-
tural College. two weeks before the
Princeton game; North Carolina at Nor
folk. October "a; Carlisle Indians, No
vember Z; lLehigh, Thanksgiving Day,
and Lafayette. the date not yet settled.
Manager Thompson, who is one of the
recognized football experts Of America,
will, in all likelihood, referee some OF
the football games between the most
prominent universities in this country.
and owing TO his fairness he may referee
a Georgetown game or two, since most
OF the coaches have such explicit faith
in him that they prefer him to an out
slider.
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