Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-25
Virginians Gratified.


Coming as it did after defeat by Le-
high. in which slovenly fumbling cost
Virginia the game. the Orange and Blue
victory over the Navy Saturday was ex-
ceedingly gratifying to the supporters Of
the Charlottesville eleven. In the Navy
game the Virginia team showed that 1t
had shaken together into an effective ma
chine. While Stanton, at right half, car
ried off the honors, the whole team ap-
pears to have played as one man. This
Is what the Virginia coaches have been
after. Eleven men in every play" = the
motto at Virginia. and the coaches spend
a good deal of time during practice and
between the halves of regular games
"bawling out" players who show an I'M
due propensity to star
Much OF Virginia's success recently may
he attributed to Pop Lannigan, the
physical trainer. Lannigan knows how
TO keep men in shape, and on matters of
a players physical condition his word is
law at Virginia. II he orders a player
to 90 to bed at a certain hour or to run
FIVE miles around the track that player
does what Pop tells him to do or he
spends an unsolicited vacation on the side
lines.
Also Lannigan is an optimist Of the first
water. He always thinks Virginia Is go
ing to win. When he is not issuing strict
orders to his men he is telling them how
good they are and patting them on the
back In this he is directly opposed to
DIR. William A. Lambeth Of the Virginia
faculty and general director of athletics.
who is to Virginia what Walter Camp is
to Yale. Doc as he is affectionately
called by Virginia undergraduates and
alumni is one of the greatest gloom dis
pensers extant. Virginia never has team
TO suit him.
.Oh, we've got fair team the long
headed diplomat will grudgingly admit.
but that other team is whole lot
better than you think. I'll be satisfied
with a 60 score And this when the
DOC" knows his team is twenty points
better than it's opponents. Add the pre-
dictions of Lannigan and Lambeth to-
gether and then divide them by two
and one will get fair estimate of any
Virginia team.
Georgetown North Carolina game Satur-
day. Lannigan said:
That's good. 1t looks like we ought
to beat both Of them
They will both be a whole lot better
when We meet them than they are now"
was Lambeth's only comment.
Harvard Game Important
There are not few foot bali enthusi-
asts who will be inclined to view the
Yale-CoIgate and the Princeton-Lafayette
Tor, as it must now be written, the La
fayette-P Princeton, games as the most i'm
portant. impressive and spectacular of
l3Sy SATURDAY events. II CHoN 90 tnlS
they will be making a slight mistake
Yale'S showing against the Hamilton
eleven was truly remarkable in many
ways: the result % the game at Princeton
was not altogether unexpected. albeit it
was thought that II Lafayette turned the
trick Tor which she had been waiting
these many seasons il would he differ
entity accomplished, but that Harvard.
even with the doleful walls that have
emanated from the stadium many times
discounted. should have scored two
touchdowns against the very strong
Brown team and prevented that same or
ganixAtion from scoring. augurs we'll for
a truly Titanic struggle on the same field
meet In the really great game of the year.
Pennsylvania is this year no weakling.
She is playing fast. steady and open
game, replete with briliancy and strength.
Yet she could not score with either
straight. old-fashioned foot ball or the
so-called new game upon Brown until
two OF the Providence teams kicks were
blocked in the shadow Of its own goal
line. Comes Harvard. and in the first
true test OF her varsity's strength this
season defeats Brown by score that
could have been made larger probably.
Any team that. mostly on straight foot
ball can score eleven points against this
years Brown eleven deserves watching.
Great on Defense.
Nor was Harvard's defense suffering
from the collapse with which IT has been
credited so far AS Harvard lined UP
against Brown so. very nearly. will she
line up against Yale. To stop Brown
three times within the 1O-yard line,
where the ball was put In play on first
down. means defense of the highest or
der YaIe's attack will. of course. be
more varied. savage and determined than
was Browns at this point-but so will
the Harvard defense.
To sum ii up. Haughton Is making good
and that exactly along the lines which he
laid out for himself. 1t Is not safe to
predicate upon the result of one game
a total seasons results But just the
name Harvard should certainly beat Wes