Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-10
GOSSIP AND NEWS
OF FOOT BALL WORLD
Friday and Saturdays Games
Will Be of the Cork
ing Variety.

George Washington and Virginia Poly
technic Friday and Georgetown and VIZ
einia Saturday. That is the greatest
foot ball menu the Washington public has
ever had served up to il in one week Let
those who suffer from heart trouble stay
away from both games, for each one
promises to be hair-raiser.
All sorts of dope are coming out from
the fields of the four institutions ABOUT
the condition OF the men, what the
coaches hope. what the betting Will be ana
what past performances indicate. Throw
all this stuff out of the window, gentle
reader, for II is no good at all
Take the Observation-Disclosures dope,
for instance From Georgetown come sad
tales along this line. McNulty can scarce
ly hobble. Carrigan is i'm bad shape, and
Daily, whose work in the line has been
one of the redeeming features of George
towns play throughout the season. mas
had to be laid off for awhile.
Stories from Virginia are to the erect
that in a driving rain Head Coach Mem
worked his men so hard on muddy neld
Yesterday that such poor little fellows as
yancey and stanton complained of having
strained ankles. The wall from George
Washington has to do with the incapaclty
of Crafts and Morse and fifteen or tWen-
~ others Nothing has been heard from
v u
awav from anywhere that few papers
could afford telegraph tolls from that res
tive hamlet
l.orpet all these stories. Daley, Car
rigan and McNulty may have been lit
tie off color last week. Yancey and STAN
Ioh may have gone to bed tired last
night and il is possible that neither Morse
nor Crafts could put on his foot ball toys
this afternoon and step off hundred
yards i'm 9.4-5 seconds. but they will be
all right for the Friday and Saturday
games. You couldn't kill Daley with an
ak and nobody is going to prosecute
NefT down at Virginia for cruelty to chill
DIRE by applying the goad to a couple OF
bulls like Yancey and Stanton.
Just look for the whole bunch to be there
with bells on when the whistles blow
for the games they are to play.
Then there's this comparatfve-score
business. On that dope Virginia should
beat Georgetown exactly 40 to o. Why?
Wei. here IL is: Virginia Military Insti-
Carolina beat Georgetown so. Virginia
beat Virginia Military Institute 80
Therefore. 81 and and 3 make 40. Fine
dope that for the form players, but no
body around these parts thinks 1t will
work out correctly Saturday.
OF course Virginia does figure to beat
Georgetown. but it is little more than an
even proposition at that. From bad
beginning Georgetown has reached a pref
ty good ending. Her. line is as good as
virginia's, IL not a little bit better. Vir-
Rinia's backfleld is better than that Of the
Blue and Gray although Georgetown
will nut a better set Of backs in the field
Saturday than she has yet shown.
In line plunging Virginia has IT on
Georgetown. In kicking the Orange and
Blue has no one who is in class with
Wymard. One great advantage Virginia
will have is that she will play men who
have been working together all the year.
GEORGETOWN has played but one team of
any class, Fordham. Virginia has met
Ahe Navy and Lehigh. as well as that
tough little eleven turned out by St.
Johns. In no game has Virginia failed to
score. She has always been there when
the touchdown was needed, except in the
Lehigh game. And that power to drive
a ball across the line against last-ditch
opposition is the real test OF a foot ball
team.
The writer knows that Virginia figures
on having the hardest game of the sea-
son when she faces Georgetown Satur-
day. Both teams have been holding
something back, although Virginia cut
loose a good deal in the Navy game in
the shape of diversified play. Georgetown
has lot of new trick plays that she will
spring against Virginia, so an open and
thrilling game should result
Dope on the V. p. I.-George Washington
game is hard to get. The only test W
II. i. has had was against North Caro-
lima. which they beat $50. But for George
Washington's showing against the In
dians the visitors would be favorites, but
the Hatchetites showed enough last Sat-
urday to give them the call on W p L.,
although the betting should be about
even. Last year the Buff and Blue beat
the BlackSburg eleven go. and the noun
tanners are coming to Washington on
Friday bent on wiping out that defeat
IL Will be game well worth seeing