Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-06
BY n. C. BYRD.

ing OF t1e deOr&etOW0 eleven dSdlHse eHS
Army in Saturdays game at West Point
1t is nevertheless fact. according 10
Coach Nielsen, ti.-t if the Blue and Gray
Lad as many breaks in the luck as ara
tile Army il would have won without
question. Coach Nielsen expressed It as
being his opinion that as whole his team
outplayed the Nrmy. He said that while
the margin was Wight for either eleven.
he thought that wis~tever there might be.
rested with the Hilltoppers.
In discussing the game Coach Nielsen
had the following to say: During the
last two periods the Army probably had
q little the advantage, but in the first
half we outplayed the Soldiers In every
department. keeping them on the run all
the time. and continually forcing them
10 punt on first and second downs. We
had several opportunities to score during
the first two periods, but either lost the
ball on downs or misplays In each In
stance. On the whole the contest was
one of the closest and hardest fought
that / have ever seen. The Army out
weighed us by quite a few pounds. espe-
cialy in the backfie.d. The team came
to the front and put up just the sterling
game that 1 expected it would. Each
individual gave the best that was In him.
and the play of all was credit to them
selves ard TO the school,
game went Coach Nielsen had nothing
TO say except to make the statement
that whatever mistakes were committed
BY the Georgetown men were liable to
be made in any game and by any team,
as no foot tall team IS infallible. 1t is
pretty safe statement TO make, though.
that it is not likely that the Army eleven
looked any better than did Georgetown,
either from an offensive or a defensive
standpoint. When any team holds one
that IS much heavier than itself to no.
score it is certain that the play OF the
heavier eleven is in no way superior to
the work of the lighter, especially when
it is considered that the facilities for
training of the former are much better
than those of the later.
Taking everything into consideration
it may we'll be said that If the Blue and
Gray plays the foot ball against the
other elevens on its schedule that 1t did
against the Army it will have made
record for itself at the end of the present
season that has not been surpassed by
any other school in this section in many
years.
Taking the showing made against st.
Johns College it was not so poor after
all. when ii is considered that the Navy
did no better. The S-ilors. according to
the word of man in charge of the st.
Johns team, did not do nearly the good
work against the co legians that did
Georgetown, and as faI ground gain
ing was concerned the Blue and Gray
easily than did the Navy. ST. Johns has
a good eleven this year-one that is prob
ably better than any other team OF the size
of its school in the country. He is little
dope to show just how strong 1t Is If COM
parative scores show anything: Gettysburg
compa IS favor bly, with the other sec
ondary colleges in the country and Johns
Hopkins played that school to a stand
still. The Mary and Aggies played Johns
Hopkins practically an even game, and
st. Johns won from the Farmers by
score of - to O. That doesn't C use the
score against St. Johns to ook SO poor
after all. That twenty points looks pretty
good when ii is also considered that If
the ground gained had been any C iterion
the score would have been nearer forty.
Then st. Johns held Virginia to six
points and Virginia practically won from
Swarthmore. which in turn has trimmed
some Of the best secondary colleges
among The no. thern schools b. big mar
gins.
II the Maryland Aggies hope to make
any kind OF showing against Western
Maryland College they will have to i'm
prove their play great deal before that
time. Inc Western Marylanders gener-
ally have ranked above St Johns in
foot bail. and there Is little question
about their being at least as good II not
shade better than is the Annapolis
eleven this year.
Especially on the defensive the Farmers
must do a who.e lot better work. Time
and again in Saturdays game against st.
Johns the Farmers would allow st.
Johns man to run through about six OF
them alone, without making the slightest
apparent effort TO tackle him. The Farm
ers. unless they learn to tackle better
thar they showed they were able to do in
the game Saturday. will have a hard job
holding the Western Maryland backs
who are, II anything, better than the st.
Johns men who are behind the line.
Birdseil. one of the Cpstaters' halfbacks.
state as a broken field runner, while
Graef. who is playing fuliback, will
weigh twenty pounds more than any man
in the st. Johns backfield.
Virginia's showing against Wake For
rest Saturday was one of its best OF the
year The Orange and BLACK, without
It's regular eleven, ran up twenty nine
points on the North carolina team, and
that school Is not represented by such a
poor aggregation. as shown by the fact
that ii played North Carolina to a stand
stil and North Carolina held Virginia
polytechnic Institute 10 nO-score game
Saturday.
While ii Is contended by Yale coach
that IL will not he Harvard that the
Dark Blue will have to face to de-
termnc the championship, as was gen
orally thought after the Brown game, i,
IL certain that the Crimson will not be
as easy this year even TO hold TO a tie
as X was last year. Harvard was ar
oyerconfident eleven Saturday; the odd
of to ] on Harvard before the game
seemed to give the Crimson the idea thai
II could not lose and now that that idea
las been done away with by she Prince
ton victory, the chances are that Harvard
viii make better showing against Yale
than II II had won from the Tiger eleven
At any rate when the Crimson and Darl
Blue face in the annual contest 1t will
not be an easy task for Yale to win IL Il
does. which Is by no means certain.
The game scheduled for Saturday be
tween Harvard and the Indians is liabl,
TO see another upset On the form shown
so far Ii would appear that Carlisl,
should win, but that II will not is by nj
means unlikely. 1t will be remembered
that il went TO Cambridge In 1906 a de
cided favorite, but lost by II to o.
On form. though, il seems that there il
every chance in favor OF the Indians
winning. Thorpe, one of the best half
backs in the country. was kept out OF the
game against Pennsylvania Saturday in
order that he might be at his best against
the Crimson, because of all the games
that are played by Carlisle this year II j.
certain that Tenn Warner had rathe
win from Harvard. That II to defea
sustained by his team in 1893 has no
been forgotten, and he is hoping to wip,
II out by victory this Year.
A great deal of credit is due the Cath
Ole University foot ball team and those
I'm charge OF IT, At the beginning of the