Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-15
BY n. c. BYRD.

Georgetown has the best foot ball team
this year that has ever represented that
university" So spoke DR.. Lambeth, VINO
is at the head of athletics at the UNI
versity Of Virginia. DIR. Lambeth. in dis
cussing the eleven which has been placed
In the field this year by the Blue ana
Gray. said that he saw it perform In the
game against the Army and that, whether
OF not Virginia is returned the victor In
the annual contest Saturday. Georgetown
has never had as good a team as the one
representing it this season. Extensively
and defensiyely, DIR. Lambeth said that
the team was the strongest that he had
ever seen wearing the Blue and Gray.
Such an opinion coming from the foot
ball instructor at Virginia, because that
is the position which DR.. Lambeth un-
doubtedly occupies. in spite of the fact
that every year a graduate is nominally
in charge of the team, certainly TENDS
to put to rout any doubts that may be
entertained regarding any possible weak
ness of the Georgetown eleven. 1t is
not likely that the Hilltoppers have a
poorly trained eleven, nor one weak IN
the Fundamentals of the game, as has
been charged at times, else II would not
have been ventured by the Virginia au-
thority that 1t is the greatest gridiron
machine that has ever worn the Blue and
Gray.
Against the Maryland Aggies yesterday
Georgetown started loafing, and on the
first three or four plays the Farmers tore
gains of from 10 to II yards tnroueh the
line. but after play was stopped for Few
seconds and a good lecture delivered by
Coach Nielsen there was little doing for
the Farmers in the way Of ground gain
ing. The Georgetown linemen charged
we'll and broke the plays before they
reached the line of scrimmage.
Now that Georgetown has made its
reputation 1t should remember that 1T
has to work about twice as hard to up
hold 1t as it did to make 1t. The Hill
toppers, to say the least. have just as
good chance to win as has Virginia,
but they do not want to endanSer that
chance by any carelessness in their play
such as has cropped out at dlnerent
times. Last year the Virginia Military
institute caught the team when it
thought that a walkover was due for 1t,
and the result was that Georgetown was
lucky to get away with short-margin
victory. II Virginia Is held too cheaply
this wear the same condition may result.
Since Georgetown held the Army to a tie
score, Virginia will not receive much CEN
sure II it loses. but If the Hilltoppers get
, away with the short end of the score
i
doesn't require half the alertness and
energy to get to the top that it does to
stay there once that place has been at
| tanned. and II Georgetown allows over
| confidence, which is very apt to come
with success, to interfere with the I'M
stable position which it now holds at the
head Of south Atlantic foot ball. it will be
| too late to rue 1t after the big game Is
played Saturday. Any time an individual
| or aggregation of individuals begins to
l his its nOSitlOn Is aDSO-
lutely secure, then that is the moment
when II Is in greatest danger of being
lost.
The gloomy reports that are coming
from Princeton this week seem to ind :
| cate that q dense Cloud Is hanging over
| Tigertown on the eve of the Yale game.
These reports should not be taken any
too seriously. though, because it is re-
membered that the same situation was
| made public before the Harvard contest.
The Tigers, according to reports. were all
! hobbling around on crutches and would
, be lucky to hold the Harvard eleven to
| twenty points. The defense was so weak
| that the scrubs were making three and
| four touchdowns every day In pract ce
| and the varsity did not have offense
| enough to get the ball down the field at
ALL. 1t was q different case when the
team faced the Crimson. The reports had
! produced the effect that the Princeton
| coaches had desired. that Of making Har-
| ward overcOn1dent, and the team which
went to Princeton to do battle against
| an eleven which 1t thought 10 per cent
| weaker than itself. was found 10 be al
| most, IL not quite as strong. The same
kind OF surprise IS probably being pre-
1 pared for the Yale team, as the same
| kind Of reports are being sent out regard
Ing the practices which are being held
| In Tigertown.
The scholastic game which is scheduled
70 be played between Central and Tech
| will not have the least effe on the
scholastic championship this year. The
| high school title will be as much undecid-
ed after the game as before because
/ there Is q rule which forbids the playing
| OF Of ties in high school foot ball TIE
l game will probably decide which is the
better eleven Of the two. but in the