Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-06
NIEI SEN SAYS WITH LUCK
HIS TEAM WOULD HAVE WON
Blue and Gray Coach Makes Statement That
Georgetown Had Margin on Army
Eleven Techvs. Central
Tomorrow.

by those who have the athletic welfare of
the university at heart and 1t will GER
tainly receive their commendatiOn In the
way of a great deal of help later.
The men who showed the measure
through this year and obtained permits
sion to have the school represented on the
gridiron deserve a great deal "t credit
personally for their work and what they
have accomplished toward starting things
along the right road.
That Nielsen has done some great work
with the Georgetown team since the car
isle Indians game Is certain. Had the
Georgetown coach not put In some mighty
aborigines, his team would not have made
the showing against the Army that 1t did
Saturday. That was virtual victory for
Georgetown.
II Georgetown goes through the re-
mainder of it's season without defeat,
which 1t can do il it maintains the high
standard Of play set in the game against
the Army. 1t will have played one OF the
most successful seasons ever known to
south Atlantic team. There is one thing
which must not be allowed to interfere
with the successful termination OF the
season, though. and that is overconfi-
dence. That factor has proved the down.
fall Of more athletic teams than anything
else known. and II 1t were to enter into
the Blue and Gray camp might possibly
wreak havoc with the chances against
Virginia.
Tomorrow the championship OF the 10
cal high schools will be decided. Tech
and Central will meet on Georgetown
Field to determine which shall have the
honor of being rated as the best scho' as
tic eleven in the District this season. The
two teams have been coached all season
with this one game in view and should
each play it's best foot ball Of the year
There is little difference in the weight of
the two elevens. none that will make any
appreciable difference in their play.
Just which team will come out OF the
fray tomorrow the winner is hard to
ell: in fact. on the form shown in the
high school series, it is doubtful If there
has been much difference seen in the
play. Central will probably have the
of line play. while it is probable that
Tech will do better work in its backf1eld.
Central has three heavy. fast men back
of it's line, but they do not seem to have
other, while Technical has Morris and
Eckendorf, who have no superiors in the
schools, either as defensive or offensive
backs. Certain 1t is that Morris is a
better man than Ia either Of the Central
men, with the possible exception of one,
while as a defensive man none Of the
Central men has shown the ability in
backing up the line that has Eckendorf.
Central Is liable to find stronger de-
tense among the Tech forwards than 1t
contemplates There Is no douot that 1t
will have to be the superiority Of Central
linemen which decides the game In its
favor. providing 1t wins. Its ends are
probably a little better than the Tech
men on the defensive, and that may count
for quite a little. as off-tackle plays are
liable to feature the offense OF the Blue
and White aggregation Morris punt
ing will be big factor. One other thing
which may have a great deal to do Is the
way that the Central men handle punts.
Although II was not noticed in the West
ern game so much. because Tecn won.
there were several times that Tech fun
lied runts. and Western ends recovered
the ball. gaining much ground in this
way.