Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-17
BY II. C. BYRD.

The coming week will find every one
of the local foot ball teams out in the
field working hard in preparation for the
first games on their schedules. Four
squads-tWo high schools and two col
leges-haye already gotten ost, and. while
they have not settled down to hard .prac-
tice. have put in some worthy licks in
getting line on the new material and
in teaching The green men the elements
of the game.
Georgetown inaugurated its practice
season Friday. Yesterday and Friday
were spent in the lightest kind of work.
but the coach took stock If what new
material is in sight and got an idea as
to what he might expect from which to
build a team this fall.
The Maryland Aggies. who have been
at work one day longer than has George
town. have put in more strenuous prac-
tice. The Farmers have about all the
men out who are expected. and have been
making the best of the time spent on the
field. In the three days they have prac-
ticed they have spent the time in devel
oping their wind and in perfecting them
selves in the elements of the sport. About
thirty-five men have SO far reported for
practice. and among the candidates are
nine from last years team and three or
four new men who have had previous ex-
perfence. AS heretofore. the Aggies are
apt to be fairly light but that is some
thlng that is generally overcome by their
aggressiveness and fighting ability.
Technical and Central are the two high
schools which have spent the whole of
the past week in practice for the coming
series. While neither school has had as
many men out as it will have tomorrow
ft-t ara fEa caho I~tl~
enough to justify the prediction that they
will be back in the field with even strong
er aggregations than they presented in
the high school series last season
Gallaudet will get out its squad Friday.
and IL is likely that the best assortment
of foot ball material seen at the Kendall ii
Green institution will be in evidence for
the first practice Practically all Of
last years team will be back in school,
while ii is expected that several more
Youngsters will put in their appearance
this fall for the first time
Catholic University Will also get out its
squad for the first workout some time
about the last of the week. Just what
prospects the Brooklanders have is a
question. Nobody seems TO know any
thing definite about the team or its proba
BILE makeup.
The other three high schools-W Western,
Eastern and Pusiness-will start work
tomorrow. That each will begin the sea
son under the handicap that comes from
| having the two best teams have a week :
start on them in practice will mean that
| all will have to work doubly hard TO
make up the ground lost. Eastern will
/ have mostly veteran material from which
! to build its team. while both Business
and Western will have to depend on green
| men to do the bulk of their work. just
| how the three teams will come out at
the end of the season is hard to tell. but
| 1t looks now though Eastern has the
| call on both the others by virtue of the
| fact that il has lot of veterans from
which to develop a winning eleven.
With each of the local schools out do
| ing their daily stunts the adherents of the
pigskin game will have plenty of cause
| for speculation as to the probable make
| up of their pet teams and as to the prob
/ able chances of each in the series in
| which 1t plays
The Maryland Aggies have one dis
| couraging feature to contend with
they have to meet their three greatest
| rivals on successive SATURDAYS I, is
| generally about all foot ball team
can do to key itself up to such a pitch
in the same season. but with three of
| this kind OF games in row the
| Farmers will have their work cut out
! for them from the start. if they are
to make good showing in each OF the
| contests. 1t will be remembered that
| last year the same conditions pre-
vailed and it was a contingency that
the Aggies were unable to meet. Wash
| ington College was the first of the
| three met last season and that school
| was defeated by the score of = to 3
but one week later. when the school
tackled st. Johns II did not play up to
the form shown in the Washington
| game and lost its contest by 6-to-G
| score The strain was too great for it
Then the climax came when the Orange
and Black had to meet the Western
| Maryland team. The team gave wa,
before q team that was not so much
it's superior and lost, II to }. II will
take mighty careful watching to pre-
vent the same thing happening this
season
The Maryland Agricultural College is
the only one of the three college:
which used to compose the State Inter
collegiate Association which meets
both the other schools In foot ball
Washington College does not meet st
Johns. and st. Johns does not meet
Western Maryland: thus the Farmers
lare up against a much more difficult