Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-14
lard Freshmen Only Eleven Which Has Not Been Scored On This Year
GEORGETOWN MAY PLAY
AGAINST AGGIES TO-DAY
M. A. c. Eleven Likely to Work Against
Blue and Gray for Mutual Benefit Of
Teams One Team Not
Scored On This Year.

by the Harvard qtlarterbacks this year Is
in great measure due to the coaching
which they receive from the side lines and
the attempt If the coaches to run the
game from their position instead of allow
ing the fed general to take his own
initiative, say experts who have watched
the Crimson play this year. Whether
or not this is true cannot be proved, but
IL Is stated that there have been periods
during the games in which the Cambridge
eleven has figured when the play has
been held up and the plays were run OF
slowly and undecisively when they ought
to have been executed with snap ana
dash. 1t has been said that these were
the times when the quarterback was try
ing to get his signal from the side lines.
1t is claimed that this indecision was
what lost the Princeton game little over
week ago and that it also kept the
Harvard eleven from scoring on Yale
last year.
Just what is the matter with the Grim
son eleven is a question. There Is no
question that doubt or something general
iy holds up the team once it gets within
scoring distance of its opponents goal,
but whether this Is caused by the fact
that the quarter hesitates to give signal
until he gets one from the coach di-
recting him to what play to run is
something which cannot be definitely
known. The chances are that what is
really the matter with the eleven Is that
ii is depending too much on the line
piunS1llS OF w enGeI LOT It's SdlfS LII tHS
middle of the field and when the all
round offense is tried and the opposing
players look for anything to he pulled on
it is not hard for Wendell and the other
backs to gain ground but when the team
gets within the 1O-yard zone and the OPP
posing secondary defense has closed up
the Crimson quarterbacks depend too
much on Wendeifs ability as a sure
thing to gain ground. The whole oppos-
ing defense is on the lookout for the
ALL d. ty1S.s 10
made he has the whole opposing team
on him almost before he is started. 1t is
probable that if the Harvard quarter
backs would try variety of plays IN
the scoring zone instead of depending
too much on the ability of one man 1t
would be found that more touchdowns
would be scored and that coaching from
the side lines is not 50 much responsible
for the failure of the team to advance
the ball once it gets to the point from
which touchdown ought to be made.
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute has
JAILED to show the form this year that
has characterized its play in previous
seasons. The Rlacksburg eleven has suf-
fered considerably from a change In
coaching policy and has hardly had the
opportunity to develop as strong an elev-
en- as IL has had for the past two years
for that reason. Then. besides, it lost it's
best ground gamer last sDring by gradua-
ton Y. b. Hodgson, who has been the
main dependency of the eleven for the
last few years when few yards were
needed. was lost to the team. and his
absence is undoubtedly being felt. Then
when any coach who has been a success
1T any school leaves 1t is mighty hard
for his successor to make good as we'll
as he did. for the simple reason that
the players have all their ideas changed
in rerard to their plays. formations and
gene raj idea Of playing, and that Is some
thing that is not easily done.
If Fred Nielsen has developed team
tbs year that can defeat Nirg mia. he
will have won for himself warm place
in the heart OF every alumnus of George
town University. There is not a particle
of doubt that Nielsen will have a com
plished that for which the Blue and Gray
followers have been waiting and longing
for years-an eleven which would stand
on an equal footing with the secondary
un versities of the north and which wo Id
be accounted as being in the front rank
of the southern schools If Georgetown
beats Virginia Saturday Nielsen will have
done this. something which no other
coach has been unable to accomplish in ten
Years at Georgetown, and he will have
done that in spite of the obstacles which
Intentionally have been placed in his path.
Other coaches at Georgetown had mu h
greater opportunities to accomrl SIN what
the Nebraska man has, but they failed to
make good