Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
BY II. c. BYRD.

! Georgetown will work out against the
Maryland Aggies today. The Farmers
will come in this afternoon to meet the
Hilltoppers in scrimmage, which will
probably last twenty or thirty minutes.
The NJ. A. c. aggregation was secured
| last week to work against the Blue and
| Gray right before the Virginia game and
| the results seemed SO beneficial that the
same experiment is to be tried to draw
the players out of the slump into which
they seem to have fallen since the.nSeat
Virginia.
| There is little doubt that the Farmers
will also receive much benefit from the
| workout. They face Gallaudet Saturday
| and the fact that they will get hard
workout against a team of the caliber
OF Georgetown should aid them much
when they meet the Kendall Greeners.
The last game of the high school series
Western in what will be fight on the
part of the latter to keep out of last
Place. If Western wins 1t will be tied
with Eastern for third place. but If it
loses it will drop into the last position
Business will have the heavier team
against Western by several pounds, and
Will be ready to put up its best game of
the year, while it is probable that West
ern will not be able to show its real
Strength, as Brooks, one of its best de-
fensive linemen will be out of the game
Business Will proDabi
a number of new plays to use against
the Georgetown school, and may get away
with some of them.
The Business backfield and line both
showed much improvement in their work
Stenographers faced Tech in t.e last
game in which Business has been seen.
and If they have advanced as rapidly
since that time Western will have it's
hand, full stopping them: There were
through Tech for good gains and Tech
has had a strong defense all season, and
many other instances were there In which
the Stenographers held the Maroon and
Gray under their goal and in the middle
of the field.
If there is one event of the year to
which all who are connected with either
the Army or the Navy look forward 1t is
the annual foot ball game between the
two service elevens, and this years con-
test looms up great deal more because
OF the fact that the two teams are espe-
cialIy strong, and both have about an
equal chance to win. At present 1t does
not seem that there lis the least diff
ference between the two elevens, so even
ly do they appear to be matched.
+ The Army, while it has a 6-to-0 victory
over Yale to its credit. must meet in. its
great rival an eleven which played the
conqueror of Yale to a tie. There is
little doubt that the Army and the Navy
this year are more evenly matched than
In any of the recent previous contests.
The Soldiers, while they have received a
little more rapid development than have
the Sailors. are going against an aggre-
cation which has looked forward to no
game this season as it has to the coming
one, and which will show its greatest
strength in that contest. It is question
able If the Army will be as strong
against the Navy as it was against Yale;
at any rate it is not apt to be as much
better than when 1t met Yale as the
Navy will be than when 1t played Prince
ton. The two service teams will meet in
a struggle which is apt to go down In
history as the most desperate Of any
that has yet been played. In the major
ity Of years one or the other Of the teams
has seemed to outclass its rival. but
this season it is doubtful If 1t can be fig
ured that the advantage lies with either
side.
There is every reason to believe that
Harvard will make a better showing
against Yale this year than 1t did last
season. notwiths anding the fact that the
New Haven eleven Is much stronger than
last years product. Harvard will enter
the Yale game this year with a different
spirit than that which characterized its
players on the eve of the big contest last
season. Last fall the Harvard players
and coaches themselves were free In their
opinions that it did not seem to be a
question to them as to the result OF the
contest, but only as to how big the score
would be that Harvard would run up.
The result of that overconfidence was
that Harvard did not score at all.
Neither did Yale. for that matter, but
after the poor season which the New
Haven team had gone through 1t was
generally conceded that the contest was
a great victory for 1t, and it was without |
doubt
Harvard has shown it's real strength IN
but one contest this season and that was
against Brown. That it did not do az /
we'll as it might have against Princeton l
is conceded by all who saw that contest /
and il is not probable that the Crimson |
coaches or ayers will allow themselves
to be Influenced by that feeling Saturday.
as above all things 1t Is desired In the
Cambridge camp to get away with the |
winning score when the Dark Blue ts met.
schedule which it would rather win than
the one with Yale, and this year 1t
seems that it has IN even better chance
iSl, f|of MI