Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-03
CENTRAL HAS SIX
ON ALL-H|GH TEAM
Blue and White Players Pre-
dominate Among Sc
IeCtionS.
WESTERN HAS ONE AND
TECH FOUR ON ELEVEN
Season in Many Respects a
Success, in Others a Failure.
Review of Year.
BY n. C.. BYRD.

day with the game between Technical and
Central was in many respects a success
and in others failure 1t IS question
able If in the history of high school foot
ball competition there have been as many
high-class players on the several teams.
nor have the elevens as "A whole been
more evenly matched. on the other hand
though, the season did not achieve the
results desired because officially there ~
decided but one place in the standing of
the schools, Business having been showed
down into last position. Technical and
Central played to a tie for first honor.
while Western and Eastern had to con
tent themselves with the same unsatia-
factory ending to their fight for third.
While the result of the scholastic sea-
son as it must stand in the school rec
ordS will be that Central and Tech fin
ished with equal honors, to the salts
faction of everybody, il has been clearly
demonstrated that Central had the better
team. The final game. which WAS played
between the two schools while ostensibly
for the benefit of the Fairgrounds Asso-
citation, was undoubtedly intended to
prove the superiority of one or the other.
and that Ii did.
Central Had Best Eleven.
Central had the best eleven There il
not a doubt regarding the Central team
as far its being a better team than
either of the other contending aggrega-
tons. AS an offensive machine it had
three of the best backs to depend on for
ground gaining and a heavy line TO break
openings in the opposing defense. 1t Is
questionable if there has ever been a
backfield representing any of the local
high schools better than that which wore
the blue and white of Central TINS fall.
las a defensive team Central was far
10 nf ia nt 10 oil re
wards were much above the average
Of the ordinary high school line that they
generally had the plays of other teams
broken up before they were fairly started.
Next to Central comes Tech, SO nearly
the equal of the former team that In the
first meeting of the two teams it man
aged to stave off defeat and came near
winning the game in the last few min
utes of play. Tech did not have the ma
terial from which to build an eleven
that did Central. but it did have two men
whose playing ability just about made up
for the weaknesses shown in other posi-
tons Tech and Central fought the sea
son out for the championship just as had
been predicted before it began, and the
play was so close that one game was not
sufficient to decide the title.
While Western and Eastern played to a
tie and left the third place in the stand
ing undecided. the series a whole woud
seem to indicate that the former had the
shade on the latter eleven II there was
any difference to be noted 1t must be
considered that in its first two games
Western had to meet the two strongest
elevens in the series, which Eastern did
not. Eastern had almost veteran
eleven to start the season, while Western
had one made up largely of men who had
never played foot ball, yet taking out the
score of the game in which these two
teams met the comparative scores as
made in the other contests show Western
to have made the better record. Meeting
Central in the opening game of the series
1t held that eleven to q points and play
ed an even game with it all through. In
its second game Western met Teen, and
although it lost by a 12-to-0 score, the
consensus of opinion was that had IL not
been for the two fumbled punts which
were recovered by Technical, II would
have kept its goal line grom being cross
I'd. Central beat Eastern, 10 to o. and
Tech won from 1t by "a to O. Tech. when
it played Eastern, was without the serv-
ices of Morris. who was about hair OF It's
offensive strength But Eastern held
Western to a tie and as far as the record
is concerned it will go down that 1t had
Just as good a team.
Business while it finished last, got much
out Of the green men who comprised its
squad, and will likely come to the front
next year more impressively.
No Decision During Season.
Tho regular scholastic season ended
with the teams 80 hopelessly tied up that
1t would have been a complete failure az
far as determining the comparative
strength of the various elevens was con-
cerned but the final contest Of the sea-
son gave General what honors there were
and Just so first place was decided 1t dfo
not seem to matter so much, because In
the high school series II a school doesn't
win the championship 1t counts the va
rious other places in the standing as
Cnmnared with other years the teams
this season have, as a whole. been very
closely matched The smaller institu-
lions, Eastern, Western and Business.
played better and closer games against
the two big elevens than has been the
case In years and the lighter teams de-
serve much credit for the showing made
throughout the season.
As far as the style Of play is concerned
there were two distinct systems evolved
and shown by the different elevens,
was to be expected. Central and Techni-
cal depended in the main for the majority
of their gains on the ability OF their fast
and heavy backs. and throughout the
season played q hne-plunging. end-run-
ming game. On the other hand the light
teams which represented Business. East
ern and Western had to depend on the
omen style for Whatever they accom-
plished on the offense. as 1t was little use
to send their light backs against the
heavy forwards Of the two strongest
elevens When either Eastern. Business
or Western met another team Of the trio
it went back to the line-plungtng game.
and IT was by this method that the games
between the lighter teams were decided.
In other words teams playing out or their
class had to depend in the main on tie
open plays, and when playing against
eievens nearly their equal the safer plays
were the ones used
Many Good Individual Players.
Not In recent years have there been as
g.,
schools as there was during the season
lust past There were men on the vari-
GUS teams who deserve the highest COM
mendation for what they accomplished
for their teams. Their playing was OF
the highest order, and while at times it