Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-12
"GEORGETOWNW WILL HAVE ONE
OF BEST TEAMS IN THE SOUTH
So Says Jim Colliflower, Who Is Coaching
Blue and Gray Quint, After
His First Game.

I chance that some Georgetown man might
get it. The result was that it generally
went to some one of the opposing team.
| The ball was not handled very clearly at
times. either, the players fumbling good
passes repeatedly. There were a great
| many poor throws for goals also. The
| floor until an easy shot was to be had
| and then the goal would be missed. Had
| the Blue and Gray players shot goals last
night as they probably will after another
land team would have been twice as large
as it was.
The most brilliant work in yesterdays
, game was done by George ColliflOwer.
Colliflower was back in his old place at
guard after a years absence from the
game, and from the manner in which he
held down his job he will do about the
best work of his career this season. Be-
sides guarding his man exceptionally well,
Collifower followed the ball at all times
and Gagged three goals himself. He has
the attribute which makes the good guard
in basket ball and that is the ability to
follow the ball through every play and
moment 1t is generally the case that
when it happens that a guard does one
of those things he fails to accomplish the
other, but In the case Of Collif1ower 1T is
a different proposition, as he seems able
to divine SO we'll the moment when he
should cover that it Is seldom that his
man gets chance to toss goal.
This question of the Georgetown-Vir-
ginia game being played alternately at
Charlottesville and Washington does not
appear a wise move, even II 1t is showed
through which it Is not yet by any
means There is one argument which
Virginia puts forth as to why the game
should take place in Charlottesville and
that is that to play it continually on the
l~w~S
over the Charlottesville aggregation,
which is not just. Just where this comes
In Is hard to see. There was certainly no
outcry raised against playing the games
in Washington when Virginia was WIN
ming regularly. and now that Georgetown
has had the superior team for two years
1t seems rather an ill-timed suggestion
that Virginia play on its home field. The
game between Georgetown and Virginia
is the contest from which each school de-
rives the greater part Of Its athletic fund
and certain it is that were the contest
played in Charlottesville the revenue Sc
cured from that source would be dimin-
ished considerably-somethin which
neither school desires.
The advantage which is given George
town by playing the game on its field is
SO little that there is not much chance of
it's ever giving the team of that school
the winning end of a score. 1t was never
sufficient to give Georgetown victory
when Virginia was winning regularly
from the Blue and Gray, and 1t will not
be in the future. AS far as the advantage
of the support given by the crowd goes,
it is a fact that Virginia generally has as
many supporters at the game when 1t is
played here as does the local university,
and sometimes 1t Is q debatable question
as to whether 1t has not had more.
Georgetown's following in Washington
is but little. II any larger than Virginia's.
There is the argument that familiarity
with the footing has a great deal to do
with the winning or losing of a game.
but, after all. that is not so much to d
team as one might suppose. Teams
which have as much moral support from
the side lines generally play as well away
from home as they do on their own grid
irons. At any rate, Virginia's play has
with Georgetown from what it has been