Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-01

FRED MEL SEN WILL LIKELY
COACH GEORGETOWN AGAIN
Nebraska Man Will Probably Be Held by
Bloc and Gray at Any COST Iilltoppers
Undisputed Southern Champions

portherners were unable to stop the
plays which Georgetown set at them at
any time during the game. The system
of attack which had been developed by
the Blue and Gray coach was SO SUI
perior to and so much more varied then
| any that the Lehigh team had been up
against during the year that 1t was COM
pletely demoralized. 1t was a system
| which has yet to be beat and which was
evolved by man who probably knows
just as much foot ball as any other
coach in the country, barring none.
There was one play made yesterday
by Georgetown that was about the
headiest work of the day and which
| shows how Coach Nielsen. foresees
before the game is even started. Mel
sen knew that Lehigh would be pre-
pared to block Costello's drop kicks.
and he meant to take advantage Of 1t,
so he instructed his quarterback In
stead of trying for goal from field
thereabouts. to let Costello drop back
and make an onside kick on the weak
side of the field. This was done, and
| as soon as Costello dropped back as
Just as Nielsen had foreseen. the Lee
high secondary defense closed up, and
when the onside kick was made there
we're about five Georgetown men down
to get the ball and only one Lehiph
player. Hart got the ball and stepped
across the line for a touchdown.
This kind of plays. though they look
very much like fiukes from the spec
tators standpoint, are in reality testi-
mony Of superior Judgment on the part
are generally foreseeh and prepared
for before the game is played.
Lehigh did not gain first down in the
in the two initial periods and that was
all the ground gaining it could do.
Nielsen said after the game yesterday
that he was sorry Lehigh had not played
| a stronger game and made play more in
| teresting to the spectators. He also said
/. he did not expect that Lehigh would
score and he was surprised when Pazetti
managed to get away with the dropkie X
which gave the Pennsylvanians their only
! tally.
1t was generally thought that North
win from Virginia yesterday, but the
| game proved a walkover for the Char
lOttesville eleven. 1t was a crushing de-
feat suffered by the Tar Heels in view Of
the fact that 1t was all that Virginia
could barely do last season to win by a
narrow margin.
Virginia from the start cut loose with
whirlwind attack, which swept the Car
let up until it had run up the same num-
Der of points against its opponent that
Georgetown did against Lehigh.
ministered to North Carolina yesterday
gives GEORGETOWN the undsputed right to
the championship of the south. There Is
not another eleven which has even a
chance to be classed with the Blue and
Gray team, the only one which could
have laid claim to any superiority being
North Carolina. and to do so it would
have had to win from Virginia by a
score much larger than Georgetown did.
The defeat sustained by 1t at the hands
Of the Charlottesville eleven did away
with any chance that it may have had to
be ranked on par with Georgetown,
and the best classification that ii can
hope for now is fourth, fifth or sixth.
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
North Carolina Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College seem to take turns at WIN
ming from each other. Last year the
Virginians won from the North Carolina
eleven by score of to 3, the year be-
fore that the Virginia Polys took the long
end of the score, and this year they did
! the same. 1t is remarkable that V. p. /.
last year scored goal from the field.
and 1t was almost enough to win A. and
NJ. got away with a forward pass during
| the last few moments and made touch
down. This year the most that the Vir-
ing line was again to make a field goal,
but the difference this season was that
the three points suficed to win.
Western Maryland recovered from the
defeat given it by the Mary and Aggies
in time to win one Of its most important
games of the year. 1t beat Johns Hop
kins yesterday by touchdown. and 1t
losses that may have been incurred in
| the previous part of its schedule. The
victory for the Western Maryland team
showed that 1t has lost NOTHING in its
high ranking with the other colleges in
the south.
Catholic University finished its most
creditable foot ball season with a VIC
tory. The Mount st. Mary's eleven Is
one of the few to have scored on Carlisle
this year. and that it was unable to do
anything much against the defense put
up by the Brooklanders speaks we'll for
the progress of the gridiron game at
the local school.
The efforts made by the Catholic Uni
versity to get foot ball firmly established
at the school are very commendable. and
that it should get away with the game
against Mount st. Mary's is received
watched the struggle which the school
has had in getting the game on firm
footing.
There is little doubt that the Lehish
eleven outweished GEORGETOWN by a slight
margin yesterday. The Pennsylvania
team looked to be about the bulkiest ag
yregation that has been seen on the Hill
top in q long while. 1t was much heavier
than the one which the Indians sen
against the Blue and Gray in the first big
anne Of the year.
There are few who doubt that had
Georgetown met the Indians later in the
season there would have been a different
tale to be told in regard to the result
Georgetown at the time that it met Car
Isle was in no condition to play hard
game and had been practicing only a
short while in comparison to what the
Indians had been doing, and it was not
o be expected that 1t would show much
against them. Had it had the opportuni- |
" to develop the offense which it showed
Yesterday and had its defense working as
well, there is no doubt that it would have
played a mighty close game with the
aborigines and perhaps have won.
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