Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-17
Big College Eeves Are Ready for Championship Games Tomo
TACKLES WILL HOLD BALANCE
OF POWER IN BIG GAME
On Men Playing These Positions Will De-
pend in Great Measure Result Of
GEORGETOWN Virginia Game
Other Foot Ball Gossip.

, and probably has just as much drlV-
ing power In his legs. He will not
| Carlisle backs, tor the simple reason
that virginia has not the powerIui
plays THAI has Carlisle, but he himself
wiIl hit the line just as hard he IS
better all-arounu man tnan Yeager.
It is probable that Fritz Crafts, who
was crack hal1cack at Geo. Sc Wash
ington two years ago, will umpire In to-
nlorrows game. Ii Is understood that he
has been appointed ana agreed to by
both SIDES. Crafts has been dong quite
a little OHIO .ating this year ana has had
success In every game in which he has
had charge.
Out at the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege tomorrow morning the Farmers will
60 up against Western Maryland and II
is likely that they VIII meet the best
team they have faced so far this year.
The Ages have ia led to make good SO
far this year and are bank ng on spring
ing surprise against tner old rivals. 1t
seems that NJ A. E.. is up against it. There
no question about Western Maryland's
having one of the best teams IN its his
tory. as it has played some m ghty close
games with some of the best minor coll
lege teams in the country. The upstaters
vii face the Farmers in good condition.
while the Aggies have several of their
best men who are on the ragged edge.
and may or may not last the game out
Gal.audet will do battle with Washing
ton College out at Kendall Green. Wash
ington College won from the Aggies last
week. II to ). and as Gallaudet meets
NJ. A. c. a week from tomorrow the
game should serve to give a line on the
comparative strength Of the two eievens.
Coach Nielsen Of Georgetown is saying
little in regard to the big game tomor-
row. When asked to make statement as
to what he thought OF the probable re-
suits he would say nothing except that
merits and the result speak for itself.
There is one factor. though. which is
not going to work for the benefit Of the
and Gray squad who are little inclined
to be overconfident. There Is difference
between being determined to win and
overconfident. and II the latter feeling
predominates at Georgetown while the
players 1t will make great difference In
the pay Of the teams, no matter how well
either Is coached. It will be too late after
the game is over to rue the fact that one
or the other eleven was held too cheaply
by its opponent There is more than one
athletic team which has held an opponent
as being weaker than II really was and
consequently has lost when it should have
won. II Is the hardest kind Of a job for
an eleven to pull itself together once 1t
has started game under such coIdi-
tons.
One thing which must be considered
when the comparison between the two
e]evcns which are to meet tomorrow at
Georgetown Is drawn Is the fact that
when the Hiiltoppers faced Virginia last
year they had team in front of them
which was battered and had some of its
best men In poor condition, VIII lie this
sea son they will face an eleven trained to
the minute and ready to put up its best
game Of the year. Virginia will be ready
to play % per cent better game this
year than last. and 1t will be up to
Georgetown to show whole lot of i'm
provement over what it did last season If
1t Is to win,
Central and Eastern will meet this aft
ernoon in the next to the last game on
the scholastic schedule. Central should
win. although there would not be any
whole lot better than is generally ex-
pected. The Capitol Hill lads have shown
much better form than have the 0 str ~
ers In a general way, and but for their
to get away with the winning end of the
score, but as 1t Is the chances favor Cen
trail 1t will not have as easy a time get
ting away with the victory as did Tech
over the same school
Western and Business will play the
last regularly scheduled scholastic game
one week from today. Westerns schedule
demanded that II play the first and last
games during the scholastic season.
The Army and Navy-Georgetown Prep
game this afternoon will be played on
tho Tenleytown gridiron instead of at
Georgetown.
While Pennsylvania went through a dis
astrous practice season, 1t has braced and
is likely to finish the season with a
squirt that has been uneQualed except by
Yale. The Quakers go to Michigan to-
day to face the Wolverines, and they
stand an excellent chance to get away
with a victory unless 1t he that Yest has
something up his sleeve that he has as
yet failed to show this year. If Cornell
had not shown a great deal more strength
than was thought against Michigan il
because. even though the Quakers have
had q poor season SO far. II Is unlikely
that they are weaker than the Ithacans.
II is rather coincidence that two east
ern levens play in the west tomorrow.
Corr II goes to Chicago to meet that
university. while Penn will tackle Mich
ligan at Ann Arbor. According to Stage
Of Chicago, his eleven has little chance
to win from Cornell, while 1t looks as
though Penn should defeat Michigan. al
though II Is generally the case that when
Yost's teams look weakest they are real
" strongest.