Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-29
HOW BIG ELEVENS COMPARE
BEFORE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
Good Idea of Relative Strength Of Big Teams
Can Now Be Secured Harvard
Appears Best at Present.

seem that Minnesota has something on
the Michigan eleven. but it seemed the
same way last year until the two teams
met, and then there was a difference
noticeable. Michigan winning the final
contest. While Michigan was only able
to win from Vanderbilt yesterday by a
score Of to 8. that tells little of the
real strength of the Wolverines Mime
sofa showed under Nebraska a week ago
by a margin of four touchdowns. and that
seems to preclude any possibility of that
eleven's being rated among the possibili-
lies Of championship organization.
If anybody were asked which teams
sill win the big intersectional games
they would likely make the statement
anhesitatngiy that both western elevens
are favored as coming out first, 1t being
deemed improbable that either Pennsyl-
ANA or Cornell has the strength to de-
feat Michigan and Chicago. In the case
II the Pennsylvania Michigan game 1t is
robable that Michigan has the better
team this year. and unless a great turn
for the better is taken by the Quakers
I is hard to figure where they will have
much chance to come out first when
hey meet the Yost crew. AS for Cor
nell, 1t must be remembered that after
being defeated by Harvard, % to s. 1t
came back the following week and gave
Chicago an 1S-to-O trimming. 1t may
spring a surprise and repeat the trick
MS year tnICdSO, tHOuSN, mas q D6lIcT
eleven this season than last.
The score that the University of Vir-
ginia made against the Virginia Military
Institute yesterday must look mighty
good to the followers of the Charlottes-
willie eleven. The fact that the Lexington
,eam defeated the North Carolina A. and
VI. eleven two weeks ago makes 1t ap-
pear all the better when 1t is considered
that A and M. has since won from both
Bucknell and the University of Tennes-
see. That Virginia played such brilliant
foot ball against an eleven of tnat caliber
sand defeated 1t SO decisively Is evidence
that 1t Is not going to be weak by any
means when 1t faces Georgetown Novem-
Der is. Judging by the score of yester-
days game anybody who expects the
local university to win as easily as was
freely predicted it would at the beginning
of the season will likely find themselves
greatly mistaken unless a decided change
in the relative strength of the teams Is
brought about.
Georgetown is whole lot stronger than
1T has shown at any time this year. The
Blue and Gray eleven has as yet failed
to give evidence of the real strength that
lies dormant in the eleven. That power
will begin to show soon. After the game
per cent better than it was two weeks
ago, and 10 per cent better than II Is at
present. Coach Nielsen has made no at
tempt to develop the Georgetown team
as rapidly as he might have done had he
desired to run the risk of not having his
men in the best possible condition when
they face Virginia.
In yesterdays game the Hilltoppers at
times showed fine form. the chief fault
TO be found with the work of the team
II would start out like a world-beater
and carry the ball forward with an at
| tack that could not have been stopped
by much better eleven than the one
presented by ST. Johns yesterday, but
only to fall down a few moments later
and do the most mediocer work. What
the team seems to need more than any-
thins else is quarterback who can
keep gong at top speed all the time Al
times Sitterdins looks like one Of rho
best quarterbacks in the country nv rho
excellent manner In which he drives the
team and directs its play, but he seems
unable TO hoid the gait. driving it only
! in spurts and then allowing Ii to SLOW nm
| If the Maryland Aggies hope 70 win
| from st. Johns next Saturday thew will
| have to show whole lot better form
! than they have in any game they have
| played this year. In yesterdays game
against Georgetown the Annapolis lads
showed themselves to be a mighty good
defensive team. both against forward
passes and line plungtng 1t broke I'm and
4 intercepted Georgetown passes franrar.
II l.
1 ~, while its line held admira blv apainst
the onsiaughts of the Blue and GRAY
backs.
The lack of competent official marred
the game yesterday between the Marv-
land Aggies and the Catholic rTnivarsi,,,
The game was stopped at different time.
and players and spectators gathered ~,
the field to engage in q discussion ,hat
only goes to work against the pno,i -
the game. What the game really nesded
was a man capable of handling the con-
test in manner BETTING an officiaI and
| who knew the rules. If the ranor. an -
some of the decisions that were river -.
true then there were some that uaro
! away off color.
Gallaudet lost its first game of the sea :
son yesterday. The Mount Washington
Athletic Club was the first aggregation
of pigskin chasers to hand out a defeat
to the Kendall Green lads this season
| Against a well trained college eleven II
would not have been surprising to see
lGallaudet lose. but against club aggre-
CATION which neither trains nor practices
! it was decidedly unexpected.