Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-10
VIRGINIA TO HAVE FIRST
REAL TEST ON SATURDAY
Charlottesville Eleven's Adherents Will Get
First Good Line on Team This Week.
Yale Copying Western Methods.

poor condition just now, and if it is to be
at its best when it meets Central in the
, opening contest in the high school series
next week 1t will have to improve Won
derfully. The men themselves are in
poor physical condition, Smith having a
badly swollen knee and McArdle being
out with bruised hand. 1t certainly is
lucky for the Georgetown school that it
does not have to meet Central this week.
1t will be hard enough matter to get
the eleven in any kind of condition to
stack up against the Blue and White ag-
gregatiOn in the time remaining, but If
the game were for this Friday instead it
would be practically an impossibility.
Philbin, who is playing halfback at Yale
this year, is a brother to the Philbin
who did such great work in the backfield
| for the Dark Blue i'm 1909 Broken field
| running seems to run in that family a
| this years representative on the Yale
| team seems to develop the same char
acteristics which made the Philbin OF
| two years ago one Of the greatest open
Pauxtis, one of the best ends ever de-
veloped at the University Of Pennsylva-
| nia and who had a trial with the Gin
cinnati National League base ball team.
in speaking of this years Carlisle team
made the statement that the Indians have
the best interference in their plays that
he has ever seen in all his foot ball ex-
perience That means that the interfer-
ence on the Carlisle plays is about the
best now being used by any team in the
country. Pauxtis himself has had a whole
lot Of foot ball experience. having played
against the best teams developed by the
big colleges, and what he said In regard
to the Carlisle style of play should have
a great deal of weight.
There is quite similarity between the
NJ or1ic nd GaOrPQ-
town has so far this year not developed
the open style of play as it will later on,
but. barring that, the two teams Will
probably play the same kind of foot ball
when they meet Saturday. Coach Mel
sons interference is almost, if not quite,
as powerful as Carlisles the end runs
used by the two elevens being formed
along the same lines, with the exception
of the fact that Carlisle does not supple
ment a wide end run with the short-off
tackle play, as does Nielsen.
Saturday. Mount ST. Joseph's, which was
originally scheduled to play at Kendall
Green this week, Cancelled because of the
abandonment of foot ball at the school.
The Gallaudet management is having
trouble filling the vacant date.
Local patrons Of foot ball will have a
chance to see one of I hegreatest athletes
ever developed at the Indian school in ac-
| ton Saturday. Thorpe, who will play one
| Of the halfback positions, is the best all
round man ever turned out at the insti-
| tuition. He did not play on the team last
year. At one intercollegiate track meet
| in Pennsylvania Thorpe won seven first
| places.
For practically the first time in the his
| tory of foot ball an eastern coach has
gone west to study the methods used by
| a team In that section and to copy its for
| nations that they may be instituted in a
big eastern school Brooks, who is assist
| ing at Yale, has gone to Minnesota to get
| the formations which that team is using
and will bring them east for use by this
| years Yale eleven.
1t has always been the idea that west
| ern foot ball had to be copied from the
/ eastern methods to be a success, but 1t
rather seems that the big schools on the
| Atlantic coast have come to realize that
| the west is capable of developing some
thing on its own accord.