Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
BY II. C.. BYRD.

There is one thing that the George
town eleven needs to make it the best
foot ball team that has ever represented
the university-a whole lot of hard
work Not the kind of work in which
the men stand around and take it about
half seriously. but that in which they
get down and play in the scrimmag e
DRY day as though the result of a
b game depended on the amount of
energy put into their practice. With
the Blue and Gray team settling down
To real work from now it will
probably develop into a great foot ball
machine. but there is one great danger.
and that IL. that the players Will not
realize that they have not done their
best to get into condition until after
it is too late.
That Georgetown did not beat the
Seaman Gunuers yesterday by more
points than they did was simply be-
cause of the fact that the men who
composed its team have not had suf-
ficient experience together TO guaran-
tee them giving the best that is in
them TO the development OF winning
eleven
There were times in yesterdays game
when it seemed that the Hilltoppers
had no better than the average team,
but it was because of the fact that
they have not had enough work as a
lined up in the game yesterday had
never before been in a scrimmase to-
gether. and had never gone through
signals as a unit until Friday night
Neither Wymard nor Hart has as yet
had enough work To get him in condi-
ton to play good foot ball, the one
not reporting until the middle of last
week, and the other not having been
able to get up to Georgetown to prac-
tice until after the regular practice was
generally over. 1t was StohlmanS first
game of foot ball as a center. and it
WAS Berg gems first game as a varsity
end.
Georgetown yesterday was a whole lot
different from what it Will he three or
four weeks from now. Coach Nielsen
realized the lack of work on the part
of the members of his team, and he
will see that everything is done 10
weld the eleven into a unit machine.
such as was the one turned out by him
last year.
of the team under the apparent newness
il was evident that the HilltOppers will
have a better eleven than the one which
represented them last fall
One of the pretty features of yester-
DAYS game at Georgetown was the fact
that on the end runs some of the most
splendid interference ever seen In like
play on a foot ball fed was massed in
front of the runner and perfectly formed.
That the men in the interference failed
many times to get their man was I'M
doubtediy due to the fact that they have
not yet got used to hurting themselves
at the defensive ends and secondary de-
Tense. as they will later on in the sea-
sOn.
one fact which is always noticeable of
Coach Nielsens teams is that they are
always strong in the running game and
generally have the most powerful end
runs that can he devised. When Nielsen
coached George Washington three years
go he developed such powerful end runs
that there was never game that the
opposing pair of ends who started in the
contest finished. with the exception of
one. and that was at the Virginia Poly
teChnic Institute, where a SiN-inch layer
OF sIush prevented any possibility of fast
end running.
II was predicted that the Maryland Ag
gies would not get away. with the game
In Richmond yesterday as easily as they
sdid last Year. and such proved to be the
case. The Farmers only managed to win
with a tie score, neither the Richmond
nor the Maryland eleven being able to
secure a single tally.
The offensive work of the two teams