Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-01
HAS GOOD BEGINNING
Georgetown Eleven Shows
Well in First Contest.
WINS OPENING GAME, 800
Blue and Gray Line and Back Field
Show Latent Power Against
Seaman Gunners.
BY n. c. BYRD.

BY n. C. BYRD.
The Georgetown University foot ball
team won it's first game of the season
yesterday by score of 80 to 0. The Sea-
man Gunners were the victims of the
Blue and Gray eleven. While 1t had been
expected that Georgetown would run up
a much larger score on the Sailors than
it did, considering the fact that it was
the first time that the team has played
together against a foreign opponent, and
practically the first time that the eleven
as it began yesterday had been in
scrimmage together, the result is rather
a credit to the team.
The Seaman Gunners presented a much
better aggregation of foot ball players
than that which represented them last
year in the initial game on the Hilltop.
1t was not only better bunch of play
ers individually, but they were superior
collectively to the team which George
town trimmed by a 5o-to-0 score last fall
in the first game on its schedule. The
Sailors were better coached and better
trained yesterday, and We're an all-round
better looking eleven.
Georgetown did not present the strong
est lineup possible. Feeling that there
was no danger of his team getting the
small end of the score, Coach Nielsen
refused to take chances with Dunn, who,
had he been in the game, would prob
ably been able to smash through the line
for good gains, as did White, who played
at full. Again, Barriscello. who is one OF
the regular ends, did not appear in the
lineup, Bergen of the scrubs taking his
place.
No eleven that ever started a season
ever showed its real form the first time
it lined up against foreign team, and
Georgetown was not an exception yes
terday. The Blue and Gray team did
not start the first quarter looking like a
world beaten that 1t has been pictured,
but later in the game, when 1t began to
feel itself and pull more together. II
played better foot bali and managed to
roll up a respectable score against a
minor team. THE Sailors yesterday had
the advantage in this reSpect-that they
have already played one game against
the Marines. which they won by "a to o.
Line Plays Well Defensively.
With the exception of Bergen at left
end, the Georgetown line started the
game just as it will probably remain al
through the season, with possibly one
exception, and the way IT played gave
evidence of whole lot of latent power
which is not yet developed. The play OF
on the defense, but when on the offensive
they fell below the standard which they
ought to have shown. The Sailors line
was shown up exceptionally well, simply
because of the fact that the Blue and
Gray men failed TO open up holes as they
should. Time and again the Georgetown
backs were met Squarely almost before
they got to the line of scrimmage by one
of the opposing linemen, who had not
been blocked off by the man who was
supposed to take care of him. Lack OF
practice, together with lack of knowing
each others tactics, caused the poor play
of the linemen on the oifense. and witt
a little more experience together they
will likely prove the same set of compe-
tent forwards they were last year.
The Georgetown backs did good work In
carrying the ball, but failed to do much
in the way of interference. Instead OF
getting their man the backs showed q
tendency to brush by him and let hin
spill the runner. Time and again per-
fectly formed end runs would shoot out
from behind the Georgetown line with q
splendid mass of interference in front OF
the runner, but the opposing end would
be allowed to break through and either
drop the runner or else cause him to
cut in and take a chance on his broken
field-running ability.
The game in general showed but little
i'm the way of open foot ball, the George
town team attempting the forward pass
but three times, succeeding once for a
gain of about ten yards, while the Sea
man Gunners did little IN the way OF
forward passing, although they pulled
off one pretty play of that character
when Kerr received pass from Yoho
from kick formation which gained about
forty yards. The other two or three times
that the Sailors tried to pass il Went
astrav and once was caught by White,
who ran it back about fifteen yards.
First Quarter Closely Played.
The game started off as though the
Sailors were going to give the Blue and
Gray team a rub for the victory, the ball
see-sawing back and forth across the
field during the entire first period. with
neither eleven able to gain ground con-
sistently. The quarter ended with neither
side having scored. The only feature Of
the first period was a twenty-yard run
by Fury around left end, when he, after
being hemmed in by the end, cut in
and squirmed his way through a broken
field.
When the teams changed goals at the
beginning of the second quarter II was
second down, with the ball In the Cum
ners' possession. They failed to gain on
a run from kick formation and punted.
Georgetown caught the ball in the mid
die of the field On the first play White
went through the center Of the line for
ten yards and on the next, which was a
delayed pass Viymen ran thirty yards
for the first touchdown of the 1911 sea-
son. Wymard kicked goal. It was the
first touchdown of the year. made exactly
eighteen and one-quarter minutes after
the game had started.
In the same period another thirty-fve-
yard run by Vlymen carried the ball to
within two yards of the goal, from where
White took 1t over. Wymard missed an
CONTINUED on Third PACED