Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-12
BY n. C. BYRD.

1.-The basket ball team which will rep
resent Georgetown this year will be one
of the best that has ever worn the colors
of a southern school," Such was the
opinion of Jim Collifower, coach of the
Blue and Gray quint, spoken in as many
words after his team had played the open
ing game of its schedule. Collifiower
went on to say that he had not felt alb
solutely sure Of his men until after the
contest as some of them had had little
experience and had worked little together
this year, but after the manner in which
they jumped to the front and ran up
the score as they did In the second half
he had little doubt that before the season
is over Georgetown will be able to play
on an even basis with the best of them.
The Georgetown coach has every right
to feel elated over the showing made by
his team in it's first game. Georgetown
has seldom, at least not lately, done as
well with its basket ball team. The Bal
timore Medical College presented likely
looking bunch Of goal tossers, and they
played in the first half as though 1T
would take all that the Hilltoppers could
do to win, if they accomplished that.
The second half, though, saw a differ
ence, and the Marylanders were played
off their feet. Nineteen points made
scored by the Baltimore Medics, shows
the superiority of the former aggregation
as it appeared in the second period In
that second half the Georgetown five
showed more real form and ability than
the one representing the school last year
did at any time during the season.
1t Is almost a surety that Coach Coli
flowers confidence in the players who
courts this winter is not misplaced, and
that the team will show superior form
during the season to anything seen In g.
Georgetown quint in recent years.
The Georgetown five was not perfect
either in it's individual or team play last
night. In fact, many crudities appeared
which it will be necessary to eliminate
! they seem to have chances of being be-
fore the season is finished. The rough
edges which appeared in the game against
the Medicos, though, were of the kind
that will disappear as soon as three or
four games have been played. 1t was
the rough edge which cannot be eradi-
Gated except through the playing of regu-
lar contests against strange teams which
caused the Blue and Gray quint to appear
at disadvantage at times.
The defensive play of the team was ex-
ceEent even for any time of the year.
While the Georgetown men apparently
failed to cover up as quickly as they
might at times the scarcity of the times
when the Baltimore aggregation got a
chance to try for a goal attests the real
effectiveness of the defensive playing Of
the Blue and Gray men.
The offensive power OF the team Will
increase as the season comes on. The
ability to score points is developed more
in the games that are played than in
practice, and the fact that as soon as it
got going right the quint Tailed point
after point. while holding its opponents
to blanks, shows what may be expected
Of 1t this winter The weak point in the
offense was the rather aimless passing Of
the ball OF course, this may be account
ed for in many cases by somebody S
failure to be where he should have been,
but Notwithstanding that there were
times when the bail was hurled wildly
across the floor to nobody with the