Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-29
LINE ON SCHOOL
ELEVENS TODAY
Technical High Squad Will Ap-
pear for First Time This
Afternoon.
WILL LIKELY WIN
FROM WESTERN TEAM
Something Seems to Be Wr0nu
With Coaching Policy at
Virginia.
BY 81. c. BYRD.

The game between Technical and West
ern this afternoon should give line or
the comparative strength of the schoo
teams now engaged in the series. Tech
is the only eleven which has not yet ap-
peared In action, and after it has beer
seen fafr idea as to the relative abilities
of the several combinations will have beer
secured.
| central has defeated Eastern by the
narrowest kind of margin and Business
mas won from Western by decisive
score That leaves only Tech to appear
In regularly scheduled contest, which
| 1t will do today. Tech will show only the
amount Of strength required to win from
| western. 1t being assumed that it viii
win. The Manual Trainers meet Central
next week and they will not uncover their
total power in front of the adversary they
most fear.
| If Tech wins this afternoon, that will
leave the championship resting between
Business, Central and Tech. The odds
according to general report, will be with
Central. because of its splendid material
although it is held by some that Business
has an excellent chance to finish in front
There would appear to be little doubt
| that Technical will defeat Western to-
| day. The Tech aggregation is much
| heavier than Western and there is one
| man In the Manual Trainers lineup who.
| II given the ball in successive attempts,
could pillow his way to the Red and White
| goal almost without hindrance. Western
has much lighter and far less powerful
eleven than has Technical, and it would
| be hard to figure on anything by which
| 1t could win.
Let Tech win today's contest, which it
probably will. and unless Central gets
going much better than when 1T faced
Eastern 1t will come near to landing the
championship. According to general re-
port the Central eleven failed utterly to
show the foot ball that was expected of
1t when 1t went against the light Capitol
Hill eleven, and when it goes against a
team which is almost, If not quite, as
heavy 1t will have an even harder time
getting away with the right result Gen.
tral Will face stronger eleven this year,
generally speaking, than it did last fall
| when 1t went against Tech. The Tech
eleven as a whole will be more powerful
and Will be better schooled in the science
OF the game.
OF course, Tech will be without the
services OF its most capable individual
ground-gainer. Morris. but 1T will have
more evenly balanced aggregation
one which Will not have to depend on
one man for all it's play. Central
as soon as he was stopped Tech was
stopped. This season the offense Of
the Technical team will have a more
rounded development.
Provided, of course Tech wins the
game from Western today. and Bust
| ness is as strong as is generally re-
ported, there will be the closest fight
in years waged between Tech. Central
and Business for the scholastic cham
pionship.
The University of Virginia. despite
the fact that it has called to Its aid
probably find itself against the strong
est eleven it will meet this season when
1T faces Vanderbilt Saturday in Nash
Vile Vanderbilt has been running up
scores Of more than 100 to On minor
college teams. and has defeated the
other schools. heretofore in its class
by much wider margin than one
| would ever expect:
Something is wrong at Virginia What
it is none seems to know, but the chances
are that it is its coaching system. When
there Is plenty of experienced material IN
a school Of that size and team is de-
velOped which cannot win from the minor
institutions by more than a touchdown
or two, then something is radically out
Of place. 1t stands to reason that Vlr-
ginia cannot hope to have as capable
coaching by sending out each year and
getting some man who has never done
much along that line. and accomplish as
much with him in charge as 1t could II
1t had a man with years OF experience
back Of him.
There have been mutterings from the
Virginia alumni for some time regarding
the coaching system at Virginia, and
there is a strong likelihood that II the
Orange and Blue is defeated by the Blue
and Gray this year, as seems most prob
able at present, there will be an cutlery
against the present system that will have
to be needed. There was more than
protest made last fall and 1t was strong
~ rumored that change from the
graduate system was being contemplated.
Another defeat by Georgetown and the
chances are the change will come to pass.
Princeton is working out special de-
tense this week, with which 1t expects to
stop the powerful backs behind Harvard s
line 1t is figured by the Tigers that II
they can prevent those three great line
plungers from ripping the forwards to
pieces they can win, as it is not generally
believed that Harvard will stop the
Princeton offense from gaining ground
The game is one in which 1t would be a
difficult matter to predict winner. Both
elevens are among the most powerful In
the country and there Is not likely to be
minute in the entire contest when a
rest will be had by ei.-ier side. 1t will
be one rip and tear from beginning to
end.
If Eastern had had its captain in the