Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-25
MUCH GOOD FOOT
BALL THIS WEEK
Final Games of Season Have
Much in Them to Attract
Gridir0n Followers.
CORNELL HAS HOPES
FOR GAME WITH PENN
Ithacans May Have Better
Chance to Win Than Is
Generally Expected.
BY n. C. BYRD

| Despite the fact that this week marks
| the end of the foot ball season, there are
several contests of interest yet to be
played. Three games between teams in
| the south Atlantic section remain which
| will be of much local concern, while
| there are three others scheduled between
| big eievens, two of which are generally
regarded as among the most attractive
of the year.
Two games will be played here Thanks
] giving day. Georgetown will meet the
Virginia Polytechnic and Catholic Uni
versity is booked to play Mount st.
| Marys. By far the most important of
| these is the first mentioned, as there is
| the outside chance that it will upset the
| rating of the present standing of the
| elevens. and the surety that it will have
| some influence in deciding the positions
| to be held by the several elevens when
| the comparisons are made at the end OF
| the year
There are two other games in the south
Atlantic section which are of more than
passing interest because of the effect they
will have on the rating of the elevenS at
the end of the season and for the rea-
son that there is great and long stand
ing rivalry between the institutions them
selves. Washington and Lee will meet
North Carolina A. and NJ. in one of these
contests at Norfolk and Virginia is sched-
uled to rlay North Carolina University in
the other at Richmond.
Washington and Lee has old scores to
even UP with A. and NJ and. Judging by
the work of the two elevens in the past.
stands an excellent chance to accomplish
just that. The game takes the place of
the annual V. p. LA. and NJ contest
which has been played in Norfolk in
recent years. Everybody knows the great
rivalry which exists between Virginia
and North Carolina. North Carolina had
rather win from the Charlottesville team
than all the others on its schedule COM
bined.
The games in the north which will be
followed closely are those in which
Brown and the Carlisle Indians, Pennsyl-
vania and Cornell and the Army and
Navy will figure. The first is attractive
because of the drawing card which the
Indians always are. the second is the one
contest on Thanksgiving between men,
bers of the big five, and the last is one of
the events of the year. probably the
greatest foot ball spectacle of the season
Some of the largest crowds of the year
will watch these contests. The long-stand-
ing rivalry between Penn and Cornell and
the natural distinction the Indians give to
every contest in which they play are sure
to engage the attention of all lovers of
the foot ball game. while the contest be-
tween the two service elevens is unequal
ed as social attraction.
To Fritz Crafts may be given a great
deal of credit for the fine showing made
by Gallaudet this year. The former
George Washington halfback has devel-
oped a fast capable little eleven, one
which is a credit to himself, to the play
erS and to the school.
On the Gallaudet eleven this year there
are three men who stand out in
the front rank of the players developed
and Rockwell. All have had experience
in other seasons. but neither has been
able to accomplish as much as has been
the case this year FoltZ has done work
which would entitle him to consideration
for place on an all-south Atlantic elev-
ell were not circumstances unfortunate,
and Moore has demonstrated his ability
more times than once as an open field
runner and as a director of his teams
fortunes on the field.
That victory over Hopkins Saturday
was worth lot to Gallaudet 1t was the
first time in years that 1t has accom-
plished that honor. and its success is de-
serving of much favorable commentator.
1t was fitting climax to one of the most
successful seasons Gallaudet has ever
had.
The backfield of the Western MARYLAND
eleven. the team defeated by the Mary
land Aggies Saturday, was one of the
fastest that has faced the farmers this
Year Although not very heavy. every
man in it was sprinter, and has ac-
they would simply gain ground by reason
OF the speed which would enable them
to run around the men on the defense.
The Farmers have one more game on
their schedule. which will be played
Thanksgiving day. 1t will be against the
Pennsylvania Military College. st. John 8
has always had that date with the north
ern school until this season, when, for
some reason or other, relations were dis
continued.
The game which Georgetown will play
the Virginia Polys may or may not prove
to be a hard one for it. If the eleven has
been brought around to the condition it
was in before 1t met Virginia it will win
by a good margin. If 1t plays the Blacks
burg aggregation with it's men out of
shape and the whole team not on edge
1t Is liable to have the hardest kind of
time getting away with the game.
There is much dissatisfaction being ex-
pressed now with the coaching system
at Yale. The failure to score decisiveIv
against Harvard in the last four years
is the one thing which iS back of the
clamOr being raised for a one-man sys-
tenn. There seems little doubt that the
material was at Yale this year for a
great eleven. and that it was more or less
the coaching which was at fault.
Here is what one familiar with the sit
uation had to say regarding the system:
Much could be written about the Vale
eleven. but post-mOrtems, with nothing to
be gained, are unsatisfactory at best, so
that the least said perhaps the better.
There is one thing. however. which it is
hard to overlook The chief fault of the
team. in my opinion, was lack of finish,
for which the coaches are even more re-
sponsible than the players. Greater pre-
cision and more smoothness were needed
to make the Offense effective Again, the
attack was lacking in elasticity and va
riety. / gained this impression after the
Princeton game. and it was confirmed by
a Yale man in New Haven Saturday,