Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-27
ARE READY FOR
LAST CONTESTS
Local College EIevens Should
Do Well in Final Games
of Season.
GEORGETOWN OUGHT
TO WIN FROM v. P. |.
Maryland Aggies and Catholic
U. Should Both Do Credit
able Work-N0tes.
BY II. C. BYRD.

BY II. G. BYRD.
Each of the three college foot ball
teams here is ready for it's final game OF
the season. Georgetown's eleven is in
shape to do battle with V. p. l.. Catholic
st. Marys team and the Maryland Ag-
gies will send stronger aggregation
| against the Pennsylvania Military Col
lege than has represented them since the
first two contests of the season.
All three of the schools stand chance
to win. The odds greatly favor George
town to finish in front of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute; Catholic Univer-
sity should be on nearly even terms with
Mount St Mary's, while the Maryland
team will give a good account Of Itself
against the Pennsylvania eleven. The
possibility is always present that any
team may be defeated, and that by a
large margin, even when 1t looks as II
it cannot win, but things appear to give
the schools here fair chance to finish
we'll.
1t has been reported time after time
that the Georgetown eleven is not in
its best condition. 1t may not be. but
there is little doubt that it ought to
get away with the Virginia Polys. es-
pecially if it is anywhere near as
strong as it was in the early part Of
the season. 1t won from Washington
and Lee by 20 to o. and as that school
beat " p. I. by good margin, the
comparison is too great to go un-
noticed
If the Blue and Gray eleven happened
not to be in the sort of condition it
ought to be-that is. if 1t has not re-
fell after the Virginia game-then
close contest will be the result. v. P. 1.
will be pointed for this engagement.
and it will likely do its best work of
should be ready. there is little to
think other than that it will win by
at least a fair margin.
Catholic University has had an unsuc-
cessful season. 1t has gone through it's
schedule, having won but one game. In
the games in which it should have
emerged the victor it has failed to make
the showing expected, because of the alb
sence of it's best men. Against Mount St.
Mary's the Brooklanders think they will
redeem past defeats. The work of the
players in practice has shown much i'm
provement during the last few days and
the team will go into the contest in bet
ter shape than in long while. 1t may
not win, but it will give a better account
of itself than it has in its otHer games.
Not much is known of the team which
the Farmers are to play. 1t may be ex-
ceptiOnally strong or 1t may not be above
the class of the secondary colleges in this
section. The Farmers will not present
the strongest eleven possible against it.,
but they will be more formidable ag-
gregation than has represented them in
the last month. They will be powerful
enough to give any Of the secondary
elevens a mighty good argument, even if
they lose
The two games tomorrow in which gen.
eral interest centers are those between
the Indians and Brown University and
Penn and Cornell. The former game will
be played in Providence. The Indians
did not go back to Carlisle after the
game against Springfield last Saturday,
but rested in village in Massachusetts,
They go to Providence today. The Penn
eleven Is waiting in small town just
outside of Philadelphia. while the Cornell
squad is at Atlantic City putting on the
finishing touches.
Despite the fact that the Penn eleven
has shown wonderful form in it's two last
contests, both games should be excep-
tionally interesting. Brown has shown
itself strong enough this year to give the
best elevens in the country hard rub.
while the Indians always play style of
game that Is worth watching.
There is much talk concerning the Cor
nell-Penn game. The latter has shown
SO strong in its last two contests that it
has been given the advantage by a great
deal in the selection of probable win
ner. There are few who concede Cor
nell a chance to get away with the game.
There has been held out a ray Of hope,
though, In one or two instances by men
who have seen the Ithacans at work dur
ing the closing days of practice and it
| may be that they will accomplish the one
thing toward which they have devoted
their season.
Washington and Lee has chance to
even up old scores with the North Caro-
lima A. and NJ. eleven tomorrow. The
Lexington team Is stronger this year and
is capable of accomplishing more in every
department of the game than in many
seasons. 1t Is banking on winning, the
game being just as important as the con-
test which it has already won from v.
=. l.
1t is more than possible that Wash
J ingtOn and Lee will strike snag. A.
which have ever represented 1t, and
that school has never turned out any
lightweight aggregatiOns. 1t has put
up a fair article of foot ball in all the
games it has played, with the exception
of the last quarter of the one with
Georgetown. and it ought to stand an
even chance to get away with 1t.
II the University of Virginia eleven
| is able to play as we'll against North
Carolina as it did against Georgetown,
| it should win. North Carolina has not
shown any decided tendency this year
| to display an article of winning foot
ball. and it hardly expects to get away
! with the contests against the Char
| lottesyille aggregation. Carolina made
it's best showing against Georgetown,
| more because of the fact that the Blue
| and Gray did not appear at it's best
| than because of any wonderful article
| of ball displayed by it.
| 1t is reported that Virginia Will nave
| ,;ooch and Jett out of the game. IL 1t
is true that GOoch will not play there
| Is every likelihood that the Orange and
! Blue men will be handicapped to de-
| ciied extent. 1t is not probable that
| Virginia will be able to show anywhere
| near it's real strength with Gooch out OF
| the lineup, because he can get more out
| of his men than can any other man who
! NAV be sent in to play the position.
| II begins to look as though Johns Hop
kins will go through it's season without
/ winning "A single game. 1T has yet to
| finish a contest with the score favoring
II. and there is small chance OF its win
| ming the game il has booked tomorrow.
| The Virginia Military Institute will play
| in Baltimore and ii should win from the
1 Black and Blue by a fair margin-that
| is unless tie latter shows much better
| form than In any of the affairs in which
| it has previously taken part.
! Baltimore newspaper man in COM
menting on the standing Of the Maryland
| colleges places Washington College ahead
! of the Maryland Aggies. He bases his ar
gument on the fact that st. Johns is not
| liable to win from Washington College
! as decsively as IL did from the Farmers
/ He apparently has overlooked this bit of
! interesting information: Washington Col
lege barely got away with victory over