Evening star., 1912-11-17

The one thing roticeably lacking In
both teams was int, rference. It was sell
dom that the man with the ball was al
forded any protection 1t was generally
case Of the ball being given to man as
! he would start with only his fndiv1dual
ability to carry him through the opposing
line. That is one reason why little was
accomplished by the backs or eltner
eleven in gaining ground.
Neither Georgetown nor Virginia had
much interference The Virginia eleven
had one man behind the line upon whom
it depended to carry the ball for nearly
all it's gains. and he was SO fast that he
generally outran all thes men who were
supposed to offer him protection.
There were times when the Georgetown
backs would start out in front of the
| runner, but instead of picking on their
men as they have done at times this year
| they allowed them to filter through and
! at times down the man with the ball for
a loss. The playing of individuals in the
Georgetown backfield was at times bril-
| liant, but there was not enough conference
| in their work to do the brilliant dash1ng
| work on the offense that has been accom-
| plished once in awhile during previous
contests.
| While forward passes did much toward
gaining ground and gave Virginia both
| it's touchdowns, there were times when
| the ball was thrown aimlessiy without
| the passer ever knowing where the ball
was going or whether or not there was
| man there to receive 1t.
| In all the game there appeared to be a
| looseness which gave the play an aspect
| of poor accomplishment. 1t did not seem
that the two teams were playing the
game of which they were capable. There
appeared to be a latent power In each
| eleven which was not being made use Of
despite the fact that the play reached
| the point where it was spectacular upon
| a number of occasions.
| Every once in a great while a player
| will break loose in the middle of the field.
| and, after receiving punt. run for a
touchdown That has been accomplished
| Just three times in this section this year.
| Costello did it yesterday in a manner
which was spectacular in the extreme.
| scoring the touchdown which was needed
| to win Once before the same thing
| was accomplished on Georgetown Fled
/ against a minor eleven. The other occa-
| sion when it was done was down in
| Richmond, when Morris Of the Maryland
agricultural College caught the ball on
his own 4O-yard line and lodged in and
1 out among the entire opposing team,
! finally crossing the line.
| It was Fury who got away on long
run. which put the ball in striking dis
tance of the Virginia goal yesterday in
| the first quarter. The quarter was up
| before there was chance to repeat the
play. but the game had not been resume d
| for more than two minutes in the begin
ming Of the second period before Dom
nelly caught a forward pass that had
been blocked. and ran across the line
| with the ball.
It was very clever work on the part of
| Fury which gave Georgetown the ad-
vantage. Several Of his mates In the
| Blue and Gray backfield got away for
gains of from to yards, but it was
| Fury who. shook off four or five tacklers
| and covered about 10 yards before he
| was downed by Todd.
The one feature Of the play in yester-
| davis game was that both Quarterbacks
! took many chances. It was the one sty.e
| Of play which was prompted by the atti-
| tude Of the two elevens. Virginia figured
that it was playing an eleven against
which it would be able to accomplish
nothing by the use of ordinary foot ball.
| It was willing to take desperate chances
| In order to make headway. Georgetown,
| on the other hand. was confident of Its
ability to win, and felt that II could af-
ford to take chances and still win II by
any fuke one of them was turned
against 1t.
After Virginia had scored touchdow n
and Georgetown had the ball near the
Orange and Blue territory 1t came near
losing the contest by not playing safe- 1t
seemed like good headwork to try the
forward pass from the middle Of the