Evening star., 1912-11-04
POOR JUDGMENT
Arranging GAMES
Managers of Local College
Teams Book Events at
Home on Same Date.
NO CONTEST HERE
LAST SATURDAY
Every Team Played Away
From Home, While Opposite
Is True This Week.
BY n. C. BYRD.

/ ball teams have shown poor judgment in
arranging their schedules. Instead of try
ing to effect some kind of list Of con-
! tests which would not conflict. 1t appears
/ hat each has scheduled home dates at
, the same time
Take, for instance, the date on which
! he Carlisle Indians played at Georgetown.
Catholic University, instead of having an
out-of-town game. played a small eleven
at Brookland. Last Saturday, when
! Georgetown. the greatest attraction in
foot ball circles. was away, not a single
one of the other colleges had a game
scheduled for their own fields. Cn the
very day when the main a traction was
absent and they would have drawn crowds
they all played on foreign grounds A
great number of persons would have at
| tended any contest which might have
/ been scheduled by any of the local col
| eyes last Saturday.
| This week Georgetown is at home again,
| and, without an exception, all the other
/ teams ay at home also. Catholic Cn.-
! versty will meet Dickinson, while the
Maryland Aggies and Gallaudet are
| booked to play.
| Next week, when Georgetown will play
| Virginia. time when all other foot ball
| games are rather ins. .gnifcant as Tar as
other institutions are again booked Tor
! home games. Catholic University meets
| Western Maryland College Galiaudet will
play the Mount Washington Athletic
Club. and the Maryland Aggies are sched-
uled to try conclusions with the WASH
| ington Co lege eleven.
| If the managers of the three other COL
| lege elevens would pay some attention to
the games to be played by Georgetown
and would arrange their dates according
ly. 1t is likely they would draw much
larger crowds. and their finances would
| be much AIDED by the arrangement. OF
course, 1t does not matter so much for
the Maryland Agricultural College, as no
admission is charged there, but, at that.
larger crowds are appreciated. AT the
other schools, though. the difference
would be felt, and there would likely be
marked Improvement in the financial
condition of the athletic association al
the end of the year.
1t is probable that none of the big col
leges have ever gone through a more dis
nell this year. The Ithacans have los,
the majority Of contests played and have
| failed to show creditable form even
aga nst the minor institutions. A decis-
i've defeat at the hands of a smaller col
lege Saturday just about caps the climax
and precludes any possibility Of the
eleven going through year of anything
other than rank failure.
lIeIe Is one cHdHce LOT DrlSnt spot
in the Cornell season; that is. for the
team 70 round to by Thanksgiving and
tive the University of Pennsylvania
drubb.ng. If the Ithaca team could ac-
complish that. is season would not be
an absolute failure. even though it has
failed to measure up to the standard Of
| institutions which should not be consid-
cred in its class for an instant.
Penns season has almost been as
dreary failure as Cornell's so far. The
| Quakers have lost four Saturdays in sue
cession to schools which have less than
one-third Its number Of students and
which ought not to be able to defeat
| 1t in any branch OF sport.
!, To judge from the reports received re-
! garding the trip Gallaudet was forced to
| take last week. it is small wonder that
+. it failed to accomplish much against
| Washington College. The Kendall Green
| eleven left Baltimore at $50 in the MORN
| ing and were compelled to make a thirty
mile trip across the Chesapeake bay in a
! twenty-five foot launch. The whole bunch
| Of players were about as seasick bunch
| as ever was when they arrived in Ches.
| tertown at 3 o'clock. Six and one-half
hours on the water in calm weather for
| boys who are not used to it at all is no
| conducive to their best exhibition of foot
| ball. and with the time spent during a
storm on the bay it may well be
, imagined the shape the Gallaudet team
| was in when it went out on the field at
| Chestertown.
One game toward which Gallaudet has
| been working all season is the one with
!. the Maryland Aggies, scheduled for Sat
| urday. The Kendall Green aggregation
| had rather lose to any school on it's
| schedule than the Farmers, and it always
plays its best article Of foot ball when
| pitted against them.
The contest shouiu prove an interesting
one, and it will certainly be hard fought
Every game in which the two teams take
part is played bitterly. with the players
| working as though their lives depended or
The result Last fall. in a crippled cond :
+, ton, the Gallaudet eleven held the Farm
| ers at bay for three periods by a score
| of 2 to o, and it was not until the last
few minutes Of the contest that the Aggie
| were able to ge. across the touchdown
| which won for them.
| 1t is probable that the game this week
will be just as close and hard fought.
1t has taken Swarthmore three years to
| get back on the plane 1t enjoyed in foot
ball before the season when it had no
cam. The Quaker institution abolished
the game one year in order that it might
claim a large endowment. but it took
up the sport again the following fall.
Since then it has not accomplished any
thing wonderful until this season, wnen ii
has gone back to .he old stunts 1t used
to do, ming from institutions much
larger than itself.
Catholic University will be up AGAINST
what is probably the strongest eleven /,
| has met this season when 1t faces the
| Dickinson College team this week It il
| reported by Greer, the assistant coach a,
| Brookland who saw Dickinson play last
! week. that it is one Of the strongest COM
/ binations he has seen this season, Is ev-
ceptionalIy heavy and has in its back.
field one Dunn, who is the cleverest play
i er he has seen. Greer said that he
/ thought Dickinson the superior of Villa.
nova, and that the Catholic University
team would have to work mighty hard
| if it expected to make the right kind OF
showing against the Pennsylvanians.
Washington College has one of the
| strongest secondary teams In this sec.
ton if its record is a correct criterion
by which 1t may be judged The Ches-
tertown eleven has yet to meet defeat
having gone through it's schedule SO far
with a victory over each team played.
1t will, of course. meet Its first defeat
of the year this week. when 1t comes to
Georgetown. but at that 1t will probably
make better showing against the h IL
ltoppers than has either of the other minor
aggregations it has met. The Chester
town eleven has played one game with
the Maryland Colleges tina: against West
ern MARYLAND Wh ch II won Dy II tn o.