The Washington times., 1913-11-24
ANY SCHOOL TEAM
MIGHT HAVE WON
Consistent Luck Would Have
Landed Title For 1918 When
Figures Are Considered.
SCORING ABILITY is LACKING
Losers in Many Games Did Bet
ter Work Than Winners Who
Got Breaks.
By BRYAN MORSE.

By BRYAN MORSE.
Any one of the five high school teams
competing for the 1913 football cham
pionship series, to be brought to close
tomorrow with the Tech-Eastern con-
test, might have won the title had the
element of luck consistently perched on
the banner of any one of the schools.
An analysis of the facts and figures
fails to reveal any margin of strength
for any one of the teams. so evenly have
they been matched in this series. The
mere fact that four games of the nine
played have been decided by drop and
place kicks is enough in itself to show
that the element of luck played an all
too prominent part in the contests.
Had Central started the season with
the same team strength manifested in
the last battle the Dark Blue would
have gone through with a win of the
championship despite the strength of the
others. Central has shown greater de-
velopment since the start, of the cam
paign than any of the others and the
school would today be celebrating win
had luck been even leaning its way.
Western won from Central by a clever
dropkick. The Dark Blue played con-
sistently and might have gotten the
anne had forward passes been started
earlier Tech in the same manner made
Central take the small ends of a to
score. Roberts proving the hero with a
stmilaf kick Business won an open
game from Central, but failed to show
any marked superiority and little luck
for the Blue would have landed the
game.
Had Business started off with a win
of the Tech game, and it might have
been Business. for Tech failed to show
any great margin over the Orange and
Blue. the tSenographers would have
gone TO title. 1t is true that Eastern
won the Business game by the most de-
cisive score of the series, but had Busi-
ness won the initial contest vastly
different tempered lot of youths would
have faced Eastern.
Central was beaten, luckily, by the
Red and White, and Western won from
the Stenographers, purely and simply
on account of the fact that the Busi-
ness team failed to hold on to the ball
at critical stages. Business could have
been returned victor over the Red and
White. and no one would have been
able to say that the win was not de-
served.
Eastern's top form was gained IN the
Business game. After that Western won
by 10 to z, Brewer proving the whole
works. A dropkick earned the win for
Western, but Eastern played just as
we'll, and might have won with the
same sort of luck as Western possessed.
low:
technical, 6; Business. 0.
Western, 3; Central, 0.
Eastern, ID; Business, Q.
Technical, 8; Central, 0.
Western, 10; Eastern, :.
Business, 10; Central, =.
Technical, u; Western, 4.
Central, 3: Eastern, 0.
Western, z; Business, 6.
Those who saw the Tech Western
game may remember that one of Techs
touchdowns was made when forward
pass was attempted on the 30-yard line
and Ochsenreiter recovered TO dash
over for a touchdown. Had this play
not been tried Western might have
come through with to win. 4
= glance at the scores made will show
that the winners scored &c points while
the losers made 49, Four games We're
won by drop and place kicks; only one
team showed better than one touch
down. The losers in three games made
more yards OF straight rushes than the
winners, and In two instances teams
losing had al the better of the argyll
Inent. only to see a tie turned into a
win in the final minutes of the game.
In point scoring in the nine games the
figures follow:
Technical, n; Opponents, Z.
Western, q; Opponents, Is
Eastern. 20; Opponents. u.
Business. Is; Opponents, 60.
Central, l6; Opponents, %.
In scoring ability none of the teams
show any marked advantage over the
others. The leader has scored but one
more point than the team now in third
place and II has been any teams race
from the very start OF the contests
Tomorrows game is the last Of the
series. Eastern meeting Tech at Vigi-
lants' Park at $50 p. m. the same Off
cials acting in the last contest. Tech
will face the Light Blue and White with
practically the same eleven that de-
feated Western in its last engagement.
Eastern is to pe minus the services of
Thornett. the quarterback, who Is to be |
out according to report on account of
a death in the family.