Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-14
&c. j. AND VIRGINIA
MEET TOMORROW
Predictions That Orange and
Blue Will Win Easily
May Be Upset.
TWO OTHER BIG
GAMES SCHEDULED
Dartmouth Plays Indians,
While Yale and Princeton
Are to Do Battle.
BY n. C. BYRD.

The Virginia foot ball
game tomorrow will not only be con-
test with great rivalry between two
institutions as its main attraction, but
II will undoubtedly decide the cham
pIonship OF the south The Blue and
Gray will not only be battling with a
victory over it's greatest rival as the
prize, but il will also have a mighty
good chance to be reckoned as the
best team in the whole south if 1t can
beat the Orange and Blue.
Virginia has defeated the University
of Georgia and Vanderbilt, and if
Georgetown can come out of the game
with the long end of the score it will
mean that its whole season of defeats,
it's disastrous games played previously,
will have been wiped away to a large
extent and the team will stand as one
of the most capable in the section. 1t
is regarded big incentive for the
Blue and Gray to strive to its utmost
to send Virginia back to Charlottes-
Vile Il beaten team.
Every prediction, however. has favor
ed Virginia. Not a single foot ball
writer has dared express anything
other than TO say that 1t looked like
u sure victory for that team One can
not help, however, but put lot of
faith in that bunch of Blue and Gray
players Time after time Costello, Fury
and Dunn have played so brilliantly
that it is difficult to tell how the visit
ing eleven will prevent them from
gaining ground. True. they were
but it was a brilliant dash through
almost the whole Virginia eleven by
Costello which really gave George.
town the game. OF course. the drop
kick near the end of the game broke
the tie but had 1T not been for the
points which came as result of the
touchdown those three points would
not have been sufficient to win.
1t is hard to believe that Virginia Will
stop Costello and Fury tomorrow. and
il is not likely to do SO II the right kind
of an offense has been built for them
Virginia will have out of its lineup its
best ground gamer. There is no doubt
that Mayer has been the most capable
man Virginia has had on the offensive,
and that he will be missed is certain.
Gooch is clever player, but one man
is not hard to stop, and If it is true that
Virginia has built its entire play around
him then it will be doubly hard to get
across the Blue and Gray line.
Virginia may do just what has been
predicted for it-4run up a score OF twenty
five or thirty points-but If it does 1t Will
be because something is radically wrong
somewhere on the hilltop The eleven
row is too strong to be beaten by such a
score, and the chances are 1t will not
despite the many statements relative to
the wonderful strength of Virginia.
The Virginia line tomorrow will out
weigh that of Georgetown by a big
margin, particularly from tackle to
tackle. but 1t is questionable II this
great deal in Virginia's favor. Weight
is not the most valuable factor in foot
ball and IL one or two of Virginia's
giants are not outplayed by the lighter
Georgetown men 1t will be surprise
to those who know the real ability Of
Petritz and Moriarty. Petritz is to be
in front Of a man who weighs over
200 pounds. and yet Petritz Is going to
play a better game Of foot ball than his
opponent. The same is true OF Mortarty;
he Is going to do better work than the
tackle In front of him. and with both
tackles outplaying their men It is hard
to see where Georgetown's line will
be at such a disadvantage In front or
that which wears Blue and Orange
There Is not the least doubt that MORT
arty and PetritZ are going to outpiay
their opponents unless the men they will
face have improved about 20 per cent
over last year. It does not take very
good foot ball man to see that the Vir-
ginia backheId does not have anything
on that Of Georgetown. and in reality
If coach were compelled to make a
doubtedly take that which Georgetown
| has.
| Virginia may win. and it is not denied
| that all the previous performances seem
| TO point to just such an ending, but IL
| is impossible - get away from the idea
| that there is going to be a closer and
more desperately fought game than any.
/ body anticipates.
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4 tomorrow this will be the most disas-
| trous season it has experienced in a
very long time. Four contests have been
played with schools in the class Of the
| Hilltoppers for the last two or three
years. and all have been lost. The win
ming of the Virginia game will wipe away
! those defeats to great extent. blu,
unless the Blue and Gray Is the victor
well, there will be more sorrow among
/ the followers of the Hilltop school than
! in years.
| Two games are scheduled to be played
here today, which will decide champion
ships. The Technical and Western High
schools are to meet in the game which
will most likely give the winner the
scholastic title. or it will at least pu,
| il in a position where it cannot BE-
beaten. Technical has a powerful, heavy
! combination. while Western Will be rep
resented by an aggressive bunch OF
i youngsters, whose weight Is very SSChis
distributed. The contest should be vel
played.
The other game is between colleges
with the Maryland Aggies and Washing
| ton College as the contenders. The game
is the last the Farmers are to play In the
series for the state championship, and II
they win they will have undiSputed pos
session OF the title. having beaten the
other colleges. The Farmers may have
to go into the game with two regular
players out of the lineup. In which even,
| two linemen will be given chance to
| show what they can do in the backfield
The big game in the east tomorrow is
| that TO be played between Yale and
Princeton. The Bulldog has not been
showing form enough to win from the
| Tiger. but 1t may be that a different tale
| will be told tomorrow. The Dark Blue
| always comes strong in it's crucial games
| no matter what may have been the re-
suit OF its preliminary season.
/ The Tigers have shown better form il
their practice games this year. notwith
standing that they have lost their two
big eontests-those with Harvard ant
| Dartmouth-and they ought to win /
Is not an easy matter for the Tigers [,
beat Yale, though. no matter what tn,
| comparative ability OF the teams Yal
has a way of developing wonderfully Ii
a week time, and il may be that il will
accomplish more than any one expects.
y What is likely to prove one of TIL
Imost brilliantly played and most close
lily contested games of the year is I.