Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-10
c. j. AND VIRGINIA
MEET THIS WEEK
Orange and Blue May En-
counter Much Stronger Foe
Than 1t Expects.
LOCAL SCHOOL HAS
SOME GOOD MATERIAL
No Reason Is Apparent Why 1t
Should Not Give Rival lnsti-
tuition Hard Battle.
BY n. c. BYRD.

lie real game OF the local FOOT hdll
season is to be played this week-the
one between Georgetown and Virginia
II is the one contest to which all fol-
| lowers of the two schools look for
| ward, and much general interest is al
! ways manifested IN it. no matter what
| the caliber of the contending elevens.
| For the last three years Georgetown
| has had the edge, and it has been
| granted the victory before play began.
but Indications now point TO a reversal.
| Virginia having shown much better
| form in its preliminary contests. That
will have little to do with the crowd,
| though and it is almost d certainty
! that the hilltop field viii be lined with
anywhere from eight to twelve thou
sand persons when play begins Satur-
! day.
| Critics and those who have followed
the fortunes of the two elevens this
year do not hesitate to say that
/ victory for Virginia is practically a
| certainty. 1t is the opinion Of the great
! majority that the Blue and Gray is
| doomed to decisive defeat, and with
little hope that 1t Will accomplish more
| than keep the score reasonably low.
| Nirginia'S record this season has been
! much better than Georgetown 1t has
| shown much greater strength, according
i
| a good margin. The Charlottesville eleven
has beaten Vanderbilt by 81 to o. which
was one point more than Michigan could
| score on the same team and Saturday
Michigan deciSiVely defeated Cornell and
the week previous trimmed Syracuse by
more than 40 points. The North Carolina
Agricultural and Mechanical lost to the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute by to Il;
| the latter was defeated by Virginia by
good margin, and \. and NJ. won from
Georgetown. OF course, comparative
scores do not count Tor a great deal, ac-
cording 10 the general idea, but when
they all point toward the same conclusion
they are hard to disbelieVe.
That is the situation according TO the
apparent prospects based on the showing
Of the two teams, but that fails to take
into consideration the fact that George
town will play better foot ball against
! Virginia than III any of its other games.
The Blue and Gray eleven viii rise to
the emergency for that game. Its play
may have been way below the general
standard all season, and Yet it will come
forward against the Orange and Blue
eleven and play wonderfully well. 1t is
the Georgetown spirit which is predomi
nant i'll that contest, and that spirit Is
worth more than can be Well calculated.
No matter what kind OF material coach
may have, no matter whether his players
be mediocre or stars, If he is at George
town he may rest assured that they will
be in the game fighting with every bit OF
strength JnGN pOSStSS, dIlti there Will NC
precious little ground lost that will not
draw freely from the vitality OF their
opponents.
There is some good material at George
town undoubtedly. For three years Fury
and Costello have been the main ground
gamers and they ought to be equally as
good noW-as "A matter OF fact they ought
To be much better. because or their
greater knowledge of the game and ex-
perience. Morarty is such good line
mar he has been singled out
star BY every critic who has watched him
play Petritz is also a Very capable man.
being one of the best defensive players
in the South. Barron was good enough to
| hold down Il regular place on the team
which annihilated some of the best
| schools in the section; there are no bet
| ter ends any Of the southern elevens
| than Bergin, Donnely and Martin and
one of the Blue and Gray coaches himself
! made the remark that Murray was one
of the best backs he had ever seen; Dunn
| last year was one OF the strongest line-
breakers in the south perhaps the strong
| est. and Foley has great deal more
i ability than he has ever been given
credit for.
This then is the situation: George
| town has made a poor showing, while
Virginia has been doing brilliant work.
/ but Georgetown has lot of potential
strength in its squad, strength which
| has not been evidenced In It's playing
so far That strength yet remains to
A =
pen that things can be pulled together
| SO as to allow the HiiItoppers to show
their real value Virginia will not win
by a big score and 1t will have its
! hands full 10 come out of the game
| with the long end of the score. II the
| Georgetown squad is brought forward
10 Il point where it can show at its
best Virginia will encountr trouble 1t
is not expecting. There is strength
| enough in the Blue and Gray squad to
| give that Charlottesville eleven, even
| though it is strong as has been
| heralded, the toughest kind of bat
| tie
| Practically every foot ball expert
was pointing out the fact before the
| Harvard Princeton game of last Sat
urday that the Crimson ought to win
by ii good margin. such predictions
We're based almost entirely upon the
defeat OF Princeton by Dartmouth. 1t
was pointed out in these columns at
the time that some OF these critics
| would be liable to find themselves II
error because q defeat by Dartmouth
did not show weakness in Princeton.
and such proved to be the case. The
| Tigers went into the Harvard game
and played the Crimson just about as
evenly as could have been to have lost
by to 0. The Harvard team was
powerful, IL was known, but Princeton
also was much better than the public
was generally led TO believe right after
the defeat by Dartmouth. The follow
ing table shows just how close the play
really was:
LIST half. I'd half