Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-20
FOOT BALL GAMES
BOOKED IN SOUTH
Institutions in This Section
Are to Begin Regular
Play This Week.
GEORGETOWN PROBABLY
HAS STRONG ELEVEN
Largest and Fastest Men Listed in
Years Out for Blue and
Gray Team.
BY n. C. BYRD.

| is really desired IQr SO early III lllt
year. and, it might be mentioned, also,
| that much larger crowd than usual
| is likely to attend.
/ The University of Virginia is to play
| what will be an easy affair for that
! team, Randolph Macon seldom having
sufficient strength to hold Virginia to
| less than thirty points. Richmond
| College is pretty sure to receive good
| drubbing at the hands of the Universe
! ty of North Carolina, while Marshall
| College of West Virginia is unlikely to
| prove more than a practice medium for
| the Washington and Lee eleven.
| With the exception of the contest be-
| tween Georgetown and Fordham, every
| game scheduled in this section p oDapiy
VIII be no more than mere practice test
| for the larger eleVenS. The teams that
have usually been in the running for the
south Atlantic championship outciass
| those against which they are to appear.
| Georgetown is the only one CT the insti-
! buttons that has elected to meet real
| test at the start of its season.
| The Maryland Agricultural College is
| scheduled to play the eleven represent .ng
| the Baltimore City College, but the lat
| ter has asked to have the contest can
| celed The Farmers viii insist upon play
| ing, though it is 4 question w1eeher
| or not the game will take place.
Georgetown is going to have the
heaviest eleven that has represented it
in a number of years. and probably
| its team will possess more beef than
had any aggregation turned out since
| the days of the Vineyard rule. There
are big men for every position-not
| small player in the line-up of the
/ team which Exendine has picked as his
tentative varsity. Gessler. holding down
| a place at left end, weighs about 10.
while Pauxtis the former Dickinson
College player, does not fall far short
| of that mark. Conwell and Rarron
I u al Or in he npip HI nf md
alo pounds each, giving plenty of heft
| in the guard positions. while Gormiey
of Catholic University last year is well
over the compound mark also. Gormley
| is holding down one of the tackle jobs.
Ward, in the other tackles position,
also tips the scales around that figure.
| Mckenna, the center, carries 192
pounds Sam Foley, at quarterback, is
| the l1ghtest man on the team, and he
| weighs in the neigh borhood of 1jS or
100. Fitzgerald, fullback, is gifted with
Isl pounds of solid bone and muscle,
! while Landreau and MURRAY the two
| halfbacks, carry more than 100 pounds
each. The second string men are ex-
| tremely light in comparison to these,
but even that squad is about large
as some that Georgetown has had.
| Unless the Hllltoppers are unfortu-
nate enough to have lot of accidents
which will temporarily put their men
out of some of the important games,
! they are likely to make a nightly good
!
| schedule to be played. 1t has been
many day since Georgetown has had
1 as big team as that which viii wear
its colors this fall. ard the best part.
of the candidates is their speed The
team will not be a slow, ponderous
com bination, the big men being sur
prisingly swift Gormley, notwith-
standing. his 200 pounds, was able to
| run an interference for Murray, cap
tain and halfback, yesterday in scrin-
mage. He kept looking behind all
the time to see if Murray was coming.
and finally crossed in front Of Murray
| to pick off man about to tackle him.
| OF course, Gornley is exceptionally
fast for so large man, but the other
iinemen are correspondingly active.
The practice at Georgetown yesterday
consisted of real scrimmage. The
men were first given tackling practice,
and then We're shown how to form in
| reference on receiving the kick -om.
After that the two elevens were lined
iup and two hours of hard work put
| in. There were times when the teams
! We're not plugging away, as Exepdina
stopped the play after almost every at
tempt to make a gain, in order TO show
where some fault lay in the individual,
or where mistake had been made in
running off the play itself. There was
nothing too small for Exendine to ex-
plain, no matter il it was already
known to his men, and everything was
done with a painstaking thoroughness,
/ cess in the end
The scrimmage proved this lad Ward,
| from Cambridge tMass.) High School.
one Of the most capable-looking linemen
that ever reported for practice at George
i town. He is heavy and fast, and is Shlfty
enough his feet to cover a lot of
ground either in or outside of his regular
! place Ward seems to use lot of Judg-
ment in the manner in which he goes
after his man. too, diagnosing plays
4 m 4
very difficult for the offense to eliminate
him. Fitzgerald, the fullback. also APP
pears to be much better than the average
high school product. He showed an abil-
/ ity to run in a broken field that was sur
| prising- He can dodge well, while his
speed and weight make him a hard man
for tackler to bring to earth
| Fitzgerald and Ward are the two best
| looking prep. or high school graduates
| that have come out for Georgetown
eleven within the last ten years. Both
| are certain to be stars In the South
| Atlantic section.
| Wayne Hart will have pretty nearly
the same eleven at Tech that won the
scholastic championship year ago. The
| Manual Trainers Will lose few men,
only two being extremely difficult to re-
place. Boyer and White were big, strong
youngsters, and it is not going to be
any sinecure to find two who viii play
as capably as they did.
None will envy Bryan Morse his task
at Western. With good material Morse
would have a very difficult time in de-
ve1oping an eleven capable o. showing
the right kind of form Conditions at
the school this season are very much
adverse to successful athletics, owing
to the burning of its building last year
Just where the boys will train, and just
the conditions under whica / eF VIII
work are not known, but 1t is kelly that
the best that can be done for them will
mot be any too good. To face the ad-
verse elements, with what is sure to be
IonIy mediocre material, is a job not es-
pecially to be courted.
Business, Eastern and Central will be
much of a puzzle for time this year.
| because little Is known of their resources
| Eastern loses some good men this fall
Greer in particular, being a player they
can hardly hope to replace successfully
Business had some pretty good men in
1913, but failed to come up to expectations,
while CentraPs eleven was made up al
most entirely of green men Central, if
it can keep eligible the majority of those
boys who were out for the team a year
ago, should be in the running for the
title
But it is really hard to tell much
about any of the High School teams
any year until after it has been ascer-
tanned how the new men have with
stood the advisory marks. Many times