Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-06
"A. AND N. T0PLAy
| GEORGETOWN TEAM
North Carolina School Has
Powerful Combination to Go
Against Local Eleven.
PRINCETON AND HARVARD
MEET IN FIRST BIG GAME
Crimson Will Not Have Greatest
Strength Against Tigers.
Other Contests.
BY H. C. BYRD.

The North Carolina Agricultural and
Mechanical College eleven comes here
tomorrow to meet the Georgetown Uni
versity team In what should be one of
the greatest games OF the year in the
south. While the Blue and Gray has
been defeated by one south Atlantic
! institution, Washington and Lee, prac-
tically everybody that saw the contest
unites in stating that it was due more
| to errors at critical times than to any
| superiority of Washington and Lee in
defense and offense. A. and NJ. will
| be represented by combination that,
on the form shown in its previous con-
| ficts, is second to none in the entire
| south.
| With the strength of the a. and NJ
| eleven admitted, it cannot be denied
| that any team which can play the Navy
| 14-to-16 game is mighty fotmida BILE.
! and with great improvement in the
| Blue and Gray since it met Washing
ton and Lee, one can see no reason for
| believing other than that one of the
most brilliant and hardest-fought con-
! tests of the year will be played. 1t is
we'll realized that A. and NJ. will put
! forth every effort to get the long end
| of the score from the local school, and
no will deny that with its great
| hackf1eld it has an even chance. and
| those that have seen the Blue and
/ Gray forwards meet onslaught after
onslaught of powerful backs with hard
| ly a tremble in their previous battles
! wonder what will be the result when
\. and MS heretofore invincible back
| field meets Georgetown's hitherto I'M
! pregnab1e line.
! 1t will be a battle in which both
sides will display knowledge of foot
| ball much beyond the usual; it will be
one in which every phase of foot ball Is
I pIr no to q q
state of perfection than is generally to
be noted. The A. and NJ. line is not
light. either, and it will prove itself
worthy opponent for the forwards of
| the Raleigh eleven. as has been said
before. lies in its great backfeld
| Georgetown will be compelled to stop
as clever and capable a trio as it has
| to meet this year when it faces the ag-
Igregation from the Tarheel state
Whether it will succeed in doing so is
| to ask whether it will win.
And Georgetown has behind it's line
| more than one man who is liable to get
| away at almost any time for a long
| gain. The boys who will be depended
upon to do the majority of the ground
| gaining for the local institution are
| fast, and once one or two of them get
| loose there will be nobody in the line
up OF the visiting eleven who can catch
| larly swift in carrying the ball, while
| Kelly, Noark, Murray. Landreau and
| several others the Blue and Gray can
throw into the conflict can do good
| work in advancing the ball.
AS the teams take the field at the
| start, it appears that A. and NJ. will
have the advantage. At least, that
would seem to be the case In view of
the Navy. If the two teams were to
remain intact during the entire contest
as they start. then the chances I'M
doubtedly would favor A. and NJ, but
&c hot dhva artt IN
which Georgetown is much superior to
| the Raleigh school-in the capabilities
| of it's su Institutes. A. and NJ, while hav-
| ing a powerful first line of men, is not
possessed of as many clever fellows
who can take their places in the event
of injuries or in case rest for them is
desired at some period during the con-
| flict. On what already has been done
the chances favor A. and NJ. If it is for
tunate enough to finish the game with
all its regulars in good shape. but in
any other case 1t ought to be pretty
! nearly an even break.
| 1t will be contest in which both
teams will strive desperately to win !:
one in which good foot ball and foot
ball of all kinds is likely to be seen-
in fact, a game we'll worth seeing.
4 The first conflict between the big
4 three of modern foot ball-between
i Princeton and Harvard-is to be PLAYED
the Crimson in a contest in which the
/ former will have its strongest lineup
], against a combination that is not the
best that could have represented the
latter. Much of Harvard's scoring pow
er Is lost in the fact that Brickley will
not be able to play, and In the lack
of the best condition on the part of
/ two or three of the most dependable
men, particularly .Mahan.
4 There is some question as to Just
how strong Princeton will be. The I'll
/ gers were looked upon as being devel-
oped along sure and safe lines until
outplayed by the smaller school. 1t
was only by virtue of tumble that
i Princeton got the touchdown that gave
it the opportunity to keep itself from
;, going down to defeat By all reports
of the contest Williams outplayed the
Orange and Black. Princeton has at
times in the past, though, showed a
wonderful ability to pull itself to-
gether and present a magnificent front
In a short time after a rather weak
showing. and this may be one Of those
periods. Not often has Harvard been
able to get the long end of the score
from the Jerseyites by big margin.
land 1t is likely that the Crimson will
be battled to a desperate finish.
| Princeton. although smaller school
than Harvard and Yale, has seldom
been defeated by either of them by
large scores. In nearly every battle in
which the Tigers have faced their
larger rivals they have finished with
credit to themselves, even though they
have often met defeat. The manner in
which Princeton has fought to a stand
still Harvard and Yale. although WIN
lining from neither, is evidenced by the
scores OF year ago. when Yale was
tied and Harvard barely was the vic
tor by to 0. Not long ago, so care
fully and accurately did the Princeton
eleven play, it was said to have
been outplayed by Yale and Harvard in
the general style of foot ball shown
!, though 1t defeated them both There
, are few contests in which the Tigers
, fall to give the best that's in them.
II The big game in the west is that be-
: tween Pennsylvania and Michigan. AL
. though not as much Importance at
taches to the contest with the Quakers
t for the Wolverines, as would be the
!. case had Michigan not been defeated
:. by Harvard. the meeting between the
I two schools Is looked forward to with
l great anticipation by those in tina,
). section. The game does not mean at
much to Michigan this year as in pre-.
vtous seasons because of the argument
had with Harvard last week, but ever
at that 1t Is the one contest to which
, the Wolverines turn with hopes that
! their fortunes will in measure be re.
7 deemed.
If Penn defeats Michigan it will be a
hard blow to those who have claimed
i for several years that the western foo,
4 ball teams were superior to those OF