Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-16
FOOT BALL TEAMS
PLAY HARD GAMES
Georgetown, GaIIaudet and
Catholic U. Meet Strong
Opponents Tomorrow.
YALE AND PENNSYLVANIA
HAVE DIFFICULT CONTESTS
Notre Dame to Appear Against Dark
Blue and Navy Will Struggle
With Quakers.
BY n. c. BYRD.


with Villanova.
Under ordinary conditions it would ap-
pear that Georgetown and Gallaudet
have an excellent chance to win, but 1t
is probable the Villanova eleven will
prove too experienced and too strong
for the Brooklanders. OF course, Catholic
University may surprise everybody by
making unexpected showing against
the Pennsylvanians, as it did on previ-
Gus occasion, but if it is the victor it
will be pleasant out unlocked for &C.
currence.
Georgetown goes to. Richmond to meet
one OF the strongest elevens in the
south. OF that fact there can be no doubt,
since Washington and Lee has proved
since the beginning of the 1913 season
that 1t possesses players of exceptional
capabilities. Washington and Lee year
ago had one of the best elevens that
have ever represented it, and. perhaps.
the very best. 1t ought to be even more
powerful now, because 1t has back near
ly every regular and has acquired sew
eral new men of more than ordinary
caliber.
The Blue and Gray will be opposed
to very strong aggregation. but it
| ought to win. The local university will
have one big advantage over the Vir-
ginians-that of having played two
hard games. Washington and Lee has
not yet been put to a real test, it not
I having prayed d game against d team
of anything like equal strength. Under
such conditions Washington and Lee
cannot hope to be at it's best. while
Georgetown ought to present the
strongest front that it has at any time
this season. The Blue and Gray Of
tense should be more fully developed,
| while it's defense has never even been
questioned OF course, Washington and
Lee may be whole lot stronger than
is generally thought, but without hav-
ing been against an eleven of some
where near it's power it can hardly be
ready to give the best it has against
Georgetown. One cannot help but look
for victory for the Blue and Gray.
Gallaudet is not likely to find the
Virginia Military Institute team as
been making the showing this year
| they have in the past two or three, and
lit would not be surprising to learn to-
morrow evening that the Kendall
| able margin. The Military Institute
only defeated Richmond College by. 10
to 0, and that after desperately fought
game, and Richmond College is not
strong by any means
| If Catholic University can make the
right kind of a showing against Villa
nova it will speak well for the work
of the coach and the men. The Brook
the last two weeks, and If they continue
to show better and better form as the
season goes on they undoubtedly will
make the best record any c. u. eleven
has ever accomplished.
Pril Kaufman, Washington boy, who
was star tackle at the Lawrenceville
School last fall. is acting captain of the
princeton freshman eleven. and it is
fairly certain that he will succeed to
the captaincy for the remainder Of the
season.
Kaufman has been playing a bril-
liant game for the Princeton first-year
team. His work has been prominent
enough to place him in the foreground
as one OF the most prominent of the
prospective candidates for the varsity
in 1915 Kaufman was a star at
Lawrenceville last year, being about
the only unanimous choice for the all
scholastic eleven of New Jersey.
1t is rather interesting to note that
there are two Washington boys play
Besides Phil Kaufman. Sylvan King,
former Central High School star, is
holding down one of the regular posi-
tons. King was much the same kind
of player at Central that Kaufman
was at Lawrenceville-about half the
team.
1t would certainly be splendid thing
for Washington if it could put two boys
in regular positions on the Princeton
eleven next fall. 1t would probably
be the first time in the history of the
game that two boys from the District
made the team in big university.
At least two of the big five" elevens
are in for hard struggles tomorrow
Yale and Pennsylvania. The former is
to meet Notre Dame and the latter will
play the Navy Notre Dame has for
several years been one Of the most
powerful teams in the middle west,
while the Navy never falls far short of
the very best.
Notre Dame probably has gotten it.
self into almost top form in order to
school probably would rather win from
the Dark Blue than from any other on
its schedule. 1t is making this the big
game OF its season. and there is no
very best of which it is capable if it is
to win. AS a matter of fact, If Notre
Dame Is as strong as it was year ago
IT ought to be the favorite. defeat
for the Dark Blue will be more ex-
pected than surprising. Notre Danes
offense is certainly further developed
than that of Yale. while its defense
also so, PROBABLY ABLY mas W,, been given more
of its form about the time it meets
Harvard. November 81. but Notre Dame
is more than likely at its best right
ern eleven has in that superiority of
development and physical condition
Twill figure largely in the result
. | Inc navy Is playing Off its own field
for the first time in its history. with
the exception of the contests that have
taken place on foreign gridirons with
the Army. That it is playing on other
ground than its own is not likely to
affect the work of the Sailors. though
because If there was ever a set of fell
lows with real grit and nerve they are
at the Naval Academy.
Pennsylvania has not been showing
such form this season as would enti
tie it to the honor of prediction that
it should be the victor over the Mid
, shipmen. If anything, judging on the
, comparative work Of the two elevens
the ouakers are in for a defeat. Il
. currence for the Navy to win BY two
| touchdowns OF more. 1t was a rather
popular misconception that the NAVY
would be weak this season because it
J lost one or two stars of the 1918 team.
, but such is far from being the case
!, The Navy is very little weaker, if any.
than 1t was year ago. to Judge by
the opinions expressed by competent
authorities
Princeton may not have an easy time
defeating the Lafayette eleven. The