The Washington herald., 1915-01-17
Chances Are Slim
For Football Game,
Between Old Rivals
Lack of Interest in Sports
Likely to Rob Local
Fans of Classic.
OTHER ATHLETIC GOSSIP
By NAT T. woRLEY. .

Lack of student support. up to the
present time. renders the introduction
of football at George Washington Uni
yersity practically impossible according
10 Prof. Leslie c. McNemar, faculty dI-
rector of athletics at the downtown in
stitution.
This virtually means that the Hatchet-
ties, owing TO the lack of school spirit
among the students and alumni, must
pass up the grandest chance to recoup
lost athletic honors they have had since
the historic break with Georgetown ten
years ago. 1t means that the empty
athletic Golfers Of the Buff and Blue
will remain empty for sometime to come,
and that the ripe harvest of loose change
which would come rolling in at the gate
should Georgetown and George Wash
ington clash, must remain in the poCk-
cts Of those willing and anxious to spend
With athletic affairs in the District
in a chaotic condition, and with George
town without a logical rival to take
Virginia's place on the schedule, the
Hatch onseetitwnpavsh rs-stOw TO, Ike
Hatchetites now have the opportunity
. 10 step in and retrieve their past re-
verses on the sporting map, but the
students must come across with the nec-
essary support or nothing can be done.
students ThemseIves to Blame.
Prof. McNemar, 1.-THE students friend"
as he is popularity known, has nearly
exhausted every possible means at his
command to wake up the sleeping stu
dent body and extract the money needed
to bring success. He has promised the
faculty that he will be responsible finan-
cially for athletics at the university this
year, and he has devoted all of his spare
time pulling for George Washington in
the field of sports, but thus far out Of
. !. 700 students enrolled not more than 10
per cent have responded to the call for
help, and some of those had to be begged.
coaxed and buIlied before they fell into
!, line.
Georgetown, according to the best in
formation at the writer's command, is
willing to forget the past and meet the
Hatchetites halfway toward wiping out
past differences. Already basketball |
games have been arranged between the :
IilItoppers and the Buff and Blue outfit, |
and il is understood Georgetown will en-
ter a large number of men in the George !
Washington track met. Farther than
this il is impossible for Georgetown to |
go, and now the proposition is put square
ly Up to George Washington to grab the
chance or lose 1t.
Athletic tickets can be purchased for
the paltry sum Of s. About 125 have been |
paid for and about fifty more have been
sold at this time. About $500 must be |
obtained If football is to be revived at |
George Washington, and about Sl,26o re-
mains to be raised, so it is plain as day |
TO a one-eyed man that unless a miracle |
happens Georgetown and George Wash |
ington will not meet on the gTidiron next |
fall.
Leo c. Terry, financial secretary of the |
George Washington University Athletic |
Association, is about ready to go of to |
vacant lot and give up the ghost
S'The outlook is not bright said Mr.. |
Terry to the writer. Il honestly believe |
that college spirit is dormant in most Of
the students, but it is proving a much
harder task to arouse it than I thought
possible, and the year is rapidly passing.
Unless something is accomplished very
soon, we will be mighty lucky to get
through the year without piling up an
other athletic debt.
IF athletics are done away with at the
they will be unless the
students arouse themselves at once
there will be no one to blame but the
ones who have stood back and refused
their support at the time when we need
Il most.
The students must Immediately re-
spond to the appeals that have been made
or all hopes of a football team next year,
and probably for any other year, must
be abandoned.
Il have heard several assertions that
il was not possible TO have all forms Of