Evening star., 1915-11-12
BY a. c. BYRD.

The showing Georgetown makes to-
morrow will do much to determine its
standing in the south Atlantic division
this season. OF course, the widening
of the schedules and the failure of
many of the representative elevens to
play has almost caused the breaking
up of the old south Atlantic dispute.
However, the Blue and Gray's contest
with A. and NJ. will give a comparative
line on it and Washington and Lee,
which seems to rank with Georgetown
and Virginia as the most powerful COM
binations. A and NJ. meets Washington
and Lee Thanksgiving day at Norfolk.
Georgetown is preparing to make a
big demonstration at tomorrow's game,
the law school students showing more
of an interest in the game than usual.
AT mass meeting last night speeches
were made by the representatives of the
various classes. Coach Exendine. Grad
uate Manager Cox and others The net
result is that there will be big pa
rade tomorrow from the law school to
the field
Georgetown will be against a strong
team-A. and Ms victory over the
Navy is sufficient assurance of that.
put IL also is powerful, and If it fails
to win A. and NJ will have to be
stronger and more consistent than in
its previous battles. The Carolina
eleven undoubtedly is capable, but it
VIII race the most powerful combina-
tion 1t has been against this season.
II Virginia fails to win from Caro-
INA Thanksgiving day by a larger
score than Georgetown did and if the
Hllltoppers can take the measure of
the A and NJ. eleven and thereby COM
r IL
Washington and Lee. then there will be
a tangible basis on which Georgetown
can lay claim to the southern cham
plonship. By comparative scores-the
only present method of judging the
strength of the teams-the Blue and
Cray will seem stronger than Wander
oilt and Georgia and Virginia if the
results OF the remaining contests are
favorable to the local university.
Last year the game between A. & NJ
and there was very little difference in
the play of the two elevens. A. & NJ
is said to be somewhat stronger now
and SO is Georgetown, the latter con-
the game, some good foot ball should
be seen. If Georgetown plays the kind
of foot ball it did against Fordham,
though, it should win.
One game tomorrow which is not go
ing to attract great deal of atten-
tion here, yet would be worth going
many miles to see, is that between
Syracuse and Colgate. The latter has
not yet been scored on and has VIC
tories to it's credit over Yale and the
Army as it's best efforts, and the former
is not a weak com bination by any
means, having won from Michigan.
played Princeton to 0 to score and
defeated Mount Union last week by 72
to 0. Incidentally. the contest will
serve to give better line on the final
rank of Colgate than any other. as a
direct line will be secured through
CornelFs and Syracuse's games with
Michigan.
Two intersectional contests are to be
played, Washington and Lee being
booked to appear at Ithaca against
Cornell and the University of Michigan
against Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.
Washington and Lee, while it may put
up hard fight against Cornell, is not
likely to do more than make good
showing, while the game between Penn
and Michigan is not as attractive as
usual because of the poor showing of
each eleven. Michigan has been beaten
by Michigan Aggies, Syracuse and Cor
nell, while Penn has succumbed to La
fayette, Dartmouth, Penn State and
Carlisle Indians. Except for the direct
followers of the two institutions, the
contest is not going to arouse great
deal of enthusiasm. Years have been
when the Penn-Mlch1Ran game was a
big event. but this season 1t is hardly
being considered.
Not much more is to be said about
the Yale-Princton battle. 1t is simply
up to Princeton to show that it can
play in the form displayed against
Dartmouth in a game in which the
other players are wearing big blue
jerseys. Princeton has proved itself
stronger eleven all season than Yale
and il behooves it prove that su-
periority in actual combat tomorrow.
Incidentally. the contest tomorrow is
the last on the Princeton schedule, and
a victory will give the Tigers the best