Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-04
VIRGINIA TO FACE
WORTHY OPPONENT
Will Confront Hard Task in e.
fort to Defeat Vanderbilt
University Team.
CLEMSON is TO TACKLE
NORTH CAROLINA ELEVEN
Only Foot Ball Games of Importance
Scheduled in South Atlantic
Section for Saturday.
BY n. c. BYRD.

Only two foot ball games Of real
importance are scheduled in the south
Atlantic section for Saturday. The
biggest contest of the year is that
which Is to take place at Charlottes-
vile between Virginia and Vanderbilt.
and the only other game which will
have a bearing on the final rating of
the first-class teams is that in which
the University of North Carolina Is to
go against Clemson Agricultural Col
lege.
The Observation-Disclosures contest is
arousing a great deal more interest
in Washington than usual. 1t will have
a direct bearing on the championship
of the south, and if the. Virginia eleven
can finish with the big end of the
score it will be able to claim cham
pionship honors for the entire south.
and there will be none to dispute the
right except Georgetown. Hundreds
of foot ball enthusiasts. and followers
OF Virginia especially. are to leave
Washington Saturday morning to at
tend the contest, their interest being
keen from a general and directly in
terested standpoint.
Vanderbilt has well developed, strong
eleven 1t is powerful enough to war
rant prediction that it is going to give
Virginia hard battle, much harder than
one would naturally expect, unless the
latter shows better form than it did
against the University of Georgia. Both
elevens are heavy and well balanced,
though Virginia has the advantage in
having played much bigger schools. Van
derbtit has run up a large total Of points
and has not yet been scored on Virginia
has had it's goal line crossed, though
neither Harvard nor Yale was able to ac-
compiish that feat.
The game between Clemson and North
Carolina will not have direct bearing
on the championship. but will be worth
while In determining the relative stand
ing of the big teams at the end of the
year. Neither Clemson nor North Caro-
lima is likely to be as strong as Virginia
or Vanderbilt at any time during the
season.
the Washington College eleven,
which Is to meet the Maryland Aggies
at College Park Saturday, may or may
not offer great deal of opposition to
the Farmers. That team was defeated
by Johns Hopkins by 81 to 6. but it
generally managed to brace sufficiently
every year to give the Farmers a
battle. Last year after the Aggies had
trounced the strongest teams in the
state series they got a fierce battle at
the hands of the Washington team and
barely won out in the last few minutes
when they kicked a field goal.
Saturdays game may be a repetition
Of the affair Of a year ago The Farm
ers expect to win because they think
they have better team than that
which represents the eastern shore In
stitution. but they are not going to
take chances of losing by being over
confident.
The game Catholic University had
scheduled with Mount st. Mary's Col
lege for Saturday has been Cancelled
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for the action was given other than
that the team was not in good enough
condition to meet the Brooklanders
Catholic University is now without a
thorities are making strenuous at
tempts to arrange for contest.
The st. Adams eleven is to play one
Of its most important games with out-of-
town teams Saturday. when 1t goes
against the eleven from Gilman Country
School Of Baltimore at Satterlee Field.
The Episcopalians are expecting some
thing of battle from the Baltimoreans.
as the latter have been making quite
record against elevens In Maryland.
Shank, who is playing fullBack for the
Maryland Aggies, is one of the quietest
fellows that ever put on a foot ball suit.
He never says anything about himself
and less about foot ball. He entered NJ.
to make good in the backfield at fullback.
as the Farmers needed heavy man to
take the place Of Hindman. who was in
jured at Catholic University. Shank
showed more knowledge of play behind
the line than one would naturally at
tribute to a lineman and a former gradu-
ate of the college who was watching the
practice remarked that Shank must have
had some experience in the backfield
somewhere. He had all right. because
upon inquiry it developed that he played
halfback on the University Of Illinois
freshman eleven and did some mighty
good work there, too.
Gallaudet, Saturday. is to oppose the
strongest eleven it will face this sea
son, being scheduled to meet the