Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-26
WESTERNS TEAM
MAY Be SURPRISE
Red and White Eleven More
Powerful Than Is Gen.
orally Supposed.
STARTS ITS CONTESTS
TODAY AGAINST EASTERN
Should Begin Season With Victory
Over Light Blue and White.
Other Gossip.
BY n. c. BYRD.

Western, which plays it's first game in
the high school foot ball series today,
may prove the surprise of the season.
Not many have conceded the Red and
White much of chance for the cham
pionship, yet it Is a fact that it will be
represented by one of the heaviest and
fastest elevens among the schools.
Eastern, the team scheduled to meet
Western, should not prove strong
enough to win. The Light Blue and
White is sure to have great difficulty
gaining ground, and the probabilities
are that the Georgetown youngsters
will get the margin more easily than
the average high school game is won.
There may be an upset, because 1t is
well realized that high school teams
may take any turn in their play. How
ever. if Western does as well as it is
capable Of nothing need be looked for
but a victory.
After the tie between Business and
Tech Western has grand opportunity
to win the championship. The Red and
White must defeat Business and Tech
nical to do that, which is very diff
cult task, but Business and Tech hav-
ing been in tie game are easier to
dispose of than one of them would
have been had it gotten a. victory. Not
much has been said about Western,
but it Is a well known fact that the
team has been held back considerably,
strength. 1t is heavy and capable,
much more so than the followers of
scholastic foot ball think.
The contest will take place on
Georgetown field, and is to start at
o'clock.
Yales defeat at the hands Of Wash
ington and Jefferson in such a decisive
manner was not expected and there is
just cause for gloom on the Dark Blue
campus. There is hitch somewhere
at Yale, but nobody seems to know
just what it is. One man, whose con-
nection there would entitle him to
know, it would seem, says that the
whole situation resolves itself into a
lack of material because so many of
the players are ineligible. 1t is stated
that there is playing at Yale every day
a team of ineligibles which is far above
the present varsity in potential
strength AS a matter of fact, in the
scrimmages in which the varsity meets
these players, so it is reported, the var
sity usually gets wiped up with the
utmost ease. If the men under faculty
ban were eligible to represent the Dark
ent story at the end of the games in
which the varsity is now taking the
short end of the scores, If certain
statements are to be taken at their face
value.
The victory of Cornell over Harvard
was not so much unexpected. The
1tbacans were conceded to have pretty
much OF an even chance against the
Crimson. 1t must not be thought,
though. that Harvard has not a power
ful eleven because of its defeat. The
team as a whole is one of great capa-
biiity, according to those who watched
the play. and has not yet reached its
top form by any means. Harvard
misses the stars 1t lost by graduation
last spring, but II anybody figures that
Yale and Princeton are going to have
1t easy against the Crimson because of
the defeat by Cornell they are pretty
sure to find themselves relieved of that
idea in November.
Cornell has perhaps the strongest
foot ball combination that has ever
represented It, The team is heavy, fast
and well developed. Its backs are
is to be feared no matter what kind of
an aggregation it is opposed to.
Gallaudet came through in the game
with the Indian Reserves Saturday, and
won by a score which is indicative of
the real power back of the Kendall
Green eleven when it is exerted. The
Buff and Blue now figures it will go
through the remaining part of its
schedule with more than the ordinary
success.
Judging by the comparative results
OF the play of the two teams, Yale is
not likely to get a chance to break its
string of defeats at the hands of sec
ondary teams this week Colgate is to
appear at New Haven, and if the show
ing of that eleven in comparison to the
work done by Yale is to be taken as
true criterion as to what the result of
the contest will be then there appears
but the faintest ray of hope for the
latter. Colgate won from the army
has scored more than 200 points, and
has not yet had its goal line crossed:
Yale has been defeated by Virginia
and Washington and Jefferson, barely
won from Lehigh by a single point
and its scoring has been almost of a
character in relation to that
done by Colgate. That Dark Blue
squad may find itself some day, but
right now there does not appear to be
very much chance for it to accomplish
a great deal this season. Unless things