Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-18
BY H. c. BYRD.

There are more good backs playing
on foot ball teams in this section than
usual. The abundance of backfield ma
terial is especially noteworthy, there
hardly being a team which does not
possess at least one man much better
than the ordinary. AS q ma after CT fact.
there are more good men behind the
lines than in them, despite the greater
number playing the forward positions.
Georgetown is more plentifully en-
dowed with backs than any other in
stitution. No eleven in the south can
boast of as capable a quartet as that
which does the ground gaining for the
Blue and Gray Wall. Gilroy, McQuade
and Maloney, form a combination that
is brilliant in the extreme. Each is able
to run with the ball. Gilroy and Nc
Quade particularly being among the
best of those in the secondary col
leges in this department of play.
Those who have watched the George
town team in action this year and last
cannot help but have realized the eff
fectiveneSS of these men as individuals
and together
Gallaudet has one good man, Marshall
being much better than usually is
found in colleges of that class. Mar
and he directs the play of the team.
There are a lot of clever backs at c.
L. Just how good the material for the
Brooklanders' backfield is cannot be
better demonstrated than in mention
ing the fact that Glascott, star player
at the Catholic High School of Phila-
delphia last season and all-scholastic
halfback for Philadelphia, has thus far
failed to make regular position. But
Ter, Shortley and Rogers are mighty
good men, and probably could win
position on most any eleven in the sec
ton. Probably neither could displace
man in the Georgetown backfield, but
there is not another eleven to which
either of the trio would not add con-
aiderable strength. All are fine ground
PainerS, Butler is a splendid defensive
man and Shortley punts, handles puntS
and directs his team exceedingly well.
Hefferman and Hills of George Wash
ington are not poor performers by any
means. The former was member of
the Syracuse freshman eleven last sea-
son and the latter captain and star full
one could find much worse backs than
those that have been making touch
downs for that eleven.
Virginia's backfield is not quite so
good as that of year ago. but even
now 1t has one or two players above
the ordinary. Down at the University
of North Carolina there is back bet
ter than any individual who has worn
us ColoTS III IL long Nnlle-folPef- nat
player was the star Of the South Caro-
lima University backfield last season
and northern critics praised him much
for his fine work against Harvard early
this year
Washington and Lee notwithstanding
that it lost Barrett. has one of the best
halfbacks in the south in Young. If
there is anything on the foot ball field
that Young cannot do ii has yet to be
discovered. He punts mighty well, car
rio he hal hrilI is
fensive player. and is about two-thirds
of Washington and Lees offense right
now.
In speaking of halfbacks, there is a
man playing on q small college team
in the western part of Maryland who
is good in the real sense of the word
If he were at one of the bigger schools
instead of Western Maryland College
he would be ranked among the top
notch men of the south. His name is
Garrett. and in carrying the ball and
on the defense too much cannot be said
about him.
over at Johns Hopkins there is TIL
lett. who used to be a star at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. TilIett is
being hailed the best Quarterback
hat ever stood in shoe leather in a
college in Maryland, if newspaper re-
ports from Baltimore are to be be-
lieved. Down at V. NJ. ]. Leech and
helms are starring, and Y. L. l. and
two or three other institutions have
men they rate as beng better tHah
heir usual run of players. Any back
field selection for an all-star team this
year will be sure to receive lot of
criticism.
Whether Yale is defeated today by
Princeton, there is one aIumnus of that
institution who thinks the Dark Blue
has made a big step forward this fall,
and estimates the team TO be stronger
than for years. Here is this graduates
opinion, as expressed il New York
paper:
The present team has accomplished
more than any other seen at Yale In
modern foot bali history. The team
started out after seven years of defeat
and one of Discrimination. 1t con-
tanned no stars whatever. Its spirit
has kept it uD. 1t had to be keyed up