Evening star., 1916-11-26
BY H. G. BYRD.


post-season games. the foot ball season
will end with the playing Of the
Thanksgiving day contests. While the
series between Yale. Harvard and
Princeton is ended and the Army and
Navy struggle has been fought to
decision. by far the most important
gridiron battles in the east, there still
are to be played games of utmost i'm
portance to the teams and the follow
ers of the teams involved.
Two fine elevens will clash at Pitts
| burgh when the Pennsylvania State
College eleven goes to that city to meet
the University of Pittsburgh The Pitt
eleven has made brilliant record. not
having met defeat last year or this. but
if it should drop the coming struggle
to Penn State, the splendid work of the
! previous part Of the season would be
! almost completely nullifed. A defeat
| by Penn State undoubtedly would
| throw Pitt out Of the running for the
championship. Whatever aspirations
the Panther team may have for that
honor would be dissipated by such a
defeat. Certainly Pitt would get scant
consideration for the title if 1t were to
lose to team that had been defeated
by Pennsylvania.
And speaking of Pennsylvania calls to
| mind the fact that the Quakers have on
their hands the most important fight OF
| their whole schedule-that with Cornell.
The 1thacans seem not to have as strong
a team this year as last. their defeat by
a weaker Harvard eleven than was met
in 1915 seeming to be conclusive evidence
of that. AS a matter of fact, it is very
likely that Penn will go into the contest
with the Ithacans the favorite. A victory
fnt nif 6f fhnc INC
year for that team. Cornell undoubtedly
has been bending its energies all season
to develop team strong enough to re-
peat the victories of the last two years,
while Folwell. upon taking charge at
Penn, knew full well that the major
portion of his task was to beat Cornell.
and that to do that was to succeed in
the eyes of every Penn man. And Fol-
well. being Penn man himself. wants,
from a personal standpoint, to hand Cor
nell trimming. Back in Folwelrs day
at Penn Cornells victories over the
Quakers were few and far between.
Here in Washington will be inaugurated.
after a lapse of nine years, the annual
Thanksgiving struggles between George
town and George Washington. This year
Georgetown has by far the stronger team,
though everybody seems to think that the
Hatchetites will spring something of a
surprise. play better foot ball and make
much better showing than is looked for
by those in charge on the Hilltop. In
fact. one of the things on which George
Washington is basng its hopes for a close,
hard contest is that it may catch the
Georgetown players off guard and over
confident. George Washington will place
heavy eleven against Georgetown, but
will not be as versatile and clever The
day the two teams take the field, George
Washington is likely to be near if not
quite. as heavy the Blue and Gray
This game used to be the struggle of
the year. as far as local gridirons were
concerned. and if the Hatchetites can
put out elevens capable of coping sue
Blue and Gray there is no reason why
the games should not again assume a
place of greatest Importance. Wash
ington feels the need of a big game
each year-a struggle to which it may
look forward and in which will be the
color and atmosphere of such meetings
Down at Richmond the University of
North Carolina will have the best
chance that has presented itself in
years to defeat the University of Vir-
ginia. North Carolina has been looking
forward for "A long while to the time
hen it would take the measure of the
Orange and Blue. and certainly it has
been quite while since it appeared to
be SO strong. North Carolina has
proved consistently good in nearly all
ITS games Against Harvard and
Princeton 1t showed much better form
Yale. OF course. North Carolina may
not win. 1t must beat the prestige
won by Virginia through year after
year Of successes and overcome ath-
letes who will be striving to prevent
a North Carolina team doing what
North Carolina teams for years failed
to accomplish.
over in Baltimore the Maryland state
College meets Johns HOPKINS J-niyer-
u has
the feature of foot ball in Maryland A
defeat for Hopkins yesterday by St
Johns. which had previously been
beaten by State, takes something of
the edge off the struggle, though the
defeat for Hopkins is likely to make
that team a harder nut for State to
crack than if St Johns had been de-
feated. Hopkins will outweigh the
gest teams in the south. Despite the
one-sided victory of State over st
Johns. the game with Hopkins is likely
to prove close. hard struggle.
Out at Moreantown the West vir-
ginia University and West Virginia
Wesleyan meet in their annual set-to
The former has much the stronger
team this season and should win cas-
lily. Besides the game at Richmond,
there is another contest in Virginia
which should attract considerable at
tention locally. Virginia Military In
SttuIt anu tne virginia POiytechniC
Institute Will meet at Roanoke Both
teams are good. though the latter has
made the better record so far
A game which should develop some
splendid foot ball is that at Providence
between Brown and Colgate Both
these elevens have been PLAYING re-
markably well this season on the
comparison OF the games each pIayed
with Yale. Brown is somewhat the
stronger However, it will not have
things easy with Colgate. Both eley-
ems are well coached and among the
best in the east
Besides the contests mentioned there
are many other sections in which rival
ries of long standing between team.
will be fought out. In Texas. California
Georgia. South Carolina and Other
states Will be played games of eycen-
tiOnal interest to followers of foot Ia II
in those places.
The Army did the expected again ves-
terday. defeating the Navy for the
fourth consecutive year The game
probably was repetition of the three
previous Army victories "a better
coached and more versatile eleven de-
feating set OF rugged. willing fellows
who were unable to cone with a combi
nation that knew more foot ball and
played more foot ball. 1t had been felt
by many that the Navy might upset pre.
dictions this season and defeat the
Soldiers. but such did not prove TO he
the outcome. With the versatile and
powerful Olinhant leading the attacl, of
the West P int eleven and doing about
everrt hing else any foot hail man cou1d