Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-05
BY n. c. BYRD.

The Georgetown foot ball squad
leaves here tomorrow for Its annual
election day game with Fordham IN
New York. The Blue and Gray Will
hold practice on the Hilltop about noon
and leave for Gotham late in the after
noon Thirty-three players are TO De
taken on the trip, and, besides tnese'
the team will be accompanied by MAIL
ager Egan, Graduate Manager Cox,
PHYSICAL Director O'Reilly and Coach
Exendine-
The Blue and Gray should win from
Fordham. Its showing in the previous
part of the season has been such as To
indicate an almost certain victory II
the two eIevens play according 10 the
form that has characterized their WORK
in the games that already have taken
place Fordham has not made near as
good a record this season as George
town. The Gothamites have no Victory
such as the Blue and Cray won over
dartmouth. and have rolled up no such
scores as those that have resulted from
some of the contests in which the Hill
toppers have emerged easy Nlctoas
Here is what Graduate Manager COX
had to say concerning prospects LOT
the game with Fordham:
We NAV not win from Fordham, but
we are going to New York to do just tnat-
We know practically everything IN the
way of offense that Fordham has and our
first team has been taught a deteilse
against the plays by being compelled 10
stop them against the scrubs we are
going to take big squad so tnat we VIII
have plenty of men in case of an emer-
eeucy of any kind. ] don't want some
thing to come up in the game demanding
the services of certain man ana nave
that man down here in Washington. We
are looking for hard game. Fordham
has strong, veteran backfleld and ought
to play good foot ball. We expect TO
win. but not without the hardest kind OF
a fight
As a matter of fact, Georgetown ought
TO win from Fordham by a fairly good
margin. II the Blue and Gray plays as
we'll against Fordham as 1t did against
Dartmouth and Albright the result OF
the contest should never be in doubt Tor
a moment.
The Blue and Gray has two games this
week. After meeting Fordham Tuesday
the squad will return here ana may the
West Virginia Wesleyan eleven SATURDAY
on the hilltop. The West Nirginians are
| not very strong. but should put up an
interesting game. Calac. former Carlisle
indian star, is holding down a place in the
backfeld and the other members OF fha
| team are said to be capable However,
| " is to be compared on even terms with
Georgetown
| What is sure to be one of the hardest
| fought games that have ever been
| pIayed here will take place Saturday,
| when Catholic University and Mary
land State meet. The Brookfanders
have a heavier combination than state.
the advantage in weight being in the
| backfeld. There probably is little diff
| ference in the avoiriupos of the two
sets of forwards. The Two elevens
fought through three periods last sea
son without either scoring. but in the
fourth period the Brooklanders got
two touchdowns and a safety. The
showing of c. L. against V NJ l. in
dicates that there is not much differ
ence in the strength of c. L. and Mary
| land State. though the former has
seemed to be much better. c. L. fought
| through the first half against Lehigh
| to tie score, the score at the halfway
mark being to Z.
Down at Lexington yesterday the
Brooklanders won 16 to IA game,
which is cause for believing that there
must have been quite a struggle before
the decision was reached. The Mary
| land State eleven won from V. NJ. l.
two weeks ago by Is to 9. and. allow
ing for the fact that V. NJ. |. was harder
for c. l.. to beat, in view of the con-
test taking place at Lexington, than il
was for the Marylanders- the result
of the games seems to show that
splendid struggle should take place
when c. L. hooks up with the Mary
landers.
GallauCiet goes down to Roanoke this
week fo~ a game with Roanoke Col
lege. The Kendall Greeners will he up
against a tough proposition and proba
bly, will be lucky if they can win.
George Washington is to play East
! ern College. and, judging by what the
Manassas team has done so far. should
get the long end of the score without
much trouble. The Hatchetites will
find little more opposition in meeting
Eastern College than if they were OPP
posed to a good high school team, I'M
less Eastern appears with a better
combination than that it placed against
Georgetown.
OF the big university teams playing
Yesterday only two had anything like
hard games Yale was driven to do its
best to win from Colgate, and Cornell
found the Carnegie Tech eleven about
as hard nut TO crack as 1t cares to go
G. against lust at this time. Yale barely
won from Colgate, getting a victory by
: to 8 and scoring the touchdown after
Colgate had led by field goal for
quite awhile. Colgate had Yale on the
defensive early in the contest. Cornell
got what it probably wanted--a test
that would force it's team to do its best
to win.
Princeton trounced Bucknell by AZ TO
O. The Tigers did just as they were
expected, the Pennsylvanians not af-
fordng them much opposition. The
predictions as to the game were that
Princeton should win by just about as
big a margin as it pleased. Harvard
handed Virginia another beating. send
ing the Orange and Blue down on the
short end of a 81 to U score. The only
element of doubt that this game at
forded was the probable size of the
score. Pennsylvania easily won from
Lafayette, Pittsburgh beat Allegheny
College by As to and Penn State
handed Geneva College a 7S-to-0 acing
ing.
The result of the game between Geor-
sia Tech and Tulane University does
not speak very well for the latter's
chance against Georgetown in the
post-season game at New Orleans on
december 9. Georgia Tech beat Tulane
by As to 0. Georgetown probably will
wipe up the g1dron with Tulane in
pretty much the same way it served
at So voc