Evening star., 1916-10-15
BY n. G. BYRD.


next Saturday. Georgetown goes to
Haverhill, Mass. to meet Dartmouth in
game which is not going to be child's
play. Catholic Universitys eleven ap-
pears at villanova in its annual Cruel
ing test with that team. Virginia and
Georgia are to face at Charlottesville
| in one Of the big southern battles OF
the year. The Virginia Military 1nstf-
tute meets Maryland State at College
Park and Johns Hopkins has Get
| tysburg for its opponent in Baltimore
| OF chief interest among. these con-
tests will be Georgetown's with Dart
mouth. This meeting will be inter-
sectional, one of the few in which the
south meets the north. Notwithstand-
ing the defeat of the Blue and Gray
by the Navy, nobody doubts for an in
slant that there Is strong eleven
wearing those colors. And Dartmouth's
62-to-o victory yesterday over the
Massachusetts, Agricultural College is
indicative of what the Hilltoppers may
sterling backfield will find Its match In
| that of Dartmouth. as the big green
eleven is said to be possessed OF some
ground gamers OF exceptlonal cie'ef
ness.
Virginia barely won from Georgia
last year, and this fall the latter Is not
going to be against anything IKE as
| powerful organization virginia
this season is much less strong than II
quently should stand better chance
to win. The foot ball season for that
| team would be a success II vctory
could be obtained over the Orange and
would rather defeat than Virginia
The Virginia Military Institute leaves
Lexington to come to College Park for
combat with Maryland State: In the
three games already played the Lex
ingtonians have rolled up many points.
In their opening contest two weeks
| ago they defeated Hampden-Sldn by
| IS to o; the Saturday following that
they won from William and Mary by
| 66 to 0, and yesterday Gallaudet went
down before them by "a to 0. Such
scores as these are indicative OF real
power and clearly show that the state
eleven, despite its splendid showing
| in the Dickinson and Navy games. VIII
v. NJ T. in past years has played much
better foot ball than the Marylanders.
While the Maryland State team is tus-
| sling with V. NJ. l.. at College ParK, 1ts
be having any walkaway by any means
| being scheduled to meet Gettysburg Get
tysburg trounced George Washington
Yesterday by 20 to 0. Last year Hop
kins met Gettysburg when the latter
team was somewhat crippled and won
by 81 to s. Gettysburg will be on the
watch for the Baltimoreans this season,
though, and the shedding for the latter
is not likely to be SO easy
ington and Gallaudet will not be very
hard, The former entertafns Western
MARYLAND College and the latter makes a
trip to Chestertown to meet Washing
ton College. Whether or not George
Va ashington and Gallaudet will be able
| to win Is hard to conjecture but nelther
| of the two teams they are to meet is
very strong.
| harder time beating the Villanova
! team this week than last year. and
even then the game was barely won py
| s to G. The aforementioned has been
| n1ayine pretty good foot ball. although
it seems to be somewhat below its 1915
| standard. c. U. will take a team up
there little weaker than that which
| it put on the field a year ago. but
which should give good account OF
| itself.
| Princeton got about all it was look
| ing for when 1t met Tufts yesterday.
| The Tigers barely emerged from the
| fray victors, the score being to O..
| The character of the play put up by
the Medford eleven proved that its vic
! tory over Harvard week ago from
| Yesterday was not fuke or chance.
| Tufts this season is possessed of ex-
| cellent material, perhaps better than
| any other secondary college In the
! country possesses. The backfield is ex-
! perienced, clever and powerful and the
| line is worthy of the respect of any
| set of forwards it may face.
| PENNSYLVANIA got more than it bar
gained for when it met the Swarth
more eleven. losing by 0 to s. The
ers" more of chunk than they could
bite, making the second big team to
meet defeat at the hands of much
smaller institution on consecutive Sat-
humbled bv Tufts. and yesterday 1t
| was Penn downed by Swarthmore. 1t
was predicted that the aforementioned
| would give Penn about all it was look
a little more. Incidentally. victory
! is appreciated no more by the STU
| dents of any institution than those at
| Swarthmore when one is obtained over
| Pennsylvania.
Gallaudet's showing at Lexington
against the Virginia Military Institute
| yesterday indicates that it is not as
| thought Either Gallaudet is a whole
| lot weaker than it has been in past
seasons or the Virginia Military Insti-
| tute has a team much better than the
| average. ProDab'v edcn cOndlt1On Is
| somewhat true. V. M. I. has a better
| combination than usual. according to
reports. which seem borne out by ac-
| tua1 performances on the field. while
| Gallaudet is not up to it's average
| standard of the last four years. The
| natural result of that was a decisive
| victory for the Lexington institution.
| Chicago must have progressed a great
deal within the last week. Seven days
| ago from yesterday it was defeated in
its opening by an almost unheard-of
institution, but yesterday 1t had de-
veloped sufficiently to beat the Uni
| versity of Indiana by % to 0. Such a
reversal of form speaks well, too, for
the work of Stagg, the Chicago coach.
ANY time man pulls his squad to-
eether like that he Is deserving of all
kinds of credit And, also, 1t is worthy
of note that Stiehm, the coach who
made such a great reputation at the
University of Nebraska, and who is
now at Indiana. lost his opening game
as director of the latter's foot ball
destinies.
| A rude Jolt to middle western foot
| ball resulted from the visit of Colgate
to Urbana, Ill, to meet the University
of Illinois. Illinois has been supreme
in middle western foot ball almost ever
since Zuppke took charge, and IL was
not expected In that section that Col
gate would be strong enough to win.
/ However, it did win. and decisiyely.
| too.
Just what can be done against 81
| strong team that is somewhat over
lconfideut was shown Yesterday ty tho