The Washington times., 1916-10-26
SCORE TOTALS MAY
Be BIG IN SERIES
CentraI's Largest Win Record
ed IN Recent Years in
Scholastic Title Games.
BY BRYAN MORSE.

Football scores In the high school
championship series this year may as
sumo larger proportions than usual.
judging from Tuesdays Western Cen
trail score. In past seasons none Of the
teams have been better than two, or
at most three. touchdowns better than
their opponents. Central's total Tues
day was the largest scored in the past
three years.
For the past two seasons the high
school elevens have proven unusually
clever on defense and woefully lack king
on the offense. Touchdowns have been
few and far between. Last year there
were no less than three tie games In
the title series. two 0-to-0 scores, and
one 6-to-6 battle being recorded.
Techs champion eleven last year fail
ed to do better than three touchdowns
In any one OF Its four gamee. and was
scored upon. Business gained wins
twice, but not by margin OF more than
two touchdowns. Yeays back found the
ming game. Scores OF fifty and sixty
points were not uncommon. and as
FAR back as four years ago Central
rolled up sixty-one points against the
Western eleven.
BY taking advantage OF Western
mistakes Central managed to grab off
three touchdowns. Two OF them were
earned through alertness. while the 9th
er was the result of straight football.
Tomorrow's battle is expected to be "A
foregone conclusion with Tech on the
long end of the score.
Tech should win by a big margin.
which will start off the series with two
big marks 10 shoot at. Both Western
elevens In the scholastic series. play In
| the first two games. The real big
| struggle OF the series is the Central
Business clash, slated after the Eastern.
IT, 80 NwNA Tat
be waged next Tuesday and host OF
followers will be on hand to see what
| will happen.
Central will make far better per-
Torrance in its next game than II did
Tuesday. With one game In the bag,
and the timidlty of green players some
| what worn of the Dark Blue Is expected
to find its real power against business
| Central Is known to be equipped with
good many ground gaining plays. For.
| ward passes will play an important part
| In the proceedings, as the Chaplin street
lads have number of good heaHes con-
| cealed in their repertory.
| CentraTs line will stand bit more
lacking up and with a little faster foot
| work In the backfield should develop q
| deal OF power. Strohecker, Guy and
Gottlleb are playing their first season
| in high school football and can be
| counted upon TO improve.
| The real problem at Business SENS
to be the development OF dependable
line. MacDonald's playing in center last
| season left nothing TO be desired. The
] loss OF Derrick. counted as one or the
/ spcediest backs in the series last season
| left Coach White without a piunger, and
! Macdonald was substituted as fullback
! His loss in the line has been felt as re.
ports have the Orange and Blue for
wards weak on defense
Tech, as usual. will have the heaviest
| team in the series. Coach Farmer is eX
| pecting TO present as powerful "a tenn
as the manual trainers ever put on this
field Clarence r. HecoN. former coach
| al Tech, has been lending helping
hand 10 Coach Farmer with the result
that the players have been driven harder
| than they expected to be. This has pu
| a lot Of vigor in the Tech offense and
! defense as was in evidence In the recent
| defeat OF the Baltimore Polys.
| Westerns team. which went into tn,
game Tuesday. was the llghtest tina
has represented the school since 1896
| The boys were weighed in before tn,
game az follows: West, left end 1876
| willis, left tackle. 156: Groves. lef
| guard, l2s: McKelway, center. 1872; Fen
| wick, pight guard. liS; Davidson. righ
tackle. 1874; Hume. right end. 1870
| O'Brlen. quarterback. 1879; Simpson
right halfback. la; Wight. left half