Evening star., 1916-11-27
GEORGETOWN ELEVEN TO PLAY
G. W. u. FIRST GAME SINCE 1907
Contest Between the Two Local Univer-
stiles Deserves Support-Maryland State
to Meet Hopkins In Baltimore

Jones, who within the short space of
two months has resurrected Yale 5
gridiron powers:
Harvard foot ball of the last few
years means Haughton. Into the ears
of n Brickley, a Mahan. Casey. the
shouts of the thousands have dinned.
but it took a Houghton to note the
capa biiities of these men and to bring
them to the highest possible efficiency.
while building around them the power
full machines of recent autumns
And so with Yale foot ball 1t
means today Tad Jones There's glory
For the mighty Capt. Black, for Legore.
Neville. La Roche and Gates; but every
Yale cheer that arose from the stadium
at Princeton or the bowl at New Haven
for these players or others. or for the
team as a whole, carried touch of
praise and gratitude to the quiet man
who has wrought all this-and done it
in :, few brief months.
Early last February it was that
heodore \. II. Jones. '0S, Sheffield Id
Scientific School, was formally called
upon to become the Moses who should
lead-if way were found-the dis
mantled gridron hosts of Yale into the
promised land from which they had
been SO long banished. Jones had been
4 great player, and had proved himself.
in four years of energetic ard SIccN S.
ful work with the schoolboys at ENt ter,
an able coach. His coming gave new
neart and renewed optimism TO Yale
men everywhere, but the optimism was
| Il long-term draft on tn" bank of the
future. Nobody expected Tad Jones to
! accomplish the miraculous. All that
! was really anticipated was that in the
course of n few SeaSonS-three or four.
| perfaps-he might. if he proved to
have the capacity for foot BAH leader
! ship highly developed. rehaoilitate Yale
| fortunes IN this respect ard bring her
! from her founderings in the mora IS
| TO the firm ground of a notable stand :
! ing upon the gridiron. other great
! leaders had needed several seasons TO
! attain the desired end. And 50 would
Jones, if he had been reasonable.
! But he was unreason2 Die. From the
/ outset of the squads assembling in the
gymnasium. he preached to its mem
4 hers the doctrine that this vas the sea
son for the great CONE -back--that 1910
| Vas the proper Year to revenge four
successive humiliating beatinGs at the
| hands Of Harvard And he made them
go out and do it when the time came.
THE triumph of Yale on Saturday was
| in a peculiar way the personal triumph
of Tad Jones--a triumph unprecedented
in many respects on the barred field.
| Catholic University and Gallaudet
| ended their sea sons last Saturday. The
| Brooklanders lost to West Virginia
| University and Kendall Greeners drop
| ped their game with Forlham. Much
| of the rather poor showing during the
| closing days of the season was due 10
| Playing through hard schedules. bot n
elevenS naturally found themselves
/ without the services of some OF their
! star players, because of injuries, aud
! there We're no capable men to MI their
! places.
! Both teams had good coaching, but no
matter what the caliher of instruction,
a foot ball squad without good sub
| stitutes capable of beating such teams
| as those played by G. L. and Gallaudet
I cannot be developed Catholic Univer-
/ sity's one-sided defeat at the hands OF
| West Virginia may look bad at hrsf
! glance, but when 1t is considered that
the local university had a team that
| was half substitutes against an institu-
| tion that held Dartmouth to a to
| tie it is an entirely different PROPOSE
| ton.
| winning a game this year that would
! have given it quite a record, to judge
| by scores it might have used to COM
pare itself favorably with many teams
| State lost to Haverford by the margin
| of a single point. to Z, and here Is
| what Haverford can get by comparing 6
| scores: Haverford beat Swarthmore
| Swarthmore beat Pennsylvania, Penn
| sylvania beat Michigan, Michigan beat
| Syracuse, Syracuse beat Tufts. Tufts
| beat Harvard, Harvard beat Princeton
and Princeton beat Dartmouth. Haver-
! ford cannot be blamed If it does swell
1 up some over that comparison, ned n
| 1ngless though 1t is. Haverford has a
, rine team. It's backfeld is wonderfully
! clever in pretty near everything that
can be done on a foot ball field. The
| quartet behind the Haverford line is
| particularly capable in dropkickine
| and forward passing, two factors
| which count for many scores in mod
| ern foot bali.
Perhaps there has been no greater
| upset this year than that which oc-
| CURED in Baltimore last Saturday
/ when Hopkins went down to defeat
before the St. Johns eleven. Hopkins
| bad team much heavier than the An
| napolitans. but 1t lacked the ginger
seeming to be particularly overbur-
dened by weighty considerations of
their own worth-overconfiden AT
that. though, every break of the game
was against Hopkins, and it should
have won.