Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-17

could carry the ball well whenever
called upon. His defensive play and
following of the ball had much to do
with the victory over Dartmouth dur
ing the season just closed.
Besides Manager Egan. the following
men received letters. the varsity &C.:
OConnor Cusack. Mccarthy. Showalter,
Anderson, f. Green, Whelan. Maloney,
Gilroy, McQuade. Wall. Cronin. Zuger,
Ward, Burland. Sanchez, Smeacl. Con-
nell. L. Green. J. sullivan. Supple,
Leighty, J. O'Boyle and H. Sullivan. w.
5. Curtin was elected to the manager
ship for next season.
Many speeches of praise were made
concerning the achievements of the team
Father McDonough. faculty director of
athletics. gave a splendid talk on the
team. its close relation to the college
and the fine way in which each member
of the squad kept up in his scholastic
work and at the same time gave his best
efforts to foot ball. Graduate Manager
Charley Cox. Physical Director O'Reily
and Capt O'Connor spoke ON the team.
me last mentioned bade the members of
the squad farewell in his speech, this
being his last year in college. as he gradu-
ates in the spring.
1t was announced last night that there
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versity of Pittsburgh, that institution
being unable to arrange its dates SO
as to give the Blue and Gray one on
which it could afford TO play a hard
contest. There is possibility that
Brown University will be met October
IL. Negotiations are pending with Sus-
quehanna University and Davidson Col
lege for the opening dates, September
y and September %. The date with the
Navy is set for November 10. and it
nj Oh hot to
possibility the contest may take place
in Washington.
The outlook for the basket ball sea-
son seems to be much better than
usual While there are not likely to be
as many games in which big colleges
appear as have taken place in Some
years gone by. there should be lot
of lively competition between teams of
pretty near the same caliber The high
schools will open their schedules after
Christmas. and all the prep school and
college quints will begin play in earnest
as soon as the players return from vaca-
ton.
Last nights games in which Catho-
lie University, George Washington and
Gallaudet figured. and Friday nights
runaway for Georgetown against
Mount st. Joseph's. indicate that local
college CUNTS will put up some good
basket ball. The high schools are said
to be represented by creditable teams.
and the prep schools also have some
clever combinations. Basket ball this
year should develop along different
lines here. too. the teams being Goa ch-
ed in varying styles of play. Fred Rice
caches Catholic University offensive
work distinctly, laying particular stress
on that phase of the practice. while
Ohm O,Reillv adopts some thing of the
opposite tactics. having his men hold
down the score of the other five and
play the ball hard and fast whenever
il comes into their possession. Catholic
University usually scores many points
but has many more registered against
it than does the ordinary team The
town plays are nearly always small. the
Blue and Gray's opponents always
having trouble in registering points
Army and Navy Props Friday may
mean that the team is far below its
form of the last two years or it may
have little bearing on the real strength
of the quint. After the loss Of such
splendid players as Peine and Peck it
is not to he expected that the Red and
White will ba able to accomplish as
much as it did n year ago particular
" on the offensive. However, Western
made poor showingS in it's early sea
On games in foot ball last fail. Yet it
went through the high school series
with record SO good that it was
entirely unexpected The same thing
may happen i'll basket ball.
One foot ball PLAYER a Georgetown.
who was not available this season. who
should do exceedingly well next fall
is Cody. That young man played bril-
liantly in many games in which the
freshman team figured. upholGing ard
fnrtherng the splendid record he made
in prep school. There are many who
think Cody almost. If not quite, a. good
as McQuade. Cody is back usually
holding down the position at quarter
Harvard's failure to schedule a game
for 1917 with some southern eleven il
somewhat surprising. Many reasons
have been advanced for its failure to
do so, but the probabilities are that the
real one partakes of the financial The
Crimson probably can draw just as big
crowds with some of the New ENGLAND
colleges as with representatives of this
section and that being the case the
smaller guarantees it will pay should
leave considerably larger fund to it's
credit. Some of the New England teams
playing on Harvard's schedule proba-
bly, are not drawing guarantees of more
than $500. while about the least for
which it could get a team from this
section would be $4,000. Thus it can
readily be understood that, if the New
England Institutions draw as big gates
during the early part of the year as do
teams, the saving for Harvard
in playing the colleges closer home is
In taking on the Carlisle Indians the
Crimson has scheduled an eleven which
is not likely to be very strong. yet will
draw we'll Carlisle always has been
very attractive to the foot ball pub
lie and playing at Cambridge for the
frst time in several years should prove
one of the features of the season-and
q feature without much chance of a !
Crimson defeat at the end of the game |
Last Thanksgiving day marked the |
passing of a gridiron classic for Rich !
mond, Va. For the last time the his
toric annual struggle between North |
Carolina University and the University !
Of Virginia has been played there. The |
agreement under which the contest took |
place last fall expired and the rule |
adopted two years ago at Virginia
that Virginia would not play on any |
field other than that of the educational
which was it's opponent or !
its own-goes into effect and all the con-
tests in which Virginia appears in the /
future will be played either on Lam
(COntinued on Second teaRe1