Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-30
best GRID TEAMS
Do THE EXPECTED
No Upsets in Closing Games Of
Season-GeorgetoWn and
State Are Victors.
BY a. c. BYRD.

day were just in line with what was
| expected. Those teams that had been
playing more consistently during the
previous part of the season than the
opponents they were to meet ran true
to form" and got victories In the Of
fetal wind-up of their schedules. Penn
| sylvania, Pittsburgh, Washington and
Jefferson, Georgetown. Virginia Poly
| technic Institute, Maryland State, West
Virginia and Georgia Tech won games
stronger.
Georgetown's victory over the Usaacs
seems to have caused considerable sur
| prise among some followers of the
sport. However, why 1t should is al
most beyond explanation. True the
Usaacs had lot of mighty capable
players, but even with the same kind
OF players and just as good teamwork
the college organization would be the
victor in nine cases out of ten. The
Blue and Gray eleven simply outclassed
an aggregation Of stars and that is
about all there was to it. In the first
period the play was very near even, but
after that the advantage was all with
the Blue and Gay.
Pittsburgh did just what was looked
FOR in beating Penn State by big mar
gin. The losing eleven scored one
IL
could do against Glen Warmers aggre-
cation. Penn State men could not stall
off Warmers brilliant offense and could
not develop a sufficiently strong at
tack to enable it to gain consistently
against the opposing forces.
Georgia Tech completely swamped
Auburn. beating the Alabama eleven
by an even bigger score than anybody
looked for. Practically all conceded
that Georgia would win. but that it
would run up s. points against its
| rival was not looked for. Auburn was
completely smothered and did not class
up with its rival as in former years.
Virginia Polytechnic had hard fight
to down Virginia Military Institute.
s to o. " NJ l. put up a surprisingly
good game against the Blacksburg col
legians.
Pennsylvania downed Cornell rather
easily, and about the only surprise Of
! that contest was the hard play of the
Ithacans during the opening period.
Cornell is said to have outplayed the
Quakers in the opening part of the
| West Virginia University avenged 1T
self somewhat for it's defeat at the
hands of Wesleyan last week by trounc-
ing North Carolina State by p to o.
ter OF Washington and Lee. and Mary
| land State again captured the Mary
| land championship by beating Hopkins
| Z to 0.
| Jackie Maloney, quarterback at
Georgetown. pulled something unex-
pected yesterday when he booted two
goals from the field in the first half
booted one goal from the 20-yard line
and another from the % mark. Ma
loney's two field goals were the only
scores made by the Hilltoppers in the
Georgetown line held solidly against
the charges of the opposing linemen.
giving Maloney plenty of time to make
the boots.
Johnny Gllroy possibly played his
last game for Georgetown, as he Is
going to enlist in one of the branches
Of the Army. Gilroy made it real
game, too, as ne proved almost I'M
stoppable in his sharp dasnes eff the
opposing tackles. Gilroy was at his
best. and that he did so well speaks
much for his brilliance as a gridiron
he did. The ambulance men must
ihave been told to cover him well, and
when a player stars despite that he is
really great performer.
| Coach Exendine of Georgetown must
be given credit for having his players
cover "Untz" Brewer for fair on kicks
| Brewers most brilliant work in foot
ball has been in running back punts,
| but yesterday the Georgetown men
!
| did he get an opportunity too break
away. AS soon IS the ball fell into his
arms two or three Blue jerseyed men
were standing right there ready to
I>grab him. Also the Georgetown men
| were watching him pretty close on
every play. no matter what the forma-
! ton.
| 1t was fine ending to an excellent
Georgetown season. The Blue and
Gray lost only one game, being defeat
ed by the Navy, taking the long end
Georgetown won from Fordham.
Springfield Y. N. C. A. Training School.
Washington and Lee, Virginia Poly
technic Institute and Lehigh. " s!l-
ngton and Lee gave It good ARE.
but was not able to muster sur Isn't
struggle to stall of the Blue and Gray
TuSheS.
Ezendine said last night that he was
well satisfied with the season his team
had gone through. Some regret was
evident in his manner in regard to the
Navy game, but all in all he appeared
to consider that the team had done
about all that could be expected Of it.
said "Exy":
ut would have been brilliant sea-
son for us had we won the Navy game,
but I guess I should not be dissatisfied
over that. The team played good foot
ball all year and deserved to capture
the games 1t did. I knew that the
ambulance men had a good team, but
was not worried much over the pos
sible outcome of 1t, as I felt that as a
team we were the stronger. 1 watched
the ambulance men play at Reading
last week and noted their particu-
larly strong points and prepared for
them"
Maryland state yesterday Won the |
game, defeating Johns Hopkins, which |
gave it another state champion ship. |
The College Park eleven was even
more superior to the Baltimoreans
than the score showed. After it got |
! points shortly after the opening Of
the first period, State cortented itself !
TO play an absolutely safe game. Hop |
kins never at any time got close |
enough to the goal to cause it to ap- |
pear that it might get a touchdown. |
Once, within the first three minutes |
after the contest started, it got a |
chance to try place kick from the |
20 yard line. but the ball went wide.
After that Hopkins never got closer |
than IS yards to States goal with the
ball in it's possession.
Fletcher of State gained more ground
eleven. though Arthur covered lot
in the latter part of the contest. Knode
made some mistakes in running his
team, but as whole did about his best
work of the year along that line. The
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