Evening star., 1917-11-21

| made 33 against Tech, attained Its higl
I business and yesterday finished its sc
with Western.
| Nearly all the excellent work done by
Central stands as tribute to Coach
| Metzler. With no better material than
at least one Of the other elevens had.
Metzler turned out combination that
exceeded the expectations even of Cen
| trails followers The team played con-
sistently through it's whole season. do
ing remarkably well in every contest.
It won every game it played and de-
feated Tech by the biggest score ever
! run up against the Manual Trainers.
Also it counted the greatest total ever
attained in scholastic game OF any
kind in this section when 1t smothered
Business under 120 points. This credit
/, is given to Metzler, with all due respect
for the capabilities of Long and Wilson
as ground gamers and all-round play
ers. While Metxler had good backs his
! line material was rather mediocre
| Yesterdays game was a real strug-
!! gle in every sense of the word The
teams fought each other hard for every
inch of ground. There were times when
| it seemed that Western had a chance to
defeat the Blue and White, the former
doing its best work near the end OF the
second quarter. However, when the
Georgetown youngsters were In posi-
tton to get a touchdown the Central de-
! fense stiffened and progress toward the
goal was stopped.
Central failed to rip the Western de-
fense to pieces. as it had been doing
: the other elevens. The Red and White
guards got down under the heavy Blue
and White plunges and time after time
stopped the runner for no gain. Sell
dom this season has that been accom-
plished against Central. its backs usu-
ally running up and down the held al
ern put up by far the best game against
Central. No other high school eleven
came anywhere near playing as well as
did the youngsters coached by Bryan
Morse. It was contest in which the
Central backs proved far superior to
those of the Red and White. but West
ern had the better line material.
No doubt exists that the game yester-
day was between the best coached
teams in the high schools. There was
a preciseness about the play that has
been lacking In the previous contests.
was high, but that was not because of
any lack of willingness on the part of
the players to throw themselves against
their opponents. The blocking and
high school contest. Also. each team
had a variety OF play on the offense
that was better than the average col
lege team handles, which speaks we'll
ticularly is tribute to the intelligence
of the player.
Myers, center, and Alexander. full
back, of Western changed places on the
defense. Both did their work well. too,
Alexander doing about as well in the
line as any other linesman has shown
this year, and Myers backing up the
though, covered about two-thirds the
territory between CentraIs tackles and
there was never a play directed against
Westerns line that he did not get un-
der. He was the main cog in Westerns
defence.
AS an evidence of how little actual
play there is at times in a given period
in a foot ball game, four plays were
run of near the end Of the contest dur
ing which perhaps five minutes elapsed.
but, as a matter OF fact. only twenty
counted. Central made four consecutive
forward passes. all Of which grounded.
It. took only a few seconds to complete
ed there was less than a minute left of
the contest Perhaps five minutes
elapsed before that period of less than
a minute was finished. Had the game
down been scored on that last forward
pass. the timer probably would have
been called ''robber' and various
other things, indicating a. belief that he
Two of the three best tackles in the
high school series were in the game.
Molster and .Fenwick are the men re-
ferred to and each plays on the right
side Of the line; It is rather coinci.
the three. also is right tackle.
Penn State has one OF the best quar-
terbacks in the country. He is Harry
Way, and the way he makes his
way down the field is almost sum
cient to make way for him on the ALL
American eleven. Way is slender.
weighing around 14o pounds. but he
can dodge and take all kinds Of hard
knocks without wincing. He Is Penn
States best bet against Pittsburgh, and
II he fails to get away through a
broken field for score the chance Of
the team scoring one is decidedly slim
Up around Penn State they think Way
is the best man plotting any eleven.
1t is rather interesting to note that
Way failed to earn regular place at
, quarter on the freshman team last year.
sideration until after the loss of the
regular quarterback he was showed In
as a desperate chance. Since he was
showed In he has stayed in as the best
bet Of the eleven.
|, Dick Harlow. head coach of the Penn
State eleven, engages In a line of work
when he Is not coaching that perhaps
in ornithology and draws down money
in big chunks for writing for several
magazines on 1.-The Habits of Birds"
In all probability Georgetown and the
Usaac team will not have any opposi-
tion here for their Thanksgiving day
contest. Graduate Ganager Cox Of
Georgetown this morning stated that.
he had been assured by authorities at