The Washington herald., 1917-11-10
iPETIE WALL WILL
PLAY AGAINST navy
Georgetown Captain Returns to
School and Will Face Middies.

Al the tltNtnln nour ScOIsclOWh
football teams chances with the
Navy eleven today were given q big
boost.
Petite Wall, captain and star half
back of the Hilltop team, returned
to school yesterday and is sure of
being seen in action against Coach
Dobie's powerful machine at An
, napolis today. Wall worked out in
the full-back position with the team
in the light signal drill which was
held at the Hilltop campus yester-
day and is ready for the fray.
Contrary to all reports. the Blue
and Gray will take the field today
in first-class condition. Zugar, who
was handed quite a lacing from the
hands of the Fordham crew on
! Tuesday, is in good shape. while
Johnny Gilroy, McQuade, and Ma
Iopey, who were under the weather
from the hard-earned victory scored
over the Fordham tribe. were in the
| lineup at the final practice yester-
day.
Never in the history OF athletics
at the Hilltop institute has a stu
dent ever been given the reception
which welcomed back Capt. Petite
Wall to the Hilltop yesterday. Wall
was cheered by the student body
for fully ten minutes, and even his
teammates gave him the big 'rouss''
when he hiked out on the field for
his initial practice with the George
town team.
Wall was drafted for the national
army and has been at Camp Devens
at Ayers, Mass, for the past four
months. Efforts to have him released
heretofore have failed. but it Is the
same old story of Charley Cox When
| this director of athletics starts out on
any proposition he generally comes
| through with it, and it was only the
persistency of the famous Charley
that won the big victory over the
military authorities in favor of the
| Georgetown captain.
Wall is sure of playing in the Navy
game today, as he showed Coach
| Exendine that he was in good condi-
| ton in the workout that was held
yesterday. Wall is well informed on
the signals, as the authorities at Hill
| top have expected his release all sea-
son, and Charley Cox had figured
! away ahead of the boys and sent on
the signals and plays to Wall. Petite
| has been playing end for Percy
! Haughton's Camp Devens eleven and
appears to be in splendid physical con-
dition. His presence in Georgetown's
| lineup has boosted the Hilltoppers'
chances considerably, and already
| Coach EXendine can see more pep and
vim in their attack.
The one big weakness in the George
! town attack this season has been the
| lack of interference.
Walls wonderful defensive ability
| is well-known to all followers of the
Hilltop team as 1t is few men in the
| gridiron game VINO are any better
( versed in breaking in a line than
| Wall. Georgetown admits missing
[ Wall as an interference runner in
/ their attack this season. and with him
| back in the fullback position the Hill
| torpers have now one Of the best Of
! fensive combinations in the country.
! Even with Wall back in the lineup
the Hilltoppers cannot expect to de-
! feat Navy. Wall will be big factor
, in the game, but even Wall and his
wonderful ability of making interfer-
ence cannot expect to turn back the
! Navy team.
| Every one who makes the journey
| to the ancient Maryland town today
will be pulling for the Hilltop team,
] but from careful figuring and using
! the "statistitional observation" George
I town can not be figured to hold Navy
7 n hot q
, DObie's tribe this season is one of the
| best that ever represented the An
'napolis School. and one that would
| turn back Army, IL the big classic
( was scheduled this season.
Two games are scheduled to be play
ed here today. Coach Byrd's Mary
land State College team battles the
st. Johns College team from ARnap-
oils, while Gallaudet College is sched-
uled to battle the Fort Washington
: Post team.
The st. John's-State College game at
College Park. Md, will have a big
bearing on the State championship of
Maryland. Byrds team is in good
shape and ready for the fray. Last
season Maryland State ran up a big
score on the Annapolis Cadets, but
they were forced to the limit. State
should win this game. but 1t is a sure
fact that the st. Johns team will bat.
tie them all the way. Gallaudet nc
doubt meets a tartar in the Khaki
klan tribe, but Coach Moore has been
driving the team overtime this week
and nothing but victory is being look
ed for from the Kendall Green insti-
tuition.
Two hundred and fifty students in
the academic department and from
] the professional schools of George
town University will leave at y O. clock
today for Annapolis to witness the
annual football game between the
Georgetown eleven and the Navy
team.
The party will be in charge of Theo-
dore w. Delaney, student leader and
president of the athletic association.
A reception will be rendered to the
Georgetown students by Naval Acad-
emy officials at the conclusion of the
game. The party will return to Wash
ington on special cars tonight.
Two games stand out on the East
/ ern football schedule of today as CIV
ing promise of being close, hard.
fought contests. These are the meet
ing Of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth al
Boston and the Pittsburgh-Washing-
ton and Jefferson struggle at Pitts
burgh. In other respects today's list
[ OF gridiron combats is not likely to
be productive of either form or score
| upsets.
Judged upon their season records,
Dartmouth and Pennsylvania appear
to be reasonably evenly matched. and
the outcome is likely to be a small
margin victory for the eleven which
is the more alert and quicker to take
| advantage of the breaks in the play.