Evening star., 1917-11-09
C, j. TEAM MEETS
NAVY GR|D|RONERS
Local Interest Centers in That
Contest and in Maryland
st. Johns Game.
BY n. c. BYRD.


Local foot ball interest tomorrow will
center in Georgetown's game with tho
Navy at Annapolis and in the Maryland
Safest. Johns contest at College Park.
| Both games ought to be we'll played,
| though the former is of wide importance
as against the latter, being strictly OF
local worth. Georgetown is fairly sure to
engage in real struggle with the Navy.
and State seldom fails to find a worthy
opponent in St. Johns. Both contests be-
gin at 2 80.
Little is left to be said concerning the
Navy-Georgetown game Everybody knows
| that the Navy is stronger than usual and
that it has been running up big scores
against much weaker elevens. Yester-
day Georgetowns side Of the pre-game
outlook was given. and the two views just
about size up the situation If Navy beats
Georgetown by 80 points. which some
body quoted Gilmour Dobie saying it
would do. then it will be the biggest sur
prise of the foot ball year. Such re-
suit is entirely unlocked for and should
| not be the ending Of the struggle. George
| town probably will give the Navy real
struggle with about an even chance for
victory.
| Maryland State will be in better
shape to meet st. Johns than 1t has
| been since the contest with V. NJ. I.
three weeks ago. The only man of the
squad not ready to play is Mornhinweg,
who had his knee twisted in practice
! just prior to the game with North
Carolina. Everybody else is in fairly
good physical condition. Maryland
State so far this season has the bet
| ter record. but last year it was far
and away better than st. Johns. yet
got the battle of its life during the
first half ST. Johns probably would
rather beat State tomorrow than to
have the whole town of Annapolis
presented to it on returning home from
| the contest after defeat.
| Two games in the middle west are
holding the attention of gridiron en-
thusiasts University of Wisconsin and
Ohio State University are to meet at
Madison. and Cornell and Michigan
play at Ann Arbor. The Ohio-Wiscon-
sin struggle may decide the cha mpion-
ship of the western conference. and
Michigan must continue it's string of
victories by beating Cornell in order
to attain the ranking it now expects
by virtue OF defeats for every eleven
I 1t has met so far.
| Out at Pittsburgh the University of
| Pittsburgh takes part in one OF the two
games it plays with big teams in western
Pennsylvania. meeting Washington and
! Jefferson. The other of course. is with
Penn State Thanksgiving day. The
! Wa shington and Jefferson eleven has
| been going at a great pace this season,
1 and by press reports from there expects
| to beat Pitt. However. the Jeffersonians
! probably are banking without due respect
| for the Warner aggregation. Pittsburgh
| will show whole lot better form tomor-
| row than it has in any of its previous
1 contests. Warner has way OF having
his men ready for crucial contests. Then
! there is another way of looking at 1t:
| Pitt has not yet lost under Warmers re-
gime. and it must lose some time. Wash
ington and jefferson might as well be
1 the team to whip the Panthers as any
other institution. and its victory over
Penn State certainly is encouraging to 1t.
| Iowa State and the Kansas Aggies
meet at Ames, Iowa, in one of the big
| contests in that section. Contests be-
tween Iowa and Nebraska. Iowa and
| Kansas are the Yale-Princeton-H -Har-
ward struggles of that section.
| Tomorrow is Pennsylvania day in
Pennsylvania. and Penn State cele-
| brates 1t with a battle between it and
/ Lehigh at State College. 1t is the big
day Of the year at Penn State. and
usually the main celebration is a foot
ball game with some college of about
! the same strength as itself. Penn State
has never sought easy opponents for
that game, and usually it has had some
real struggles. 1t VIII be remembered
east for the contest one year. and the
game resulted In something like 9 to
| I score against Pennsylvania.
I Rutgers entertains the Springfield Y
NJ. c. A. Training School at New
! Brunswick in one of its few big home
| contests. The New Jersey state institu-
| tion ought to win. though it probably
will have on it's hand a real struggle.
| Lafayette goes to Swarthmore for a
game with the Garnet. Neither team
has been showing particular power
this season. though the latter has
| played some good games.
! Nebraska and Missouri meet at Lin
coin The contest with Missouri. from
| a Nebraska standpoint, is next in i'm
portance to that with Kansas.
Pennsylvania and Dartmouth will
| take charge of Boston from a foot
| ball standpoint. The New Englanders
| hope to continue their fine record by
defeating the Quakers. Dartmouth SO
( elevens in the east. having defeated
/ West Virginia University and Penn
| State. Pennsylvania has been showing
gradual improvement. but il it wins
! from the big green team it will ex-
ceed expectations. Dartmouth may
/ have been overrated. as Penn seems
! to claim. but any eleven that can get
! away with Virginia and Penn State is
not weak by any means.
/ One of the big games in the south is
| to be played at New Orleans between
| Georgia Tech and Tulane. Notwith-
| standing the good showing of Tulane.
| the Georgians are pretty likely to get
| eway with the long end of the score
| by comfortable margin.
AT Richmond North Carolina State
| meets v NJ. I. The two teams ought to
be fairly well matched, although North
| Carolina is somewhat the better COM
| bination. V. NJ. l. and Maryland State
/ played a tie game. IA to IA, and North
| Carolina beat the Marylanders by 10 to
| :. There is little difference in the
| weight of Y. NJ. L. and North Carolina,
and the edge which North Carolina has
| is to be found in the backfeld.
West Virginia plays its annual game
with the Virginia Polytechnic 1nsti-
| tute the teams meeting at Huntington.
| w. Va. Despite West Virginia's
| strength. V. p L. thinks it has about
/ an even chance for victory.
! Johns Hopkins tomorrow plays one
I Of the colleges in Maryland for the
| first time this season. The Hopkins
! eleven has been showing we'll though