Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-26
c. j. MEETS ELEVEN
Of MUCH STRENGTH
Blue and Gray Must Show at
Its Best in Order to De-
feat Army Team.
By u. c. BYRD.

Georgetown has its work cut out for
victory against the Ambulance Corps
team here Thursday. The Blue and
Gray will be against a team Of stars.
q team on which every player has the
reputation Of having been one OF the
best men in the colleges In q cartain
section. 1t has been argued time and
again that = team made up OF star
players Is not as good as a we'll drill
ed organization composed of Just fair
drilled stars will whip any WILL drill
ed eleven OF fair players that ever
walked gridiron. and 1t Is said the
Ambulance men are not the kind who
turn to individual performances.
Many are looking forward to the
contest because IL is the first game
scheduled here since 1914 In which it
IL conceded that the opposing team has
about an even chance to win. George
town has ceased to draw big crowds
almost because it has been a foregone
conclusion that it would be the victor.
This game Thanksgiving day, though.
Is going to be a different proposition.
The Ambulance eleven is good enough
in the country go its best to get the
long end of the score. Georgetown
probably will get the first real battle
it has had on its home field since the
day 1t lost to Washington and Jeffer-
SON in 1914 by one touchdown against
two.
One Of the best foot ball games play
ed hero in years should result from the
meeting. There are stars on the Am
buiance team who will give some brill
" Nf al sNer
Just as will Gilroy and McQuade of
Georgetown. Georgetown likely will
win by q touchdown margin or 80, just
as any college eleven of Georgetown's
tory over team representing an indie
pendent organization. However, the
victory. II won. will come harder for
the Blue and Gray than any 1t has at
tanned in long while.
Maryland State is due TO clay its
most important game of the year on
Thursday. 1t goes to Baltimore to meet
Johns Hopkins in the annual Thanks
giving day struggle. States team prob
ably Will be in pretty fair physical con-
dition. though it is not going to be as
good q foot ball machine as 1t would
ly last week. There were only two
days OF work out Of the six. practi-
caily the whole squad being laid up
with minor injuries the rest of the
ehe. 1uacuoudlQ ana "lsemAn were
not able to take part in the work at all
Today. however. the whole squad will
be out on the field for the flrst time in
several weeks.
Twenty.one men will go to Baltimore
az the varsity squad. The other mem
oers OF the squad probably will be ex-
cused this afternoon from further
practice. Gardiner, Fletcher, Wiseman,
M AT ssoa. Rich; Sullivan. orban. Stew
veg, Smith. Macdonald. AIT, Knode.
;, Stubbs. Riggs. Macdonald. Arthur and
snyder are to make the trip.
Ga1laudet's showing against the vtr-
ginia Military Institute Saturday. as
the wind-up Of its season. was excep-
tionally good: The Kendall Green
eleven played fine foot bali and at the
end of the FIRST half had the score 2
to in It's favor. In the second part Of
the contest though, the Washinton-
ians broke and v. ~ !. ran up IS points
rhe game proved oonciusively that
Soaeh moore has done some extra
ana that he has laid the GROUNDWORK
Tor winning team next fall.
when the Ambulance Corps team lines
VIII present line averaging 1877 pounds
and backfeld of an average weight Of
Isl: Cubbage, formerly Of Penn State.
and Emanuel. a Gettysburg College
AAao@hs Will oS iAC eHQS against George
town. johnson of Washington and Lee
and Farrell of Susquehanna Univer-
sity are to be the tackles. Moore of
washington and Lee and O'Donnell of
Penn State are slated to hold down the
guard positions and Wick of University
OF washington is to be at center In
the backfeld Brewer of Maryland State,
Irwin of Franklin and Marshall, Cramer
Of Hamline University and Murphy of
Yale Will start. Hall. Mayffeld, Boyd
and Shrfner of California;; Lukens OF
the Ewing A. c. of Philadelphia,
Francke of Harvard Dunn of Michigan.
Conn Of Oregon Aggies, Wright Of SYRIA
cuse and Caughey of Leland Stanford
Wednesday morning the Army play
ers leave Allentown for WASHINGTON
The corps. composed OF 1000 men. is on
its way down hero now and tonight is
due to camp at Lancaster. Pa. The Of
ficials for the game are Thorp Of Co
lunbia, Kirberger Of Washington and
Jefferson and Butler of Brown.