Evening star., 1918-11-23
PITT AND M|DD|ES
!. PROBABLE V|CTORS
Seem to Have Advantages
= Over Georgia Tech and
: Great Lakes EIevens.

Eastern critics seem to favor Pitts
burgh and Great Lakes Naval Train
ing Station to win the biggest foot
ball games of the season from Georgia
Tech and the Navy. All indications
are that the critics are right in re-
gard to the Pitt contest. but the ap-
parent sureness that the Great Lakes
segregation will down the Navy does
not seem to be so well justified.
Pitt has a big advantage over the
Georgia eleven in playing on it's home
field. No foot ball team can be at Its
best after such a long trip as the
Georgians have made to reach the
scene of the biggest game in which
a Georgia eleven has ever taken part.
Not only has the squad lost the bene-
fit of two or three days of practice,
but it also will suffer somewhat in
physical condition from the long
journey. Then Georgia Tech has been
depending almost entirely on one
style of play, a shift. Anybody who
knows Glen Warner knows that he
has taught his men how to break that
shift, and Warner has an offense that
does not depend on any particular
thing for ground gaining. And, while
Georgia Tech probably has a collec-
lion of individuals in its backfield VINO
are at least as good as the quartet
possessed by Pittsburgh. in all prob
ability Pitt has a set of forwards
who will outplay the Georgia line. 1t
is in line play that the "Panthers," as
they are called. are likely to excel the
yellow Jackets" Georgia Techs
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
has just one advantage over the out
fit that represents the Navy-it has
taken part in several games In which
it has met opponents of its own class.
from such games 1t has obtained a
certain development that the Navy
has not been able to get from meet
ing weak aggregations that have had
places on it's schedule. The Great
Lakes eleven has been welded to-
Tether through contests with big uni
Versities in the middle west, and came
east and swamped the powerful ag-
Eregation that was believed to rep
resent Rutgers. Navy has met only
weak combinations.
Against that, all the other advan-
fages lie with the Navy. In the first
place, Navy is on it's home field, and
Navy Is hard for any eleven to beat
while on that Annapolis gridiron.
While the Great Lakes eleven un-
doubtedly has collection of stars, it
Is QueSllOndOle IT'S DlcH dEc uuSu
1rore capable as individuals than the
players who hold places on the Navy
eleven. Navy has some real foot ball
performers in it's lineup, men who
stand out among the very best. Incl
dentally, it is almost a certainty that
team than the Great Lakes outfit.
1jobie is not a mean coach and he
knows something about elevens, as
everybody else knows he does.
No two foot ball games have been
played in recent years that have
aroused the comment that the two
listed today have. Conjecture-and
speculation, TOBIAS been rife, and
everybody familiar with foot ball is
wondering what the outcome will be-
1t is practically certain that the big
.;est crowds that have watched con.
tests in Pittsburgh and Annapolis will
be present
Georgetown's squad today meets
the hardest test it has had this
League Island Navy Yard eleven is
such as to leave no doubt about it's
strength. The Blue and Gray Is to
face a team this afternoon. coached
by BY Dickson. former BuckneH
won from Lehigh. Swarthmore and
Brown, no mean feats, even in this
year of unknowable foot ball The
League Island sailors, which really is
a mixed team Of sailors and marines.
Georgetown uppermost In their
minds. And when men get in that
frame Of mind and have the Will
power to back it they are dangerous
to fool with. The game ought to be
well played and fiercely contested
Out at Boiling Field the 312th Aero
SQUADRON is to meet the team repre-
senting the marine barracks.
Tho other contest scheduled to take
place in Washington is that between
the Seaman Gunners and 10th Reg1-
ment of Marines, stationed at lndlan
Head The game will be played at
American League Park and is one OF
the regularly scheduled battles in the
Service Foot Ball League.
Catholic University has no game
scheduled today. The Brook1anders
were unable to arramse for an oppo-
Thanksgiving day with battle
against the Chemical Warfare Service,
the final contest Of the year.
GaIlaudet and Maryland State are
playing on foreign fields this after
noon. The former is at Lexington.
Va, to play Virginia Military 1nsti-
tute, and the latter is over in Baftl-
more to try conclusions with its old
rival. St Johns. Both Gallaudet and
Maryland State have a good chance
TO win. Gallaudets squad left yes
terday afternoon. and Maryland
states men went to the Maryland
metropolis this morning. The State
eleven was accompanied by about half
the student body and the student band
of twenty-five pieces
Maryland States game with St
John's is the first half of a double
header. Western Maryland and Hop
kins are to play in the second contest