Evening star., 1918-11-25
FOOT BALL GAMES
TO END THURSDAY
Three Local Colleges Slated
to Play Final Contests Then.
Other Gridiron Gossip.
By Il. c. BYRD.

4 According to present schedules
Georgetown, Catholic University ane
Maryland State are to bring thei
foot ball season to close Thursda,
Thanksgiving day. A post-seaso,
contest may be arranged. either be
.. tween Georgetown and Gallaudet Oh
Georgetown and Maryland State,
but nothing definite has been
done. II neither Gallaudet nor Mary
land State can appear December Z on
the Hilltop. an attempt will be made
by the Georgetown authorities to
bring an outside eleven to Washing
ton for contest that day.
Gallaudet finished its regular .sched-
ule last week. losing to Virginia Mil
itaIy Institute by three touchdowns
to one. Only one of the three college
elevens with games remaining is list
ed to play on a local field. Catholic
University being booked for meet
ice aggregation on the gridiron at
Georgetown. The two teams have met
once and c. U. was victor.
Georgetown goes to New York for
its annual clash with Fordham. The
Blue and Gray has been winning from
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great regularity and seems to stand
an excellent chance to get away with
the long end of the score this week.
While the team went down before the
League Island Navy Yard by a pig
margin, it must be remembered tnat
the League Island men trimmed Le-
high, Swarthmore and Brown on con-
sicu7ive Saturdays.
Maryland State winds up its season
with it's big game with Hopkins in
Baltimore. Hopkins defeat last Sat
urday by Western Maryland takes
somewhat lessons its importance. but
all games between State and Hopkins,
no matter what the results OF pre-
vious contests, are well attended ana
full of interest. Two years ago. when
about the only question as to the
game seemed to be the size of the
score State would roll up. nearly ten
thousand persons attended. Hopkins
defeat Saturday at the. hands of
Western Maryland indicates that
State will be the favorite. but that
probably will work more to States
disadvantage than to it's credit, as 1t
may cause the players to feel too
confident of the result. Saturday.
State was a S to ! favorite in the bet
ting in Baltimore in it's game with ST.
the short end of the score and just
managed to pull together in the sec
ond half sufficiently. to score enough
touchdoWns to win. Hopkins has fine
material for a foot ball team. espe-
cially in the backfield. and if. its men
get to pulling together there will be
about as fine a struggle staged in
Baltimore Thanksgiving day as one
could care to see.
Probably not in the history of foot
ball has such an event taken place as
that which for a short time disrupted
the game between the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station and Navy last
Saturday. That player should leave
his seat on the bench, rush out and
for touchdown seems almost impos-
sible, yet that happened. Navy had
carried the ball across the goal line
for its second touchdown when In
gram fumbled. Eielson of Great
Lakes picked up the ball behind his
own goal line and set out for the
Navy's goal line. When all his pur-
suers had been disposed of and it
seemed that no human agency could
prevent him making touchdown, a
flying figure broke from the Navy
bench. rushed on the field and tackled
the runner. Several Great Lakes play
ers gathered around. pulled the Navy
man loose and allowed the Great
Lakes chap to continue his run to the
goal line. the touchdown and conse-
Quent goal Wnacn gave MS team VIC
tory by one point.
Many questions Of a technical ma
ture might have been involved in the
play. No matter what caused the
play-whether it was a hot-headed
youth who forgot himself for the
moment or a strategic. though some
quick-thinking individual on tie Navy
bench to save the game-a great
many complications might have
arisen from a technical standpoint
had not the referee done exactly the
serves credit for his action. During
all the melee he did not blow his
whistle. He let the Great Lakes play
er be tackled. let other Great Lakes
players pull the Navy tackler off the
man carrying the ball. let the runner
down and yictory-and then blew his
whistle. The latter part Of the run
took place with several Navy players
standing around: had one of them
been able to think quickly enough to
tackle the runner again the referee
his whistle, the ball would have been
dead and the only earthly thing the
referee could have done-and still ad-
hered to the rules-was to penalize
Navy for having twelve men on the
field. If. as the referee most ordi-
had been blown when that substitute
ran from the side lines and made the
tackle the ball would have been dead
and the penalty for twelve men on the
field would have been given. Of
course, Great Lakes could have re-
fused tho penalty. but that would not
have produced the touchdown And
as far as the referee awarding a
touchdown was concerned, as many
seemed to think he did. there is no
rule in foot ball under which that
can be done.
Arguments might be carried even
further from a Navy standpoint
though Navy Is too fair under all cir
cumstances to want to argue tit is
possible that the substitute PLAYER
might be considered to be a legiti-
mate player and to have made 1egiti-
mate tackle. The rules do not spe-
ciically provide in so many words
just how and when a substitute shall
enter game. except that a penalty