Evening star., 1918-10-24
g. j. |SARRANG|NG
FOOT BALL GAMES
Blue and Gray's Season to
Open November 2 and Run
Until December.

Georgetown is arranging a foot ball
schedule which is to open November
| 2 and run until the first or second
Saturday in December. Two feature
contests already have been listed. the
first Of which is to be played here
with Georgia Tech on November 16
and the second with Fordham in New
York, November 23.
On November the Camp Colt team,
representing the men training for
tank service at Gettysburg, Pa, will
appear in Washington against the
Blue and Gray. On November 9 the
Hilltoppers want to carry out their
original intention to play the Mary
land State eleven. and the latter is
agreeable. provided 1t can effect some
arrangement with Western Maryland
College, with which it scheduled q
game for that date when Georgetown
called off its list of contests some time
ago.
A short while back Georgia Tech
communicated with the Blue and Gray
and asked for game in Washington
on November 16. The local university
was glad Of the opportunity to play
the Georgians, Notwithstanding that
all the chances favor the Georgia
eleven to win by a big score. Georgia
Tech has been challenged by George
town repeatedly during the last three
years and has been turned down, and
now that the Hilltoppers do not have
one OF their great teams they do not
feel like "crawfishing" simply because
tney 90 not seem to have much OF
chance to win.
Following the Georgia Tech game
November 16 the Hilltoppers will go
to New York for their annual contest
with Fordham. Usually the contest
has been played election day, but it
was decided, owing to the late date on
which the season is being opened by
both schools, to switch to the fourth
Saturday in November, November 23.
On November 80, the last Saturday in
that month, the Philadelphia marines
are due to come here. This game will
correspond to the contest staged here
last Thanksgiving day with the Am
bulance eleven from Allentown. Nego-
game on the first Saturday in Decem-
Der and an attempt may be made to
list a contest for the second Saturday
in the same month.
John O'Reilly, physical director at
Georgetown for the last several years.
the foot ball situation. He is manag-
ing, training and coaching the squad.
and will run it pretty much as Glen
Warner did the Carlisle eleven.
Georgetown is not getting much
chance to practice. but is putting in
The team is shaping UP fairly well,
according to O'Reilly, and some of the
men are showing up much better than
might be expected. -Four or five of the
new students are proving that they
have good prep school experience,
ter. and Hampton, substitute quarter
back in 1917, are valuable members
back from the squad Of last season.
Heaphy was exceptionally good in his
position, while Hampton gave much
promise of becoming an excellent
have one of the great elevens that
have represented it for the past few
years, but expects to turn out a COM
bination which should put up some
good exhibitions of foot ball.
Maryland State will play its first
game this Saturday. October 26, the
date originally set with the Virginia
POLYTECHNIC Institute. The Troop B
lege Park to meet the State COM
bination. The latter will not be in
very good shape for the contest, be-
ing exceptionally light and not hav-
ing had much time for practice.
Yesterday after the Maryland State
squad had weighed in it was found
that the heaviest man of the thirty
who are trying for the team weighed
only 100 pounds. The youngster who
tipped the scales at higher beam
than any of the others was Myers,
who held down the center's job at
Western a year ago. Two or three
of the other players topped 100
pounds, but the majority Of them
in 1917 was very light, but even then
three of it's seven linemen went above
10 and not one fell below 100.
Probabilities are that there will be
no high school foot ball this fall It
has been announced that the schools
will not open before November 4,
which makes it psssib1e that they
will open on that date. If the scholas-
tic work starts November 4, a week
from next Monday, it will be next to
impossible for the men to begin prac-
tice and get in shape within less than
two weeks. This being the case, a
schedule could not be completed be-
fore the middle of December, which
would run into the basket ball sea-
son and possibly encounter such bad
weather that it would be impossible
to play all the games. That is the
gist of an opinion set forth by Coach
Metzler of Central, who stated that
he would be against starting foot ball
again this fall.