Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-03
maryland CAPITAL
TO Be GRID MECCA
D. C. Foot Ball Fans to See
Local Teams Play in An
napoIis Next Saturday..
BY HI. G. BYRD.

napoIis Next Saturday.
BY HI. c. BYRD.
Annapolis this week will be the
mecca for local foot ball followers.
Georgetown being scheduled to play
the Navy Saturday afternoon and
cMaryland State to meet st. Johns in
the morning. The. Blue and Gray
squad will be against what is be-
lieved to be one of the strongest
elevens in the east and the College
Park aggregation will face an unde-
feated combination.
Georgetown has been working since
its defeat at Detroit with the Navy
game as its sole objective. 1t believes
Middies. notwithstanding the fine rec
ord of the latter Especially has
Coach Exendine been laboring to i'm
prove the play of his line, which has
not developed the strength expected.
The backfield has been doing all that
could be expected of it, and if the play
of the forwards can be brought to
point where it will do as effective
work the team will give the Navy
great struggle.
Navy's play SO far this season seems
to indicate that it has refrained some
scores. 1t is claimed that the Middies
are just about as strong as they were
a. year ago, but that Is not indicated
in the results of contests in which
they have taken part. Whether this
really is indicative of less strength or
be shown until Saturday. when the
Hilltoppers take the field for their
annual affair.
Maryland State probably has a
stronger team than st. Johns. despite
the victories registered by the lat
tinues the gradual Improvement.
which has marked it's performances,
it should defeat its old Annapolis
rival for the seventh consecutive
year. About the only thing that is
likely to stand in the way of the
dent attitude, engendered by the
fact that it has been playing teams
in a class far above st. Johns.
Georgetown's victory in it's game
with Delaware College was just what
was looked for. 1t was felt that the
Hilltoppers should win by just as big
score as they desired, and that
proved to be the actual happening.
Catholic University and Gallaudet
fought through a close. hard contest,
the game ending in a 6-to-6 tie, and
really developed a spirit of strong
rivalry. Had the contest been played
on a dry field it probably would have
developed much sensational foot ball.
Maryland State made a better
showing against Yale than the score
indicated Playing through four reg
ulation periods, the Marylanders
fought the Dark Blue for every inch
of ground and there was never
m
had the easy time of it that was ex-
pected. State got out of the game
without injuries, though Eisbet had
his sore leg slightly bruised again.
The big tackle was yanked, though.
at the beginning of the fourth period,
to get a second blow to aggravate
the injury. He probably will be in
good shape by the last of this week.
About the only other hurt suffered
by any State player was huge black
eye which one of the Yale lineman
Probably the greatest surprise of
last Saturdays foot ball results was
the defeat of Pennsylvania by Penn
prior to that had given rise to the
general opinion that Philadelphia
this year was housing the strongest
foot ball team on the eastern half Of
the continent. However. Penn State
delivered a Jolt which IL not likely to
be forgotten in Philadelphia for long
while. The Quakers already had be-
gun to bask in the warm rays Of a
championship sun, and for the eclipse
shadow to be cast by the State Col
lege men makes the chill and dark
ness even harder to bear.
It might be said in this connection
that the victory at Philadelphia Just
about settles Hugo Bezdeks success
as a coach at Penn State. The former
Oregon man is successful II he does
not win another game this season.
But II Penn State also captures the
Pittsburgh contest Thanksgiving day.
in all probability Bezdek will be pre-
sented with the wing of one of the
buildings. or fifty or SO acres of the
campus or some other wholly made
quate testimonial Of his accomplish
ments.
Most Of the close students of foot
ball looked for Dartmouth to beat
Colgate by a small margin. However,
the tie was not a surprise, and, in
fact, If Colgate had won nobody
would have been jolted much. 1t was
have happened.
However, the biggest surprise that
has come from the game seems to
have resulted from a story printed by
one of the New York papers. Larry
Bankhart Colgate's coach. was not
present at Hanover to see his team
play Dartmouth. and many persons
evinced establishment. Upon inquiry.
it developed that Bankhart had not
seen the Colgate team for a week
and that he had been present on the
field only eight days during the en-
tire season. Bankhart has been get
ting entire credit for the development
of Colgate's wonderful eleven, and it
seems that somebody else has been
doing most Of the work.
Everybody familiar with the great
latent power of West virginia's eleven
looked for that ~-..ool to defeat
Princeton, brt !: IN questionable IL
there was : foot bali follower any
:, here who had the least idea that
the Mountaineers would take the long
end of the score from the Tigers by
such a wide margin. West Virginia
has just as good material as stands
on any gridiron in the country, but
four touchdowns make lot OF points
for any combination to score against
Princeton. 1t has been q long time
since the Tigers were defeated by as
big a margin as that.
FIELD TRIAL Gu