Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-17
BY II. c. BYRD.

aSnlngtOn ana Lee. II IL can oeled
Georgetown next Saturday, is likely
% have at the end of the season al
most a clear claim to the southern
DOT ball title. The Lexingtonians
nave not yet had their goal line
crossed. and they number among their
defeated opponents Georgia Tech
which two days ago smeared the Blue
and Gray. The only two games re-
naming on Washington and Lees
schedule are with Georgetown and
Tulane. and the latter has not been
showing much.
Washington and Lee, 8; Georgia
Georgia Tech, 81; Georgetown, %.
There is the Story-the dope.
These figures seem to indicate nothing
if not rather decisive victory for
Washington and Lee over George
town, but the way foot ball is turning
out this fall it seems that the proper
construction to place on the foregoing
scores is 10 predict that Georgetown
will win. Anybody who might have
predicted that Washington and Lee
would defeat Georgia Tech or that
Georgia Tech would win from George
town. p to 0, especially after the lat
ter defeated the Navy. would have
been dubbed by most followers of foot
ball as an individual who did not
know much of what he was talking
about.
and Lee stands a better chance to win
a clear title than any other team for
some time. Georgia Tech has been
given credit for having had the best
team in the south for the last three
or four years, but in reality there
were several schools strong enough
to dispute that claim. This year
Nv aShington and Lee has eliminated
the Atlanta eleven. Also it will be the
first time in many years that game
1T,
which hinged any such possible re-
suit. 1t will be a proud Washington
land Lee team which leaves Washing
ton Saturday night if it departs with
.Georgetown's scalp hanging at its
belt; but to do that Washington and
Lee has a difficult proposition-th
dope" favors it too much.
Gallaudet continued to play good
foot bail last week, its victory by 33
to 10 over Washington College being
decisive enough to satisfy even the
exacting Teddy Hughes. And, in pass
ing. it might be well to remark that
Hughes has made good as loot pail
coach at Gallaudet. Understanding his
material far better than the average
coach understands the men with
whom he has to work. Hughes has
combined qualities of a strong per-
sonality with good pedagogical
knowledge of the game to build up
a competent HldCLlHc. 1dilouuSt 10 ASAi
stronger than even most OF the
strongest teams of its class.
Down at Annapolis Saturday, Colby
had to take what the Navy meant for
GEORGETOWN. And up West Point way
that 62 to O score against Villanova
indicates that they have a few young
men among the future generals who
can meander down the field at a
rather consistent gait.
In commenting on foot ball results
it is not amiss to say a few words In
praise of Virginia, even II the Cnar-
lottesyille eleven has been going
through horrible season. whipped
and battered by almost every team OF
any consequence it faced, Virginia
went to Georgia with everybody ex-
pecting it to be defeated decisively
However. Virginia got a tie score.
Last Saturday Vanderbilt landed In
Charlottesville to get some of the
a"easy pickings." but again Virginia
swcs not to be picked so easily, and the
Tennessee eleven was compelled to go
.home with a rather meager 1O-to-6
victory. Virginia must have improved
wonderfully in the last two weeks. In
fact, such good work has been done
that it must be given an even chance
sto beat North Carolina on Thanks
giving day.
games. having dropped both without
a touchdown scored against it. Wash
ington and Lee won at Roanoke by
8 to 0 and last week North Carolina
State beat the Poly crew by the same
score.
Criticisms printed about the Yale
Princeton game are pointed in that
they lay the blame of Yale's defeat
almost totally on it's limited offense.
1t is useless to comment further on
that, other than to say it is unfortu-
nate that the capabilities of such bril-
liant backs as played behind the Yale
line had to be so circumscribed
Princeton won and it deserved all the
credit that can be given it for so do
ing but there was not only sufficient
power and cleverness in that Yale
team to whip Princeton, but de-
feat any other eleven in the east,
west far west or south.
Princeton has finished a successful
season; Yale has ended a poor season.
This is statement of fact, because
any season in which Princeton ties
Harvard and defeats Yale is success
full, no matter what may have been
the result of the previous part of its
schedule. And the converse is true at
Yale-that any season in which Yale
loses to Princeton is poor season.
1t may be that Yale underestimated
PrincetonS strength and thought it
: could win without using som ething
that it may have had in reserve. Any
way, it seems fairly certain that un-
less Yale shows better developed Of
Tense against Harvard next Saturday
at Cambridge than it did against
Princeton in the Yale bowl, a great
many Yale alumni will wonder what
is wrong: and the chap who wrote the
criticisms Of the coaching system in
: the Yale Alumni Weekly just a short
while past, for which he himself was
rather severely criticised will be in a
very strategic position to say, Il told
you So
Grantland Rice, in critical story
of the game yesterday morning in
the New York Tribune, said:
This victorious Princeton eleven
deserves all the credit you may have
to award for its victory 1t was
uphill stuff for the Tiger all the way.
Roper had in McGraw one veteran to
match against such old-timers as
Braden, Calf, Callahan. Neville and
Allen. Roper's green eleven also had
just completed three battering con-
tests without a rest.
This game should go down as one
of the greatest victories that Prince
ton has ever won. for it was a vic
tory of brain over Drawn, the victory
of a lighter. faster, better coached
team over one that had the margin
in physical power. but had nothing
else.
'Dickens. the big Yale tackle,
played extremely well. There were
other Yale individuals who tackled
fiercely and with effect, but as ma
chine of the modern vintage Yale
simply didn't belong"
1t might be mentioned here that
Strubing. who has been starring at
quarterback for Princeton. is the
same strubing who played at Episco-
pal High two years ago and who
was one of EPISCOPAL Highs best