Evening star., 1919-11-14
c. j. ELEVEN PLAYS
STATE TOMORROW
BrookIanders Ready to Put
Up Great Struggle in Only
Local Grid Game.
BY II. e. BYRD.

State resume foot ball relationship to-
morrow. meeting for the first time
since 1915. The contest should be
hard fought, and ought to develop
good foot ball. Play is to begin at
2:30 o'clock in the Central High
Stadium.
On the showing of the two teams 50
FAR this season the chances would
ever, Catholic University is stronger
now than in it's previous games, and
should meet its rival on fairly even
footing. Contrary to the general re-
port that the Brooklanders are very
light. they probably will weigh just
IS "7urh as the College Park eleven,
according to definite reports of those
" no have watched the teams in action.
Line-ups have not yet been an
bounced. and probably will not be un-
til after the practice today. Catholic
University has heavy line and 4
fast backfield. while the Marylanders
have about the same kind of COM
bination.
Catholic University spent yesterday
in going through signals and in block
ing practice. but Maryland State varied
its usual program by putting in an
hour of scrimmage. Smith, at full
back for State, received bruised
knee and may be out for several days.
son. but because of his apparent
adaptability to almost any position
was being tried out at full.
Rooney. a star at Catholic Uni
versity in 1916. will not play against
State. In the game last week he
injured the broken ankle which he
received last summer in a base ball
game
Several former Washington high
school players are likely to be con-
spicuous in the game. Pepper, for
mer Western halfback, probably will
start for c. L., while Moore and Bos-
ley of Tech. Myers and Brewer of
Western and Bailey and Macdonald of
Central are likely to be in the State
lineup at one time or another dur
ing the game
No matter which team wins, there
Is going to be plenty of good hard
foot ball up in the Central stadium to-
morrow afternoon.
General interest in southern foot
ball circles will center around the
Georgia Tech-Georgetown game at
Atlanta. Georgetown has a splendid
chance, If it can win from Georgia
Tech. to be proclaimed southern
champion at the end of the present
season. as Washington and Lee would
be the only team standing in its way
IN the event of victory at Atlanta.
The Hilltopers will start practically
the same team against Georgia Tech
that they had against the Navy, ex-
cept that Smeach will not be at end
and Larkin will take Buckley's place
at halfback.
Georgetown hopes to win from the
Atlanta school, though it realizes
that it is going to have a much more
difficult task to win than Washing
ton and Lee had last week. Georgia
Tech probably underestimated the
strength of the Lexington eleven and
did not really begin to play strong
offensive foot ball until the final half
Against Georgetown the Atlanta
eleven will show it's best right from
the beginning.
Gallaudet is due to play at Ches-
tertown, being scheduled for a meet
ing with Washington College. The
Kendall Greeners should win easily.
Penn State and Cornell again begin
foot ball contests at Ithaca tomorrow.
Games between these schools former
ly were the usual thing. and naturally
the institutions should be great rivals
the contest, Notwithstanding that
Cornell seems to be going through a
stage of gradual improvement.
The Brown game at Bos-
ton should develop some fine foot ball.
with the odds favoring the former
to win. Brown has not so far this
season shown anything which would
tend to indicate that it has better
than an outside chance to win from
the big green" combination.
While Dartmouth and Brown are
battling at Boston. Colgate will be
striving at Syracuse to maintain the
same clean slate that Dartmouth has
If Colgate and Dartmouth can both
nyU
should stand about on par for the
eastern intercollegiate title.
While the Tiger and the Bulldog
bowl, the Harvard eleven will be
trying to run up good score on
Tufts Inasmuch as Yale defeated
Tufts. Al to 0, the Crimson should be
not very much troubled with the
Medford aggregation.
Over in Baltimore Johns Hopkins
plays Western Maryland in another
game in the race for the Maryland
championship. Hopkins has clean
slate as far as other Maryland elevens
are concerned.
Out in the middle west a big game
is scheduled between Kansas and Ne
braska That is about the same in the
Missouri valley that the Harvard-Yale
struggle is in New England.
Two games of more than passing
notice are to be. played in Virginia.
At Charlottesville the University of
Virginia is to face Vanderbilt and at
Norfolk the North Carolina State
eleven goes against Virginia Poly
technic Institute. Vanderbilt has
been doing well enough this year to
defeat Virginia, while the contest at
, Norfolk should be almost a nip and
tuck affair The Vanderbilt contest is
the big home battle for Virginia.
Some foot ball fur is likely to fly
| at Franklin Field. Pennsylvania
! and Bob Folwell particularly-is anx-
/ ious to get some little revenge for the
: defeats it has suffered during the pas
three years at the hands of Pittsburgh
, and certainly no Penn team has stood
as good a chance to win from the
! western Pennsylvanians than the ont
! which now wears the Red and Blue
, Penn is stronger than at any time
within the last five years.
| At West Point the Army plays Vii
! lanova and at Annapolis the Navy en-
| tertains Colby. Both games should b,
easy for the service elevens.
Ohio State leaves it's home stamping
ground to go out to Madison to pla.
Wisconsin. Everybody familiar will
doings in the Western Conference ha
picked Ohio State to win the it'll
again.
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