Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
|GAMES THIS WEEK
END GRID SEASON
Thanksgiving Day Struggles
and Two Contests Saturday
Wind Up Erratic Year.
BY II. c. BYRD.

This week marks the end of the foot
ball season. Some games of general
i,t.-as+ .,d o,hars of rra.t imnor-
anu o'i'ei' VI i'.p
lance from STANDPOINT VI ihteiiSe
sectional rivalry are scheduled
Thursday Tb,nl,sriying and on Sat
,, .,r1, Of
III oas 'he AiHlS navy s'i
New York and the Georgetown-Bos-
ton College affair at Boston will wind
up what probably has been the most
erratic season in the history of the
sport.
interest are those to be nlayed be
tween Washington and son and
West Virginia Penn ST. md Pitts
buTgh. Pennsylvania and Cornell,
Syracuse and Nebraska. In the far
west the contest betwe"' University
OF California and TnivC----Iy of Wash
in2ron will hold the attention OF 1907
ball enthusiasts. From the Mason
Dixon line down four games are
scheduled, in which great rivalries
are to be fought out-MaryIand State
VS.. Johns Hopkins Virginia VS. North
Carolina. V. p l. VS.. V. NJ. l. and
Georgia Tech VS.. Auburn. AS far as
the New England states are concerned
the season is practically ended
Other games listed for turkey daJ
which mean much to the followers OF
the institutions involved are Kansas
VS. Missouri Kentucky state VS.. Ten
nessee Oklahoma Agries VS.. Univer-
sity of Oklahoma. Vanderbilt VS. Sews-
nee University of Utah vs. Utah Az
sies
Ceorpetown MARYLAND State. Cath
olic University and Gallaudet each
pIav one more game The Blue and
tests already mentioned. while Cath
olic University goes to Buchannon.
w Va to trv conclusions with " est
Virginia WESLEYAN and Gallaudet
pIays Camp Humphreys
To-. tho s-c4 .ir,o in ahout two dec
princeton and uarvard and lost prob
~, ,,ith hatter material than was
nossessad Nv eitber t6e Tiger or the
Cu;,nsnn rrha same raason for Yale's
5afan+ ~ ~ ban1s Of the Tiger ac-
co-f1;ng 70 ynteran critics vas re-
SnonsiSIa Tor H. lnes +o ti,e crimson
! ~ ontira denanSenca on the nlunc-
i,r ,.r,a for aro,,nJ eyainin~ Col
nn9rs Of con,nant SdTersa and ia
Vnrab,e viii he nrinte6 about Wales
90 hack In 1g16 when foot ball was
! niaved under the same rules that
GOVERN If now To find that Yale won
from Harvard and PRINCETON with
nra cticaIIv tbe same system used this
/ year and Won the nisndits of vale
nj nv h N int n nj no
cause ysie bsd st|lsst returned to the
St1-Io of n,ar rnda,. y,t;ch its te,ms
became famous This inbi1ant sniriI
was oil TIC 1,1o,.o nrnro-nced bocauee
ysia had ,one tbr1,,~h sevarol ion
.a.rs 80 ras,,I+ ~ ;ts exnarin,ants,
Will 'iie opel s'"ie-
georgetown Victcfy IN It's hHdl
nome game gave II tne SCUM atlantic
championship Tor ABOUT the Sleentn
tlme, win the exception OF last sea
son. ,"nen II nade no eHort 10 put out
d reg uiar collese team. me HTst year
Ekenolhe came 10 GEORGETOWN as
eoacn ms team IN games won ana
lost, maze ratner poor showing. put
! since that tlme ABOUT the oniy eleven
Which mas peen strong enough 10 dls-
| honors was Virginia. in 1915. when
1t defeated Yale and lost to Harvard
The Blue and Gray simply outclassed
Washington and Lee at every stage of
the play. There was no department
in which the Lexington eleven ex-
Geiied the work OF the Hilltoppers
Jack Flayin, rushed in to fill Nc
9uade's shoes after himself having
been out practically all season with
injuries, proved equal to the occasion
Hilltoppers ripped and tore their way
through the much touted elephants
of Washington and Lee, and appeared
much the more finished eleven. The
team Georgetown put on the field last
week was a credit to the university
and to the men connected with its de-
veiopment.
one or the big upsets of last Sat-
Indiana. The New Workers have
proved themselves all season among
the strongest elevens in the east. and
nobody expected that Indiana, used
as a good mat by most of the other
much chance to finish the game with
of a rather decisive score However
it left the fie- with the count 10 TO 6
in its favor.
While Catholic University finished
| its home season by losing to Villa
nova. it has nothing about which to
feel discouraged. 1t must be remem-
bered that the Brooklanders are hav-
since 1915 They made no effort to
turn out an eleven in 1917 and last
season played only three or four
games in a rather desultory way as
| an Army team. Good foot ball teams
are not built in a week.
Ohio state at last met the same
disaster Napoleon did 1t also went
down in brilliant struggle and only
/ because of last-minute rally by the
| opposing forces. but it was none the
less catastrophe for the Ohio men.
| with only minute between the
buckeye eleven and another confer