Evening star., 1919-11-11

BrookIanders Confident They
Will Win Big Game of
Their Season Saturday.
BY Ii. L. BYRD.

Catholic University expects to beat
Maryland State in the only foot ball
game scheduled in washington next
Saturday. Notwithstanding that their
team has played only two collegiate
elevens this season, the Brooklanders
1eel that they have at least an even
chance to win from the Marylanders
and are pointing thei rteam for it
as their big game of the year. They
make no secret of the fact that they
expect it to develop into a great
struggle.
One of the men who have been run
nlng athletics at c. u. for several
years stated yesterday that his squad
is confident of getting the long end
OF the score. no matter what the COM
parison of the two elevens may be on
a basis of previous performances.
pressed yesterday:
Some people seem to have the opln-
ion that Maryland State is going to
win from US Saturday without much
trouble. But you just mark what l
say-its going to be some battle.
State will uotweigh US somewhat in
the line, but it does not have anything
like as good a backfeld as we do
Som ething else, we have star ends
Caplan. the former Lenigh Tanker. is
Mighty SOOU anu again, "t ia
had scouts watching the Maryland
eleven in all it's recent games and we
know everything it has in the way OF
offense. We have much better mater
ial on our team than anybody sup
poses, and Saturday afternoon we are
going to give that College Park squad
the hottest sixty minutes of foot ball
it has spent in a long time.
1t will be remembered by local loot
ball followers who saw the games in
1914 1915 and 1916 that both teams had
a rather warm afternoon on each occa-
sion In 1914 State won by I to 0. in
1915 c. L. was victor by 15 to 0 and IN
1916 State won again by 13 to 3. SO
warm was the game in 1915 that four or
five fights were going on at the same
time, and the results of the meeting in
1916 were such that the authorities of
both schools thought it would be better
not to schedule another in 1917. Now
that the two institutions are getting to-
gether again, though, clean, hard foot
ball is likely to be the main thought OF
both.
Central and Western should show
some fine scholastic foot ball this after
noon in their game in the Central Sta
dunn. To stay in the running for the
championship, each eleven feels that 1t
must win Central will be much heavier
than Western in the backfield, while the
| latter probably will have a line which no
| other high school has yet been able to
| dent appreciably.
| Maryland States foot ball squad re-
| ported yesterday in good shape, not a
single injury having been received. In
| the game with St Johns last week.
About half the men were sent back to
| the dressing room after a brief Timber
| ing up and the others took only a short
signal practice. 1t was one of the light
| est workouts of the year.
/ Georgetown's squad got down to
| brass tacks in preparation for the
| struggle this week with Georgia Tecf
| at Atlanta. The Blue and Gray ha:
| to perfect certain plays for use
! against the Atlanta eleven and will
| develop it's defense to meet the fas
| shifting line to which it will be op
posed. Following its victory over thu
Midshipmen. Georgetown thinks it ha:
| at worst an even chance to defeat the
Golden Tornado" Washington ant
Lee showed last week that the tricl
| could be turned by a southern team
| and Georgetown proposes to duplicate
| Washington and Lees effort, excep,
| by a larger margin.
Talk about judging the strength Of
| football teams by comparative scores
how about this:
| Dartmouth, 10; Penn State. 13.
/ Penn State, 10; Pennsylvania. 0.
| Dartmouth, 20; Pennsylvania, 10.
And the game between Dartmouth
and Penn, according to every New
York critic who saw the game. really
| should have been victory for the