Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-07
FOOT BALL SQUADS
TO BEGIN PRACTICE
Next Week Will Find All
South Atlantic Gridders
Actively Preparing.
MANY BIG GAMES BOOKED
BY II. e. BYRD.

Active preparation for the foot ball
season in the South Atlantic section
will begin within another week. Two
institutions already have squads
working and others have issued calls
to report this week for practice and
others not later than a week from
tomorrow. September 15 BY that time
practically every institution in the
south will have their men working
out.
North Carolina State College and
University of Virginia have begun
practice and their squads are being
| augmented by fresh arrivals every
day. Georgia Tech. University of
Georgia and University of North Car
DINA have sent out calls for their
candidates to be on hand by the last
of this week, and Georgetown, V:r-
ginia Polytechnic Institute, Washing
ton and Lee and Maryland State have
issued orders for an opening practice
Monday, September Is.
More big games than usual will be
| played in the section this fall And
1t may be said here that, for the pur-
pose of this story,t Florida, Georgia
and South Carolina are included
among the south Atlantic states. Only
one big contest is lost, Georgia and
Georgia Tech having had a disagree
ment over base ball game last
spring which resulted in a severance
of athletic relationships However.
| to offset that several other contests
Of Importance are listed. chief among
them being that between University
! of North Carolina and North Caro-
| lima State College. These institu-
tions will meet again in gridiron
struggles after probably the most
bitter break in the history of such
athletic ruptureS.
First Game Booked September 20.
| The first game of the foot ball year
is to be betw cen two south Atlantic
elevens. Davidson and Guilford being
scheduled to appear against each
other at WinSton-Salem on Septem-
Der 20.
While all the teams will not get into
action September 81. the last Satur-
day of the current month, more games
in the season In the south. The last
week in September very often is much
too hot for foot ball contests.
No hard games are listed for Sep
| TENDER 81, several of the larger in
| situations being scheduled to get into
! action against opponents that should
not prove very formidable. Georgia
| Tech opens its schedule with Furman
| University. North Carolina State plays
Guilford. Virginia meets Randolph
| Macon. Virginia Polytechnic Institute
| entertains Hampden-Sidney and Wake
| Forest and Davidson are slated to
| face in what may be the only real
| game of foot ball of all those sched-
| uled.
October 4 will find practically all
| teams in the section engaged with
| one or two contests above the or
| binary. Clemson College and Davidson
| play what ought to be the best con-
| tested game of the day. Virginia Mil
| Lexington gridiron. Virginia Poly
| technic Institute opens up with
| Hampden-Sidney. Washington and
Lee will make its first appearance in
intercollegiate foot ball in two years
/ by playing Randolph Macon and Uni
| versity of Georgia begins it's season
| with Citadel at Athens. The south
! Atlantic elevens meet teams outside
| the section in what should be bitter
| ly fought games. North Carolina goes
| to New Brunswick for a battle with
! Rutgers. North Carolina State plays
Navy at Annapolis. and Maryland
| State is slated to appear at Swarth-
! more: these are three eleVens whicn
| are not going to have things easy on
! the earliest date in October. Catholic
University was scheduled to begin its
! season, but was compelled to cancel
; with Mount ST. Mary's, owing to late
| opening of school.
On October II two games are listed
which may develop some real loot
ball Maryland State hooks up with
Virginia at Charlottesville and Glenn
son is booked to face Georgia Teen
| at Atlanta. Georgetown and North
| Carolina meet opponents from out
side. The former will have west
virginia wesleyan here. and if that
school turns out team as strongS
as its products Of the last two or
| three seasons there should be strug
gle on the hilltop worth seeing. North
Carolina goes north to meet fale'
and the Tarheels are pretty sure to
be up against it. Navy. v. P. /,
fV. M l.. and Washington and Lee.
respectively, play Johns Hopkins.
Richmond, William and Mary and
Davidson. If Davidson can present
L. as it produced two years age "
will give the Lexingtonians a little
more than they will be looking Tor.
v. P. I. Plays g. q. Eleven Here.
Most prominent of the games sched-
uled October Is is that between Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute and
Georgetown here. The last time v.
P. I. appeared here Georgetown won
Blacksburg team went through an
undefeated season, and this fan IS
said to have the best foot ball PROS
meets in it's history. Virginia plays
it's annual game with Virginia Mill
tary Institute. North Carolina State
meets Roanoke. University OF North
Carolina plays Wake Forest, ana
MARYLAND State goes out of the eec-
tion TO meet West Virginia University
at Morgantown. Washington and Lee
plays Richmond College.
Georgetown is scheduled for long
Journey for its game October %. hay. =
ing a battle with the University OF
Detroit at Detroit Georgia Tech goesS
out of it's territory to try to avenge
it's 90 to defeat last fall at the
hands of Pittsburg and the Cnivefsfy
of Virginia journeys north for an
other game with Harvard. George
town probably will find things rath'r
easv at Detroit but Virginia and
Georgia Tech are likely to have suf-
SS:ea.,,, h,rd orojnp To make I'D for