Evening star., 1919-10-16
SCHOLASTIC SERIES
BEGINS TOMORROW
Tech and Eastern Meet in
First Game Between High
School EIevens.
BY II. C. BYRD.

BY III. c. BYRD.
High school foot ball gets under
way tomorrow. with Eastern and Tech
series. The game will be played in
the Central High stadium and will
start at o'clock. Bryan Morse, Louis
Battersby and John Dugan will offici
ate.
Unless there is a big upset. Tech.
should be the victor. One who follows
scholastic foot ball closely every year
made the statement just few days
ago that Tech seemed to him to be
about the best bet in the series, eX-
cept, possibly. Central The manual
trainers have a heavier eleven than
usual, while Eastern is said to be
exceptionally light. Cuppy Farmer,
former Tech and George Washington
player, coaching Eastern, has given
forth more than one complaint be-
cause of the lack of heavy men.
Western Highs eleven made good
showing again yesterday, playing
Gallaudet's second team to to Z.
score. This was accomplished de-
spite the fact that Gallaudet had in
its lineup Matthews, a player who is
expected to make the varsity. West
ern'S continued good showing in it's
practice games indicates that it
should make an excellent record in
the high school series.
Georgetown's squad put in a long
afternoon yesterday, Coach Exendine
putting a lot of tine on the funda-
mentals of foot ball and on defensive
work against the style of play to be
used by V. P. 1. The Blue and Gray
expects to win from the Blacksburg
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est kind of struggle. There is no
doubt that V. p. 1. will bring here the
best combination that has ever rep
resented it on the gridiron. With
heavy, brilliant backfield and strong
line the visitors are expected to put
up a great game. V. p. /. last year
was the only college eleven in the
south to go through its schedule with
out defeat, and this season it has in
the lineup the main strength of the
team of year ago and other stars.
Gallaudet is drilling it's squad hard
forthe clash with Hopkins Saturday
in Baltimore. The Kendall Greeners
are very hopeful ofrwinning from the
though they recognize
that the task Is not going to be easy.
Tech Highs eleven scrimmaged yes
terday against st. Alban's and had
Episcopalians. st. Adams could make
little or no headway against the Man
lal Trainers.
Maryland States squad leaves here
tonight for Morgantown, where West
Virginia University is to be played
The Maryland squad Is In
iair condition only. another man hav-
ing been added to the list of injured.
Six men of the twenty-five on the
varsity squad now are on the side
lines. They are Molster and Riggs.
Raedy. halfbacks. All are expected to
be ready and in good shape by the last
of next week.
Catholic University has anothsr
game with a service eleven, being
booked to meet the team representing
the Norfolk Naval Base. the same
nearly two weeks ago. The Brook
landers are making corrections of
faults noticed in the contest with the
Marines last week and expect to be
much stronger Saturday.
Following is an interesting part Of
a letter directed to the writer by Ed
ward D. woodward. who saw the West
contest last week:
1T saw your view Of the Pitt-West
Virginia game in The Star today.
You have the right DOPE. for If ever
two teams were evenly matched they
were Pitt and West Virginia. The
former was the better coached and
had much more versatile offensive tao
tics. while the latter had by far the
more powerful and better individual
players. I was a spectator at the
game, and never saw the breaks go
v,uf
West Virginia. But Pitt was on it's
toes and took advantage of every
break. West Virginia expected to
win on forward passing, but the con-
ditions made such play impossible.
West Virginia lost two touchdowns
through fumbled forward passes-one
over the goal line and another on the
one-yard line.
TN addition Pitt scored three touch
downs by recovering West Virginia
yard line. Two Of these touchdowns
resulted from plays which to my
mind were illegal. This view Is
shared by several Pittsburgh sports
writer's. These were the plays:
West Virginia fumbled on its 10
ball for Pittsburgh and was tackled
on the 3-yard line. He pushed the
ball in front of him as he lay on
the ground. Davies of Pittsburgh
took it out of Hastings hands and
slid it over the goal line and covered
it. The officials allowed the score.
On the other play Pitt punted and
the West Virginia quarterback al
lowed the ball to roll, thinking it
would go over the line for a touch
back However. the ball stopped on
the 5-yard line and the Pitt players
fell on it. For some reason the ball
was given to Pitt.
"Pitt deserved to win because Of
better luck and superior coaching.
that IL he had the West Virginia team
he would smother any eleven or COM
bination Of stars in the country.
He stated that Fullbeck Rodgers and
Center Bailey were the best players
in the country in their respective
positions"