Evening star., 1919-11-19
OLD R|vALNESDUE
| T0bEFcyGHT OUT
Longs Standing Gridiron En-
emies to Meet Saturday in
l Many Sections.
Bf III. e. BYRD.

several ola rlFairleS Will be fought
out on the sridi ron this week Most
notable. of course. of the struggles to
be staged for the edification of alumni
is that which is to take place at Cam
bridge between Yale and Harvard
However in Other sections games are
scheduled which are just as all-in-
portant 10 graduates of the cont end
ing institutions as the clash at Cam
bridge to those who took their di-
plomas from the Dark Blue or Grim
Son.
Up in New York city New York Uni
Nersity and Columbia long gridiron
rivals, are to face Down AT South
Bethiehem, Pa, Lehigh and Lafayette
are TO play what is the greatest game
OF the year Tor each. the game either
had rather win than to win all the
othsr contests on its schedule. Over
IN Baitimore Johns Hopkins and st.
as old as foot ball at both institutions.
Out in the middle west clashes are
scheduled between Michigan and Min
heso6a. ONO state and Illinois. Down
and Richmond College play their an
nuai game. and the Yale e-Harvard
game Is mere triGing occurrence in
SGomparison as far as any Randolph
concerned; Another old rivalry is to
he settled at Swarthmore between
ItaFsrford a.nd Swarthmore. both
Quaker schools.
Yale *raduate who watched the
Irincetor-Yale game last week made
this settlement today:
1alG practically threw away the
game with Princeton. Ely conserva-
1--WE loot ball it had won for itself
Insfgin of 8 to 8. but instead of con-
thuing to play that kind of foot ball
End striving 70 na'rt
booting the bali far into Princeton
territory, when it had the opportu-
nifty. for some reason unknown, it be-
gan to use forward passes and take
what seemed to me to be unnecessary
chances. This may sound little pre-
mature. especially after what hap
pened last week to upset the dope
but just watch Yale beat Harvard
Saturday"
While Central High won from East
ern yesterday by rather a big margin.
the game really was more closely con-
tested than was expected. While it
is true that Central used almost an
entire substitute team, the Light Blue
and White eleven deserves consid-
cradle credit for the amount of gin
ger and fight it put into its play.
Following the Central-Western
game last week. the writer was told
by reputable individuals that Coach
Metzler Of Central had called in to
his players to cover an apparently
uncovered Western man out to get
forward pass The story was print
ed in this column. The following day
the writer talked with MetZler about
the play, and MetZleT stated that the
report was mistake. and that he had
not coached from the Side-lineS nor
had he called in to any of his players.
An offer was made to print the de-
nial. but Metzler replied, NO, think
1t IS not of sufficient Importance for
that: ] just wanted You to know /
didn't do it."
Today the writer received a letter
from Penrose Russell, captain of the
Central team, stating that neither he
nor any of his teammates heard any
thing that even savored of coaching
from the side lines. While Russeli's
letter is more or less personal, and he
says nothing about printing it, the
writer. out of justice to Metzler, is
taking the liberty of reproducing il
here, with apologies to the Central
captain if he does not like to have it
done RusSelfs letter:
Having read your statement about
the Central-Western game in last
Thursdays paper, on behalf of my
school coach and team. / wish to say
something about the comment YOU
side line; This you said happened
during the first. play of the game,
which gave US the first touchdown
Although appreciate the fact that
you said we would have won the
game in spite Of the alleged incident.
i wish to state that did not hear Of
or see any one warn or call to me
from the side line at any time during
the game, and from what I have
learned from my teammates they did
from the side line. The fact that the
officials, whose integrity and efficiency
are not disputed, and who were among
the players. did not warn or penalize
us would indicate that no offense was
committed. Any statement that my
team was directed or Influenced in its
play by coaching from the side line
during this game or any other game
10 absolutely the result of q mistake.
II also feel it my duty to state that
! have been playing under Mr. Metzler
for three years and during that time he
has never taught his teams anything
but clean play and faithful observance
OF the rules. He has never made the
slightest suggestion Of foul play, but
has denounced such methods.
Although I do not believe that the
Western team is or was coached from
the side line. might caH your atten-
tion to an incident which you failed
to state in your account Of the game
referee during the third quarter stop
ped the game while we were in front
of the Western bench and notified the
Western coach and substitutes that If
they did not stop coaching from the
side line he would have to penalize the
Western team.
Il also want to say that this is writ
ten without the knowledge of my
COACH
While Eastern High School has not
made much of a showing in the
scholastic series. it has one player
who, had he been supported by strong
er teammates, probably would have
stood out as one of the star backs. He