The Washington herald., 1920-11-30
Heaphy. Boston College
Center, Is Class Of the
East. Says Georgetown
Mentor-Holy Cross May
Stop Cavanaugh' S Men.
Ry R. M. HELGEsEN.

Exendine's grid squad will get
down to work in earnest today, and
viii be driven hard in preparation
for the battle with Bethany College
here next Saturday.
The Hilltoppers went through the
game with Boston College In nne
shapee and arrived home this morn
ing in the best of spirits, prepared
to put In some hard work before
they clash with the West Vir-
ginians in the final game OF the
season
G. o. supporters are hoping for
the SQUADS return to its early-sea-
son form when their condition, mem
tally and physically, was such that
they walked away with the first
half OF their schedule.
No outside work of any kind was
indulged In yesterday, the coaches
deyotIng the biggest part Of the af-
ternoon to skull class" work in
the gym. Exendine and O'Reilly
pointed out the mistakes made in
the game with the Bean-eaters,
later running the men through
short signal drill.
Practice today will be devoted
mainly to limbering up. signals, and
a long kicking drill. Tomorrow the
real work will begin when the
coaches expect to drive the boys
through a hard scrimmage-
Heaphy. Boston Colleges star
center, and touted in the North as
the logical selection for the center
position on the annual mythical all
American eleven is all that the ex-
perts claim he is and then some,
according to Coach John ]. O'Reilly
of Georgetown.
Heaphy played at the Hilltop for
two seasons and, though only a kid,
showed signs even then or deVel-
oping into a star.
The boy is all that they claim
for him." says O'Reilly. DefenstveIy
he is all that a coach could ask
He is a good passer, uses good judg-
ment and is on his toes and play
ing hard all tke time.
'rOn the offense it's rarely that
a back gets through Heaphy and
frequently he is through the op-
posing line and downs the runner
for a loss before other players
realize the play has started. He
tackles as hard as any player I've
seen for some time. and the man
who names him on az aii-American
team can't go far wrong"
Cayanaugh's eleven. conquerors of
Yale and Georgetown this year
also last year-and practically the
only team "A the East which has
gone thrergh their entire schedule
withauc suffering either a defeat or
a tied score, is due to face the
hardest battle Of the season when
It stacks up against the powerful
Holy Cross team
The Beaneaters, playing the
Bulldogs early in the season, crack
ed 'em wide open, handing them
21-13 defeat, which accounted for
their second victory. in as many
starts against Yale. Prior to this
they had won their first battle
against Fordham, 20 to O.. In their
third clash the Bostonians showed
real class when they opened up and
dropped the heavy Springfield elev-
en- on. the short end of a 12-to-o
score the week following that teams
defeat, OF the classy University of
Detroit eleven.
Only one team in addition to Yale
has been able to score on the Bean
eaters this year. that feat being
accomplished by Coach Greasy"
Neale's fast Marietta (Ohio) squad.
However. despite this record, which
in the main is laid to the Boston
ians' clever overhead attack, wit
nesses of the Beaneaters' victory
over the Hilltoppers, Saturday, de-
clare that they will have to un-
cover a better set of plunging backs
than they have shown up to this
time IL they expect to turn the
Catholics of the main road at the
lane marked Defeat and finish
their schedule without a blemish,
remaining practically the only un-
beaten team in the East
The reason for this pessimism on
the part of B. C. supporters is caused
by the Holy Cross teams wonderful
defense against the open attack. In
cidentally the Holy Cross eleven Is
there-when 1t comes to stopping the
best Of 'em- The W. K. sons of Mr..
Harvard were able to score only 3
points against them, that score re-
sulting from the educated toe of
Horween. Dartmouth trimmed the
Catholics to the tune of 81 to 13
Holy Cross later slipped the skids
under Syracuse and from then on
have kept a clean slate.
Boston College, however, looks to
have the edge in this ''battle of
Catholics" with a big possibility of
the Holy Cross team being able to
"cross the dope" upsetting the
Beaneaters for their only defeat of
the season