Evening star., 1920-10-18

| Center College was the pivot of the
| 1919 season, springing from obscurlty
| to first rank. Prior to last fall hardly
| anyb body outside the chosen few" ever
heard of Center College, but Harvard
| thought well enough of its meteoric
rise to give it prominent place on
| it's schedule.
Therefore. the game Saturday. VIII
Center College prove fash in the
pan and suffer about the same kind of
defeat usually administered to such
elevens by Harvard? Was 1t last year
playing with the advantage of being
stronger than it's opponents expected,
and thereby swept away victories
which actually could not have been
won had opposing teams been pre-
pared for hard contests? Or was Cen
ter College really one or the great
gridiron machines of the decade? The
test comes this week; almost the hrst
actual test the Kentuckians have ever
had, despite their fine record OF year
ago Harvard knows what Center
College was last year, knows the rec
ord made and knows that the center
College of the present should be as
strong as, os stronger than. the Cen
ter College of 1919, because practically
the same men are in the lineup fully
facing the possibilities of defeat II
Center College really was the great
est machine developed a year ago
Harvard has it's eyes open. and un-
doubtedly is making preparation TO
meet the strongest kind of foe. And
the question is, will Center ColleEe,
against strong enemy, zoe luiiy
conversant with it's strength ana
ready to meet 1t, pc the oenter teiaese
of 1919. ready with a smile to say;
I've shall win and win easily, and
then go out on the field and make
good?
The answer will be interesting.
Local elevens have nothing of which
to be ashamed in connection with the
games they played last week. tIeofge
Washington, which took reai olo-
fashioned beating from West virginia
should not be in the least discouraged.
The Hatchetites are gong TO take
some more whippings this fall, put
they are breaking into real foot pail,
and within year or Two WIZ nave
teams strong enough to make them
feel that it was rather good thing to
take some beatings in order to form
alliances with standard schools.
Georgetown's achievement In sceF-
ling four touchdowns against team
which held Washington and Jener-
son nip and tuck and which west
Virginia barely registered two touch
downs against was a feat well worthy
of the Hilltoppers, even with their
strong eleven West Virginia Wes-
leyan evidently came here with the
idea of battling Georgetown on prac-
tically even terms with fair chance
of winning. And it put up a real
fight. lust about as good as any los
ing eleven could hope to.
Catholic University exceeded its
own expectations in beating Mullen
berg a team which had well played
games to its credit in schedule in
which it has met Penn State and
Lafayette, both among the casts
strongest squads. The Brooklanders
showed much improvement over theil
work against Richmond a week ago.
University of Maryland did little
or nothing against Washington Col
lege except win rather easily. The
players did not try either as indi
viduals or as a team to put forth
very strenuous efforts, and the four
touchdowns by which they won were
obtained without much difficulty.
Gallaudet did well against Susque-
hanna University, losing by one
more experienced eleven. Gallaudet
has lost it's first two games by such
small margins that in all probability
the margin by which it lost is repre-
sented in its failure to open it's
schedule earlier. William and Mary
beat Gallaudet by one touchdown
after it had played two games and
Gallaudet had not played any: Sus-
quehanna University had taken part
in three contests prior to last Satur-
day, While last saturdays was the
second for the Kendall Greeaers.
Yale men will begin to believe that
all the so-called evils of its 1919
coaching system have not yet been
eliminated if many more jolts like
last weeks are received around New
Haven. Instead of going in and wip-
ing up in the customary way the
eleven which the previous year had
humbled it's colors. the Dark Blue
took worse beating. And to judge
by the newspaper accounts of the