Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-25

for choice morseI at Philadelphia.
The man who secuted on Pennsyl-
vania for V. NJ. 1. made this state
ment last Friday morning: All
we've got to do is stop Strauss and
we'll whip Pennsylvania. l failed
to see anything about that team espe-
cially worth while and we are much
better than they. I think.
North Carolina State has a power
full combination and the game it is to
play at Lexington with V. NJ. |. next
Saturday should be one of the best or
the year. The Raleigh eleven is YER
satile and physically beyond the av-
erage of even the best teams. Its
backfield is more capable than it was
a year ago. and its line is practically
the same as in 1918. which means that
it is as good as it was then plus the
added experience.
Georgetown has a team which
seems to be even better than its
usual output. 1t is winning hard
: that there can be no doubt about the
worth of the eleven nor the strength
of the team as whole.
Washington and Lee and Virginia
Polytechnic have advanced in grid
iron technique and their game at
Lynchburg this week ought to be one
of the best ever played between
them. Bill Raftery. coach at Wash
ington and Lee. says: My team is.
i think, Just a little stronger than
1t was a year ago. Two or three po-
sitions are filled by better men and
the team is working better as unit.
" p. lis backfeld is not so heavy
as last seasons quartet, but is fast
er. The team possesses much fast
er charging and more generally ag-
gressive and better schooled line
than it's 1919 set of forwards.
University of North Carolina prob
ably is playing better foot ball and
Is more advanced at this stage of the
season than any other school in the
section In fact. against North
Carolina State at Raleigh last Thurs
bit too fine. even, to be at their best.
However. the Tarheels have a good
foot ball team, one that is especially
well coached in the open style of play.
Against North Carolina State. it had
the better of the game in the first
half, but made the mistake of pound
ing its backs ito death" in it's own
territory.
University of Virginia is conceded
to have fine material. but until it
met Rutgers last week had not made
the best of 1t. A decisive defeat by
V. NJ. l.. in which its play was char
acteriZed by one expert as "the poor
est I have seen by big team in
long WHILE" and a mediocre game in
Baltimore sent Virginia stock and
standards tumbling. However. the
5-to-0 victory over Rutgers will help
a lot toward the restoration of con-
fidence in the players. and in the
school itself.
University of Maryland has almost
the same eleven this fall that it pos
esessed last, with the addition of more
Uory al al MI E9~x& L.
seven men on the line are holding
down their old positions. and these
are improved to a great extent. If
the team has no injuries to retard it's
progress and Brewers and Pagana-
inucci's hurts come around all right.
Maryland probably will put on the
field toward the end of the season
one Of the most powerful combina-
tons that have ever worn its colors.
g., Other schools seem to be above their
usual standards. Hopkins, while it
has been taking some rather distaste-
ful whippings, in view of the great
things which were expected of the
squad at the beginning of the season.
is better by far than its 1919 repre-
sentative. Hopkins is getting whip
ped. but it is playing much better
schools than previously have been on
it's schedule.
Catholic University is trying to res
urrect its fortunes. following the war
ard. despite it's Overwhelming loss at
Lafayette, is steadily working into
shape one of it's most capable aggre.
cations.
George Washington, of course, has
an uphill road, but everybody around
the university has confidence in even
tual success.
Gallaudet. William and Mary and
Davidson possess creditable elevens
though they have comparatively few
students from which to select mate
rial.
While some few individuals were
optimistic enough to believe that
Centre College would win from Har-
ward; those familiar with conditions
which confront the smaller southern
schools in meeting big northern uni
versities on northern fields expressed
definite opinions that the Crimson
would be victor by about three
touchdowns..
In the latter part of the season.
when the air is cold and when men
do not become exhausted SO easily. a
southern school would stand a much
better chance to win than when it
plays early in the year. In the big
stadiums up north in the latter PAL |
of September and in the first three
weeks Of October. the heat is too
great for any eleven men to be any-
thing like at their best toward the
end of third quarter, no matter how
excellent their physical condition.
And the average southern eleven does
not stand the gaff" of northern foot
ball SO we'll as do the northern teams
The average southern squad does not
play such driving aggressive game
as do some of the bigger universities
as climatic conditions, especially dur
ing the early ri nf he
such style of play almost impos-
slbIe. except in occasional instances.
Then again. all the northern uniyer-
stiles can place on the field three
elevens in which the difference in
playing abilities is slight. The usual
southern school has one pretty fair
team. but every time it makes a sub
stitution the team is weakened
George Washington's victory over
Villanova is the kind of stimulus the
school needed. One or two more wins
will put those handling athletics in a
position where they will have some
thing to back up their appeals to the
students and faculty and alumni to
support athletics. Defeating Villa
nova at any time is no mean task. and
for George Washington TO come
through and do SO after such a de-
cisiNe defeat as that experienced at
West Virginia is a tribute TO Coach
Horse and his players.
Georgetown was expected to win
from Fordharn. but it is doubtful if
.Tyhcdy thought il would win bv
such an overw helming score 1t has
Ieea many a day since George
town eleven has been able to run
Ap forty points on Fordham.
The Blue and Gray will meet a far
different combination. though, when
Fl faces Boston College at Boston
THAT game is likely to develop into
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