Evening star., 1920-11-22

virginia Polytechnic viii have
difficult task to bring its team around
against '. N. l.. following the trip TO
Louisville. From the face Of 1t, poor
judgment seems to have been used
in scheduling the contest with Centre
College so near to the annual struG-
gle with V. NJ. I. in Roanoke. V. NJ. L.
will place against V. p. l. the strong
est combination it has ever turned
out.
Johns Hopkins SCHEDULED Western
Maryland as an easy foe and the
game fulfilled expectations. The
make much of a stand against the
Baitimoreans at any stage. being
about fifteen pounds lighter to the
man and apparently green and mex
pertenced. Hopkins used the game as
workout for its players prior to
facing Maryland.
Maryland put in one of the hardest
days on the gridiron it has had this
fall. despite the cancellation of the
game 1t had scheduled with st. Johns.
Two hours and a half OF all kinds of
practice were gone through with and
the day was wound up with fifteen
minutes Of scrimmage. ne SQUAD
got by the day without injury except
bruised shoulder received by Bran
-ner. The injury probably was not
severe enough to keep the stocky
right end out of the Thanksgiving
day setto in the Monumental city.
Catholic University, George Wash
ington. Virginia and North Carolina
put in about the same kind of work
outs that Maryland went through
After a long drill in fundamentals
each went through several minutes of
scrimmage with the second string
elevens.
For those teams that wind up their
seasons Thursday practically all
hard scrimmage is finished. Only the
lightest kind of work will be done,
with the idea of keeping the men on
edge until time for them to take the
field in their last 1920 gridfon ef-
forts.
It seems that the stages are set for
the greatest gatherings Of crowds for
these three games that have been
known. Virginia has better than an
even chance to defeat North Carolina,
after being whipped twice consecu-
lively, and many grads will be on
hand expecting to see it done. And
many North caroIinian is going to
make the trip to Charlottesville in.
the hope that the eleven he follows
will repeat its victory of last season.
People in Roanoke will turn out to
see V. NJ. l.. eleven. which Is unde-
feated and which has back of it vic
tories over Pennsylvania. Virginia.
North Carolina and North Carolina
State. Many in Washington and
everybody in Maryland interested in
foot ball will be in Baltimore to see
the State University, widely adver-
tised since it's defeat of Syracuse, go
against the best team Hopkins has
turned out since 1915. With good
weather. the game in Baltimore prob
; ably will draw the greatest crowd
| that has ever watched foot ball
game in the south.
One feature of the three big
Thanksgiving day contests is that
the stage is beautifully set in each
for possible upset. Virginia has
| N. /. seems to be much above v. p. l..
and Maryland has a consistently bet
| ter season to its credit than Hopkins.
yet Carolina. v. p. L and Hopkins
have strong squads and are strong
enough to win IL they should get two
or three good breaks at the beginning.
A defeat. for Y. N. l.. Virginia or
Maryland would be disaster twofold
, and i correspondingly exuberant tri-
umph for the victor. Catholic Uni
yersity and George Washington ap-
pear to be evenly matched.
Georgetown has no Thanksgiving
day game. and it is to wind up its
season Saturday in Boston with Bos-
ton College. The Blue and Gray will
have to hump ITSELF" too. If it ex-
poets to accomplish much against the
Bostonians.
| Against Washington and Lee last
week the Hilltoppers were not in the
best condition possible. but they ex-
pected to win. In fact. those closest
to the Washington and Lee eleven
had only hope that their team would
be victor. Georgetown is going
through the worst season it has had
in years. despite the brilliant way it
began.