Evening star., 1920-10-18

contest. the afternoons affair was not
conducted along pink tea" lines
Five Yale players were helped to the
sidelines and two Boston College men
had to be lifted OFF the field. One
thing about that game. il is hardly
likely that either of the Goa ches was
much troubled by handshaking and
fraternizing, between players prior TO
the onslaught. Yale will wait another
year, possibly longer for a victory
over the Beaneaters. but when that
victory is won by the Dark Blue IL
is not probable that the afternoon
will be one of 'lollypops' for the de-
feated squad.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute had
rather peculiar defensive record
against Rutgers last week, being
scored On by touchdowns. a field goal
and safety. 1t is not often that ak
the methods of scoring in foot ball
are used by one team in the same
afternoon. That 1s to 6 count makes
it look as IL the University of Mary
land and Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute, due to meet at Blacksburg this
week, are pretty evenly matched, as
the Marylanders were beaten by
Rutgers by one touchdown.
Harvard and Princeton had easy
games. the former winning from Will
liams by five touchdowns and a field
goal, and the latter from Washington
and Lee by five touehdowns. PFincer
ton, however, is due to get more Sc
we're tests the next two weeks. as
Harvard will Saturday. in meeting
Center College. The Tigers face the
Naval Academy this week and next
entertain West Virginia. Navy is sure
to give Princeton a sitter game thar
il has yet had. As for West Vir-
ei N pi will he -
team but short time before the Yal9
game and should be near its tot
form, and Princeton has not forgotte,.
that trip West Virginia made to
Princeton in 1918.
Neither Pittsburgh nor Syracuse
was able to show it's full strength
| day at Syracuse. as the game was
played in a rainsterm. What should
have been a brilliant exhibition Of
gridiron development was turned into
a hysteria of fumbles. according to
reports.
To have been scheduled as Q big
game, no worse exhibition of foot
ball ever was given than in the con-
test between Virginia and Johns Hop
kins at Baltimore. Neither team
seemed able to do anything with any
0egfee OF accuracy. virginia haQ SO
many formations. or at least its backs
placed themselves in SO many different
positions, that it would be super
human machine if it could master all
the details of plays from them in
single season. On two occasions Vir-
ginia carried out drives for touch
downs and showed flashes of latent
power, but it's attack was not con-
sistent. However. ii would be ex-
tremely difficult to find better quail
fed squad physically than that which
represented Virginia.
Hopkins either did not know its
signals or was extremely dilatory
about running of it's plays. Neither
team handled punts we'll. Virginias
work in this regard being particularly
atrocious. About the only credit
which should go to either team for
the game ought to be given to Hop
kins for holding to two teychdowns
a team which potentially was strong
enough to have won more easily.
There was, though. in Virginia's play
one thing which stood eut-the way
it's ends covered puRts. They usual
ly dropped the Hopkins receiver in
his tracks. CalkiRs eff Hopkins did
some exceptionally good kicking. and
either his punts were extremely diff
cult to handle or Virginia had no man
in it's backfield en- whom 1t could rely
to catch the ball.