Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-21
G. j. AND BETHANY,
c. v. AND c. U.PLAy
Maryland Also Meets N. c,
! State Thursday-Three
Scholastic Contests.

SSoSV s1sAS SN~y
Scholastic Contests.
BY H. G. BYRD.
While college and school foot ball
on Washington gridirons Is singing
it's swan song this week. some Of the
best games of the season yet remain
and local elevens are preparing to
wind mp their schedules with a. hard
contests as they have played.
Georgetown 10 not netting anything
soft in facing Bethany at American
League Park, George Washington and
Catholic University know that in each
other they have opponents who
neither ask nor give quarter and 10
line up against North Carolina State.
which has whipped every other team
in North Carolina without being
scored on.
the high school games are to be
between Tech and Business on Wed.
nssday, Gonzaga and Gonzaga Alumni
Thursday morning. while Central will
play Maryland Freshmen tomorrow In
the Central stadium
Bethany IL Confident.
Bethany firmly believes it is going
to beat Georgetown. In fact. q few
days ago, when the writer intnated
should is win so he Was taken to task BY
a Bethany man. who vouchsafed the
Information that the West Virginians
are laying for Georgetowo and have
been banking all fall on trimming
the local school. and we're going to
do it. too" he added.
Bethany is a small college and not
very well known in this section, but
il has a good foot ball team. The
line + made up Of Zig men En-. and 50 is
team is an except ORALLY hefty team.
even in a section where big teams are
not the exception. The Eame should
be well worth seeing. as Bethany has
lot of open plays and q brilliant
runner In Randolph.
q. U..G. W. to Play ut 1880.
In order not, to conflict with the
Georgetown-BethAny game George
Washington ana Catholic University
will play their game in the Central
stadium at 1850 o'clock; an unusual
hour for q foot ball game here. How
ever. down at Columbia, s. c.. Glenn
their annual fair week game At ls
noon Columbia University also has
scheduled its game this THANKSGIVING
for the morning part Of the day, and
will start 1t At 1880.
Tho Brooklanders and Hatchetites
think they should draw not only their
legitimate following by playing the
game at noon, but that there are
many fans who will take advantage
Of the difference in starting time to
see both gameaL
Both games should be well worth
watching. The Catholic University
George Washington University con-
test bids fair to be exceptionally
spirited and should develop some
open play Of the sensational kind.
Dt1 l..
fall. but both have better teams than
they generally have been given credit
for. And all those that leave tie
George Washington Catholic Uni
verSty game to go to the one between
Georgetown and Bethany will see
foot ball as good as the south Allan
tic section has produced this sea6on-
foot ball that IL to DO played between
big and experienced elevens.
Marylana Meets Tough Fee.
Just how we'll contested should be
the game between Maryland and
North Carolina State in Baltimore
may b shown BY comparing scores OF
some south Atlantic gameA North
Carolina State defeated North Caro-
lima University beat Maryland, 10 to
z: Maryland whipped Virginia Poly
technic Institute, 10 to Z. and Virginia
Polytechnic Institute took the meas
uIo OF NoIln SdIollu6 ol2Ie, 10 D.
which seems sufficient to indicate that
II any two of these four teams were
to meet a close, hard-fought game
should result Maryland went through
Its game with Carnegie Tech without
an injury. except bruised shoulder
ably will be back in shape by Thurs
day. s.
Crimson Hard to Conquer.
Harvard 10 hard annvOh h>~k
BY any team and at any time. but
Harvard. when it takes the time and
trouble to point for any particular
game 1t desires to win moro than
any other. Is the hardest eleven in
the United States to conquer. II
memory is not at fault, Harvard is
gone to Pasadena on New Year day
and brought back a victory. and last
week it produced great surprise for
the foot ball world in defeating Yale.
Harvard had a great coaching sys-
tenn and. as one Harvard man in au-
thority at Cambridge told the writer
last year. I'VE can beat almost any
team when. we try to point for that
team alone No small part of Har-
wards success on the gridiron is due
scouting is not easy, as many a foot
ball coach who has builded on mac
curate information will verify.
Probably the biggest foot ball sur
prise of last Saturday in the east
was the victory Rutgers won over
West Virginia. That was about as
much expected as was Illinois VIC
tory In its game with Ohio State
From reports, it seems that West
virginia started second-string mon,
figuring Rutgers weaker than 1t
really was. Rutgers soon put over
two touchdowns and West Virginia
never thereafter was able to ind
itself.
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