Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-16

Just twice in thirty years has VIZ
-ginia Military Institute whipped VIE
ginia, the first time in 1912. and agall
two years ago. Those two victories
ington cadets to keep trying, anG
this week the entire cadet corps VIII
make the trip to Charlottesville To
watch its eleven make another at
tempt to haul down the virginia pan
ner. Incidentally. this is to be the
first time the cadet corps has visited
Charlottesville. the only other game
that it has been leaving Lexington
for being the one with Virginia Poly
technic Institute.
Georgetown won again witnoul
G much trouble from what is said 70
have been far weaker eleven. Ihe
Blue and Gray attack was precislon y
itself and its team in addition was
so much stronger physically that the
comparison was all in favor OF the
locals Georgetown is rounding It's
men into shape gradually, ana Dy tne
time Coach Exendine reaches ms Die
games Georgetown men connoehtiS
feel that Georgetown is going to oe
represented by the strongest team II
has turned out since 1916.
: If WI, rather surprixink that Gal
: laudet and George Washington were
20 decisively defeated by Western
: Maryland and Johns Hopkins Botn
the local schools were unable to with
stand the attacks of the teams which
; make their homes in Westminster and
Baltimore.
Catholic University came through
with victory; despite ODDS asainSst
it. The Brooklanders. with not half
the preliminary training that the
: Washington College eleven had. and
at the disadvantage of facing team
which had been through full game
had the punch to put across the WIN
ming score when the punch was need
< cd. The result of the contest was
great credit to Coach Dooley and his
. ability to bring along his squad with
out going either too fast or too slow.
y. University of Maryl9nd. on the face
of its game with Penn. made good
showing, but many Marylanders VINO
IVA tched the contest feel just llttie
disappointed because they saw their
; make victory possible. But that is
foot ball. and the one satisfactlon
, that Maryland can have is that II
went to Philadelphia and gave the
EQuakers a battle for four fourteen
minute periods the latter Will not
forget in some time.
: Something of how Philadelphians
viewed the game may be gained from
: the following excerpt for ma Phiia-
deIphia paper of the account Of 1t:
has not been seen on Franklin Field
these three years. Many had ex-
pected the Marylanders to come here
10 be battered and torn apart. In
stead, their strength was almost
equal to that of the Red and Blue:
They were a team of fighters. of
strong players who knew the game,
who even threatened PENIS goal line
lon one occasion. 1t was a game OF
the type that makes foot ball rams
one that was thoroughly Brilliant
~ Alabama Polytechnic Institute threw
"a scare into the Army eleven the
/. score being to in its favor uptli
-4he final period. In that last quarter
the Army broke loose with great
-nffense and got three touchdowns
AUBURN whiting somewhat for one
reason or another. In the hrst nan
Auburn had the ball in Army's terri
tory all the time, and it was purely
a defensive game on the part OF the
ARMY to stave off another score. --
Jova's victory over YnIe seems to
have been hailed as great surprise
and there is no particular reason why
il should be. 1t is true. that Blue,
and in most other cases where either
Yale, Harvard or Princeton faces a
really strong eleven. has the advan.
tage of it's own field and racing a
team which had completed long
tTlD. OUT In6 DIE "SosOAh I'LL
versities have just as many students
as Yale. just as husky men on their
SQUADS. Yale IN past years has been
drawing more experienced material
from the preparatory ana nigh
schools, but that advantage Is being
overcome now since the high schools
and prep schools of the middle west
are beginning to develop just as good
eleyens as are turned out at Andover
and other places where the nebulae
of stars begin to shape up.
Seldom indeed, perhaps never pc
fore in the history of foot ball. has
the stage been set so dramatically fol
a gridiron test A championship team
of great section Of the country
against one of the best elevens OF
section which always has been noted
for good foot ball and hard foot
ball, and the teams coached by
brothers. And In this particular case
probably it was coaching experience
ence turns the trick in many other