Evening star., 1922-10-30

Marines to exc out a victory Ge
versity got whipped so badly that
and MARYLAND made enough blunde
to last any foot ball team tour or
GeorGetowns defeat probably was
good medicine. otter as the dose was.
The team has not had much opposl-
ton and probably had grown to think
Just a little too we'll of itself 1t was
hard for the Blue and Gray, just as 1t
is hard for an college. to bow to an
Independent educational organl-
zation. to take a Whipping from IN"
Marines. but IL that defeat serves as
a stimulus for a decisive victory over
Holy Cross, Georgia Teen ct al. in the
remainder of the season it Will nave
been the best thing that has hap
pened TO Georgetown in years.
George Washington and Catholic
University expected nothing other
than defeats. but not such defeats as
they received. Each thought thar
about four or five touchdowns would
tell the story, but neither even dream
ed of the number of times that their
goal line actually was to be crossed
Bethany roamed over g. VS. last
chalk mark eight times and V. +. l.
ran across Catholic Us eleven.
tinues to retrograde as rapidly as II
has since II played fennsylvania two
weeks ago. by next season II Ger
tainly will be strong enough to give
some high school the assurance OF AT
least hard game. Against North
Carolina the line was so sluggish IL
acted as if IL We're exasperated be-
cause IL had to follow the ball in
order TO line up: its secondary de-
Tense felt so bashful that il never
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of tumble the whole eleven seemed
to have been coached to fight shy of
the ball. BY the way. we do apologize
TO McQuade in regard to that sec
ondary defense. because he struggled
manfully to carry the whole burden.
but il was more than any human could
stand up under. Seriously. though.
North Carolina has fine team and
had Bill Fetzer. Tarheel coach. allow
ed his star halfback, Johnson, to play
throughout the game Maryland's de-
feat would have been by a larger
score.
1t was. indeed. a blue day for local
foot ball teams and for their fol-
lowers. If it all had happened two
weeks ago. on Friday. the 18th, there
might have been some excuse. but as
matters stand II would be well worth
while to bet whole steamboat
against n splinter off the gangplank
that four foot ball squads not a
million miles away from Washington
are going to hear some remarks this
week that for straightforwardnes
would make Il Roosevelt wonder %hy
he beat around the bush so much.
Something Of the real cnliber of the
princeton eleven was shown at Chi
cago. If it were not for being called
An II told you SO" the temptation
would be strong to call attention here
to few remarks made last week in
This column in relationship to the
Princeton squad. Suffice to say that
any eleven that could travel to the
Windy town, go into the fourth quar-
ter with the score Is TO I against 1t,
and then get the two touchdowns
necessary to win is, certainly an
eleven capable of making the Bull
dog blink his eyes.
Navy's first touchdown against
Pennsylvania probably came too
easily. That score was won with such
apparent ease that there must have
been a subsequent letdown, and it
was disastrous. Navy went to Phila-
delphia banked upon by everybody to
beat the Quakers. and probably did
have somewhat more finished
eleven. Possibly many will say that
the Navy had a better eleven. but
certainly. as represented by the scor-
ing of points. which. after all. is the
final criterion Of gridiron efficiency
and proficiency, the Navy was not as
and versatility in that Pennsylvania
team. and 1t should be heard from
again before the season ends. Nc
Graw and Hamer are as good backs
the east this year. with the possible
exception of Owen and Buell. of Har-
ward.
Yale went into the fourth quarter
Of its game with the Army a victor,
but could not prevent the future gen.
erals driving the ball across In the
hnal period and kicking the goal
which gave them points which tied
the score. Yale seems not to have
developed its offense as far as have
Harvard and Princeton, and appar-
emily is carrying its team along with
the sole idea of placing the winning
or losing emphasis of it's season on
the results of the games with the
Tiger and Crimson.
Virginia Military Institute and Wash
engton and Lee are travelling their win
ming ways, the former annexing the scalp
Of the North Carolina State College at
Norfolk and the latter soundly wallop-
ing Lynchburg College. V. NJ l.
seems to be the main stumbling block
In the way of North Carolina for a
1reat claim to the south Atlantic
championship. considering the results
Of the season so far.
virginia came back strong and
took Johns Hopkins into camp. 1t
was not an agreeable task that Hop
kins had. that of facing Virginia on
the Saturday following defeat by
v. NJ. /. The smart of that loss prob
ably made the Charlottesville school
much more formidable than II 1t
had been victor over the Lexington
Cadets.
backs playing foot ball in the south
than Reds" Johnston, University of
North Carolina's main offensive fac
tor, but II so he has not been seen.
Johnston is fast, lodges well, and is
experienced. A man who watched
North Carolina play Yale told the
writer that If the Tarheels had pos
eessed another back as good as
Johnston it would have defeated the
ELI eleven.
White. fuIIbnck mt Virginia Mill
tary Institute, is said to be the main
spring of that team. He played last
year at Emory and Henry College
and is doing all the tricks at Virginia
Military Institute now that any good
foot ball man might be expected to
turn. white weighs something over
and throws the ball with the same
facility. incidentally. V. NJ. !. is
travelling at such n gait that IL it
wins from North Carolina two weeks
from now its game with Virginia
Polytechnic Institute on Thanksgiv-
ing day should stand among the
south Atlantic gridiron classics. as
". p J. is ripping its way through
opposing lines to one of the most sue
Sessful seasons in it's history.
or southern elevens vanderbilt;
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