The Washington times., 1922-10-28
THREE BATTLES
ON TAP TODAY.
FOR GR|DFANS
Georgetown University Draws
Big Crowd for Engagement
With ouantico Marines.
BY BRYAN MORSE.

BY BRYAN MORSE.
Washington is being treated to
three football contests today
which should quite appease the
appetites of the most fastidious.
Georgetown University Is offer
ing an encounter at American
League Park. with the famous
Devil Dog outfit from Quantico,
Va. Gallaudet College is opening
up "Onion Field" on Kendall
Green to those who wish to see
what Philadelphia has to offer IN
the Temple College eleven. The
Wilson stadium at Mt. Pleasant
Is to be the scene Of . hot con-
test with Central performing
against the Catholic University
freshmen. From any angle the
games are looked at, they will be
interesting in the extreme as none
Of the elevens prforming viii have
marked edge in the engagements.
For all its strength Georgetown
University will be met by a most
powerful eleven In the Marines
outfit. The service has been combed
from here to Guam for the hkeliest
candidates for the Marine eleven.
One might almost say that no stone
has been left unturned In making
up a formidable eleven. George
town has made no special prepara-
tion for the Marines and will get
by" 1t possible, without using all
OF it's stuff saved up for future
contests.
Gallaudet. with q world of the
best material IL has had In years,
10 anxious to show Just what II
can do against Temple. Both Cen
trail High and the Catholic Unit
versity freshmen have clean states
and IL that means anything to fol.
lowers OF the game, a real contest
10 looked for.
OF course, the large noise here
abouts IL the pending -Navy-Pehn
State clash of next Friday after
noon and the Georgetown-H Holy
Cross battle which follows the day
after.
Unless all Of the dope goes far
afield there will be a District rec
ord Of football attendance set In
these two games.
But today the Georgetown Ma
light and Is a likely looking con-
test from any angle In which II is
taken. The Marines present q
colorful aggregation Of powerful
payers. The team In made up Of
stars who have been thoroughly
drilled.
larsen. former Navy center. h
snap2ng 'em back for the GUAM
tic0 men. Palmer, q Washington
University star; Beckett. former
Oregon tackle, Goetge. Penn
State, Liversledge. California;
and others Of like ability have
been groomed By the Quantico
officials.
GEORGETOWN viii meet an eleven
almost as heavy as II IL. The fact
that condition may play a great
part In the engagement Is going
to turn the tide In favor Of the
Hilltoppers-
Exendine's charges are taking
the game seriously as well they
might for the visitors from down
the river are powerful on defense
and will stand lot Of battering
before they succumb.
Gallaudet is expecting to win
from Temple. Central Ii hoping to
annex its contest from the Brook
land yearlinss. Georgetown win
play at 8 p. m. as win Gallaudet.
The schoolboy contest starts at
1:30 o'clock
Now that bigger games are ap-
proaching and some of them In
this city. 1t is perhaps timely to
suggest that football officials get
4-A
know the rules, which in many
instances Is not predicated on fact.
N appears that something Is rad
ically wrong with the eyesight.
The average football fan Is now.
after almost three years Of watch
ing an unchanged football code, in
possession of enough gnowledge OF
the game to know what is going
an. He can detect holding. inter
ference on the forward pass. clip.
ming from behind and offfsde plays.
N there is a mutual agreement
between coaches that officials call
no penalties, the public should be
sruuainted Of this fact. II there
is n mutual understanding between
.stficials not to call penalties, the
public should be appraised Of this
Tact.
II is ridiculous to followers Of foot
hall to watch three of four sup
posediy gh-class football Off ais
70 through the motions In the games
where infractions of the rules are
evident to a majority Of those In the
stands.
Most obvious Is the interference
with the forward pass. In games
this season ends have been literally
ridden by secondary defense men
who have hoped aboard and sim.
My locked the arms Of those at
tempting to catch the passes. In
instances the players whose arms
were looked found the ball bounc-
ing off their chests. being powerless
TO raise their arms 60 catch the ball.
Linemen charging through to
block punts before the ball has been
snapped between the ceuter's legs
without penalty have been common.
All this Ia true. But II nothing Is