Evening star., 1923-10-19

Virginia Polytechnic Institute brings
to Washington a fine foot ball team
with an interrogation of substitutes
just about u capable 3 the varsity
men. II is physically powerful ana
clever and has in its backtield two OF
The fastest backs in the south. Ruther-
ford and Suttou are brilliant in every
thing that goes TO make brilliant
backs. and both have done great
things in carrying tn" ball in many
games this season and last.
Gobblers Are Confident.
Just how good V. T. 1. il may be
realized by the fact that II betIcNeS
il is going to beat Maryland and does
Cubbage told his squad two days ago
that they would take the measure OF
that Maryland outfit"
Last year the Blachsburs men had
what generally was rated as 'he
strongest team in the south. II lost
only one game and that 10 Centre
College-and in that game v T. i
ran all over Centre" to sue the eN,,
preston of one of the spectators anu
should have been the victor,
II was last season that V. +. |. neat
Maryland 81 TO 0, in a game IN wlii'n
it completely outplayed the Old Line as.
this year the Biacksburg squad is praC-
tcally the same as IL was then, WIN
the, exception that il has in addition 10
the men of 1922 several excellent play
ers from a tine freshman team!
Maryland Team strong.
Against V. T. |. Maryland viii pace
q team which Is not weak by any means
No team has been able to get across
the MARYLAND goal line so far this sea
son. which is rather creditabie in itself
The MaT!landerS have no man IN
their lineup as heavy as one or TWO
men who will be in y. y. l. suits, out
as a whole the two elevens Will be ABOUT
evenly matched.
1t is rather a remarkable fact that
six of the eleven men who will start in
the Maryland lineup tomorrow played
together on the Tech high team o. l'-V
They are Burger, tackle; Hough' gnafa
Supplee. end Lanigan, end iuSh. hali-
back, and Heinz. hafback. Their posi-
lions now are somewhat different from
what they were when they helped Teen
battle in the high school championship
series Burger at that time being CEN
ter, Lanigan a guard. Heine tackle,
Supplee a tackle, and Pugh fullback
Not much doubt that tomorrow
game should dvelop some good ROOT
ball. The game itself may be one OF
the greatest ever staged here and
certainly ought to rank with the best
played here in recent seasons. IhH
game V. +. !. and Maryland played
at American League Park two years
ago which the. latter won, 10 to 2.
was lust about as good an exhibition
of foot ball as one might care 10 see
and tomorrow's game Will find two
better teams opposed to each other
than took the field In l92l'
While Maryland Is striving TO hold
it's own against Virginia Poly, tne
hoIding forth in Central Stadium
against DrexeI Institute OF Phtladel-
pilia. Last season the Hatchetites
took the measure of the Phllauei-
ph!ans and expect to turn the tricN
again.
Catholic University goes to En-
mitsburg to face nrsnt;.S nount 81, 70 Nnry meet :
the second Marine team tomorrow
and both of the local elevens appar-
entIy are well prepared Tor the teSt 5.
during the week when Stanley Bon
dick, one of its second string squad,
broke leg during scrimmage.
Many big games are scheduled to
norrow in various sections of the
country. Out in the far west the
oregon Aggies make the Jump down
the coast to meet oan1ornla rIisa =, anu !, q
more of struggle than they are eX-
pectlnS.
syracuse W.. Pittsburgh at New
York should furnish plenty Of foot
hall thrills. The former is hailed as
the coming eleven Of the east this
wear, and the latter never ts easy 70
heat anytime or anywhere. Pitts
burgh has lost one game to West
virginia. but Syracuse has vet to be
defeated
TIIfuois and Iowa are TO stage what
may be the decisive game in the West
ern Conference. These elevenS are
said TO he among the strongest in the
middle west. Illinois by whipping Ne
braska so deciSiVely proved its worth,
while Iowa Is reported to have an
eleven not a whit less powerful than
it's teams of past seasons.
All eastern foot bail eyes are turned
on the Navy-Penn State game at
State College, Pa. Last year Navy
took the margin OF victory from the
PennsylvanianS by two touchdowns'
but the latter think they have better
than ar even chance to avenge that
defeat.
Auburn goes to West Point again:
Last year the Alabama men battled
Army to standstill for about three
periods, but weakened then and lost
by 10 to s. This season it does not
appear that they are so strong ana
probably the Soldiers will win by a
rather comfortable margin.
Probably one of the biggest crowds
that have ever watched foot ball
game at Princeton. outside the games :
with Harvard and Yale, will see Notre
Dame and Princeton battle in game
which has almost every so-called foot
ball expert guessing. Notre Dame
beat the Army last week and every
body Is wondering II 1t will turn the
trick with the Tigers. Princeton
usually does what it has to and IS
likely to give the middle westerners
more of a battle than did the WesL
Point eleven. Princeton has good
scouting system and nine chances out
about the Notre Dame eleven than
did the Army
Yale will defeat BucknelI, although
ft is going to get a much tougher
game than either of those II has had
the previous two Saturdays with
North Carolina and Georgia
Harvard seems to have it's hands
full with Holy Cross. Unless the
Crimson shows more than 1t did
against little Middlebury week ago.
it will be up against a much more
difficult Saturday afternoon than 1t
has any reason for wanting.
virginia and Virginia Military In
stitute will stage game, at
all the earmarks of championship
contest. Unless Virginia shows greater
strength than it has in any game ii
has played SO far, the Lexington men
Will come CloSG W repeating lHSil
performance of last season, when
they won by two touchdownS.
Another game not played up as
anything like a championship contest,
but which will be real foot ball
struggle unless all signs fail, is that
scheduled at Ithaca, between Colgate
and Cornell Colgates two~star= backs