Evening star., 1923-11-19

machines in its history was dispelled
ton. That Yale will play fine, har'
doubts, but the game itself probabl
which the Tiger was sent bruised a
But more of this game another
time. Suffice now to say it is one of
the two remaining contests in which
interest in all sections of the country
is centered. The Army-Navy game is
the other. Besides these two games
there is the annual contest Saturday
Thanksgiving day the struggles be-
tween Cornell and Pennsylvania,
Pittsburgh and Penn State and West
Virginia and Washington and Jeffer-
son.
In the middle west are to be played
two games in which great rivalry al
ways has eXisted-those between
Michigan and Minnesota this week
-Aggies Thanksgiving. In the middle
west also is to be staged the one
big intersectional contest remaining.
Syracuse being due to take the jump
to Lincoln to face Nebraska. In that
section also remain games between
Chicago and Wisconsin and Ohio
State and Illinois.
Out in the far west this week Cali
fornia meets Stanford in the Yale
Harvard game of the Pacific coast.
Up the coast Washington state Col
lege and University of Washington
will do battle.
1t really is in the south. though. that
deadly rivalries are fought out around
Thanksgiving day. Saturday Georgia
and Alabama are slated to face, and
they do not like victory one over
the other any more than Princeton
likes one over Yale. And down in
Texas when Texas A. NJ. meets
University of Texas it will be case
of a fine season for the winner and a
complete failure for the loser.
On Thanksgiving day the Cnfver-
sity of Virginia tights out its differ
ences with the University of North
Carolina, Virginia Polytechnic !nsti-
tute with Virginia Military institute
Washington and Lee with North
Carolina State. Kentucky with Ten
nessee and, besides these, Johns Hop
llins and the University of Maryland
will continue their series Of gridiron
arguments that began thirty-one
contest yet to be played is that in
which Washington and Lee goes
against Centre College.
Games Of special local interest left
are: Saturday. Catholic University and
the University of Maryland play at Col
lege Park, while Georgetown will be
host to Tulsa University at Griffith
Washington and Ca tholic University
meet, and the following Saturday the
Quantico Marines and Sd Army Corps
are slated to settle their differences at
Griffith Stadium. On the same day
Georgetown plays Fordham at New
York
What undoubtedly will be heralded
far and wide as the greatest gridiron
upset of the season is the victory
Colgate scored over Syracuse. Tne
former had been going along dong
only fairly well since it's great strug-
gle early in the year with Ohio state,
Zoo in, Ia
Western Conference. while Syracuse
had been whipping the best Of them.
Penn State and Pittsburgh fell be
fore II, and Penn State and Pitt
nearly always may be measured up
with the most powerful elevens. Col
gate, on the other hand, had been
losing to the strong teams. But, as
was pointed out In this column last
week, pre-game comparisons count
for very little when Colgate and
Syracuse meet.
If Yale defeats Harvard, it will
stand out as probably the greatest
foot ball team of the year. Ihe de-
cisive result of that contest with
princeton last week left no room for
anybody to doubt that in the Yale
eleven is sufficient power TO whip
any other eleven. There might be
games in which that full power
would not be exercised. ous' m never es-
sides the sheer physical strength.
Yale has far greater cleverness ana
dexterity, and more than Its snare
of foot ball sense Than the great ma
other colleges in the east in the last
ten years.
Psnnsylvania's defeat by Penn
State is sufficient proof that the
Quakers are going to nave r0ush E
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nell. The Ithaca machine seems 70
be fed with h.gh-power gas and TO
be hitting on all cylinders. The pre-
game outlook Is indicative OF ano.no an
may be saving something for the
New Workers., but If 1t could not stop
Penn State 1t will have Its hands full
keeping Pfann and his company or
Two weeks ago n member of a foot
esa5 Georsesown ssSm soia aa' shs 'Sr..~r shat
was one Of the best halfbacks he i:ad
ever seen and that he felt certain.
there was not a more clever running
halfback in the south and few. IL
any, better in the east. Hagerty's
performance against Bucknell Satur-
day, as well as his play in previous
contests, tends to bear out the state
ment about his capabilities. Against
Bucknell he produced the only touch
down for his team by brilliant run
and. in addition to that. ran back
kicks and gained ground consistently
HagertyS running back of kicks
more than made UP for the distance
by which Diehl outkicked Byrne.
Catholic University made a great
showing in its game with Mullen
berg. but seemed unable to hold the
pace 1T set in the earlier stages of
the contest The Brooklanders at one
time held lead OF twelve points, but
finally were nosed out by 16 to 12.
Maryland has not scored touch
downs on any team it has played this
season more easily than it scored
caliy powerful eleven Saturday. That
was in the first half. though. In the
second half the game took on a Diff
ferent aspect and the Marylanders
had rather rough going. Gaining
ground was considerably more diffi-
cult and their defense weakened per-
ceptibly, especially the defense
against forward passes North Caro-
.ina State had team that seemed as
II 1t should be powerful aggrega-
zion. but for some reason it appeared
unable to pull together consistently.
1t Is rather interesting to note that
Maryland scored more points against
the Raleigh eleven in the first half
than any other team has been able
came out Of the game in fairly good
shape, about the only injury sustained
being a bruised leg by Bromley, left
tackle.
virsinia was not able to defeat
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. but 1t
must have thrown one great scare
into the camp of the Blackburg COL
lege, figured to win rather easily.