Evening star., 1923-08-12


Mississippi a. and NJ has good ath
!ctrs and good teams every year in
almost every branch of sport. Incl
dentally. while Mississippi 4. and NJ.
Ia not mach known Sthis section.
II poSs. sSeS a fine plant. and is one
OF the really good schools OF the
south, Last spring it won the track
and field championship OF the south
ern conference.
Virginia In CONFIDENT.
Up this way. about which some
thing was written week ago. Vir-
! ginia is facing the future with great
er confidence than it has shown in
its gridiron prospects since the days
before the war. Better material,
/Jne-man system are the fac
tors Virginia depends upon to work
+ out OF the substrata in which il has
BEEN ltboring. Virginia has not yet
recovered from the blow the war
period gave it's athletics.
North Carolina University and Eir-
ginia polytechnic Institute should be
among the strongest elevens OF the
south. Both have back the majority
"4 men who made up their fine teams
a year ago, and from their freshman
outfits Will draw other good material
In fact, Bill Fetzer, North Carolina
coach. told the writer about two
months aSo that he had one man at
Chapel Hill who should be just as
good back as was Johnson. who
was about half team
University of Georgia and North
Carolina State College did not meas
ure up to what they expected at the
beginning of their seasons. Neither
can Vet explain just why that was
so, but figure on making up this
year what they did not accomplish
last. Particularly is this true #
North Carolina State.
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Military Institute are optimistic.
though some sentiment at Washing
ton and Lee seems to be that the
Generals will be lucky to turn out
as good d team as they hope to.
GEORGETOWN will be under a new
coaching system. but system that
is entirely familiar. with all the good
that was in the one under which il
has played since 1914. Geor .setowu's
ability to replace men of the ca.ih"r
determine. to no inconsiderable ex-
tent, its success.
Situation at Maryland.
Maryland. with an extremely hard
schedule. knows that much If what
it may accomplish depends on how
well it gets through its first three
games. If the squad is in sufiicicntlE
good physical condition to go
through the first three weeks with
make much better showing than
it did a year ago. There is not much
doubt that the team as d whole will
be stronger.
University of Richmond, coming
more and more to be reckoned with
as factor in southern athletics, ;Sill
have a strong eleven. Catholic Uni
versity, with several good men com
ing to its varsity from a prosperous
and we'll coached freshman eleven
should have the most successful of
all teams that have worn its colors
since 1915. Johns Hopkins was
strong in 1922. but is going to make
strenuous afforts to better its record
George Washington is saying little.
but is figuring on turning out an
eleven better than any that has rep
resented 1t since it resumed foot ball
three years past. Gallaudet is cx-
Pecting some good new material and
feels il should be we'll able to take
care of itself in it's class.
In fact. the whole perspective of
southern foot ball shows general
feeling of optimism. This feeling
undoubtedly is due. in the main. to
the satisfaction that comes with good
material and a bright outlook. hrt
it also is cngendered in no small de-
gree by the fact that all institutions
feel they have athletics on a higher
and more solid plane.