Evening star., 1923-11-30

With both teams crowded with for
mer college stars. the game will have
every aspect of one between two
great varsity combinations. The
Marine team, which, by the way. is
not representative Of the Quantico
camp but of the entire corps, will
have in its lineup men of all-America
caliber and others of scarcely. less
prominence, for the Soldiers VIII be
playing an all-college combination.
most of the men not being more than
4 year or two out of West Point.
where they gained much glory for the
Army on foot ball fields.
NOtabIes to BE Present.
AS spectacle, too, the game will
resemble what have come to be con-
sdered, the country's greatest foot
ball contests. Boxes will be filled
with high personages of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps, as we'll as
officials of the District of Columbia
and neighboring states. Governors
and their staffs of the common
weaths in the Sd Corps area have ac-
cepted invitations to be present
Thronged in the stands will be prac-
rically all of the junior officers of
Uncle Sa ms three war branches, while
every stratum of society may be FOUND
banked in the spacious stands sur
rounding the field.
All differences In stations of life
whatever they may be, will be for
gotten once the game gets under way.
There is no foot ball rivalry more
keen that that existing between the
services due to clash tomorrow. All
year the two military branches plan
carefully for this battle. Likely grid
men of the Marines are concentrated
at Quantico. and the Army gathers Its
hosts at Camp Meade, and early in the
fall coaches begin combinB the SquaoS
for firSt-team materi9l.
The teams organized are sent
through heavy preliminary sched-
ules. each meeting college teams OF
high rank. This fall both the Ma
rinas and Sd Corps have been remark
ably successful. The Devil Dogs have
lost two games. one to Virginia Mill
tary Institute by lone TOUCHDOWN:
and another to the University or
Michigan, a leader in the western con-
ference. But the Marines hold the
distinction of being the only eleven
able to cross the Wolverines goal
this year.
Sd Corps Is Unbeaten.
The Sd Corps has not lost a game.
developing gradually from fair team
20 one of much power. Both teams
have played games that offer a
strength comparison. Each made
about the same showing in defeating
Georgetown. The Army was not so
impressive against Villanova as were
the Marines. but it undoubtedly was
something likely to afflict any team
playing through heavy schedule.
The Army is younger than the Ma
rine team, so far as the ages of its
Uomponents are concerned, and tr1he
heavier. They have been playing
slightly different styles of foot ball.
the Marines depending more upon
drive than the more modern strategy
employed by the Soldiers. However.
both have developed new tactics for
tomorrow encounter and anything
NAV happen. Two more evenly match
cd teams probably would be dlfhcult
to find.
This will be the third meeting be-
tween the Marines and the Sd Corps.
In 1921 the Soldiers did not take the
game so seriously and were drubbed
severely, but last year, playing before a
huge crowd in Venable Stadium at BAL
timore they came within an ace OF
turning the tables on the oevll dogs.
Tomorrow the Soldiers will take the
field hopeful of ending the Marine
3inx over them. But the sanguine men
of Ouantico are we'll prepared to keep
victory from their opponents grasp
today. The Marines were given
rousing send-off by their comrades
when they departed from Quantico
shortly after noon and upon arrival
were to work out on the gridiron In
the stadium. The 3rd Corps men were
expected tonight. The Devil Dogs
will make their headquarters at the
willard, while the Soldiers Will De
chartered at the Washington. They
will be neighbors tonight, but mucn
more than that tomorrow.