Evening star., 1924-11-03


George Washington carried the fight
20 Hopkins after the first quarter. and
save everybody in Baltimore a thrill
that was not especially pleasing. The
team as a whole gave a good eXhibi-
ton. Newly and Kris especially dis
tinguishing them selves. The per-
formance of the eleven was a distinct
tribute to the hard work done by
Coach Crum and the earnest efforts
he has made TO give the Hatchetites
a successful eleven.
To Tom Gormley. Jack Hegarty and
Ed Lynch. coaches at Catholic Uni
Nersity, should go the appreciation of
everybody at Brookland. because the
TASK they faced after having some of
their stars declared ineligible seemed
almost too great. That they made
good was shown in the game Satur-
day, and certainly no other Catholic
University eleven ever played better
root ball than the one that threw its
whoie soul into the game against the
University OF Maryland
Catholic University and George
Washington meet here Thanksgiving
day. and their game should be at
tractlVe. Not only should there be
some good foot ball. but both eleyens
are certain to be better then than
hey We're last week. Inasmuch as if
VIII be the only foot ball contest
nere tnat day. except one between
Howard and Lincoln Universities. it
sHould draw a big holiday crowd
Washington and Lee and Virginia
Polytechnic Institute continued thair
winning ways. the former trouncing Q
virginia and the latter doing about
as much to Clemson as anv college
'ould do to another in its class The
Generals victory for their second con-
SccutlVe %ear over the Charlottesville
Ssi'ooI was such a s to elate them and
their supporters as nothing else
would. Y. p. !. is looking toward its
game Thanksgiving day with Virginia
Military institute and the crushing
victory over Clemson was such as to
indicate that it may expect better
tnan an even chance against its old
time foe.
FepnSylNnnia's victory in its game
with Lafayette just about establish
II as the present leader in Eastern
toot bail. Lafayette's previous record
had been OF such nature that none
would dispute the strength of anv
eleven which gained supremacy over
II. And the kind of struggle in which
It was defeated by Penn shows Just
now good ii was and is. \ week ago
attention was called to the probable
ordnance of the PennLafayette game
and the result justified all that was
said at that time. Pennsylvania grad
ually is working toward the Cornell
game Thanksgiving day. in the hope
that 1t will retrieve the series of
defeats inflicted on it Sice Dobie took
charge at Ithaca.
Early this Fall foot ball man in
Philadelphia told the writer that
Penn had the best material he had
ever seen step on ~ gridiron and
that if it did not develop a win
ming eleven it would be proof that
something was wrong somewhere.
Developments which have carried
Penn through a winning season 50
far against strong teams do not in
dicate that Penn needs any change
in its system of management or
coaching.
COrneli's victory over Columbia,
following the excellent record of the
latter team, indicates that by the
time Thanksgiving. day rolls around
the Pennsylvania eleven will have
plenty to think about. Dobie is one
of the two or three greatest coaches
in the country and he seldom loses
f'-'J saint tiidt lie dttudllS SelS MS
mind on winning. Dobie starts his
season with the idea of getting his
team to it's climax just about two
or three times and seldom lets any
thing interfere with his program
And when time for those two or three
games arrives he may be counted
on to put on the field an eleven that
viii give the best it has. and rhat
best unusually has been sufficient to
win.
Illinois has a foot ball team. That
is almost too obvious Il statement
TO be made, yet its very obviousness
IS what makes it about the strong
est statement that can be made about
the Zuppke aggregation. Sport
writer's and others no doubt will
make much of the astonishing per-
formances of Grange, but it is the
team that counts with Zuppke and
it is the team that is giving Grange
his opportunities to play wonderful
foot ball. Any eleven that can give
Michigan sound trouncing and then
administer an even worse beating to
Iowa must be a team, and its accom-
Of one man, no matter how exception
al may be the efforts of any one
integer of that team.
Princeton won rather easily against
Swarthmore while Yale was being