Evening star., 1924-09-21

state ana rlnltN. ITedt tnlHSS a
North Carolinians. notwithStandin
heralded as possible at North Carol
lent material and believes is possess
man who will get the most out OF Il
Washington College may prove a tar
tar for the University of Maryland ir
the opening game at College Park. Sta
tstics show that school TO be just
about as heavy as the College PARK
eleven and just as experienced.
North Carolina University leaves its
home field to play Wake Forest Al
Wake Forest. Washington and Lee
faces Roanoke College at Lexington
Virginia meets Hampden-S Sidney al
Charlottesville. Virginia Military In
stitute opened yesterday against Wof-
ford. and this week plays an easy team
in Emory and Henry. University OF
Richmond, which has been expecting to
put out a good eleven this year, faces
Virginia Polytechnic Institute at
Blacksburg.
Catholic University. with prospects
of the best team in its history
Journeys to Holy Cross to meet what
may prove one of the strongest elevens
in the East George Washington is tc
entertain Blue Ridge College.
Judged by the preseason reports
there is hardly an eleven. the Univer-
SltE OF Maryland eSCepteu, lLidl u'VS
not expect to have a better eleven this
Fall than represented it a year ago
Both North Carolina State College ano
University of North Carolina are frank
in their claims of far better material
and show no hesitancy in saying they
should have much more powerful anG
versatile combinations than represent
ed them last season.
Virginia, according to opinions ex-
pressed by those in close touch with
affairs at that school, is well con-
WINGED Of its improvement, While
Washington and Lee, Virginia Poly.
technic Institute and Virginia Mill
tarv Institute are exceedingly opti-
miStic.
Catholic University and George
Washington expect to jump out OF
their foot ball ruts with one leap
while Georgetown has grown opti-
mistic over an outlook over which last
Spring il was frankly pessimistic.
With much stronger teams than
usual, there should be plenty of in
terest for those who like foot ball
Beginning October 4, not a week viii
pass without at least one big contest
More games are to be played in the
South Atlantic section this Fall, III
which the contending teams should be
evenly matched than have taken place
in any previous season in the last
IL years.
Coaches OF local elevens are be-
ginning to shape up their squads so
that they are getting fairly good
line on their men. Probably no coach
would care to announce Just now VINO
he will start in the opening games
because Of the many factors which
enter into the coaches calculations
last minute Nevertheless, most
of those in charge of squads
have their own minds pretty well
made up as to what they have in the
way of material and about on whom
they can depend to stand tie gan as
regulars.
Tnu Little. new coach at George
town. is making good with his men
and is we'll liked by those in author
ity at the institution. And Little
is making good with his players,
notwithstanding he is working them
harder than they usually have been
worked at this stage of the season.
AS one Georgetown player expressed
it. He not only is teaching US foot
ball, but is doing 1t in way that
makes us all think the world of
him
Goscb Gormley of Catholic Uni
versity has lot of good foot ball
playsrs, but seems to be experience
ing some trouble in getting together
the kind of combination he wants.
Much of his time during the last
week has been spent in experiment
ing with men in different positions.
Whatever trouble Gormiey may DC
havines at present with this fea-
ture of practice probably will be
ironed out before the end of the
week. and the Stronge st 6. L. team
in many years probably will go to
Holy Cross. And c. L. will have to
be strong, too. to make the klnd
of showing it hopes to against the
Worcester colleglans.
Adams has been showing excep-
tjonal worth in the e. L. backheld,
and generally is regarded as a fix
ture to run the team. He has plenty
IF push, drive, or whatever one
pIeases to term that quality usually
referred to as pep, and with that
considerable ability as player and
plenty of experience.
After two weeks of practice the
George Washington squad seems so
far above anything that has repre-
sented the university IN the last 10
wears that the Hatchetites have hopes
that they really believe are based on
solid things. Several former scholas-
tic stars have entered the university
and they. with the material left from
former squads, are the basis on Whlch
the Hatchetites are building nope
for a really fine season.
One setback the squad received
though. was in the failure of Frye,
former University of Iowa quarter
back to return. Frye entered the
university last year and would have
been eligible to play had ne re
turned. Frye two years ago generally
was regarded as one of the two or
three best backfeld men in the west
ern conference. He was star at
Iowa under Howard Jones.
GeOrgstovn's first foot ball game
will be with King College on October
IL King is the college which a
wear ago made a big reputation by
running up big scores on a good
many teams. The eleven is coached
by Chester Adams. former Univer-
sity OF Maryland fullback.
The University of Maryland squad
either is lucky or it's fortunate star
has been we'll up in the heavens, be-
cause after three, weeks of rather
hard work and two weeks of almost
incessant scrimmaging, it will be
on the field tomorrow with every
man in fairly good shape.
Burger was out all last week with
a bad cut over his eye. but all the
stitches have been taken out of that
and the cut has healed so that he