Evening star., 1924-10-06
c. j. IS TO FIGURE
IN ITS FIRST GAME
GaIIaudet Is Only Eleven
That Will Play on a
Foreign Field.
BY II. G. BYRD.

have games scheduled this
week. Georgetown opens its sched-
ule against King College, University
OF Richmond comes here to meet
University OF Maryland. Catholic
University has home contest with
Washington College, George Wash
ington meets Western Maryland and
Gallaudet goes to Annapolis for a
contest with St. Johns.
Most important of these games Is
the opening of Georgetown's schedule.
Elue and Gray adherents are anxious
70 get a belated line on the kind Of
team they may expect to have. and that
furnishes most of the interest in the
game, unless King College lives up to
Il reputation it seems to have ac-
CURED of being exceptionally strong.
lnder ordinary circumstances, though
Georgetown should not have much
difficulty winning.
The other contests are not very i'm
portant relatively, although all prob
ably will produce just about as strong
opposition for the home clubs as they
desire. Western Maryland. for in
stance, probably will be favored to
trim George Washington, unless the
standards than they have in the two
contests already played. Gallaudet
ought to have at least an even chance
against st. Johns, Catholic University
viii defeat Washington College
while the University of Maryland. if it
effects certain improvements in its
play. should beat Richmond.
Virginia matte n surprisingly good
o. in = n-1 loc l.
1t was only in the later stages of the
game that Harvard gained a real
advantage. Against Hampden-S Sidney,
the Charlottesville school had a mar
row squeak and many though that it
was weakness on the part of Neales
team. However, since Hampden-
Sidney's remarkable battle against
Virginia Polytechnic Institute last
week, it is evident that Virginia s
showing was due not so much to
weakness as to strength on the part
OF Hampden-S Sidney.
In the FIRST big South Atlantic game
of the year, in which Washington and
Lee and Maryland met here, last Fri
day, the Marylanders made rather a
mediocre showing. This is in nowfse
to be interpreted as the least refiec-
ton on the really fine game played
by Washington and Lee, but it seems
to be peculiar that Maryland plays its
worst games in Washington.
With one exception it has not with
in recent years played a really good
game of foot ball on a Washington
gridiron. Four years ago it trimmed
Y. P. l., Rutgers, North Carolina and
Syracuse, yet came in town and came
within an ace of being defeated by a
weak Catholic University eleven.
Five years ago it beat Virginia and
put up fine game against Yale. but
came in town and was a mediocre
eleven. Last year it beat Pennsyl-
vania and against several strong
any team could have played, but came
in town and did just about as poorly
against v. p. !. as it could have done.
About the only instance of Mary
land having played good foot ball
game in Washington was in 1921,
when, with a weak eleven, it gave q
powerful V. P. I. team a 10-to7 beat
Ing, because it played really better
than 1t knew how.
The fact that Maryland has played
poor foot ball in Washington is not
setting very well with it either. as if
there is one place where it wants
to SHOW Well Washington is that
place. Not only is it practically a
local institution, but its players per-
sonally had rather do we'll here than
anywhere else. because the great ma
jority of them have for years come
from local high schools.
North CarolinA State and North
Carolina University could not get GO
ing against two powerful northern
rlevens last week. The Tarheel teams
lost respectively, to Penn State and
Yale. However, it was not expected
that North Carolina would lease by
such an overwhelming score. 81 to 0.
If Yale is as strong as preseason
data indicated it would be, North
Carolina University made good
showing.
Princeton last Spring was expect
ing to have a fine team this year, and
its first game, against Amherst, indi-
Gates that it's expectations may be-
come fact. The score. 40 to 6, was
much larger than Princeton usually
wins it's first games by.