Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-24

ing and perhaps Of largest attendal
Carolina at Charlottesville and bet
Atlanta.
These teams have been playing for
decade after decade and so intensely
interested in their games are follow
ers of the two institutions and the
public generally in Virginia, North
Carolina and Georgia that the num-
Der OF persons attending will be
limited only by the capacity OF the
fields on which the games take place.
And great games seem in store in
each contest. as the difference in the
strength of the opponents appears to
be almost negligible.
The Alabama-Georgia game at Bir-
mingham probably will be the one
'big" game of the day, as far as the
entire South is concerned, because If
Georgia wins it will have the South
ern Conference championship with
out many dissenting voices. Tulane
and Louisiana State meet at Baton
Rouge, and the fur flies when those
two schools come into competition IN
anything.
University of Maryland and Johns
Hopkins continue competition in
Baltimore that was begun more than
30 years ago. And those two insti-
tutions are not especially in love
with each other, and on the athletic
field is where the intense rivalry has
an actual outburst. Maryland in re-
cent years has had the advantage IN
the score, but prior TO l9lZ HOPKINS
won all the time.
Other games in which just as great
rivalry is shown as in the games al
ready mentioned are between Nlr-
einia Polytechnic Institute and var
ginia Military Institute, Clemson ana
Furman, North Carolina State and
washington and Lee, Vanderbilt and
Sewanee and Texas University ana
Texas A & NJ.
Pittsburgh and Penn State have
had Just a little more rocky gong
This season than usual, ana they Will
meet out in Pittsburgh, realizing
shat neither has anything much on
the others that the determination
OF the contest will rest on the FACTORS
Of grit and courage, which produce
sba onnortuuities or breaks that give
victory in a close game between
strong .elevens.
IF Washington and Lee wins from
North Carolina State on ThanksslV-
ing day it probably will claim the
championship of the south A.la M
section, though it's claim will be dis
puted by Wake Forest, and with good
reason. Wake Forest has played
3ust three South Atlantic elevens ana
trimmed all, and one or them was
Washington and Lee. Its margin OF
victory over North Carolina was one
point, and over Washington and Lee
two points. The score against Nortn
Carolina was to s, and against
Washington and Lee 10 to 8. Satur-
day 1t added another victim by beat
ing North Carolina State, II to U.
Chalk I'M one more triumph for
Southern foot ball. Dan McGugin s
Vanderbilt eleven gave Minnesota,
fresh from victory over great
Illinois, a 16-to-0 beating Saturday
At the beginning of the year 1T was
predicted that Vanderbilt would pro-
duce a. team capable of playing the
Gophers to a standstill, but reVerses
indicated that the Commodores were
not SO strong as seemed 'nes
might be. However, Saturdays re-
suit at Minneapolis was about all that
could be desired from a Vanderbilt
viewpoint. Minnesota probably was
through after it won from ILLINOIS
week ago and not up to its peak, but
that does not detract any from the
honor won by Vanderbilt.
Indiana lost to Purdue Saturday
by a margin greater than any eleven
likes to lose, and for Indiana to be
defeated by Purdue is just about the
limit to which defeat may carry one,
viewing that defeat with Indiana
eyes.
Indiana is the State university and
Purdue the agricultural and me-
chanical college of Indiana. Indiana,
like most other places where the
functions of the Stata University are
split, views Purdue with much the
same feeling that the lawyer or doc
tor looks upon the farmer or tech
meal mana kind of necessary ad-
junct to life.
But the trouble with the view, as
far as foot ball is concerned, is that
the farmer and the "BoilermakerS,
rs Purdue has been nicknamed at
times. have an unpleasant way of
being big and husky and not loath
to hit mother earth. 1t seems that
Indiana must have struck such an
outfit Saturday.
But, seriously, the game between
indiana and Purdue is the Yale-Har-
ward set-to of that State. And it Is
y fact that in all States where there
are two institutions maintained by the
State, one as a State university and
Hhe other as an agricultural and me-
Chanical college, always there is the
keenest rivalry between them, and
whenever they met in foot ball it
usually the biggest game of the
year for both.
North Carolina State vs.. North
Carolina University, Georgia vs.
Georgia Tech, Texas VS.. Texas A.
Yk& NJ. and Clemson VS.. South Caro-
lima are big Southern games of this
type.