Evening star., 1924-10-22

Georgetown wins or loses, though, it
Little's feeling toward the Geor
making just as much progress as he
foot ball on the Hilltop he did SO v
difficulties the job entailed, and the
much progress as he expected may
actual progress is being made, becau:
says a thing he does not mean or
backed by fact
Little's main job at Georgetown, and
his most difficult job. is not the de-
Nelopment of a winning foot ball
team, but rather the establishment OF
new relationships between George
town and other institutions which VIII
give Georgetown the kind of schedule
1T desires and ought to have. Blue
and Gray alumni, students and faculty
are entirely dissatisfied with the kind
of schedules their teams have been
playing in recent years and they seem
willing to give Little free hand in
working out this phase of his problem,
and in addition to a free hand, what
ever help they can.
Whether Georgetown has a winning
or losing team this year. Little seems
to be the type of man who ought to
continue to head its foot ball system
In the first place he has put on the
field a Georgetown eleven which, as
one man put it. acts like it knows
what it is doing" and also he is the
type of fellow who will inspire con-
fidenCe in the men with whom he
comes in contact. In other words,
Little not only knows how to teach
foot ball. but is a mighty fine fellow
personally.
Piansky. Georgetown fullback is
an exceptionally hard man to stop.
according to Jack McQuade, who
played against Georgetown last week
for the Marines. Il never tackled a
man who was harder to down than
PlanSky and never tackled a man
who ran harder" was the tribute Nc
Quade paid the Blue and Gray ath- |
lete. And when it is considered that |
McQuade while at the University of |
Maryland spent his time in three foot |
ball seasons tackling the best backs !
Syracuse, Yale, Princeton and Penn |
sylvania then could produce, besides |
the best backs of Southern elevens,
his statement about Plansky means a
good deal.
BuckneIl may have against George
town one back who was not eligible |
to play against Lafayette last week
under an agreement that Lafayette
had for the game at Lewisburg. That
man is Deal, who while not having
much claimed for him for his scholas-
tic ability. measures up to about all
that anybody desires on the foot ball
field. Deal is the man who made
two touchdowns against Yale last
year and who was star on the Uni |
versity of Pennsylvania freshman
eleven the year before that.
One Georgetown man who has
drawn unstinted praise from Coach
Little is Hegarty, one of the half
backs. Here is the way Little speaks
of that player:
"Hegarty is mighty good foot ball
player. l have seldom seen a better
man carrying the ball, and there are
going to be few foot ball games in
which he will not be a good ground
gamer. He is not very heavy, but
seems to have a way of running that
makes him extremely difficult to
tackle squarely. Also opposing tao
klers have difficulty in holding him when
he is tackled"
Last Year BuckneII brought a team
to Washington that defeated George
town by IA to Z. However, that game
was one in which the Blue and Gray
was not outplayed to any extent, and
this Fall Georgetown is a better foot
ball team than it was year ago.
That was shown last Saturday when
II prevented the CloSSlhS
its goal line, something no other
GEORGETOWN eleven has accC mpliShed.
incidentally, it was a better Marine
team that Georgetown stopped than
faced the Blue and Gray in previous
seasons.
One factor with which Georgetown
may shave to contend is something
that every coach fears and yet knows
is<not specially formidable, and that
is>fancy formations. Charley Moran,
Bnrknell coach, has reputation of
sHFinging that kind of thing rather
Extensively. That was one of the
f6&ors which gave Centre College.
MBae under Moran, considerable dis
ttMft Keness, and it may be that
sBdething of that nature will be un-
cHMHed Saturday. And. while any
cEz<H knows that for consistent Of
fEXaet that type of play is not very
pkDddctive, he also knows that 1t
oM6nk befuddleS a team and makes
fEeS team and it's coach seem like
sHuething that very closely, ap-
rfaadhes what Mr.. Mutt might be If
hHIyere a coach. That type of play
faHs about 10 times out of 20, but in
tha% one time ii succeeds 1t usually
results disastrously for the defend
ing eIeyen, and reflects very adverse
von the coach of that eleven, al
though he is hardly responsible for
what happens under such conditions.
When Centre College under Moran,
two or three years ago, tried kind
of lock-step shift against Harvard,
Oross reports had it that the Harvard
nIayers walked around as if they did
not know what was going on. Some
thing of the same kind may take
place Saturday against Georgetown
Injured Rider Nav Die.