The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-03
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FADING
AWAY
ashington's Varsity Eleyens
Are All on Foreign Grid
irons This Week
BY LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

Washington is without football
this coming weekend, all its VAR
sityl eIevens playing away from
che Capital. Those insisting on
seeing action, therefore; will have
TO go to Annapolis and watch the
much-weakened Navy eleven.
Georgetown goes to Philadelphia
to meet the team that conquered
Lafayette, a tough assignment for
q much stronger team than the
Hilltoppers. Maryland has much
The same dose coming to it.
Curly Byrd's eleven must tackle
the. Yale Bulldog at New Haven.
Yale has a little argument to set
tie with the College Parkers, who
threw a scare into Bill Mallory's
gang a. year ago. The argument
will probably be settled to the
entire satisfaction Of Old Eli, if
not to Maryland's.
The biggest surprise OF last Sat.
nrday for South Atlantic football
Uf Catholic University in holding
Maryland to- a no-score tie. The
Brooklanders were not considered
quite In Maryland's class and, in
addition, had suffered the loss Of
several first string players by Off
eial edict within week. A one
sided Maryland triumph would not
have alarmed the average football
fan. But Catholic University gath
cred all its fighting heart and
Z battled Maryland to standstill.
Il George Washington may have
gained small credit by its one.sided
victory over st. Joseph, but It
proved it had the goods when 1t
played a 3-to.3 tie with John Hop
kins at Baltimore. The Buff and
Blue honestly believes itself entitled
to a victory for John Loehler
crossed Hopkins goal line only to
have the referee nullify the play
All signs point to q Tip-snOrting
contest Thanksgiving Day when
George Washington hooks up with
Catholic University. 1t is posi-.
bic that George Washington may
enter that game q favOrite.
Georgetown was expected to con.
uuer F'urman in rather hollow
fashion and did SO without exerting
itself too much.
d The Quanticot Marines have ap.
parently cinched the service title
once more. Their coming game
with the Third Corps eleven, booked
Tor Baltimore, should be walkaway
Tor the soldiers Of the sea, judging
from their work against the Fort
Benning eleven. The latter had
fought a no-score the with the Camp
Meade outfit q week earlier but
were helpless against the Marines
ut the Clark Griffith Stadium.
!. Two hitherto indicated elevens
fell last Saturday, Marquette losing
TO Creighton, its ancient enemy, and
Lafayette losirty TO the powerful
Pennsylvania team. Syracuse suf-
4ered. the ignominy Of being tied by
Pittsburgh in the final quarter.
Pennsylvania eleven is shaping
mp as one of the most formidable
1 An the whole country and its ad.
herents feel sure OF winning from
Cornell on Turkey Day.
. Bob FolweIl's Middles. strug-
cling on without the services Of
several regulars barred for class
failures, succeeding In holding
Penn State to pair Of field
goals. This probably makes the
Navy supporters happy. A one
sided State triumph would have
surprised few.
Yale's 7-to-7 tie with West Point
was nradicted The ARMY eleven
shaded the Ellis, but Ducky Ponds
long run brought back the balance.
The Yale eleven has now been tied
by Dartmouth and Army, but 1t
has yet to be defeated.
This week comes the first OF the
Big Three contests, Princeton ap-
pearing at Harvard. Many foot
bali sharps believe Harvard the
strongest of the Big Three, despite
the defeat by Dartmouth, tied by
Yale the week before. Princeton
10 no weakling and the truth of
this contention should be known
for a certainty next Saturday night.
Georgia Tech took its third
straight lacing from Notre Dame,
going all the way from Atlanta to
South Bend to get it, too. This
series is expected to end this
season. Notre Dame may be seen
on Harvard's schedule in 1925.
Efforts are also being made to
hook up with Pennsylvania in a
home-and.home series. The Quakers
prefer not to play away from home
and this may shatter the Notre
Dame plans.
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