Evening star., 1924-08-31

Again on October II Southern
elevens are due to go North. William
and Mary College having a contest at
Syracuse and University of Georgia
at Yale. October Is will find Penn
State battling Georgia Tech at
Atlanta in one of the very few games
in which big Northern schools go to
Southern gridironS to play. The
following Saturday University of Nir-
ginia makes another trip North. this
time TO face Pennsylvania at Phila-
delphia. Notre Dame comes East to
try its mettle again in competition
with the Princeton Tiger, and Uni
versity of Florida goes half way
across the continent to face the Uni
NerSity of Texas at Austin.
Haskell Indians leave their Kansas
home for Boston on November 1 to
face Boston College. and Georgia
Tech makes its only journey out of
the southland to face Notre Dame at
South Bend. Florida makes another
long jump on November s. this time
leaving the Peninsula State to see
what it can accomplish against the
Army at West Point. Incidentally,
Capt. J. y. van Fleet. a former West
Point man. is coaching the team.
Maryland goes to New Haven to beard
the Bulldog. 1t so happened that last
year the Yale Maryland game turned
out to be one of the most talked of
contests of the season. on this date
Notre Dame gets an opportunity to
snow what it can do against Western
Conference elevens, with Wisconsin
at Madison. Georgetown gets a chance
against big northern school at
Pennsylvania.
Washington and Lees game with
West Virginia on November 15. while
not an intersectional contest. is i'm
give comparison between strong
southern elevens and that group of
institutions around western Pennsyl-
Vauia that always play foot ball as
good as any in the whole country.
&. L. Goes to New Orleans.
Georgetown leaves Washington No
vember y for New Orleans to play
Loyola University, school which
lately is making determined efforts
to attain high ranking in athletics.
November 29 will find the Oregon
AGgies playing in the Middle West
against Nebraska, December 6 Syra-
cuse is to be at Los Angeles for a
contest with the University of South
ern California and January l, Pensyl-
vania faces the University of Califirnia
at Berkeley.
80 made up that Middle Western
elevens will play against Eastern
elevens, Middle Western elevens
against far Western. Atlantic Coast
against Pacific Coast. Northern
against Southern: in fact, so extern
Sive are these intersectional contests
that before the season is over they
probably will be regarded as some
what commonplace and take second
rAla Sp h., Of
the more important local contests.
Intersection games here mentioned
do not take into account contests
such as that in which Georgetown is
to meet Furman University at South
Carolina, Georgia to play Virginia,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute to play
Auburn, Washington State to face
California.
Georgetown's foot ball squad gets
together here today and tomorrow
preparatory to leaving here at 3
o'clock tomorrow afternoon for
Woodberry Forest, where preliminary
practice will be held. The Blue and
Gray starts its season in fine shape
and with excellent prospects. Flor
ence, captain and end last year, is
about the only regular who will be
missed, and as far as last season was
concerned will not be missed much
because he was injured early and
played very little foot ball. In other
words, the team practically was
without the services of Florence in
the 1923 season.
While Georgetown is getting under
way at Woodberry Forest, about half
the Maryland varsity squad will be
putting on suits for their first prac-
tice at College Park. The Maryland
squad has been split, half being due