Evening star., 1925-10-27

But Illinois bring not only a foot
ball team to Franklin Field, but also
RED" Grange, who seems able to
gain against any eleven and under
almost any conditions. He is the
type Of player who may break loose
al any moment for long run that
Is the greatest thrill of "a foot ball
game.
The game should be brilliantly
played. Pennsylvania can smatCh
great backs with Illinois in the per-
sons of Rogers and kruez. and it is
likely that the efforts of individuals
Will surpasS anything seen on Frank
lin Field in years.
Many Washingtonians will go to
Franklin Field to watch the CON
test, of so much interest TO some
residents of the National Capital that
tickets were reserved last Summer.
one prominent resident recently went
home TO dinner to he greeted thus
by his wife:
Dear, | think that Pennsylvania
Illinois foot ball game should be the
best of the year. don't you?'
Well perhaps. and I'd like to see
it. but doubt if l could get tickets
now" was the reply.
Il just knew you'd want TO go.
responded the real head of the fam
lily, so l got tickets two months
ago"
Certainly no contest between an
Eastern and Middle Western eleven
ever attracted as many persons from
out of town as will attend the game
saturday between Penn and Illinois.
The above mentioned is not a f1c-
titiouS conversation Matched up as an
but
and when the wife gets tickets three
months before Il game Is played so
her husband may be sure TO take her
il is a game we'll worth anybody
watching.
Tulane University is looming up
this year as a real factor in South
ern foot ball. on one OF the tip
ends of the Southern Conference, it
does not get many opportunities to
meet with representative conference
eevens. but it has this year met two
Of the strong teams of the Middle
West Early in the season II played
the University Of Missouri. which de-
feated Nebraska. which beat Illinois.
a 6-to-6 tie, and last week it won
from Northwestern University at Chi
rago by Is to .. There's not much
wrong with an eleven that can get
cago beat Northwestern by drop
kick.
GeOre eetown has an easy game this
week King College is to come here.
hut probably will not accomplish much
against the Blue and Gray. Here Is
a comparison of scores: Georgetown
"a. Detroit Q; Detroit 6. Marines 0;
Marines 40. King College 0. That
tn
of cloud is looming up for the local
eleven.
Gilmour DObie seems due to get his
first real test of the year this week
when his team faces Columbia at New
York Cornell has been surprising its
most ardent supporters by the fine
showing it has made in preliminary
contests, and If 1t can trim the New
Workers Comedians will turn their
faces toward Thanksgiving day with
something more than hope. Pennsyl-
vania is going great guns, as one
might say, but Cornell is Cornell and
Dobie is Dobie, and the combination
IS not one to think OF in passing
terms 1t would be the crash OF years
for Penn were it TO lose to Cornell in
It's final game, but such an end Is not
at all impossible.
Washington and Lee, already fin
ished with several difficult games. has
other hectic Saturdays in front of it.
The Generals meet West Virginia at
Charleston, W. Va, this week, next
week play Virginia at Lexington. and
The following week come here to meet
MARYLAND After that the LeXing-
ronians should strike a fairly easy
spot in North Carolina State. but the
last game of the season will be real
battle again, the final being with
I'Int-iIn