Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-18

Not much Is known OF inc Sttel
brings here a quint that compares
the foot ball aggregation 1t display
prove a formidable foe for both Mar
Last year Washington and Lee was
not so strong at the indoor game, put
this Fall is reported to have much
better material and prospects Tor a
stronger team. Tonight's game viii
give its supporters some KIND OF an
Idea. S 10 what may be expected.
MARYLAND will place gainst the Gen
erals quint that has played together
one full year and part of another. ana
which in both seasons did some very
creditable work. SUPPLE, IroAell.
Faber. Beatty and l.nsor, Cardwell,
BOYD and stevens all are veterans In
addition TO these the squad tonight
will have as its members some men
who did exceptionally. we'll q. year ago
as members of the freshman five.
Adams, from last years freshman
team, seems to have won a place at
forward, while LinkouS is giving Sup
plee the battle of his life for center.
1t is possible the starting lineup to-
night will he Ensor and Faber,
forwards: Supplee. center. and Beatty
and Cardwell. guards, which is prac-
tically the lineup that went through
the 192i-25 sea son.
Maryland after il finishes its game
tonight with Washington and Lee, will
start thinking about its game tOmor-
row With Navy. The Old Liners,
whether they do or not. expect to beat
Washington and Lee. and really are
looking forward to tomorrow for the
real test of what their team can &C
compish Last year Maryland went to
Annapolis and lost TO the Navy in a
H. ,sc.ir
At the annual banquet in honor OF
the Georgetown University foot ball
squad, held last night at the Racquet
Club, two features stood out. one the
fine defense of foot ball as a sport and
as a, part of college life, by Represen-
tative Hamilton Fish; the other the
splendid tribute paid to Head Coach
Lou Little and the expressed desire
by Georgetown that he remain there
indefinitely.
Representative Fish did not leave
any doubt in anvbodys mind as to
what he thinks of foot ball. And not
only that. but in private conversation
after the banquet he said that he had
no objection to being quoted in any
thing he said and that furthermore
he believed that he represented more
than 80 per cent of Harvard graduates
for the kind OF ''mush" recently
printed by Crimson. student paper.
and that Harvard believes in foot
ball as one of the most valuable parts
of it's campus life.
He also said that at Dartmouth
and Princeton, where great teams were
turned out last Fall, nothing has been
said about overemphasis on foot ball,
intimatine that some conception of
4 Id yoJ,oI -iS
ball might be gagged by the success
attained. And he followed that by
saving that so far as | was able to
find out during the past Fall there was
was not much emphasis of any kind
placed on Harvard foot ball. In fact.
when I looked for the public rating
IF the team, I could not find Harvard
at all. At least, I went down to TWEEN
ty-fifth place in the list and when l
bad not then run across the name of
Harvard, ! stopped
II an getting sick and tired of all
this mush that is coming from Har-
ward about the oyeremphasis placed
on foot ball, continued Fish.
The Harvard Crimson has had
much to say along this line and has
only made itself ridiculous by doing
so.
Speaking as a Harvard man and
Il lOIIneE player can llOl lliltlh VI
a single constructive criticism of
the game as it is played today.
would not change it. the least bit.
A man who plays foot ball for the
eight weeks of the season learns
more on the gridiron than he does
from any course that he may take
the year round.
1.-THE principal assets that man
gets from foot ball are character and
will-power and these two will do
more for him in after life than any
thing else he can learn. Any father
who wants his son TO be real virile
man should want him to play foot
ball and unless they want to make
a molly coddle game Of it foot ball
cannot be improved
Little Is Paid Tribute.
Father Vincent McDonough, faculty
director of athletics at Georgetown,
paid Head Coach Lou Little a remark
able tribute in his address. In fact,
about SO per cent of what he said was
in praise of the Blue and Gray coach.
Among other things, Father Nc
Donough said:
''All that Lou Little has done has
been to lift Georgetown from the
depths of any ordinary college foot
ball team and placed it in a. position
dHloHS the greatest III the country, all
that he has done has been to create
in our opponents estimation the high
est opinion of our clean play and ex-
cellent craftsmanship: all that he has
done has been to accomplish every
thing and more than Georgetown
hoped for, and thus has endeared him
self to every member of Georgetown's
FACULTY, to every member of it's stu
dent body, to every member of it's
alumni. Let us do everything in our
power to keep Lou Little as one of
Georgetotwns permanent fixtures.
Georgetown's motto is .Multum In
ParVo,' which, translated and applied
10 this occasion, means that we have
Much in Little"
Fred Stohlman, guard on the foot
ball team at Georgetown in the days
when Newman and Nielsen coached,
was POSTMASTER at the banquet, which
was given by the alumni. Capt. -elect
McGrath. in an appropriate little
speech, made Capt. Hagerty of this
years team a present on behalf of
the teaem. which he said was a sim
pie token of how much the team ap-
preciated his leadership during the
past season.