The Washington times., 1925-11-21
Hilltop Team
Wins Praise
of Gridiron
Official
By r. D. THOMAS

town University footDali team o.
lacking fight. In fact, there have
been times on the Hilltop when
the gridironers had little else to
recommend them. Yes, and more
than one occasion may be recalled
in which the Blue and Gray was
rough a trifle beyond good cause,
even when the style was to knock
'em stiff and let 'em lay. Who
remembers, for instance, when
Tom Gormley sank his teeth into
a West Pointer.
Only today an ex-football off
|cial told story on himself that
gives an idea as to how rough
the Hilltoppers could be when
that sort Of thing was in order.
1t was a hard day. Georgetown
was at it with a keen-tempered
rival.
The referee was an ex-star of the
gridiron and man OF friendly un-
derstanding. If the boys wanted
to rough it up q bit, just to test
their mett1e, as 1t were, why, far
be it from him to spoil the after
noon. So the boys were given
pretty much of a free hand. They
used their feet and hands IN a man.
ner versatile, to say the least.
Came a play that piled up both
teams. The referee was assisting
the pack TO loosen up when sud.
denly a sturdy leg with a sizeable
foot on it shot from nowhere. The
referee suspicipned that the foot
was aimed at the. skull OF a George
town enemy.
But the aim was poor. It, the
foot, cracked the referee on the
shin bone. Surprised and ago
nized, he let ont a yelp that was
partly groan and partly cry
of anger.
Twenty seconds later q George
town player was on the way to the
bench and the referee had under
gone a chance OF heart in the mat.
ter of tolerance.
Doctor Jack Hegarty tells q story
of a Holy Cross gridironer who
used to circle the pack looking for
chances to do damage. IL Il was a
particularly rough enemy this war
ri0r developed q lapse Of eyesight
when trampling In the immediate
vicinity Of skulls. Doctor Hegarty
played at Holy Cross and later
graduated at Georgetown.
But things have changed on the
Hilltop and that's what this Is. lead
Ing up to. 1t is doubtful that
cleaner football is played by any
other team in the country than
Georgetown plays today.
For the FIRST time in the
history Of football at Georgetown,
II is said, the Hilltop players
complained about the rOuglrness
OF an enemy, when, last season,
between the halves Of their con-
test with the Third Corps Area,
they went TO Coach Lou Little.
Il wasn't exactly q complaint,
either. The HilltOppeEs simply
wanted to know what to do about
It, whether they should pay back
In kind or not.
They had been instructed to play
hard but play clearly and they
were well disciplined. They obeyed
orders until the thing became an
ordeal. They went back to the fray
with instructions to continue to
play hard and play cleanIy. And
though little has been said about
1t the to o victory won that
day by Georgetown was one Of the
finest to be found in the Hilltop
records. The game in every sense
was a test Of manhood for the
Blue and Gray players and they
wfthstood it handsomely.
That sort of discipline, born Of
fortitude, is one OF the qualities
that Lou Little has attempted and
with success to inculate in his
Georgetown teams. They fight with
their hearts.
The president OF Georgetown Uni
versity today received a letter from
A. c.. Taggart, an official in last
Saturdays game between George
town and Centre. 1t was splen'
did tribute to the c1ean-cut, gentle
manly conduct of the Blue and
Gray players.