Evening star., 1925-11-23

schedule with flying ColOrs until the
also was ih fine fettlc until it Struc
Pcnn's brilliant early season shown
At the hands OF these two clevcns.
Cornell was completely haffled hy
Dartmouth but undoubtedly has a
better eleven than was indicated by
that score.
Penn is stronger than it might seem
on basis of It's defeats by Illinois
and Pitt.
The game Thanksgiving day viii
bring together two of the East $ best
teams and besides the traditional
rivalry viii bring out much OF the
best in foot bail.
important Battle at Pitt.
out in the western part of Penn
sylvania another game between ira
ditional rivals IS to be played-Penn
State and Pittsburgh. The contest is
lust about the same for the western
section Of the State that the Cornell
Penn game is for the eastern. At
Morgantown, w. Va. West Virginia
University and Washington and JEFF
ferson meet in their annual Turkey
day struggle And that usually is a
real game, too.
What probably will he the largest
attended game in the South is that
scheduled between Georgia Tech and
Auburn at Atlanta. Probably other
contests might be as well attended
were there other fields to seat as
many as the Georgia Tech STADIUM.
Georgia and Alabama also meet
Thanksgiving day and there will he
little love lost" in that contest. In
cidentally. it should be a great game
il comparative scores count for any
thing Georgia lost to Georgia Tech,
2 To O. and Alabama beat Georgia
Tech, : to 0.
Virginia and North Carolina meet
at Chapel Hill in what should be one
~ the greatest games ever played
between the two colleges. Both have
strong elevens. their strongest III
years. Virginia has lost one game,
that to Washington and Lee, While
North Carolina has not been defeated
since its opening contest with Wake
Forest. Virginia won last season.
Cadets Resume Rivalry.
At Roanoke the Virginia Military
Institute and Virginia Polytechnic
Institute are due to get together
again. Both schools have weaker
eleVenS than usual but this Will not
detract in the least from the attraC
tiveness of the contest. Vanderbilt
which Vanderbilt hopes to avenge its
unexpected defeat of a year ago.
Over in Baltimore Johns Hopkins
and the University of Maryland con-
tinue a rivalry that has been going
on since 1892. And that rivalry be-
tween the two colleges has not been
diminishing any with the years.
Here in Washington no game Of
long standing is to be played though
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worthy eXpositions of what the grid
iron furnishes in the way of athletic
entertainment. Georgetown and the
Marine Corps will play IA great game
at Clark Griffith Stadium, and Cath
olic University and George Washing
ton are to engage in another at
Brookland.
Georgetown went to New York with
d better foot ball team than Fordham
had and proved it to the entire salts
faction of everybody. The Blue and
Gray played better foot bail in every
particular than their Gotham rivals.
AS a result of that contest the Hill
topperS just about established them
selves as one of the strongest teams
of the East and certainly the strong
est of the South Atlantic section
Georgetown probably is two touch
this section, although it has not had
the opportunity to prove such a con
Iention.
Lou Little, director of athletics and
head coach, must feel proud of his
team and must also feel that he has
vindicated his statements of early in
the Fall that Georgetown would be eX-
ceptionally strong. All that remains
for Little to fill his cup so that il will
RIM over & him -n Crai, ,,icto-yr
over the Marine Corps Thursday. That
is easier said than done, but the Blue
and Gray undoubtedly will enter the
game a favorite in the popular estf-
nation.
Years ago Glen Warner. now
coaching at Stanford. said TO the
writer that in his opinion it was
impossible to bring u foot ball team
TO its top-nOtch form more than twice
during Il season. In other words, no
eleven, in Warmers opinion. can hope
10 be at its very best for more than
TWO of its games. If this be true
1t is more than likely the reason
why Yale and Penn have suffered in
the latter part of their schedules,
Both may have paid too much atten-
lion to their October games, and it
is certain that both laid more en-
BlldSlS tIjdIl lHeN SnOulu OH lfldI con-
test they played October II. SEIZED
ulinS that game at that time was a
mistake on the part of both Penn
and Yale.
George Washington and Catholic
University Swdmped the eleVens
against which they played Saturday,
the former Buffalo University and
the latter Gallaudet. Their scores
were around the Go mark. while
neither was scored on. Which is not
particularly comforting to either
&. L. or g. W. when they consider
their Thanksgiving match.
University of Virginia has announc-
ed foot ball schedule of nine games.
1t includes practically the same teams
IL met this Fall. The season is to be
opened September 20 with liampden-
Sidney at Charlottesville, and after
that Georgia is to be played on Oc-
1ober 2, also at Charlottesville; Lynch
V. NJ. l., October 16, at Lexington:
Maryland, October %, at College Park;
Randolph Macon, October 30, at
Charlottesville; Washington and Lee,
November 6, at Lexington; Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, November l3, at
Blacksburg, and North Carolina,
Thanksgiving day, at Charlottesville.
1t is possible that shift may take
place in the above list of games.