Evening star., 1925-09-15

The Lexington school has back praC
Three members of the backfield and
ton and Lees veterans. besides subs
and clever running back; Rauber, an
serving behind the line of scrimmag
The one man Washington and Lee
may miss from it's last years team
Is Cameron, fuliback. That young
man was an exceptionally expert
enced player and one OF the best line
plungers in the section. Any man
who can get 2 or 3 yards almost
whenever that distance is needed is
very valuable, and that is just about
what Cameron could do. Also Cam
eron was a good defensive player.
1t was evident last Spring that
Coach De Hart thought so much of
the possibilities of the Washington
and Lee squad that he deferred going
to Duke University, where he has
accepted a job as head of athletics
and foot ball coach, in order that
he might remain in charge at Wash
ington and Lee during the present
foot ball season. Pat Heron. now
at Duke, goes to Washington and
Lee to take De Hart's place after
the Christmas holidays.
Washington and Lees game at
Pittsburgh next week will be the first
IN the new stadium Pittsburgh is
building at cost of 81 900 900. This
is another reason why Washington
and Lee desires to make good
showing. That in addition to the
fact that every coach wants to be at
his best against his Alma Mater,
strange as that may seem, is full
reason for the strenuous licks De Hart
is putting in 10 whip his team into
the best of shape so early.
Washington and Lee not only has
big game with Pittsburgh, but also
meets West Virginia and Princeton.
These contests, besides its annual
meetings with Virginia, Maryland. Nir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute and North
Carolina State, offer about as severe
load as any South Atlantic college
need desire to undertake.
Georgetown is making an appeal to
citizens of the National Capital to sup
port its foot ball team this Fall. Let
ters have been got out giving some
thing of Georgetown's status in the
athletic world. and stating reasons
why the university feels it should have
public support Director of Athletics
Lou Little says in the letter:
For more than a quarter OF a cen
tury the Georgetown University ath-
letic teams have furnished the citizens
of Washington with high class and
truly representative college athletic
competitions. They have consistently
maintained a leadership. not only in
the District of Columbia collegiate
athletic circles. but a'so in the South
Atlantic and Eastern college circles
This Fall We expect to have foot
ball team which will be able to more
than hold its own against the best in
the country. With this fact in mind,
we have arranged an unusually hard
and attractive schedule. Likewise.
eight of the ten games scheduled are
to be played in Washington. This is
an unusually large number OF home
games, and to arrange such schedule
we have had to assume much greater
financial obligations than we have
ever done before. However, we feel
justified in doing this. 2s we know the
citizens of Washington desire, and will
support, really high-cass college foot
ball"
The letter goes on to explain the ar
rangement by which a season ticket
for all eight games is to be sold at
a figure considerably lower than the
total of admissions to all the games.
But that is not the real point. as far
as Georgetown people are concerned
as the real point is found in the fact
that Coach Lou Little, at the end of
two weeks practice, is willing to tell
the world over his own signature that
he expects "to have a foot ball team
which will be able to more than hold
its own against the best in the coun-
try"
There is no qualifying word in that
statement, and the only conclusion to
-.
after looking over his material. has
decided that he ought to be able to
put on the field the best team in the
country, because any team that car
more than hold it's own with the best
of the others is the best. And to say
that the team is going to be the best
is Just about the limit in optimism
Nobody may accuse Georgetown oi
anything that savors of bear stories.
Press notices from the University
of California indicate that a great
eleven is expected. Andy Smith has
carried that institution through five
wears without a defeat, and 1t gen
orally is believed he will do the same
thing again this Fall. At least, thai
is what the official press articles sem
from the university say.
1t is a remarkable record indeed u
play five years without a defeat. bu
IT Is even more remarkable for any
body to expect that kind of a record
to be maintained. 1t shows that Ger
tain Californians not only have con
fidence in themselves against others
but in themselves against theil
brothers, as, following the tie game
last Fall with Stanford, it would seen
that California should expect certain
difficulties in that contest, to say th'
least.