Evening star., 1926-10-15


press agent material for the benefit
tion treasury. but simple fact And
other. game scheduled this year is lii
ball As the one tomorrow.
Certainly the Penn State Navy
game played here three or four years
ago was rot as good The attack on
both teams tomorrow will he more
versatile and open than was the at
tack of either team in that contest
between Penn State and Navy. Both
the Blue and Gray and West Virginia
have alacks that have their back
hone in deception and double passes.
II IS deception on which Georgetown
depends to produce most of it's gains
and it is to add to the deception OF
its plays that West Virginia uses it4
shift
Both teams have weight. plenty of
physical power. and experience. All
these things go to make good foot
ball jus: as much deception and YER
satiIity in handling passing and run
ming with the ball. If there is any
thing the game tomorrow lacks to
make il one of the best in the history
of local foot hall then it is some
thing not now known.
Not Much on Talking
Coach Rodgers of West Virginia
says little about his team or about his
teams chances other than that he eX-
poets a red hot" battle and that his
team will he fighting for every inch of
ground from the minute the whistle
blows until the end. Capt. McHenry's
statement that I'VE will do our talk
ing on the field" is nothing more nor
less than the determination of
leader to do his best, no matter what
the conditions. In short. West Nir-
einia docs not have sufficient conf
dencp in the outcome of the contest to
make any definite prediction or to
claim that it will win. Or. at least.
it has not had so far.
Georgetown knows 1t is against a
team of great strength, but also
knows that 1t has an exceptionally
good outfit. 1t is not making any
statement as to the possible outcome
except to say that it believes it has
an even chance. Lou Little went a
little further than that in his state
ment that "If we go in there to do
our best and do our best ! believe we
can beat those fellows"
Gets Big Guarantee.
The game is distinctive ia another
sense and that Is that West Virginia
Is drawing the biggest guarantee ever
contracted for to bring a foot ball
team to Washington. even more than
'Red" Oranges outfit was offered last
year. Georgetown has done that in
order to meet the dema nd of its local
alumni for a big game here. and It is
almost the duty Of the local alumni
to give their support to the game.
West Virginia has with It a man
in the person of Harry Stansbury. its
athletic director. who has accomplish
ed wonders since he took charge at
Morga ntown. Stansbury went there
at time when West Virginia was a
doormat almost for a lot of teams II
very much desired to beat. 1t had
little or nothing in the way of a real
athletic field. Now West Virginia is
playing those teams that used to de-
feat IL as preliminary games and is
rated one OF the strongest eleVenS In
The country. And Nest Virginia has
II hall million dollar concrete stadium,
really fine plant. And both the
good teams and the stadium have been
the result mainly OF Stansbury's hard
work and persistent effort.
StauSbury is a good business man.
has had to be to accomplish what he
has. lie probably gets more for
every dollar he spends than any other
man in athletics. And. incidentally,
he has a good personality and ia well
liked. And it may he further re-
marked that this is not StanShury's
first visit to Washington, as he came
here AZ a quarterback on the West
Virginia Wesleyan team some years
ago that sprang A great surprise by
heating one Of EXendine's George
town teams hy II to s.
Catholic University gOeS against a
much stronger team At Brooklyn to-
morrow. when it faces st. Johns.
than it expected when it scheduled
the game. ST. Johns has defeated
LehiSh already this year and the
Brooklanders may consider them
selves lucky if they get out with a
victory.
George Washington has q game
here With Blue Ridge. but the
IlatchetiteS are evidently so far su-
perior that the contest is of little
note. Gala audet goes to Reading, Pa,
to meet Schuylkill College. new
conner in college foot hall ranks. and
the Kendall Greeners know very
little of the caliher of their prospective
opponents.
-haTNidHu SVudu tcd'rS tOHkHt Tor
Norfolk Ia play Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. The Old Liners will he up
against an exceptionally strong team.
one that has considerably more expert.
enCe. Something of Virginia Poly
technic Institutes strength may he
known when ii is considered that 1t
heat by 30 points a team that last
week whipped Virginia Military In
Stitute and beat by % points a team
that tied University of Virginia
q Ia ..
Maryland Is improving gradually.
building green team into closely
knit combination. 1t has plenty OF
physical power and no little speed.
hut the inexperience of It's men has
been n Zig handicap If the team