Evening star., 1926-11-08
e.. i. AND MARYLAND FACE
FOES AT PEAK OF POWER
Formidable Hilltop Eleven Will Carry Battle to Mid.
shipmen-Inspired Old Line Team Will Be
Met by Heartened Cavaliers.

! manship and accords to it's successful
opponents everything that good sports
manship demands.
Harvard, however. should not be
censured, because, after all, Harvard
students are just stuuents. Probably
because Of the bad foot ball situation
that has existed at Harvard for the
last few years the student body, the
team and everybody else was popped
up really more than they should
lack of interest and create interest, in
an effort to stir up enthusiasm where
enthusiasm has waned. 1t is easy
enough to overreach just a little.
But. while Harvard students un.
doubtedly did not show the best Of
sportsmanship. every Harvard grad
uate and every Harvard man prob.
ably will hail with delight just what
happened. For was 1t not indication
that a dormant Harvard spirit Is
aroused and that Harvard students
are willing to fight for that which is
Harvard or represents Harvard?
And after all 1t is that willingness
to fight for an intangible something
that carries men to great heights,
whether on the foot ball field or at
Waterloo.
That action Of Harvard students in
doing battle with Princeton students
to protect and keep things emblema tic
of Harvard was not the best exhibition
of sportsmanship in the world. but it
was about the best indication possible
of a successful regeneration of Har-
ward foot ball.
Michigan took it's Navy defeat to
heart evidently. and profited by it.
Back on its home field Saturday it
wiped up Wisconsin by a score of 81
to 0. one of the biggest made in a
Western Conference games in years.
All Fall Pennsylvania had seemed
much stronger than Penn State. but
Saturday the State eleven went to
Philadelphia, apparently to do or die.
1t did not do, but it lost nothing in
prestige from the 3-to-O defeat it suf.
fered.
West Virginia certainly has fallen
on evil ways. A week ago it took a
27-to-0 whipping from Missouri. and
Saturday went down before Pittsburgh
by a decisive score.
Navy proved I'm its game with West
Virginia Wesleyan that its Michigan
victory was not a fiuke. The West
Virginians took to Annapolis a fair
ly strong team, but what the Navy
did to 1t was a shame. And the
Navy did it without Wickhorst, with
out Eddy and without several others
OF it's brilliant f1rst-string combina-
ton.
William and Mary, another South
ern representative playing in the
North. did itself proud by holding
Columbia to a 13-to.10 score. When
1t Is remembered that Columbia de-
feated Cornell a week ago, then VIII
liam and Mary's performance must
be established as very creditable.
South Carolina caused another up
set in Southern foot ball when II
trimmed Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute by 10 to 0. The team from the
Palmetto State had done nothing to
indicate that it had q chance to score
like that against the Blacksburg
eleven. Branch Bocock. former
South Carolina.
Out on the Pacific coast. California
took another beating, this time at
the hands Of Washington. The Bears
do not seem to have the punch they
did when Andy Smith was coaching
them.
George Washington. despite the
fact 1t gained ground almost as 1t
pleased. had some difficulty winning
from Ursinus. The score was to
8, yet the men who do not desire to
bear the Hatchet as their emblem
raced up and down the field. except
when near the Ursinus goal line.
GalIaudet and Catholic University
won easily. The Kendall Greeners
played good foot ball and sent Amer.
lean University home on the short end
OF the score. while the Brooklanders
had no trouble disposing of Blue
Ridge College.