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foot ball team should have in the W;
and experience.
Last year Georgetown had Lehish
here for its homecoming game. the
day for the gathering of its alumni
and former students with students
and faculty. and it was a foregone
conclusion before the contest began
that Georgetown would win by big
score. This year the situation is diff
ferent, and instead of being favored
to win by big score the Blue and
Gray may consider itself extremely
fortunate If it wins at all.
1t has been said many times that
any school that has chance to beat
Georgetown will draw q big crowd.
and If that be true then a great
throng ought to wend it's way through
the gates at Grifflth's ball park Satur-
day.
Cses Shift Play.
West Virginia uses shift play that
is said to be very effective. In fact,
the record of the team for the last
several years and for the three games
it has played this Fall is sufficient
proof Of the effectiveness of the shift
ing attack it has. Georgetown is
much concerned over that shift. AL
ways there is the question in the
minds Of coaches that the shift is not
within the rules, and just as often 1t
is not within the rules as 1t is within.
The rules this year have been made
so clear in regard to the shift that
there really is no excuse for an official
to miss it, The rule regarding that
even goes so far as to say that when
an official is in doubt about the shift
he must penaliZe the offensive team.
But under any circumstances,
Georgetown Saturday will be up
against a real foot ball team. West
Virginia has experienced men, big
men, fast men, all combined into an
effective unit. and should provide
some OF the best foot ball seen here
in years. The game ought to be at
tractive from every point Of view, and
certainly ought TO leave nothing to be
desired in the way OF good competi-
ton.
Georgetown will place against West
Virginia an undefeated experienced
eleven 1t will have on the field an
aggregation that will battle to the
limit, and when Georgetown goes into
the stress Of an important struggle
determined to do. then Georgetown
usually does better than anybody eX-
poets. Witness for instance the game
Of a few years back with Lafayette.
when with the greatest team in the
East, as it was hailed. it came here to
take the losing end in a great game
with the Blue and Gray.
No game here this season Will offer
as much In the way of good foot ball
and possible thrills as will the i'm
pending set-to between Georgetown
and West Virginia.
Probably the biggest surprises in
South Atlantic foot ball last week
were the defeats of South Carolina
by North Carolina and of Virginia
Military Institute by Roanoke Col
lege. North Carolina. after its "a
too defeat at the hands of Tennessee,
was not thought to be strong enough
to beat anybody, but it probably has
much greater potential strength than
1t has so far shown. South Carolina
has a good foot ball team, and If
North Carolina could win from It,.
then the Tarheels have a squad of
much greater possibilities than has
been dreamed by some of its OPP
ponents. V. NJ. I. got a jolt that
comes once in a while to a foot ball
team. 1t started it's second string
players and when 1t found it was
against a. stronger proposition than
1t looked for its regulars never We're
able to find themselves and get
started until too late TO pull the
game from the fire.
Georgia played good foot ball against
Yale, following the 27.to.7 whipping
1t gave Virginia week ago, and had
one OF it's players stand out as the
star Of the contest. Morton. who
formerly was a brilliant halfback at
Episcopal High School. played one of
the best games n back has put up in
the Yale bowl in years. He kicked.
ran with the ball. forward passed and
did everything else connected with
foot ball in a way that was just about
as perfect as human ability could
make it.
Catholic University's defeat at the
hands Of Loyola was unexpected. The
BrOOklanders evidently are not as
strong as they expected to be when
they first got their squad in training.
Loyola's performances this Fall have
not been such as would indicate
strength enough to beat the kind of
team that was expected To represent
the Brookland school.
George Washington and Maryland
lost to stronger teams. The Hatchet-
ties gave Bucknell a hard battle and
had nothing Of which to feel ashamed
at its conclusion. Maryland played
to a standstill, but just did
not have the stamina to- go through
the fourth quarter battling as it had
hattled the first three. AT that.
though, Maryland mistakes. the mis-,
takes Of Il green team. gave Chicago
its chances to get those two last
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