Evening star., 1927-11-23

foot ball Thanksgiving ddE games ~ ~
MANY other sections ar the ceuteiS :
Of interest for thousands OF otleI
Ivasbinctonians. Many elevens meet
.n,,,orrow in games they consider
most important of the season, ana the
winning of which means satislac-
tory wear. no matter what the pre-
yious results have been. ,,..,
Take the Penn-Cornell game at fhh-
adelnhia. for instance. Corneh mas
had something of checkered year
hut if il can carry away from fnAa,
6eInhia tomorrow night the foot pan
with which the game is played as
token of victory. what has happehe.,ui
this season in previous contests VIII
be not even memory. Ana IL teii1
loses tomorrow. whatever pleNi!HuS
victories it may have earheu are i'Ne
ly to mean very nttle.
pittsburgh and Penn State meet
ont in Pittsburgh in just the same
hind of a contest And, incidentally
that battle at Pittsburgh is likely 10
ba one worth going a long distance
IN watch. because both Pitt ana Pehh
state are up among the elite with Hne
teams.
In the South Atlantic section, be-
sides the game between George aSm
lnQfnn
scheduled three contests that are the
whole thing as far as partisan IN
terests of alumni and students are
concerned. Over in Baltimore the
University of Maryland is due to meet
Johns HopkinS in a game IN Whlch
Honl,ins seems to be the favorite Tor
the first time in 10 years. CERTAIN
II is that the game bids fair to bring
tocether two of the best eleVenS lndt
have ever fought out an annual
THANKSGIVING duel between the TWO
universities.
Down at Chapel Hill. the Univer
sitv of North Carolina is TO enter
tain the University of Virginia IN
game expected to draw 24,OOo per
sons To fill the new stadium Just
erected bv the Tarheels. And both
Virginia and Carolina have been ad'
rancing so rapidly in the last three
weeks that their annual contest brings
them together at the peak or thelr
nower The game ought to be the
hest plaved between them in the last
five years. .,o+
everybody seems to think that
VIRGINIA should win without a goou
deal of difficulty, but in all llkelihooo
Virginia will find itself oppos' : py
one of the strongest teams II mas
faced this season. North Carolina
has had the material all year. and IN
it's last two games seems to nave got
going. ..
The other big South Atlantic game
is that at Roanoke between virginia
Military Institute and virginia Iols-
technic Institute. 1t usually matte!s
very little which of these elevens Is
the stronger during the season, as Tar
as the meeting on Turkey day is there
hv affected. V. P. I. ought to win, out
whether it will is something that Is
not going to be determined untli To-
morrow afternoon.
Several other big games are to be
nIaved in the South. Nanderpiit anu
Sewanee meet at Nashville in what, to
them is the same as Yale-Harvard Is
IN those institutions. Vanderbilt, IL
Snears is able to play, should win with
out difficulty. If Spears is out OF the
game. that is another matter. van
derbilt with Spears is an entlfeiy ull-
ferent team from Vanderbilt without
Spears.
Tennessee and Kentucky face each
other across the lined lines at Lex
ington. On the seasons showing
Tennessee ought to come out with tile
long end of the count, but kentucKy
has improved rapidly in the last three
weeks and may do a whole lot better
than Tennessees followers expect.
Alabama and Georgia play at Blrm-
ingham and Alabama Polytecnhlc N
stitute and Georgia Tech meet at Az
lanta. Auburn, as Alabama Poly gen
erally is known, has been so weak IA
most of it's games this year that main
interest in these contests lies in the
one between Georgia and Alabama.
Georgia has been going a great gait
ali season, and has the remarkable
distinction of being the only eleven
that has a victory over Yale. WIN
Alabama be able to stop Georgia is
the question everybody is asking
throughout the South. Most people
are anxious for Georgia to WIN De,
cause they desire to see georgia anu
Georgia Tech come together at Az
lanta on December without 0eled
charged against either.
Down i'm Texas the University OF
Texas and Texas A. and NJ. meet IN
their usual life and death" battle.
I'm in New York Columbia faces Sy'
racuse. while out in the West are
other contests, while not SO wen
known here, still are extremely I'M
portant in their own sections. Iarhes
between Washington and oregon az
Seattle. between Missouri and Okla
hona. between Nebraska and New
York University, are among the Dig
gest.
But TO come back to Washington 10
the meeting between Catholic T. anu
George washington. The Brookland-
ers figure they have at least an eseii
chance for victory, despite the unusuai
record made by the Colonials. Only
in the contest with Penn State has
George Washington met defeat, but II
has not been against as consistently
strong opponents as the Brooklano
eleven has faced. Catholic y" IN
games won and lost, has in compari-
SON with the record Of George Wash
ington very little to favor it. ;.
George Washington feels certain II
will avenge it's defeat of year ago
while Catholic University Is deter
mined no such result shall be attained
Catholic University undoubtedly Is
confident over the probable outcome OF
the final test with the downtown IN
stitution. no matter what the result
may be.
The game between the COlonials and
Brooklanders ought to attract big
crowd. 1t is the only varsity contest
scheduled here. and both teams are
strong. And no person should be Of the
opinion that Catholic L. is weak just
because it has lost several games.
To make it a big day, the freshman
teams of the two universities vii
clash at Brookland at 10 in the morn
ing.
Both varsity teams take their fina
workouts today and not much is likel'
TO be done except to run through
signals and discuss generally the plal
of attack and defense.
Maryland leaves about 10 O'Clock tc
morrow morning for Baltimore. l