Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-11-25

" | Military institute anu JtHuS
VI Hopkins are sitting on top of
4 the world today. Yesterday
all won more or less uneN-
pected victories over ancient rivals
and as a result Virginia. Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and Maryland
have few joyful reflections over the
happenings on foot ball fields IN
various parts of the South Atlantlc
section. North Carolina beat Nlr,
ginia ny II to l3, hopkins trimmed
Maryland by the same score. and Nlr'
ginia Military Institute won from
Maryland Il to 9.
1t generally was expected that Nlf-
ginia would beat North Carolina. but
those familiar with the Tar Heel $
potential strength realized that IL
would have a hard row to hoe III
did, and found North Carolina more
of a proposition extensively than II
has found it in several years Alter
trailing in the frsta half the CavaIlers
made a fine effort to pull the game
from the fire. but just could not reach.
Virginia Military Institute went
into the last quarter of It's contest on
the short end of a 3-to-o score anu
made the two touchdoWns that were
necessary to give it the margin. ne
Lexington eleven simply outplaNed 1t
self in that final quarter. and deserves
even more lfldl the ~ hiSC 1ii"N
with the average victory.
Many of the newspaper stories
about the victory Hopkins got over
MARYLAND by ] point attribute Hop
kins' victory to many things, nut
most of them are exceedingly char-
liable toward the Maryland coach.
To tell the unvarnished truth. IL the
coach had elected to spend the after
noon duck hunting or reading good
,~tn nf "A
ing the game Maryland probably
would have won without much diff
Guilty. Quarterbacks and players often,
nearly always. as a matter of fact,
blamed for poor judgment and the
loss of games thrown on them, ana
coaches seldom take the real lame
that often is theirs. but one game
that one coach can blame himself Tor
losing is that which Maryland lost
yesterday.
MARYLAND completely overestimated
Hopkins' strength. The Baltimoreans
were not nearly so strong. not by
three douchdowns, as Maryland had
been led to believe it was. Actually
MARYLAND was about three touch-
downs better than Hopkins yesterday.
and should have won by about that
margin if it had started and played
the game as it ordinarily would nave
DiaNe0 against SOtDe VI luz olhNi
elevens it meets.
One man who went through the
MISUNDERSTANDING game Yesterday de-
serves great credit for the exhibition
he put up Thomas at halfback play
ed throuSh three-quarters after nav
ing got out of sick bed and With
out having practiced for week. lie
did a brilliant job of it. too. and Incl
dentally. every one of the five reg
ular Marylanders who played their
last time against Hopkins probably
exhibited about the best games of
their careers in Maryland uniforms. |
Adams and Zulick at tackles. Bafford |
at center. Thomas and Linkous in the |
backfield were at their best and the |
exhibition they put up. in company
with their teammates, in the second |
half was good enough to win almost
any game. except that yesterday.
Georgia kept its slate clean yester
day and beat Alabama by three touch
downs TO one, and inasmuch as
Georgia Tech won from Auburn by
is to 0, the two big Georgia elevens
will meet December without de-
feat against either. 1t will be the
South's biggest game of the year. and
probably the greatest attendance OF
the season. Probably Atlanta wishes
it had the Yale bowl in which to
stage the contest.
University of Pittsburgh demon
strated it's effectiveness yesterday by
cleaning up Penn State by 80 to 0, and
caused Glen Warner to say that Pitt
has the best eleven he has seen this
season. Penn State had good team
and none expected il would lose by
any such margin. Pitt not only has
IL 1.,,f 81 I,ac
through a brilliant season, with one
of the greatest backs in the game,
WEIGH. No other back this season has
shown such consistently brilliant
ability as the Pitt star.
Nebraska was too tough a nut for
New York University to crack.
despite the excellent eleven that has
worn the latter's colors all year. Both
elevens scored often. the New Workers
getting IS points and the Westerners
3.
What PENNSYLVANIA did to Cornell
was caution to those that seem to
want to take a fall out of the Quakers.
A beating by 35 to 0 in a big game is
something almost unknown for Dobie.
who is said to be dissatisfied with con-
ditions at Cornell and ready to turn
back his contract, although it still has
two years to run. Recent reports in
dictate that Dobie is anxious to go
back to the West Coast.
Columbia took the measure of SYRIA.
cuse yesterday for the first time,
causing another big upset in gridiron
happenings. The Gothamites outplay.
ed the team from the western part Of
the State. although nobody seemed to
expect them to do SO. COlumhia's first
victory over Syracuse in the history
of foot ball relations was by ii to
STRAIGHT q