Evening star., 1927-10-19
BY III. c. BYRD.


- elevens has game scheduled
Saturday that is likely to test
IL it's mettle to the utmost. One,
Pennsylvania. goes to the Mid
die West 10 meet Chicago. but all the
others are playing among themselves.
Harvard has Dartmouth at Cambridge,
Yale strikes another strong Army
eleven, Princeton and Cornell open "a
new alliance. and Penn State goes
against Syracuse. Navy meets Duke
University at Annapolis, and probably
will have its hands full.
Last year Chicago came East to
Philadelphia. and what it found in
Quakertown was not to its liking, if
the 27-to0 score by which it lost is
any criterion. However. Chicago
thinks the tale should be different this
time. The so-called hidden ball offense
of Pennsylvania is not likely to prove
SO bothersome. And Chicago is much
stronger now than it was last season,
if its victory over Purdue, which easily
beat Harvard, indicates anything.
Pennsylvania beat Brown two weeks
ago, but Saturday fell before Penn
State, 20 to 0. in what is about as dis
astrous a defeat as can be encoun-
tered by a Pennsylvania eleven.
Harvard managed to beat Dart
Hampshire eleven is strong and ex-
poets at least an even chance against
the Crimson, Notwithstanding the
great improvement shown Saturday
by the latter in winning from Holy
Cross.
Ellis Face Tough Task.
33-to-0 game it lost to Army last Oc-
tober, and when Yale remembers
in that way Yale is not an easy foe to
face. But Army has enough men
and seems able to take care of itself
under any other than extraordinary
circumstances. 1t is one thing to
whale the life out of a weakened op-
pcnent and quite another to take the
measure of one imbued with high
courage backed by experience and
power.
In Wilson, eagle and Murrell. it is
doubtful If any team has a better
trio of backs. Certainly they are far
more experienced than any backs be-
hind the Yale line. Murrell was a
great fullback at Minnesota, eagle a
good halfback at Louisiana State and
Wilson an all-Americn player at Penn
State. IT is not easy for a college
team to beat that kind of a combina-
tion.
Cornell and Princeton are beginning
an alliance that is expected by the
former to furnish it with an excel.
lent big Eastern contest which has
been lacking on it's previous
schedules and by the latter to take
the place of some of the other connec-
tions voluntarily relinquished. Just
how the game will turn out. as a tech
nical and popular exposition of grid
iron activity, is certain to be the sub
ject of much conjecture by those IA
miliar with foot BALL
Penn State undoubtedly elated by a
victory that was sweeter to it than
any other it could have won. meets
Syracuse. Penn State won last year
10 to 0. BeZdek seems to have another
strong eleven at State College, and
certainly is working under conditions
much more congenial to him than they
have been for the last two years. And
incidentally, it is likely that the de-
feat Of Penn is only a forerunner of
generally better results.
Some other games in the East, while
thev do not measure up in general in.
terest to those mentioned, as actual
demonstrations of good foot ball.
should fall very little. if any, behind
those between the bigger schools.
Lafayette and Washington and Jeffer-
son are likely to put up great stru2-
gle. Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech
have a bitter rivalry over which to
contend, and Georgetown and West
Virginia ought to do some real bat
tling here.
Many things happen on a foot ball
field that are never seen by the spec
q Sna
spectacular bits of play for which
another player gets almost entire
credit. Take that runback of a punt
by Roberts, which won for Maryland
over Virginia Polytechnic Institute
last week al Norfolk. Roberts made
the run and deserves all the praise
that has been bestowed on him for
his splendid effort, but he never
would have reached within. 80 yards
of the goal line had it not been for
Jack keenan,, husky guard. 1t was
keenan, who cleared out Peake, V.
p. I. quarterback, who was rushing
Roberts to tackle him.
Peake the week before had twice
caught Galloway, star Colgate back,
after the latter had got clear and
prevented scores that would have
beaten his team, and he probably
would have got Roberts the same way
had it not been that keenan, struck
him just as he was about to make
q tackle.
Good guards never get the credit
that is due for the part they play
in a foot ball game, because there
ares probably no more valuable men
on a team and no others on whom
so much depends both for successful
Offense as well as successful defene.
1t beoins to appear that Geo. gIa and
E"o"gia Tech may battle for the outh-
ern Conference championship hen