Evening star., 1927-10-18
w WHILE the annual George.

w WHILE the annual George
n town.West Virginia foot
NN ball game, the Blue and
, Gray's homecoming affair,
in Clark Griffith Stadium,
is the top-notch gridiron attraction in
college circles hereabouts saturday,
George Washington is carded Tor an
important engagement against Ford-
ham in Central High Stadium.
All four other elevens of the local
college group will show their wares
on foreign fields against stout oppo-
nents. Maryland will engage Virginia
Military Institute at Richmond, Cath
olic University will tackle Holy Cross
at Worcester Gallaudet will come to
grips with Temple in Philadelphia,
and American University is down for
an encounter with William and Mary
at Newport News.
Head Coach Lou Little yesterday
- Anterspersed Georgetown's practice
with a lengthy talk on the mistakes
made by the Blue and Gray in its
losing game with Syracuse last Sat
81 urday and pointing to the result or
. the game as an evidence of how over
confidence can handicap a team.
Realizing that West Virginia, which
fought Lafayette to TT tie last Sat
urday, is strong. Little will drive the
Hilltoppers for the next few days. In.
ClicationS are a big crowd OF alumni
and others will be on hand.
George Washington's warriors will
take the field against Fordham with
out the services of Capt. Allshouse, de-
pendable end. He suffered broken
ankle in the Colonials' winning game
with Rutgers on Saturday. Ais
houses loss is particularly serious. as
Coach Crum's list of first strlngers Is
reduced to just IA men.
However. G. w. has been short Of
reserve material in other games this
season and has got by in fine shape.
and Coach Crum is hopeful that 1t
will again be fortunate on saturday,
While Fordham is the favorite, the
Colonials, following their win over
hands of New York University. are
expected to offer the boys from the
big town a deal of opposition.
Maryland was TO get down to hard
work today for, its battle with V. NJ. /.
in Richmond Saturday. The Old
Liners took it rather easy yesterday.
recuperating from their strenuous
winning game with Virginia Poly
saturday.
Representatives of Maryland who
saw V. NJ. l. In action in two success
sive games say the Cadets. who held
Georgia Tech to lone touchdown re-
Gently at Atlanta, possess plenty Of
power, and Coach Curley Byrd plans
TO keep his proteges hard at it this
week. Despite that Virginia trimmed
V. M. I. Saturday, Maryland is not
undertaking the Cadets, as the Old
Liners recently had a dose OF how
costly cockiness can be to team
when they lost to North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
In stacking up against Holy Cross,
the sturdy Catholic University team
will be engaging in its severest test
of the season thus far. Though the
Cardinals are not favored to win,
Coach Jack McAuliffe's smooth-func-
tionin': machine can be counted upon
to fash an intelligent, clever exhibi-
ton that may do much better against
the Worcester collegianS-much more
that is expected. In preparation for
the game McAuliffe has been working
his charges Just hard enough to keep
them in good shape.
Though Galiaudet has yet to win
this season Coach Teddy Hughes men
have shown a fighting spirit that is
commendable and have a number Of
men who are really stalwart perform