Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-03

NJ ISTAKES still play big part
II n i'm results of foot ball games,
NV despite attempts Of rules
makers to eliminate them.
= In two Southern Conference
games of last week teams were VIC
TORS bv good scores, yet won as much
On the mistakes of their opponents
MS on the excellence of their own or
Tense. Georgia beat Virginia. 81 to ..
and Tennessee won from North caro-
lima. 2s to o. by virtue of lapses on
the part OF the losing elevens.
Take the Georgia-Nirginla game.
Three of Georgias touChdowns were
made on misplays by Virginia. one
was the result of a fumbled punt,
another a blocked punt and the other
an intcrcepted pass. Two of Ten
nessee's touchdowns against North
Carolina were made on intercepted
passes. Both North Carolina and
Virginia. it is said. put up great
games and really deserved better
dates.
OF the North Carolina team espe-
. cialiy this seems true. Roy Mackert,
who secuted North Carolina for Mary
land, said on his return yesterday:
You have no conception of the kind
. of team North Carolina has Its ma.
terial is the hest in the section, and
it is as fine a looking outfit as you
could find anywhere. And that game
with Tennessee is no criterion OF its
true strength North Carolina will be
d tough team for anybody to beat"
And this also may be true OF N1r-
giria. Last year Virginia lost to Geor-
. Sia in it's second game by a big score.
s yet came back and had one of its best
teams. AS soon as Virginia eliminates
little of it's rough edges. it will be
good enough to fight on even terms
any other eleven in the South.
BY the time Virginia and North
Carolina reach November l they ought
to stand out as two of the best teams
i'm the South. North Carolina ought to
long before that, because their first
string squad probably is made up of
more veteran material than any other
In the whole section. Ten seniors and
i've juniors are among the men the
Tarheels depend upon. There is
Wonderful lot of potential power in
that North Carolina squad.
Virginia Military Institute gave
Georgia Tech real battle down in
Atlanta and under more favorable cir
cumstances might have won, 1t did
not have the number of substitutes
possessed by Georgia Tech, and under
the heat that was a big handicap.
. Barnes, who is playing halfback for
". NJ. l., was the outstanding back
of both teams in the game with
Georgia Tech, and, all in all. it seems
that V. NJ. /. is going to be a much
greater contender for he Hors than was
at first expected.
Washington and Lee is another
South Atlantic eleven that did remark
ably well, getting a tie with West Vir-
ginia. Nobody thought the Generals
would do anything other than take a
whipping at the hands of the Noun
taineers. Even the Generals them
selves were resigned TO a defeat, and
the fact that they did SO well is all
the more credftabic.
Perhaps for the first time in a good
many Saturdays, four local foot ball
teams were victors. Georgetown,
Catholic University. George Washing
ton and Maryland took into camp
their opponents. Georgetown had an
easy opponent and was expected to
win by a big score. but the others
were supposed to be pretty evenly
matched. They were in games be-
tween George Washington and City
College of New York and between
Catholic University and Mount St.
Mary's, but Maryland got a much