Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Vot King Of Golfers Here 1926 d. c. Colleges Enjoy Good AA

~ OLLEGE athletics here during
the past year have provided
much of interest for those
~ who are keenlv Interested in
a partisan way. and also for
the public generally. Achievements
almost SENSATIONAL resulted In seine
contests, and i'm some sports accom-
plishments were recorded that stood
out above all others of previous years.
Also some athletes were so outstand-
ing i'm their respective srOrts that they
seem to have taken their places among
the best men developed by the inStitlt-
lions in their particular fields through
all time.
Most noteworthy. perha ps. OF all
the athletic records OF the year were
the accomplishments OF Georgetown
and Maryland in foot bail. For the
first time in the history OF the grid
iron two colleges from here went
North ON the same day and brought
back scalps Of leading eIevens OF that
section Georgetown winning from
Syracuse and Maryland from Yale
Georgetown started It's foot ball sea
son with good prospects and continued
to play well from the first game on.
1t won from Syracuse. tied Pittsburgh
and barely was defeated by Navy i'm
its major contests.
Maryland Record Good.
Maryland's record toward the end
of the SEASON was all the more note
worthy. in consideration OF the green
squad with which it began. After los
ing it's first three games with good
teams, the Old Line eleven began to
play excellently and reached it's zenith
In the defeat of Yale Also for the
first time. three tie games having in-
tervened In four years. Maryland bea
Hopkins. and, s one Maryla nGer said,
What more should we want I'm one
football season than to beat Yale and
tiopkins?"
Georgetown had the strongest team
developed here. Toward the end of
the season Maryland probably could
have given the Blue and Gray quite
a battle, but. even so. Georgetown
stood out during the whole year as
the better combination.
Catholic University and George
Washington, the former especially,
had better elevens than their won-and-
lost records indicated Both teams
played good foot ball, and i'm some of
the contests Catholic University put
up kind of foot bali that seldom is
beaten except by the very best elevens.
Galiaudet had an exceptionally pable
team. considering the size OF it's stu
dent body and American University
did az we'll as could have been eN-
pected in its first entry into intercol-
legiate foot ball The latter university
PLAYED a game or two the previous
year. but last season WAS the first in
which 1t has gone through a complete
schedule.
ConHaughton Big Star.
Undoubtedly Washington in foot bali
Is most unusually situated. IT has six
college foot bail teams in action
through fun schedules. Some -big
cities have three colleges playing foot
ball. several have two. but not one
other has six. Each of these six elev
ems had good men in its line, but prob
ably the outstanding player of all was
Cuunaughton oil 3 Georgetown. No
other man here received generally the
distinction accorded the Blue and
GRAY guard, and not only was he out
standing among his fellows here. but
PLAYED so well and consistently that
he won a place on several all-America
selections.
Other players on other teams also
were far above the average. stevens
of Maryland, at halfback, was a star
i'm nearly every game in which he par
ticipated, and against Yale was out