Evening star., 1927-11-10
BY II. C. BYRD.


Gallaudet and George Washington
are the only local college elevens that
play on their home fields this week
The former entertains University OF
Delaware and the latter st. Vincents
College. Both contests are scheduled
At $50 o'clock,
a. Gallaudet has had a rather check.
cred career so far, but George Wash.
tngton has been going along at a pace
that 10 especially gratifying to its
supporters. The Buff and Blue has
only one defeat charged against it,
that by Penn State. a record so far
in advance of what recent George
Washington elevens have shown that
there is hardly any comparison.
In the game with st. Vincent's
Coach Crum plans to start several
second-string players and get away
with them during the entire contest
IL he can. Crum has his eye set to-
ward Thanksgiving day and the an
.nual battle with Catholic University.
=. George Washington lost last season,
but thinks it has better than an even
chance to put across victory when
the two elevens meet two weeks from
today.
Georgetown. Catholic University
and Maryland play on foreign fields.
The Blue and Gray. accompanied by
It's band and big group of students,
goes to Boston to meet Boston College
In game in which. unless some great
upset occurs, it Is certain to win. Bos-
ton College has not shown much even
remotely indicating it to be as capable
rs the aggregation Lou Little has de-
veioped on the Hilltop.
Catholic University has its work cut
cut for 1t In meeting the st. Xavier
eleven at Cincinnati, That school gave
the Quantico Marines the battle of
their lives last week. and the Devil
Dogs barely won by a margin of one
point scored after touchdown. Ma
vines easily beat Catholic University.
and consequently it is not difficult to
toresee the trouble ahead for the lat.
ter when it takes the field at Gin
einnati
Maryland and Virginia seem fairly
evenly matched, and the game prob
ably will be another hectic setto such
as each of the last two years has
been. Two years ago the eIevens
fought through game at Charlottes-
willie that wound up to in favor Of
Virginia and last Fall at College Park
went through a contest that when the
smoke had cleared away each eleven
was left with points.
A general exodus of students, and
faculty as well. will take place at Col
lage Park Saturday morning for
Charlottesville. A general holiday for
The game has been declared. and it is
. certainty that the greatest Mary
hand crowd that ever watched an Old
Line team on a Virginia gridiron will
be on hand.
American University has a game
scheduled with Bridgewater College, at
kridgewater. Not much is known of
the kind OF team the Methodists will
have to meet.
A good deal Is being written about
Bruce Caldwell being declared eligible
for the game with Princeton, but it
n unlikely that Yale athletic authori,
ties viii take any such action. Cald.
we'll either is eligible or he is ineligi-
BILE, and Yale seems to have deter
hfined that he is not eligible. That
decision reached. it would seem rather
farfetched to rescind the action. Cald.
well actually is ineligible under two
seunts. one being that he is a transfer
from Brown and the other that he has
played his three years of college foot
ball and now is taking part in his
fourth.
Much also In being said about the
eleveHth-heur news that caused the dis
qualification, but that is hardly an ex-
euse. much less a reason. for making
him eligible. That really Ia Yale's
own fault, as 1t can blame none but
itself for not having investigated the
eridiron history of merScers OF its
squad with sufiicielt thoroughness to
prevent such situation.
However, much might be said of
PIinceton's spertsmanship in request.
ing Yale to make Caldwell eligible.
No doubt the Tigers are actuated by
the highest thought in making the re-
quest and genuinely wish that CaId-
well might play. Caldwelrs absence
from the game. they feel. may detract
somewhat from what everybody had
come to loek upon as almost certain
TO be one Of the greatest gridiron duels
ever fought between the two institu-
tions. between any institutions for
that matter.
Caldwell is a great foot ball player,
1t must not be thought that Yale's
aquad, outside Of Caldwell, is any
group of cripples. In all probability
the absence of Caldwell from the line.
up will send Yale team on the field
imbued with determination and high