Evening star., 1927-10-31
BY III. C. BYRD.

A game which, by the way
Judged as far as such thing
can he Judged, it stands at least an
qeven chance to win. Lafayette comes
here this week with a team tha'
started the season as if it would be
another of the great elevens that nave
In recent years been wearing lts
colors. but which has recently SUFFERED
two setbacks.
Inst a while back Lafayette played
q tie game with West Virginia, tnei'
lost by two touchdowns to Nashlng'
ton and jefferson, and last week was
overwhelmned by Penn State. Either
LAFAYETTE is not as strong as early
eason results indicated, or it has gone
into a. dreadful slump. 1t VIII come
here this week. though, team that
will play good foot ball even II 1t does
not beat Georgetown.
So far Georgetown has played SIX
games and won five of them' IIue
three of the victories were over coiil'
nIetelv outclassed teams, but even
those were won by such big scores
that they gave evidence OF tar gIea.ei
strength than people were LED 10 pe.
lieye at the beginning of the year tha'
Corpetown would have. Then came
the Syracuse game and the Blue ana
.G .Gray. as result of its own oVercoh'
fidence and misplays and a more pow.
erful Syracuse eleven than II wac
thought the Orange possessed was
defeated. In it's big Homecoming con
test, though, the team came througI d
= with a vengeance, ana gave "es'
Virginia a lacing, 20 to y.
Despite the defeat by Syracuse,
Georgetown has a good record, ana
has played good foot ball. 1t has
run up big scores because it has a
scoring machine, and it is going to
stand an even chance or better 10
win from Lafayette because OF this
fact.
Several years ago Georgetown won
from Lafayette in a contest at Amer
lean League Park that was one or the
best ever played here. The score was
10 to Z and was gained by Georgetown
in a bitterly fought struggle in which
1t won because it simply outgamed
and outlasted the Easton eleven. This
weeks contest probably will not be as
brilliantly played as was that, but 1t
nevertheless ought to be exceptionally
interesting.
And be it said that nobody is more
pleased than Coach Little over the
progress Georgetown has made this
H.
timistic while his squad was prac.
ticing up in New Jersey, and it is
we'll known, because Of the necessity
of suspending some of his squad. that
in several instances players have not
been as faithful to their tasks as they
might have been.
Little has done good work since he
took charge at Georgetown, and dur
ing this Fall probably has done some
of his best. The true test OF ability in
a man in any line is how he stands
up under adversities, and Little has
this Fall been meeting that test well.
just how much of a good Job Uni.
versity of Georgia did at Yale early
in the season is becoming more ap-
parent each day, as Yale runs up
scores against it's opponents. The
Georgians took the measure OF team
that has been burning up the grid
iron with it's other opponents. Some
doubt of the strength Of the Yale
eleven might have existed prior to
Saturday, but any team that could go
out and trim Dartmouth, 10 to 0, must
have had all that good foot ball
team should have.
And, incidentally though, Georgia
has been showing that its efforts at
New Haven were not a Hash In the
pan by any means. The Crackers
have been running roughshod over
Southern elevens since they whipped
the Dark Blue and do not seem to be
worrying about any kind OF opponents.
Tulane was supposed to have a pretty
fair foot ball team, but George last
week trounced it 81 to 0. Furman.
which early in the year beat the
strong Duke eleven, also went down
before Georgia by more than 30
points.
Georgia has four more games to
play. two of which it probably will
win without much difficulty, but the
other two are likely to be great
battles. The contest November II
with Georgia Tech is sure to be one
of the best the South has seen in
years, while the game with Alabama
on Thanksgiving day ought also to be
exceptionally well played, notwith'
standing Alabama already has been
whipped by Georgia Tech.
What Yale has been doing to the
teams that whipped 1t last year Is
worthy Of more than passing notice by
MARYLAND. people. Brown and Army
were victors over Yale last season. but
this year Yale has trimmed both
Dartmouth lost to Yale a year ago,
IA to Z, in a game in which 1t was
claimed Yale was outplayed, but wnat
Yale did to Dartmouth Saturday was
a caution. Maryland was one OF the
teams in the honor class a year ago
and this year it also liz one or the
teams that Yale seems to have got
well set for.
But as one Maryland player once
remarked as he went into the Yale
bowl. after being enjoined by a Mary
land alumnus mot to worry, because
this is Yale. There isn't anybody
on this team with sense enough TO
get scared" And to judge by some
OF the things the Maryland team did
against Washington and Lee, that
sage remark is just as applicable this
year as 1t was then.
The less Maryland talks about its
game with Washington and Lee Sat
urday the better it should feel, and
the more 1t thinks about that game
the better It ought to be for its future
possibilities. A coach Of a rival uni
versity, which Maryland plays year
after year, two years ago told his
squad that Maryland is just a big
dumb team," and this week the same
coach will be telling his team the
same thing. in all probability, because
several Of his scouts were in the
stands when the Generals got the long
end OF a 13-to-6 count at College Park.
Mechanical errors in foot ball
game. or in any contest, are to be ex
pected and accepted as one Of the
facts that cannot be helped. not even
sometimes by long and assiduous prac-
tice, but there are certain funda-
mental principles Of foot bali for VIC
lation Of which can be found no pos
sible excuse. 1t was these principles
that Maryland violated in its games
with North Carolina and Washington
and Lee, and because of such laxnes'
has charged against it its only two
defeats.
On two of the next three Saturdays
Maryland will face the two strongest