The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
GRID
SEASON To
CLOSE
By George A. Simpson

By George A. Simpson
Football in the District high
schools is nearing its exit. After
Thursday, but two games remain
and then the curtain will be lowered
on the 1927 campaign. This week
offers five games, one an inter.
sectional clash. Four contests are
on the Turkey Day menu.
The feature game this week will
bracket Central High of Charlotte,
N. c., and Central High of this
city. This game will be played
Wednesday afternoon in the Central
Stadium with action starting at 3
o'clock.
The Central "C' Club is sponsor.
ing the affair and Dutch" Acorn,
Gene Casey and Bob Newly have
interested countless graduates. The
prospects are that a sizeable gather
ing will be present.
The North Carolinans rate with the
top-notchers in the Southern scholars
tic regions. They are bringing a
fast, heavy aggregation that is we'll
grounded in the fundamentals of the
game.
.
Central win enter the fray
| minus Everett Cross, halfback,
and George Mehler. guard. Her
foot Smith, who was nursing a
bruise. may return to his post.
| The Blue and White will cap its
season with the postponed interhigh
series game with Western on NoveFn-
| Der 30. The proteges of Mike Kelley
must triumph in order to finish in
| triple tie with Tech and Eastern Tor
! the championship ribbon.
| Coach Eddie Brooks Georgetown
| Props brood will be the only eleven
to assume the role of hosts on
j, Thanksgiving. The Newman High
/ School of New Jersey will be guests
4 of the Garrett Parkers. The Hilltop
| youngsters trampled the Jerseyites
| in their own lair last year.
Charlie Guyon. ''Dinty' Hughes
and the Eastern High gridders wan
| der ,ip to York, Pa. to wind-up their
season against York Collegiate In
stitute. The Lincoln Parkers have
glistened this year. but Coach Guyon
doesn't take non-series games eerl-
ously. He usually displays his 1ns
difference by starting his reserves.
using his regulars but for q prieI
period,
Hap" HardeIl and his Tech grid
ders will also write "finis to tnelr
gridiron year on Thursday. Inc
Manual Trainers travel to Manas-
sas. Va. for a meeting with
Swayely Prep. Tech has failed to
bear out advance predictions. Those
who saw the superb Tech herd in
/ nSNt nCTf
voicing laudable comments. (
Yet the team slumDed and .
lust barely managed to eIle n
tie for the interhigh titIe-and
that only when Eastern was
forced to place mediocre COM
binatiOn against Tech in the
opening game.
It Is easily explainable why Tech
flivvered, The team went ''stale. /"
A team must be kept alive on actual
competition-not the duh routine OF
daily practice Tech has engaged
in, but one non-series game-and
that against Baltimore City College
on September so.
Jim Mcnamara takes his Dewitt:
Prep gridders Thursday to Wood
stock, Va, to tussle with Massa-
nutten Academy.
The final school game here will
be waged between Dewitt Prep and
Gonzaga on December at the
Clark Griffith Stadium. A Gonzaga
victory would allow the Purple to
retain it's prep school crown, which
it has held since 1925. The Eye
Streeters have already mastered
Emerson, which in turn toppled
Dewitt Prep.
Gonzaga has not lost to District
eleven this year. In fact. no local
: schoolboy eleven has defeated Con-