Evening star., 1927-10-31
HILLTOPPERS NOW SEEM
I'd HOLD EDGE FOR GAME
Eastonians Appear to Be in Slump After Start That
Presaged Great Year, But Doubtless Will
Present Strong Front Here.

That game was the last in which Ma
rines play here until they meet tht
Army eleven at Catholic Universitys
Stadium, November 19.
That Army game really is the one
the Marines are building for and de
sire most to win. And they will win
unless they get overconf1dent because
of their string of victories. Marines
have one big advantage for that con
test in that they are playing through
a regular schedule, which began the
first Saturday in October. The Army
has not been doing that and will take
part in only two or three contests prior
to the one big test. That is like send
ing out a green and more or less un
drilled army to battle one seasoned
by several campaigns.
George Washington did not have
such an easy time getting the long
end of the score in its game with
Ursinus, but it won, and that is the
main point at issue. The Buff and
Blue scored it's touchdown as result
Of 95-yard run after receiving kick
off at the beginning of the second
half, Clapper being the man who
played the stellar role.
Gallaudet was beaten by City Col.
lege of New York by big score, the
green Kendall GreenerS not being able
to accomplish much against a heavier
and more experienced team.
American University won it's game
on the home field by 3S to 0. down.
ing Blue Ridge College. The game
was a big triumph for Coach Springs
ton, who had to weld out of very
poor material a team after he had
suspended several of his best men.
One thing that seems to be making
foot ball more popular is the greater
amount of ground-gaining in all
games. The rule makers in fixing the
code SO that an advantage is given to
the offense over the defense certainly
have accomplished one part of their
purpose in making the game more
interesting from the spectators view
point.
The average spectator really sees
little of the inside of a foot ball game,
but he does see and appreciate more
than anything else a good run or an
accurately thrown and caught pass.
In other words. it is the ground gain
ing in a foot ball game that makes
the game interesting.
Charging, blocking and tackling of
a high order, as once was seen in
games in which teams see-sawed about
the middle Of the field and exchanged
punts with monotonous regularity
may be interesting to the foot ball
technician, but to the average spec
tator do not constitute a good foot
ball game.
Tennessee must have a foot ball
team that really Is good, il it's game
with Virginia Saturday is a good cri.
terion Of its strength. Virginia may
have lost a game by a score as big as
% to in recent years, but nobody
seems to remember Il. In 1919 the
Centre College eleven, then on the
crest of its brief wave, went to Char
lottesville and beat Virginia by some.
defeat by AZ to o seems to be an ex.
preston not to be found in Virginia 8
language books.
At the beginning Of the season,
when Tennessee beat North Carolina,
Roy Mackert, who secuted North
Carolina for Maryland. came back with
the statement that Tennessee had the
best looking foot ball squad he had
seen on any field1n years and ought
to come throughsfor great season.
AnOtnef DlOW tNaC killed. 1ather
was delivered to University of North
Carolina by North Carolina State Col
lege, the count being 10 to 6. Last
Friday in a phone conversation from
Chapel Hill one Of the most prominent
men at Carolina answered a question
about the game by saying that, "My,
no matter how any one else whips us
that's a game we've just got to win."
Chances are that North Carolina
State got rid Of the jinx that 1t often
has referred to as Carolina luck"