Evening star., 1928-11-12
BY H. c. BYRD.

virginia, Two of the best contests OF
the wear are certain and 1t Is unfor-
tunate. indeed, that both are to take
place the same afternoon.
Both GEORGETOWN and Maryland have
been playing good foot ball from the
first time they took the field in Sep
ten1ber, and, while Virginia has not
been as consistently as strong as West
Virginia, it still has back of it in its
tie game with Princeton an indication
of great potential power.
Judged on basis OF tneL seasons
as a whole. the Georgetown-West VIZ
o3yia game ought to be a better exhi-
bition of foot ball, but whether or not
If will be is a question. Georgetown mas
consistently shown greater strength
This season than Maryland, but II is
doubtful if Georgetown has played any
better foot ball than Maryland ShoWeo
last week in beating Yale.
Tn fact no matter which game the
average follower of the gridlron elecCS
to watch, whether to go out 10 ClaIh
Griffith Stadium to watch Georgetown
and West Virginia in what Is sure 10 ~
be a great battle, or to make the Crlp
to College Park to see MarylSno anu anu
Virginia in their annual struggiei SLete &c
is not likely to be much In eitner 10
Georpetown has fine foot ball team,
one that plays spectacular foot bali'
And in any game In which 1t appears
IL NAV be depended on to put up a reai
STRUGGLE before 1t admits defeat. And
west Virginia also is strong. as lIs
victories over Pittsburgh and OklahOme
attest. Last year and the year peloLe
CSeorretown and West Virginia put up
great games and they are likely 70 40
the same thing Saturday. ..,..,.
Maryland and Virginia nave taSeai Sts
mart fn some spectacular contests:
though last wear Virginia beat Maryland
easily. In the four games in which tne
two schools have taken part IN recenV
seasons virginia has won twice, Mary
land once, and one game was tie. Botn
should nut up good games SATURDAY,
snd If Virginia hits the stride II MT
in that O-to-o game with princeton
and MARYLAND can play close 70 rs
form of last week when 1t beat 1ale'
then there will be lot to De remeh-
bered in that foot ball game.
Defeat Not to Detract.
Georgetown last week lost to Car
necie Tech. but that defeat should IN
no wav detract from the interest IN the
game it will play with West Virginia.
As = matter of fact, Georgetown could
hardly hope to be as good last week as
If was against New York University, as
the Kind of game the Blue and Gray
played against N. Y. U. takes out OF
team about all it has in 1t. In otner
words, the fact that Georgetown loSt
to Carnegie Tech does not IN anyway
indicate weakness in Georgetown so
much as it shows strength In the Plus
burgh eleven.
Maryland does not have potentially
as powerful q team as Yale, but it
caught Yale on one Of those days when
Yale was looking for something easier
than It found; while Maryland, in turn,
plaved the best foot ball It has shown
this year. It simply outfought, out
rushed and outpaSsed~ the Dark Blue
and won because it was, for the day at
least. the better eleven. =. = :,
with the exception of two or three
mechanical mistakes, such as a. tumble
and o nluffed forward pass, and with
the further exception Of about two min
utes In the fourth quarter, when one OF
the tackles was suckered completely by
an unusual shift Yale used, no more
effective foot bah could be desired than
that played by the Old Liners.
But the fact that Maryland defeated
Yale ana Georgetown lost to Carnegie
Tech should not make MarylandS game
this week one bit more attractive than
the one Georgetown Is to play With
West Virginia. Both games ought to be
well played, and, If anything, as far
as the real driving, slambang type of
foot ball is concerned, probably more Of
it will be seen in the Georgetown-West
Virginia game than in the Maryland
Virginia affair.
Both contests ought to be well worth
&c 9izaIxy 70 loa oh,
in spirited competition, and both should
have q little of everything that goes to
make up modern foot ball.
Metre Dame won from Army, and,
generally speaking, there Is no particu-
lar reason why it should not have done
So In ali probability the South. Bend
eleven had in its lineup just about as
good men as wore the Army colors, and
everybody knows what kind of a coach
Fock1e Is. Notre Dame always has a
squad good enough to make it for
Tlidable factor IN any contest in which
it plays, and good enough to stand at
least fair chance of winning.
"Bin" Jones team has been going
through some hard contests It went to
Harvard and won, it went to Yale and
won, earHer In the year it defeated
Southern Methodist University In a
close, hard game, and it could not be
expected to keep up that kind of thing
indefinitely. Any school that meets
teams In its own class week after week
Is going to get bumped of sooner or
later.
Army has a fine squad, but it does
not have {. superhuman squad, but the
greatest little game in America seems to
be IN very gleeful utteranceS over the
topping of a champion. There is no
place IN the world where people pull
for the underdog as they do in this
land OF the free, and there is no place
where victory for the underdog is so
hailed and greeted.
Washington and Lee scored two
touchoowns on Princeton, but lost by
four touchdovns against that two.
The fact that the Generals did get two
touchdowns, though, is indication of
their real strength, because no other
elevens this season has been able to
register so effectively against the Tigers
In fact, Ohio State is sne only other
school that has scored a touchdown on
Princeton, and it was able to register
but once.
Virginia took beating at the hands
OF Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The
Charlottesville school played good foot
ball, but got bad breaks Two of the
touchdoWnS made against. 1t might
have been avoided under ordinary cir
cumStances.
Peake ran IS yards for a touchdown
after receiving punt, and V. p. l. got
one OF its other two scores when time
was taken out on the 2-toot line with
only five seconds left to play.
Nebraska seems to have about thu
best team in the Middle West, with tht
possible exception of Iowa. The Lin.
coin School has one of the stronges
elevens anywhere physically, and tn.
fact that the men wear bright rec
JERSEYS does not Y1inin1ize fheiR ste filra