Evening star., 1928-11-26


II little while fields that have re
Il sounded to the tread of embat
tied elevenS and the hurrah
and groans of multitudes will lie silen
and empty, save for the echo of tht
ground keepers noisy work or the cole
silence that by its very contrast give!
memory to the life and color that g
with gridiron conflicts. Most Of the
great stadia in the Middle West, Fal
West and North already have in then
only such memories, and it is almos
entirely in the South that one must looE
for the next two weeks for dying enlber!
of the ardor that for three months ha:
swept the country.
Up at Philadelphia and out at Pitts
burgh Thanksgiving day, Thursday OF
this week, two big games will be played
Not big games in the sense that cham.
pionships are at stake, but big because
of the rivalry and traditions built
around the contending teams.
Pennsylvania and Cornell make a big
foot ball game no matter what the con-
ditions. and even II Cornell this year
apparently is much weaker than the
Quakers the game still will be big
game and hold the attention and in
terest of all those connected with
Cornell and Penn more than their at
tention is held by any other: The same
is true of the Pittsburgh-Penn State
game at Pittsburgh. In addition to
these games Boston College and Holy
Cross are to meet and Georgetown
plays Detroit.
Army Meets Stanford.
The biggest game from a general
point Of view will be that at New York
Cot
urday. The Army unquestionably has
one of the greatest, if not the greatest,
teams in the East and Stanford may
have the same said of it for the Pa
cif1c Coast. 1t is not the greatest out
there, but it is one of the three great
est. The game should be exceedingly
attractive.
In the South most of the elevens are
girding their loinS for their most i'm
portant struggles Of the year, from the
viewpoint Of ancient rivalries, for it
seems that in the South Thanksgiving
is the day selected to determine many
of these.
In the South Atlantic section, vir-
ginia and North Carolina meet at Char
lottesville, and Virginia especially Is
basing its hopes for good season on
the result. In this contest, as in al
most any other scheduled Thursday.
victory means. more to, the contending
elever1s than anything else during the
whole season. If Virginia beats Caro-
lima it will not worry about anything
else that has happened to 1t this year.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute has
been through the best season it has had
in years, but If it loses to Virginia Mil
itary Institute this Thursday afternoon,
then all the glories that have been won
will mean little. And right here it
might be mentioned that Virginia Mil
itary Institute feels about the same
way, and, incidentally, has a far better
chance to win than one might suspect.
Over in Baltimore Maryland and
Hopkins will battle through rivalry
that goes back to 1892 and last year
Hopkins won for the first time since
1915 and that defeat has not been set
ting very well on Mar43 ifH.
Georgia Tech anda auDsif1 :. sneek in
what used to be olaE 4 e. greatest
games of the year, but for the 1aSs few
seasons the Auburn eleven has not been
able to keep up the Tech pace. Louis
lana State University and Tulane have
yet to play, and that gamesis productive
Of about the most intense rivalry that is
known to foot ball. It was stated in
New Orleans two years ago that for a
NCCh OC4OAC C41dt SdIIlC d1lO aAOA a WEN
after very little work is done by the
students Of either university. which is
carrying foot ball entirely, too far. -s-
Other big games in the South are be-
tween North Carolina State and Glenn
son. Mississippi A.. and M and Univer-
sity Of Mississippi, Vanderbilt and Ala,
bama. -.
News notes last week from New Ha-
ven and Cambridge indicated little inter-
est among students in the then forth
coming Yale-Harvard foot ball game,
but news stories which told of scenes
in the Yale Bowl after the Harvard vic
tory did not indicate any lack of en-
thuSiasm among Harvard men over their
victory, nor did they show any evidence
of hilarity among Yale people. The fact
IS that campus life in the average big
university has for the bulk of students
become q very complex affair and stu
dents generally do not have the time to
give to sso-called pep meetings they
once did. But because students and
alumni are not overly enthusiastic In
their attendance at such mass meetings
it need not be thought for moment
that they are one whit less interested
in teams and the outcome Of games.
Indications of wild enthusiasm on the
side of the victor and of deep gloom on
the side of the vanquished in nearly
every case shows how deeply such things
really are felt.
Harvard won from Yale without leav-
ing any doubt as to its superiority. The
Crimson kept the Blue backed up in
Blue territory all afternoon and gave
it few opportunities to get anywhere
and on the other hand the Crimson
apparently scored with something OF
that cold precision that once charac-
terized its teams under Haughton. Yale
has had disastrous year, viewing the
year simply from the number Of games
lost, and much conjecture will be seer
in the various newspaper columns ir
the next few weeks as to what steps
may be taken toward reconstruction
Harvard, en- the contrary, despite ar
early defeat by Army, will consider that
it once more is well on the way toward
rebuilding Of its gridiron structure.
New York University simply annihi.
lated Carnegie Tech, and that right a.
a time when the Pittsburghers haC
within their grasp a national cham
pionShip. Foot ball as it Is now played
involves SO much Of physical and menta
strain on players, and coaches, too, fol
that matter, that unless watched care
fully a team may crack any time it i
against an opponent just about as
strong as it is.
New York University got up just f:
little bit too high and walloped the lif
out of Colgate. but it paid for that vic
tory a week later when it lost Il
Georgetown, which apparently is not a
strong. One probably would not be ia
aniSS IL 0ne Dicked University of South
ern California and New York UniverSit
as the two strongest elevenS in tn
country, with Georgia Tech, Army
Minnesota, Carnegie Tech, Notre Dam
and Wisconsin just about as close t
them as possible.
Navy. after a bad start. desnite tn