Evening star., 1928-11-06

- EORGETOwN'S game grid
ironers took deal OF punish
n ment while scoring their VIC
tory over New York University
last week. but, despite the
"bear" stories emanating from the
Hilltop these days, the team is apt to
take the field at Albany, N. Y, next
Saturday ready to give Carnegie Teen
plenty of trouble Georgetown teams are
like that. They have a way of coming
back wonderfully well after a tough
tussle.
Three of the backfeld regulars, two
linemen and an end are said to be mt
subjects for disqualification. Well,
split lip isn't likely to keep Jim Mooney
from kicking, nor are charleyhorses apt
to check the play-Smashing abilities OF
Steve Barabas, Bob Dwyer and John
Tomaini. It's different in Ralph
Duplin's case. A badly wrenched back
is worrying him. But Georgetown has
John Scalzi. mighty good quarter
back, to replace Duplin.
In the face of this it would seem
that the bear" stories are being cir
culated more for the benefit OF Car
negie Tech than anything else.
Then. too, there's lot of talk about
the dificulty of arousing the team to
the proper mental state for the game
next Saturday It's extremely difficult
to KEY a team for a second successive
"big" game after it has worked so hard
in winning, it's said. Well, it's not
easy to make any one who saw the Blue
end Gray battle the Violet last Satur-
CAV believe this That encounter left
the impression that Georgetown always
would be ready to fight, regardless OF
what it had recently been through.
Will Be No Set-Up.
Georgetown isn't the greatest team
ever. 1t isn't fiawleSS. But, mark this,
it's a fighting team-a team with an
indomitabe spirit that makes the most
of everything it possesses. Any one not
inclined to believe this should COM
municate with New York University
The Blue and Gray may be bit shaky
on its underpinning now, but it'll be far
from Set-up for the SkiboS.
The three days Georgetown has re-
naming to fit itself physically for the
Carnegie Tech conflict should bring it
around to trim Most of the time may
be given to conditioning the players
physically rather than mentally. A
foot ball team that knows as much of
the game as does the Georgetown team
needs little more mental training this
late in the season. Light drills will
suffice to keep the Blue and Gray on
edge for tactical play. AS to physical
recuperation, it's really remarkable how
quickly the average college foot ball
player regains fitness after undergoing
really grueling punishment.
A comparison of past performances
makes Georgetown better looking out
1T than Carnegie Tech. The first three
opponents Georgetown met this season
probably were just as strong as the
first three encountered by Carnegie
Tech. Yet against Mount st. Mary's,
SuSuuehanna and Lebanon Valley, the
Blue and Gray totaled III points and
allowed none, while the Plaid scored
142 In tits with Westminster, Ashland
and Thiel and had l9 tailed against it.
Good Against Big Fellows.
Georgetown followed these three en-
gagements by bowling over West Vir-
ginia Wesleyan and Duke by decisive |
scores, then upsetting New York Uni
versity Carnegie Tech licked Wash |
ington and Jefferson, not so strong this
year, in its fourth game, and in its
fifth barely managed to win over Pitts
burgh, which is not to be rated so
highly this season. Last Saturday the
Skibos idled.
OF course, Carnegie Tech is no weak
ling. And it has an unpleasant habit
of surprising teams that are figured to
beat it. Remember the terrible jolt the
Skibos handed Notre Dame two years
ago. Then the South Benders appar-
emily were sweeping to a national
championship and Knute Rockne, their
coach, was SO confident of victory
over Carnegie Tech for them that he
did not accompany the team to Pitts
burgh Over the wire after the game
he received the sad news that the Skibos
had blasted the title hope of Notre
Dame.
Well, the same thing may occur again
in so far as Georgetown's Eastern
championship aspirations are concerned.
But don't for moment think it will
happen because the Blue and Gray is
so crippled now that it can't get ready
for the fray next Saturday. AS men,
toned before, Georgetown may be a
bit shaky at present-but it can fight.
And its fighting spirit plus the foot ball
knowledge 1t possesses ought to carry it
far in the conflict at Albany.