Evening star., 1928-12-05

While in practically every other
L section of the country last
weeks contests marked the end
of the campaign, still several really
worthwhile contests yet remain below
the Mason and Dixon line. Some of
the strongest Southern Conference
elevens are to meet Saturday, and one
or two rivalries of long standing are
to be fought out.
What Should be the best game
scheduled is that between Tennessee
and Florida, at Knoxville. Both elevens
are among the three or four strongest
in the South. The game should be
brilliantly contested and as much worth
while as any game played in the South
this year.
The game between Georgia Tech and
University of Georgia will not be what
it was last year, practically struggle
of the greatest rivals in the South
Right now, though, Georgia Tech seems
to be by far the greater of the two
eleVenS, and it would take great upset
to give the Georgia team a victory.
Last year, though. Georgia went into
the contest top-heavy favorite and
lost.
Louisiana State University journeys
to Birmingham to meet the University
of Alabama, and these two teams also
have good enough records to warrant
the opinion that the game will be an
excellent exhibition of gridiron COM
petition. The closest game to Wash
ington is that at Chapel Hill between
North Carolina and Duke. great
rivalry is springing up between these
two universities, and Duke especially
has about come to the point where
it would rather beat Carolina than ac-
compliSh anything else in athletics.
Ouantico Marines are to make the
trip to New orleans to play Loyola
University, while Clemson College meets
The Citadel at Charleston, S. G. TWO
or three other minor games are Sched-
uled With the playing of games this
week the South probably will wind up
what has been the most successful year
it has ever had on the gridiron. Bigger
crowds than ever watched the contests,
and generally speaking. better foot ball
has been played. Teams throughout
the South have been stronger and
high type of sportsmanShip has pre-
vailed.
Dates of the big games to be played
by Georgetown next Fall show that the
Hilltoppers will have a better balanced
schedule Navy is to be met at An
napolis on October 19 and on October
26 Holy Cross will be played. Then
comes the game with New York Uni
versity on November 2, then date
for a smaller team, then West Virginia
here on November 16, and Fordham
at New York on November %. 1t is
likely that the season will be wound
up with the game at New York.
This past season Georgetown had eX-
ceptionally difficult array of games be-
ginning the first Saturday in November.
New York University, Carnegie Tech,
West Virginia, Fordham and Detroit
proved such a strain on the players
that it is little wonder defeats were
sustained in two of the contests.
And next year Georgetown has a
game scheduled on October S that is
not likely to be easy for it by any means.
Western Maryland College comes here
on that date, and the TerrorS next Fall
are going to have one of the best foot
ball teams in the section. Few elevenS
in this part of the world are going to
be able to spot the Western Maryland
combination anything and get away
with it. It will have big, powerful
line and several exceptionally good
backs.
Maryland will play about the same
schedule next year that it played this,
with the possible exception of Wash
ington and Lee. The Generals and
Maryland both want the game next
year, but Maryland's schedule, as it
now stands, precludes the possibility OF
the contest on any other date than the
Saturday before Thanksgiving, while the
Lexington school has to make a trip to
Jacksonville between that Saturday and
Thanksgiving, which it holds is too hard
and difficult to attempt again.
washington and Lee and Maryland
have met twice on the Saturday before
Thanksgiving, but this past Fall the
former attributes its overwhelming de-
feat by Florida to the difficulty of its
game here and the trip it had imme-
diately after in order to reach Jackson
vile in time for the game Thursday.
Washington and Lee tried to get
Florida to relieve it of the contract
for next year but did not succeed. 1t
was then Washington and Lees inten-
ton to wind up its season with the
game here the Saturday before Thanks
giving. Unless some adjustment OF
schedules can be effected when repre-
sentatives of the schools meet at the
Southern Conference gathering at
Nashville next week the game may net
be played next Fall. In this event the
game will be resumed again the fol-
lowing year.