Evening star., 1928-10-22
ny n. G. BYRD.

~ measure the success or fall
ure of its gridiron season.
Teams faced so far this season by the
Blue and Gray have amounted to little.
as far as demonstrating real foot ball
strength is concerned, but for the re-
mainder of the year opposition of an
entirely different kind is to be en-
ccuntered Duke University comes
here this week for the first of these
hard contests, and while the local
school should be the favorite the game
Is sure to be just the opposite of those
already played.
Duke has not been winning many
games but has been losing by small
scores in hard-fought struggles. Last
week, for instance. it gained more
ground than did the Navy. but the
Niiddies won by the bare margin of 6
points.
In other words, Duke will come here
against Georgetown to put up just
soout the same kind of game that the
Navy would put up were it facing
Georgetown. Foot ball followers here
Saturday afternoon should see just as
good a game between Georgetown and
Duke as they would if Georgetown and
Navy were playing.
Duke Has Experience.
The game ought to be one of the best
of the year, with Georgetown having
the margin in the pre-game predic-
tions. Duke has one advantage over
the Blue and Gray, provided its team
has emerged in good physical condi-
tton and without injuries, in that its
team has been through several diff
cult struggles, and no team is really
tried on the gridiron or really finds it
SELF so that it can do its best until
It has been under real fire. George
town has yet to face such conditions
in actual combat, as its games have
been won by easy scores.
Jimmie de Hart, coach at Duke.
nearly always has teams that play
spectacular foot ball He never hesi-
tates to have his teams forward pass
anywhere, and strange to say, he seldom
loses by the chances he takes. Any
time De Hart has good material, such
as now makes up his team at Duke, and
q strong opponent he will stage an in
teresting duel for the spectators. And
Georgetown has about the same kind
of an eleven, one that specializes in
hidden ball tricks and open play, with
forward passes predominating from
beginning to the end of games.
Lou Little has developed on the Hill
top just such a team as presents a
style Of play that is most interesting.
In such a game as that to be played
between Duke and Georgetown any,
thing may happen. With both elevens
at their best the game ought to be one
OF the kind in which quick changes
occur and breaks take place which in
moment alter the whole situation
Other Hard Games Ahead.
And when it finishes with the Duke
game, Georgetown is just beginning.
The next Saturday it goes to New York
to meet New York University. and what
that game will mean may be very easily
realized by anybody who has watched
the scores of games in which the New
Workers have taken part Fordham was
supposed to have a great team, but New
York University wiped up the gridirori
with it. Rutgers was said to have
much more rugged eleven than usual.
but the score Saturday when it faced
New York University was 48 to o.
After New York University come Car
Eegie Tech, West Virginia, Fordham
and Detroit University, any one of
which, with the possible exception of
Eordham, would make tough going for
any eleven. Georgetown is facing this
layout Of games with thought that 1t
has one OF its best teams, although
Coach Little will not be entirely satisfied
until after his team has stood up under
such test as it is to meet here this
week against Duke.
If Georgetown comes through against
che Durham aggregation. then consider
able optimism is likely to develop in
Little's thoughts Of the future.
Georgetown had no difficulty beating
West Virginia Wesleyan last week. The
Blue and Gray did not do as well as
Little would have liked, but it was good
enough to badly defeat a fairly good
team.
Georgetown gained a lot of ground
through forward passing, and indicated
that it has in Bozek another f1ashy
openfleld runner.
Maryland pulled through a tough
game against a good foot ball team, a
better team than it will get credit for
being, when it finished a touchdown
ahead of Western Maryland In the
second quarter the Old Line eleven put
ND a superb defense inside its own
10-yard line, and throughout the whole
game practically kept itself on the de-
tense through its own mechanical er-
rors.
MARYLAND got two touchdcwns in the
first eight minutes and then started
to make mistakes. However. 1t may
be tnat the way the game was played
will be the best thing for the Old Line
4ldybTS, do ~ OuBlAb W SAfo tlleI1 JleHIy
of confidence in their ability to pull
together and prevent any opposing
eleven making real capital out of
possible blunder.
If Maryland could make as many er-
Fors, speaking of the mispiays in much
the same way one would in telling
about shortstop missing a ground ball
es it did Saturday and still get by with
e victory over strong team, then it
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against any team in any game in which
1t decides to refuse to tumble the ball
around the lot for the opposing team to
grab.
Catholic University got victory over
William and Mary by the barest of mar
gins, the result being 13 to II. The
Brooklanders scored both their touch
downs in the first period and held
William and Mary scoreless. In the
second half ttH William and Mary
eleven seemed to find itself. but could
not score either point after its two
touchdowns. It was by the margin of
the one goal that it kicked that C. u.
was victor
Coach McAuliffe was well pleased
with his teams showing. He feels that
his men have been up against it in
ltheir games because of the superiority
OF opposing lIleS ana lnaJ Jney were
able to defeat an eleven as strong as
William and Mary is indication of the
possibilities of the team as it is now
made up and of what it would be if
its line were up to the standard of
its backfield. No other coach in this
section has such scant material with
which to work McAuliffe really is
getting more out of his squad than
anybody who knows foot ball thought
he would be able to.
Last week it was pointed out that
Georgia Tech had about the best oppor-
tnnitY in its history to win from Notre