Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-01

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Maryland furnish the foot bal
feature here this week. Thu
Tarheels are due to appear a.
College Park Saturday afternoon III
what ought to be by far the best contest
here.
GEORGETOWN meets Susquehana Uni
Versity, and Catholic University mas
American University as its opponent IN
the other games on local fields. Gal
laudet and George Washington play on
foreign gridirons the former at Temple
University and the latter at ForonaIn
North Carolina comes here TINS year
with what, before the training season
began, was predicted would be the
greatest eleven in its history, and, II the
score against Wake Forest last week is
any criterion, the prediction is just ABOUT
being made good. Wake Forest has been
victor over the TarheelS for four con-
Secutive seasons, but it was freely pre-
dicted by Tarheel supporters that the
game this year would just about make
amends for all that had been suffered
in those four defeats. The Chapel Hill
men made good and when the smoke
cleared away the result stood 65 Tor
North Carolina and nothing for Wake
Forest. the biggest count ever run up
by North Carolina eleven.
Tarheels Possess Veterans.
No doubt the Carolina team is much
better than it has been at any time IN
recent years. It has a big fast back
field and big fast line, and that COM
bination is hard to beat. Last year at
Chapel Hill the TarheelS beat Maryland
by to 6, when the latter felt it had
a better team, and the Tarheels them
selves after the contest gave 1t as their
opinion they had little license to win.
This fall, though, Just the opposite
situation seems to exist. with Mary
land trying to put together new team
and North Carolina working with
veterans.
MARYLAND, if it gets to working right.
is not going to be easy for any team to
beat. It is very shy OF good reserve
strength, but the whole spirit Of the
squad is about a thousand per cent
better than a year ago, when, with
what really was strong team, the pos
SibilitieS of a good season was spoiled
by distractions and discussions. This
FAN there is an entirely different at
titude and spirit in the squad as
group and among individuals, and,
despite the fact that there is not near
so much good material on the field, this
spirit is likely to attain better results
than ordinarily might be expected from
q squad such as Maryland now has.
The game ought to be real battle.
North Carolina will present lineup
much stronger than 1t has ever brought
here, and it has been rushed ahead far
more rapidly than the other teams in
the section because it wanted especially
to win that opening game with Wake
Forest and further because, following
its contest with Maryland, 1t meets
Harvard, Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
and Georgia Tech on consecutive Sat-
urdays
The Tarheels may suffer later in the
year for their brilliant form of the
present, but last Saturday there proba-
bly, was not another team in the South
that could have defeated them.
Always Well Matched.
The contest between the Tarheels and
Old Liners ought to be one Of the three
biggest Of the year on local fields: The
other two are between Georgetown and
and Virginia, both on November IL.
And it ought to be a real bat
tie, as practically all the games be-
tween the two schools have been.
The two schools have played for seven
consecutive years, and North Carolina
has won four times and Maryland three.
The first resulted In a l3-to-0 victory
for Maryland, the next three were won
by Carolina by is to z, "a to 8, ana 10
to o, the next two were taken by Mary
land. 8 to 0 and Is to 2, and last year
Carolina won at Chapel Hill BY TO 9.
Carolina Is using the Notre Dame foot
ball system, and has been for the last
two years, this being the third. 1t de-
velops spectacular play and usually fea-
lures exceptionally fast and clever
backs. Maryland uses no particular
system, its offense and defense being a
composite of a little of everything ever
developed anywhere in foot ball.
The Carolina eleven will come here
Friday for workout that afternoon,
and leave Saturday night Immediately
after the contest.
Davis EIkins journeyed to Annapolis
last week with what was expected 10
be a strong team, and it seems TO nave
been Just that. Made up OF veteran
material the West Virginians took Navy
into camp by to 0, the margin OF
safety. Navy thought 1t could WIN
and so did almost everybody else, ano
it might have had it not been Tor what
apparently were mistakes in judgment
in selection Of plays, it is said.
For instance, Navy on third down on
Davis Ekins' l3-yard line grounded the
ball behind the goal line for a touch
back. That gave Davis-Elkins the ball
on the 20-yard mark and Kept navy
away from a dangerous spot. A nat
pass to the side or a very short pass
over the line that, if it had failed, would
have grounded the ball in the field OF
play and eventually forced Davis-Elkins
to punt from behind its own goal line,
if the ball had not been advanced for
first down on the subsequent attempt
x1.oY,1G oova haeY0 tho right Tr10yP
II was mentioned last week in this
column that the Virginia Military Insti-
tute- Richmond University game at
Lexington might develop some fireworks
and seemed to be about the only one
among South Atlantic colleges that
might It did just that and when the
last whistle blew the best that v. M. /
had was a tie, 6-to-6, and it did not
get the touchdown that produced that
score until the fourth quarter.
That game, though, unless Richmond
is much stronger than 1t usually is,
should not be taken as a criterion of
v. M. is strength. The Cadets have
two men in their backield who are al
most a team in themselves when they
are going right-Harner and Barnes
II they are hitting on all four there are
not two better men behind any line
in the section Especially is this true
of Barnes, who can do about anything
on a foot ball field. Future opponents
of v. NJ l. will make a costly mistake
if they look for easy games on q basis
OF the showing against Richmond.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Vir-
ginia and Washington and Lee APP
parently have strong teams again. AL
three won easily from smaller oppo.
nents. Virginia especially seems to have
got going much earlier In the season
than usual, its 60-to-0 score over Ran.
dolph.Macon being indicative Of ex-
ceptional power and also Of more ad'
yanced development.