Evening star., 1928-11-22
DISTRICT ELEvENS
IN THREE CLASHES
Mayland and GaIIaudet to
Play Here-GeorgetoWn
Visits Fordham.
BY H. c. BYRD.

~ aImcSs enQed, ana IN many
- NJ sections elevens are resting
this week in preparation for
their big Thanksgiving day
battles. several of the contests that are
scheduled Saturday loom up in the sea-
sens list as red beacons on foggy
= night
Games are scheduled that are great
simply because of old rivalry and color
that are built around them, while 9TH
ers are great due to the exceptional
quality of play they have shown in this
particular year. OF the former, the
struggles between Yale and Harvard in
the East and between Stanford and
California in the West lead, while cf
the latter tho meeting of New York
University and Carnegie Tech at Pitts
burgh stands out.
Local Elevens Prepare.
Local elevens are getting ready for
their games Saturday, Maryland for
Washington and Lee, Gallaudet FOR
: Blidgewater and Georgetown for Ford
ham. The first two are to be played
here and the last at New York. Each
contest Is likely to be we'll played and
close, unless it happens that George
town gets good margin on Fordham.
r. Washington and Lee and Maryland
unless something unexpected happens,
ought to 60 through a close, hard and
well played game at Clark Grifhth's
Stadium. The Generals have had the
edge on Maryland for four consecutive
years. and for the last three years have
won by about as bare margins as they
could.
The game Saturday seems to be in
prospect just about the. same kind as
the others. pretty close to an even bet
In all probability the close Of the game
: Saturday will find the two elevens
separated in scores by very small
margin. Both play much the same
kind Of game, with open work pre-
dominating.
Each team has in its backfield men
who can go once they get under way,
End, as q whole, Washington and Lee
lis said to have just about as good a
quartet as usually are found behind any
Southern line. <
! THE Maryland eleven has played
good foot ball in all its games this year
end Washington and Lee has done
about the same thing.
= G. u. Expects Battle.
Georgetown expects to beat Ford
ham, though it looks for much harder
game than it got from the Gothamites
last season. The team is in good shape
anu SkAO1l0 DS JuSG uS SO0u as IL was
against West Virginia.
Gallaudet is working hard to wind
up its season with, victory and it
probably viii do SO. The Kendall
Greeners apparently have the margin
son the eleven they are to play, as
Brtdgewater has done nothing to in
dicate that it ought to defeat the local
school.
For Fasteners in general, and New |
Englanders in particular the Yale |
Harvard game is the biggest of the day. |
Something attaches to that contest I
which gives it place in foot ball an |
nulS that no other contest holds. In I
all probability it is "ther game of the |
year for the greatest body of men that /
any game holds special interest for, and I
the public generally from coast to coast |
will want to know its result. No other |
game, with the Army-Navy game ex- |
cepted, ever has held such general in
: terest year after year, no matter what
the caliber of the teams and no mat
ter what their previous record.
Out on the West Coast the Stanford
California game holds for that section
just about what the Yale-Harvard game
holds for the East Its result means
the success or failure of the season. and
most Of the energy and effort of both |
s SQUADS and their coaches are directed
during the entire Fall with the idea of
winning the annual game, the Satur-
day before. Thanksgiving day. 1t is
Stanford for California and California
for Stanford as the highest aim Of their
foot ball seasons.
That game at Pittsburgh between
Carnsigie Tech and New York Univer-
sity probably will bring together on the
same field about as many good foot
'aball players as have been on one field
in many a day No other elevens In
the country are made up Of better
material and their clash should be
noteworthy from that view alone. But
both are well coached and both repre-
sent foot bah about as well as it is
played anywhere.
se If Carnegie Tech defeats New York
University there is not much doubt
that it will be given credit for having
: the best eleven of the year.
At Philadelphia and at West Point
the Navy and Army meet strong op-
.,ponents. the former Princeton and the
latter Nebraska. Navy hopes to make
up for its somewhat checkered season
T. by moving Princeton out of its path,
anu II lIle ALIlapOllS IOtkS can ACCOM-
,plish victory over the Tiger they un-
doubtedly will add good deal to their
prestige. And the Army, If It defeats
Nebraska, will add another page to its
brilliant record, because no eleven has
this year been able to humble the Lin
coin school. Pittsburgh came closest
to 1t when it played a 0-to-0 tie last
week. Both Army and Navy are against
real opponents and If they win will de-
serve all the credit they are certain to
get.
Up at EastOn another game between
old rivals will take place when Lehigh
+, meets Lafayette. To both schools the
game means everything, as far as foot
ball is concerned. If Lehigh is victor
%Lafayette will feel It's season is
failure, and vice versa The same thing
Is true of Indiana and Purdue, and If
3 there Is any foot ball game on earth in
which tense rivalry is to be found it is
in that one.
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Wisconsin and Minnesota meet at
Madison IN the game that may give
Wisconsin the Western Conference
championship. Minnesota has been
beaten twice. each time by one point,
and Wisconsin is likely to find that the
Minneapolis eleven is quite a hurdle
10 clear.
HAWLEY is UNCERTAIN