Evening star., 1928-11-16

gest home contests of the year
two other local schools, George
washington and American University
meet and two others, Catholic Un1ver-
sity and Gallaudet, face strong oppo-
nents on foreign grounds, the former St
Johns of Brooklyn and the latter Sus-
quellanna University at Selingsgroye, Pa.
With the possible exception that
George Washington may wipe up Amer
lean University, not one OF the local
schools has anything other than the
most difficult kind Of game. ..s
Georgetown and Maryland meet the
biggest teams in playing West Virginia
and Virginia, but their games are not
one bit harder, comparatively speaking,
than the contests to be played by
their games the local elevenS generally
have been harder at work trying to
get their men in good physical and
mental condition to- meet the competi-
ton they must face than in any other
kind of preparation. Most OF the
elevens have been bruised and battered
in strenuous games, and If they are
able to put their best men on the
fields on which they are to play they
should be fully satisfied with their
weeks work
Invading Teams Strong.
Without doubt, West Virginia and
Virginia will bring here the strongest
elevens that have been on local felds
this year. Both have met defeat. yet
both have brilliant efforts behind them.
West Virginia, for instance, has won
from Pittsburgh, and Virginia tied
Princeton. Both schools, have big,
strong teams, both are well coached
and both are we'll verSed in modern
foot ball. Last year Georgetown de-
feated West Virginia by 25 to 0, but
Maryland lost to Virginia, 81 to. O. In
fact, Virginia was the only eleven that
really made Maryland look bad during
the entire season. j.
Just what the possible outcome of
the games tomorrow will be is nothing
but conjecture. Foot ball as it now is
played is so susceptible to quick changes
that the least little thing alters the
whole aspect of contest. One minute,
one team may be batteriiag It's way
against an opposing teams goal and the
next minute that team may be backed
up against its own goal line and almost
helpless to repel an attack.
rake Maryland's game with Yale last
week, for instance. With only min
ute to play the Old Liners were In the
middle of the field and lined up to punt
far down into Yale territory. 1t seemed
as # the game were over except Tor
the formality of kicking and giving
Yale an opportunity to run about two
plavs. But Greene blocked the attempt
ed punt. picked up the ball and ran
to Maryland'S 10-yard line. Yale got
its PLAYS all right, buteit got them in
a place where any one might have de-
veloped into a touchdown. In any close
foot ball game, as the game now IS
plaved, the result is not certain until
the last whistle has blown. And so
may anything happen in either OF the
two games Georgetown and Marylard
are to play toinofTows ~ A s#
transforming Affairs
Both games are iriF-the nature OF
Homecoming affairs for alumni, and IN
an possibility more graduates OF George
town and Maryland will visit their alma
matters tomorrow than have been on
either campus in a year, since the last
Homecoming foot ball struggle. WHAT
ever NAV be its merits or its short
con;ngs, one thing foot ball will DO as
nothing else will is bring back former
students. And especially Is TINS true
of such games as are 10 De piayeu
with West Virginia and Virginia, games
in which there net only As reai rlVairyt
but also about everything that Is goo1
in foot ball, and sometimes everything
that is bad.
ON the comparative showingsi OF the
teams the two games are about toss-up
as TO probable victors Georgetown ana
West Virginia seem evenly matched ana
if there is any difference between Vlr-
pinia and Maryland that diHerence ls
not apparents Both games will nave
nlayers of exceptional ability both In
the line and the hackfield. and some
stellar bits of work are likely to be
seen on both sides In each contest
Ceorge Washington, in the other game
on q local field, ought to take the meas
1,se off Catholic University without much
difficulty. The Methodists have done
nothing this year to indicate that they
should make much of showing against
the Buff and Blue, despite the. rather
uoor results obtained by the latter.
George washington ought to win about
as it pleaSesy ~ss
Catholic University goes against a
strong team at St. Johns or Brooklyn,
and Coach McAuliffe has been hard az
work to keep together enough men IN
an effective working unit to enable nm
to put across another such victory as
he won last year. Whatever may be the
final record of the Catholic U. eleven.
McAuliffe has already accomplished
enough to establish him as SucceSsful
organizer and mighty good coach.
Certainly no other coach in this Sectlon
has done SO much with so little.
GaIlaudet plays the next to its final
game. The Kendall Greeners realize
they will be against team that ought
to be considerably stronger than tney
are, but Coach Hughes crowd is made
up of a group Of fellows VINO never say
a game is lost until it is lost on the
field.
GaTaudet has one more game, next
Saturday with Bridgewster College, and
it will be the first to end its season, as
George, Washington and Catholic U
finish with their game on Thanksgiving
day. Maryland ends with Hopkins the
same afternoon and Georgetown plays
its final contest with Detroit at Detroit
on December /. - .si
The YaIe-Princeton contest is the
center of interest in the East and the
center of greatest general interest
throughout the country. Something
there is about the Yale-Princeton ano
Yale Harvard struggles that is lacking
in other games. Better foot ball may
be played elsewhere, though that is not
often, but for all the interesting factors
that enter into a gridiron struggle. The
meeting between Yale and Princeton OF
between Yale and Harvard just about
takes the grand prize.
This year even more interest than
usual attaches to the contest between
the Bulldog and the Tiger, because Of
the uncertainty about the relative
strength of the two elevens. 1t is
doubtful If any season In d long while
has caused SO many doubts among Yale
and Princeton alumni about the poten-
tial worth of their teams as the seasor
now nearing its close Yale at times
has shown wonderful ability and il
every game but one has denaonstratee