Evening star., 1928-11-19
BRACE Of BATTLES
ON SATURDAY CARD
Maryland Tackles w. and l..
and BridgeWater Plays
GaIIaudet Here.
BY II. c. EIRD.

land meets We ashington and Lee
at Griffith Stadium. Gallaudet
nlavs Bridgewater at Kendall Green
and Thanksgiving day George Wash
jngton and Catholic University hook-up
in their annual struggle at Brookland.
After these contests gridironS around
Washington will be vacant until the
Fall of 1929, except for meetings be-
tween club elevenS.
The game between Maryland and
Washington and Lee should be among
the best of the year. Washington and
Lee has been having tough shedding, as
far as winning games is concerned. but
has been against the Stiffest kind Of op-
position. The Generals have played
good foot ball all Fall, and have one Of
the best scoring machines in the sec
ton. Any team that can count two
touchdoWns on Princeton must have
something in the way of an attack.
Generals Generally Jinxes.
For the last three years the Washing
ton and Lee eleven seems to have had
something on Maryland. Out at Col
;ege Park three years ago Maryland had
the Generals on the short end Of a
S-to-0 score until the last three min
utes of play and had rushed down the
field to the w. e. l.. 20-yard line. Here
the Maryland quarterback decided that
p game won by to O was not Suf
flcicntly decisive, so he forward passed
in an attempt to get another touch
down
The ball went into Washington and
Lee halfback's hands, said halfback
being none other than the fleet Palmer,
and when Mr.. Palmer was downed he
was almost on Marylands goal line.
Il oh
ington and Lee won, z to 3, game
Maryland had felt was in its hands.
A year later down at Lexington
Maryland had the margin in play, but
was beaten. to 0, and last fall at Col
lcge Park the Generals came up TO win,
13 to Z.
Real Contest Likely.
Whatever may be the result of the
Marylanders, the battle itself is likely
to be real At least no game played
between the two Schools has been any
thing else. Last week Washington and
Lee lest to Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute by two touchdowns to one, while
Maryland won from Virginia. Wash
ington end Lees best effort probably
was at Princeton, while its worst prob
ably was in its game with Virginia.
Catholic University and George
WASHINGTON are much weaker this sea-
son than last and their game Thanks
giving day hardly will be generally OF
rs much interest as it was year ago.
Al that time the Colonials and Brook
landers had played brilliant and win
ming foot ball all season, but this year
both have been weakened by absence
Of regulars on account of injuries and
neither has as good material as 1t pos
sesSed in 1927 For followers of the two
schools, though, the game should be
lust as much worthwhile as 1t was a
year ago, as for them it is a matter OF
rivalry.
A good many local foot ball followers
will leave town to watch two contests
in which local schools are to appear on
foreign fields first on Saturday to see
GEORGETOWN meet Fordham in New
York and again on Thanksgiving day
to seen Maryland contend with Johns
Hopkins in Baltimore in a rivalry that
schools played their first game, which.
incidentally, was won by Hopkins,
62 to 0.
GEORGETOWN will be the last local
college to wind up its season, as 1t goes
to Detroit December l to play Detroit
University And in that game the Blue
and Gray is likely to face some real
opposition, just such opposition as it
has faced in several games already.
Georgetown triumphed over West
Virginia Saturday in a game, in which
1t clearly outplayed its rival for Home
coming day lnonors. And the Blue and
Gray's victory was especially gratifying
in view of the slamming Carnegie Tech
gave Notre Dame. When the decisive
victory of the Pittsburgh team over
Notre Dame was learned, that 13-to-0
defeat Georgetown suffered at the
hands of the same eleven did not seem
so bad. Judged by what Carnegie Tech
did to Notre Dame it would seem that
Georgetown did mighty we'll to hold the
count of that game in Albany to two
kouchdowns.
MARYLAND won from Virginia in a
game. in which it was much more con-
sistent in its offensive efforts and in
which it stalled off the only real chance
Virginia had to score, except for the
two points that Maryland registered
against itself Last year at Charlottes-
vile. Virginia made Maryland seem
much like second rate eleven. Mary
land in winning the game took pos
session of the big silver foot ball pre-
sented each year to the victor by Sena-
tor NJ. E Tydings of Maryland. in honor
of Dr. w A. Lambeth and DR.. Albert
IeFevre. who did so much for athletics
at Virginia and for athletics through
out the entire South. Senator Tydings
stopped by for the game on his way to
Florida.
remained for American University
TO be the eleven over which George
Washington scored its first victory of
the season. The MethodiSts were un-
able 10 stop the Buff and Blue and
were unable TO gain ground themselves.
Catholic University got something of
q surprise in Brooklyn, as the st. Johns
eleven, which won decisiyely over the
Brooklanders had been through some
thing of a disastrous season. Catholic
u was expecting at least an even break,
but the result was just one of those
things that may happen in any foot
ball game.
Princeton whipped Yale SO decisively
IN matters of yards gained through
passing and rushing that 1t is rather
surprising the score was not larger. The
Tigers gained nearly fourth more
ground on running plays and more
than four times as much on forward
passing. Princeton completed II out
of ls attempts. while Yale completed
only out Of H. Yale's famed run
ming attack did not function 50 we'll as
it did last year and its defense against
passes must have been only fair, to say
the best.
While Yale was taking its punish
ment at the hands Of Princeton, Har-
ward was not making any better show
ing against Holy Cross. The Crimson
was held to tie, neither team scoring
aud was held to tie by q team that
according to reports, had practically nc
running attack.