Evening star., 1928-11-02


for from Bridgewater College. And II
does not take any stretch of the imagi-
nation to understand what Georgetown
is up against in meeting New York Uni
versity. Maryland, with a crippled
team, is bound to have its trouble with
Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Nor
folk, and Catholic University at Rutgers
and George Washington against VIII
liam and Mary, here, may consider
themselves to have done extraordinarily
well if sunset finds them with victories
to their credit.
George Washington and William and
Mary take part in the best local game.
And the game ought to be well played
William and Mary was barely beaten
by Catholic University by 13 to II, and
the contest is likely to give something
of line on the comparative strength
of George Washington and Catholic
University, which meet in their game
Thanksgiving day. William and Mary
is coached by Branch Bocock, former
Georgetown star quarterback. And in
aSmuch as William and Mary has a
team that may be depended on to put
up good battle, and as George Wash
1ngton, if it gets its full strength on
the field, may make surprisingly good
showing, the game may develop a lot
more good foot ball than anybody
expects
HOyaS Meeting a Tartar.
Georgetown goes to New York to bat
tie one of the strongest elevens in the
country. The Blue and Gray is not try
ing to fool itself one bit about the kind
of team it must face and knows that
it must put out all it has and more
if it is to make the right kind of show
ing. New York University has team
that apparently is going at top speed,
or was week ago. Any eleven that
can defeat Colgate by more than 40
points must be real foot ball team.
Georgetown, of course, has good team.
It has not done anything against the
opposition it has had to indicate it
might whip Colgate by such score as
that, but it did beat Duke University
by 35 to 0, team that Navy barely
whipped to 0.
If Georgetown takes the GothamiteS
into camp it will be a great thing for
Hilltop foot ball. And it also will be
great accomplishment for Coach Lou
Little. incidentally, if Little beats New
York University he may carry his team
through the greatest season any George
town eleven ever has had, and such a
result might bring to fruition the
rumorS that have persisted to the effect
that University of Pennsylvania is
anxious to have Little back to take
charge of foot ball there. Little grad
uated from Penn, played foot ball at
Penn and nobody is more familiar with
conditions around Franklin Field
than he.
at any rate, Georgetown is hoping for
something of an upset in its game with
ATorxr Uoyy TT ha1inyac IL hos an mt
side chance to win, and when any
Georgetown team believes that. that
team maybe depended on to put up a
great fight New York University prob
ably is not expecting anything soft, and
in all probability is set to give battle to
the Blue and Gray for all it is worth.
Maryland goes to Norfolk to play Vir-
ginis. Polytechnic Institute, and it prob
ably win go into the game without three
of its regulars and possibly without four.
It is certain that neither Radice nor
Kessler will be able to start in the back
field. as the latter has been in bed prac-
tically all week as result Of twisted
leg he got last Saturday, and Radice
has not been in practice for the same
reason. Heagy, right end, is in bed with
the grip, and it may be that Roberts,
another back, will not go into the game
at the beginning, though he is certain
to play in at least part OF 1T.
Requirements Undecided.
No decision has been reached as to
who will take the places of these play
ers. It is likely that Lombard viii go to
end from tackle to I'LL Heagy's job, and
Fisher fill in at the tackle vacated by
Lombard, The assignments for the
vacant halfback positions will go to
Parsons, Blackstone, Warcholy and
Virginia Polytechnic Institute has
one of its best teams, its main
strength resting in two flne sets OF
lacks. It's line probably is not as strong
as 1t was year ago, but its backf1eld
undoubtedly Is better. 1t defeated North
Carolina two weeks ago by 16 to IA In q
great battle, which would seem to in
dicate it has something of an edge on
the Old Liners, as North Carolina won
from them earlier in the year by 26
to 19.
Every section of the country offers
some good games tomorrow. The best
ones scheduled in the East, except that
between Georgetown and New York
University, are to be between Cornell
and Columbia, Yale and Dartmouth,
Pittsburgh and Syracuse, Penn State
and NotTe Dame. The Penn State
Notre Dame contest is to take place in
Philadelphia, at Franklin Field, in the
absence of Pennsylvania, which is play
ing at Chicago. Yale ought to win
from Dartmouth, unless the latter shows
a great reversal of the form it exhibited
at Harvard a week ago. Practically all
these teams have been whipped, but at
that they will put up mighty good foot
ball contests. Every one of these games
should be well worth seeing, and, after
all. none of the teams has been defeated
in a game in which it failed to play
good foot ball. Cornell lost 3-to-O
game to Princeton. Pitt has been whip
ped by two close scores and Syracuse
by q margin of one point, and both
Penn State and Notre Dame have gone
down before worthy foes.
Princeton Facing Trouble.
Princeton journeys out to Columbus
to meet Ohio State, and unless 1t plays
better foot ball than it has shown u
any game SO far is likely to come back
defeated. Ohio State seems to have
taken a new lease on life this year
and has been mopping up its grldiron
pretty regularly with its opponents
Harvard has a set-up in Lehigh, II the
result of the Princeton-Lehigh game
two weeks ago is any criterion, the
Tigers having whipped that school
al to O.
PENNSYLVANIA certainly should gain
one victory in the Middle West for the
East when it meets Chicago. The Quak.
ers are not going to encounter any great
opposition, If Chicago's record SO far !;
true story of its strength. Staggs
eleven has had rocky going right from
the beginning of the season, when i
lost two games in one day, and Penr
certainly ought to come back with
scalp.
Alabama is representing the South II
a game in the Middle West, being a.
Madison, Wis, to face University o.
Wisconsin Alabama lost to Tennessee
but the chances are that it will Civ
Wisconsin more of a battle than Wis
consin ordinarily would expect from ;
Southern eleven Illinois and Michigan