The Washington times., 1928-12-29
YEAR
HERE WAS
SUCCESS
BY George "A. simpson

OFQeEdllN Sptdhluk IUULUOA
in the District for the 1921
season produced q higheI
grade than the previous sea
son, although team recorda
were not overshadowed. Col
lege, scholastic and indepen
dent football was of q more
finished quality, however.
Georgetown. unQuestionably, top
ped the field financially as the Hill
toppers drew tidy sums for tht
games with New York University
Carnegie Tech and Detroit anf
hence the athletic deficit waA ms
terialIy reduced. Maryland probably
ledger sheet as the Terrapins had :
good year. although their honlt
games drew poorly
In matter OF games won and lost
Georgetown and Maryland can poifti
TO the best marks. The Hilltopperf
captured eight contests and lost two.
while the Old Liners bageed si1
battles, dropped three and tied one
The Blue and Gray were wing
ing ahead to Eastern and ma
tiOnal hOnOra when they went
into tail spin after cOIliding
with Carnegie Tech and capped
the season by taking D maliiing
from Detroit University. Never
theIess the Ge0rgefOwners won
major victories over New York
University, West Virginia. Ford
ham, West Virginia Wesleyan,
and Duke.
MaryIand's y record II the oppOsite
The Old Liners. in the slough 81
despair, rose up to smite Yale for
perhaps the most startling football
jolt Of the season. The Terra pins
until then had done nothing sensa
tional except puny victories OveK
Washington College and Western
Maryland. and they weren't any.
thing to wave aloft. Especially WAS
this true in the win over Western
Maryland as MachameF. HaveYs ard
NeaIe, the three Western Maryland
stars, were declared ineligible "a
play against the Marylanders.
Yet, after downing Yale, the Col
lege Parkers went on q rampage and
defeated Virginia, Washington and
Lee and Johns Hopkins in order.
American University. GalIaudets
Catholic University and George
Washington couldn't reach above
mediocrity, although this condition
is traced to paucity Of material
coupled with the fact that the PLAY
ers available were untaIented.
The three outstanding college
players i'm the District were Jim
Mooney, Georgetown tackle;
Gerald ('Snitz''l Snyder, Mary
land fuIlbacIx, and Johnny Ringle.
1aIlaudet haIfback. The first
two were prominently mentioned
ar AlI-East and All-Americam
combinations while Snyder was
given the fulIback berth ON the
majority Of All-SoUthern eIevens.
The high and prep schools also
witnessed improved elevens, though
this was not true lin all cases, par
ticularIy Central High, Western
High and Dewitt Prep. These three
did not measure up to their 1927
standards.
Tech lowered above It's high
school competitors and landed the
public school title, although barely
nosing out Eastern High in the de-
Gliding contest. Gonzaga High won
outright possession Of the prep school
title by victories over Emerson.
Dewitt Prep, St. Johns and George
town Prep. Western High and
Eastern High also felt the football
might OF Gonzaga.
After travelling through the
season undefeated, Tech finally
met reverse when the Manual
Trainers made an 8O0-miIe jour-
ney into Dixie to oppose the uTl-
beaten Tuscaloosa High team at Z
Tuscaloosa, Ala. The Southern
schOOlbOys triumphed by n 1875
score.
The independent field was q
paradox. the Mohawks placing on
he gridiron a polished eleven and
,ings. failing to exhibit champion-
hip class. AS a result, the
Apaches were easy victims IN the
.ame that returned the title to the
The >Northerns and
southern A. c. were other head
iners in the unlimited sphere. y
The Mohawk Preps annexed the
District 150-pound championship,
mt were hard pressed by the jan
eys, Mercury Props and St.
tephens. The wearer of the 1S5-
ound crown will be revealed IL
tumuIt between the
'alace Props and Northern Props
nds in a decision.