Evening star., 1928-10-22
9gns Series Of Hard Games This Week by Playing Duke Saturday
BLUE AND GRAY WILL FACE
REAL TEST THIS WEEK END
Invading Dixie Eleven Displays Real Strength in
Outplaying Navy, Though Beaten-All d. c.
Teams Show TO Advantage.

department and throughout, with the
exception of a few minutes in the sec
ond quarter.
Tom Keady's Marine team had a
great battle with Davis and Elkins,
holding a lead by IL to until the last
few minutes, when the game was tied
up by long forward pass. Though
four touchdowns we're made not a goal
was kicked The Marines are the only
team that has been able to stavc off
the West Virginians.
The Davis and ElkinS eleven won
from Navy and West Virginia. and that
Marines we're able to play them to a
tie should afford considerable Satisfac-
ton to the followers of the Sea
SoldierS
Incidently, this is one game in which
it could not be said that Marines had
better material than their collegiate op-
ponents, as Davis and ElkinS really had
more capable group of players as
individuals
The blow that killed father" as far
as Alabama is concerned was the 13-to-
Is defeat by Tennessee Saturday.
Tennessee was not expected to have as
good an eleven this year as last. ac-
cording to reports, but those familiar
Knoxville were satisfied that it should
be just as strong. Alabama thought it
had world-beating combination, but it
vas pointed out last week that from
AlabamaS situation the game with
Tennessee would be one of the most i'm
portant of the year. At that, though,
Tennessee won by virture of an un-
usual play McIver, one of its stellar
backs, caught kickoff on his own q
yard line and proceeded to run the
other 9S yards for touchdown.
Virginia Military Institute provided
the upset in the South Atlantic section
by trimming University of Virginia, 9
to O. The Lexington eleven had done
nothing in its previous contests to in
dicate that 1t could win from a team
that had tied Princeton, bat all it
needed was to get its star backs to
functioning.
Virginia Military Institute has behind
its line backs about as good as any
that can be found anywhere in the
persons of Harner and Barnes. Both
young men are big and strong and
can really carry the ball.
Maryland, which defeated Virginia
Military Institute last year by 10 to g.,
goes to Richland this week to meet
the Lexingtonians again and it knows
full well just how good Barnes is. AS
a matter of fact, Barnes gave Mary
land a battle all by himself and came
within an ace of winning the game
by his individual efforts.
1t is plain that he also gave Virginia
a real mouthful last week. If Barnes
we're at Yale he would be all-America
back just as sure as he put on a suit.
He could do more things, and do them
well, than any man Yale has had in
three years.
Virginia seems to be suffering from
injuries. It has two or three linemen
out of the game and 1t apparently is
having a hard time living up to its
own expectations. However, where
Virginia probably is hurt most is in
the fact that it does not have quarter
back of the caliber of HuShion, man
who can get the most out of his team.
If HuShion again were calling plays
for Virginia the results of It's, games
with South Carolina and Virginia
Military Institute probably would have
been different.
Yale and Princeton won easily in
their games with Brown and Lehigh,
but Harvard went down before Army
as per the pregame dope. 1t was felt
in some quarters that Harvard had a
fair chance against Army and might
provide an upset, but the early lead
Army got was too much for 1t, as 1t
could make little headway against the
soldiers in carrying the ball. Harvard,
however, probably put up the best game
any Harvard team has put up in. the
last two or three years.
Vanderbilt continued its winning way
in the South by beating Tulane, and
apparently right now the results OF last
weeks games leave Vanderbilt and
Georgia Tech pretty well on top of
the heap, with the possible exception
of Tennessee.
BuckneII proved that it has another
good team by holding Lafayette to a
tie, to O, showing that its earlier de-
feat of Penn State by to was not by
any means a flash in the pan. Penn
sylvania kept its winning way by send
ing Pennsylvania State back to State
College with 14-to-0 defeat. Incl
dentally, those two touchdowns repre-
sented more scoring against Penn State
than Pennsylvania had done against
Penn State in the whole previous six
years since Bezdek took charge of ath-
letics there. Pennsylvania, previous to
Yesterday, ha6 scored only one touch
GOWN and field goal against Penn
state in six seasons.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute took
North Carolina into camp. The score
was Is to IA, and apparently the con-
test was one of the best played so far
this year. The winning touchdown was
made by v. P /. in the fourth quar-
ter after a brilliant offensive march of
SIS yards. The defeat for North Caro-
lima puts something of a crimp in its
Southern Conference championship as