Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19

This nonsense about following
your own desires regarding eligi-
-bility rules and opponents is hurt
ing politics and business. 1t Is all
right to play for love of the game,
but love this particular game and
do it before somebody gets slap
ped"
Now nobody likes to see an Army
Navy foot ball game better than the
writer. 1t always is thrilling, highly
colorful affair, but do not believe that
it is of such importance that President
Hoover will devote much time to It.
The President is fairly busy man.
Then, too, there are other ways in
which Congressman could secure . @
desirable booking for any large stadium.
Let him, for example, persuade the
President to order Jack Dempsey to
return to the ring and box Sharkey or
Schmeling. Dempsey scarcely could
ignore or refuse such command, and
such an event would pack any park.
Or why not command Harvard to play
Princeton or Illinois to schedule Notre
Dame? These would be interesting
games.
Army and Navy almost certainly will
get together again some time in the
future; but when they do, it seems
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will and not because anybody ordered
them to deploy in foot ball formation.
There were plenty of foot ball upsets
last Saturday, but it looks as If there
might be even more today. California
expects to beat Penn, Princeton will be
favorite over Cornell, Minnesota looks
stronger than Northwestern, and most
of the experts figure that Dartmouth
will win from Columbia, Harvard from
Army, Yale from Brown, Michigan from
Ohio State, Penn State from New York
University, Alabama from Tennessee,
North Carolina from Georgia, Fordham
from Holy Cross, Lafayette from Buck
nell, Carnegie from Washington-Jeff
son, Notre Dame from Wisconsin, Coll
gate from Indiana, Georgia Tech from
Florida, Illinois from Iowa, Stanford
from Oregon State and Navy from Duke.
OF all these, it looks as if the Navy
to win from Duke was the one sure bet.
Most of the other games could go either
way without causing overwhelming sur
prise, although Illinois, Stanford and
Notre Dame look like pretty sure win
ners.
II all the Princeton men who are re-
ported injured really are on the hospital
list, Cornell should have a chance
against Tiger team which has shown
little molcaClon OF having struck its
stride. Brown may give the Yale Bull
dog plenty to chew on, and Wisconsin
may make Notre Dame show all of its
stun. Nor do believe that Pennsylva-
MIA is going to prove any setup for Cali
fornia. Lou Young's teams have a way
OF rising to the occasion.
Columbia has higher hopes than it has
had in several years when facing an
eleven Of the caliber of Dartmouth. This
Dartmouth eleven is reported strong in
all departments. Today may show Just
how good that dope is.
Harvard-Army contest ALWAYS In
thrilling. Chris eagle should be the best
back on the field, but even eagle cannot
gallop far unless his teammates can
hold the big Crimson forwards. Moth
ing is more discouraging to the best OF
packs than large. eager lineman bear
ing down on him before he reaches the
nne OF scrimmage. They seem to think
In Cambridge that this is a Harvard
year. That theory will receive the acid
test this afternoon.
Michigan and New York University
are two teams which will be burning tn
prove that they are better than thew
looked last week.
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