Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08

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certain to bring here an eleven II
Record-breaking crowds probably will
attend both contests 1t Is not only a
good foot ball game that people like to
watch, but they delight in those side
issues which are part of every game
between great rivals. AS general
thing, the Army-Navy game Is seldom
as good from q straight technical foot
ball viewpoint as many other games,
but it's sidelights make it.
The Army and Navy with third-rate
teams might play in an Arizona desert,
vet everybody would want to go. 1t is
Just that glamor that makes games
such as those between Virginia and
Maryland and Georgetown and West
Virginia more attractive than any others
they play.
Georgetown has a game in New York
on November with New York Univer-
sity, which should be even harder
fought than the West Virginia game,
but it will not have the same glamor
and the same spirit for alumni, stu
dents and faculty, nor will the same
preparation be made for 1t. The New
York University game simply will not
have the same attractiveneSS for the
average person that will the one to be
played with West Virginia.
The same thing holds good for Mary
DINA comes here October for q game
with Maryland, and anybody who knows
something of North Cardinals pros
poets for this Fall knows that Mary
land on october S should be against a
more difficult proposition than when 1t
faces Virginia November 2. However,
the North Carolina game. despite the
fact that it may show better foot ball,
is not going to be the same kind OF a
game that the one with Virginia is.
It is peculiar, this difference in foot
ball games, and sometimes this differ
ence Is hard to define; but the differ
ence exists, just the same.
It is Just this difference that will
make the Maryland Virginia and
Georgetown-West Virginia games stand
out this Fall above all others scheduled
here.
In speaking of foot ball games in
which local people will be interested
might be mentioned the Navy-Notre
Dame game in Baltimore, October IL.
Navy, of course, has many followers
here and many others more or less in
terested in its gridiron accomplish
menLs. Notre Dame is interesting where
ever foot ball is known, and when two
elevens of general interest come to-
gether in a territory unaccustomed to
seeing one Of them, there is only one
result.
Navy is banking lot this year on
that Notre Dame game. It believes it
has material for a team to give
Rockne's men a real battle, and when
Navy believes that 1t always Is eager
and anxious to meet the test.
Two other games are to be played
close by here this Fall that q great
many local people will journey to watch.
A foot ball exodus is likely to take place
when Georgetown goes to Annapolis to
meet Navy: The number of persons
who leave here for Annapolis that day
will be limited only by the number of
seats that can be procured. No such
SSowd as that will go to Baltimore
Thanksgiving day to watch Maryland
play Hopkins, but 1t is fact that the
demand for tickets from Washington
people for the Maryland Hopkins tilt
has grown tremendously in the last few
years. incidentally, the total size of
the crowds that watch the Maryland
Hopkins games in Baltimore are about
the largest of the whole section, with
the exception of the contests in which
Navy has met Michigan and Notre
Dame.
After several days of practice with
his Catholic University squad, Coach
Jack McAuliffe seems to be acquiring
some optimism over the outlook for
his schedule McAuliffe said yesterday
that he believes he will have good
team, a much better team than last
year and a much better team than he
himself expected.
And, one thing about McAuliffe, he
states things just as he sees them,
and makes little effort to camafouge
his opinions If he thinks he should
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and he is just as frank when 1t comes
to making it known when he does not
expect his eleven to be strong.
Very little has come direct from
Coach Lou Little of Georgetown since
he began practice at Ocean City, N. j.
Little stated before he left that he eX-
pected to develop a stronger eleven
than represented Georgetown last sea-
son, although he might not win as
many games. From reports 1t seems
that BarrabaS may be having trouble
with knee which has been injured
before, and an injury to a back on
whom Little depends so much might
affect the team considerably, unless
there is a more plentiful supply of re-
serve material than has been indicated.
George Washington is to get its squad
disadvantageous conditions. 1t has no
training quarters near field and no
field of its own. That kind Of a stu
alton Is hardly encouraging to any coach
or squad and 1t is exceedingly diff
cult to build up athletics unless there
is something of a material nature
around which to center interest. George
Washington is the only local school
that is in this position. Georgetown
{fa oro mas a CLARK CSriff7th'S ball
park but 1t has gymnasium with good
dressing rooms and an excellent field
adjacent for practice. Catholic Uni
versity, Gallaudet, American University
and Maryland have the same ad-
vantageS.
Coach Pixlee is accepting the situ-
alton, though, with calm philosophy
that seems to be part Of his nature.
He says that no matter how poor the
team may turn out 1t cannot make
year.sthe 1928 eleven having lost every
game 1t played. Pixlee, however, looks
to the future with confidence, even
though he does realize he may have
difficulty building up situation to his
liking.
st. Johns College Of Annapolis prob
ably will have q much stronger eleven
after the middle of the season than in
the first half. It started practice last
week, with % members Of its 1928
squad on the ineligible list, and among
them are several Of its stellar per-
formers. The college authorities have
not allowed these men to return for
preseason practice, and 1t Is said that
they cannot possibly get rid of their
scholastic difficulties in less than four
to six weeks. Nothing VIII prevent these