Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
HOYAA AND OLDL|NE
FWES IN BIG T|LTS
Penn State Visits 6. u. and
Maryland EntertainS Its
Old Rival, Hopkins.
- GEORGETOWN and Penn Stat

front with a good enough five to give
any other college a real battle. These
two factors usually develop a fine con
test. Maryland and Hopkins have beer
rivals for so many years, though, thai
big crowds turn out they
meet, no matter what kind Of teams
they have and no matter how much
better one may seem than the other.
MARYLAND is the first varsity team tc
get under way this week, having a game
scheduled with Virginia at Charlottes.
vile Tuesday night. Neither Maryland
nor Virginia lays any particular claim
to brilliance by reason of what it has
already accomplished this season, as
both have been whipped by a small col
lege team. 1t may be, though, that both
will find themselves and play better
basket ball.
Two games are scheduled here We'd
nesday night, Loyola being booked for
a meeting with Catholic University and
American University to face George
Washington. Unless Catholic Univer-
Sity takes a decided brace, it Is likely
that it will take a trimming, while the
game between George Washington and
thing of a tosS-up.
Six Games at End of Week.
No game is listed Thursday night,
but Friday and Saturday nights will see
the playing of six, four of them on Fri
day. Villanova appears at Catholic
University Friday night, Shepherd Col
lege at Gallaudet, and on the same
evening Penn State plays at George
town and Hopkins at Maryland. All
the games begin at 8 o'clock. The best
of these contests is likely to be that
between Penn State and Georgetown,
while the most spirited and animated
setto proably will be that between
Hopkins and Maryland.
Saturday night Baltimore University
comes here to play George Washington,
while Gallaudet goes to Annapolis for a
meeting with st. Johns.
Several hundred tickets were request
ed of the Maryland management yes
terday for the game at College Park
Friday night, and it is likely that about
80 per cent of the Hopkins student
body will be on hand to watch what
they are regarding nov as an almost
certain victory.
For the first time in many years, two
colleges in the South Atlantic section
are this time of the year without men
to coach their foot ball teams. Neither
Washington and Lee or Virginia knows
what it is going to do in the way of
handling its 1929 squad, although there
1S LAtC HOSSAD1lAby h1d6" FA6AAAn AAu0y
have Neale back for at least a part
of the season.
It is reported that Neale may return
to Virginia the second week in Octo-
Der, but it is not likely that Virginia
will depend on that unless some other
man to work in absolute unison with
Neale can be found. A foot ball team
is made between the first OF Septem.
Der and the second week in october. and
Ar~-I~ 1..IA I1 lfkkle VrANra than NIT IN
finishing touches and carry on the work
begun by whoever might be In charge
of the squad during the mentioned
washington and Lee has not made o
selection vet. or at least has not mace
any announcement of what 1t intends
to do. In fact, no word has come from
Lexington as to who Is being con-
sidered for the job and probably none
will until the name OF the nan nnaily
picked is given out.
Men who handle the squads at Wash
ington and Lee and Virginia next Fan.
will have good opportunities, because
each. college will have back from ltS
1924 teams some excellent material.
Virginia especially is likely to be 2
place where Some man may crop m anu
make something of an astonishing rec.
ord. In all probability, Virginia next
FAN will have on the neld apouC tIe
hest material that has worn It's colorS
in a Washington and Lee, wnue
it NAV not have quite as big n neavy
a SQUAD as Virginia, Is sure 10 DC
renresented by a versatile and capapie
group Of performers.
In thinking of Washington and Lee
foot hall there is recalled a decision
made in the Washington and Lee
MARYLAND game at Griffith Stadlum
last Fall. an explanation OF which Is
likely to be interesting to many: WASH
ineton and Lee, after one OF It's punts.
was penalized Is yards from the spot
where Kessler, who was set TO eaten
the punt, was tackled.
Kessler in trying to catch the punt
half raised his right arm, which seemed
to be a rather faint and menectuai
signal for a fair catch. It was LOT
tackling a man signaling for a fair
catch that most of the spectators
thought the penalty had been inflicted.
and there were many who thought
fair catch signal had not been distinct
enough to warrant a penalty.
AS a a matter of fact, the penalty
was not inflicted because OF lacking
after a fair catch. What actually hap
pened was that the Washington m
Lee end, in setting himself to tackle
Kessler, got in the way Of his W
punt. and the ball in dropping toward
Kessler's arms struck the washington
and Lee man on the head and bounded
far to one side. That, under the rules,
constituted interference with an OPP
~portunity to make a fair CATCH" and
the penalty of Is yards was inflicted
for that, and not for any interference
with ar actual attempt to make a fair
catch.
Under the rules q man catching a
punt has his opportunity to make a
fair catch protected by the same penalty
as his status in actually making a fair
catch. 1t was Capt. Fitzpatrick OF
Washington and Lee on whom the pen
atty was called, and when he asked his
coach between halves about the penalty
he was told that the officials were cor
rect in the matter. and that neither
he nor the team had any reason ever
for an argument.
F~itzpatrick told Referee Magofir
hfter the game that he hid asked about
the penalty between halves and that M
was sorry he had ever questioned tn
ruling.
This question of a ruling brings vi
the question of methods OF getting u
spectators information as to just wha'
penalties are inflicted for. Many times
coaches on the bench In close touch
with every phase of play do not know
why penalties arer being given, and i
that is the case it is not likely thu
average spectators is going to be GER
tain Of more than half of them.
It would seem to be good business
for the colleges to devise ways OF
their ~Scoreboards of announcing TIT
reason for penalties. This could easil.
be taken care of by inserting in pro
grams a list of penalties and what the!
are for, numbering each separate pen
atty, and then hanging on the score