Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-23

,reater havoc with the Cavaliers
ection.
A fine backfield is likely to be in
the game for Virginia, but the line
weaknesses will not be entirely
overcome, no matter what shifts
may be effected The quartet of
Sloan, Levy, Thomas and Faul-
coner comprises just about as good
a backf1eld as can be found any
where in the South, with the ex-
ception of two or three schools.
But the tough part of Virginia's po-
sition is that North Carolina is one Of
those two or three that have stronger
backf1eld combinations. Combined with
this advantage, the Tarheels' line is far
stronger than Virginia's weakened for
ward wall.
virginia's one chance of victory seems
to be to get the breaks, play a fine and
almost alright defensive game and de-
pend on the brilliant Thomas getting
away for substantial gains, to put the
hall in position to score.
If the University of Maryland game
is left out of consideration, there Is no
particular reason why the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute should be rated so
much the underdog in its game with
v. M. l., at least not on a basis Of COM
parative scores. v. M. I. beat Virginia
by 1o to z, but Virginia Polytechnic
Institute trimmed the same school by
80 to IL. v. P. I. also made brilliant
showing against Pennsylvania, losing by
to IA in a close hard game in which
it was just about as good as the Quakers.
Had v. p. I. not suffered the one-sided
defeat last week it probably would be
rated an even bet with the Lexington
eleven.
While ". M. T. has played consistently
good foot ball all year. it actually has
no victories as brilliant as have been
achieved by w. p. I. over washington
and Lee and Virginia. And v. P. I.
against Penn played sterling game,
while v. M. I. against the strongest
team 1t has faced, Kentucky, was beaten
by four touchdowns to two.
However, the consistency with which
". M. I. has played since 1t first took
the field in September seems to have
created a fairly well established idea
that it should win.
Hopkins seems to be weaker than
usual and certainly has not indicated In
its recent games that it stands anything
like an even chance against Maryland.
ting that Hopkins always seems to ind
some life somewhere when Thanksgiving
day rolls around and that some years
back Maryland went int the game after
having whipped PENNSYLVANIA and gone
through a brilliant season, with the
critics predicting a victory for it by at
least 80 to o, and wound up with only
a 6-to-6 tie, and was lucky to get that,
Maryland, however, has been playing
much better foot ball than Hopkins and
generally is looked upon as an almost
certain winner.
All three of these games are long
standing in their rivalries. Virginia
and Carolina, Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute and Virginia Military Institute,
Maryland and Hopkins have been play
ing since early in the eos and ire
spective of the caliber of both or one
of the contending teams in each case
offers something more than an ordinary
foot ball game.
In the game here Thanksgiving day,
Catholic University is certain to win
over George Washington, unless the
Brooklanders have an earthquake or
some other calamity sufficiently severe
to put about half the squad on the in
iured list. George Washington has been
going through its season and taking it's
beating like man." while Catholic u.
has been playing some mighty fine foot
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their game with William and Mary, but
six of the regulars did not play and
three of the others left the game before
the end of the first quarter.
{. Yale IS starting against Harvard to-
day backfield that probably is as fast
as any in college foot ball. Booth, Nc
Lehman, Ellis and Austen are able to
run individually and collectively. Elder,
Notre Dame back, is faster than any of
ERaA -.
that for collective running the four Yale
mer are faster than the four Notre
Dame regulars. They are the kind
who. II they break loose, will be hard to
get. When either McIennan or Booth
clears the line of scrimmage 1t will be
well for the Harvard forwards to hoist
danger signals for their secondary de-
tense.
Robert Geasy, who handles athletic
for Temple University. takes
issue with Coach Teddy Hughes of
Gallaudet, who recently said things
through this column concerning the
conduct of the Gallaudet- Temple game
at. Philadelphia two weeks ago Mr..
Geasy writes as follows:
First of all, let me state that Tenn
pie did use its second team, with the
exception OF Capt. Wearshing, against
ping of the lineup of the LAFAYETTE
game, played last Saturday, which
proves that fact. Compare the names
N the Lafayette and Gallaudet line-ups
and you VIII see that they are entirely
Egner, who played center in
ootn games, is only secon6-team man.
IS Schollenberger. the regular, is on
ne sidelines with an injury.
Evidently Mr. Hughes does not take
nto consideration that Temple has
much more powerful team than does
iallaudet and that is the main reason
Why its star, John Ringle did not GET
cry far against the Owls. In fact. Cal
audet made but two first downs. while
Temple was credited with f8. And
Iallaudet's initial first down did nat
come until the third period of play =
There is no doubt but that Gallaudet
vas completely outplayed.
~. AS for the officials, / want To SAY
That Temple does not select them
Walter OkeSor of Lehigh, the commits
inner on ofticialS picks each and every
me OF Temples referees, field Judges
lnesmen and umpires.
In the interest of fair play. Mr.
Byrd, / would appreciate it very much
you would publish this letter in yoIIr
olumn, so as your readers NAV get both
1deS OF the question. I am sure that
I Temple were guilty of any unfair
acttcs. teams of the caliber Of Iafav.
tte, Villanova. washington and ,Jeffer
on, Drake University Of Iowa and
sucknell would not play our foot BAH
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