Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-26

wanting to lose In consecutive yea
The game in West Virginia is between
West Virginia and Davis Elkins. 1t Is
not known that Davis Elkins has an
eleven as strong as wore It's colors iast
season, but II 1t is anywhere near that
good, then West Virginia will be In Tor
another such merry afternoon as 1t did
not enjoy in 1928. Davis Elkins went
to MorRantown last season and threw
a great big monkey wrench into the
West Virginia machinery, the result
being Davis Elkins and West Virginia
an unwelcome goose egg. No university
relishes particularly a defeat at the
hands of small neighboring college,
and We5t Virginia Is not an exception.
When o small school does whip a big
school, usually that small school comes
in for q very severe drubbing the fol-
lowing years, unless, OF course. the
small school again is able to take ample
care Of itself.
Battle Is Promised.
The game in Tennessee is at Nash
willie between Vanderbilt and University
Of Mississippi. Reports have come out
Of Nashville to the effect that Wander
bilt may not be so strong this year, but
apparently they have been SO much ex-
aRRerated that even Dan McGugtn,
head coach, says that things are not
nearly 80 bad as they at times have
been painted.
So il Vanderbilt is. strong, and Mis-
sissippi takes to Nashville an eleven
Of the caliber it has been putting out
the last two or three seasons, then q
real struggle will take place in what Is
the first game of the year between two
Southern Conference elevens.
Hardly any other game packs the
potentialties that the three mentione5
have. Navy, Army, Penn, Dartmouth,
Penn State, Syracuse and others that
open their schedules in the East seem
to have very easy opposition. Out II
the Middle West 1t Is not expected that
Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa or
any other team will have much oppose
ton. In the Far West and South 1t is
unlikely that the small teams that are
meeting larger ones will do much more
than furnish good practice opposition.
Pennsylvania plays Franklin and
Marshall, game with which 1t opened
its schedule last year and won by
46 to o. Dartmouth has Norwich, an
eleven it defeated in its 1928 opening
by 80 to 6. This is just about the sit
uation that exists between all the
elevens that are to meet, with the ex-
ception of the Navy and DeniSon Uni
versity. It was DeniSon that last year
went to Ann Arbor and took Michigan
into camp in the opening Of MichiganS
schedule. 1t Is noticeable that Denison
is not back on Michigan's schedule, even
though it may not be as strong as in
because, If 1t is, Navy will have a
rougher afternoon than it desires just
at this stage Of the game.
N. Y. U. Is Powerful.
New York University is to inaugurate
what it hopes will be its greatest season
with the University Of Vermont as Its
opponent. Chick Meehan is said to
have another great team in the making,
but however strong may be MeehanS
team. 1t Is not likely that he will be
caught in such a generously optimistic
mood rs he was at one time last season.
That story is somewhat of depression,
but worth telling right here. 1t seems
that when Oregon State, trampled on
by some Middle Western elevenS and
more or less unheralded in New York,
came East to face New York us great
combination that had just cleaned up
Carnegie Tech and its hopes for ma
tional championship, Meehan allowed
the Oregon coach to play somewhat on
his feelings. Newspapers the morning
of the game published stories Of illness
among the Oregon players, that several
of them were about down and out with
high fever. Just Few minutes before
the game started, it is told, the Oregon
coach dropped In on Meehan to advise
him Of the state Of affairs among his
players and to suggest that New York
University not run up to much Of
score.
Meehan, generous minded chap that
he is, readily asSented and just before
the New York University players went
on the field he told them, so the story
goes, to 60 out, make a touchdown and
then let up. The players obeyed the in
structions to the letter, the only trouble
being that the Oregon aggregation was
about the strongest and most able lot
Of sick men that ever got out of bed.
They might not have been able to take
up their beds and walk, but they had