Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22

whether or not the Blue and Gray
quality of the backs and the abilit
Out at Catholic University, Jack Nc
Auliffe Is working hard to get team
in shape for his opening game, the one
hard game to be played by local school
as an opener, but even so he still is
in doubt about several positions. It
may be that he will not know definitely
his first-string lineup until after he has
seen several of the men under fire.
McAuliffe does say, though, that his
team is going to be much better than
last year.
Maryland has been working so many
different backfeld combinations in an
attempt to get one that would go
smoothly that it has hardly settled on
anything. In two or three scrimmages
with the Marines, there has been little
consistency in the play of the men as
individuals. One day one man will seem
to be exceptionally good and the next
day another appears to take precedence
over him. This has been true Of two
or three positions in the line and also
three out Of four positions in the back
field.
All three schools probably will give
q good deal Of thought as to what to
do between now and tomorrow afternoon,
and then will settle fairly definitely on
starting line-ups. That is almost neces-
sary If they are to make the right kind
OF showing, and especially Is this true
in the case of Catholic University, which
must face a hard game.
Catholic University is the only one
of the local schools due to open this
week that faces a real job. The Brook
landers go to Boston, leaving here
Thursday night, where they meet Bos-
ton College Saturday. That makes
tough assignment to start the season,
and, as McAuliffe puts it, THAT kind
of a game is hard anyway at any time
during the year, but when you must
face It right at the beginning with ar
untried team it is doubly difficult"
Georgetown and Maryland ought to
win their games without any special
difficulty, the former being due to meet
Mount st. Mary's and the latter wash
ineton College Both Mount st. Mary's
and Washington College have given
GEORGETOWN and Maryland some serious
OPPOSITION and real scares at times, but
ordinarily are not likely to furnish any
thing more than a tuning-up game.
Foot ball began yesterday, but moth
ing out of the ordinary happened. TWO
games played by Southern Conference
elevens resulted in easy victories, VIZ
GINA Military Institute defeating Hamp--
den-Sidney by three touchdowns, and
Clemson whipping Newberry by more
than IS points. West Virginia Univer-
sity took the measure Of West Virginia
Wesleyan by 10 to 0.
Yesterdays games were few and far
between, simply enough OF them to give
the beginning Of the foot ball year
little send of. This week, however, con-
tests are scheduled almost everywhere.
and, generally speaking. foot ball will
come into its own. Virtually every
school in the South begins its season,
and, with the exception of some West
ern Conference elevens and Yale, Har-
ward and Princeton, practically all
teams throughout the country get under
way. Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan
are Western Conference elevenS that
open, though none is to play strong
team.
Possibly the best game scheduled in
the whole country will take place at
Palo Alto between Stanford University
and the Olympia Athletic Club OF San
Francisco. Last Fall about this time the
Olympia Club made the journey to meet
tory by IL to 6. That defeat has never
set well on Stanford'S shoulders. and
Warner probably will be in better shape
this year to meet strong foe. And
when it is considered that Stanford had
a great team last season, something OF
the caliber of the elevens that represent
the Olympia Club may be realized. No
big school in the country Is likely to
meet as tough an opponent in Its open
ing game as Stanford is playing.
Another game that may develop lot
of real competition is the one at Nash
vile between Vanderbilt and Mississippi.
Vanderbilt nearly always is strong. will
be strong this Fall, and Mississippi has
been coming rapidly in the last two or
three seasons. In TACT, MISSISSIPPI mas
getting the kind of schedules 1t desires
and ought to have.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute opens
its season with Roanoke Virginia faces
Randolph and Washington and
Lee entertains Lynchburg. Virginia
Military Institute plays its second con-
test with Richmond.
Navy and Army open their schedules
with DeniSon and Boston University.
Not much Is known of the strength OF
either eleven. Neither Denison nor Bos-
ton University is likely to get away with
much against the two service schools
One foot ball game this week that
may develop into a hard and grim
struggle is that between West Virginia
Elkins has another strong eleven, the
same type of team that beat Navy a
year ago in the first contest at An
napolis. West Virginia nearly always
has a powerful and versatile outfit and
the conest with Davis-Elkins may be
one Of the hardest it will have to play.
OF course, 1t may be just as true that
the game will be easy, as 1t is some
times difficult to foretell just what kind
Of an eleven Davis-Elkins Is likely to
be represented by. incidentally, 1t might
be mentioned that Davis-Elkins de-
feated West Virginia last year by
to o. Davis-Elkins is not this year on
the Navy schedule.
Johns Hopkins usually has opened its
season the first Saturday in October,
but this year goes to South Bethlehem
to play Lehigh The Baltimoreans did
not meet Lehigh last year.
Just what Tom Ready, coach of the
Marines, does to foot ball squad Is
not known, but he certainly seems able
81 work some kind Of metamorphosS
from ARae week to another. Last Satur.
day the Marines and Maryland scrim-
mayed for a long while, and the Ma
rines did not seem so good. The team
was not working together and the men
were not pulling together as team,
but yesterday it was an entirely dill
1erent story.
The Marines, despite the absence Of
some of the fine material that made up
the eleven the last two or three years.
seem to be coming along rapidly and
probably are developing into another
through with the team 1t is not at all
unlikely that it will be almost as formi-
dable as it was last season. And If that
situation does develop 1t will be moth