Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-21
CHANCE IS RUINED
FOR CLASSIC GAME
Green Terror Might Be Made
Great Asset or Heavy
Liability to Hoyas.
BY R. d. THOMAS.

" GEORGETOWN UNIVER-
I v SITY looks ahead with zest
~ to foot ball clashes with
West Virginia and Mich
igan State, but the sting of its
defeat by Western Maryland still
is fresh and may be heightened.
Leaders of the Blue and Gray
might well take account of that
whipping in light other than
the loss of a foot ball game.
It hit Georgetown in q weak spot-its
athletic bank roll. 1t was the second
such blow dealt by Western Maryland
in successive years. Next Friday night
In Grifith Stadium Georgetown will
meet West Virginia, and figures to win,
but with struggle. A worthwhile foot
ball battle almost may be guaranteed
and goodly crowd will be there, but It
would be larger could the Blue and
Gray show OF an unbeaten team.
Where Shoe Pinches.
On the following Saturday night
Georgetown will face Michigan State,
and here, If West Virginia Is defeated,
will be felt the fun force Of the West
ern Maryland blow.
Unless q miracle occurs, Michigan
State will beat Case next Saturday and
come to the Georgetown game with q
clean slate. 1t will come as q highly
creditable representative of the best In
Midwest foot ball, having played score
less tie with Michigan, which later beat
the Big Ten champion of last year,
Purdue, and the strong Ohio State
eleven
Here would be an intersectional at
traction Of high order, indeed. could the
Blue and Gray put on the field an un-
beaten representative of the East With
proper promotion such a game would
1t would be Washington's greatest grid
show In many q year.
Hoyas Are Worthy.
Georgetown may be counted upon to
carry the Eastern standard with credit,
but the public won't forget that little
school of Westminster, Md, has hung q
sinner on dignifed old Georgetown's
fgurative eye. The fascinating appeal
of prospective battle between tlicon-
quered foes thus has been DESTROYED.
BY whom? A school that Georgetown
scheduled originally for warm-up pur-
poses; a team that had all to gain BY
walloping the Blue and GRAY, but =
victory over which would bring little to
the Hilltop. -
Comparing student bodies and noting
the fact that Georgetown has q big
Time average OF foot ball material,
Western Maryland doesn't figure to play
the Hoyas on even terms. It is being
Western Maryland hasn't attempted to.
There is talk of . lax eligibility policy
at Westminster,
If this is true, then GEORGETOWN has
been In the position of a big fellowSper-
uniting little one to sock him with a
blackjack
Chance for Big Game.
This chatter Of Western Maryland
gathering foot ball players not up to
the scholastic or other standards In
sisted upon at other institutions has
become so persistent that the Green
Terror authorities should take cogniz-
ance of it. Certainly some of the
schools it meets on the gridiron are
doing so.
If Western Maryland can show a
clean bill of health and continue to
turn out f1rst-clasS foot ball teams the
opportunity is at hand to give Wash
ington that which it mas craved-an
annual gridiron scrap between natural
foes Of high caliber. a game with lots
OF color, local classic"
II the Green Terror is the little guy
with the damaging weapon. then
Georgetown is hurting itself and the
game by continuing relations.
To build up the Hoy-Terror feud sole
~ for financial gain. regardless of other
things, would be contrary to ideals
without which college foot ball might
sink to the level of other money-makine
sports.