Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-17

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4 Y big foot ball game sched-
uled in the south Atlantic
section, and one of the few in the
East and South. While practically
all elevens are going through
practice In preparation for an
nual thanksgiving day struggles,
Maryland will be at Annapolis
battling with Navy in what prom
Uses to be the biggest game in the
State, and apparently the mecca
for everybody in this section who
is inclined toward foot ball, If the
demand for tickets is any critic
rion.
In four major engagements the Navy
has won only once, but the caliber OF
its opponents has been much higher
than those met by Maryland. For IN
stance, everybody more or less gaSped
when Ohio State whipped the Midship-
men by four touchdoWns, yet Ohio State
last week trimmed Pittsburgh almost as
bad. And, If Princeton's performance
against Yale may be accepted for any
thing, Navy must have been fairly good
to whip the Tigers, 81 to 0. In other
words, while Navy may be little below
form In relationship to Ohio State ana
Notre Dame, in comparison to Mary
land, Virginia, North Carolina or any
Of the eleyens in this section it must
be considered strong.
Maryland lost to Yale and North
Carolina at the beginning of the season,
but has not since been defeated. 1t
has been coming along more or less
gradually until, with any kind Of
breaks, 1t now seems able to put up
good fight against any of the elevens
1t meets. 1t probably will go into the
game with the Navy with only an out
side chance for victory, but able to give
. good account Of itself.
MANY Of the coaches and athletic
w directors in the South Atlantic
section and a goodly repre-
sentation from the Army and Pennsyl-
wanna, both of which the Navy plays
later, are likely to be among those
present. More than few of the teams
In the East and In the South are idle
Saturday, and the average coach seldom
misses an opportunity to watch a foot
bali game In which he can sit back and
not worry about what may happen
incidentally, the whole Johns Hopkins
foot ball squad, which Maryland meets
Thanksgiving day. has applied for
GEORGETOWN certainly played in
~ tough luck Saturday to lose to
New York University as it did.
10 gain more ground, generally to be
considered as the superior eleven by
everything that goes to make up q foot
pall game, yet to lose 2 to because
back steps behind the end zone when
punttng Is about as unfortunate a way
20 lose as could be devised. OF course,
u may be said that Scald may have
been forced, possibly was forced, to step
back out Of bounds in order to keep
his punt from being blocked and that
only to 0 when Ecalzi's action pos
sthly saved It from defeat by a touch
down; but, with ell due consideration
Tor that, 1t nevertheless is true that a
defeat by such a score and under such
conditions just about makes a team and
coach think the world is against them.
However, Georgetown has the satisfac-
ton OF having put up fine game
against one Of the East's strong teams,
game such as ordinarily would have
produced the long end Of the score.
MARYLAND won In the mud from
4s1 the biggest Virginia Polytechnic
Institute team Y ever has faced.
Actually there are not many foot ball
teams anywhere much bigger than the
one now representing the Blacksburg
school, unless, of course, It Is some ag-
gregation Of exceptional players such
IS those that wear Notre Danes colors.
And v. p. ]. began the game as If 1t
eleven. Maryland received the kick
on, was held for downs at the 40-yard
line, got on poor punt, and then ".
p. ]. started an offensive march that
carried the ball for three consecutive
first downs. However, that was the
only offensive mach the Blacksburg
team made, as during the remainder Of
the contest 1t got only two FIRST downs.
Maryland played more consistently, and
despite the fact that it was outweighed
at least 10 or II pounds to the man
seemed able TO push its way for fairly
consistent gains. The field was in mis-
cradle condition and the most remark
able feature was that there was only
one tumble, that by Maryland on q
senli-bad pass from center.
GEORGE WASHINGTON struck even
~ more Of snag than was expected
WHEN II pumped LlpO HlDflgnb. ~
was thought the Colonials might have
to content themselves with a defeat,
but not by such wide margin as 80
to o. The Buff and Blue apparently
could not get going and couldn't stop
the other fellow.
TALLAUDET showed that its feeling
~ Of confidence in its ability to whip
the Langley Field eleven was not
misplaced by taking the game with q
-5ichdown margin The Kendall Green
ers play once more, meeting st. Francis
an Thanksgiving day, and II they can
take the long end Of the score in that
Win finish their season with O remark
ably good record.
JATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, though it
~ lost by one point, should have Moth
ing 70 regret as q result Of It's trip
20 New York TO play Manhattan Col
iere. The Brooklanders probably
Y,Iayed about the best foot ball they
have shown this season, and Dutch"
rserxma1nn, their coach, ought to take q
ao0d deal Of pride in the improvement
- has wrought since the opening Of
their schedule.
<SoME newspaper writer in q recent
- story said that Tulane was an over.
rated team. but Il probably would
- 1ffilcult to convince Georgia Of that
sseorgla, the victor over Yale. New York
T1zaigersity and undefeated IN the
easskh. whipped 25-to-o by Tulane
,s~rihablr does not have TO be argued
into believing that Tulane IS fairly