Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-25
HOYAS ARE WARNED
OF FOES STRENGTH
Installation of New System
Also Makes First Game
Difficult for Mills.
BY r. d. THOMAS.

VIZ authority from Emmits-
' v burg, Md, that the
Mount st. Mary's foot
ball team is loaded for bear anc
coming here Saturday to be sat
isfed with nothing short of vic
tory over Georgetown.
In this contest Tom Mills will make
his formal debut as Georgetown coach
and today he was plainly a worried
man.
Tt diverge for a moment, how diff
ferent was the feeling on the Hilltop SO
years ago, to hear John j. Lenney OF
the Veterans Bureau tell it. when the
Mountaineers came down for what was
expected to be soft game for the Blue
and Gray.
Lenney was the Mount st. Mary
manager in 1892.
THE Georgetowners promised said
Lenney. that If We would play them
they wouldn't attempt to run up a
large score. We weren't supposed to
have much of team, but it turned cut
to be plenty strong for Georgetown.
We won the game, to Of"
THIS time the Hoyas are forewarned
i and the information given him has
been taken seriously by Mills,
though others are prone to regard 1t
lightly.
"It's the same old story and part of
. ballyhoo," laugh the skeptics, but
consider this:
Nine of Mount st. Mary's regulars
Of last year are back,
Mike Thompson, former graduate
manager at Georgetown, is in print
with the crack that the Hoyas had
better not take Mount st. Mary's light
ly." Thompson is in close touch with
the situation at Emmittsburg.
"All in ALL" admits the Mountaineer
coach. Arthur Malloy, I'VE should be
stronger than last year" Georgetown
won in 1929 by a decisive score, but
was better prepared than usual for the
game because the Mountainsers year
or two previously had given the Hoyas
a scare, a late touchdown scored with
desperate passes gaining the day.
DUT there's another reason why Sat-
- urday's battle may be troublesome
to Georgetown. Mills has insti-
tuted new system with shift.
In practice the players have delayed
o second before the ball is snapped, as
required under the revised shift rule,
but the conditions viii be different Sat-
urday. It will be the first "Notre Dame
game" for the Hilltoppsrs and over
anxiety may cause them to bawl up the
timing In this event penalties might
be a severe handicap.
It will be borne in mind that no
less an exponent of South Bend foot
ball than Knute Rockne recently sent
his charges through a scrimmage with
several officials holding watches on
them. Rockne was confident his squad
had the legal timing down pat, but
wanted to be certain.
We've got lots to do in the next sew
eral days" Mills said yesterday as he
trotted out his gang for a scrimmage
with the freshmen.
THERE is little consolation to the
i Hoyas in the report that Mount
st. Marys may not be at fun
strength Saturday because of illness and
injury. The Hilltoppers also have sew
eral men on the sidelines who might
be extremely helpful.
Malloy has announced his starting
lineup as follows: Valibus, left end;
zubris. left tackle; Brew, left guard;
Ryscavage, center; Boggs, right guard;
Holland, right tackle; Tracey. right
end; Connel, quarterback: Dooley, left
halfback; Edelin,, right halfback, and
Wolfe, fullback.
MOUNT ST. MARY's outstanding
AVA players last year were Connell anc
Wolfe, backs: Ed Ryscavage, enc
and captain. and Jerry Ryscavage, Gen.
ter. All are back and in trim except
Ed Ryscavage, who Is an assistant
coach.
Much is expected of Connell, it is
said. He Is a better than average
kicker and is the teams most effective
paSser, although Edelin, is gifted as @
toSser. Conneu averages around IS OF
SO yards to the punt and is reputed to
have had few kicks blocked.
The Mountaineers' squad Is about as
large as Georgetown's, comprising about
three teams.