Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-13
EACH HUM|L|ATES
T POWERFUL ENEMY
Notre Dame Carries Heavy
Burden in Building Up
j ! Color for Clash.
By LAWRENCE PERRY.

n FEW YORK, November 49,
M One looks forward to the
i Y December meeting of Notre
Dame and Southern Cali
fornia as to a battle between two
giants versed and def in the art
Of manly encounter. The top
heavy score which the Irish ran
up against Pennsylvania and the
Trojans' unmerciful beating OF
California and the large total of
points scored against Stanford
have given the late season en-
counter at Los Angeles a COM
plexion of this sort.
And yet before the two meet, this
complexion may be found to have been
due more to cosmetics than to natural
color. The onus of responsibility In the
way of prevention seems TO lie more
upon Notre Dame than upon Southern
California. The Los Angeles outht
meets Hawaii next Saturday and Wash
ington the following week. Certainly II
should get by these two engagements
whereupon the team will have nothing
to do but await the arrival OF the
South Bend crew.
Wildcats Vicious.
AS for Notre Dame, she will have nc
hard game against Drake Saturday, but
on November 20 she runs afoul OF
Northwestern, and the Evanston aggre-
CATION seems geared to make it tough
for any team in the land. But, by way
of showing the complications that lurk
70 confute foot ball dope, examination
Of the Purple record fails to disclose
any noteworthy victories. Northwestern
has beaten Tulane, an overrated team;
Ohio State, Illinois, Center, Minnesota
and Indiana-none of them especially
formidable.
So the Evanston outfit may not OPP
pose Notre Dame as strongly as super
ficially might appear-assuming the
Irish are as strong as most OF us think
And how about that?
Notre Dame was stressed to defeat
Southern Methodist, good but not q
great eleven. Other victims, Navy, Car
ne1ie Tech and Pittsburgh, are all be-
low standard, and Indiana rates at
about her average of mediocrity. Thus
Notre Dame may show up Northwestern
or vice versa; or both may show each
other up.
Assuming the Purple falls before the
South Bend onslaught, the Irish have
still to meet the Army in Chicago on
November 20. Army scores bespeak q
good but not great West Point COM
bination Her strongest opponent tc
date has been Yale, another good but
not exceptionally good team, and thai
game resulted in tie.
lTrOjans Not Doubted.
II Notre Dame is not two or three
touchdowns as good as she seems to be
she will still have enough left to give
the Army by all odds the mast arduous
afternoon the Cadets have yet expert
enced. So, all in all it does seem as
though Notre Dame may not be fully
revealed until she shows her wares
AGAINST the Trojans at Los Angeles.
There cannot be the slightest doubt
about the power and resourcefulness o.
the Southern California eleven. ANY
team that beats the 1880 STANFORD
eleven, IL to II, and California, 70 to 0
Is stamped as great without logtca
ground for negative argument.
With Northwestern and Army, Notrl
Dame will pit her famous offensive sys
tenn against the Stanford method Of at
tack, and 1t is being definitely estab
lished that In the application Of decep
ton as well as in the direct meeting o
defensive power the South Bend idei
is the more effective when well taught
But the Southern California line ant
backneld shift, very radical in forma
ton and movement, is another breeC
of cats, and there is reason to believ
that when it is taught as its inventor
Howard Jones, can teach it, 1t comes a
close to the unstoppable as modern foo
ball offense can come.