Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
GOPHERS' DEFEAT
STARTLING UPSET
Yale-Maryiand Game Liz
ened to Epic Battle Between
Irish and S. M. U.
BY III, C. BYRD.

tormance IN loot ball last
week was the brilliant vic
5 tory of Vanderbilt over
Minnesota. Not only that, but it
is likely to stand as one of the
most remarkable efforts of the
whole season. And it is doubtful
If any eleven in the whole history
of Southern foot ball has ever
gone to play a Northern eleven
and developed such offensive
power and versatility as Wander
bilt must have shown.
To beat Minnesota at all, in any way
or under any conditions, is a note
worthy feat, as many Western Confer
ence elevenS are well able to testify,
but to completely annihilate it by 33
TO is something so unusual as to cause
real establishment; and for that to hap
pen with Southern eleven playing the
annihilating role is something in which
the whole South should take pride.
Certainly those gentlemen who, before
the season began, yea, before the squads
got out for practice, predicted that
Vanderbilt would be one of the four
strongest elevens in the South this Fall
found nothing in Saturdays game at
Minnesota to cause any lack of conf
dence in their judgment. Three diff
ferent foot ball coaches in widely scat
tered sections of the South told the
writer at different times last Summer in
substance that vanderbilt will be
among the first four this Fall and
probably will have the strongest eleven
In the South. They had rocky road
last year, but they'll come through this
time, you can just bet, because they
have the stuff"
Team Well Coached.
Vanderbilt started scoring in the first
period against Minnesota and did not
stop. It got one touchdown in the
first period, two in the second, and one
each in the third and fourth. Min
nesota's lone score was made IN the
opening period. That Vanderbilt VIC
tory is a tribute to the good material
out of which the team Is built and to
excellent coaching.
However, If Dan McGugin, Wander
bilt coach. were asked today what he
thought of his team, he probably would
reply in his slow drawl: We'll, they
did fairly well. but you know Minnesota
did not play up to its real form and did
not take us seriously enough" Which
is Dams way, not to worry about taking
credit for himself, but to give as much
as possible to the other fellow.
Vanderbilt however. was the only one
of the five Southern elevens that played
in foreign territory that won. In what
was probably the most talked-of
game-that between Southern Methodist
school won by 20 to IA after what
was almost an epic opening struggle.
The teams were tied until the last four
minutes of play. when the Irish put
across the touchdown that enabled them
to begin their year successfully. Texas
A. and NJ. lost to Nebraska by to IL,
Tulane was beaten by Northwestern by
II to and Maryland was defeated by
Yale, 40 to IS.
Mistakes Beat Maryland.
However. that Yale-Maryland game
came close to being just about the same
kind of q struggle that Southern
Methodist put up at Notre Dame. 1t
seems strange, yet 1t is fact. that
Maryland, despite its 4o-to-lS defeat,
could have been q winner. A summary
of Yale touchdowns shows that five Of
the six made were directly attributable
either TO blunders or mechanical mis-
takes made by Maryland. Take that
second quarter, for instance. With the
score standing to Z, Berger fumbled
on Yale's 8-yard line after Maryland
had carried the ball there from its 40
yard line on plays. Then Yale got
touchdown largely because it recovered
one Of its puntS that Maryland back
tried to pick up on his own 30-yard
line while it was rolling around on the
ground. Again in that second period
Yale got into scoring position because
Maryland tried forward pass on its
own 27-yard mark and threw the ball
into Yale backs arms. Despite that,
with the score standing 81 to against
it. Maryland came back and scored
another touchdown on a drive of so
yards, aided by a pass and long run
by Berger, and then actually got
another touchdown, which was not
allowed. Maryland had the ball on
Yale's 15-yard line and forward passed
to Berger. The Old Liner caught the
ball two yards inside the field Of play
and carried it across the goal line,
where q Yale back knocked it from his
arms. The officials ruled 1t an ncom-
plete pass and gave Yale touchback.
Old Liners tumble.
The kind Of game the two teams
fought through Is indicated by the fact
that the score at the end of that first
half, even with all the mistakes made
by Maryland, and it made aplenty,
should have been 81 to 20. The third
quarter was a battle. with Maryland on
three occasions having its running at
tack stopped by fumbles recovered by
Yale.
In the fourth quarter, though, what
actually was much more desperate
struggle on the part of both elevenS
than even the great crowd realized be-
gan to tell on both teams, but Maryland
simply did not have the reserve strength
to throw into the game. With its two
regular tackles sitting on the bench
shortly after the start of the fourth
quarter, Yale gained consistently with
its short end runs and cutbacks over
tackle, and in this period outplayed the
Old Liners completely.
Maryland has nothing to be ashamed
OF as result Of its defeat by Yale It
made many mechanical mistakes half
dozen or more fumbles breaking UP
Its offensive at critical times, and it also
made more errors of judgment than
Yale, but IL the Old Liners work with a
Will TO correct these things, especially
the mishandling Of the ball, then they
viii have an eleven that should be able
70 take care Of itself in any of the many
difncult games it is to play.
Did Well Enough.
George Washington and Catholic
University also took defeats Saturday,
the former at the hands Of Rutgers and
the latter with Franklin Marshall Both
simply were against stronger elevens,
and both played about as good foot ball
as should have been expected, consider
ing the makeup of their teams in
comparison to the makeup of the
elevens to which they were opposed.
Georgia Tech must be back in the
field with another great team. Some
time ago Alexander, coach of the At