Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-05

activities, the University of Mary
land is planning for one of the
biggest home coming days it has
had since they were instituted
back in 1928.
Not only is the foot ball game,
which, of course, is the source of
main interest for graduates who
come back to spend the day in
familiar surroundings. listed for
the afternoon, but game be-
tween the freshman teams of
Maryland and Washington and
Lee is to be played in the morn
ing, and other events are to fill
the interim from morning until
midnight.
The days activities are to begin with
the freshman game at 10 am. AT
noon buffet luncheon is to be held In
the home economics building and this
Is to be followed by rally IN which
students and alumni will get together
for wells and songs. The varsity game
is to begin at 2:30 o'clock and 1t will
be followed Immediately by supper
dance for alumni and students, after
which will be held the annual home
coming ball.
Ought to Be Exciting.
What will be the outcome OF the
varsity foot ball game is the main ques-
ton In the minds of alumni, but II 1t
Is anything like the previous contests
between Washington and Lee and
MARYLAND it is doubtful If anybody VIII
be able to answer that question until
the whistle blows for the last time. The
first time washington and Lee came
here to play Maryland, it won with
comparative ease, the score being l9
to z. The next time, though, the result
was far closer, the final count being z
TO 3. with Maryland holding the lead
by 3 to 0 until the last two minutes OF
play. The next year Washington and
Lee won by to at Lexington, the
following year at College Park by IL 70
8. while the next year, by Clark Grit
fifth Stadium, Maryland was victor by
} 6 to o.
incidentally, it might be mentioned
that there is rather a SarcaStically
humorous story connected with that z
to-3 defeat Maryland sustained at the
hands of the Generals. In that game
MARYLAND, with a little TESS than two
minutes left to play. was leading by
TO 0 and was carrying the ball down the
field by a sustained rushing attack. 1t
got the ball to Washington and Lees
Coward line and there the quarterback
tried a forward pass. The ball was
thrown into Palmer's arms and Palmer
was at that time one of the fieetest and
cleverest backs in the South, and the
way he scampered toward the Maryland
goal line was a caution to all quarter
backs who in the future might want to
win by 10 to 0 when they already have
q game won by to o; Such a pure
gift to Washington and Lee was the
game that it was told afterward by
Dick Smith, graduate manager of ath-
letics at W. and L., how it had formally
been proposed in the Washington and
Lee athletic council to award a WASH
tngton and Lee monogram to the Mary
land quarterback. That probably Is the
closest that any foot ball player ever
came TO winning letter Of another
university while playing at his own.
Always a Scrap.
But, be that as 1t may, it is q fact
: that every time the University of Mary
land and Washington and Lee have met
they have put up great battle. Once
or twice Washington and Lee has
seemed totally to outclass Maryland and
once Maryland apparently was far bet
ter than Washington and Lee, yet that
seemed to make no difference in the
kind of game that resulted.
Washington and Lee has something
of o checkered career so far 1t at
times has played brilliant foot ball and
at others has not done so well. 1t has
q big, powerful eleven and fast backs
and in Lee Williams one of the best
forward pass receivers in the South.
Williams weighs about 165 pounds and
stands six feet three. and it is said that
any team that beats washington and
Lee must stop him.
Maryland is not able to do much in
the way of practice, as 1t Is trying TO
get its first string line up in good
shape. 1t is likely that today and to-
morrow. though, will find the squad
going through some long, heavy ssrim-
images and taking up about everything
there IS in the way of fundamental
foot ball It may be that the Old
Liners viii send their second-strtng
players through hard workout on FRI
day. as some Of them need the prac-
tice, especially those that have not
been in the last two games.
THERE are few foot ball teams that
i have as clever men behind their
lines as Bozek and Scalzi OF
Georgetown. Any time either Of these
PLAYERS get clear Of the line Of scrim-
mage he is likely TO go right to the
goal line Only once did ScaiA !
beyond the Michigan State forward
wall and clear Of the first two backs
but that once was for TOUCHDOWN
True it is that Georgetown has mac
: dificulty carrying on sustained AZ
7tack-that is, a driving attack that gets
ground consistently whenever l.
necessary-but that was the KIND o.
attack that Michigan State had, anc
Georgetown won. AS against the oriv-
ing attack. with more or less snort
methodical gains, the brilliant open az
tack, that depends on shaking q PACK
loose and having that back cieVeI
enough to go, sometimes more IIlAn
holds its own. For Georgetown ~ ma ,
been making good fairly well In al
games except one.
THIS chap Robinson. who played IN
i the backfield for the Marines last
week. is the best punter seen n
these parts for many year. lie
seemed able TO drive a foot ball more
than half the length of the field any
time he desired, and once he puntec
across the goal line IN an attempt V
punt out OF bounds from one side OF the
field 70 the other, when the ball mus
have carried fully 70 yards In the air.
THE University of Virginia has three
- exceptionally good ground-gaininl
! backs, but one OF them Is yery
weak on defense. Bill Thomas prob
ably is as good as any other back In
the South in all-around play. He car
do everything, the best Of which Il
run for touchdown almost any time
he gets loose. He is the type az back
WHO. given half 2 chance, keeps or
81 by the Maryland Line. but Il va