Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-24
BOTH TEAMS FACE
4 TRYING CONTESTS
g. U. Meets Detroit and G. w.
Opposes Navy-MaryIand
in a Quandary.
BY H. C. BYRD.

week, and in their final
games are likely to get plenty of
opposition. The Blue and Gray
goes to Detroit to meet University
of Detroit, which Saturday fought
through a tie with Michigan State,
and the Colonials Jump over to
Annapolis to play Navy. Both
games are scheduled Saturday.
Up at the Hilltop Coach Tom Mills
win carry his men along in an endeavor
10 wind up his checkered season with q
victory. Detroit, while it got tie with
Michigan State, Is said to be not quite
30 strong, so it ordinarily would be pre-
Sumed that GEORGETOWN has close to
en- even chance, but hardly as good as
even. A victory In q final contest means
good deal to team that has lost
several times, as 1t has something OF the
SAVIOR Of the spoonful Of honey one used
to take after dose Of bitter medicine.
So far the Blue and Gray sums up its
season with victories In two Of the
games 1t set up at the beginning as
majors. It has won from Boston Col
lege and Michigan State College, but
lost its homecoming game to West Vir-
ginia and its biggest game away from
tory over Detroit should help a lot.
George Washington will have to play
q lot better foot ball than It has
shown so far in any of its games to
stand much chance against Navy. The
Midshipmen, though, have been through
some tough contests recently and fiery
determined eleven, even If 1t Is not so
strong, would stand a chance Of show
ing well against them.
Both Georgetown and George Wash
dngton will have all the opposition they
want. They are to meet strong teams.
The former goes against a school that
has for years turned out some Of the
best elevens In the Middle West, while
Navy is much stronger than 1t has been
given credit for being.
MARYLAND does not wind up its
Kv1 schedule this week, but it viii get
plenty Of opposition. The Old
Liners do something that no other
school in the country has attempted
play two games IN three days. The
first is the annual ThanksgfVlnO @Amx
battle with Johns Hopkins in. Baltimore
and the second with Vanderbilt on Sat-
tlrday at Nashville.
In order to make connections for the
Vanderbilt game, q special train Is TO
rush the Maryland team from the Cliff
ton Park Station, which is near the
Baltimore Stadium, to washington to
catch the Baltimore & Ohio train which
is to be held here.
lust what procedure Maryland will
go through In its preparation for
the two games Is not known, as it
depends entirely on the condition the
players are in. However, it is not likely
that It will be able to do much in spe-
or Hopkins. In this connection it
might be mentioned that Vanderbilt
rendered to Maryland early in the Fall
the SportSn1anltke proposal that, in
aSrnuch as Maryland, even II 1t secuted
Vanderbilt, would not be able to make
much use of its information, q nom
scouting agreement to be entered into,
80 that both elevens would take the field
knowing nothing about ach other. VAN
derbilt, through its coach, Dan Nc
Gugin, asserted that it had enough of
an advantage, anyway, and that it did
not want to make use Of anything in
which Maryland would not hive an
equal opportunity.
Maryland Is in something of a d.
JENNA In regard to the two games. The
game on its schedule that 1t has looked
forward to for nearly 40 years is the
one with Hopkins, and during the 40
years the series stands a tie in games
won. It therefore does not feel it can
afford to take much chance Of dropping
that. The other side of the picture is
that Maryland now has an excellent
position in the Southern Conference
standing, being tied with Tennessee for
third place, and 1t is to its Southern
Conference games that Maryland looks
DO %SrkrY For tnA If ~
petition.
NEoRGETowN lost to villanova Sat-
" urday at Philadelphia largely be-
cause of its inability to break up
q forward-passing attack. The Blue
and Gray In other phases Of the game
fought the Pennsylvanians to stand
to knock down the ball when 1t was
shot through the air. The defeat was
about the worst setback the Blue and
Gray has had this year, as 1t came right
at the time when it was felt that the
team had hit its stride. In all prob
ability. Georgetown suffered from the
grueling games it has played in the
last three weeks.
MARYLAND and Navy battled
Nx through one of the hardest games
that has ever been staged on
Farragut Field And possibly for thrills
there have been few played there that
have produced greater number. Navy
got its touchdown within two minutes
after play had started on dash through
the center of the line by Kim and a
brilliant run afterward for 66 yards.
It failed to get the point after touch
down, and thereafter Maryland knocked
at its goal so closely that the usual
cheering was forgotten, and the great
crowd was almost still, so tense were
the situations. Technically, there was
little difference between the two elevens.
However Navy produced the one punch
in the way Of long run that gave 1t
the points to win, and for that de-
serves all the glory that goes with a
victory in such contest A close foot
ball game sometimes is very drab, often
is. when neither team Is able to gain
AGAINST the other, but in that game Sat-
urlay Navy and Maryland each made
IL frst downs, which meant that tense
situations constantly were developing
and making the kind OF struggle that
SPECTATORS never forget. approximately
$4,000 persons saw the game, and about
a many more wanted tickets. but could
not get them, but II Navy and Mary
land continue to play games such as
That of last week, there viii be no
stadium In this part of the world capa-
BILE of holding the crowd that will want
70 watch them. Incidentally, the game,
despite its tensenees. was one Of the
cieanest and most sportsmanlike ever
played anywhere.
HARVARD painted broad Crimson
I'll streak across the vale Bowl Sat-
urday. Possibly 1t would more
adequately cover the situation were 1t
70 be said that Harvard smeared Grim
son Al over the Bowl But despite the
briRi1t color, the Bowl for many moons
will be encompassed In gloom. Nothing