Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-05
NOTABLE CROWD TO SEE
CLASSIC CONTEST HERE
Corps of Midshipmen Will Display Stunts That Have
Earned Them Great DislinctiOn-HOyas
Face Another Test This Week.

land shows pretty cOncluSlVely WnaJ
some have strongly suspected all the
this year have a better team than they
had last. TIE margin by which George
town defeated Western Maryland prob
ably shows the margin of improvement
of Georgetown over its 1880 product.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY was ex-
~ pected TO win over City College of
New York, but hardly by as big a
score Gs it did The BrooklanderS cer-
tainly are making good with a VEN
geancc the prediction Of their coach,
Dutch Bergman, that the team this
year would be q great improvement over
last. In the opening game they almost
whipped Boston College, and then in
their second they ran roughshod over
fair opponent.
GEORGE WASHINGTON did just
" what it was expected to do, wipe
up the field with Elon College.
The visitors from North Carolina SIM
ply had nothing to compare with the
local eleven American University and
Gallaudet gave almost conclusive indi-
cation that they are far from as strong
as they have been in the past. especially
Gallaudet. American University may
develop rapidly. but in the case Of Gall
laudet 1t simply seems to be that 1t
does not have he material.
CT. MARY's COLLEGE certainly is
> making things miserable for the
big California universities. After
going down to Los Angeles in the OPEN
ing game for University of Southern
California and wiping up the gridircn
with Howard Jones veteran outfit, it
dropped up to Berkeley Saturday and
knocked the spots of the University OF
California eleven. The State Univer-
sity is where Bill Ingram. former Navy
coach, now has charge OF foot ball.
virginia Polytechnic Institute was not
much of a match for Georgia Its trip
to Athens was productive of a 4O-to-O
defeat. one of the worst whippings v.
P. / has ever taken OIL the gridiron.
Possible. though, that may indicate so
much V. p. 1. weakness as it does
Georgia strength.
HARVARD, Yale and Princeton
i / opened their seasons with a bang
the bang being largely the
sound of the spanking they gave. re-
spectively, to Bates, Maine and Am
herst. These opening contests showed
nothing other than that the three Dig
schools wanted easy test contests with
which to open their schedules and In
preparation for which they would not
have to worry about bringing their
teams along too fast.
nENNSYLVANIA'S change of athletic
+ system apparently has mo- affect
ed a good deal its scoring power
on the gridiron at least not against
Swarthmore. The QuakerS took the
Little Quakers into camp more easily
than was usual when Roy Mercer, now
in charge of athletics at Penn. was di-
rector of athletics and head foot ball
coach at Swarthmore.
Duke University won its homecoming
game Saturday at Durham by IA to O.
Virginia Military Institute being the
victim. 1t was Wallace Wades frst
victory as Dukes head coach, his first
game having been lost to South Caro-
lima.
Georgia Tech apparently is back with
another strong eleven, as 1t whlpped
South Carolina by 4 touchdowns to ..
And South Cardinals two scores. were
made against Techs second-strlng
eleven, according to press reports
vanderbilt's vaunted strength began
to show itself against North Carolina
which it defeated. 10 to O. And Florloa
again demonstrated the supremacy OF
far Southern foot ball over South AT
lantic foot ball by whipping Nortf
Carolina State by big margin. Flor-
ida's one-sided win was entirely I'M
looked for, in view of reports that nave
come from there OF poor material