Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-27

Y Y Georgetown and Detroit
tomorrow should play
bne of the best foot ball games of
the year. Both teams are power
ful physically, both have big, fast
lines and capable backfields, and
both should enter the contest with
a will to do. 1t is to be the last
game for each team, and each is
anxious to make it a good one.
The kickoff is to take place at 2
o'clock.
Not much more is necessary to be
said about the game, in its essence.
The foregoing paragraph tells in brief
the whole story, because 1t mentions
the factors that make great games
possible. There seems to be little diff
ference in the teams, though II there
is slight edge it probably belongs to
Detroit.
Neither coach is especially optimistic,
because both realize the kind of game
they face. 1t ought to be one of those
contests in which lightninglike changes
take. place in its aspects in which one
team may one moment be battling to
defend its own goal and the next be
hammering away at its opponents.
And that kind of contest is not the
kind before which the average coach
feels particularly easy, even when they
have back of them years of expert
ence that are behind both Tom Mills
of Georgetown and Gus Dorais of
Detroit.
SsT DON'T know what to predict about
i the game" said Tom Mills this
morning cit is something of a
toss-up, with us having chance to win
II we play our very finest foot ball.
We cannot afford to break even for
10 seconds, If we are to get away with
the game. Detroit has wonderful
backheld, with this chap Parsaca at
fullback, standing out as one of the
great players of the Middle West. Per-
sonally, I expect the game to be the
toughest we have had this year, and
It certainly ought to be one of the
best"
And what Mills says is almost
echoed by Dorais. The Detroit man,
while he knows he has good foot ball
team, also knows full well the posi-
bilities and freaks of the modern
game, and with that knowledge hest
tates to say anything And, for that
matter, Dorais does not talk a whole
lot at any time.
Georgetown has a stronger foot ball
team than it has been given credit for
having. That especially is true around
Washington, and we don't expect any,
thing tomorrow except a battle from
start to finish. There is no foot ball
team in the country that can go better
than Georgetown when it is playing an
inspired game, and that is what 1 look
for 1t to do. Georgetown is just about
as good as we are anyway, and on its
home field we know that our job is
doubly difficult. It ought to be a
great foot ball game"
Georgetown will be without the serv-
ices of Stanley at halfback, and that
player may be missed good deal be-
cause Of his punting. Shimmins is also
a good kicker, but with him out the
Blue and Gray is left without that de-
partment of play particularly well
taken care Of That seems to be
Georgetown's greatest danger.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY and George
~ Washington wound up their sched-
ules yesterday in way that de-
tracted nothing from the best seasons
they have had in years. The former
trimmed Loyola two touchdowns and
the latter tied North Dakota in bril-
liant efforts.
Not since the war has Catholic Uni
versity turned out foot ball team that
has made the record of the one that
ended its season yesterday. Victories
over North Carolina State and Du-
uuesne give 1t a prestige that no G. ..
eleven ever before has enjoyed. North
Carolina State just about played North
Carolina to a standstill and whipped
Duke. Duquesne held Georgetown in
a O-to-0 game, which places the Brook
1anders pretty well up in the scale OF
, lost. that with Boston College at the
start Of the season.
George Washington has been de-
feated. twice and had one tie, not quite
as good a record as G. U. on the
face Of it, but in all probability couple
of the teams G. u. has faced were bet
ter than some of those played by C. U.
George Washington lost to Iowa and
Tulsa teams that usually rank above
local elevens, Georgetown possibly ex-
cepted. and tied North Dakota. No
other George Washington eleven since
1908 has wound up its season with as
good a record against as strong teams.
MARYLAND did what was expected
Nl of it in beating Johns Hopkins
yesterday in Baltimore. The Old
Liners took the lead in less than five
minutes after the game started, when
paul Herman sprinted around end for
a touchdown and was never headed.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA gave
" North Carolina a real battle yes
terday at Chapel Hill. The Cav.
alters were whipped by margin OF
only one touchdown in a contest IN
which Virginia led at the end OF the
half. And it was Johnny Branch,
who has been under suspension for the
last six weeks for breaking training.
and who was reinstated in time to play
against Virginia, who was responsible
for Virginias defeat. Branch tied the
score in the third period by running
back a punt for a touchdown md
played a big part in getting the score
which produced a Carolina victory in
the fourth.
The game was Virginia's best of the
year and indicated marked progress in
the reminding of its foot ball fire.
TENTUCKY committed unforgivablt
n sabotage yesterday when it threw
aAmonkey wrench into Tennessee!
machinery, which had been expected
to come near producing a conference
championship and give the Volunteer!
almost an equal bid to go to the Pacific
Coast for the annual New Year day.
came 1t was the second game il