Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20
Six Local College Grid Teams
Play This Week End, Last Time
All Will See Action This Year

game WlCn Marines, Lney may get
away with the Shepherd eleven. A vic
tory for Gallaudet would not be big
surprise.
Maryland always has found Wash
ington and Lee something of a jonah
team, except last year.
Washington and Lee brings here
team that has been making special
preparation for Maryland for some time.
The pre-game outlook is that things
are pretty evenly balanced, with pos
sibly Maryland seeming to have little
bit OF an edge it may not have.
WHATEVER success it may have
w against Butler tonight, George
Washington has one play that
seems to go against every team it meets.
1t is a short side play, with some fake
and some strength, with the front back
carrying the ball. From the stands the
play does not seem to carry any great
amount of deception but it nearly al
ways catches the defense unaware.
Last year it was used with telling eff
feet against Catholic University and
North Dakota, and this year it was
about the only c. w. play that gained
much against Tulsa.
IN the Notre Dame system Of play
i the left halfback is the gentleman
depended on to make things most
uncomfortable for the defense, and 1t
is likely that Whelan, who plays that
position for c. u, will be the most
watched man on the foot ball field this
afternoon in the c. U.-Providence con-
test.
Whelan is fine foot ball player, es-
pecially in the matter of ground gain
ing, and his reputation unquestionably
has gone to Providence to such an eX-
tent that Providence players will be
"on his neck" from start to finish. If
Whelan goes well tomorrow, it will be
true test of his greatness, because a
foot ball player who can play brilliantly
under such stress, measures up to
everything that should be expected of
any man.
nNE of the most amusing incidents
~ that have taken place in connec-
ton with a local foot ball game
in years was the aftermath of some
thing that happened in a Washington
and Lee-Maryland game six years ago:
Maryland was leading, to 0, until
the last two minutes of play. 1t had
the ball on Washington and Lees 20
yard line and seemed certain OF victory
over what really was a superior team.
However, the Maryland quarterback
was not content to win by to o. SO
he tried a forward pass, and the ball
went right into the arms of Palmer,
Washington and Lee back, who then
was among the two or three best bro
ken-field runners in the South. When
Palmer was downed he was on Mary
lands 2-yard mark, or whereabouts, and
in two plays Washington and Lee had
a touchdown and kicked goal to win,
Z to g.
Later that Fall. when the Washing
ton and Lee Athletic Committee met
to award letters, faculty member OF
the committee offered the suggestion
that letter be given to the Maryland
quarterback. When the Maryland
quarterback heard that, he wanted to
shoot somebody. And probably this
might not be written now If that quar-
terback were in any other place than
China.
TILSON, who is guard for Washing
l. ton and Lee on offense and backs
up the line on defense, against
Princeton last week gave one OF the
grandeSt exhibitions of individual play
that anybody would care to see. HIS
performance behind the line, especially
tackling, was superb. It would indeed
be difficult to find any man anywhere
who could back up line as well as
Tilson did against the Tigers.
Another rather unusual thing that
Washington and Lee did against
Princeton was to make just one for
ward pass and on that score a touch
down, the only score of the game.
Al Woods. Maryland halfback, Will
be on the field tomorrow to start his
first game since he was knocked tor
loop" in the first quarter OF the
Kentucky game more than a month
ago. Woods is Maryland's best bet on
defense. In fact. there are not many
better defensiblN backs.