Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-19

~ for itself a place in the
Southern foot ball sun.
Down at Raleigh, on Friday, it Is
to meet the North Carolina State
College in the first contest in re-
cent years in which it has had
an opportunity to show its wares
against one of the larger Southern
schools, and the opportunity is not
going to be overlooked, not II
Coach Bergman and his aios can
help it.
C. U. is having almost two weeks to
give in special preparation for this
game and IS letting no grass grow under
its feet. Bergman has been drilling his
charges hard. not only in an effort to
perfect his own offense, but to stop an
ofTense very little different from his
own. North Carolina State is being
coached by Clipper Smith, former Notre
Dame player, who helped Tom Mills at
Georgetown last year, so Bergman
knows we'll the type of play his men
will have to meet.
Bergman spent a good deal OF time
last week in defensive work. and his
team was largely a defensive workout
against virtually the same plays North
Carolina State uses. The Brookland
squad was worked hard toward the
close of the week and will get two days
Of strenuous practice today and tomor-
row. The team will leave here Thurs
DAY and spend Thursday night at
Raleigh.
This North Carolina State game
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man, land I want to make a good
showing down there. We probably will
run into a much heavier eleven than
we have faced so far, and certainly one
considerably heavier than We are, but
If we can win a measure Of success
down there it will be very gratifying
from several points of view. We want
more games with the larger schools in
this section. games that will be more
in keeping with the dignity and stand
ing of our own university"
CEORGETOWN has a chance out at
~ Michigan State College to pull
itself together and make its fol-
lowers forget New York University and
Duquesne OF course the N. Y. U. con-
test was not as bad for the local school
a. the score indicated, and, had it not
been handicapped by injuries, the Blue
End Gray probably would have defeat
ed Duquesne without much difficulty.
However. Michigan State has a good
feet ball team. and it is q team that
Georgetown whipped here last year. It
started the season with many people
thinking it would rank among the half
dozen strongest teams in the country
and while that. of course. will not be
determined until the season ends, it
nevertheless is fact that victory for
Georgetown will pull the Blue and Gray
hold in the gridiron world.
THIS foot ball season seems to be just
i one battle after another for the
University of Maryland, and its
game this week with Virginia Military
Institute at Richmond does not change
the aspect much. Three weeks ago,
when " NJ l. was held to a close score
by Hampden-Sydney and beaten by
Richmond University, it seemed very
much as if it were not so strong but
last week it came through at Char
lottesville and played just about as
sod a foot ball game as any v. M. l.
elevcS1 ever has played. 1t played Ear
better aSainst Virginia than did Mary
land.
In its game with Kentucky Saturday
Maryland gave about as game an eX-
!, hibition of foot ball as one would care
: to see. With two regulars on the side
ylines with injuries by the end of the
$frst quarter and three other regulars on
ssthe bench because of their failure to
lido what was expected Of them, the Old
Liners stood up and battled to draw
with the most powerful foot ball team
physically that has been here in many
a year. Alertness in following the ball,
a department of play in which Mary
land had prior to Saturday not been
any too proficient, to say the least;
good defensive line play and some really
fine punting by Chalmers stood out at
all times AS matter Of fact, the Old
Line school in the last two minutes OF
the fourth quarter, with the ball on
Kentucky's 20 yard line, threw away
golden opportunity to score by tactical
blunder If that game had been pulled
out of the fire in those closing minutes
to give Maryland a victory instead Of
tie it would have been one of the most
remarkable foot ball achievements ever
attained by local school.
TT now begins to seem that Georgia
i is Just about the cream Of Southern
foot pail, with Tulane and Tennessee
running it a close second. Saturdays
32-to-7 victory over North Carolina
team that had previously tied Florida
and been beaten by Vanderbilt by only
a small score. seems enough to clinch
first honors for Georgia, at least for
the moment. OF course, 1t may be that
in this day of sensational happenings
on the gridiron some opponent will
knock Georgia's ambitions into a cooked
hat. but right now it is out In front
without a question. In the first place,
Georgia walloped Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, 40 to O; it then trimmed Yale,
rs to T. ard Saturday 1t wiped up
North Carolina. And then consider the
strength Of that Yale eleven in beating
Chicago 81 to 0, after Chicago had
given Michigan great struggle. And
North Carolina had previously tied
Florida. Georgia may be on its way to
an undefeated season. although it will
have to leap some mighty high hurdles
to achieve such record. New York
University and Southern California still
lie in its path, to say nothing of Tulane
and Vanderbilt. There is no doubt
Georgia is playing the hardest schedule
ever attempted by Southern eleven.
TULANE : certainly gave vanderbilt 11e.s
bits own back Let, too. The New
Orleans school walked roughshod over
Dan McGugin'S huskies to win by three
touchdowns. That hardly seems pos
sible in view of the feat Of Vanderbilt
in running up 26 points on Ohio State
in the first half in a game week ago.
Tennessee socked Alabama just as
hard as Tulane did Vanderbilt. In
fact. just a little harder, as the score
was larger.
The uncertainties of modern foot call
are nowhere BITTER shown tran in these
two games A week ego no one would
have thought that any team could beat
Vanderbilt by three tcuchdowrs. not
after it gave Ohio State that whipping.
And no longer ago than last Saturday