The Washington times., 1931-10-20
MUST
OVERCOME
COMPLETES
BY HARRY COSTELLO
Georgetown Backfield Star 1910
1879

ANASl
Mental attitude will play an
important role in Saturdays foot
ball games.
For that reason a red light
warns of danger for three Dis
trict elevens.
Catholic University goes to Ra-
leigh to meet North Carolina
State. Georgetown travels to East
Lansing, Mich, to tackle Michi.
gan State, tie high scoring out
fit coached by Sleepy" Jimmy
Crowley, one Of the Four Horse
men of Notre Dame fame. Mary.
land bumps into Virginia Mill
tary Institute on a Richmond
gridiron.
The first of this trio Of games
is played Friday night. The other
two will be staged Saturday. C.
U. and Georgetown are under
dogs in their games. Maryland
is favorite to defeat v. M. I.
c. U. faces a great opportunity
to make the South sit up and
take notice. If the Cardinals do
not become over anxious, and if
they play the quality of football
of which they are capable, they
Will render a most worthy &C.
count of themselves.
Must Forget Weakness
The Brookland team has been
steadily improving. It must, for
this game, forget it's glaring weak
ness in the matter of reserve
strength.
If the Cardinals enter the
State game in the right frame
OF mind they stand a good chance
to win.
However, it is difficult to i'm
press on a team, which ran
Boston College ragged for three
quarters of a game, and then
went to pieces due to lack of
reserves, that the matter of
reserves doesn't count. This
slight inferiOrity complex might
lose the Cards their chance i'm
Saturdays game.
Since it's loss to N. Y. u.
Georgetown struck a tartar in
Duquesne. The injury jinx has
pursued the Hilltoppers. Three
tough games in a row, two of
them disasters, have not i'm
proved the mental poise of the
HoyaS. The problem confront.
ing Coach Tommy Mills is a
tremendous one. He is faced with
the task Of getting his pupils to
realize that mental attitude is a
most important factor in the
final result of any game.
While the Georgetown team
has been running into injuries
and Duquesne, the Michigan
State eleven, since it's loss to
Army, has been pointing for
Georgetown and met only a Glass
C team last week. The Farmers
of Michigan hold a decided edge
over the Hilltoppers. They will
be much better equipped for a
hard game than will C. U.
While it is not quite so obvious.
Maryland certainly is in a danger
spot Saturday. Coach Bill
Raftery and his cadet eleven
showed what can be done with
a beaten football team when
they prepped SO perfectly to de-
feat Virginia.
Maryland Faces Test
The Old Liners and ". M. I.
are very much in the same posi-
tion. Maryland, at the peak for
two games in a row (Navy and
Kentucky cannot afford to
slump. v. M. l., fresh from a
triumph over Virginia, to have
any chance against Maryland,
cannot slump.
V. M. l., in q series Of three
games, one a tie, one q defeat
and the Othe- q victory, suf.
fered heavily in the matter Of
injuries. Maryland, following
two unusually hard games,
both of them rough, is none
too well off physically. Navy
and Kentucky in q row is real
tough going.
v. M. l., keyed up and in.
spired, defeated Virginia. Mary.
land, keyed up and inspired, de-
feated Navy and tied Kentucky.
Maryland'S team, being as it
is, composed for the most part
of seniors, is not quite so amena-
BILE to the laws Of Slumping as
is the cadet eleven. The ma
turity of the Old Line individual
players probably aids materially
in pulling them together mentally
long enough to win the V. M. I.
game before dropping too far
from peak.
v. M. l., being a much younger
team, will probably slump con-
siderably.
However, if the not at all
improbable, let alone impOssi-
BILE, happens Saturday, and the
Old Liners slump while v. M. ].
does not, v. M. /. is very apt
to add Maryland to Virginia
and make two cadet holidays.
Any one old in the game of