Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
TWO GOOD GAMES
| CARDED THURSDAY
C. U. and G. w. viii Have All
They Can HandIe-G. U.
In Test Saturday
BY III. C. BYRD.
BY III. C. BYRD.
w SHINGTON has for
Nv years been without
i V v good Thanksgiving day

Thursday. Games scheduled by
George Washington and Catholic
University are fairly sure to offer
more good foot ball than has been
seen here on any holiday in the
last decade. Both local schools
iRre strong and their opponents
have proved sufficiently so to war
sfant an opinion that the Colonials
Shnd Brooklanders do not stand
ANY better than even chances to
win.
: And, TO 60 q little further than that,
b is not by any means impossible that
1.-TWO local Scalps may depart for the
@Ndiddle West and Baltimore, as North
dakota University, which is to meet
George Washington, has lost only one
game, and Loyola College of Baltimore,
sCatholic Us opponent, apparently is
80 far above its usual standard as to
4give teams like Holy Cross about an
4even battle.
George Washington and Catholic
university wind up their seasons with
RThursday'S game, and, for that reason
respectfully, are hoping for victories,
which, II won, will give the local schools
GhDOUb CIlG U6SJ S6dSOIlS LIl6y nave IlAQ
sdn recent foot ball history. Back in 1908
George Washington went through q
brilliant schedule but since that has not
fenjoyed as much success as will grace
the 1881 team II North Dakotas scalp
Hs taken.
Coach Pixlee is not laboring under
any misrepresentation as to the strength
OF North Dakota. That school had not
lost game this season until it came
East last week to meet defeat at the
hands Of Duquesne at Pittsburgh. North
Dakota possibly is not as strong as its
string Of victories prior to its Duquesne
game seemed to indicate, but it also
may be true that the Dequesne game
was any upset. Duquesne held George
town 0 to and barely was defeated
by Catholic University, which means
that II might defeat any team of the
standard Of those in this section.
r oYoLA COLLEGE of Baltimore
- usually has been good doormat
for the better teams in the South
Atlantic section, but its games with
Western Maryland and Holy Cross ap-
parently show 1t is no longer in that
class Western Maryland was tied to
2 and II to Is game was played with
Holy Cross, and any eleven that can go
that well against those two schools
must have something more than uni
forms.
All advices are that Ioyola has q
mighty good foot ball team, far better
than 1t has been given credit for. On
basis Of what it showed against West
.ern Maryland and Holy Cross, it can
hardly be looked upon as any worse
than an opponent strong enough to
make G. q. battle desperately for every
thing it gets. Loyola evidently has just
about as good q pre-game outlook as
the local university.
It will not be easy for local followers
of the sport, those not affiliated with
either school and who have no partisan
interest, to pick the game they would
f rather attend. In both contests should
: take place a good deal of colorful play
and whichever the average foot ball fol-
I lower chooses to watch he or she should
be amply repaid.
kAEARYLAND'S squad goes to Balti-
T lV1 more Thursday morning for its
/ annual setto with Johns Hopkins.
/ The Old Liners, despite the fact they
are meeting a team that has lost only
/ one game should have the advantage,
, If they make the best OF their resources.
/ Hopkins has much better eleven
] than It turned out last season, and 1t
| may play q lot better comparative game
than anybody expects it to. 1t nearly
always does against Maryland. Last
/ season, for instance, Hopkins was looked
! upon as being hardly good enough to do
! more than beat q very small college
! eleven, vet when the first half OF its
game with Maryland was finished the
result woS TO o.
Maryland won In the second half. but
had to make a furious finish to do so.
Hopkins seems to bend its whole season
toward Maryland and the natural result
is tough going for the latter.
WHILE Georgetown has no game
w Thanksgiving day, just two days
later, Saturday, 1t meets here the
University Of Detroit, which last week
defeated Michigan State College, three
touchdownS to two. Detroit's strength
extensively may be gagged by the fact
that It scored three touchdoWnS against
Michigan State, an eleven against which
GEORGETOWN did not score at all.
On the other hand, the Blue and
Gray defense gets a bit OF bright COM
parison by virtue Of its ability to hold
Michigan State to one touchdown, while
Detroit was scored on twice.
No doubt the Blue and Gray has q
hard nut to crack. The game probably
will develop more good foot ball than
any other Georgetown has played mere
this season. Coach Tom Mills will have
his ingenuity tested to the utmost and
his teams courage and physical power
VIII nave 70 20 LLlEOuBH AnC Al I1ACy aAC
to prove superior to the Detroit men.
1t should be great game.
TN many sections of the South Thanks
i giving day rivalries of long standing
will be fought out. And, incidentally,
three Of the Oldest rivalries are right
here in the South Atlantic States. with
Virginia and North Carolina meeting at
Chapel Hill, Virginia Polytechnic 1nstt-
tute and Virginia Military Institute at
Roanoke and Hopkins and Maryland at
Baltimore.
The Hopkins Maryland contest, Incl
dentally, Is one of the Oldest south of
the Mason-Dixon line, these schools
having been meeting since 1892.
Virginia, encouraged by its good
showing in the V. p. I. game, goes to
Chapel Hill with an enthusiasm that
is remarkable. The Cavaliers have
not won since September, yet believe
they stand q chance to upset the
Tarheels. Reports from Charlottes-
vile are that the players and student
beaten, and to beat North Carolina is
the highest thing in the way OF foot
ball achievement for the Charlottes-
A month ago anybody who might
have picked Virginia Military Institute
to whip Virginia Polytechnic Institute
would have been looked upon as some
what lacking in foot ball perspective.
Right now, though, since v. M. ]. gave
Kentucky such 9 tremendous struggle,
the situation u changed. Some are
even picking v. M. I. as an even bet
against the BlackSburg school, and
Iaybs they are not far EronS. " 2,