Evening star., 1931-11-04

~ My two OF the six local
college foot ball teams that
~ have games this week seem
fairly sure OF victories
Catholic University and George
Washington. The former meets
fair team In Manhattan, but, un-
less 1t suffers a good deal through
the absence Of Johnny Oliver from
the quarterback position, 1t should
chalk up another mark in It's won
column. AS far as George Wash
ington is concerned, it seems that
nothing short Of a catastrophe,
which it does not expect, can pre-
vent 1t beating Salem College.
As for the other four schools. they
simply are up against Just about as
tough propositions as they have met
this year. BuckneIl only tied Villanova
last week, but last Spring Carl Snavely,
Bucknell coach. told the writer that he
had about as good material as he had
ever had and expected to turn out one
of the strongest elevens that ever rep
resented Bucknell That means that
Georgetown has its work cut out for It,.
Georgetown has chance for victory
and everybody Is willing for Tom Mills
20 score on the right side Of the ledger.
but II It wins It will not be because
Bucknell has a weak team.
Maryland down at Nashville will face
Che strongest team by far 1t has on its
echedule this season. Vanderbilt has a
bigger and better team than Kentucky
and Maryland will enter the contest on
the short ends Of the odds. However,
the bigness of team Is not likely to
bother the Old Liners, as they have
been outweighed Is or 20 pounds to the
man In every game played so far, except
those with Washington College ana
Virginia Military Institute.
Gallaudet and American University
are going to be against elevens that
apparently completely outclass them, the
former with the Quantico Marines ana
the latter with Johns Hopkins.
WITH this weeks games. foot ball
w will pass It's high-water mark for
the season, IN the sense that the
great majority OF games nave been
played and that only few remain on
the various schedules. However, it Is
Just as true that many Of the biggest
contests of the year will still remain
TO be played, and around them in the
various sections is likely to hinge even
greater interest than has been attached
to any or all so far played.
Take New England, for instance.
Harvard and Yale have been meeting
some strong teams, representing plg
schools in various sections, but In the
contests in which they themselves are
to face will be found greater interest
than has been seen in the whole prevl-
Gus part of their schedules. And Tor
both yale and Harvard their game is
more important than the entire previous
part of their seasons, excepting poSSlply
Yale's meeting with Princeton, wnlcn
this year is something OF foregone
takes place in Princetons status. Also
in New England is to be played the
Brown-Dartmouth contest, representing
a stern rivalry that dates back many
moons.
TN the section of the country Just
i below New England, the Middle
Atlantic States. there are the games
between Pennsylvania and Cornen
i.ehigh and Lafayette, Syracuse ana
Colgate and others of perhaps less nm
portance. And the Pennsylvania -CorneH
battle Is typical in Importance 10 TINS
section to Yale-Harvard in new Eng
land. And there is not one OF the ABOVE
mentioned six teams that would not
10 have great success during the wnole
previous part of their seasons. AS q
matter OF fact. in some cases It is Largely
q matter of managing the previous paIt
~ the season in order to be in the pest
possible shape for the big meetlng VIII
the greatest rival Whatever may nap,
pen to Pennsylvania, and so Tar II sun
fs undefeated. 1t is pretty sure TO be
satisfied II it beats Cornell. Ano, II
Cornell wins every other game II pays
and loses to Penn, from CorneA Vle"'
It will be just too bad. .,...
Coming through the South Atlantic
section are games that locally are Just
as important as those between larger
schools Down at Chapel Hill the uni
ye~sitv of Virginia could easily atone
for the worst season in its grlonon
history If it could take the measure OF
North Carolina And at Roanoke the
Virginia Military Institute would not
care one whit about the games II al
ready has lost If 1t could just peat
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Ana
over in Baltimore. nothing would create
as much good Thanksgiving cheer for
Johns Hopkins people as victory over
MARYLAND. Incidentally. this game be-
tween\ Hopkins and Maryland repre-
sents one of the Oldest rivalries in the
United States, dating back TO 1892.
DOWN South are several OF the same
- kind Of contests, representing old
rivalrieS that mean more to the
contending teams than any other thing
IN foot ball. Take Tennessee and
Vanderbilt, for instance. The former
has not been defeated, but If 1t loses
to the latter a week from the coming
Saturday its season will be ruined. or
so it viii feel. The same condition
exists in the Tulane-LoulSiana State
game, which is representative of about
as keen a local rivalry as exists any
where In fact 1t would b. hard TO
find anything more keen in any branch
of sport, or IN anything else. Georgia
and Georgia Tech also meet IN con-
test that answers about the same de-
scription, and so do MISSISSIPPI A. and
M and University Of Mississippi.
over in the Southwest territory is
the game between Texas University and
Texas A. and NJ. Up little farther
one comes to the Kansas Missouri
struggle, the NebraSka-Iowa State Setto,
and there are not many games any
where that arouse greater local interest.
That Nebraska Iowa State (AmeS as
NebraSkanS call it), has been a great
game since the nineties. 1t fell back
on NeoraSka's schedule as somewhat
unimportant for a few years because
Ames had a foot bail team that was
so easily whipped it could not create
interest In much OF anything. Condi-
tionS at Arnes now are different, and
there is a foot ball team cut there
capable Of giving Nebraska all it wants,
and perhaps more.
TIP in the Great Lakes region one
~ comes 10 the battle between Min
nesota and Michigan, a struggle
that has been for nearly three decades
associated with little brown Jug.
Many years back some trainer at one