Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-01
KEEN RIVALS MEET
IN MANY MATCHES
Georgetown, Maryland Among
EIevens Slated to Face
important Foe,
BY H. c. BYRD.

over the country this weel
~ plunge into some of theil
most difficult contest is
From the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the Canadian line dowr
to the Gulf, elevens are scheduled
to line up in what are likely tc
be as closely and fiercely contested
struggles as will be played at any
time during the season. And ir
several cases games that smack OF
interSectional favor are to take
place.
The three big California e!evens all
may have their hands full again. Last
week Southern California went down
to defeat, California had a narrow
squeak and Stanford was tied. This
week the outlook is not for anything sc
very much better. California plays st
Mary's. which whipped Southern Cali
fornia; Stanford meets Santa Clara
which almost defeated California
while Southern California hooks up
with Oregon Aggies, always a rather
hard nut to crack.
Some of the Middle Western schools
engage in what are close to intersec-
tional games, Nebraska being due to
play at Northwestern, Iowa TO enter
tain the University of Pittsburgh and
Missouri to meet Texas at Austin. Any
one of these three games should take
rank among the best of the season
Minnesota also takes on a team from
afar when the Oklahoma Aggies jour-
ney up to Minneapolis. Indiana has
Notre Dame at Bloomington in a game
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interest. largely because people want to
see what effect the loss of Rockne may
have on the South Bend School,
While its sister institution is playing
Missouri, Texas A. and M. goes to New
Orleans for meeting with Tulane
This is likely to be a contest in which
the fur flies, as both stand out smCng
the best teams in that part of the
world In fact, there are not SO very
many better teams anywhere.
CoUTHERN CONFERENCE schools
- go after one another in a way
that indicates Southern schools are
not bothering about waiting for the
latter days of October for their big con-
tests Since South Carolina whipped
Duke last week, the game that school
is to play with Georgia Tech at At
lanta takes on rather an important
aspect. Last year the Atlanta school
won by wide margin, but Billy Laval
South Carolina coach, believes he has
one of the strongest elevens in the
section. He is expecting to give Geor-
gia Tech all it Is looking for in the
way of real battle.
Another game that should tax both
teams is that between North Carolina
and Vanderbilt. Actually this prob
ably brings together two OF the five
or six strongest elevens in the whole
South. The chances should favor
Vanderbilt, but North Carolina may
turn a trick that may surprise the
to Raleigh to measure strength with
North Carolina State and Tennessee
tries conclusions with Clemson.
One South Atlantic eleven goes to
the far South for a meeting with
Georgia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
having the trip scheduled. The v. P
J. men are likely to meet defeat, al
though they may show better than is
generally expected Virginia comes UP
to College Park to face Maryland
Washington and Lee plays at home
with Davidson and Virginia Military
Institute is slated to beard Wallace
Wade's Duke eleven in the Durham
Stadium.
The week end will be featured In the
North by the opening of schedules by
four of the big Eastern schools. Yale,
Princeton, Harvard and Pennsylvania
Yale plays Maine, Princeton meets Am
herst, Penn has SWarthmore for an op-
ponent and Harvard has Bates. All
the other schools along the Atlantic
Coast line have easy games, except
Fordham, which meets West Virginia
In New York
NAVY begins its schedule Saturday
IN with William and Mary. A good
deal of interest here centers in the
Midshtpmen, because of the new system
under which they are playing. And,
incidentally, because the team plays
here next week. 1t was felt just a
short while back that Navy might have
its hands full against William and
Mary, because the latter was expecting
to have about the strongest team it ever
turned out, but the showing of the Will
1iamsburg school SO far has net indi-
Gated such strength. Navy always has
won its opening game and it believes
1t will do so again this season.
While Navy is meeting William and
Mary, Army will be playing its second
game. Knox College is the next OPP
ponent for the Soldiers and probably
1t will be whipped just as badly as Ohio
Northern was last week when it made
the journey to West Point.
TOACH TOM MILLS yesterday be-
~ gan to get his Georgetown team
down to some real practice in de-
Tending against Western Maryland
plays. The Blue and Gray mentor has
nothing to go on, as Western Maryland
has not been in a game this Fall other
than what he remembers was used
against him last season. However,
Mills does know that a good coach
makes very few changes from year to
year and that basically Georgetown
will meet the same type of offense that
st went against in Baltimore last season.
In talking to his men yesterday, Mills
did not mince words about what he
expects from Western Maryland. The
Blue and Gray players will have to give
their best to win. as Mills thinks that
Western Maryland is just as strong as
It was in 1880. In other words, Mills
tells his squad that the Georgetown
team must be Just as much stronger
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