Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-27
AMERICAN i. AGAIN
IN-LONE TILT HERE
All Others Go Away-Hoyas
Likely TO Hit Stride in
Boston College Game.
BY n. c. BYRD.


are no sooner ended than prep
arations for another the follow
ing week are begun. And TIT
games scheduled the coming Sat
urday give no indication OF &
change In the picture.
George washington, George
town, Gallaudet, Catholic Univer.
sity, American University anc
Maryland all are likely to have
their trouble, and plenty OF 1t, this
week, just as they had in theil
last games.
Not one of the local schools is to q
into q contest In which 1t viii have an,
better than an even chance and mos
Of the games viii md the local eleven'
on the short side OF the predictions.
II would seem that American Uni.
versity, which for the second successive
week provides the only local tilt, ougn
20 be an easy victor over Shepherd Col
le@e. but after being whipped by biz
margin by Shenandoah College. II woulc
he a risk TO indicate that the Methodist:
might beat any team. And Gallaudei
viii have TO stage something closely ap'
preaching Q miracle TO defeat Pennsyi'
vania Military College ct Chester.
Asa matter Of fact. the local clever
"A that probably stands the best
chance Of victory Is Georgetown
despite the poor condition Of some q
the Blue and Gray backs II George.
town could 20 out - East Lansing and
uutplay Michigan state, then it should
have Is good chance to beat Boston
COLLEGE as the Hub eleven has to whip It
Georgetown's foot ball team is good
deal stronger than anybody mere is glv-
ing it credit for. True 1t lost to New
York University and Michigan State
and only tied Duuuesne. and neither
OF those schools is Yale. Harvard Oh
Princeton. but all have tough foot ball
teams. GEORGETOWN is up against the
diflcuA task OF playing through 9
schedule i,ist about as hard as It could
arrange, with possibly two or three ex-
ceptions, yet does not give the Blue and
GRAY the distinction 1t deserves. Were
Georgetown playing through schedule
Including MICHIGAN, Princeton and three
or four big Southern schools, its present
team Is strong enough to make for It 2
great record, IT Greatest the most dif-
6cult situation possible Cor coach.
CEORoE WASHINGTON is getting
~ ready 70 meet University Of Iowa
this week at Iowa City in the frst
contest a which 1t has ever played
avainst a western Conference eleven,
THE Colonials did not contemplate any
thing other than q rough afternoon,
although they hope to make goou
Coach Jim Pixlee is anxious TO make
4 good showing, though more with the
idea al building up the game here next
wear than for any effect Il may have on
the present season. A good game
arainsst iowa, though. viii help George
Warrington this year, IS well as next,
ard Certainly should, as Pixlee has IN
dicated. give prestige TO the game when
Iowa plays here.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY is up
aaniglst n team at Duuuesne that
has tied Georgetown and for that
reason IN especially anxious TO show
we'll II would give the Brooklanders
a GOOD deal Of local prestige II they
could come back from Pittsburgh Wit
4 victory over an eleven that had played
4 O-to-0 game with the Blue and Gray
n IA said that DuQuesne's main strength
iieR IN two brilliant punters, men VINO
booted the bah so and 55 yards con-
sistently in the Georgetown game de-
mpite a raan-Soaked field and mud, which
almost precluded the possibility OF any
Kind Of good kicking except by super
Coach Bergman knows that Duquesne
although little known here, has an ex'
ceptionalk good foot ball team. De-
Epite that, he feels that his team has
chance TO win. And the Brooklanc
PLAYERS themselves have In them con.
fidence that Is likely to make a HARD
afternoon for any foe they meet.
MARYLAND goes to Blacksburg Z
WI meet Virginia Polytechnic Insu
talte. q team that has been point
.ng Al, Tsail for this one game. Not only
a this true because Maryland has whip
ned v. p. I. the last two years, bus also
because tt Is Y. p. rs Homecoming day
And none will deny that the BLACKS
burg school has an even chance q
win. II its showing against Kentuck!
A A good criterion of its strength.
p I. made nine first downs agalns
Kentucky in the first half, and MARY
land only six against the same team
rirht. v, p. I. had Kentucky on the rur
during the whole Of the second period
whether or not woods and Keenan,
quarterback and tackle, will be back IN
shape to play Saturday Is not known
TYnder any conditions 1t is hardly likely
That they will start, as after two
vreek lMy-on neither should be able tc
70 through q hard contest
Maryiand's main work this week VII
be centered ON improving its secondary
defense. Last week against V. M. 1
tha old liners faltered miserably II
this reSuect. Almost any time V
AZ I hack got BY the line OF scrim-
mage he went for 5 or 10 yards. On.
less the secondary defense is bolstereo
IN the game Saturday, the brilliant
backs behind the V. p. /. line Will come
near running Wild,
While Georgia. Tulane and Tennes'
see are being picked as the stronSes
Stevens I'm the South. and not Sithou
hood reason 1t begins TO seem that III
lane Is shaping up to win championship
honorS On q basis Of comparative
scores. Tulane has sometimes on TIT
other schools The New orleans IN
stitation two weeks ago Nbeat Vanoer'
biit, apparently without much trouble
then came back last week TO wnil
Georgia Tech, 50 to 0.
Georgia barely whipped Vanderoii
and had hard time doing 1t. Wander
bilt trimmed North Carolina. Is TO Q
but Tennessee was rather lucky to &c
away with . 7-to-o victory over tn
same school.
Comparative scores mean very IttlI
IN foot ball. but when the mai iudg
ments are made, in all probability i
viii be found that Tulane has beer
the stumbling block for the Georgians
Georgia Is playing through q much
harder schedule than Tulane. and tina
ss bound 70 have its effect No team
can keep top form meeting the kint
OF elevens the Athens institution /
playing every Saturday.
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