Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
GREEN TERROR FAR
FROM HOYA SET-UP
Virginia and Terrapins Out
10
! 10 Atone--C. U. Gathers
Glory In Defeat.
BY II. C. BYRD.

Of Virginia in the first of a long
string of dif1cult gridiron Strug-
giles for both universities. The
Blue and Gray and Black and
Gold encountered more opposition
last week than either expected,
but both felt sure they would win
and did win.
However, from now on the story may
be entirely different, as they are likely
to find themselves against teams that
should battle them down to the last
ditch. And there is not much doubt
that both Virginia and Western Mary
land will come here with lot Of zest
TO start the do'ngs.
A few days ago 1t seemed there should
be little to choose between the George
town. Western Maryland and Virginia.
Maryland games, but the results of last
Saturday indicate that the former may
be the better contest. western Mary
land has not yet played but 1t is known
to be strong, end Georgetown showed
well In its opener with Lebanon Valley.
A s far as Maryland and Virginia are
"A concerned, just the contrary Is
true Not only did Maryland fail to
cover itself with glory against Washing
ton College, but Virginia did not do any
better against Randolph Macon OF
course, there is no thought that Vir-
ginia and Maryland are in class with
washington College and Randolph
Macon, and IL may be that they will
play a better foot ball game than
Georgetown and western Maryland. but
certainly the results Of last week do not
Justify any such expectation
L. l.-E 4HaA
coming of Saturday 1t Is singing ur-
der two consecutive defeats by Western
Maryland and the only thing that will
give relief is a CORY scalp. The Blue
and Gray firmly believes that it is GO
ing to mop up with Western Maryland,
and there Is good reason for its conf
dence. It's squad is in far better shape
now than it was last season when 1t
lost to the Green and Gold outfit.
Put because GEORGETOWN is confident
~ there Is no reason to think that
Western Maryland is not well able
TO take care Of itself. That school lost
several good men, but 1t also had some
good material to take their places Dunn
and Mentally, who were on the FRESH
man eleven, are fine backs. and sew
eral of those left over from 1880 are
brilliant There is not much doubt
that Quarterback Ekaitis, who gradu-
,ated, will be missed but every other
hole probably has been plugged so that
1t will hold water just as well as last
year 1t may turn out that Bates
position at end is an exception, but
actually, as team, the probabilities
are that Western Maryland is going to
be just as good as 1t was when 1t
whipped Georgetown last October
Coach Tom Mills has been working
since he began practice with the West
ern Maryland game as his first objec-
tive. He has drilled his players to have
them in their best shape for the COM
ing Saturday and probably Georges
town will take the field with the bsst
eleven it has ever had in uniform as
early as the first Saturday In October.
VIRGINIA was tied by Randolph
v Macon in a game in which Vir-
ginia gained q lot of ground, and
in which Randolph Macon apparently
could do very little on offense. That
type Of game probably will cause the
Orange and Blue players to work like
trojans this week to get ready for O
real battle Saturday. virginia viii be
a much more difficult team to play
this week than it would have been
had it won by four or five touchdowns.
And Maryland faces the game in
much the same situation as Virginia
1t did nothing TO glory ebout last week,
and 1t has long vav to go to reach
the point it would like. It may be
that Virginia and Maryland, filled alike
with a desire to atone for their poor
work of Saturday, may stage a great
struggle.
TALthUDET and American Univer-
VI sity open their schedules this
week, the former With Loyola at
Baltimore and the. latter with Lyneh-
burg College at Lynchburg. George
play here, the former having Zion Col
lege for a game in the Central Sta
dunn, while the latter Is TO play City
College Of New York in the Brookland
Stadium.
The most creditable performance of
the local elevens Saturday was that
Of Catholic University at Boston The
Brooklanders, although whipped by
four touchdowns to one, actually were
close to victory in a game In which
they were hardly conceded chance
They held the lead. 7 to 6. for three
quarters. but finally succumbed to
greater physical power and fresh men
The kind Of foot ball G. u. played is
a tribute TO the ability Of its coach
and praiSeworthy for the players
Catholic U. has far better foot bah
team than it had in 1880.
George Washington wen its game by
a big margin, just as 1t and everybody
else expected The visiting eleven was
not in the same class with the Colonials
in any respect.
T OOKfNG over the country at foot
IL ball games in various and widely
scattered sections, one is reminded
somewhat of remark Of Bill Fetzer.
former coach Of North Carolina and
now coach at William and Mary After
his team has barely whipped mitch
smaller school Fetzer said, well,
there's none Of them easy any more,
they're all hard" OF course Fetzer
did not mean literally that every team
all the time is difficult to defeat, but
that any time a big team schedules a
game with a so-called smaller one 1t
takes chance Of running into real
snag. That happened yesterday in
many games.
out in the Far West, University of
Southern California went Gown before
the 81. Mays eleven, despite the fact
that the Trojans hive been touted ell
during practice As having their greatest
eleven OF al tlfie. in its game with
Santa Clara, California barely won b.
staging a fourth period rally to score
one touchdown and win By TO 2. Uni
versity Of Washington wss victor over
Utah by only Z 10 g. and Stanford was
held TO q tie by the Olympic Club. Not
an impressive showing by any means
for the big fellows Of the Pacific Coast.
Coming toward the East, 1t is OBJ
served that Minnesota barely beat
North Dakota by Is to and Indiana
was q victor over Ohio University by
only one point. Here along the At
Iantic seaboard, Penn State went down
before waynesblirg by 7 TO o. Virginia
Military Institute got whipped by Uni
versity OF Richmond and Virginia was