Evening star., 1932-09-23
COLON|ALS' OPENER
OFFERS REAL TEST
To Find W. & L. Well Primed.
Washington College May .
Press Old Liners.
BY ii. c. BYRD.
OMORROW the kick off
takes place.
For the first time this

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with Washington College at Col
lege Park and George Washington
with Washington and Lee at Lex
ington, Va. The game between
Maryland and Washington Col
lege begins at 3 o'clock.
Entirely at variance are the types OF
teams that go out to open the local
college season. Maryland has a green
untried outfit, of which seven OF tne
starting lineup probably will be sopho-
mores. George Washington, on tile
other hand, is team OF veterans.
Also the local schools play opponents
of different strength. George WASH
ington is to go up against what usually
is among the best elevenS in the Sectlon'
while MARYLAND entertainS a school that
has always put up plucky, hard games
but which has seldom been able TO WIN.
T Asst year Maryland did not cover it
II self with layrels to any great ex-
tent by its l3-to-O victory over
Washington. The Old Liners had a
hard time getting the Two touchoeWt,s .ias
they did, and most OF the creole VI 'iie
game went to the losers.
How strong a team the Eastern
Shoremen have this year is not known,
but it is made up Of veterans, ana
countless will be a fighting outht. Last
wear they were far above their average.
and now are claiming to be better II
they are. then Maryland may have
more difficult afternoon than II mas
bargained for.
MARYLAND and Washington College
have been playing foot ball games
from way back in the ninetles. Onth
about 1914 or 1915 the Eastern SnoTe
school was just as strong as the Ola
Liners. but since Maryland became a
state university and increased ire
mendously in numbers Of students, u
ALWAYS has been able to get away Win
the long end of the score, although
sometimes by very slender margins.
MARYLAND probably will start tomor-
rows game with Mitchell or Hines at
center. Simpson and Farrell at guards
keenan, and Rouzer or Silber at tackles
Vincent and Woods at ends, Poppelman
at quarter, Nelson and Widmayer at
halfbacks and Woods at full.
CEORGE WASHINGTON is to play
" probably the most important game
it has had since Jim Pixlee TOOK
IN his coaching duties there. To make
their game with Alabama stand out
as the kind of contest they want 1t
to be. the Colonials must whip Wash
ineton and Lee and do it rather de-
cisiyelv. And that they have such a
chance is shown by the feeling OF the
coaches, who admit frankly that tney
would have expected a considerable
advantage had not Carlin been injured.
AS matters now stand, it seems that
the Colonials, if they can hold together
their first string, still feel they have
an even break, if not a little better. ,
Washington and Lee is something OF
an enigma. It has been working very
hard to get in shape for its first con-
fest. but how strong the team it Is TO
place on the field may be is possibility
about which those close to it do not
apparently know. At least, If they do
know they are keeping it to themselves.
One thing seems certain, that the game
should be the best in the section.
~ATHOLlC UNIVERSITY has a
~ practice with st. Johns College OF
Annapolis. The Brooklanders, IN
lieu. of a regular tilt, are glad of
the oportunity to get a good work.
out against a strange opponent.
Georgetown has nothing scheduled
except some hard practice. The Blue
and Gray squad is to be put through
its PAGES with view to continuing the
gradual development which Coach Iom
Mills hopes to reach almost climax
against New York University at New
York on October Is.
WHILE few scattered games were
w played last week, tomorrow marks
the real opening OF the season.
From the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic
and from the Lakes down to the Gulf,
elevens are scheduled to line up to play
the series of games which lasts in some
instances until December 3. In the
Middle West very few of the bigger
schools have contests, Chicago bemg
the only member of the Western Con-
ference with an opponent. 1t meets
Monmouth College.
Out on the Pacific Coast the situation
is different, as every big school in that
section is to play. Several OF them, in
Guiding California and Stanford, opened
last week In the North, Yale, Harvard.
Pennsylvania, Brown. Princeton and
Penn State wait another week before
they get out, but practically all the
others have games. Games are sched-
uled virtually everywhere in the South
TT is doubtful if any of the games
north of the Mason-Dixon line will
be very closely contested. unless II
is the one ut Pittsburgh tonight between
West Virginia and Duquesne. II
Duuuesne is as strong as it was year
ago. when it played brilliantly at times
against strong elevenS, a 0-to-0 tie
with Georgetown for instance. then a
struggle far better than usual for an
opener may take place.
CORNELL, Colgate, Columbia, Dart
~ mouth, Syracuse and Pittsburgh
are the stronger elevens of the
North that open tomorrow. Cornell
PLAYS Buffalo. Colgate meets st. Law
renee, Columbia entertains Middlebury
College, Dartmouth has its annual
affair with Norwich, Syracuse goe.
against Clarkson, Pittsburgh against
Ohio Northern and Rutgers engages
Providence.
This Rutgers Providence contest may
prove something of an unexpected bat
tie. Rutgers usually is strong and
Providence sometimes turns out excep-
tional elevens. This game probably
should be the best of the lot. Holy
Cross also may not have SO much Oh
a set-up as it expects in New River
Teachers College of West Virginia.
Besides Chicago, Michigan State Col
lege, Marquette University and lows
state College are the strongest eleven
in the Middle West that open theil
schedules.
nut on the Pacific Coast the gam
~ likely to be most warmly Tough
is that between Stanford and Sai
Francisco. The latter college formerl,
was st. Mary's, which for years turne'
out strong teams. The fact that IN
name has been changed so that the in
stitl,tion now bears the name Of the cit
ia which it is located hardly Is ikel
20 diminish the prowess OF the foot bal
squad. Stanford is not going to hav