Evening star., 1932-09-20

v pennsylvania ana rem
/ State have another week
to wait before opening
their foot ball schedules but prac-
tically every other Northern COL
lege this week is to take out its
team for a test in formal compe-
tition against another college.
True, hardly any one of the
schools has an opponent strong
enough to put up much of a
sstruggle, on the face of usual
scomparison, but the games gen.
serally should be interesting in
that they mark the real beginning
OF the season.
Cornell begins another year under
Gil Dobies coaching, with University OF
Buffalo as its opponent, at Ithaca. Un-
less Dobie has changed good deal
there Is not much danger of Cornell
finishing up without a sizable score
to its credit. Colgate and Syracuse
hardly stones throw away from
Cronell. have contests with St. Lawrence
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virtually are certain winners.
University of Pittsburgh starts the
ball rolling with Ohio Northern and
Bucknell with ST Thomas. Lehigh is
to entertain the DreXel eleven at South
Bethlehem and may have more OF
struggle on its hands than it expects.
West Virginia goes up to Pittsburgh to
play Duquesne in what may be the
best game of the week.
Columbia is the only one of the New
York schools that opens Saturday. 1t
meets Middlebury, while New York
University and Fordham are idle.
Up in the New England States, Dart
mouth entertains Norwich in the an
nual opening at Hanover, while Holy
Cross plays New River Vermont, Maine
and Williams are other New England
colleges that get under way.
TWO Northern schools that are great
i rivals. Pennsylvania and Cornell,
are expecting to have much better
elevens than they turned out last sea-
son, notwithstanding that both played
some fine foot ball then. Dobie whip
ped Harmon, new Pennsylvania coach,
who is one of the youngest head
coaches among the big colleges. to 0,
but Harmon right now is predicting
that he should have Quaker team two
touchdowns better than the one Of 1881,
the first he coached at Penn.
TOUR games in the South may de-
L velop some exceptionally. good foot
ball for the opening date. The
closest to Washington is that in which
Duke meets Davidson. The latter, OF
course may not be as formidable il
was fc- several years under Monk
Younger, now coach at Virginia Poly
techniC Institute, but If it is Duke may
have its hands full.
Virginia Military Institute Journeys
out to Lexington, KY, to play Ken
lucky. The latter is said to have an
even stronger outfit than that which
wore its colors last season. while the
former unquestionably is more forni-
dable. V. M. I. has its 1881 squad
almost intact, and year of experience
means a lot to a college team, espe-
cially the year of sophomore eXpe-
rience.
Farther South, South Carolina has
game with SeWanee, while Louisiana
State. playing its first time under the
coaching of '"Bif" Jones, hooks up with
Texas Christian in what may be a
battle royal. AS a matter OF fact. if
Jones had had anything to do with
arranging his schedule, such strong
opponent would not have been listed for
the opener.
THE game Virginia Military Institute
i played with King College Saturday
was the mecca for a good many
foot ball coaches Representatives OF
all the colleges in Virginia and of some
outside the State were on the sidelines
in an effort to learn what they could
about team that nearly all play.
V. NJ l., it is said, has an excellent
first-string line, but a second string
up to the first. 1t is better fixed,
though, for a second-string backfeld.
The Cadets won from King without
much trouble. The team has an excep-
tionally good forward paSser in Smith,
quarterback and a good broken-fleld
runner in Travers. Smith is the chap
whose fine passing last year broke down
Virginia's defense and won a game for
v. M. l., 18 to 0, that V. NJ l. was not
supposed to win.
"V. M. I. has potentially SO per
cent stronger team than the one that
whipped us last year says Tom Car
ruthers. assistant director of athletics
at Virginia, land I guess will give us
an awful lot of trouble again. " NJ I.
plays about twice as hard. and with
about 10 times as much determination
against Virginia as it does against any
other school,"
COME good dope was brought back to
- Washington on the Washington and
Lee squad, and it does not particu-
larly favor the Generals. 1t seems that
Jimmie De Hart, coach, has worked
his men so hard in his effort to get
them in shape for the opening game
with George Washington that he has
only 26 left on the field.
That is not much of squad for
school that has the schedule in front OF
it that Washington and Lee has. Foot
ball, such as De Hart has been coach
ing this Fall apparently is not for
weaklings. incidentally, this is indica-
ton that somebody else other than
Coach Jim Pixlee of George Washing
ton has been taking chances of in
iuries in efforts to bring team along
fast enough to be able to play mid
season game on the opening date.