Evening star., 1932-10-18
TEAM HELD BETTER
THAN LAS1:SEAS0N
Boehm, 1891 Star, on Second
EIeven-Hoyas Expect to
Defeat Terrors.
BY H. c. BYRD.

expecting everything except an
easy afternoon in its game with
Tulsa University Saturday. Word
has come that Tulsa is possibly
a little stronger than it was when
it appeared here last year, which
is sufficient to let local people
know what kind of a proposition
the Colonials have confronting
them.
The Colonials have not themselves
secuted Tulsa, but received a good dea
OF information about the team from
friends Of Coach Jim Pixlee in that sec.
tion. On paper, if the gist of this in
formation can be accepted, Tulsa is
stronger this year than last. although
Pixlee says he does not believe that
possible. However, the George Wash
ington coach is not bit optimistic
about the outcome.
I'VE will hold Tulsa a coed dea
closer than last year" said PiXlee this
morning, but 1 doubt if We can win
I am basing that on the statements
received in writing from people in
that section who know what good
foot ball team is. They tell me in
variably that Tulsa is stronger than 9
year ago, although hardly believe that
possible. If We can stop their outside
game We may get somewhere, but if We
fail to stop that then it will be al
up with us.
You remember that chap Boehm
who ran up and down the field on us
last year? Well he has been relegateo
to the bench by better back of the
name of Berry. One of my friends in
Oklahoma has written me that if We
can stop Berry We may have chance
but that If we fail to stop him it will
be all over but the shouting. And any
body who saw Boehm run here last
year, and then stops to think that
Berry is good enough to beat Boehm out
for the halfback position, should realize
just how much of a Job is entailed in
those two words, stop Berry. II we
get q break or two, we may come on
should be good game, anyway"
TULSA recently lost to University oi
i Oklahoma. to o., which does not
mean that it has weak team, as
Oklahoma seems to be back again with
one of its exceptionally strong elevens
Apparently the only anan of value lost
from tie Tulsa squad that played here
is Piikington, fullback. That young
man was good, both on offense and de-
tense, and probably is missed ccnsid-
erably. but team that played as Tulsa
played in the Clark Grifith Stadium
last season is not going to be very much
broken up by the loss of one player.
George Washington, considering the
long trip it is TO take and the quality
of the team 1t Is to meet, will be lucky
indeed If it escapes defeat.
s.VIJE'RE not licked and will keep on
w working with our men until we
win some foot ball games" said
Tom Mills today in discussing the
39-to-0 defeat sustained by Georgetown
at New York University last week.
Western Maryland, which comes
here Saturday to play us, has a good
eleven, but think we should take its
measure. We probably do not have as
good a team as we have been given
credit for, but, at the same time, We are
a lot stronger than a whipping like we
took from N. Y. U. might cause people
to think We are.
And say. you can tell the world for
me that New York University has a
great foot ball team. 1t is not a team
with a lot of deception, but one that
has power and speed sufficient to dc
almost anything it wants to do. 1t was
that power and speed that enabled it
to run over us, which is just what it
did in the first half. A big, strong, fast
line and backfeld Just as big and
strong and good deal faster well de-
scribes N. Y. u. and there is little
more than that needed to make team
Frankly, think that N. Y. u has the
making of the greatest eleven in the
country"
Mills intends to spend the rest of the
week bringing his men around physi-
cally and mentally and in touching up
his ofense. He realizes that Western
Maryland will make a great effort to
duplicate its performance of two years
ago, and that, while he figures to win
by two or three touchdowns does not
intend to run any more risks than pos
sible. Mills is going to put forth just
as much effort in the development of
his team this week as he would If he
had much stronger eleven to face.
MARYLAND'S game with ST. Johns
1v1 at College Park will find two teams
on the field that have been meet
Ing since 1892 in cne of the oldest rival
ries in foot ball. In late years the Old
Liners and st. Johns have not played
regularly, but when they have the for
mer has had the margin. This time,
with the Maryland eleven going along a
losing way. st. Johns believes it has an
excellent opportunity to turn the tables.
Out at Maryland there are perhaps
half dozen professors who would
rather whip st. Johns than any ether
team on the schedule. They are men
who we're teaching at College Park in
the old days when st. Johns nearly
always won. In fact, to one of these
professors, st. Johns once wrote, in
response to request for a game the
following Fall, that it had no place on
its first-team schedule, but would be
very glad to have game for its second
team. That is story still told around
College Park and was brought to the
fore yesterday, when this same profess
sor remarked to one of his cronies that
'well. we don't mind taking our lick
ings when we have to, but let's hope
it doesn't happen with st. Johns. be-
cause I haven't yet forgot that letter
offering us a game with their second
team"
Actually st. Johns deserves much
credit for the kind of teams it has put
out. Year after year. for the last four
decades, 1t probably has had better ath-
letic teams than any other college in
the country its size. Its morale has
been and is good, and it seems to stand
for something worth while, orec and be-
yond its athletic teams. Which, per-
haps, is the reason it has done so well.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA,
~ with a cleanup end reorganiza-
ton of its athletic system, with
new coaching, seems to be stronger
than 1t has been for years. Its two pre-
liminary games were, won easily, and
last week it threw Dartmouth by the
Vayside. And Penn beat Dartmouth
much more easily than the score Of two
touchdowns to one shows. 1t seems that
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