Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-11-10

do anything against it. Down at Buck
harmon they have team hard fol
anybody to whip, and don't mind tell
ing you that while we won by two
touchdowns. it was only by the skin O.
our teeth, and the came might vel
have been tie" -
West Virginia beat the Wesleyan
eleven two touchdowns and. defeated
Georgetown three touchdowns, anc
strength of the two should not be fal
from right And, if it is right then
what some people have thought should
be rather easy sailing for Georgetown
in all likelihood will be the toughest
kind of an assignment.
GEORGETOWN, because Of the IN
NJ usually bad weather, did not take
its squad outdoors yesterday, the
whole practice session being devoted to
blackboard talks by Coach Hagerty and
the scouts who watched West Virginia
Wesleyan play. The Blue and Gray
coach. following the blackboard drill,
expressed regret that conditions were
not such he could take his men out
for real workout as he says the squad
needs some hard, long drills in funda-
mentas
"As far as West Virginia Wesleyan
IS concerned" said Hagerty after he
finished his lecture II am afraid we are
in for tough afternoon. don't know
what kind of physical condition the
Wesleyan players are in, but If they are
at their top we are going to have to
be better than we have been SO far to
win. Nothing would please me more
than to win, more than to be able to
look forward to the game with lot of
optimism, but I've never found it very
profitable to kid myself and conse-
quently l am telling the squad just
what l expect to have-just about as
hard a game as any team needs to
look for, and our greatest efforts neces-
sary to come through successfully. A
victory right now would do our team
more good than anything I can think
Of"
THE average interested foot ball fol-
J. lower cannot hope to understand
the real difficulty Of Hagerty's job
at Georgetown. Defensively he can
pull up his team rather well, but often
sively his task is what the average
coach would call forlorn. When it is
considered that most coaches say it is
impossible to give a team much that
is new in an offensive way after the
middle of October. Hagerty's job Of
having to install a complete new
offense after the end of october seems
q job almost impossible to meet
successfully. /.
Take Catholic University. for in
stance The offense the Brooklanders
during 10 weeks of Spring practice,
and very little effort has been made
this Fall to teach anything new other
than to shape the already known
offense to meet the varying types Of
defense to be played against from week
to week.
For the average man interested in
foot bali to get good idea of how big
a job Hagerty has on his hands, he
should ask any foot ball coach what
the coach would think of having to
take a team the First of November
and train it in complete new offense.
The coach probably would be SO sur
prised that anybody would ask such
question that he would not answer it
seriously.
4 MEXICAN UNIVERSITY and
n George Washington, like George
town, did practically all their
practicing yesterday on a blackboard
The former Is getting ready for Ran
dolph-Macon Saturday and the latter
for William and Mary tomorrow night.
American University is likely to have
the odds against it but George WASH
ington should be favorite against
William and Mary but with no chance
of letting down much II it is to win
comfortably.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY and Mary
~ land are putting in some anxious
moments in preparation for games
with Providence College at Providence
and with Navy at Baltimore. The
Brooklanoers hope to score another
victory and have much better chance
than Maryland The Old Liners have
improved gradually since the start of
the season and will play better foot
ball against Navy than they have SO
enough. Navy has better foot ball
team than its losing record indicates.
GENERAL comments have come to the
- writer asking if play in the Van
derbilt-Maryland game last week
should not have been called in Mary
lands favor, and stating that if it had
the course of the game might have
been entirely changed.
The play referred to was one in which
a Maryland back collided with Van
derbilt player on Vanderbilt's 4-yard
line in an effort to catch forward
pass. Those from whom the comments
have come seem to feel that interior
ence should have been called on the
Vanderbilt player and the ball given to
Maryland at that spot The writer's
opinion on that play, or on any de-
cision of an official on that type OF
play, Is Of no value.
1t is the kind Of play that IS given
over to the arbitrary judgment of an
official and that arbitrary Judgment Is
final. It is useless and waste of en-
ergy and time to question an officials
decision on such play. Whatever may
be the opinions of those that see the
play, the official IS the closest man to
1t, usually within 10 or Is feet of it,
while others are 200 feet away and
consequently the official ought to be in
q position to know best what actually
happens.
WHILE Maryland could take no ex-
wv ception to the play above men
toned, there was enc about which
1t could very properly have questioned
the action taken by the officials, or
rather lack Of action It was the turn
ing point Of the game, too, and posi-
bly, the result hinged thereon. The
play referred to was not one where
arbitrary Judgment was concerned, but
one plain fact based on an approved
ruling in the code that governs the
game.
lands 35-yard line, with % yards to
60 on third down. It tried 9 long
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