Evening star., 1932-10-19
HOYAS, OLDL|NERS
KEEN FOR VICTORY
c. U. Touchy About Western
MaryianG-St. Johns Long
Foe of Terrapins.
BY H. C. BYRD.

1OQsllU ouV al ASSo S~~~
~ games here this week be-
tween Georgetown and
Western Maryland and be-
tween Maryland and st. Johns.
Both games will attract many
alumni of the contending schools,
and interest generally is certain
to be much greater than would
be the case were it not for the
exceptional circumstances sur
rounding each.
There is no particular reason why
Georgetown, with male student body
close to 20 times as large as the male
student body at Western Maryland,
should be 'all het up" over the contest,
except that Georgetown remembers
what happened to some Of its best
elevens when they ran Up against the
Green and Gold fer two consecutive
years.
When Lou Little was in charge on the
Hilltop. Western Maryland came down
here and whipped the local school, to
U. The following year. under Tom Mills,
Georgetown went to Baltimore to play
to 0. Last season Georgetown won by a
good margin, but it is little wonder that
those two shutouts create jumpy feel
ing in Blue and Gray circles
Under ordinary circumstances the
average foot ball game between George
town and what it always regarded as a
minor opponent would mean little to
Georgetown alumni. However, Western
Maryland is in a different category
Ten years from today, if Georgetown
and Western Maryland still are playing.
Georgetown minds will hark back to the
unexpected defeats and still be wonder
ing when it is likely to happen again.
A S for the Maryland-St. Johns game.
"A it is doubtful if the rivalry between
any other two schools in the coun-
try has been filled with so many unex-
pected developments and SO many YER
bal clashes over various issues. For the
last three or four years relationships
between the two schools have been ex-
ceedingly cordial, but prior to that it
Back in 1893. the second time the two
teams met, the trouble began. st.
Johns visited the Maryland campus,
which then was the old Maryland Agri-
cultural College, and the game was
never finished. as it ended in pretty
much CT a free-for-all. Marylanders
who played in that game and who were
stuGents st that time freely say that
their ccnSuct YVES more or less tnsxcus-
able.
Then year or so after that. when
til? two teams again began to play, st.
Johns sent word to Maryland that its
would be glad to have its second team
play. Out at College Park, that has
been forgotten by most people. but there
are some who still remember 1t. The
records of games between the two
schools, as kept by each, are not the
same.
For instance, the Maryland record
shows a 2-to-0 victory in one season.
while the st. Johns record says no
game. There was pickering of all kinds
until 1899, when relations were broken,
not to be resumed until 1908 Again in
1904 there was no game but in 1905 the
two colleges met and played without
anything more than rancorous verbal
clashes until 1920, when there was a
break of one year.
In 1921 they met again, but did not
play in 1922. In 1923 the two elevens
had game at College Park and the re-
suit was another break which lasted
until 1880.
To sit and listen to men familiar
with the relationships between the two
schools over the last 40 years recount
the varied happenings is to enjoy
good laugh. Some of the things that
transpired now seem to both colleges
almost impossible. Each has at one
time or another accused the other of
every athletic sin in the calendar, but
in nearly every verbal clash on eligi-
bility and other contentious the College
Parkers seem to have come out on top.
Anyway, right now the situation be-
tween the two colleges is almost ideal,
and each has the greatest respect and
regard for the other. For 80 years,
though, it was a case of cordial dislike
and suspicion.
The third game scheduled here Sat-
urday is one in which American Uni
versity entertains Bluefleld. Not much
is known of the West Virginia eleven,
but if it is not stronger than the ordi-
nary small college, it probably will 90
back a defeated team.
WITH Georgetown, American Uni
w versity and Maryland on their
home fields Saturday, the other
three local schools will be engaged on
foreign ground. George Washington
CllAo d4tSLAAoOAi iOA AAAoo, onAd',
to meet Tulsa University Catholic
University and Gallaudet go to New
York Friday, the former for a game
with Manhattan College and the latter
for one with Long Island University.
Chick Meehan, former N. Y. U. coach,
is in charge at Manhattan, and it may
be that the Brooklanders will strike an
unexpected snag, although they expect
to win.
One of the greatest games of the
year may be played in New York, when
New York University and Colgate hook
UP. N. Y. us victory over Georgetown
last week should be about all anybody
needs to form an opinion about the
power and versatility of that eleven.
And the fact that Colgate wiped up
Lafayette, another strong team, seems
to show that it also is entitled to good
deal of consideration. In other words,
two powerful elevens are to meet In a
game which, If Tom Mills OF George
town is right in his estimate Of N. Y.
us strength, may decide the Eastern
championship, whatever that means.
Yale had better look to its colors or
1t may get another setback this week.
Army is to appear in the New Haven
Bowl and any eleven that can battle
Pittsburgh right down to the final min
ute should be considered good enough
to be rather formidable for team that
was tied by Bates and Chicago and then
defeated by Brown. Yale may be q
good deal stronger than its record
would cause it to seem to be, but in
all probability the odds Saturday will
favor Army.
HARVARD has its annual game with
i / Dartmouth Saturday, and the
Crimson ought to emerge trium-
phant. Dartmouth did not show any
hing against Pennsylvania which would
indicate that it is strong enough to
whip D team that literally swamped
Penn State.
While Yale is running serious risk OF
>~.4ianr dafaar and HarNqrd Is irving