Evening star., 1932-10-24
COLONIALS CAN TRIUMPH
If AT BEST, SAYS PKLEE
Hawkeyes, Here Friday for Night Contest, Have
Had Rocky Road-Hoyas May Still
Shine-V. M. /. Surprises.

had made his plans in such way that
he completely outwitted and outplayed
a potentially stronger Virginia clever.
And, If indications count for anything,
the same thing happened Saturday.
Virginia Military Institute folks inter-
ested especially in the success Of their
team should doff their caps to our good
friend, Mr.. Raftery. And everybody
else should at least touch their cap
brims when he passes. Whether or not
" M. I. people realize it, they have as
good a coach as there is in the South.
1t is doubtful if any other man any
where, gets comparatively any more out
of his material than Raftery.
T Asst WEEK it was pointed out that
II Tulane was in something of a
tough spot, following, as it did, its
game with Vanderbilt by meeting Au-
burn, then apparently, and now GER
tainly, one of the two or three strong
est teams in the South. Its defeat by
Auburn, therefore, should not be a
great surprise. Tulane undoubtedly
expended itself good deal in trying to
take care of Vanderbilt but that in no
wise detractS from the feat of Auburn
1t was the first time in three years that
any eleven in the South has taken Tu-
lanes measure And it was the bril-
liant play of Hitchcock, Auburn back
which did most to turn the trick Evil
IDENTIFY, Wallace Wade knew what he
was talking about when he said last
week, If I had a choice of Cain of
Alabama OF Hitchcock of Auburn for
halfback on my team Id take Hitch
Geek. He's one of the best backs I ever
saw"
4 GOOD many Yale men probably
n are asking themselves and 9TH
ers, Whats the matter?" For
Yale eleven to come up to the last
Saturday in October without victory
is something that has not happened be-
fore in the memory, at least, of the
younger generation. OF course, some
of the good material said to be at Yale
may not be as good as outsiders think
it is, but. even if it is not, no doubt
some of the material is good: at least
good enough to do more than Yale has
done thus far.
Army, if accounts of the game are to
be taken at their face value, whipped
Yale about as it would have whipped
some of the much smaller schools it
plays. Certainly not very comforting
situation for Yale, nor very good for
Yale morale.
Southern California may not have
been strong enough a week ago to do
more than whip little Loyola of Los An
geIes by more than one touchdown, but
it was strong enough Saturday to go up
to Palo Alto and trim Pop Warner S
eleven, 13 to o. 1t was Stanford'S first
defeat of the year, and it was thought
by most critics in that section to be
the strongest team on the Coast.
hIOTRE DAME ran up the record
~ score of its series with Carnegie
Tech. winning. AZ to 0, which,
coming with Southern Californias de-
feat of Stanford, gives rise to the
thought that two universities controlled
by churches probably again will lead
the Nation in foot ball. Notre Dame,
of course, is Catholic, while Southern
California is Methodist. Last year these
two universities had outstanding elevens
and are in fair way to hold the same
high pinnacle at the end of this season.
Just how close foot ball team can
be to victory and still lose could not
be better shown than by Dartmouth's
defeat at Harvard. With the score 10
to against it, Dartmouth attempted
forward pass deep in Harvard ter
ritory. The ball was shot true to a
Dartmouth back standing in the Har-
ward end zone, struck the back in the
chest and dropped to the ground. Had
the ball been held Dartmouth would
have won. Such a simple thing hard
II Seems to be sufficient to bridge the
gap between a 10-to-7 Harvard victory
and a possible 12-to-10 Harvard de-
feat. On such little things, though,
do great events often hang.
VANDERBILT came through again,
v. whipping Georgia IL to 6. The
Commodores are certainly making
good the distinction claimed for them
at the beginning of the year, that they
would be one of the two or three best
elevens developed in the South this
season. Vanderbilt'S great halfback,
Dixie Roberts. was the main cog in
the defeat of Georgia. While he was
in the game, Georgia could not stop
him. Which Is not to Georgia's dis
credit, particularly, as many other
elevens have tried that and failed.
IN the three big games in the Western
i Conference Saturday, Michigan came
through with an overwhelming vic
tory over Illinois and Chicago beat In
diana, while Northwestern and Purdue
tied up at points each. Michigan's
wide margin of 80 to was one of the
biggest scores by which it ever whipped
its old rival, while Chicago's victory is.
Under the circumstances. something of
a personal triumph for Stagg. North
western barely saved itself from defeat
by scoring in the last three minutes of
play. and thereby possibly kept Purdue
from q conference title.