Evening star., 1932-10-24
BY H. C. BYRD.
~ FORGE WASHINGTON
can beat Iowa"
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In these words Coach
Jim Pixlee summed up
his opinion of the foot ball game
scheduled here this Friday.
However, the director of Colo
nial athletics did qualify his state
ment with IF we play up to the
limit of our capabilities"
Even with that qualification, though,
Pixlee's trend of mind seems to be de-
cidedly optimistic, despite the defeat at
Tulsa. And that does not mean that
Pixlee thinks the Iowa eleven easy. On
the contrary. he says that Iowa, while
it has been taking its bumps regularly
from the big Middle Western schools,
is superior to the kind of teams
usually seen in Washington
PiXiee plans the most strenuous four
days of practice he has held this Fall
in his efforts to get ready for Iowa.
Out at Tulsa. it was said this morning,
George Washington did some of the
sloppiest playing it has shown this
season. especially in taking out defen-
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quently stumbled over the heels of his
own men. and several times on strong
side plays was pulled down from behind
by defensive players coming from the
weak side.
IT also is intimated that George Wash
i ington's forward pass defense against
Tulsa was anything but pleasing to
PiXlee. Before the game the men got
definite instructions how to cover their
men, and failure to carry out these in
structionj i, was stated today, gave
Tulso three touchdowns.
Just how much Pixlee plans to shake
up his team is not known, but If he
carries out some of the thoughts he
has expressed since Saturday the George
Washington eleven that takes the field
against Iowa is likely to be consider
ably different from what the lineup
SO far has shown.
Iowa against Middle Western elevens
has been weak the last three years.
Last Saturday it scored its first touch
down against Western Conference teams
in about that time, but despite that, it
probably is, as PiXlee says, as strong as
the average good team that comes to
Washington. Iowa has been travelling a
rocky road in recent years enough
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shake the morale of much more stable
organization than group of university
students However. Coach Pixlee is au-
thority for the statement that Iowa is
exceptionally strong from tackle to
tackle and that it is tough team for
any of the average elevens to beat.
George Washington should make a
great effort this week to pull itself
together. 1t has many supporters
around town, besides thousands OF stu
dents, who believe the team can play
better foot ball than it showed at Tulsa.
Pixlee expects to put in the hardest
week his team has had since 1t left
training camp and believes that he
can. if the team comes through to the
limit of its capabilities, pull the squad
up to point where it can send Iowa
back defeated.
VYIEsTERN MARYLAND probably has
w a far stronger team than it has
been given credit for. or George
town is more or less demoralized. Prob
ably the former is true. The Green
and Gold Played Saturday with its star
back, Hoppe, OF the last two years as
lineman, and if it could afford to shove
its best back of the last two seasons
into the line there should be only one
conclusion. that it has a wealth OF
backfield material. And the linemen
seem to be good enough. because
GEORGETOWN could do little against
them
Georgetown expected to beat Western
Maryland. Georgetown should know
the strength of its own team. SO prao-
ably Western Maryland is a better
eleven than Georgetown people thought.
Dick Harlow, coach at Western Mary
land for the last several years. has only
recently been really active in coaching,
and that probably accounts for the
superiority of the teams showing
against Georgetown over that OF Its
previous games. Harlow is one of the
best half-dozen coaches in the coun-
try. and the difference between his
assistants handling the squad and him
handling it is the difference between
a lob medium we'll done and a job
done as we'll as it could be done.
If it is to do as we'll as it feels 1t
should do, Georgetown will have to
hitch up its suspenders and get to
work. The truth probably is that
Georgetown does not have as good
team as it was expected to have. Ihere
Is hardly any other conclusion TO draW.
But be that as it may, some good loot
ball players are in Blue and Gray uni
forms and they yet have time for some
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DLUEFIELD COLLEGE brought down
- to Washington a better foot ball
team than anybody looked for.
The result-defeat for American Uni
yersity. The local eleven played about
as good foot ball as it should have been
expected to- and that is was up against
a much better combination reflects on
it not the least bit of discredlt.
Catholic University ran up against the
tough kind of opposition that Coach
Dutch Bergman said he expected, but
came through with colors at the mast
head. 1t was an exceptional worth
while victory for the Brookland school.
because there is not the least doubt
that Coach Chick Meehan OF Man.
haitian College made the greatest pos
sible preparation for the game.
Il thought we could win. despite tho
stiff opposition, if we gave our be
efforts, and we won because we
lust that" said Bergman today. %
course, we did not do everything as per-
fectly as 1 would like but nevertheless
our fellows in the main played mighty
good foot ball. They had to-"
MARYLAND took st. Johns over the
lVl Jumps, even more easily than the
score shows The Annapolis school
hardly showed as much strength as
Maryland looked for, especially in the
line For size. there are few teams big
ger than st. Johns, especially from
tackle to tackle, but the players seemed
younger and less experienced than the
average college eleven.
In some respects Maryland played
improved foot ball. 1t was better in
many ways than in any of its previous
contests. but it has good many things
to correct if it is to come through in its