Evening star., 1932-10-13

- ATHOL1C U N 1 v E n Sll
may or may not beat the
~ University of Chattanooga
Saturday in what should
be the best game here this week
end, but if it does not the result
will not be due to any lack Of
painstaking effort on the part OF
Coach Dutch Bergman. No man
in charge of a foot ball squad
anywhere is working harder nor
giving any more attention to the
details OF developing his eleven to
meet given tests than is the
Brookland coach.
He has carried his men through long
and hard practices every day and has
gone over time after time almost every
possible situation that may develop.
Bergman knows that his team is go
ing into the game somewhat handi-
capped by the absence of Charley Nc
Vean from the quarterback position.
He has lot Of confidence in Pat Mon
tague, who will call signals. but recog-
nizes the difficulty any team may have
of accuStoming itself to new general
within a few days.
SvnE are going into the game with
w Chattanooga to play as If our
lives depended on it," said
Bergman this morning. land frankly
ain not any too optimistic about the
outcome. The way the game sizes up
to me is that we can win II we give
the best we've got, but We are not likely
to win if we begin to slip cogs. A foot
ball team Is rather delicate piece OF
machinery, anyway, and not much Is
required to throw it out Of gear. When
the drive wheel belt begins to slip the
saw does not cut much wood. and the
same thing holds good in foot ball.
Let one player begin to- fail to do his
part and the whole offense begins to
break down. Chattanooga is coming
here with a much better foot ball team
than generally might be expected and
that makes our task just little more
difficult. Personally. am looking for
great foot ball game, with the victor
the team that makes the fewer mis-
takes and keeps on its toes more con-
sistently 1t is going to be the kind
of game in which the team that let's
down is likely to be the loser"
The Chattanooga eleven Is due here
tomorrow around noon. The squad will
go to its hotel for lunch, but 1mmedi-
ately after to Catholic University's
Stadium for brief workout. The game
Saturday is to begin at 2:30.
CEoRGE WASHINGTON hardly
" knows what it will be up against
in meeting Catawba College Satur-
day night. The name sounds something
like an exhilarating fluid which some
years ago was easily available and which
the Democrats now advocate bringing
back, but whether or not it will have a
sufficiently stimulating effect to enable
q group of young North Carolina foot
ball players to stem the onrushes OF
George Washington's veterans Is an
other matter.
People here have the opportunity to
see two games in one day. They may
go to Catholic University in the after
noon and then out to Clark Griffith
Stadium at night to watch George
Washington's eleven. Catawba may
prove a much more efficient machine
than Is expected, but it is indeed diff
ficult to understand how 1t can be
strcng enough to take the measure OF
George Washington's veterans.
Almost anything. though. may be ex-
pected from Charley Moran, who
coaches the North Carolina school. 1t
was he who developed the great Centre
College elevenS of some years back, and
at that time he used a peculiar type OF
shift that made his team, as one coach
expressed 1t, appear something Ike
crazy quilt.
George Washington probably will win
by at least three or four touchdoWns,
depending on how long it uses its best
men. Certainly an eleven that can bat,
tie as George Washington has battled
this year should have little to fear from
a small North Carolina college.
4 MEXICAN UNIvERSITY'S game
"A with Bridgewater is not likely to
draw any overwhelming croWo
Saturday afternoon. but practically
everybody here is pulling for American
u. to win. Those that know anythlng
about foot ball know also the difhcul,
ties under which a coach at a smail
college. with only few boys to pick
from. labors And Walter Young, coach
at American u. though he WORKS unoer
all kinds of disadvantages, keeps MS
thoughts to himself and spends hls
time saving wood He deserves al! the
success that can come to him ana MS
team.
0NE foot ball team in this vicinity
~ that Is in for what may easily
be a very unpleasant afternoon on
Saturday is the Naval ACADEMY: Lase
year Ohio University. not ONO otate ot W
Columbus, but Ohio University OF
Athens, Ohio, was listed by the Sailors
for a contest leading up to their more
serious games Right now, Though, II
seems that not many more serious
games are scheduled than this one. ONO
University comes here with an eleven
that has gone down to defeat put TWICE
in the last three years, and those oe-
feats we're to University of Indiana by
a margin of only single point. Two
weeks ago Indiana beat Ohio University
by 7 to e. which duplicated the score
of last years game. The team was not
defeated at all in 1929 and I93O. III
the 90 games played since the 1917 sea
son a total of only 60 points has been
scored against the Navy's opponent ol
this week.
The Navy is not without knowledge
of the kind of game it Is up against
Its scouts brought back in quite some
detail the actual and potential strengtn
of the Ohioans, and there Is not any
TOO much optimism around Annapolis
Coach Rip Miller said this morning
that I'VE will have to play far better
ball than we have played in either OF
our games SO far to get by with TINS
aggregation, as it Is real loot oail
team"
The Ohio University squad is to visit
washington tomorrow and go up to
the White House to have movies taken
with the President The Ohio alumni
group of this city is to have q dinner
tomorrow evening in honor OF Coach
Don Peden, and they expect the game
Saturday to be mecca for Ohio grad
uates all over the East.