Evening star., 1932-11-09

poets trouble with William
~ and Mary Friday night,
when the latter comes
here to play its first foot ball game
on a local field in years. 1t IS not
so much that the Colonials do not
think they have better team
than the Williamsburg school, but
that they are afraid Of overcon-
fidence and William and Mary S
tricky offenSe. Coach jim PlXlee
expects the game to be one OF the
best his team has had at home.
William and Mary Eas good loot
bail team" said P.Xlee this morning,
"and l feel that We are III lor more
trouble than most OF our 1rlenoS eA
pect us to have. You know that VIII
liam and Mary offense is not easy 70
stop. and. whatever anybody else may
think, it is my opinion that we SnaA
be up against conSlderaoiy Iousilei
proposition than We expected. l know
lust how hard it is to stop some OF the
plays that team is using. And some
thing of the strength of the team may
he gauged bv the fact that Virginia
Polytechnic Institute barely beat WILL
liam ana Mary one touchdown, ana
Alabama barely eked out victory over
" P T.. 9 to g. Alabama defeated US
by four touchdowns to one. That conf
parison does not make it seem such
a walkaWay for US.
William and Mary is coached joint
" bv John Kellison and Bill Fetzer,
both capable foot ball men. The for
ner was assistant at Virginia unoer
Earle Neale and the latter was head
coach at Davidson and later at Nortn
Carolina for a number of years. kell-
son is one Of the best scouts III the
country while FetZer is good all-round
coach. AS a matter of fact, Fetzer EaS
never had a poor team in his Whole
coaching experience.
nRINcEToN will enter its game with
Yale Saturday at least an even
bet which is the first time IN
quite awhile that it has enjoyed that
pre-Yale game distinction. The Tigers
can hardly be looked upon as anything
other than that Lehigh has pretty
fair foot ball team, and the way they
wiped up that school last week left
no doubt as to the deliverable strength
at Nassau. Also, in view of the Nays
recent good showing against Pennsyl-
yania and Columbia, the tie with Navy
Is muCn IIlOIe dCCuldlG 1ildl1ot4OAi "a
ability than it was considered at the
time the game was played. OF course,
nobody will discount Yales proverbial
ability to play great foot ball in its big
games, to rise to the occasion in great
gridiron crises, but, Notwithstanding all
that, this year it seems that Princeton
has a real chance to whip its age-old
rival
of tn
i South is that at Nashville between
Vanderbilt and Tennessee. The
Ccnlmodores have had hard luck
against their greatest rival, seeming to
lose in one way or another at times
when they thought they had much the
stronger eleven. However, right now
Vanderbilt probably is more confident
than it has ever been. and 1t believes
that next Saturday will tell different
story
In only one department do the Com
modoreS figure that Tennessee has them
outclassed. punting. 1t is unlikely that
Roberts of Vanderbilt will come any
where near booting the ball as far or
as consistently as Feathers. one OF the
two best punters in the South. The
game is likely to fill the Vanderbilt
stadium to overfioWing. as neither
eleven has been defeated, and people
In that section. as well as in this, do
like to see winning teams.
TIP in New York, two unbeaten
~ elevens, Columbia and Brown
are to hook up and it may be
that Columbia will suffer its first defeat
There is nothing material on which 70
base such an assumption, other than
that Brown seems to have had just a
little more punch in some of the tight
places in which it has been. 1t should
be a great game, with not much to
choose either way.
Pennsylvania goes out to Columbus
to play Ohio State. and that ought to
be another brilliant contest. with the
chances at least even for Penn to win
If its game with Pittsburgh is any
criterion, Penn has one Of its best
elevens in many years. incidentally, i
is interesting to note that there is to
be no game next year between Penn
and Pitt The game this Fall is saio
to have been one of the toughest played
In recent years.
Pittsburgh also makes journey west
ward. being scheduled with Nebraska at
Lincoln. Pitt ought to win, but vhe
trip out there and the hard games Pitt
has PLAYED may have breaking effect
not easy to overcome.