Evening star., 1932-11-28
BOTH UP AGAINST
HERCULEAN TASKS
Hoya Victory Over Skibos a
PoSsibiHty-Terrors Rested
for Terps.
BY II. c. BYRD.

- GEORGETOWN and Mary
= land today begin to write
~ the final chapter of their
foot ball seasons. Five
more days of practice, then the
games with Carnegie Tech and
Western Maryland, and the Blue
and Gray and the Black and Gold
will join the others of the foot
ball horde that have laid away
their uniforms until another year.
And in preparing for their final, both
schools have enough to think about to
keep them from going stale. Carnegie
Tech and Western Maryland are strong,
as is proved by the games they played
against Pittsburgh and Boston College.
Any eleven that Pitt beats by only one
touchdown has got to be good. And
any eleven that scores 20 points on
BSzton College, as Western Maryland
die, also is apparently strong enough
to crack almost any defense.
JUST how the local schools will pre-
pare for their last struggles prob
ably will depend a good deal on the
kind of weather that may be en-
countered. Georgetown has two weeks
from its last game until it faces Car
nagie, while Maryland has 10 days, so
both may use almost any tactics they
desire. weather permitting. and no mat
ter what they do they probably will not
oyertrain their squads. Almost any foot
ball team on cold afternoon has
plenty OF aggressiyeness, as it must be
aggressive, alert and alive to keep warm,
if for nothing else. 1t is much more
difficult to drive squad stale for
game in this kind of weather than
when it is warm.
Georgetown, following its tie with
Bucknell is hoping for a good showing
against Carnegie, with the possibility
OF a victory. 1t would be great for the
Blue and Gray if it could wind up with
q triumph over the Plaid, and Coach
Jack Hagerty is wasting no time in his
efforts to drill his squad to climax.
Maryland is up against the toughest
kind of a proposition and knows 1t.
And not only that, but Western Mary
land has not played since November
IL and is having three weeks in which
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ticular game. That condition alone
gives it a big advantage. However. the
Old Liners have been coming along
gradually and may make a good
showing.
TATHOL.C UNIVERSITY wound up
~ en- Saturday the best season it has
ever had. The -Brooklanders played
a more difficult schedule than usual
and got away with it much better than
most people thought they would. In
fact. 1t is doubtful If anybody. even
their own supporters, thought the Car
dinals would be strong enough to ac-
complish what they have.
Much of the credit, Of course, be-
longs to the good material that made
up the squad, but the major part Of it
should go to Coach Dutch Bergman.
He handled his squad well, and at times
under exceedingly difficult circum-
stances. Especially is this true of his
backfeld, for which, aside from his
first string, he was not overly blessed
with good men.
T oUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
- won from Tulane Saturday for the
first time in years when it took
over the New Orleans eleven by two
poStponement of the game because OF
illness of several of its players, but the
request was refused. Don Zimmerman,
Tulane's best back and a back so good
that he has already been mentioned
or picked on several all-America teams,
was among those kept out because of
the flu epidemic that hit the squad at
an lnopportune time What the result
would have been had Tulane placed all
its best men on the field will never be
known. but it may furnish theme for
conjecture on the part of Tulane people
for many years. Actually, though. the
result that goes down in the records
is the one that counts and that Is in
favor of Louisiana State.
GEORGIA and Georgia Tech battled to
" tie, neither being able to score
This game, like that between
louisiana State and Tulane. is one in
which the most intense rivalry Is evi-
dent, in which at times there has been
such bitterness as should never be
shown between educational institutions
However. the feeling between the At
1anta and Athens schools is not as great
as it once was. 1t is not generally
known. but Georgia Tech is a part of
the State of Georgia's higher educa-
tional system, of which the University
Of Georgia is the head.
The foot ball season in the Far South
Is ended except for three games to be
played with West Coast elevens. LOU
isiana State entertainS Oregon at Ba-
ton Rouge on December IT. while
Georgia Tech plays California at
Berkeley December 10 and Alabama
meets St. Mary's at Oakland Saturday.
The Oregon-Louisiana state and Ala
bama-St Mary's contests are new this
year. but the California Georgia Tech
contest is the second Of two-year
contra>t, the first of which was played
last season at Atlanta.
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