Evening star., 1933-10-30
TENNESSEE TO GIVE W.
WICKED TEST THIS WEEK
Co]onials Have Looked Ahead All Season to Clash
With Vols-Traditional Enemies on
Gridiron Ignore Records.

games it has had in years. Virginia
apparently threw away the game with
Virginia Military Institute last week
by removing two of its best backs and
two of its strongest linemen in order
to save them, not to take chances of
injuries In a game It thought 1t had
won. V. M. I. got started on Vir-
ginia mistakes and penalty, and be-
fore Virginia could recover had the
game won by a single point. Mary
land will go to Charlottesville with Vir-
ginia holding the margin, but with a
team that has been improving with
every game and which apparently has
developed to point where it Is strong
enough to put up battle on any foot
ball field.
Lou Ennis, playing his first year at
most intelligent chaps in foot ball.
Two or three times this year he has
been suckered but never twice on the
same play. Saturday against Western
Maryland. on about the third play of
the game, Shepherd, Western Mary
lands great back. ran IS yards on a
play en- which Ennis was completely
drawn out of position. but half a
dozen times after that Shepherd tried
the same play. which has been excep-
tionally successful for Western Mary
time. So far this year Ennis has never
made the same mistake twice. Incl
dentally. he is an "a" student in all
his classes.
DUKE and Washington and Lee,
though the latter was beaten by
Princeton, continued to climb the
heights of Southern foot ball. The
former took the measure of Kentucky
and the latter gave the Tiger a great
fight, fight which from all accounts
was one of the hardest Princeton has
had in two gears. Duke Is looking
ahead in the hope that it can go
through its season undefeated, al
though it will have plenty of trouble
with Auburn this week. Washington
and Lee is hoping to cap its best sea-
son In years by taking the measure Of
Virginia. Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute. and Maryland, its greatest rivals
Such a wind-up for Washington and
Lee would be brilliant because 1t has
not accomplished this feat in years.
Army in defeating Illinois and Yale
on consecutive Saturdays leaves no
would have to be given a considerable
margin over Navy. The Soldiers may
have begun their season with poor ma
terial, but if they did, that material
must have shown some wonderful i'm
provement. AS matter Of fact Army
must have had a lot better material
than it thought, because no amount of
the best coaching in the world could ac-
complish with poor material what Army
has done the last two weeks Three
touchdown victories are not won over
Yale without young men on the field
who have some very real personal foot
ball ability.
Navy played better foot ball against
Pennsylvania than 1t played in any OF
its previous games, if reports from An
napoliS are true. The Sailors evidently
essary for them to win a game. and
they did. The great difficulty Navy is
having, though, Is that in the majority
of games 1t is playing 1t Is going up
against teams Of older men, who have
much more foot ball experience. And
no matter how good a coach Rip Miller
is, he Is not good enough to win con-
sistently against that combination. He
may pull game out OF the fire once
in q while, as he did with Pennsylvania,
by concentrating on that particular
game, but it is impossible for him to
win consistently against the big elevens
he is meeting this year, and that in
cludeS Army.
It should not be surprising if Michi-
gan goes through another season un-
defeated Judged by its record so far,
if it continues to play as well as 1t has,
the Wolverine eleven has in sight no
opposition strong enough to humble it.
Apparently there is no better defensive
team in the country, and few, If any,
stronger on ofense.