Evening star., 1933-10-30


v Y 1888 tenure, most of the
really big games, that is,
games with traditions behind
them and the results of which
are important even if the con-
tenders are without prestige in
games won and lost, have yet to
be played.
November is the month for them,
and for the schools that have such
contests what has gone before matters
little.
AS far as local colleges are con-
cerned, while few traditional games are
to be played, several of the hardest
games scheduled still are in the offing.
Up North Princeton and Yale, Har-
ward and Yale. care not a good deal for
results of the previous part OF their
schedules when they step on the grid
iron against each other. Cornell will
not worry much about being swamped
by Michigan if it can beat PennSyl-
vania. No game means anything to
Purdue and Indiana compared to the
one in which they meet. California
and Stanford care nothing about South
ern California when they go out before
q packed stadium in their annual strug-
gle. The one game that really counts
during the whole season for Tennessee
and Vanderbilt is their own. Louisiana
State and Tulane almost rest the sue
cess or failure of their schedules on
their own contest while Georgia and
Georgia Tech are of much the same
mind North Carolina and Virginia,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Vir-
ginia Military Institute, Lafayette and
an6 DartnoOIlth and
on with long list, if all were named,
of the games that still remain to cast
. cloud of despair or raise banner OF
triumph on competitors.
TOR local schools some Of the best
contests are still to come. This
week George Washington meets a
Tennessee eleven that is good enough
to give any team battle, even II 1t
has lost two games. Later the Colonlals
meet two powerful elevenS from the
Midwest, Tulsa and Kansas. George
town has three strong outfits in front
of it, with Boston College this week,
West Virginia and Carnegie Tech.
Catholic University probably will find
an opponent in University of Detroit
strong enough to test its mettle. Mary
land this week meets Virginia and later
plays its two big home games with
what today are among the South's
strongest teams. Washington and Lee
and Duke. In fact, Duke seems to be
the strongest.
Foot ball is in the last half of its
season, but its best treats still remain.
FORGE WASHIN TON and
r Catholic University were the only
~ local elevens to win for the Sec
ond consecutive week, thus maintaining
their standing at the top of the foot
ball pile. The Colonials found little op-
position in West Virginia Wesleyan,
while Catholic University took the
measure of a strong Wake Forest team
without putting itself out too much.
For George Washington the Tennes-
see game is the big thing. From the
beginning of the season the Colonials
have looked ahead to the clash with
the Volunteers as one of the high points
of their season, If not the high point.
They will leave no stone unturned in
their efforts to send that eleven back
to Knoxville a defeated group. and that
is not going to be as easy as 1t may
seem to those who look back on Dukes
and Alabama's victories over the same
eleven. That defeat at the hands OF
Alabama is not an indication of weak
ness should be realized when AlabamaS
showing at Fordham is taken into con-
sideration.
Apparently nothing short of miracle
can enable Georgetown to beat Boston
College. The Blue and Gray in its best
possible physical condition and at its
peak might win, but certainly under no
other condition. Injuries to players
and lack of strength in certain posi-
tions have handicapped Georgetown
since its first game and 1t seems that
alumni and students of that university
will have to content themselves with
watching their team go through the
year without important victories.
\ HARYLAND had rather win from
N Virginia and Washington and
Lee than from any other two
schools on its schedule, but has about
the worst comparative prospect in both