Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-21
HOPING To FINISH
SEASON WITH WIN
c. u. Must Rally to Conquer
Observation-Disclosures and
TerpS Well Matched.
BY III. C. BYRD.

losing record, is working
~ hard for its game with
West Virginia Saturday
In the firm belief that it has
an even chance to wind up the
season successfully. The Blue
and Gray looks upon West Vir-
GINA as formidable opponent,
but is encouraged by the showing
made against Carnegie Tech Suf-
flciently to develop for the first
time this season an optimistic
outlook.
That Coach Jack Hegarty is en-
couraged by the showing made against
Carnegie Tech goes without saying.
Now he feels that for the first time
this season his charges should enter a
big game close to an even bet.
This week the Blue and Gray squad
will devote most of the time to build
ing defense for West Virginia plays
Not much more can be taught the
team in an offensive way than it
already knows, and the real problem is
to stop the Morgantown eleven. Last
year Georgetown did not score against
West Virginia and the latter got 10
points
Just how many graduates of the Blue
and Gray University will return for
Saturdays game is hard to foretell. If
only a small percentage of the local
people who have been students at
Georgetown attend there should be a
stable crowd However, everybody
seems to like winner. and especially
alumni and whether or not many of
the old grads will watch the present
team IS something to which only the
day can bring the answer.
~ uled to play Homecoming games
here this week took things easy
yesterday Catholic University and
Georgetown went through grueling
contests Saturday and the men de-
served the rest. Maryland did not
have hard game, but eased off its
squad somewhat in order to give bruises
a chance 10 get well before real work
is begun in preparation Tor Washington
and Lee.
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tan, but is not one bit discouraged |
thereby. ~ realizes It wars UP against /
a good eleven that fought desperately /
to climax its season with victory. |
Coach Bergman realizes it will not be
easy to bring his men around to an
other hard battle by Friday night, but |
he should get the best kind of support |
from them because they are Just as |
anxious as he is to wind up the season |
the right way.
yxyAsHINGToN AND LEE has
w made NJ secret of the fact that
it has been cunning for Mary
land all year. The Generals have Rad
their troubles against the Old Liners
the last four times they have met and
are after revenge. Some time ago a
friendly letter came to College Park
from Lexington stating that Washing
ton and Lee this year was coming up
here with the firm intention of carry
ing a Maryland scalp back home.
Maryland is somewhat puzzled to
know just how good Washington and
Lee is. Some comparisons indicate
Maryland should have fair chance
while others show washington and Lee
should be considerably stronger. But
whatever these comparisons may be, the
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their heads the idea that they have a
good chance against the Lexingtonians
and they mean to take advantage of 1t.
In all sections of the country teams
will take the field Saturday in games
of long standing to settle old rivalries.
In the East are to be played the Army
and Navy Yale-Harvard, Lehigh-La-
fayette games, while in the Far West
Stanford and California, Washington
and Washington State lock horns. In
6iana against Purdue is one of the old
rivalries to be settled in the Middle
West, while Georgia Tech and Georgia
meet at Atlanta.
HARDLY anybody would concede
Navy anything more than an out
side chance to beat Army, and
possibly only slender outside chance
at that. However, 1t is true that Navy
has at times played brilliant foot ball.
Its game against Notre Dame was fine
demonstra ton of defensive play, while
its performance last week for three
quarters against Princeton was mer-
itorious.
Navy has shown a coed deal of po-
tential power, especially on defense,
while its offense has been effective from
a standpoint of ground gaining if not
in scoring many points. Nays real
problem is to stop Buckler who seems
to be the cog that makes the Army
machine GO. That. as a good many
other teams, Illinois, Harvard and Yale
among them, will say, is more easily said
than done, but such things have been
done and can be done again.
Once Navy had a great team that had
run roughshod over every opponent. but
when 1t struck what apparently was a
very inferior Army team it struck such
snag that it lest by score of something
like 81 to 9. Any team that could beat
Notre Dame and play Princeton as Navy
did for three quarters has chance,
especially as Army probably does not
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