Evening star., 1933-11-20

lOlCS SINCE SepCeIIlUtI.
Despite its defeats of the last two
Saturdays, defeats by exceptionally
strong teams by the way, Catholic U.
has no other opinion than that it has
an even chance town its last game
It knows that South Dakota is made !
up of big, strapping chaps who have
the physical power to make good IN
gridiron struggles, but regards its own |
eleven as having considerably more fin |
ish Before their home folks and with |
their alumni looking on in what to
them is the big occasion OF the season,
the BrooklanderS should go into the
game with that do-or-die spirit which
means SO much on hard-fought held,
and, playing in such frame OF MIND,
they are pretty likely to make that
two-hour portion of the stay of the
South Dakotans in the Nations Capital
more or less unpleasant.
~EORGETOWN will find in West
u Virginia an opponent that has
had as bad record since Sep
tember as its own, and If 1t can play
with the same degree of abandon and
willingness to give all to the task OF
winning, it will come pretty close to
doing no less than that. The Blue and
Gray surprised everybody with the battle
1t put up against Carnegie Tech. and
If it plays as we'll against West Virginia,
should. be a fairly good bet to win
Maryland is setting itself for what
it hopes will be the best game it has
played this season Last week is the
first time it has won since it defeated
ST. Johns in the opening game the last
Saturday in September. and the taste
of victory ought to bring out the best
in the Old Line men. washington
and Lees record shows 1t to be stronger
than during any previous season since
1927. and while it took a wallop on
the chin Saturday from Centre College
there is no doubt about it being, at its
best, one of the strongest elevens In
the South The game ought to be close
and will be hard fought, because the
Centre College defeat is likely to make
the Generals a much harder team to
beat Incidentally, 1t may be that the
Generals did not recover from the VIC
tory of the previous week over Vlr-
ginia in time to be most effective against
the Kentuckians.
Home coming games usually find the
home team making unusual efforts to
snow well. and if the local colleges
have played good foot ball any time
this year, the games of next Saturday
ought to bring out even better foot
ball True, Georgetown and Maryland
have lost practically all their games;
true, Catholic University has been de-
feated by three of its strongest op-
ponents, but all are likely to be at
their best for these games, and all have
at times played remarkably well.
VVyHAT a foot ball team can do
w when keyed up to high pitch
when it plays an inspired game,
Is remarkable. Under such conditions,
men seem to do even more than they
seem able to, and when a team, beaten
as Georgetown has been beaten, appar-
emily with nothing accomplished to
build up morale, plays as Georgetown
played against Carnegie, then that team
deserves the highest praise, whether 1t
wins or loses.
It was thought that Catholic Uni
versity would have its difficulties IN IT'S
game with Manhattan, and the result
should not have been a great surprise
to its supporters Manhattan has played
a lot of good foot ball. better foot ball
than it has got credit for, and the
stage was set almost perfectly for It,
Maryland's game with Johns Hopkins
came out about as predictions indicated
1t might The Old Liners simply were
too strong for their old rivals, especially
In the line. Hopkins had set OF fast,
clever backs, but not enough support
in the line to get them under way Inc
only time one of them got loose ne
went for touchdown Russell OF Hop
kins played wonderful defensive game
at center, but the remainder OF the
line simply did not measure up.
tried hard enough, but did not nave
the physical qualifications.
a 6ICHIGAN will have to watch It's
MI games with Minnesota as long as
A'A Bernie Bierman Is coaching
there. It was pointed out in this col
umn last week that the result OF the
Michigan-Minnesota game would be In
teresting, inasmuch as Bierman during
his wears of coaching at Tulane had
been successful in stopping MichiganS
offense as exenlplifed at Vanderbilt:
Bierman Saturday proved that ne stlll
knows how.
The bump Michigan took from Min
neeota in not being able to win even II
1t escaped defeat was not as great as
Georgia got in the South when 1t was
trimmed by Auburn: Ihat walsop p sust
about killed Georgia's chances OF cham
pions1ip honors for any section, Wnen
only a week ago it seemed likely 10 DIG
for national honors.
One achievement in foot ball most
difficult for all teams is to come BACK
and be strong the week following
crucial game in which victory mas
been attained Both Georgia and Wash
ington and Lee suffered from that last
week. Georgia simply could not go to
yale, battle through 60 minutes of the
tensest kind of play and come back SUI
fciently to defeat strong opponent
the following week. Georgia should
have had light game Saturday. what
happened to Georgia is about what
should have happened to Army, II Army
had met a really good opponent instead
OF little Pennsylvania Military College.
And Washington and Lee apparently
could not replenish its reserve nervous
strength within few days after 1t won
from Virginia in the game it would
rather have won than any other on its
schedule. Foot ball players are only
human beings, and human beings have
only so much nervous energy There
must be time In which to restore that
energy once it has been depleted by
over exhaustion.
CTTLL another case of team that
could not come back after it had
~ been keyed up to beat an old rival
Is Oregon. which lost Saturday, "a to o.
20 Southern California the Saturday
after it had beaten Oregon State, which
the previous Saturday had tied South
ern California. This does not mean
that an eleven cannot go on playing
hard games every week and do very
well, but it cannot come back for hard
game the week after one of those con-
Tests in which 1t is keyed up to play
Uer its head" There is not coach
h the country who could not send his
team out to play better game than
1t does at any time he might choose
TO do so. but he knows that he dare not
do that except for the one or two games