Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-24
.|N-AND-OUT ELEVEN
TACKLES DAKOTANS
Georgetown Popped Up for
West Virginia-M Maryland
Sees Tight Game.
BY II. C. BYRD.

wv suit of the final game of
Y Catholic Univcr sity's
foot ball season, there
is one mainland he is none other
than Coach Dutch Bergman-Who
is not any too optimistic about
the outcome. Uncertain is the
word that best expresses Berg
mans attitude toward the home
coming his team has tonight at
the Clark Griffith Stadium with
South Dakota State College.
The coach fees thai under TIE BIS.
of conditions his team should win, bit
under conditions that have prevailed in
some of its contests it may be very
lucky to escape defeat.
AS astonishing as some OF Bergman'5
frank admissions are in regard to his
team and its prospects, the statement
made by him this morning is more I'M
usual than some of the usual ones he
already has made. Bergman believes
his team is capable of winning, but is
frank to say that he does not feel any
too confident that it will.
s'TO SPEAK frankly and honestly"
said Bergman thiJ morning, my
team has not played 60 minutes
CT god fec: E1ll Il any game in which it
has taken part this year. It has been
Streaky in its performances. At times,
for one quarter it has been ,,cod enough
boat tho UrrrlS u,jlo in no
net quarter it has had every Gcmblance
OF sandlot eleven. Tnea, after being
good in one quarter and lad in the
next it has turned around and played
brilliantly in the third period. That
kind of foot ball is not consistent
enough to beat team like this South
Dakota State aggregation, and if We do
not play mere consistently throughout
the game tonight than We have played
in our other big games, then am very
fearful as to wn2o may happen.
Il believe our team has tine potential
strength and versatility to win, Just as
believe it has been good enough to
win one or two of the games it has
lost. but it will not Win unless it goes
into the game with the thought of play
ing 60 minutes of hard and consistently
good foot ball. YoI ccn beat an in
terror team b. Playing good foot ball in
two quarters and mediocre .oot ball in
the ether two, but yCu can't beat teams
like DetrC-t. Holy CrO-3 and South Da-
kota playing that way.
If We 81 cut tonight to play 60
minutes Of foot ball at our top speed.
we shall bsat South Dakota just as
surely as We would whip high school
eleven, but if we 60 out and play the
kind of streaky foot ball that we have
at times. then another story will be
tole. I believe. as I said before. that
our fellows have it il them to 60
through at their best, and if they do
they will win. If they don't. then I
dent know what may happen. If we
click as consistently and cs well as we
have at times this Fall, and keep coins
like that throughout, then cur final
game will be marked Up as victory
TO- u.s.
Eergnan's frank statement ebcut his
team should Spu. lis H.el en- to thelf
surreme efforts against South Dakota.
Be gman believes in his players and be-
bility JIM Lyons, Ed White. Tom Nally,
Jankowski and the others vino are
wearing C. U. colors for the last time
upon their last contest under &c Us
standard as a triumph.
CEVERAL Of the men who have
- fought through four years years With With
last game for c. U. tonight. Ed White
and Jim Lyons, cid standbys who have
been brilliant at center and guard for
three seasons, will be in their last con-
test in a C. U. uniform. and both are
he kind who will battle hard for an
ideal. Four tackles play their last. as
Gross, Lennon, Stafford and Tom
Nally finish their careers. Jankowski
and Charley McVean, in the backfleld,
also are to wind up their playing time
in college ranks, and SO will several of
the second-string players.
This South Dakota team that Catho-
lie U. meets is not an easy outfit by
any means, if its record in its previous
games may be accepted as a criterion.
1t has won the North Central Confer
ence championship and played in a
game with Minnesota in which the
score was 6 to 6 until the last seven
minutes of play. 1t also whipped North
Dakota State. ID to g. the same team
that Georg Washington defeated, Is to
0. The two best backs on the South
Dakota eleven are said to be Jack
Balfany, who holds the 100-yard sprint
championship of South Dakota, and
Harold Hokenstad, whose brilliant punt
ing was what kept Minnesota at bay
during the greater part of that contest
DOTH Georgetown and Maryland
- practically wound up their train
ing last night in preparation for
their homecoming games tomorrow
with West Virginia and Washington
and Lee.
The Blue and Gray. while it is meet
ing an eleven that has a poor record
behind it. is not any too optimistic over
the possible outcome, even If its show
ing against Carnegie Tech would seem
to indicate that it has a pretty good
chance. Georgetown, however, will go
into the game with spirit that only
Georgetown at times can show, and if it
battles as some Of it's supporters think
it may. then West Virginia is likely to
go back a defeated team. This is
Georgetown's final game of the 1882
season and victory would set well
with players, students and alumni.
Maryland looks upon Washington and
Lee as one OF the most formidable op-
ponents it has met this year. but be-
lieves that the game is likely to be a
nip-and-tuck affair, with verv little
margin separating the winner from the
loser.
The Old Line players will go against
the General with confidence that is sur
prising in view of their own record.
Maryland will enter the game in better
physical condition than it has been in
for any contest since it faced Vir-
ginia, as every man on the squad seems
in shape to play 60 minutes Of hard
foot ball.
washington and Lee unquestionably
has the best team it has turned out in
years and at times has played brilliant
foot ball. Possibly its best efforts were
against Princeton and Kentucky. It
lost to Princeton, 6 to 0, and won from
Kentucky, to O. The Generals have
big, powerful line that has held well
in all games and backfield OF clever,
%,.+ ,,,on Cou,1orc Cootop and Arnold