Evening star., 1933-09-18
100 GAMES LISTED
TO OPEN CAMPAIGN
w. & L. and West Virginia
HeadIine-V. P. |. Feared
by Tennessee.
BY H. c. BYRD.

By III. L. bI MD.
THIS week foot ball steps into
the picture.
In formal competition in
every section will be seen
teams striving nightly to defend
their goal lines, and others with
just as much zeal bending their
utmost efforts to cross those lines.
In ALL something more than hum
dred games are to be played before the
sun sets this coming Saturday night.
From California to Virginia and from
Wisconsin down to New orleans elevens
get out into the actual competition
that comes as welcome light into the
darkness of general early-seaSon prac-
tice routine.
Most of the games, practically all as
q matter of fact, are games in which
a big team meets a smaller team, the
former knowing it will win and the lat
ter that it will lose. However, in more
than one contest may be seen some real
foot ball.
Generals Play Mountaineers.
IA BOUT the biggest game scheduled
~ is that between Washington and
Lee and West Virginia. Never be-
fore have these old rivals met so early.
Usually they have played after the mid
die of October at the earliest, and
sometimes their contest has been No
yember feature. However, when sched-
t,lo rin1Ic
conflicts developed a situation where 1t
was either play on September % or not
at all, and both schools elected to play.
This Washington and Lee-West
Virginia game should be much
better than any other to be played
in this section, and perhaps bet
ter than any other game Sched-
uied anywhere.
West Virginia is said to be strong
again, while Washington and Lee, with
an almost complete varsity squad from
last year and the acquisition OF the most
brilliant lot of players it has ever got
from one of its previous freshman teams,
is looking forward to a successful sea-
son. at least from the point of view that
it should have the best team it has
turned out since 1927, and possibly be-
fore that.
NIBulId fOls ltCIlIllC 1LSJllult, IOOhillS
ahead to it's meeting with Tennessee
September 80, meets Roanoke. The
Blacksburg School ought to win about as
it pleases, as sentiment everywhere is
that it should be among the two or
three strongest teams in Dixie. ANY,
way. its prospects are so good that Ten
neSsee fears that September 80 game
more than any other on its schedule.
IF We can beat virginia Tech we are
safe" is the way the Volunteers are
putting it.
Virginia Has Power
v VIRGINIA, with an eleven it eX-
" poets to outrank any other it has
had in a decade, is to entertain
Randolph Macon. The Cavaliers will
win by at least four or five touchdoWnS
unless Randolph has one of
those unexpectedly enduring combina-
ton that small schools once in while
develop.
Clemson, Davidson, Auburn. Loyola,
Kentucky, Mercer, South Carolina.
North Carolina State Vanderbilt and
William and Mary are other big South
ern schools that start their gridiron
ball rolling Presbyterian College is to
be Clemson's opponent, and the score
should be about four touchdowns. Elon
IS to travel to Davidson, and the count
should be Just as big.
In fact, about the best chance
that one of the smaller schools
has to make shouting in one of
these games is Woford against
South Carolina, and this despite
the fact that South Carolina is
being picked as one OF the prob
able outstanding eleUens OF the
South. Woford sometimes turns
out pretty fair elerens.
Out in the Far West. California,
eouthern California, washington and
Stanford all have games. And Cali
fornia plays Santa Clara, an eleven
that gave the Golden Bear a 12-to-0
trimming last season, which it would
no doubt like to repeat. And California
probably does not desire that repeated.
be it said without any fear of contra
diction. Southern California has two
opponents, Whittier and Occidental.
both of which it should trounce, while
Stanford plays San Jose.
Utah, Texas, A. and M, Rice Insti-
tute, Oregon State. Iowa State
and Haskell Indians are among
other schools in the West and South
west that open this week. Some OF the
smaller schools in the Middle West be-
does not start until week later.
Connecticut State. Rhode Island
State and one or two others have
games, but the general opening in the
North also is not to take place until
September 30 Only in the South and
Far West do practically all the schools
play Friday or Saturday of this week
But whatever the caliber of the
games, no matter how one-sided they
may be. they are foot ball games. the
first since last season, and, therefore,
attractive.
These contests will draw big
crowds and get space in the
newspapers that few weeks
later would hardly get a one
line head. and possibly no more
than the bare score. Such is the
interest in the gridirOn.
Here and around washington, foot
ball is not going to command so mucn
attention until after the world series
About all that local people are think
ing about right now is the supreme
test of base ball. And it may be that
the world series will hurt foot Dali
games. from the financial viewpoint.
more than is now thought. People have
only so much money to spend for sports,
and world series ball game tickets have
to be paid for in strips. These tickets
cost more than foot ball tickets, and
MANY people are going out to watch
the diamond struggles who Will no:
have money later to spend for foot ball
tickets.
BRANCH OUT IN SPORTS.