Evening star., 1934-10-23
TEAMS PROGRESS
GRAT|F|ES COACH
Young Has Hopes of Upset
at Annapolis Saturday.
Four Squads Travel.
BY H. C. BYRD.
MEXICAN UNIVERSITY, the

~ only foot ball team besides
n Maryland that plays near
enough home Saturday for the
student body to witness it in action,
feels that it has a good chance to
upset the favored st. Johns eleven
at Annapolis.
Walter Young, the coach of the
Eagles, is pleased with the progress of
his charges, feeling that they are
twice as strong as they were in the
opening contest on the first Saturday
Of the month.
Young, in particular, was gratified
by the way his line performed in the
contest against the Langley Field
eleven at Portsmouth, Va, last Satur-
day, the forwards many times crash
ing through their heavier rivals to toss
oacks for losses.
Maryland's gridders, playing Florida
In the Baltimore Stadium, also will
have their student body and band to
cheer them on against the Gators.
Quite a few Georgetown and Catho-
lie U. students also will follow their
teams to New York, where the Hoyas
battle New York U. and the Cards
play Manhattan.
George Washington, playing Wake
Forest here Friday night at Griffith
Stadium, of course will have the
fine backing always accorded by the
Colonial students and band.
AMES between big schools dot
" the East this week. Both Army
and Navy meet two Northern
universities, the former Yale and the
latter Pennsylvania.
Navy, it would seem, stands an eX-
cellent chance to whip the Quakers.
In fact, if the Sailors fail to come
through it will be one of the biggest
surprises of the year Army also
seems likely to beat Yale, although
Yale may have improved good deal
1t certainly has, unless Brown is much
weaker than is supposed.
Besides these games, Penn State
plays Columbia, Cornell meets Prince
ton, Syracuse entertains Brown and
Harvard hooks up with Dartmouth.
The Crimson, incidentally, is going
to have lot of difficulty with the
up pretty well against Holy Cross
until the last quarter.
Another Eastern game, while not
between two big universities, should
be about as good foot ball exhibi-
ton as any other, is Holy Cross VS..
Colgate. Neither of these colleges
has the enrolment possessed by some
hi o,1t n
foot ball teams that need take back
seat for none.
Unless Michigan gets out Of the
doldrums before Saturday, zuppke's
Illinois eleven should stand good
chance to come through with a vic
tory. Michigan is Illinois most cor
daily hated rival and Zuppke would
rather whip the Wolverines than any
otf er eleven on his schedule.
DOWN at Chapel Hill, N. c., Sat-
IL aturday, is to take place a
game between rivals, North
Carolina University and North Caro-
lima State, just about as "bitter"
toward each other as foot ball COM
petitors ever are. Either eleven that
loses this game just about destroys
its season.
The game is one of many, many
years standing, and is full of episodes
of broken relationships, and so on,
that so frequently mars competition
between two universities where the
rivalry is too tense.
Southern Methodist comes way up
from Texas to meet Fordham at the
Polo Grounds this weeks If the Meth
odists nave as strong team as they
have had in some past seasons, the
game should be quite struggle, pro-
vided Fordham has recovered from its
grueling test with st. Mary's.
Out on the West Coast the first of
the games between California's big
three is to take place, Stanford VS..
Southern California. OF course, de-
feats sustained by Southern California
take the edge off the game as far as
the country wide public is concerned,
but for local interest around Los An
geles and Berkeley and thereabouts,
which, after all, is quite a stretch of
territory, there is pretty sure to be the
same tense feeling that always may be
found in connection with such games.
California and Stanford could lose
every other game on their schedule,
yet that would not detract from their
own meeting. 1t is pretty much the
same thing as the Yale-Harvard
struggle.