Evening star., 1934-10-10
Other Hot Games.
IN THE Middle West, Ohio State
meeting with Illinois should caus

TN THE Middle West, Ohio States
meeting with Illinois should cause
some fur to fly. as should Notre
Danes with Purdue. Chicago and
Michigan also hook up. as do Nebraska
and Iowa. One Middle Western team,
Michigan State, is to engage in a game
with Carnegie Tech that since the for
mer's defeat of Michigan last Satur-
day should be an exceptional attrac-
ton. In fact, the game takes on
much greater Importance than it would
have had had Michigan State not
whipped University of Michigan.
Down South. Florida plays Tulane,
Georgia meets North Carolina and
Duke faces Georgia Tech in the most
important contests. Duke especially is
eager for victory, since it was Georgia
Tech that last year upset 1t in the final
game after a clean record for the pre-
vious part of the season. Florida and
Tulane have not yet been defeated.
Neither has Georgia but North Caro-
lima last week went down before Ten
nessee.
"A GOOD deal of comment is going
"A the rounds among foot ball
coaches in the Old Dominion as
to the justification of the Virginia
Techs quarterback in taking a chance
on losing his game in the final quar-
ter in order to gamble for victory.
1t seems that with only a short time
to play, Tech had the ball on its own
25-yard line with tie score A punt
would seem to have been a certain
method of getting a tie. However,
the quarterback hurled forward pass
which was intercepted by Florida and
finally resulted in a Florida touch
down and Gator victory, 20 to l3.
Was the Virginia Tech quarterback
justified in making that pass in an
effort to score or should he have
counted the odds against him, the
possibility OF losing, punted and been
content with tie? That is the ques-
ton being argued. Such question is
good for argument, but as far as set
tling-that is impossible.
Had the forward pass play gone
through for a touchdown and Vir-
einia Tech been the victor, the quar-
terback would have been hero
through his generalship. The play,
instead. resulted in disaster and the
quarterback in the estimation of many
is anything but hero.
It is the old, old story OF nothing
that succeeds like success.
THE seat of the mighty, even in
foot ball, is not restful. Even
| n after its crushing victory over
Amherst last week, in direct oppoSl-
ton to the mediocre showing OF
some of its rivals Princeton is worry
ing about what may happen to Its
team, A Princeton man said, "Well,
we are off to a good start, but Coach
Crisler is worried about the possibility
of his team getting overconfldent'
You know it does not take much to
bump off an eleven that feels it has
its laurels already won, and Princeton
may easily get that way. 1t seems
funny, but when we were losing all
the time we were worried because we
could not win and now we are get
ting worried for fear we may not.
incidentally, every big school that
meets Princeton will be printing to
give the best it has in that particular
game. That makes hard going for my
eleven, no matter how good 1t may BE-
But, with a great team apparently,
Princeton seems to be in the most IA
vored spot of all big elevenS. 1t has
a schedule that at this time seems to
be something Of set-up. 1t meets
several small schools which it should
whip easily, and its big opponents, Cor
nell. Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth.
do not at this time seem to be over
come with their own strength. How
ever, the Tiger may run into more
trouble against Washington and Lee
than it anticipates.
TTUNK ANDERSON is not having
II a very easy time of it in his
debut year at North Carolina
State. His Raleigh eleven had a hard
time against Davidson, since defeated
Al to 0, by Army in its first game and
last Saturday took whipping from
Wake Forest, which already had been
beaten by North Carolina. No matter
how good a coach Anderson is, he
will not last long in one of those North
Carolina schools, as keen as is the
competition and rivalry, unless he be-
gins to put game results on the credit
side of the ledger.