The Washington times., 1936-11-09
ONIALS "LET-DOWN' VICTORY SATISFIES PIXLEE
HoyasFl;nd
Foes Off
Stride
BY HARRY COSTELLO

little understood even by the old
est and wisest Of gridiron men.
Properly to understand a foot
ball letdown, one must have ex-
perienced it. A sort of dullness
strikes the player. His legs become
heavy. His coordination, normally
excellent, becomes something con-
SpicuouS by it's absence. He starts
on an end run only to stumble and
fall. He prepares to throw for
ward pass only to find that for
the life of him he cannot make
a proper throw. He errs in a man.
ner conducive Of modification.
On Saturday, against Davis and
ElkinS, a decidedly inferior team,
George Washington University
was in the throeS of a severe let
down. Sampson normally swift,
sure-footed player, was dull, and
several times he stumbled and fell.
His leg muscles seemed to refuse
the directions of his mind. He,
of course, was like his mates: he
was hit by a letdoWn.
Joey Kaufman managed to
come out of the letdoWn soon
enough to help his team nightly,
otherwise G.. w. might have been
tied or defeated. All in all, Coach
Jim Pixlee and his staff of as
sistants are perfectly satisfied that
the ColonialS won, and each OF the
mentors, knowing full well what
letdoWn is, is happy to let by
cones be bygones.
Gets Down to Business
G. w. today gets down to the
serious business of preparing for
CataWba and West Virginia. Ca
tawba plays here Saturday; West
Virginia visits Griffith Stadium
for G.. WIS homecoming, Thanks
giving Day.
Football places premium on
alertness. The gridiron combina-
ton which possesses alertnesS also
possesses poise.
When Georgetown defeated
West Virginia, % to 0, the alert
ness of the HoyaS was rewarded.
AS for West Virginia, its lack Of
a1erGQeSS COSC uedVlly.
Georgetown, since its tie game
with N. Y. u, has been a greatly
underrated combination. The
Hoyas are dangerous if for no
other reason than that they are
alert and possess poise. Some
weeks back this observer wrote
that this 1886 Georgetown eleven
had the chance to prove itself one
of the greatest of all Hoya grid
teams. G. U. still has that chance.
With Manhattan, Maryland and
Miami coming up the Hilltoppers
have a tough row to hoe, but
this team can do it for the reason
that this team has native talent,
superior coaching, superior ma.
terial. If the spirit Of George.
town rises to each occasion OF
the Forthcoming three Saturdays.
this Hoya eleven will rank with
a best of all G. U. teams.
Passes Boomerang
Seldom does one find in single
Saturday stronger basis for the
suggestion that the forward pass
often is a boomerang. Three times
West Virginia made forward
heaveS and three times George
town scored touchdowns on the
Mountaineer tosSeS.
AS for the lateral, look what hap
pened to Catholic University.
With two minutes of the West Vir-
ginia Wesleyan game left to play,
c. us field general called for a
lateral pass. At the time, c. U.
was in a two-point lead. Charley
Munhall started lateral to Bob
Makofske. Brownie Coleman,
sub halfback for Wesleyan, loomed
up out of nowhere, grabbed the
floating ball and dashed some So
yards for the touchdown which
spelled disaster for the Cardinals.
On the other side Of the fence,
favoring the lateral, take George
towns second touchdown run
against West Virginia.
Hardy, Hoya ace lineman,
grabbed a Mountaineer forward
pass. He lateraled to Nolan and
the latter dashed to a touchdown.
Hardy intercepted at Georgetown
38-yard stripe.
At Disadvantage
Often it has been observed by
older football men that for some
reason or other the defensive right
halfback is at a disadvantage de-
Tending against the forward pass.
Some statistics of the past few
Saturdays seem to bear out the
accuracy of the observation. OF
At forward passes directed against
the defensive right half in nine
chosen games, 81 have been sue
cesSful! That's forward passing
with a vengeance, of course, and,
more than likely, there are factors
other than the socalled disadVant-
age into which the defensive right
halfback is forced. Even so, the
observation is interesting in the
extreme, since for the past five
wears it has been made often and
in each year enough evidence has
been accumulated to indicate that
the defensive right half is, to say
the least, in an unenviable position
when his opponents have the bail.
Lions Too Strong