Evening star., 1940-10-28
Power Of Hoyas
Will Be Gauged
BySyracuse
ColonioIs Build Up
To Clash With 6. u.
In Good Style
By FRANCIS z. STAN.

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Amidst the rapidly thinning ranks
Of the East's unbeaten and united
football powerhouses, Georgetown
and Navy still stand with Cornell,
Boston College, Penn State. La
fayette, Franklin and Marshall, etc,
but in their hour of greatest glory
the storm clouds are gathering
darker and more ominous.
Navy did not prove much with
its 21-to-0 victory over Yale, whose
only victory this fall has been scored
over a Subpar Dartmouth team. Al
most from the beginning, it was
established that this was one of the
better Navy editions, but Yale did
not offer the kind of competition
to prove Just how good are the
Mlddies. The answer to this uues-
ton will come this week when Navy
invades Philadelphia to face a Penn
team on the rebound. And if this
game doesn't answer it beyond all
doubt, Nays engagement a week
later with Notre Dame will.
AS Georgetown's streak mounts.
the HoyaS' opposition gets tougher.
The string of 81 games without a
defeat, extending from the start of
the 1888 season, was not compiled
at the expense of top-fight op-
position but, in winning over New
York University last SATURDAY., 26
to 0, Georgetown gave the impress
sion that it could hold its own in
almost any company. How reliable
this impression is probably will be
disclosed before long. This week the
Hoyas will invade Syracuse to plav
the improved Orange, which tumbled
Columbia from the list of the unde-
feated on Saturday, and Boston COL
lege and George Washington are
ahead.
Hoyas' Victory Made Easy.
With Pennsylvania, Fordham. Co.
lumbia and Rutgers removed from
the East's undefeated, Georgetown
and Navy move up in rank. In the
eyes of most experts, Fordham had
been rated above both schools. but
the Rams defeat by ST. Mary's Of
California probably proved this was
a wrong estimate. New Yorkers who
watched Georgetown against N. Y,
.. were convinced that Fordham
did not deserve a rating ahead of
the District eleven.
1t has been pointed out that
Georgetown got all the breaks
against N. Y. U. Taken apart. the
game showed that the Hoyas' first
touchdown came as a result of a
Violet tumble, the second after pass
interference was called against N.
Y. u, the third following a l5-
yard roughing penalty which gave
q. q. the ball on the enemy So and
the fourth on stupid play by the
Violet safety, who knocked
Georgetown punt out of bounds on
his own 1-yard line.
This is true, to some extent. but
hardly had anything to do with the
outcome. N. Y. US mistakes simply
made the Hoyas' task all the easier.
Clearly the superior team, it is en-
tirely possible that Georgetown
could have run up 40 or more points
If Hagerty had wanted to go all
out before the assembled Syracuse
and Boston College scouts. IN
stead. he confined the Hoyas to a
handful of plays and little that
was showed from the tricky spread
formation was new to those who
have seen Georgetown in the last
three years.
Stevens Praises G. U. Line.
DR.. Nal Stevens, the scholarly
coach of the Violets, indicated after
the game that his team had no
chance of winning. Georgetown
can play in any company" he said,
and that goes for Boston College
or any of them That line of
Hagerty's-both of them. for that
matter-iS simply terrific. I Won
der how many people who have
been watching Georgetown realize
how great that line is.
I'VE might have made the game
closer if we had a f1rst-class passer.
think that is the way to score
on Georgetown-by passing. Of
fensively, the boy who caught my
eye was Jack Doolan, that sopho-
more back. I'd really like to have
him"
Georgetown's task this week with
Syracuse may be more difficult than
generally believed. Syracuse has
taken two bad beatings, but after
each the Orange has bounced back,
indicating some ability. After a
40-to-0 trouncing from Northwest
ern, Syracuse ran over N. Y. u, Al
II. The following week Cornell
handed the Orange a 33-to-6 licking.