Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-02
Loss Of Key Players
Makes Pessimist
OF Coach Baker
Figures Little Generals
Will Win 5 of 9 Games
With Inspired Foes
BY GEORGE HUBER.

Last years record means Moth
ing now"
Johnny Baker speaking, and the
record to which he refers is the
Westinghouse High School foot
ball teams clean slate of 10 VIC
tories last fall. The Baker-coached
team cleaned up some tough oppo-
sition to finish its schedule without
a blemish, piling up 2l4 points to
At for opponents. In four games it
BANKED the opposition.
But as for repeating. Baker
is doubtful it can be done. In
fact he predicts the Little Gen
erals of Arlington will win about
five of the nine games on this years
program. He lost some key men by
graduation, but several players from
last years second team may prove
worthy successors. Practice at
Westinghouse was to start today.
Every team on the WI. schedule
is expected to point for the Little
Generals, due to the prestige they
won in 1889. Even National Train
ing School, first on the list and
slightly regarded, hopes to make
showing against the Northern Vir-
ginia champs.
Central, Eastern Feared.
After the. training school will
come some potent opposition, par
ticularly from Central and Eastern.
Then, of course, there's the Little
Generals pet peeves down in Alex
andria, the Presidents of George
Washington, who would like nothing
more than to avenge that 27-to-7
defeat they received last Thanks
giving in the traditional Old Oaken
Bucket series.
In hoping for another good sea-
son Washington-Lee supporters re-
call that this time last year the
Little Generals were expecting al
most anything but perfect string
of 10 victories. They had finished
the previous year with four wins,
four defeats and one tie, hardly
anything on which to build hopes
for a great year to come. In fact
the 1888 season had ended with
dismal 34-to-0 FASTING by G. w.
High.
George Washington likewise was
scheduled to ignore the holiday and
start practice today. Coach AL
Doran expects a better team than
last years, which won only two
games, tied two and lost six. There's
an air of confidence down in Alex
andria. A new blocking machine
has been installed and new uniforms
are available for four complete
teams.
Presidents Schedule Tough.
This year the Presidents face a
tough 10-game schedule. which in
cludes Western and Gonzaga in
Washington and the always potent
Maury High of Norfolk.
Most of the public schools in the
Metropolitan Area will start prac-
tice tomorrow morning. All local
public high squads except Anacostia
will begin, with the Indians holding
off until next Monday. 0onzaga
and st. Johns, Catholic rivals, will
hold initial workouts tomorrow. The
st. Johns squad will train several
weeks at Colonial Beach.
The schedules:
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Washington-Lee.
September 81 National Training School.
October 4, Western; H. at Fredericks-
burg; 10, Masonic Home Of Virginia;
%. at Portsmouth.
November /, at Central: 8. at Anacostia:
Is, at Eastern; p, George Washington
George Washington.
September 20, James Monroe Of Fred
ericksburg; os, western
october 5, at Newport News; Il. Peters
burg: 10 at Maury, Norfolk; 20, Glass
High of Lynchburg.
November 2. at Lane High, Charlottes-
vile: Q. Gonzaga; Is. Hopewell; 21. at
Washington-Lee.