Evening star., 1948-11-22
Monday Quarterback
G. W., 13; Georgetown. Z.

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q game in 1948-George Washington
still was hearing its praises sung
today on the sidewalk campus Of the
downtown school. The Colonials
didn't win a game; they won four.
And they capped the season by de-
feating Georgetown, 13 to Z, to end
So barren years against the Hoyas.
In his first season as coach, John
(Bo) Rowland has less material,
poorer facilities and more rugged
schedule than either of his rivals at
Maryland and Georgetown. Last
years pitifully weak G. w. squad.
which only defeated Kings Point,
wasn't even intact for Rowland, with
the loss of the best blocking back
hurting most. The back was ruled
ineligible because he had particil
pated In professional baseball.
Yet Rowland defeated v. p. L.,
upset Virginia, smashed down The
Citadel and capped it off by knock
ing off Georgetown last Saturday
at Grifith Stadium. Only in two
rames-Maryland and Duke-were
the Colonials badly beaten. Had
Andy Davis started as G. WIS regu-
lar fullback and passer, Rowland
might have upset Wake Forest in
the opener.
The Colonials well deserved their
Georgetown victory. They fought
of the Hoyas, favored by two touch
downs, in the first half and tnen
marched 63 yards to start the third
quarter with touchdown and a
TO lead.
Even the blocked punt which led
to their second scor- vas no acci-
dent. G. w. had secuted G. u.
thoroughly. A block of one of Lou
Surman's punt4 was a high hope.
It came early in the fourth period,
Bill Szanyi blocking and recovering
to run 20 yards. That was the game.
G. U. tried nightly. but the 81
yard scoring thrust after intercept
ing a pass was all the Colonials
allowed. Victory was too sweet after
too many years to lose.-STANN.
Vanderbilt, "a; Maryland, 0.
Let's face it.
Maryland was an over-rated foot
ball team this year. with the over
enthusiastic students and alumni
and bowl-happy sports writers guilty
of building the Terp followers to
their current letdown.
When Coach Jim Tatum lost Lu
Gambino, he said Il thought we
would win out of 10 with Lu. now
we'll be lucky to win five games. "
Everybody laughed.
Maryland has won six and lost
three to date, but performance
anything like the last Saturdays S
tnept showing against Vanderbilt
will cost them a fourth defeat this
week at the hands of West Virginia:
The other team Tatum was scared
Of was South Carolina. which has
proved to be disappointments OF the
Southern Conference.
When Maryland beat teams like
Richmond only 1870 and Delaware
By 21-0, Tatum was complimented
on holding down the score. But
over a steak last Saturday night
In Nashville, the Maryland coach
said he wasn't holding the score
down. THE truth of it was that
three touchdowns is about the best
we could do against those teams"
he said.
Maryland continued its parade
against non-big league teams. VP1,
George Washington, Miami and
South Carolina were beaten, with
only a one-point defeat by Duke in
between. But Maryland hadn't
faced anything like North Carolina
or Vanderbilt, and when it did it
was a case of being sadly over
matched. The fancy statistics the
Terps piled up to be among the
Nations leaders in all departments
were misleading.
Maryland has a competent passer
In Vic Turyn, but not much in the
way of receivers. They are tc slow.
Against South Carolina, M and
completed one forward pass. / Jainst
Vanderbilt it didn't complete any.
Probably no other team in the
country can make that statement
one completed pass in two games.
The Terps had good Southern
Conference football team, as good
North Cornlipa