Evening star., 1949-12-17
Capital Colleges Face
Hot Harvard, Virginia;
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beaten George Washington are
slight favorites at the start OF the
National Guard Armory double
header college basketball season
tonight with Harvard providing
the opposition for the Hoyas at
8 o'clock and the University Of
Virginia meeting G. w. about $50.
While attendance has been poor
for single games to date, the twin
bill is expected to draw about
5000, despite the impending holi-
days. Last year, two of the three
twin-bills featuring the Hoyas and
Colonials drew. capacity crowds Of
about 5000.
American University returns to
it's home court tonight and opens
its Mason-Dixon Conference sched-
ule against Roanoke College, the
team ran up 81 points against
Catholic U. on Thursday. Game
time is 8:45, following a 7 o'clock
preliminary between the A. q.
freshmen and Eastern High School.
Harvard, under former David
son coach Norman Shepard and
with three victories and a two
point defeat by Navy in its first
four games, has come up with a
team that is commanding new re-
spect in the Ivy League after q
poor season last year.
Harvard Has Big Team.
Miggs Reilly. the Georgetown
freshman coach who secuted Har-
ward in it's five-point triumph over
Boston College, reported the Grim
son has big, fairly fast team
and uses the double pivot system
on offense. Three men in the
starting lineup top 6 feet 5. Har-
ward routed Tufts and Boston
University and lost to Navy in the
final minute last Saturday, 60-58.
Virginia was of with a rush.
beating the Richmond Royals.
Randolph Macon, Maryland and
Roanoke. The Cavaliers had their
streak stopped by Duke last Sat-
urday, however, then hit Navy
on a day that Middle Coach Ben
Carnevale said his team exceeded
all his expectations. Navy won.
61-38, but Carnevale said Virginia
had a good ball club and the diff
ference would not be that great
again.
In Joe Noertker. Virginia Coach
Gus Tebell has one of the Ma
tons leading scorers of last year.
Navy assigned two men to guard
him and stopped" Noertker with
IA points. OF course, that leaves
another man wide open. 1t will
be interesting to see G. w. Coach
Bill Reinhart's strategy against
the big fellow.
Colonials Improving.
George Washington's squad is
beginning to take on the appear
ance of a Reinhart-coached team
and the Colonial rooters are look
ing for Improvement every time
out.
Georgetown has been flashy IN
running up four straight victories,
with Coach Buddy O'Grady get
ting valuable help from his sopho-
mores, plus potent. scoring power
from Tommy O'Keefe and good
all-around play by John Brown.
Last year. in twin bills. George
town and George Washington
were blanked in the first, the Hoyas
losing to Villanova and G.. w.
to North Carolina State. In the
second both won. Georgetown over
Princeton and G. w. over Vir-
ginia. The third was split, with
the Colonials topping North Caro-
lima while Georgetown lost to
Seton Hall.
At American u. tonight the
Eagles practically are starting all
over again after a disappointing
first five games. After winning
two in a row, they've lost three
straight, although Georgetown,
Davis and Elkins and Penn State
are above the usual Mason-Dixon
caliber.
Roanoke really opened I up
against C. U. and is a dangerous
team. with Tony Proietti its big
gun. The Maroons won two and
lost two.