Evening star., 1951-10-18


one tie. Last season WI won six
and lost four but it beat Eastern,
the Washington interhigh cham
pion, 800. Mount Vernon won
eight and lost two.
This year it's a different story.
Washington-Lee. labelled a pow
erhouse in the preseason fore
casts, has won two, lost two and
tied one. The Generals face a
rugged battle this week to keep
from dropping another.
In addition the two WI defeats
were a 1876 rout by st. Johns and
q S4-7 trouncing by Portsmouth
last week. The Generals tied
Gonzaga 1913 but were outplayed
most Of the game and were lucky
to settle for a tie.
CIV Rates Above WI.
CIV wasn't supposed to have
much after losing all but two of
Its first three teams but the Pres
idents haven't done badly and
now rate above WI. However
in the won-loss column they stand
2-S with losses to three strong
elevens, st. Johns. Hopewell and
Thomas Jefferson Of Richmond.
Mount Vernon has won two
one q close 1876 call with Falls
Church-and lost two, far from
its 1850 mark.
This time last season CIV had
won four and lost one-to power
full Hopewell, 27-7; Washington
Lee had a 80 mark including al
victory over Eastern and an up
set of jefferson in Roanoke: and
Mount Vernon had won five and
dropped one.
The biggest surprise is the per-
formance of the Generals. WI is
potentially a good club. probably
one of the best in the area. It has
o big line. fast backs in abundance
and should win regularly. Per-
haps. the Generals read too many
preseason clippings. It's time
they took a look at the won-loss
record and play the type of ball
they can.
Fairfax Most Improved.
Despite the won-loss mark. Jim
Ford, new CIV coach, has been
doing a fine job. He had prac-
tically nothing to start the season,
but the boys have been hustling
and playing alert football. Mount
Vernon has had some bad breaks
50 far in its losses but the Mounts
can't be rated as strong as they
were last season.
The most improved team is Fair
fax. Led by Skinny Safer, one
of the best schoolboy backs in the
area, the Rebels have won four
and lost only one-the opening |
game to WI. Western and
Chamberlain, Washington inter-
high representatives, can test Fair
fax's strength later in the season
and the District schools had better
be ready.
Falls Church won its first game
of the season, from Stuyvesant,
56-7, last week but the Jaguars
have not been a pushover. Hern-
don is 40 and has a fine team in
its class.
With several games remaining
against strong Virginia teams,
CIV, WI and Mount Vernon
could easily lose more than a few
times this season. Unless it i'm
proves considerably, Northern Vir-
ginia football will be rated below
both the interhigh and Catholic
League best this season and that
hasn't happened in some time.
Two schools that have never
made the rating list got into the
big 10 this week.
Northwestern grabbed the No. 8
spot and Landon reached the No.
8 position. Both are undefeated
and have fair chances to stay that
way.
Though not powerhouses, North
western and Landon are hustling
teams and have that important
factor on the football field, the
desire to win.
A look at the 1850 rating list
about this same time last year is
interesting.
Bulls School was given the No.
! spot. This season we are con-
sidering Bulls, a prep school