Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1927, Page 28

28 SP ORTS. WELL-TROUNCED TEAMS - WILL FACE STRONG FOES Maryland, Gallaudet and American U., Likely to Get Brisk Drilling—Hillt oppers and Colonials Are Not Expected to Be Pressed. BY H. C. BYRD. FTER a day of disappointment last Saturday most of the foot ball teams of the local college group will endeavor to mend their fences this week before swinging into play again. Only the two victors last week are apt to get nothing more than the usual amount of preparatory work for their forthcoming engagements. Georgetown, which ran up a heavy &core against Boston College, is not likely to be pressed severt when it encounters Fordham in New Yo nor is George Washington, easy win- ner over St. Vincent here, apt to be by Concord State at nd, Gallaudet and Ameri- rsity, however, the going promises to be strenuous. Well beat- en by Virginia, the Old Liners are slated to visit Nashville for a game with Vanderbilt, one of the few un- beaten teams of the Southern Confer- ence. Gallaudet, that was unable to oheck Delaware, and American Uni- versity, that was nosed out by little RBridgewater College, clash at Kendall Green and each probably will make every effort during the week to have its best in readiness for the only col- lege game listed for a Washington diron. Catholic University, loser to St. Xavier last week, has no game sched- uled for the coming week end, but will not be idle by any means. The Cardi- nals have an allimportant date with George Washington on Thanksgiving day and need all the work they can ®et to fit them for the battle with this formidable foe. Two of the greatest foot ball games of the year, one on the Atlantic, the other on the Pacific Coast, take place this week. Harvard and Yale are set for what promises to be a wonderful contest, while Stanford and California are digging in for their annual clash. The Stanford-California game is to the Far West just about what the meeting of the Blue and Crimson is to the East. Last year. Yale beat Harvard, 12 to 7, and Stanford prac- tically annihilated California, 41 to 0. Yale got by one of the two great tests to which its eleven is subjected each Fall when it snatched that vic- tory from Princeton. And it was a Yale eleven that was minus its bright backfield star that turned the tables on an expectant and powerful Prince- ton. The Blue rose in its might in the closing part of a contest in which it had been outrushed to win almost as spectacularly as any foot ball game is ever won. Yale had opportunities to score before it finally got across the last white line, but seemed to lack the reserve drive to go over. Yale disqualified its star and still #t won. That makes victory all the greater and wore noteworthy. It refused to accede to a request from Princeton. that it backstep from its action on Bruce Caldwell’s eligibility, and today Yale students, faculty and alumni have a right to feel real pride In their university, greater pride than recognize that Yale has a great team, it is not felt the Harvard game is go- ing to be anything other than a tre- mendous struggle. One official at Yale told the writer a short while pack, “We expect Harvard to be the hest kind of a team when we meet her, as we know full well that every- thing at Harvard this year is being subordinated to the game with Yale and the whole stress of the season is being laid on our game. Harvard has been coming along and is developing rapidly every day. We expect the Harvard game to be just about as hard as the one with Princeton.” Some other rivalries are to be fought out this week, which to their respective localities are just as important as the ames between Harvard and Yale, Stanford and California. Lehigh and Lafayette, for instance, are to meet and to that section and to alumni and students of those two institutions noth- ing else in foot ball matters so much as the result of that contest. Purdue and Indiana are to meet, and for the State of Indiana the game is the whole thing. The game is as important to the State as George Ade and others. And, incidentally, it might be men- tioned that the game is even more important to George Ade, as he is a Purdue alumnus. Chicago and Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, Kansas and Missouri, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechani- cal College. are some of the other contests in the category of the all- important to the foot ball seasons of the contending elevens. Most surprising of all last week's games was that between Army and Notre Dame. Many may have thought that Army could beat the Middle Westerners, but it is doubtful if even those ever expected for a moment it would win by such a margin. Beat- ing Notre Dame 18 to 0 is a feat so unusual as to occasion more than ordinary comment. It is gratifying to know that a Washington man, a former Central High guard, Biff Jones, is'coaching the eleven that gave Notre Dame its trouncing. Georgetown had no more difficulty at Boston in wining from Boston Col- lege than was expected. The Blue and Gray got going and kept on going well all through the contest. Reports have it that Georetown played about as brilliant foot ball as any George- town team ever has played, and that Boston College stood no more chance against it than a straw stack against a whirlwind. Maryland went fo Virginia, and after the first quarter was outsmart- ed, outplayed and generally beaten, It could offer no alibi for the rather surprisingly one-sided defeat, as it simply did not play as good foot ball as the eleven to which it was op- posed. Catholic University must have put up a splendid game at Cincinnati against St. Xavier, as it scored more points than the Marines did and was beaten in a great scoring game by 26 to 18. George Washington romped in with the St. Vincent scalp and if they had allowed Caldwell to play. Up at Yale, while people there THAT GOOD GULF GASOLINE Gallaudet gave Delaware a real battle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute took Seal the PISTON - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C;, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1927. MARINE-ARMY MEN PREPARE FOR BATTLE Quantico Marines and All-Army foot ball gridironers, who face Saturday in Catholic University stadium in the annual President Cup battle, both planned stiff scrimmages today. The Leathernecks are getting in their pre- paratory licks at Quantico and the Doughboys are readying at Washing- ton_Barracks. Both teams have done well and a spirited clash seems assured. Marines have come through their seven-game season with a clean record ahd the Army eleven also has finished an ex- acting campaign in fine style. Stung by their defeat at the hands of the Devil Dogs last season, the Army immediately after that game began preparations to even scores in this season's battle. A large and colorful crowd will be on hand for the game, which has become a real classic. VIRGINIA’S VARSITY TO BE GIVEN A REST UNIVERSITY, Va., November 14.— Virginia’'s varsity is going to take a brief rest before preparing for the North Carolina.game, which will close the season on Thanksgiving. And after seven Southern Conference games in a row, the lay-oft will be welcomed by the men. But it will not be long, because Coach Earle Neale and his assistants know that regardless of the showing made by either team in previous games these Carolinians are going to be hard to lick on their new field be- fors the crowd of 24,000, including the Governors of both the Old Domin- jon and the old north State. After the hard played game with Maryland on Saturday the first string players who saw action will not be given strenuous drills until the mid- dle of the week. But Coach Neale will have much for his reserves to do, because he is preparing now to fill the place of Capt. Cardwell, Hushion, Hut- tdr, Pendleton and the others who will be playing their last game against North Carolina. Virginia has left next Saturday open, and, is not playing Randolph Macon, the team met last year on that date. But the Tar Heels are to have a strenuous Saturday playing Duke. Not the least of the problems that Coach Neale will have to contend with during this two-week wait over is the task of keeping his men in the same tip-top condition that enabled them to win over Maryland, and at the same time guard against any over confi- dence that this victory may have in- spired. No serious injuries were sustained in Saturday’s game and if there are no mishaps during the scrimmages during the next two weeks Virginia's squad should be in better condition than she has been at any time so far this secason. the measure of Washington and Lee very decisively. The Blacksburg men probably exceeded their own expecta- tions in winning by three touchdowns. ‘Vanderbilt played its second tfe in as many weeks, when it met Ten- nessee, another of the three or four strongest elevens in the section. A week ago Vandy tied Georgia Tech and Saturday it would up with a 7-t0-7 score with Tennessee. RINGS 4 OPPONENTS TOO FAMILIAR WITH SOUTH BEND ATTACK Rockne’s System Has Undergone Only Slight Change Since First Put Into Effect—Great Defense Has Beén Developed by Army Team. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, November 14 ‘Basing judgment upon what happened last year in the Car- negie-Notre Dame game and in the games played this year by the Trish against Minnesota and the Army, Knute Rockne has got to think up a new offense for his teams. Tt is true that this season he starts a back in motion before the ball 18 snapped, but in most other respects the Notre Dame attack does not differ basically from what it has been since the war. And it s being stopped. This is what usually happens to & stock method of offense if you_ give the defense time, In the case of Notre Dame it has got by far beyond the legal limit, and it would not be at all surprising were the season of 1928 to find not much more than a shred remaining _of the stuff which made the Four Horsemen famous. Notre Dame's material this year is not weak. The line is a splendid combination, and any coach would give a good tooth for that backfield. So it looks as_though the tools with which Notre Dame is working and not the lack of capable material Is the answer to the Trishmen’s lack of com- plete success this season. In beating Notr> Dame, the .rmy turned in a signal feat. There was ack of precision in Notre Dame's passing and her scoring plays did not click. Passes don't go and plays do not function when the defense is hit- ting as hard as West Point’s hit last Sutard Defensively, the Arm elevengapproaches the uitimate and a buddirfs attack will flower by Navy game time, Army V.ol Coached. The team shgws the benefit ccaching as rigid, detailed, pain; ing and enlightened as can be. E department of play seems to in the hands of a master, and the writer doubts if ever an Army eleven had the benefit of a staft so rounded and so_accomplished. . That Princeton-Yale game was a great contest technically—two well ¢ ~~hed teams in as grin and spec- tacular a battle as ever was waged. Both teams had .. line offense that took a long time for_the defense to study out and stc_. Before Yale had adjusted herself to the Princeton drive it had covered 75 straight yards for a touchdown. ale had an off-tackle thrust that was a_dandy, and only a_ poor selec- tion of plays at the goal line kept it from scoring. In the fourth period, with the score 6 to 0 In favor of Princeton, the Tigers began to hold Yale’s rushing attack safe, and the outlook was_the bluest indigo for the Elis when Hoben threw a forward pass a mile, which Fishwick caught on the dead run and carried over the goal. Kicking the goal after touch- down, Yale went ahead, and the Tigers in desperation began throwing for- ward passes from their goal line, which finally, through a fumble, gave Yale a chance to strike for another touchdown from Princeton's 20-yard mark. 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Through her defeat of Princeton and because of the Army's defeat of Notre Dame, the E have beaten West Point—took a high posi- tion, perhaps the highest, in the na- tional ranking. And how about Geor- gia, which defeated Yale early in the season? Yale was not the team then that It is now, but for that matter neither was Georgla. With Georgia, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt and Tennes- see standing out in Dixie, we have a signal demonstration of the growth of proficiency in foot ball down South. Santa Clara’s victory over an unsus. pecting Stanford eleven was the great upset of the day. Adam Walsh coaches Santa Clara and this over- throw of the team, which has stood out as the best in the Pacific conference was a stunning jolt to the Cardinals. Pittsburgh was too smart and too versatile for the cumherous Nebraska team. New York University's feat in twice coming from behind and tyin Penn State showed the high morale well as the skill of the New Yorkers. NORK SECOND TO LANE IN GRID POINT SCORING NEW YORK, November 14 (M).— Closing his gridiron career with a burst of 23 points against Cornell Saturday, Myles Lane, Dartmouth ace, virtually clinched high scoring honors in the East with a grand total of 125 points for the season. Lane scored three touchdowns and kicked five points after scores in the big green slaughter of Cornell. Bob Nork, by scoring three times for Georgetown against Boston Col- legce, slipped into second place with 97 points, 8 more than Capt. Johnny Roepke. CENTRAL IS FAVORITE TO DEFEAT EASTERN Eastern and Central elevens will come to grips tomorrow in Central Stadium in a battle, the outcome of stadium is expected to have much weight in determining the public high foot ball “championship. Coach Mike Kelley’s hoys are favor- ites to win in most quarters, but the Lincoln Parkers, with a chance for the title, are sure to put up the best fight of which they are capable. If Central wins, the Blue and White will have only Western in its path to a clear claim to the title. However, it Eastern triumphs, it will move into a tie for the lead with Tech at three wins andgmone defeat apiece, and the best Central will be able to do by beating Western will be to tie Eastern and Tech. The teams stand as follows: Western . Buginess .11 o In _another schoolboy tilt t St. John's gridironers and University Freshmen will Brookland, Basket ball candidates at Emerson Institute plan to begin serious prac- tice either tomorrow or Wednesday at American University gym. With a numbeg of seasoned tossers at hand the outlook is for a successful cam- paign.: Emerson's foot ball team will close its scason_ Friday against C Hall, Md. atter’s gridiron. Kight victories out of nine starts is the fine record | made thus far by Emerson. STANDING OF ELEVENS IN DIXIE CONFERENCE Lost. Tied o i 000 omorrow Catholic meet at 0| of the outstanding SPORTS."” Being By the Associated Pres EW YORK, November 14.—If there is any outstanding de- velopment of the 1927 college gridiron campaign it is the rapidity and thoroughness with which favorites among the major elevens have heen bowled over, About this time a year ago sagas the prowess of .such crack teams as y, Lafayette and Brown in Alabama_in the South, Notre Dame in the Middle West, Southern | Methodist in_the ford on the Pacific Coast All_seven of these | traveling at top speed, tional or national honor, Notre Dame, victim of Carne ished their season undefe | though Lafayette was the on | to avoid so much as a tie. But it is another story for 1 These same seven teams, with one defeat altogether marked azainst thém all last season, have been beaten no less than 18 times so far this Fall. outfit team ties, for seven of the biggest elevens in the country, with the campaign | not yet completed, is about as biz a flop as anything on record. Brown's “iron men” ssive times. Lafayette has been defeated three times, Notre Dam once, while two setbacks are on each of the records of Alabama, Stanford, FSouthern Methodist and the V) In place of these teams the main battles for sectional and intersec- tional laurels for 1927 are being sought by in the South, Yale in the souri and Illinois Middle West, Southern. California on the Pacific Coast and the Texas Aggies in the Southwest, to mention a few ace-setters. Alone | of the 1926 group, Stanford remains in the Pacific Coast Conference race, had its colors lowered twice mall college rivals, St. Mary’s and Santa Clara. The latest performances of three of the Fast's greatest individual stars, Gibbey Welch of Pittshurgh, Al Mar- sters of Dartmouth and Dud Charles- worth of Yale, have focused the all- of the gridiron were echoing around | the | outhwest and Stan- | Eighteen defeats, not to mention four | in the | D. C. Varsity Elevens Mending Fences : New Offensive Is Needed by Notre Dame Favorite Means Nothing In Foot Ball Games Any More | | br American spotlight on them to a con vincing extent All three have heen conspicuously nt right along, but they outdié themselves last Welch Pitt captain and alf | opening kick-off back It ichdown, and suished himself in v over Nebr ot over the gridiron eton passes, pounc ing on fumbles and furnishing a rock like pivot to the bhig Blue line. The sophomore sters, star of Dart mouth's zed backfield ballet wild against Cornell, throwing mazing number of 23 successfu passes and figuring in the longest | two dashes for touchdowns, one fo $0 and another fq vards. If there is to-be an argument be tween ‘the velative merits of the East's tstanding two sophomore halfbacks Adie Wittmer of Princeton an¢ cems likely | favor the Dartniouth ace. i ' ormances of hoth against for instance, are illuminating Wittmer gave the Elis a number of annoying moments last urday, bur sters’ reo oting the bal times, Wittmer gained 119 yards ugh Yale's defense, but two weeks viously, against the same Blue lina sters accoyntad for gains of 158 rds in the 20 times he handled the kin. Wittmer and 3 Marsters both are triple threats, but the latter is speed . more elusive in an open field and a greater passing star, the comparisor of their performances reveals. egardless of the all-Americar king either may get at the hand: of the experts this year, they have clinched their places among the tog flight, each with two more years te go along the pathway to stardom. Not since Red Grange, as a sopho more, flashed across the gridiron ir 1923 to gain an all-American post has any youngster gotten off to a snappier start than Wittmer or Marsters, Buenos Aires boa a dozen golf courses, and the standard of play among the Argentinians is credibly high. - FANNIE BRICE oted Comedienne, writes: “If throat protection and the greatest pleasure are consid- ered, then one understands why Lucky Strikes are pre- ferred by stage stars. Luckies never irritate the throat—they are most enjoyable.” THE CREAM OF THE TOBACCO CROP “It’'s toasted” No Throat Irritation-No Cough. .