Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1928, Page 30

s FINE KICKS OFFSET VIOLET'S BIE GAINS Foe Wastes Power in Many Drives—Game Hoya Line Shines Near Goal. BY JOHN B. KELLER. OTED foot ball authorities long have contended that a smash- ing offense is the best defense in_ gridiron combat. but the gritty cleven of Georgetown Uni- ity demonstrated that such is not always the case in its startling victory over the big New York University team last Sattrday. The Blue and Gray proved to the satisfaction of all present that a fine punter can do much to offset the powerful drive of an opponent, for it was the punting by Jim Mooney of Georgetown as much—if not more— than anything else that crushed the Violet in the mud of Yankee Stadium. Georzetown entered the fray evident- Iy reali7ing its screened attack would mean little against the New York U eleven, with its stronger and more weighty line and superb secondar though this screened attack had made the Blue and Gray the leading scoring machine of the Nation. Georgetown had made its screened attack so danger- ous mainly through speed, and speed was not to be attained on the muddy PORTS. | Griffith Stadium. This placed the ball by a 14-to-7 count. This is a sample, showing Fullback Cropper of St. Mary's achievi close to the ; L*m THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1928 Mooney Punting Big Factor in Georgetown’s Win Over New York University ng a first down on a 10-yard plunge through center in the first period of the game at Mohawk goal, but the visit ors were unable to score until the second quarter and finally were vanquished field last Saturday. So from the start Georgetown, when- evel? it gained possession of the ball, was content to make two futile plays as a rule, then let Jim Mooney dig his toe into the ball. Mooney’s Punts Remarkable. how Mooney did just that! Three flnfi«‘;d he sent it booming above the gridiron for a distance of 65 yards and rarely did a kicking effort by this getown stalwart net less than 50 Only once during the fray did Moon- ey make a poor kick. That was when Georgetown was well within its own territory and the footing was exception- ally insecure. Then Mooney's punt was low and the ball hooked outside at his team’s 35-yard line. At other times the muddy footing never seemed to an- noy the powerful booter. With such a kicker, the Blue and Gray simply took the heart out of the Violet. "There was no question as to the pow- er of New York University’s running attack. With its star attacker. Ken Strong, carrying the ball repeatedly be- hind the sterling interferer, Ed Hill, in end skirts and off-tackle brushes, and the sturdy fullback, Beryl Follet, slamming into the center of the George- town line time and time again, the Vio- let reeled off 186 yards and 11 first downs by rushing. Georgetown got but 45 yards i‘t:dk no first downs with a running attack. Yet %he Georgetown defense rallied 50 gamely whenever goal was threaten- ed that New York University's offens- ive was helpless and the ball would go to the Blue and Gray. Then would come one of Mooney’s remarkable kicks and it would be up to New York Uni- versity to try its steam-roller tactics over again. Six times these fierce attacks were made uppn Georgetown’s goal and each time the big kick occurred after George- town had stemmed the onslaught. This business of having its splendid running attack always rendered futile when suc- cess seemed at hand and being forced to plow throligh’the 'muddy fleld again didn't make” thie” Violet quit, but it certainly didn’t’ improve “its morale to any extent, Violet Loses Poise. That New York University lost its head somewhat was seen in the launch- ing of its desperate aerial offensive in the last quarter. Many of the passes were hurled aimlessly and many others were shot with little regard of timing. The intended receiver couldn't get out on the mucdy field as fast as he had been doing in drills on a dry gridiron, naturally. ‘There were times in that last period ‘when the completion of one of the long, wild heaves made by New York Uni- versity might have proved disastrous to Georgetown'’s record. Often, no George- town player was near enough to haul down the runner had the pass been successful, Georgetown certainly had a lot of eagle-eyed playérs on the field, how- ever. The way they followed the ball was something fine to behold. Fumble after fumble was made by New York University—the Bronx boys must know now that a foot ball has no handles— and most of the time it was a George- town player who had the ball after the scramble. Strong, the Violet's star back, twice recovered fumbles he had made, but every other time he dropped | the ball—and he did so s2veral other times—it passed over to the George- town side. In justice to the New York backs, it | must be mentioned that the frequent fumbling was not so much their fault as the fault of their center. apparently had’ had little experience at handling mud-covered, soggy pig- skin, He snapped the ball back In al- most all directions except the right one, and that his backfield got it cleanly as often as it did was greatly to its credit. He sureiy made the backs jump aboui. Wynkoop Helps to Score. It was a poor pass by Schneider rather than a fumble by O'Herin, the quarterback, that paved the way to the Georgetown touchdown. The ball came back to the Violet quarter a trifle high and to the side. It slipped through his hands, and Ken Provincial, sweeping around from the left end, gathered it in while half falling, regained his bal- ance and set sail on a direct course to the Violet goal. It was tough going for Provincial, for he was packing plenty of mud 2ll the way, and lasted just long enough to stagger across the final stripe. In connection with this touchdown, there's something to be said of Harold Wynkoop, Georgetown center. Well in front of the pack tearing down the field through the muck and mire were two New York Unive y players lunging desperately at Provincial's heels. Within 30 yards of goal the pair was about 5 yards back of Provincial and seemingly gaining on him. Suddenly springing from a racing group near these would- be tacklers, Wynkoop threw himself across their path and took them out of the play with neatness and dispatch. After that, barring a fall, there was nothing to check the progress of the Georgetown man wading through the mud to the score. How that Georgetown line functioned when its goal was endangered, From tackle to tackle it hurled itself at the Violet and completely smothered its despairing charges within the 5-yard stripe. Perhaps it was the fierce charg- ing of the Hoyas as much as the weak passing by the Violet center that caused the frequent New York Un‘versity fum- bling when it seemed that nothing else could pre town. Several Georgelown linemen especially distinguished themselves dur- ing the fray, but the entirs set of for- wards deserves great credit for its bril- liant stand. Georgetown Ends Star. After a rather poor showing in the game with Duke here the Saturday previous, Georgetown ends, Provincial and Tomaini, rose to the occasion and performed nobly against New York University. Pointed especially to smash the splendid interferences _engineered by Hill, the Blue and Gray flankers did Just 4 Rarely was either end put Bcut of pwy hy Hill and more often 21::1 | skidding ' its ‘lonesome way about the | Schneider | } ent a score against George- | OLUMBUS, Ohio, Saturday. and East, in the hard, scrupulously cl warm reaction to the hospitality of beauty of friendship thus formed. Princeton men by the hundred: over the week end and Columbus s and evening with regret. does Ohio. ‘The schedules of both clevens element that justifies inter-collegiate relationship and emphasizes the Sportsmanship Is Exemplified In Princeton-Ohio State Game BY LAWRENCE PERRY. November 5.—Intersectional sport had its apothesis in that brilliant Ohio State-Princcton game here on In the cordiality of Ohio's reception to the thousands of Princetonians who came to this city from all parts of the West ean play of the teams, in Princeton’s this Midwestern capital was every as though loth to depart, remained Jay’ afternoon The writer saw no son of Nassau who did not feel that this game is one that should be retained by a'l means. is Ohio filled with Princeton alumni but the State university students were regarded as of the Princeten type. Jjourney from Princeton and the Tiger needs a game such as this. So - Not only Columbus is merely an overnight are filled for 1929, but a game for the first Saturday in December is open to both and an arrangement for contests over a term of years would be a constructive act. redounding to the good of sport and to the athletic sysiems of both institutions. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. NEW YORK, November 5.—Sheer courage and will-to-win were never bet- ter exemplified than in Saturday's de- feat of New York University's mighty eleven by Georgetown. Lou Little should be proud of those boys. There would appear to be small danger that he is not. When the graduates of the Dis- trict of Columbia institution waited for the players to emerge after they were dressed the cheers they gave were for a real foot ball team. Georgetown won that game by splen- did tackling, fine and heady interfer- ence, seigure of opportunity, clean handling of the ball, stout heartedness, and last but not least, the magnificent kicking of Jim Mooney. Time after time, it was the educated toe of James which got his team. out of danger and drove New York from attack to defense. Mooney Great Player. ‘This Mooney is a ball player. Not only can he boot the pigskin with a force that makes it resemble a pro- Jjectile fired from a howitzer, but he is| a corking tackle in any company. He follows the ball as surely as Summer follows Spring. He can block and tackle and there is no moment of the game when you are not aware that he is in it. A sweet lineman, Mr. Mooney, and a great kicker. But Jim is not the only real man| on that Georgetown team. Jerry Car- | roll is a fine guard and an, inspiring leader. Wynkoop is a most efficient center. Duplin is one of the most use- ful backs of the season. On defense he comes into the play with a speed approaching that of Cagle. Georgetown is not essentially so powerful a team as New York Uni- versity, but it won—and that’s the final answer. It might not win one game out of five from Meehan's men, but it won the game it needed and, as Miss Barry- more remarked, “There isn’t any more.” Makes 18 First Downs. Let us see what the New York eleven accomplished. It made 18 first downs to Georgetown's 2. It gained far more ground. It stopped Georgetown's run- ning game and at least half a dozen times put itself in good scoring posi- tion. But it made 8 fumbles to George- town’s 3, and when the ball started slippery field it usually was a George- | own man who recovered it. The foot | ball fates gave New York chance after! chance. It fumbled them all. The game was more or less like the | Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight. After that bout outline pictures of the contestants were published, with each blow which not it was one of them that got the stellar Strong. New York University’s attack was built entirely around Strong and Follet. Only on three occasions during the game did a player other than one of these carry the ball in running offen- sive. And Georgetown was well trained to cope with this pair. True, the secon- dary did most of the work in repulsing Follet when he crashed into the line, but it was the ends and tackles of Georgetown that harassed Strong. Generally when he attempted his sweeping end plays, Strong was satis- fied with running the ball outside rather than cutting in and risking a fierce tackle by some member of the fast-moving Blue and Gray team. And usually that was his fate when h> did cut in on end runs. The gains Strong made were mostly with off-tackle plays in which the massive Violet line all but smothered the lighter Georgetown for- wards. The cne time when Strong did get away for a long gain he was nabbed from behind by a Georgetown back, Ben Schmidt. That was late in the fourth quarter, when Strong started the Violet's last offensive with a run of little more than 50 yards that moved play to Georgetown’s 10-yard line. The Violet back had swung through a brok- en field, twice reversing, and seemed to be headed to a touchdown. But Schmidt, who had come across the grid- iron with speed remarkable in the muddy going, flung himself at the New York University man and brought him down with a perfect tackle. It was a piece of work certainly helpful to the cause of the Blue and Gray. Victory Well Earned. ‘The game at once was the worst and the best we have seen this season. It was marred by fumbles, filled with reck- less forward passing and replete with fruitless attack. On the other hand, it mever lacked interest for a moment, it provided thrills galore and ended with an odds-on favorite buried in the mud by as game a team as cver stepped on a gridiron. Whatever else Georgetown may or may not achieve this season, it always can recall with pride its splendid stand G. U. Outsmarted and Outfo ught Stronger Foe to Earn Victory had landed marked. The picture of Fitz was dotted until it looked like a, man with measles. The picture of Corbett was practically unmarked—but above the solar plexus there was a cross. Georgetown had just one chance and tock it. And that touchdown wasn't the fluke it seemed. When a New York back fumbled on Georgetown's 10-yard line and Ken Provincial swept up the | balluand sprinted for that other goal | line, so far away, there was hot pur- suit. Two New York players, running like a team, were gaining on the Georgetown end with a surety that promised they would pull hlim down. Provincial Gets Help. Between Provincial and these would- be tacklers ran another Georgetown player. Measuring his distance with coolness, timing his plunge with the ac- curacy of a stopwatch, he hurled him- self across the legs of the pursuers and spilled them flying. I don’t know that boy’s name. I wish I did. He was as responsible for that touchdown fully as much as was Provincial, who carried the ball. Tack Hardwick, greatest of in- terferers, could not have done that job more neatly. Jim Mooney calmly kick- ed the goal. Every man did his job. That's what won for Georgetown— team work. The team, which was said to rely on speed, outsmarted and out- feught a stronger segregation on a slow and sloppy field. When New York, des- perate and with its yelling , rooters scenting victory, was within one yard of a touchdown and had two downs to make it. Georgetown held. Those two rushes totaled only something over two feet. That was a gallant exhibition. Given a Real Test. Meehan's men certainly tried. Grant was a tower of strength in a line which refused to yield ground. Nemecek is a whirlwind end. Strong and Follet are fine backs and almost got away more than once. But when the New York in- terference was not doing its job very well. Time after time, interferers missed their man, when to get him would have meant a runner in the open. And T did not like to see the Violet lose 2ll faith in its running attack and resort to flocks of forward passes, throw- ing them on first down—every down—in a gambling hope fashion. New York completed four passes out of twenty-two. Five were intercepted. To my mind, h a percentage makes a bad gamble. New York was hurling showers of passes when there still were 7 minutes left to play. You expect such tactics from a weak team—not from a strong one, which New York University un- doubtedly is. Georgetown deserved to win. (Copyright, 1928, by North American News- paper Alliance.) FORT MYER SOCCER TEAM IMPRESSIVE Fort Myer team made an impressive debut yesterday in the Capital City Soc- cer League when it held the sturdy Rockville combination to a 1-0 victory at Rockville. There is a vossibility that the game may be declared no contest as an vnofficial referce officiated during the first half. Marlboro Juniors trimmed Silver Spring, 6 to 0, at Upper Marl- boro in another Capital Cily League game and a third match slated in this loop did not materialize when Germania failed to appear for its contest with Arcadia. Rosedale staged the biggest upset of the season here so far by trimming the Concord Club, 2 to 0, in a Washington Soccer League match. The Clan Mac- Lennan-British United game also listed in this loop was postponed because of G. U. SELLING TICKETS FOR CARNEGIE CONTEST Reserved tickets for the George- town-Carnegie Tech foot ball game Saturday at Albany, N. Y., may be had at the office of Athletic Director Lou Little at the Hilltop. 1f 200 fans can be mustered for the trip a special train will be chartered for the adherents of the undefeated Hoya eleven. Under this plan a spe- cial rate could be sccured. The train w::;:d leave Washington Thursday night. 29 UNBEATEN TEAMS, BUT 13 IN TIE FRAYS By the Associated Press. The Nation has approximately 30 un- beaten college foot ball teams, and Georgetown’s name leads all the rest. Lou Little’s crack Washington team hes bowled over six opponents in a row and scored 247 points in doing it. A dangerous rival looms in Florida, undefeated Southern Conference eleven, which has piled up 211 points in five games. Western Reserve, an Ohio Conference team, has a wide margin among the smaller college aggregations, with five consecutive victories and 228 points. All told, there are 29 leading un- beaten teams in the country, but 18 of these have been tied at least once. The list follows: Collere. Georgetown Tennessee . QhioWesleyan. Detroit U, Army ... Bowling G Vanderbilt . Western Reserve Florida Carnes! Boston D} opp. Won. Lost. Tied. ts. ts. SEESESEEEE 3=EIB233 ie’ Tec! Collegt s ke Sessts! Ohlo Sty St. Francis. Canisins Mississippi Princeton ” City College of Connecticut Aggies. b ALEXANDRIA ELEVEN BLOCKS KICK TO WIN ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 5.— A block kick, which Russell Sutton recovered behind the Marine Aviators' goal line in the fourth quarter gave the Alexandria Fire Department Preps a 6 to 0 victory over the Quantico t;urlr(: yesterday in the Dreadnaught ark. The teams were hampered by the soggy condition of the gridiron. Plans to organize a basket ball league and an unlimited quint at Potomac Railroad yards, have been abandoned. Alexandria Fire Department Preps are without & game for Sunday and would like to book a contest with an unlimited team. Phone Manager Leo Deeton at Alexandria 1774 after 4 o’clock. R SRR R R R E RS e R Yoy PPN bt G b R S L T L T T TP E R Py 233! GELANA AL SOR AR AAARAARDBARDD sosscosscessconoss0050005590! 223252B25283! Nationals meet the Tigers and Indians roll the White Sox tonight at 8 o'clock on Health Center alleys in City Bowling League matches. Lee-Jackson High School’s boys and girls basket ball teams meet the Clifton High School combinations in the Lee- Jackson gymnasium Wednesday after- noon. Hurshy’s _bowling team is after matches. Phone Manager Clarence Smith at Alexandria 1331 or Alexandria 1851 between 9 and 4 o'clock. FORDHAM TO PASS BALL BETWEEN LEGS OF BACK NEW YORK, November 5 (#).— Frank Cavanaugh, Fordham coach, has decided that in the future the ,Fordham quarterback shall stand back to back with the center and facing the rest of the backfield. The center will pass the ball in the customary manner. The ball then will travel through the quarterback’s legs into his hands. Cavanaugh explains that the scheme adds deception to the attack, keeping the ball screened from opposition. 1f the quarterback wants to forward pass Cavanaugh thinks he can move back from the line of scrimmage faster in_this new posi- tion than he could before when he had to back up. Fordham plays West Virginia at wet grounds. the Polo Grounds tomorrow. By the Associated Press. Ken Strong of New York Univers; vidual college fcot ball scorer. to bring his point total for the s ferences follows: East—Strong, New York Universil Southwest—Hume, Southern Met! Southern—Banker, Tulane... Big Ten—Pape, Iowa.... against a powerful, finely-drilled team and its well earned victoxy. Bix Six—Howell, Nebraska. Rocky Mountam—Ccu@. Utal Carroll, U. of Washington, Now Leader in Foot Ball Scoring Chuck Carroll of the University of Washington has displaced ity as the country’s leading indi- Carroll scored 6 touchdowns against Puget Sound on Saturday eason to 104 in 8 games. Strong, held scoreless by Georgetown, has scored 91 points in 6 games. The leading scorer in each of the seven major groups or con- G Pacific—Carroll, University of Washington. ty... hodist. 247 | Bames previous this season. | | I0WA SETTING PACE IN BIG TEN SCORING By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 5—Iowa's un- defeated eleven today led in every de- partment of scoring in the Big Ten foot ball race except in the are of hooting field goals. In team scoring the Hawks have piled up 126 points and were 16 ahead of their closest rival, Wisconsin; Oran Pape. flashy Towa halfback, led the in- dividual scoring race with eight touch- downs. and in kicking for extra points after touchdowns Burt Ingwersen’s men were ahead, with 12. By one point Towa also led in defense, with only 12 points scored against it in five games. Ohio State was second in that department, with an opponent's total of 13. Towa gained ground in its race for team-scoring honors Saturday by trouncing a non-conference opponent, South Dakota, 19 to 9. Pape scored two touchdowns in the encounter. oust- ng “Fritz" Humbert. Tllinols fullback, from first place. Humbert, who has failed to score in two straight games. dropped to second with 42 points, and “Bo" Cuisinier, Wisconsin's fleet little halfback, went jnto third place by scooting across Alabama's line for one of the Badgers' two touchdowns, Wisconsin clung to second place in team scorilg. with 110 points. while Purdne was in fourth place, with 109, Field goals come back into their own Saturdev, when three were kicked, or more than had been executed in all Every team nesota, Chicago and nrdue has now scored one, The teems’ scoring standing. showing cames played. touchdowns, field goals, noints after touchdown, total and op- ponents’ total: e~xceot Jowa, Min P TD.F.0. PT. TH 126 110 109 [ 89 az 67 37 3 1 a. 0 ooy wasannoals aaanmmmRnn saaSEER333 a1 7 o oD o~ NAVY AND MICHIGAN TO OFFER REAL GAME ANNAPOLIS, November 5.—Feeling thet their own team has now reached the standard that was expected of it and that Michigan's defeat of Illinois indicates that the Wolverines have also improved greatly, Navy people antici- pate a great game in Baltimore next Saturday. The game will bring’ together two teams which made a mortifying start, but which did the unusual thing of coming back strongly in midseason. Both will be tremendously anxious to win a game, which which will greatly improve their records. Since the Navy won from Pennsyl- vania and Michigan has defeated Iili- nois, a victory in next Saturday’s con- test will put victorles over two big teams to the credit of the winner, Victory of the Navy Saturday over West Virginia Wesleyan by 37 to 0 has convincea the friends of that team that the defeat 3f Pennsylvania was not an accident. Wesleyan was by no means a weak team, and the score made by the Navy against it was by far the largest piled up by any opponent this season. When the Navy team was largely com- posed of the first-string players it was able to almost ride roughshod over tho visitors, VIRGINIA IS FEARFUL OF V. P. 1. GRID TEAM UNIVERSITY, Va., November 5.— While Virginia is rejoicing over its hard-fought victory over Washington and Lee, Coach Earle Neale and his men have a weather eye out for the team of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, which is to be met in Blacksburg Sal urday. Symington was the casualty of the W, & game. This veteran guard suffered a torn ligament in his knee and will be lost to the Cavaliers for the remainder of the Fall, Harris, who won his “V” last Fall s substitute guard, may be used in Sym- ington’s position. However, Coach Neale has hinted that he may move Dick Day, 210-pound sccond string center, into this position in order to add weight to the line. V. P L showed strength against | Maryland ‘in Norfolk and the Virginians know that they must have a tight de- fense if they expect to stop Peake and other members of the “Pony Express.” Virginia is doubly proud of the vic- tory over Washington and Lee because it was a great team of Generals that went down in defeat, battling until the final play, on which Willlams missed by inches the forward pass from Billy Lott that might have miade it possible for them to tie the score. Much time was spent last week pre- paring the on-side kick play as a sur- prise opening and the boot. from Flippin to Sloan was perfectly executed. W. & L. appeared to be taken off guard, but after Virginia had scored two quick touchdowns the Generals staged a mag- nificent rally. These two 60-yard drives for touch- downs with White, Thibodeau, Lott and Faulkner behind a smooth working line made Virginia's defense look poor, and it is this feature of play that Coach N“llte and his assistants will stress this week. MOTHER BREAKS ANKLE IN PLAYING FOOT BALL LOS ANGELES, November 5 (/P).— A 31-year-old mother has entered the ranks of foot ball casualties when Mrs. Lilian Neighbors yielded to the pleas of her young sons that she. Jol;: in |:l|le|r x):ld r;me..“ She broke her ankle when she slipped while running with the ball a | G U FACES TARTAR IN CARNEGIE TECH Little’s Job Saturday More | Difficult Than That of Beat- | ing New York U. BY H. C. BYRD. EORGETOWN'S defeat of New| York University not only is| the outstanding achievement in local foot ball this year, but also is one of the most| noteworthy accomplishments along the entire Atlantic seaboard. Unable to gain consistently by ordi- nary offensive methods, the Blue and Gray played a desperate defensive game that protected the seven points the alertness and speed of one of its| ends had given it early in the contest.| It is all the more to the credit of the Blue and Gray that it could win in a struggle in which its opponent had most of the big guns and the best ammuni- tion. New York University can say for it- self that it should have won, but the fact is it did not. It showed much greater ability to gain ground than Georgetown, but it made mistakes and Georgetown took advantage of those mistakes. When the end of playing time was reached, Georgetown had more points than N. Y. U,, and it happens to be on the number of points that each team has that a game is decided. That Georgetown was able to win despite be- ing outgained, that it was able to stave off driving attacks all through the game, and that it was willing deliberately to score two points against itself in order to get a more advantageous kicking po- sition should add to the credit that be- longs to it. A Triumph for Hoyas. Winning that game Saturday was a distinct triumph for Georgetown and a_fine accomplishment by Coach Lou | Little. It took a team of men willing to battle to the last ditch and it took a coach who had sense enough to | shape a defense that at the same time was sufficiently resilient and stubborn- ly resistive to enable the Blue and Gray to give ground in the middle of the field yet close up and prevent ad- vancements when the ball was carried too close to the goal line. Georgetown has successfully cleared its first and perhaps it most difficult haurdle, only to find in the offing an- other that seems just as high and hard. Carnegie Tech is to be met this week at Albany, and Carnegie Tech in all probability is just about as strong as New York University. Coach Little will settle down this week to the task | form as may enable them to cut an- other notch in the handles of their ns. Little's job this week fs much more (dlmmlt than it was last. No team | can go through a game such as George- town played Saturday and come back the following Saturday and do just as well. It is possible, perhaps, to do that, but highly improbable. Rest probably is what the Blue and Gray warriors need more than anything else and Little is likely this week to put all the time he can safely use in teach- ing his men to meet the Carnegie Tech offense. G. W. U.-C. U. Line Furnished. 'Gecrge Washington took another | Whipping, this time at the hands of Wil- | liam and Mary. The Virginians came | here with a better eleven than they were | expected to have, and simply proved their superiority. Incidentally, the game | gives possibly something of an idea as to the relative strength of George Wash- ington and Catholic University, as the latfer defeated William and Mary at Wiiliamsburg two weeks ago. Catholic - University played a great | game against Rutgers until the closing moments, when without reserving strength, the Brooklanders were beaten oack for two touchdowns. Catholic Uni- versity played just as good foot ball as the New Brunswick eleven, but could | not cope with the fresh supplies of re- serve strength it found itself against late in the contest. American University got its first vic- tory of the year, defeating Bridgewater College by two touchdowns to one. The Meathodists have been playing teams far out of their class, and it is significant that it defeats the first one of about its own caliber that it met. Gallaudet went on a rampage in the closing quarter of its game with Shep- herd College, scoring three touchdowns and turning what apparently was a close contest into a decisive victory. At | the beginning of the fourth quarter | Gallaudet was on the short end of a 21-£0-20 score, but then something hap™ | pened and the Kendall Green players took a new lease on life. | - | University of Maryland had a great | battle with® Virginia Polytechnic Insti- | tute at Norfolk, though it lost by three | points. The Blacksburg eleven scored | a field goal and a touchdown in the first six minutes of the first quarter, but could not get another point. Maryland made its touchdown on the second play after the opening of the second quarter. The most remarkable part of the game was the running back of punts by Peake, V. P. I halfback. With one or two ex- ceptions, three men took dives at Peake as he caught the kicks, but in one way | or another the back slipped through, | by or around them for big gains. Two or three times he ran the bail back to the point it was kicked from. Maryland lost, but has no regret. It played good foot ball, but simply was beaten in a | close contest in which it was not able to muster its full strength. Ohio State, facing Princeton with an unblemished record, could not do what was predicted for it—win. The two clevens battled to a tie, 6 to 6, beforc one of the biggest crowds that has watched a foot ball game anywhere this year. More than 72,000 paid ad- mission. Incidentally, the result of the contest indicates that Princeton is far! advanced over what it was when it met Virginia. Michigan has been gradually coming until now it seems that it has a team just about as good as any of the other Western Conference schools. A victory by 3 to 0 over Illinois is indication of how rapidly the Wolverines have been developing since they took beatings at the beginning of the season. Alabama was not able to beat Wis- consin in its game at Madison, but made about as good a showing as ordi- narily could have been expected of it.( It was in punting that Wisconsin's| great superiority lay, as it gained an average of 12 yards on each exchange of kicks. A handicap of that kind is exceedingly difficult to overcome. In rushing the ball Alabama gained seven first downs against ten for Wisconsin. The game in which Penn beat Chi- cago reads something like fiction. Chi- cago tied the score in the last two min utes of play and the count stood 13 to 13. And then after receiving the kick- off the Quakers threw a 59-yard for- ward pass that produced a touchdown and decided the issue. The Wilner who played quarterback for Penn is the same Wilner who captained and played halfback for Central four years ago. University of Virginia began to get its regular backs in shape last week and *he Tes 't of their return was shown in the outcome of the game with Washington of bringing his men back to such| SPORTS. GRID RACES AT GLANCE By the Assoclated Press. of unbeaten and untied teams, w and Villanova. New York Univ Western Conference Big Ten form reversal. those of Towa State and Missouri, secure lead. Oklahoma eliminated swamped by University of Mississi ing group, now including Georgia bilt and Georgia. Florida and Georgia. disputed lead by overthrowing U tian, after six-game winning stre: Jollege after previously beating Aggies and University of Colorad Southern California’s victory. U. lection. Tech and Vanderbilt meet this weel East.—West Point, Georgetown and Carnegie lead reduced list hich also includes Boston College ersity’s first reversal suffered at hands of Georgetown in main upset. .—Illinois, 1927 champions, elimi- nated by Michigan, which scored first victory of season in major Towa and Ohio State, two remaining teams with clean conference slates, battle this week. Missouri Valley “Big Six.”--Nebraska, adding Kansas scalp to holds undisputed and apparently by Iowa State and Missouri upset by former Conference rival, Drake, Southern Conference.—Clemson, after six straight victories, ippi and dropped fyom lead-shar- Tech, Tennessee, Florida, Vandeé‘- so do Southwestern Conference.—Southern Methodist assumes un- niversity of Texas. Texas Chris- ak, upset by Baylor. Rocky Mountain Conference.—University of Utah, 1926 title holders, clinched undisputed place at top by downing Colorado two other contenders, Colorado 0. Pacific Coast Conference.—Stanford’s title hopes upset by S. C. and California, which played scoreless tie, now share lead, latter adding scalp of Oregon to col- LAY in the final half of the pub- lic high school foot ball cham- plonship series will get under way tomorrow when the Busi- ness and Eastern elevens meet. | Central and Tech will clash Friday in the other title match carded this week. | High School Stadium, starting at 3:15 | o'clock. Eastern and Tech, which are tied for the lead in the series race with two wins and no defeats each, are favored to win again this week. and if they do | the battle November 16 between the | Lincoln Parkers and the McKinley | elevens will be the crucial one of the serles. Eastern will present a line-up tomor row against Business somewhat stronger than that which triumphed over Cen- Everett Oxley. new but clever back. on the job the Lincoln Parkers' backfield is cxpected to exhibit a_punch which has been lacking so far. Business plans to use virtually the same line-up as took the field acainst Central last Tues dav, when the Columbia Heights scholastics won, 18 to 0. Eastern beat Business by only 14 to 6 last Fall. Oxley Is expected to start at quarter- back for Eastern, with Capt. Billy Wood, who has been at that post, going to the end job, which has been’ occu- pied by Eaton Chalkley. McCarthy. Both contests will be played in Central | tral and Western, both by 6 to 0. With | BUSINESS AND EASTERN WILL BATTLE TOMORROW McCullough and Millar will make up the remainder of the backfield. Wade will be at left tackle, Montague at left guard, Chester Miles at center, Cham- berlain at right guard, T. Nally at right tackle and Holland at right end. Business’ starting line-up probably will be as follows: Kengla, left end: s, left tackle: Denniberg, left Marks, center; Brown, right guard; Finley, right tackle; Mahoney, right end: Lewis, quarterback; Rich, left halfback; E. Duryee, right half- back: Reichardt, fullback. While Central doubtiess has a stronger eleven than at the start of the season, it is not given much chance against Tech. A Central gridiron team is never beaten, though, especially when playing its dearest of foes. Last Fall Central vanquished the McKinley boys. 6 to 0. in a spirited battle. Coach Hap Hardell's proteges will be out to even scores Friday. They are a formidable, well drilled bunch and are figured to turn the trick. Anyway you look at | it the game probably will be interest- - | ing and like all Central-Tech matches | is certain to be colorful. | _ In other schoolboy games of the week Eastern and Gonzaga will meet at Fastern, Business and St. Joan's prob= ably on the Tidal Basin Field and St. Alban's and St. Christopher at Riche mond on Friday and Emerson and York, Pa. High at York on Saturday. HILE most of their rivals and contemporarles were idling yesterday either because of an off-day on their schedule or because rain made local gridirons soggy, Mohawks continued their drive toward regaining the un- limited foot ball championship by downing St. Mary's Celtics in a hard- fought battle in Griffith Stadium. The final score was 14 to 7 with the Alexan- drians battling their gamest until the final whistle. A little more punch in the final period might have enabled the Celts to have knotted the count. Dud Saur, the former Georgotown tackle, interceptsd a pass in midfield as the contest waned and reached the Hawk 5-yard line be- fore being hauled down. The Celt offens> was not equal to the task and lost the ball on downs. Dewey and McCabe contributed sensa- tional runs during the fracas, each accounting for a touchdown. Brunelle recorded the first Hawk touchdowns in the initial period. Apaches, unlimited title holders, can- celed their scheduled game with Reina Mercedes due to wet conditions at Union League Park. Only two Capital City League contests were staged, the major- ity being postponed because of wet fields. In these contests, Yankee Preps and National Preps of 150-pound division battled in a scoreless tie, while Brook- land A. C. moved forward in 135- lo 0. Capt. Johnny Holden led the Brookland scoring machine. Northerns were idle as Virginia A. C. canceled the clash scheduled for Shij yard Field at Alexandria. S Gunners and Palace A. C. elev to complete their battle on Navy Yard Field. A dispute in the second period caused the Sailors to quit the fleld. Palace A. C. claimed a touchdown. Seamen Gunners maintained that Ref- eree Hendricks had sounded his whistle, and that no effort was made to halt the Palace player carrying the ball. No agreement could be reached and the game ended abruptly. Brookland Boys’ Club eleven, with Franke and Flannigan starring, turned in a 19-to-6 win over Pierce A. C. of Hyattsville. Fussell Young Preps shoved over a touchdown in the last period to gain a well earned 7-to-0 win over Arlington A. C. Eagle A. C. gridmen proved no match for Twin Oaks, the latter registering its fifth straight win, 31 to 6. Janney A. C. eleven has been read- mitted to Capital City League. Wilson F. McCray, president of the club, an- nounced that the team had been with- drawn last week without proper author- ity. League officials announced that a meeting will be held Thursday night to test. Reina Mercedes will come here No- vember 25 to meet Apaches, their clash having been postponed yesterday. Sey- mour Hall is lryg to book St. Mary's Celtics for the aches on November 18. Wintons have been listed for De- cember 2, and the Mohawk clash will have to be played after that date, he says. Apaches will drill tonight, Wed- nesday and Priday nights for their bat- tle with Palace A. C. next Sunday. Southerns and Seat Pleasant Firemen called off their scheduled clash yester- day. Firemen plan a busy week of practice sessions in preparation for the good job. The Cavaliers got a jump on the Lexington eleven, scoring twice in the first period. Washington and Lee evened things up in the second period, and Washington and Lee could not. North Carolina was somewhat lucky to get a tie out of its game with North Carolina State.”With the Raleigh eleven leading with only a minute left to play a long forward pass was made by the and Les. Flippin, 185-pound end, who was mnot expected to play again this year, was back at his post and did a Chapel Hill team and was caught for a touchdown. The final count was 6 to 6, neither team kicking goal. « 3 pound ranks by downing Carlisles, 27 | act, on the Mohawk Prep-Janncy pro- | but Virginia scored in the second half | Mohawks Are Extended to Win Over St. Mary’s Celtics, 14-7 game with Northerns next Sunday. Northerns will drill tonight on Park View Playground at 7:30 o'clock. With the Fort Leonard Wood Tank Corps team listed for Sunday, Wintons will drill tonight, Wednesday and Fri- day nights. on Virginia avenue play- grounds at 7:30 o'clock. Three of the teams seeking games are | Anacostia Eagle 135-pounders, Main 4181; Fussell Young 100-pounders, West | 3160, and Black Hawk 80-pounders, | Atlantic 1378. PROVIDENCE, FRANKFORD TIED FOR PRO GRID LEAD COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 5 (#). —Results of games Saturday and yes- terday and the standing of the teams in the National Foot Ball League follow: Saturday’s Results. Frankford (Philadelphia), 2 Yesterday's Results: (Philadelphia), 0: New York Giants, 0_(tie). 26:_Pottsville, 14, Providence. 7: Detroit, Chicago Bears, 27; New York Yankees, 0. Standing. Detrott, 1. Frankford te! Providence ankfo:d Green Bay. Detrojt ... York Giants. . z0 Bears.. Cardinal: PIEC SRt | hic ic Pottsville Ney York Dayton .. ELEVENS PLAY TIE GAME. Del Ray Eagles and Alexandria Rose- | buds, midget grid teams, battled in a |6-all deadlock yesterday on Duncan | Fleld. TROUSERS | To Match Your Odd Coats |EISEMAN'S, 7th & F cosormammat T DYSTFTFTRVIeNS PimlicoRaces November 1 to 14, inc. First _Race. ission. $1.50 Sp 0. E. R. Ly. Due Balto. d Freauent T Penna. R. R. and W. Line | [ | i No Red Tape No Embarrassment Bring Y?ur Car Get Your Tires on the Spot 1234 14th St. NW. 2250 Sherman Ave. N.’ 634 Pa. Ave. S.E. |