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31 SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1928. SPORTS. ' King Foot Ball Nearing End of Reign : South Has Strong Claim on Grid Hongrs | THEY TACKLED HIGH BUT EFFECTIVELY IN SANDLOT GRID BATTLE YESTERDAY | FEW BIG GAMES REMAIN ON CARD Penn vs. Cornell and Army vs. Stanford Are Among Choicest Tilts Left. BY H. C. BYRD. . , ING foot ball is about to lay away his septre. In ‘fust a little while fields that have re- sounded to the tread of embat- tled elevens and the hurrahs and groans of multitudes will lie silent and empty, save for the echo of the ground keeper’s noisy work or the cold silence that by its very contrast gives memory to the life and color that go with gridiron conflicts. Most of the great stadia in the Middle West, Far ‘West and North already have in them only such memories, and it is almost entirely in the South that one must look for the next two weeks for dying embers of the ardor that for three months has swept the country. Up at Philadelphia and out at Pitts- burgh Thanksgiving day, Thursday of this week, two big games will be played. Not big games in the sense that cham- pionships are at stake, but big because of the rivalry and traditions built around the contending teams. Pennsylvania and Cornell nrake a big foot ball game no matter what the con- ditions, and even if Cornell this year apparently is much weaker than the Quakers the game still will be a big game and hold the attention and in< terest of all those connected with Cornell and Penn more than their at- tention is held by any other, The same is true of the Pittsburgh-Penn State game at Pittsburgh. In addition to these games Boston College and Holy Cross are to meet and Georgetown plays Detroit. ¥ Army Meets Stanford. ‘The biggest game from a general int of view will be that at New.York etween Army and Stanford next Sat- urday. The Army unguestionably has one.of the greatest, if not the greatest, teams in the East and Stanford may have the same said of it for the Pa-- cific Coast. It is not the greatest out there, but it is one of the three great- est. The game should be exceedingly attractive. In the South most of the elevens are girding their loins for thefr most im- portant struggles of the year, from the viewpoint of ancient rivalries, for it seems that in the South Thanksgiving is the day selected to determine many of these. In the South Atlantle section, Vir- ginla and North Carolina meet at Char- Iottesville, and - Virginia especially is basing its hopes for a season on the result. In this contest, as in al- most any other scheduled Thursday, victory -means. more to. the contending, elevens than anything else during the whole season. If Virginia beats Caro- lina it will not worry about anything else that has happened to it this year. Virginia Polytechnic Institute has been through the best season it has had | Lo in years, but if it loses to Virginia Mil- | itary Institute this Thursday afternoon, then all the glories that have been won will mean little. And right here it might be mentioned that Virginia Mil- itary Institute feels about the same way, and, incidentally, has a far better chance to win than one might suspect. Over in Baltimore Maryland and Hopkins will battle through a rivalry that goes back to 1892 and Iast year Hopkins won for the first time since | 1915 and that defeat has not been set- ting very well on M Georgia Tech able to keep up the Tech PED iana State University and “Tolane have yet to play, and that is productive of about the most intense rivalry that is known to foot ball. It stated in New Orleans two years ago that far a week before that game and Jor a week after very little work is dane gy the students. of either university, which is carrying foot ball entirely, too-far. - Other big games'in the tween North Stal son, Mississippi A, and M: sity of Mississippi, Vanderbilt and AL~ bama. % ; News notes last week from New Ha- ven and Cambridge indicated little inter- est among students in the then forth- coming Yale-Harvard foot ball game, but news stories which told of scenes in the Yale Bowl after the Harvard vic- tory did not indicate any lack of en- thusiasm among Harvard meh over their victory, nor did they show any evidence of hilarity among Yale people. The fact is that campus life in the average big university has for the bulk of students become & very complex affair and stu- dents generally do not have the time to give to.so-cailed “pep”’ meetings they once .did.: But because students and alumni-are ot -overly ‘enthusiastic in their attendance at such mass meetings it need not be thought for a moment that they are one whit less interested in teams and the outcome of games. Indications of wild enthusiasm on the side of the victor and of deep gloom on the side of the vanquished in nearly every case shows how deeply such things realiy are felt. Harvard won from Yale without leav- ing any doubt as to its superiority. The Crimson kept the Blue backed up in Blue territory all afternoon and gave it few opportunities to get anywhere, and on the other hand the Crimson apparently scored with something of that cold precision that once charac- terized its teams under Haughton. Yale has had a disastrous year, viewing the year simply from the number of games lost, and much conjecture will be seen in the various newspaper columns in the next few weeks as to what steps may be taken toward reconstruction. Harvard, cn the contrary, despite an early defeat by Army, will consider that it once more is well on the way toward rebuilding of its gridiron structure. New York University simply annihi- lated Carnegie Tech, and that right at a time when the Pittsburghers had within their grasp a national cham- pionship. Foot ball as it is now played involves so much of physical and mental strain on players, and coaches, too, for that matter, that unless watched care- fully a team may crack any time it is against an opponent just about as strong as it is. New York University got up just a little bit too high and walloped the life out of Colgate, but it paid for that vic- tory a week later when it lost to Georgetown, which apparently is not as strong. One probably would not be far amiss if one picked University of South- ern California and New York University as the two strongest elevens in the country, with Georgia Tech, Army, Minnesota, Carnegie Tech, Notre Dame and Wisconsin just about as close to them as possible. Navy, after a bad start, despite the prospect it had for a fine team, rose to great heights in defeating a hitherto undefeated Princeton eleven. And here again was a strong, fresh squad meeting an opponent that was on the down grade. Week before last Princeton veru}j:i_‘;, for some cause UNKHOWH, the ‘THEY TACKLED HIGH BUT EFFECTIVELY IN SANDLOT GRID BATTLE YESTERDAY ONLY T2 ELEVENS INU. 3. UNBEATEN Just Six, Though, Have Clean Slates, as Others Have Figured in Ties. By.the Assoclated Press. Six more college foot ball teams took the pitcher to the well once too often on Saturday and thereby joined the huge company of also rans. Where the national list of unbeaten elevens numbered 18 a week ago, only an even dozen remain in that category today. Of these, 8 did not play on Saturday, or the list of casualties might have been even larger. Boston College, Tennessee and De- troit head the list with eight’ victories and no defeats. Florida, Emory and Henry and Georgia Tech each has ac- counted for seven triumphs without a setback. All the others in the unbeaten class have been tied one or more times The leading unbeaten teams follow: w. : Pts, I [ i 236 8 0 14 213 lorida_ 1008 B Emory-Hehry 78 8 11 208 Georzia_Tech 3 3% 1a Southern California .. 8 0 1 45 240 Villanova - F R Ll 125 11189 FO I | STANFORD STARTS EAST FOR CLASH WITH ARMY SAN FRANCISCO, November 26 ().—Having finished their Coast Con- ference season with a final flourish that saw them play California’s Bears to a 13-t0-13 tie Saturday, Stanford’s Cardi- nals were en route to New York today for theh’t ingz.necuonal it] next Saturday. S ‘Twenty-eight players, anied by Head Coach G{mn Waitief and two assistants, boarded the Stanford clal early yesterday. A delegation 200 rooters was on the same train. Charles Smalling, regular backfield man, was left behind, victim of an attack of influenza. The Stanford team completed the conference schedule -with four victories, one: defeat and one tie. njng of Right at: the be It of prac- ‘comment. year-apparently as-a- , the who was e: to-be the star of the Navy backfield came to his death. Navy lost its first three games, then began to pull” itself together, until toward the end of the season the Navy was a team that whipped Pennsylvania and Prince- ton, two of the country’s strong elevens. The death of that foot ball star may have affected the morale of the squad to an extent unthought of, and possibly it was not until the squad began to pull itself together in the latter half of the season that it showed its true worth. What other elevens in the Middle ‘West could not do; Biff Jones’ Army men did when they trounced Nebraska, 13 to 3. It was the first defeat of the year for the Lincoln eleven, and it came because Army played better foot ball. Facing a line he felt would be invincible, Jones built his attack around a passing game that involved Cagle in a throwing and recelving capacity. Jones' tactics were good and he won from what physically may have been a more power- ful eleven. Indiana outrushed and outpassed Purdue, but lost by 0 to 14, which means that Bloomington will bz clothed in gloom for another year. For Indiana to lose to Purdue, from the viewpoint of Indiana, is much the same as if Jim Corbett, “Gentleman Jim,” were to get knocked down in a first fight by a stevedore, The Boilermakers, as Purdue is called, owed their victory mainly to the wonderful punting of Welch and his defenstve ability in snagging passes thrown by Indiana and running them back for good distances. Michigan rose in its might just at tle wrong time for Towa, as the latter would have been in an excellent position for a claim to Western Conference laurels had it been able to beat the ‘Wolverines. Local schools all were victors, and perhaps the victory which was best de- served and for which real earnest ef- fort was put forth under great disad- vantages was the sweeping one Gal- laudet won over Bridgewater College. The Kendall Greeners go through foot ball season after foot ball season with f;r less material than any of the schools they draw from, yet stick to their guns and offer no alibi, no matter by how big a score they may lose. For a school that tending a hand of congratulation over its success. Georgetown took the long end of the score in its game with Fordham with- out much difficulty and probably could have won by a bigger count had it so desired. The Blue and Gray scored two touchdowns early and then coasted along until the latter part of the con- test, when it made two more. The game with Detroit University now is the Blue and Gray's final objective, and just what that objective means in the way of competition may well be realized when it is mentioned that De- troit U. has not yet been defeated. Maryland finally won from Washing- man |- Plny and very few students tol does that, everybody should join in ex- | By the Assoclated Press. years, while Navy upset Princeton, ends with Illinois, 1927 champions, bers beaten, but Illinois, defeated setback of season, needs only to capture championship. Missouri Kansas, in runner-up hole. games this week and next. GRID RACES AT GLANCE East—Boston College remains only major team neither beaten nar tied, but New York University, by knocking off hitherto unchecked Carnegie Tech team, and West Point, by trimming Nebraska, keeps high rank. Harvard ended season with first victory over Yale in six Western Conference Big Ten—One of hottest and closest races which lost to Minnesota in final game after being tied by Purdue. Ohio State beaten by Illinois in deciding game. Missouri Valley Big Six—Nebraska, defeated by Army for first Southern Conference—Situation unchanged, with Florida, Ten- nessee and Georgia Tech not beaten nor tied, setting the pace for two other contenders, Virginia Poly and Louisiana State. Deciding Southwestern Conference—Texas still in lead, but facing Texas Aggies in decisive game Thanksgiving day. Rocky Mountain Conference—Utah still leading University of Colorado in race to be decided when former plays Utah Aggies and latter meets Denver on Thanksgiving day. Pacific Coast Conference—Southern California, by sweeping over Idaho, while California was held to tie by Stanford, gains technical right to conference title. University of Southern California unbeaten, but tied once by California, which now has record spotted by two ties. hitherto undefeated. having best title claim. All mem- only by Michigan, tops Wisconsin, beat Kansas Aggies this week to through victory over old rival, By the Associated Press. EN |< but national leadership as well. with 104. Gulick of Hobart, who is runner-up 110 points. g Player and College. strong,, New York University Plesc—mo’l}.{ Washington . Southern—Banker, Tulane ... Rocky Mountain—Clark, Colorado Southwestern—Hume, Southern Me Big Ten—Hovde, Minnesota Big Six—Howell, Neb: eries of Upsets < ~ BY PAUL R. MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, November 26.—After drifting about flirtatiously to five different universities in eight weeks, the big ten foot ball champlonship bunting was again miledh!ec;rgz to the same old asthea ay. m}‘:\mtsh:l ditziest champlonship race since the Western Conference began 34 years ago, & race so crammed with up- fets that four defeated teams were in the running until the last second of play, Coach “Bob” Zup) ke piloted his Tilinois craft through the devsstatln% gale and took undisputed possession o the big uted possession of the title for the :Qg";% con}s)emcutive year, a feat engi- neered only l;y Ctii:;go. 'Wisconsin and tate since . Oxggrg’n amongst the wreckage of walso rans” were the other three last minute contenders, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio State, whose hopes were dashed in the typhoon of line smashes, forward passes, kicks and penalties. Of the three Wisconsin came the closest, finishing second, with a defeat and & tie to mar its record. Minnesota, which blasted Wisconsin's hopes with' a 6-to-0 victory Saturday, and which lost the title it- self by a pair of one-point defeats, was third. Towa and Ohio State finished in a tle for fourth and fifth, Purdue was sixth, Northwestern and Michigan were deadlocked for seventh and eighth, In- diana was ninth and Chicago's ‘weakest team in history landed in the cellar. 1t was a pair of upsets that gave Tllinois the opportunity it so eagerly grasped. Before the final games, Wis- consin had a lead in the champion- ship race, as it was undefeated. Only a tie with Purdue blemished its record. Tilinois had lost to Michigan, Towa had defeated Ohio State .and ‘Wisconsin had defeated Towa. Thus 8 victory for Minnesota over Wisconsin, one for Michigan over Iowa and a trlumfh by Tllinols over Ohlo State was Tllinois only chance. Byu! that was exactly what happened. Minnesota defeated the Badgers, B‘M 0, in a thriller at Madison; Michigan's re- juvenated team walloped Iowa, 10 to 7, and Illinois outclassed Ohlo State, 3to 0. There were n\?‘éyg;;m“ in the :x?ew:; fonship race, but there were n E}u mingls's superiority over Ohlo State Strong Seems Sure to Top Gridiron Scorers of Country STRONG not only has clinched the East's foot ball scoring honors, sity halfback scored 15 points against Carnegle Tech on Saturday to boost his season's total to 154. ‘Washington, leader of the Pacific Coast Conference, holds second place This total, however, has been surpassed by another Eastern scorer, | to Strong in the Atlantic seaboard with | The leader of each of the seven major groups or conferences follows: i Leaves Illinois Team at Top rize. 5 ‘The tr?umph gave the “fighting Tlini" | giay ‘The high-powered New York Univer- Chuck Carroll of the University of | Games. TD. PAT. F.D.G, Total. 21 28 [ 154 17 2 0 104 15 10 o 100 13 17 1 98 13 6 0 84 9 0 o 54 9 0 0 54 in Big Ten excelled the big Green team in every department. Purdue defeated #ts old rival, Indiana, 14 to 0, at Lafayette and retains pos- | session of the old oaken bucket for| dnother year. ‘“Pest” Welch was the Purdue ramrod, going over for its two touchdowns. ‘These were & few of the features that marked the Big Ten season: Michigan's comeback - after . losing three straight conference games, a new attendance record, the lack of many serious injuries, the lack of many out- standing stars, upsets of Illinols by Michigan, Ohio State by Iowa, Iowa by Wisconsin and Wisconsin by Minne- «sota and the curtain for Dr. Jack Wilce, who is through with coaching at Ohio te. G. W.-C. U. PREPPING FOR ANNUAL MATCH As both teams have rested for nearly two weeks, Catholic 'University and George Washington are expected to bz able to place their styongest combina- tions on the fleld when the Cardinals and Colonials hook up Thursday in the annual battle. Repeated injuries have handlcnpgecl both elevens all season. Final hard work will be begun by both teams today, and they will get in another hard session tomorrow. Wed- nesday will be a light day, devoted to polishing players and kindred work. It appears that a real battle should be in order when the teams line up in the stadium at Brookland. Neither C. U. nor G. W. has set the world on fire this season, but each can be count- ed upon to put forth its best efforts Thursday. Ralph ‘Duplin, Johnny Bozek, Driscoll and Liston are Georgetown players who were injured so severely in the Fordham game that they are not expected to be able to see action against Detroit Uni- versity Saturday. Duplin has a_broken bone in his leg, Bozek wrenched his left ankle, Driscoll has a badly swollen ankle and Liston | Wisc has wrenched muscles in his leg. Freshmen _pharmacists of George | ¢ Washington University defeated Sopho- | Chicazo more pharmacists of that institution in a foot ball game yesterday, 35 to 0. Allman with three touchdowns starred. Saturday. The Illini line was so pow- erful that it could never be penetrated for anything but short gains, and their ibacks, Peters, Humbert, Walker and Mills, were so shifty and well versed in Zuppke trickery that they charged up and down the field almost at will. Ohio State made but one threat—in the final quarter. : A fumble by Rebholz on Wisconsin's 17-yard line, which was scooped up by a Minnesota player, spoiled Wisconsin's dream of their first title since 1912. In five plays ‘he Gophers rammed the ball over for the lone touchdown, Bronko Nagurski doing the scoring. Wisconsin threatened twice but didn’t have the poiated with all its strength and energy {ton and Lee, and won without any ;punch. to defeat Yale and Saturday's game with Navy was an anti-climax, which is not said with the intention of de- tracting in the least from the Navy victory, so justly deserved. One factor in connection with the Navy's season which may have influ- enced its record seems to have escaped } motices SK certaloll doubt about the victory being deserved. The Old Liners, except for three or four lapses, which involved mainly fumbling the ball, played well. Washington and Lee did more to stop Maryland's pass- ing attack than other eleven has this season, but in doing so weakened its defense considerably against the run- bas caused little 'ning.game, ! i st ot WIBYIDE thie leading xole { Michigan fought an uphill battle to |beat Towa and 65,000 fans cheered the Wolverines as one of the gamest in Michigan's history. Another high spot in the final day's play_was Northwestern's 27-to-6 rout of Dartmouth. With Hank Bruder, Capt. Walter Holmer and Yat Levison e Wildcats > ITALIAN FIGHTER WINS. MILAN, Italy, November 26 (#).—The Giant Italian heavyweight, Primo Car- nera, defeated the Argentine negro, Epifanio Izlas, on points in & lo-ro\mdl bout here. - YALE WINS AT CHESS. NEW HAVEN, November 26.—Extra! Yale beat Harvard—at chess. ~The match started soon after the foot ball game Saturday and ended long after it. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F A B ST T AT PR RN R RN Y Mohawks, Who Won, 6 to 0, Are Stopping Hooley Gass, Northerns’ Clever Halfback. G LOUP TOPED BY HOAVK PREFS Keeps Slate Clean in a Tie. Team for Trip to Be Picked Today. Competition for the championship in the 150-pound class of the Capital City Foot Ball League is close, following yes- terday’s games, in which 8t. Stephen's was awarded a 1-0 forfeit over Janney A. C, and Mohawk Preps and Mercury Preps fought to a 0-0 tie, Mohawks now are the lone undefeat- ed team in the 150-pound class, with five victories against no defeats. Mer- curys and St. Stephen's are tied for second place each with four victories and one loss. Several postponed games remain to be played and upon the out- come of these will depend the title. Either Mohawks or St. Stephen's team' wilt go to Richmond Saturday to meet Arrows A. C. eleven of that city and representatives of the two Dis- trict teams are to meet this afternoon at 5:30 o'lock at French's Sport Store, 424 Ninth street, to determine which shall make the trip. Mercurys after battling Mohawks to a 0-0 draw protested the game because of Referee Costello’s decision as to time left to play and this protest will be acted upon either tonight or tomor- row night by ‘the protest board of the league. St. Stephen's was awarded a forfeit over Janneys after the latter failed to place eleven players on the field, Staging a last-half drive during which it did all its scoring, Northern Prep gridders defeated Mardfelts, 14 to 6, and assumed the lead in the 135- pound division of Capital City League. The setback was the first for Mard- feldts, who previously had been head- ing the flag race. Brooklands gained sécond place, de- feating Palace, 7 to 6, and Marions now are third as the result of vanquish- ing Carlisles, 7 to 6. 5 Hackensmith and Dyer scored toiich- downs for Northerns, the latter rupning 18 yards to score. Phelps counted Mard- feldt's touchdown. Reagan’s failure to make good-on the try for point enabled Brooklands to-down Palace. - C. Hughes went over for a touch- down for Marjons in the final period and McGin rushed the extra point across to give that team its win over Carlisles. ‘Lambert grabbed a fumble and raced 40 yards to score Carlisles’ tally in the opening period. MINNESOTA LEADER IN BIG TEN SCORING EC By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 26-—Minne- sota's “Bonecrushers,” who lost the championship by failing to score two ints after touchdowns are the scor- ing champions of the Big Ten foot ball race, which ended Saturday. Its quarterback, Freddy Hovde, won individual scoring honors by piling up 54 points, while the Gophers led in team scoring with 178 points. Wis- consin was second in team scoring with 148 points. The champion Illini were first in defense, only 16 points being scored against them in eight games. In individual scoring, the.leaders fin- ished after Hovcde as follows: Oran Pape, Towa, 48; Win Brockmeyer, Min- nesota, 43; “Fritz” Humbert, . Illinois, 0" 42; Byron Eby, Ohio State, 42 Cuisiner, ‘Wisconsin, 37; Mayes Mc- ‘Walter Holmer, North- Ve 4 b” Caraway, Purdue, 32, and Willis Glassgow, Iowa, 32. Scoring statistics reveal that field goals were a great rarity in the Big Ten this year. In 80 games, only seven were kicked. Three of these were booted by Michigan, which had the surprisingly low total of four touchdowns in eight games. Two of Michigan's fleld goals netted the Wolverines their only two victories. Kicking for extra points after touchdowns also was the most unsuc- cessful in many years. Only 98 were good out of 166 attempts. Capt. Walter Holmer of Northwestern was the ace of the Big Ten in that department, booting .eight in nine attempts. He missed his only effort when Dartmouth blocked his kick Saturday. ‘The final team scoring table, show- ing number of games played, touch- downs, fleld goals, points after touch- downs, total and opponents’ total: G. TD. FG. PT. Total. OP. 27 0 16 178 36 Minnesota, b s n 1 i3 148 n 8 11 0 15 141 &2 8 32 0 11 143 4 HIE SRS N T & bt 8. d i § 81 ¢.8"@& Michigan %0708 ¢ 3 3 3 62 i St BASKETERS SEEK GAME. ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 26.— Hoffman Clothiers of Alexandria are anxious to schedule a senior or unlimit- ed team having the use of a gymnasium tomorrow, ‘Wednesday =or Thursday nights. 'Phone Manager Jack Allen at lAllr(sxandna 2198 between 5 and 7 o'clock. BOWIE RACES Nov. l(ith to 29th mnc. First Race 1:00 P.M. Special _trains leave Station. W z after 11:15. APACHES AND PACHES, District sandlot un- limited class foot ball cham- plons, and Mohawks, their most formidable contender, both kept their season’s record clean yes- terday, the former downing Tank Corps eleven of Fort Leonard Wood. 19 to 6, and the latter overcoming Northerns, to 0. Tank Corps gained the distinction of being the first team this season to score on Apaches. The teams were tied at the half, each with six points, ! but Apaches rang up two touchdowns in the final half to.put the game in i the bag. Llaih Mohawks won. over. the fighting Northerns in” much the same fashion as they did in vanquishing Northerns, 7 to 0, the .Sunday previously. . The Hawks again yesterday counted as the result of the ability to capitalize on a break. A line-pounding attack gave Tank Corps its touchdown, Sicliano plunging over for the extra point. Matt Twaomey swept an end. to score Apaches’ first touchdown after- a long pass from Joe Sweeney. to Vinnie Flaherty had put the ball in position. An end run by Matt Twoomey also brought Apaches' second touchdown and in the last period Zuke -Supplee, -Little Indian coach, took a.pass from Joe Sweeney near the goal posts to score the winners' final touch- down. After holding the Hawks at bay for more than half the game Kinney fell on the ball on the Northerns' 25-yard line after one of Wilton's boots hit a North- wn player on the foot. With Abbot- ticcio heading the attack the Mohawks then, showing their only decided offense of the afternoon, crashed to their touchdown. Abbotticcio's off - tackle plunge for the extra point failed. Hooley Gass, Coach Mat Heard, Fox, Drew and Delaney starred for North- erns. It was a costly battle for that team, however, as Worksman and Price ;m;e forced from the game with in- uries. Southern eleven, which engaged in a 0-0 game with Seat Pleasant RFiremen yesterday, is seeking a match for TAKE THEIR GRID GAMES ders on the defensive most of the way yesterday, the latter managed to hold Coach’ Orrel Mitchell's charges at' pay whenever they threatened to score. Southerns menaced the home team’s goal twice in the second period sad once in the fourth session. Payne, Self, Farrell and. Kelliher played strongly for Southerns, with Barry and Miles showing stoutly for the Firemen. Clarendon Lyons yesterday triumphed over Seaman Gunners, 7 to 0, in an in- teresting grid match on Lyon Village field. Barker scored the only touci- down in the opening period. A pass from Cea to Dye netted tes extra point. Pennants fought National Press Building Cardinals to a 9—9 draw yes- terday on the Monument Grounds. It was the first time the Cards had been scored upon this season. Pennants tied the score in the dying moments, a drop-kick for the extra point by Wil- iie Addison creating the deadlock. Aatecs pointed the way to Pericles eleven, 13 to 0, yesterday. O'Brien, who kioked well and, was a steady ground gainer, and Mulhall stood out for the victors, with Capt. Katsouchas doing well for the losers. A game with a 150-pound-class eleven for Thanksgiving day is sought by Mer- cury Preps with a home or an out-of-. town team. Alexandria Firemen, Vir- ginia Athletic Club, Seat Pleasant Fire- men and Quantico Reserves are spe- clally’ challenged. Call M. H. Webster at Pranklin 4711 or write 637 G street southwest. - Janney A. C. and Seamen Gunners are to meet Thanksgiving day on Priendship Field at 3 o'clock. With regard to a scheduled game the manager of Mohawk prep eleven is asked to call the Seat Pleasant Firemen team’spilot at Lincoln 2975 between 6 and 7:30 pm. St. Stephen's gridders are to practice Thursday with Northerns. Though Southerns had the Seat Pleasant grid- tonight. at 7:30 o'clock at the Lincoln Memorial. EASTERN GRID CAMPAIGN TO CLOSE ON SATURDAY| and the worm should turn some time. On the surface, though, it doesn't ap- pear that Penn State can hope for re- venge for another year. West, Virginia will be a heavy favorite to turn back Washington and Jefferson at Morgantown. The Mountaineers have drop] two _decision this year, one to Georgetown, but their victims have included such aggregations as Pitt, La- {llyetu, ‘Washington and Lee and Ford- am. New York University, hailed in some circles as the greatest team in the East as a result of its crushing victory over previously unbeaten Carnegie Tech, tackles an intersectional foe in- the Oregon Aggies at the Yankee Stadium. The Aggies have been in-and-outers all season. They will need to be very much “in” if they hope to stop Strong and his mates. Bucknell closes its season against Temple at Lewisburg. Next Saturday Army's warriors, stop- ped only by Notre Dame, will need to shake Chris Cagle loose for a couple of long runs if Stanford is to be defeated. ‘This game is to be played at' the Polo Grounds. Boston College, the only team in the East neither beaten nor tied, meets its traditional rival, “Holy Cross, at Boston. On the same day Georgetown travels west to see if De- troit’s undefeated array can be thrown for a loss. Harvard, Yale and Princeton closed their season last Saturday; Harvard l&eaung Yale and Princeton- losing to avy. Assoclated Press Sports Writer. and two games set for Decem- sist chiefly of arguments over who is on the turkey day schedule involving mighty Pennsylvania machine stopped parative ease, but the Orange showed The Brown-Calgate fray at Provi- men” intp. something approaching the fered at the hands of Vanderbilt and early season form, figures, to pin ROCKVILLE, ROSEDALE flag races in the Capital City and Wash- Reed, end the latter playing British uled between Fort Myer and Silver burg failing to show for the second. other game staged in Washington the field. Medicos had only nine men, they out- ‘Turner scored British United's goal in Earl Clark, Washington "boy. who and Suit were the best performers for tions and Capital City and Washington Army Medical Center soccer team | NEW YORK, November 26.—The ber 1 will wind up the Eastern | and who i3 not entitled to the mythical foes of long standing. Cornell can take only by the Navy. nothing in the rout by Colgate to en- dence looks like one of the best games form of the Brown team of 1926. Only New York University, two of the finest another defeat on Penr State’s much RETAIN SOCCER LEAD! ington Seccer Leagues yesterday, the Uniteds to a 1-1 tie on the ‘Monument Spring and Gaithersburg and Germania Arcadians upset the dope somewhat League. Concord and Clan MacLennan A crippled last-place Armty Medico played the lcague leaders the first half. the first half, and E. Burdette came plays base ball with the Boston Braves; Marlboro Juniors. Soccer Leagues will be held Wednesday wishes to book a game for Thanksgiving VIRGINIA A. . BEATS MERCEDES GRIDDERS ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 26.—. Playing a brand of foot ball that kept the spectators on edge, the Virgina A. C. scored the most impressive victory of its recent history’ by defeating the Reina Mercedes eleven of ~Annapolis, 13 to 7, at Shipyard Field yesterday. Beach and Gunther scored tite Vir- ginia touchdowns on- line plunges -in (t;.:lee 1syeptmd and fourth quarters, respec- Alexandria Fire De ment was given but 1fttle opposition by the Arlington A. C. of Clarendon, Va., yesterday and the locals ran up a 25-to-0 score. The game scheduled between the St. Mary's Celtics and the Shamrock A. | C. of Washington at Dreadnaught Park | yesterday was canceled. | 1 Hoffman Clothiers will open their | home season on Friday night, entertain- ing George Mason High School at 8:30 pm. on the Armory Hall court. Hoff- man Buddies will play a preliminary against_either the Oak'on orf Georg: Mason High girls. Robert McDonald, athletic director at the Potomac Railroad Yards, will man- | age the St. Mary's Celtics basket ball | team this scason. ' Old Dominion Boat Club basket ball | candidates are to practice tonight in | the Lee-Jackson High School gym- nasfum at 8 o'clock. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, No- vember 26—The Potomac and Shen- | | andoah Rivers were clear this morning. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, usual Thanksgiving day card, rich with traditional rivalries, schedule for this year. What foot ball there is in the East thereafter will con- Eastern championship. There are five outstanding battles little more than hope to Philadelphia, where. the Ithacans must battle a Until the Colgate disaster, Syracuse figured to defeat Columbia with com- title it to more than a shade over the lions of Columbia. of the day. Quietly, Tuss McLaughry [has. been rounding, the. pne-time. “iron 2 defeat by Yale mars Brown's record this year. Colgate’s two losses were suf- aggregations in the country. Pittsburgh, much improved over its spotted record. Pitt has beaten the Nittany Lions for six consecutive years, Both Rockville and Rosedale teams held their places at the head of the former squeezing out a 3-1 triumph {over Army Medical Center, at Walter Grounds. Capital City League matches sched- were not played, an official referee, not. appearing. for the first and Gaithers-J by defeating, Marlboro Juniors, 3 to 1, on the Monument Grounds in the only did not get together as carded in this league because of the bad condition of team put up a great battle hefore bow- ing to Rockville. Despite that the Dave Adamson was the bulwark of the Medico team. through with the equalizing tally for Rosedales in the final session. his brother, Tom Clark, and.Endress starred for Arcadians, and Wills, Buck Mectings of the Washington and Southeastern District Soccer Associa- night in the playground office, Room 2, | | District Building. day, Call Manager Adamson at Georgia 1000, Branch 190. US.TIRES o CREDIT | No Red Tape No Embarrassment Bring Your Car Registration Card Get Your Tires 1234 14th St. N.W. 2250 Sherman Ave. N.W. 634 Ave. S.E. Davis and Elkins and the other to| THREE DIXIE TEAMS INUNBEATEN CLASS Georgia Tech, Tennessee and Florida Vie With Boston College and Detroit U. ¥ BY ALAN J. GOULD, Associated Press Sports :mwr EW YORK, November 26.—Ths throat-cutting tactics popular- ized this season in the Eastern and Western spheres of foot ball skirmishing leave the South today in position to claim more honors than any other sector of the fast~ closing gridiron battle. ‘The spotless records of the Southern Conference - “Big Three"—Tennessee, Florida and Georgia Tech—stand out more conspicuously than ever as the re- | sult of ti sensations Saturday that | either spoiled the perfect records or | smashed the champlonship hopes of such teams as Carnegie, Wisconsin, Ne- braska, Princeton, California and Ohio Wesleyars. ‘The “Big Three" of Dixie do not stand quite alone. Detroit and Boston College, each with clean slates, have some re- buttal in any argument putting -the Southern trio at the top, but outside of these five there isn't another major outfit anywhere in the broad gridiron land without a tie or a defeat to mar its title claims. Dixie Battle at Climax. Even these five have a few obstacles to hurdle before they can claim -any- thing definitely. The Southern Con- { ferencé battle eomes to aclimax this | week and next, so far as the pace- setters are cancerned. Georgia Tech perhaps has the best c¢hance to romp through unbeaten, for the Tornado has only Auburn and Georgia to sweep by | and both have been below standard. Florida and Tennessee meet in their final conference game on December 8 at Knoxville, Detroit and Boston College each has won eight in a row. Tulsa is the onl school that has scored on Detroit, whi Boston College has numbered the Na: Fordham and Duke among its victi: The powerful Detroit array, however, must beat Georgetown next Saturday to keep its slate clean, while Beston Col- lege must overcome its old rival, Holy Cross. Neither assignment looms. are particularly easy, Detroit, particularly, meeting in Georgetown a team that handed New York University the latter'’s only setback and lost only to Carnegle's Tartans. Even the fine records-to date of these unbeaten teams cannot quite obscure the performances of other arrays that happened to have one off or disastrous day. Army had its Notre Dame and New York University had its George- town, but if there were any stronger teams anywhere than the Cadets and Violets Saturday, or any greater indi- vidual performers than their respective {aces, Red Cagel and Ken Strong, they weren't visible to the naked eye. - ‘The Soldiers now have beaten South- ern Methodist, Harvard, Yale and Ne- braska in their big engagements, while losing only to Notre Dame. New York University has trimmed Fordham, Col- gate, Rutgers. Missouri and the hither- to unbeaten Carnegie team so decisi ly as to just about offset the George | town reversal. Hoyas Have an Argument. But so far as that goes Georgetown | itself, beaten only by Carnegle, is ready to énter the’ argiiment, having added Fordham to its list of victims. New YorkUniversity and the Army still have strong Far Western foes to play before they start the final debate. The Violets play the Oregon Aggies here Thanksgiving “day, 'while the Cadets me.le‘t‘ st;x;f‘o:d ne;t Saturday. anksgiving day also figures to furnish decisive tests in the Seuthern, Southwest. Rocky Mountain and Big Six | conferences, as well as in the East, | Where traditional rivals such as Cornell- | Pennsylvania, Penn . State-Pittsburgh, | Brown-Colgate and West' Virginia-W. and J. hold forth. . Georgla Tech meets Aubuim and Florida encounters Washington and Lee | in two Southern games that should see | the two leaders continue along un- Jbeaten. Texas, still setting the South- |'western pace, runs into the Texas | Aggies, aching for a little revenge. Utah, on the Rocky Mountain peak, must dis- pose of the Utah Asgies to keep ahead of the University of Colorado. Nebraska is favored to b-at 'Kansas Aggles and ;cllnch the Big Six conference title. 'TECH GRID ELEVEN. 1S TO BE HONORED To raise funds to buy gold foot balle for members of the championship Tech High School team a dance will be held Wednesday night in the Tech. gym starting at 9 o'clock, under auspices of the T Club. Arthur Storey is chairman of the commiitee in charge of arrange- ments. Tech's team returned yesterday from Tuscaloosa, Ala., where it was beaten by the crack high school tean there Satur- day in a 19-6 battle. Coach Hap Ha dell of Tech was thoroughly satisfied with the showing of his eleven againsi a heavier team. Critics in- Alabama are singing the praises of Tech which held Tuscaloosa to the closest score if has won by in the past four seasons. Hardell believes that in the final anal- ysis Tuscaloosa is a team- about one touchdown better than Tech. TO STAGE TUG-OF-WAR. Freshmen and Sophomores of George Washington University will stage theil annual tug-of-war tomorrow at 12:3 pm. at Thirty-second and B streets incoln Memorial.