Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1929, Page 51

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929. SPORTY. 51 Elis Look Forward to Roman Holiday at Expense of Nassau in New Haven Bowl YALE IS VERY CONFIDENT OF CRUSHING PRINCETON Bulldog Sees Chance to Give Tiger Worst Licking in | Years in Game Tomorrow—Notre Dame Apt to Show Trojans Flashy Foot Ball. BY H. C. BYRD. Y ALE expects to beat Princeton tomorrow. Confidence in the ability of its defense to stop the Tiger backs and in the strength of its own attack pervades virtually everybody that has anything to do with Yale foot ball. And, while a good deal is being written, especially in the Middle West, about the Southern California-Notre Dame game at Chicago, it is doubtful if as great general interest in the East will be shown in that tilt between the Middle and the Far West as in the annual strug- gle between Last year was being whrpped all along the line. This time the situation seems reversed, as Yale, with the exception of the two Southern elevens it has met; has been whip- ping big elevens right and left, while Princeton has yet to win a big game. Those who have watched both teams play give it as their opinion that Yale has its strongest eleven in years, Princeton its weakest. Some say that Princeton is the weakest big team they have seen in a long while and certainly the weakest Princeton outfit since Biil Roper began to tutor foot ball men in ‘Tigertown. Now or Never, Yale Feels. “If we don't give Princeton a good beating this year it will not be our fault,” said a Yale man last week. “The stage seems set for us to come through big azainst them next Saturday, as they seem to be too weak to beat anybody that fs much good. If we can't trim them " gooa this year, then we never wi e As a matter of fact. Yale has a lot of confidence in its team. There are few persons at Yale who think any other eleven stands more than an even chance against the Dark Blue, especially with Bcoth in the game. In short, people ut Yale think they have a good team and have an attitude of confidence toward it that they have not shown in & good while. It may be that Yale will rise in its might, take advantage of what seems to be its stronger position and give Prince- ton a real lacing. There is not auch LIGHTNING FUEL OIL gives * clean : dependable + economical - heat Don’t blame the weather, don’t blame your car—Try Quick-Firing Lightning— the Bulldog and the Tiger. Princeton beat Yale, | doubt aboui the Dnrk_mue having ma- 12 to 2, but that was when Prince- | e e ton had a great team and Yale| At any rate, material seems good enough, although sometimes foot ball material is not nearly as good as it looks to an outsider. But, whatever may be the outcome, the feeling at Yale is one of confidence—a feeling that last year’s defeat by the Tigers will be wiped out by a decisive margin Princeton’s Big Spot. It may be, though, that Yale will get more of a battle from Princeton than it expects. And that is sald despite the fact that a man prominent in Eastern athletics, in speaking of the | prospects of the Yale-Princeton game, remarked: _“Oh, Princeton couldn't beat anybody with that team it has this year. Bill Roper probably has staked his whole season on the result of his Yale game. If the writer knows anything about Roper it would not be a bad guess that the whole Princeton season has been carried out with the idea of making little or no effort to accomplish anything special against any | be team other than Yale, ‘With the material a: ton, the team would better than those that have seen it play say it is had a real attempt been made to get it in the best possible shape. Princeton probably will put forth its one great effort of the season against Yale, and that effort is likely to be far more productive than any- body expects. Anyway, it will be a Yale-Princeton game, and, as such, will arouse not only the intense interest of all Yale and Princeton alumni, but also of that part of the foot ball public that still looks upon age-old rivalry as the big- gest thing in foot ball, which it is. Interest in the Southern Californis- Notre Dame game centers mainly in whether the Far Western eleven will be able to stop the Middle Western combination. Notre Dame has been marching through and around its op- ponents so easily that it seems to be the opinion of foot ball men that the team has not yet shown its greatest strength. One thing, though, seems fairly certain, that Southern California is a great team and strong enough to make Notre Dame go the limit to win. Cornell goes to Hanover to play Dart- mouth, and the Dobie-coached Ithacans probably will encounter the hardest op- position they have so far faced this season. It will be Dobie's biggest test of the year. ‘While Pennsylvania scouts are watch- ing Cornell trim its sails against Dart- mouth Penn will be up to its neck in its final battle before Thanksgivihg, with Columbia as its opponent. Penn ought to win from the New Yorkers without any great trouble. Purdue virtually will be battling Towa for the Western Conference champion- ship, the latter having dis) of Minnesota last week. If the Lafayette eleven takes the measure of Iowa it vir- tually will mean the highest honor of Middle Western foot ball, because the only game the Bollermakers will have left will be that with Indiana, and this Fall Purdue probably can throw out a few of its second-string players and a few old shoes and jerseys and take that game. Nebraska and Oklahoma meet in the contest_that is likely to settle the Mis- souri Valley championship. Oklahoma especially is looking forward to the game with considerable feeling. Last year Oklahoma thought it had quite a team, but after Nebraska got through with it down at Norman, Okla., Okla- homa wondered what new type of cyclone had swept over it. The score was 44 to 6. Michigan and Minnesota meet in a game that from a standpoint of rivalry between two schools leaves nothing to desired. The two teams have been playing the “Little Brown Jug” game for many years, and that jug is one of the most prized trophies of foot ball. Syracuse and Colgate play another of | Peop] those sectional games that mean every- thing to the contending elevens. Both elevens are strong, with Colgate pos- sibly holding a slight pre-game margin. ‘Tennessee and Vanderbilt play the big game in the South. Nine chances out of ten, the victor in that contest will be generally looked upon as holder of the Southern championship. If Ten- nessee is victor, it will still have to meet Kentucky and South Carolina. The latter will be easy, but the former is likely to be a hard nut to crack. But Vanderbilt, if it wins, has only Sewanee left, and it is only once in a you’ll be surprised ALWAYS 25%710 35% mORE POWER HEFTY GRID TEANS INVIRGINIA BATTLE Two Tons of Talent to Clash Tomorrow as Generals Meet Cavaliers. EXINGTON, Va.,, November 15. Two tons of gridiron talent will clash on Wilson Field here to- morrow at 2:30, when Virginia visits Lexington to provide the opposition for Washington and Lee on, the event of the Generals' annual home- | coming. The clash will follow another home- coming attraction in the morning, V. M. I. having carded Kentucky in its headliner for 11 o'clock. Virginia will put 2,017 pounds of foot ball talent on the fleld, while W. and L. will run 57 less. Of the more than a ton of Cavalier avoirdupois 1,323 pounds will be in the line and 694 in the back- field. The Generals will have a forward seven of 1,288 pounds and four backs aggregating 672. ‘Weight advantages in both line and backfield thus are seen to lie with the invaders. ‘The battle of ton against ton will be witnessed by close to 10,000 people, it is estimated, the number of fans here especially to witness the V. M. I.-Ken- tucky encounter adding to those at- tracted by the Cavalier-Generals classic. great while that Sewanee is able to beat the Commodores. Anent Georgetown's game here to- morrow with West Virginia, it might be well to mention the opinion of the Georgetown team as expressed by Navy le: “Georgetown played the best game against us that any team has this year except Notre Dame. And, even in com- Parmg Georgetown with Notre Dame, | et us tell you that Georgetown’s line was stronger. We've never seen any line play betier foot ball against Navy than Georgetown's last Saturday. Don't | let anybody fool you into believing that | Georgetown does not have a fine team.” Auto Bodies, Fende: Repaire iators Harrison rs and Cores in Stock atts, 1809 14th. North 7177 Witt: Also 319 13th. 1% Block Below Ave. Radiators, VIRGINIA DEBATING AS TO BACKFIELD UNIVERSITY, Va., November 15.— Some shifts will have to be made in the Virginia backfield when Capt. Sloan takes his place at quarterback in the ‘Washington and Lee game tomorrow. Faulconer started at quarterback | against Virginia Polytechnic Institute last week, with Thomas and Bryant as halfbacks, and Lewy at fullback. When Sloan went into the game during the second quarter he replaced Faulconer. Just what combination of backs will be used against the Generals is not certain. The skill of Thomas both as ball carrier and as punter has probably earned him a place as a regular and he and Sloan l@pelr to be sure starters. 1f Kaminer back in shape for the Washington and Lee game it will make | a_quadrangular competition for the | other two places behind the line. Lewy’s defensive ability and his knack of block- ing on offense seems to give him an entry into the position of fullback. GROW IS BULWARK OF V. M. | ELEVEN Clever Center Is Big Hope in Game With Powerful Kentucky Team. L Wildeats in the homecoming game on Alumni Field tomor- row morning it will be no novelty to the Cadets to find themselves much outweighed. | 1If Virgil Grow, Cadet 157-pound pivot man, faces Willlams he will be paired off against a husky aling at 205 pounds. The little Cadet snapper- EXINGTON, Va., November 15.— | When V. M. L's Flying Squad- ron entertains the Kentucky back mnot only passes faultlessly and charges like & flash, but is V. M. I's chief reliance on defense. Very little yardage has been gained over the cen- ter of V. M. L's line, and almost in- variably it has been Grow's great work that has stopped the enemy. Last week the heavy Clemson team was forced to take to the air when the Cadets presented an unyielding center wall, and even then it was Grow’s de- fensive tactics against Ffllfl that helped to make many of the Tiger tosses go bad. V. M. I. supporters freely predict that if the Flying iadron proves unable to stop Kentucky's powerful e, it will not be on account of Grow's fail- ire to continue his brilliant playin; ALUMNI SOCCER TEAM WILL GATHER TONIGHT Jefferson Junior High School Alumni soccer team, which is being o , will meet tonight at 716 B street south- west at 8 o'clock. All candidates are asked to attend. 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