North Carolina at Georgetown

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1908, page 12

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  ALL THE BIG EASTERN TEAMS TAKE EASY PRACTICE. SIGNAL DRILLS FOR YALE HARVARD AND PRINCETON. 1t takes the smartest kind of team play to work the forward pass and the onside kick successfully-not the machine-like team play needed in a successful line plunging game, one complaint against which in the old game was that individualty ceased to exist but alert and agile cooperation between men. in which their individual skill stands forth but not at the expense of mutual understanding and cooperation. The haphaZard forward pass and onside kick is much more likely to result advantageously to the other side. There aren’t any plays on the field that require clever timing of the participating players movements more than these two They require more of the sort of team work required for base ball. the wide open kind in plain view of the onlookers, a combination of subservience of action but with individuality in the matter of quick thinking and skill in concentrating the play. AS matter of fact less progress has been made in breaking up a well executed forward pass than in making one. There doubtless will be more done in the detense against the pass as the schools where the game is first learned and which feed the universities practice and study it more. Especially do the pass and the onside kick call for vigilance by the detense. and that vigilance has not yet made strides eqeft*l to combating the plays. Last year in the Princeton-Indian game Prince ton gave an exceptional exhibition of spelling the forward passes, but had I’M dergone special preparation therefor 1t is when the play comes Unexpectedly and with some new wrinkle that 1t is still SUI perior to its defense. There are fewer un- 1Ata L. last or the year before, evidence of better execution. Criticism was made of Cornell in a recent game for trying forward pass on the opponents 4-yard line and on the sec ond down. There was the chance of the ball going over the goal line on the fly e: ling nothing but touchback to Cor nell. and the play on the whole looked like bad judgment. However. it had the merit of being the Unexpected, and had it been successful would have been regard ed not as poor generaship but as a shrewd and bold play. Nothing succeeds like success. Warm Time for Georgetown. NEW YORK. October 27-Georgetown played a tie game at 6 to 6 with the strong University of North Carolina foot ball team at Washington yesterday. and the result is interesting to followers of the sport in this city. as Georgetown will line up against Fordham at American League Park on election day in one Of the two big games scheduled here this season. This game did not attract much attention early in the season and lovers of foot ball looked forward to the meet ing between Princeton and Dartmouth at the Polo Grounds on November as the only chance to see a good game without travelling miles. 1t is different now. how ever. as the Forlham eleven by the defeat of Amherst and the strong game against Princeton. has established itself as worthy opponent of almost any team in training. and for that reason the game with Georgetown is likely to attract big crowd and result in pretty struggle Capt. Fitzpatrick has developed a strong team at Fordham, the work of Gargan. Geary, White and Coffey in the backfield being we’ll up to the standard. The ends. too. are fast and the line reasonably strong from tackle to tackle There is a feeling at Dartmouth that Princeton will be beaten on November Z. and the team is being carefully trained up to that game. There Is some ground for the feeling, too. as the Hanover eleven is made up largely of veteran have not been beaten In two years. Further than that. Princeton is backward and still far from the finished team it should be at this time of the season. The infield at the Polo Grounds has been carefully sodded for the game, and the field should be in good condition. In terest in the contest is such that inquiries for seats are already pouring in. Middies Take It Easy for Day. ANNAPOLIS. Nd. October 81 The short practice in kicking. passing and receiving the ball. and a little running through the signals. which was the extent of the work at the Naval Academy yesterday afternoon. was marked by the ohc nf hal no y1-hi icipated in the strenuous fray with Harvard on Saturday. The absentees. who were resting after the battle, were Wright, Mayer. Reifsnider. Robertson, and even the redoubtable Capt. Northcroft who sell dom loses a minute from either match or practice Reifsnider. who scored the touchdown for the Navy and played a strong game throughout, was severely bruised. and did not put on his foot ball clothes. However. it Is likely that the whole squad will be in their places today and there will be some real work in an ticipation of Saturdays game with the Carlisle Indians. The midshipmen will play their last mid week game tomorrow. their opponents being the eleven of George Washington University of Washington. With this eleven the Navy is not expecting much trouble. and the work will be directed toward preparation for the encounter with The willy red men and the bag full of tricks that they will bring to Annapolis Win tnem- Dalton, who easily held his own with Burr in the punting duel of Saturday. was on the field in good shape yesterday. The Navy contingent is delighted at having found some good man to relieve the other backs He is a fourth cassman and learned the game at the Christian Brothers College in St Louis. He will be of even more use when the Navy loses many of its best men by graduation after this season. Harvard Out in Rain. CAMBRIDGE. Mass. October 27.-The Harvard foot ball squad practiced behind closed gates in heavy rainstorm yesterday afternoon. All the players returned in good shape from the Annapolis game, but the men who played in that contest were allowed to rest. Only Cutler and Gray of these players were on the field. The for mer engaged in punt catching in which he is especially weak. A number of men who have been laid off for week or more on account of injuries were out in the afternoon in foot ball clothes. Among them were Smith, the fullback, whose lame hip is improving. and r. G. Brown. one of the most promising candidates for end at the time when he was injured in the Williams game Haughton was the only coach on the field. there no lineup. The work was very light for the whole squad. consisting in the main of handling

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Georgetown leads 7–⁠3–⁠1 in 11 meetings, counting the four since this game.