The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1930, Page 8

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1930 Quarter STRATEGY Is NEEDED 10 COMBAT ODER DEFENSIVE SYSTENS Couple of Tackles and Another Good Ball Carrier Make Up Backbone CARIDEO AND WOOD GOOD iis 1 i | Booth of Yale, Baker of Pitt, and French of Penn State Strong Also By L. S. (LARRY) MacPHAIL (National Football Referee) “Give me a couple of tackles, a back who can go places, and a smart quar- terback, and I’ll have a football team. But first give me the quarterback.” That’s been the chant of a lot of football coaches from Maine to Cali- fornia. Great quarterbacks have been scarce since the styles in quarter- backs changed. Ten years ago some little fellow hid behind the center, took the ball, and gave it to the backs. But with the advent of the direct pass, and the huddle, and a compli- cated offense, the fellow who was just @ quarterback passed out of the pic- ture. In the complicated modern offense all four backs have practically the same duties to perform. The quar- terback must be an efficient blocker. If he can run, pass and kick, so much the better. On defense, he must be a sure tackler with ability to defend against forward passes. If he’s a great quarterback, he’s a great half- back, possessing in addition the quali- ties of leadership and sound judg- ment. Frank Carideo of Notre Dame and Barry Wood of Harvard merited All- America consideration last fall. But both were overshadowed by better backs in Glassgow, Welch and Cagle, to say nothing of Marsters, Banker and Benny Lom. ‘This year, however, the crop of good quarterbacks is large: Quarterbacks are the outstanding backfield players in almost every section. In the east, Booth of Yale, Wood of Harvard and Captain Eddie Baker of Pitt seem to have the call, though French of Penn State also is a fine quarter. Booth Packs Dynamite Booth is small but he packs the dynamite and is @ colorful and dra- the game, a fine drop kicker and a fair passer. His team value is less- ened by the fact that 147 pounds can hardly last through a game, much less a season. “Jock” Sutherland considers Eddie Baker the smartest back he ever coached. The Pittsburgh panein 4s . He punts, place kicks and kicks off. Baker is an ideal leader and gives everything that’s in * the south’s best quarterback for two | years. Rival coaches give Dodd the credit for Tennessee's long tring of victories. With Hackman and Mc- Ever, both great players, on the in- 7 F 5 E i i 8 | only as good a punter as there is in ) the south, but one of the greatest pass- iy 4 ig Ten nomination probably will Harry Newman, Michigan's flash. Newman \Ns not 8 » — si ae : & H : ; not get snto a game was trailing Purdue ocre outfit into an eleven with cham- ip possibilities. It is question- able whether any other player has these great good footbal: judgment? Well, even | coaches disagree. If they tell you how | dumb a quarter is who threw passes on first down or from deep in his own most decisive in the History of this traditiona! con- Lowe, Jarrett, Duchene, Wexler, Gillson, Felber, Smith, Schave Return Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 24— Silent Clem Letich, North Dakota university's basketball coach, broke from the quietude recently to divulge with considerable enthusiasm his Plans and prospects for the coming season, He already is preparing for what he claims will be a record season for the Nodaks on the basketball court. In the first place, it is certain that the team this year will be better than the one which last year battled its way into a tie for second place in the North Central conference. In- stead of having two lettermen to start his squad as he did last year, Letich will begin activities with eight ‘monogram wearers. Only Vic Brown, last year's captain, leaving a squad of to come back for the ‘aptain Captain Bill Lowe will be field general this winter and his veterans from last year will be Glenn Jarrett, ‘Vern DuChene, Manuel Wexler, Ray Gilson and Fred Felber. Lettermen of former years will appear in the. personages of Vern Smith, star of 1928 and 1929, and Curtis Schave of the team of 1929. Not only will lettermen be found in abundance but several amateur stars from aggregations outside the university will be on hand. Among them are the flashy Glenn Secord and Johnny Larson. Harold Storeim, husky center, also may be classed as @ veteran. He was a part of Letich’s Eight Nodak Lettermen quint when it began its conference winning streak last year. He was | Flock. of Good Quarterbacks Dazzles All-America P ickers | BAKER Cagers Back 17 NODAK FOOTBALL WARRIORS GET LETTERS; FOUR GRADUATE lost to the squad in mid-season by ineligibility. Sophomore Material Strong Although ready-made _basketeers apparently abound, Letich will have the job of tailoring some fine look- ing sophomore material which has come up from the frosh squad which; won three out of four contests last winter. Seven substantial reserves are Jacobson, Malo, Crume, Eckholm and Vandersluis. Plenty of fast men are to be found on the squad and Letich is planning to use them to the greatest possible advantage. Early as,it is, it is en- tirely possible that the starting line- up of the first game of the season may be as follows: center, Storelm; forwards, Second and Schave; guards, DuChene and Wexler or Dablow. Fighting Hawks Down Nebraska Towa City, Iowa, Nov. 24.—(?)— Iowa university reopened an ancient football feud with Nebraska's Corn- hhuskers by defeating the Scarlet eleven here Saturday 12 to 7, in a furious battle which closed the Hawk- | eye season. | Some 12,000 spectators saw Coach Burton Ingwersen’s rejuvenated elev- en, which got away to a dismal start | this year by losing three of its first four contests, stage a brilliant come- back to defeat the Huskers and close} its season with a 50-50 record of games won and lost. Jarrett, “Berg, Vv. Smith and Mjogdalen Have Played Last Contests Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 24.—Sev- enteen University football warriors have been awarded letters for out- standing ability in athletics by the athletic board of control, Nine others were awarded the gold footballs sym- bolic of the championship of the North Central conference. The let- termen also will receive these trophies. Of the 17 gridders receiving letters, only four, Jarrett, Orion Berg, Vernon Smith, and Mjogdalen, will be graduated this spring. One of the other nine, Frank Smith, also will finish his work this year. Those awarded letters are, Orion Berg, Cooperstown; Fred Felber, Fair- mont, Minn.; Lloyd Nelson, Grand Forks; Vernon Smith, Dickinson; Claude Urevig, Watertown, 8. D.; Gordon Dablow, Thief River Falls, Minn.; Bill Lowe, Eau Claire, Wis.; Bill Mjogdalen, Hillsboro; Joe Bourne, Madison, 8. D.; Glenn Jarrett, Grand Forks; Manuel Wexler, Watertown, S. D.; Curtis Schave, Grand Forks; Lloyd Richmond, Watertown, 8S. D.; Larry Knauf, Moorhead, Minn.; John Burma, Fairmont, Minn.; Gene Re- vell, Harvey; and Hamilton Simons, Fargo. * The nine others receiving gold foot- balls are, James Jacobson, Minot; Vernon DuChene, Grand Forks; Einer Eckholm and Silvio Egizii, Iron Mountain, Mich.; Darrel Long, Mil- larton; Lyle Madsen, Valley City; Milton Wick, Grand Forks; Arthur Malo, Fairmont, Minn.; and Frank Smith, Avon, 8. D. MORNING , WHILE BUTTS. FoR HE T SAY, MIdoR .7AVE NOU ‘AMY MOORS OR FEAS CEREABOUTS, LIKE WE Y PAVE OVER IN YORKSHIRE ? |? “elf WOULD BE SucH CAPITAL SPORT-10 BAG 9 A FEW GROUSE! @OOVE ~~ A DRIZZLY WAIT INTHE SEDGE YA Rt is ime oF “HE SEASON WE HAVE “TURKEY RAFFLES AND AND POULTRY PRIZES! Hem - Nou IN Hose EXCITING Wwe GROUSE “To WHIR KENG FOR Fowl 1 MUST INITIATE KAZ EGAD THORNTON » | “WRKEY Now! /~ HE BRowGHT’ HOME ‘A RAFFLE “TURKEY LAST YEAR THAT WAS SO ToucH (Ts e GRAVY WENT HE MAJOR LIKES “To BAG HIS GAME} AT."KENO” Us 26> FOOTBALL SAGES AT CADET TEAM CINCH Midshipmen Got Off to a Poor Start, but Have Been Im- proving Steadily IS DECEPTIVE LOU KIRN Notre Dame Game Saturday Is Expected to Take Snap Out of Cadet Squad By WILLIAM BRAUCHER NEA Service Sports Editor “What a tough break for the Navy!” Thus spake the experts when it was announced that Atmy will con-j Gescend to play the Navy Dec. 13 in New York City for the benefit of the | unemployed. For a time, I thought so, too, but lately I have begun to wonder if the Army will have so much good clean fun sinking the Middies, after all. A football team never is beaten, | they tell me, until 60 minutes have | been played. The Navy appears to be the underdog in this scuffle, but 80 was Princeton against Yale. And I always will think Princeton beat ; Yale this year, though the score in- | dicates that Yale won. You can't; cash a moral victory at the ticket | windows, of course, but the profit; from a fat mental wager often is just as satisfying. | ** * H ‘The Army has a swift, deceptive at- | tack. Major Sasse has shown the Kaydets how Pop Warner got that way. There is no Cagle at the Point, but the team functions rather well 38a unit, with all hands turning to with healthy vigor. There are a cou- ple of charming ends in the persons of Carlmark and Messinger. In the front line there ts some bulk andj strength at spots, especially where Captain Polly Humber. humbers around. Even without Cy Letzelter, who has been ruled out because of old age, the backfield, with Spinner Herb, Fields, Kilday, and a couple of others, is smart and strong. The Army has been taking trench after trench, without a setback in its first eight games. It is true, the schedule hasn't been so very tough, that a victory was barely eked out over Harvard and that Yale held the Soldiers to a 7 to 7 tie. Army has achieved, however, the habit of vic- tory, and the coaches say that's a good habit to have. Af first glance, the Navy seems to have done rather badly this year. Out of its first seven games, Navy won three and lost to Ohio, Southern | Methodist, Notre Dame and Duke. However, one of the Navy's victories was a 19 to 6 win over William and Mary, the team that Harvard had to hump along to tie at 13 all. { ‘The Navy was beaten by Notre Dame long enough ago to have for- gotten about it a little, while the Army still has to go through that or- deal. Teams that have played Notre Dame this year have never been quite the same after the game. If the Army loses by any outlandish score, the Kaydets’ fine faith in their own ability may become tinged by just a little skepticism, which is something fatal to football aspirations, they say. The Navy has not shown any great deception in attack but there is pow- er in the forward line, where Hag- berg, from down Fallansbee, W. Va., way, is one of the standouts. The Middies lack guile on offense, if a repertoire of tricks is what you mean, but Lou Kirn helps to make up for the lack of deception. The Milwaukee boy can take a football on a common old cutback play and lope right over the hills, taking a couple of tacklers along for a ride. Besides Kirn in the backfield there is Johnny Gannon, a squatty lad from Lodi, Calif. who throws out- curves with the pigskin. ee * ‘The people who pay their bucks to attend the proceedings, besides get- ting a load of Army-Navy color and tradition, and helping the cause of charity, may be buying attendance at an actual football game, even though the Navy might appear, after cur- sory examination of the two teams, to be a setup. The newspaper writers will be admitted at a cover charge of $50 per seat, and even at that, I am told, several of them are going, | thinking the event @ night club op- jening or an auction sale 6f a few | battleships. ‘Underdog Indiana Beats Purdue 7+ \Fans Shocked as Hoosiers Score in Closing Minutes to Down Favorites Lafayette, Ind, Nov. 24—()—A lerdog Indians football A g 3 i i back Is First Requisite of Good Eleven, Official Declares NAVY’S CHANCES TO BEAT ARMY GROW BETTER DAY BY DAY Three Bison Veterans to be Replaced | Pete Gergen, Gilly Johnson and FRST THOUGHT BG [terest tars ot soe] Cecil Bliss Are Missing From Squad Fargo, N. D., Nov. 24.—Develop- ment of three capable performers to replace as many of his regulars lost through graduation is the task which faces Leonard T. (Solly) Saalwaech- ter, basketball tutor of the North Da- kota Agricultural college Bison. Practice gets under way today. Pete Gergen, captain and all-con- ference guard, Gilly Johnson, guard. and Cecil Bliss, forward and one of the leading scorers of the North Cen- tral conference last season, are the Players whom Saalwaechter will have to replace. May, Nordstrom Back Leo May, center and forward, and Eric Nordstrom, forward, are the holdovers. George Fairhead and Vern Goodwin, both of whom were regular forwards last year until forced out of play because of leg injuries, also will be available. Other players with some varsity experience include Leo Thomasson, guard, Blair Seitz, for- ward, and Walter Olson, center. The most promising recruits from the freshman ranks are Bob Weir. # giant center who performed for Fargo high school two years ago, and Viv McKay, leader of the Valley City Hi-Liner band which carried off the state high school championship in 1929. Gus Schwartz, a member of Bismarck’s strong team of two years ago, also is available as a center. Other freshman recruits who have potentialities are Ed Jessen of Far- go, Donald Arthur and William Mc- Donald of Mandan, Aberdeen, 8. D., Pete Euren of Moor- head and Jimmy Berdahl of Hills- Open on Dec. 5 Two middlewestern gridiron greats broke into Walter Camp's All-America| The Bison will open their cam- team of 1904—Eckersall of Chicago and Heston of Michigan. CAMP’S 1904 ALL-AMERICA FOOTBALL TEAM FIRST TEAM End Shevlin, Yale Tackle chigan Smith, Pennsylvania Mills, SEC! Weede, ‘OND TEAM ‘THIRD TEAM Glaze, Dartmouth Harvard Bender, Nebraska TWO MIDDLE-WEST STARS ARE MADE ALL-AMERICANS IN 1904 ! Willie Heston of Michigan and! Walter Eckersall of Chi- cago Honored By ALAN J. GOULD (Associated Press Sports Editor) The fifteenth anniversary All- | America selected by Walter Camp, in 1904, was notable chiefly for the in- | clusion of two mid-western stars! whose brilliance has preserved them | 23 all-time figures in the football hall of fame—Willie Heston of Mich- igan and Walter Eckersall of Chicago. The All-America business already was undergoing repairs to keep pace with the growth of the gridiron game. Camp was gazing well beyond the old | Big Three for.his material. i Dartmouth, Columbia, West Point, Chicago, Michigan, Cornell and Car- lisle had gained representation in front line, but 1904 marked the first year in which so many as two players from beyond the Alleghenies “crash- ed” the first team. Nowadays the majority come from the wide open spaces. | Heston won a berth on the first | team in 1903, but he and Eckersall so | captured Camp's fancy the following year that the Yale man devoted most ef his All-America analysis to de- scriptions of their ability. Eckersall Was Midget “This man Eckersall, weighing just under 150 pounds, can punt 60 yards, dropkick with disconcerting. accuracy and in more than one game has actually decided the issue by drop- kicking,” Camp wrote. “He is a remarkable tackler; and as for running in a broken field, he is a wonder. ‘He ran 105 yards for a touchdown against Wisconsin.” Eckersall played quarterback at Chicago throughout his varsity ca- reer, but he was placed at end on Camp's 1904 team in order to install Stevenson of Pennsylvania in the di- a choice for the next two years, how- ever, and clearly established himself as one of the greatest players of all time. “Heston gained more ground than any other back on the gridiron,” Camp noted. “The position of cap- tain militated not at all against his effectiveness. Weighing over 180 i 8 ; 2 i jcago’s fullback the same year, lugo Bezdek, also was well known ter as a coach as well as baseball manager. Tomorrow—Slash Game ae 2 i oe S3bbs38332 LT oo 00 20 21 21 30 30 40 40 10 Irish Push Over Two Touchdowns Near End to Win Irresistible Force Counts After Northwestern Had Edge Early in Game Evanston, DL, Nov. 24.—)—With stunning surprise, Notre Dame, marching on to America’s football championship, defeated Northwestern 14 to 0, Saturday, as the seconds were clicking off precious time in the clos- ing minutes of the game. The victory was Notre Dame's; eighth successive triumph, leaving only the Army and Southern Califor- nia to conquer for the 1930 gridiron title. The defeat was the first for Northwestern, co-champion of the Western conference. 2 Notre Dame, held scoreless for three periods, and with the game ap- Parently destined to end in a score- less tie, suddenly exploded its irre- sistible force and crashed ‘over with two touchdowns, barely missing a third, while a crowd of 51,000 spec- tators sat dumbfounded at the’ amaz- ing finish. Northwestern, forcing Notre Dame to the defensive in the first and second periods, missed two ibles, side of Notre Dame's 10 yard line, ‘The game was bitterly and closely \t_ scoreless tie into a victory. In the first half it was all Northwestern with Rockne’s Fesler Stars in Closing Contest fighting machine, closed his spectacu- lar college football career Saturday of 20,000, by leading 9 ‘before a crowd the Scarlet and : a 12 to spite a wretched start. paign in the college armory on Dec. 5, being scheduled to oppose the Powers Hotel quint, a team compos- ed of former college stars. Wahpe- ton Science will be here on Dec. 12. and Concordia may be carded for Dec. 22 or 23. Saalwaechter plans to take his sguad on a tour which will include eight games about Christmas time. The four North Central conference teams will appear here as well as St. Thomas. Inspired Badgers Crush Minnesota To End Campaign Gopher Team Is Outplayed Throughout and Bows to Rival 14 to 0 Madison, Wis., Nov. 24.—()—Fight- ing for its own and its coach's re- demption, an inspired Wisconsin football team outplayed and out- smarted Minnesota Saturday to de- feat the Gophers, 14 to 0. ‘Under direction of Coach Glenn ‘Thistlethwaite, the Badgers played nearly perfect football to win after @ season of in-and-out playing. More than 30,000 bundled specta- tors cheered the Badgers in their su- preme effort, and were dazed at an unforseen anti-climax to the oldest football rivalry in the middle west. The Badgers soto’s 10-yard minutes of the final period. As they lined up for a touchdown play a pis- tol was fired from near the Minne- sota bandstand. The players ran off the field and the crowd surged over the sod for 15 minutes. Cheer lead- ers worked frantically to clear the field in an effort to finish the ‘final five seconds of the contest. { Football Results“ e i BIG TES Notre Dame 14, Northwestern 0. Ohio State 12, illinois 9. Michigan 16, ‘Chicago 0. Towa 12, Nebraska 7. Indiana 7, Purdue 6. Wisconsin 14, Minnesota 0 EAST Army 18, Ursinus 0, Rochester 28, Hobart 0. Mercer 2, Oglethorpe 0. New York ti, 38° Huger X ‘ork U, 33, Rutgers 0. Harvard 13, Yale 0. 13, Muhlenberg 32, ‘arnegie , Temple 13. Albright 7, Westn. Marylan LaFayette 16 Lehigh 6 | Ste) Swarthmore 0, Dickinson 0 (tie). Allegheny 133, Geneva 27. St. Bonaventure 13, St. Vincent 7. Penn Mil. Col. 24, Susquehanna 13. Drexel 26, Randolph Macon 2. Delaware 14, Haverford 7. MIDDLE WEST Simpson 15, Buena Vista 5. Heidelberg 41, John Carrol 0. Xavier 38, Kenyon 0, ‘Upper. Jowa 7, La Crosse Teachers le). Lake Forest 0, Carroll 0 (tie). Towa State 19. 3, Southwestern 6. Valparaiso 18, Wheaton 14, w Aggies 27, Centre 0. Qhjo Northern 12,’Bluffton 7. Otterbein 6, Baldwin Wallace ¢. Union Univ. 20, Ohio Wesleyan 0. Montana 12, Idaho 6. Centenary 13, Louisiana Tech. 0. Toledo U. 18, Detroit City Coy. 0. Lawrence 7, ‘Cornell 6, Depauw 7, Wabash 6. Kansas 32, Missouri 0. Haskell 24, Butler 0, Milliken 13, Bradley’ 6. SOUTH Stetson 52, Southern 0. Western Kentucky Teachers 50. , Eastern Kentucky Teach 0. Vanderbilt 27, Auburn 0. Louisville 12,Earlham 0. Furman 31, Citadel 6. 8. Carolina 19, N. Carolina State 0. Davi id Elkins 54, Waynesburg 0 Meee ee Paghington Col, 6 . Bethan: . Ve. woand’s, 1 West v ene . and J. 7, West Virginia 6. Moorhead (Ky. "Teachers 1, Cedar- New River Teach: i ew River Teachers 51, Morris Har: SOUTHWEST Bilis Baker 6, Texas A, and M. 6 ie). Southern Methodist 32, Rice 0. Baylor 35, Texas Christian U. 14. Colorado Caltege 6. Colo. Ai lo College 0, Colo. Aggies 0. Pacific §, College of Puget . Pomona 1, Occidental e eet is 6, a | |