Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 65

S. A. Colleges Retain Gridiror: Coaches : School Fives Open Title Play Saturday FOOT BALL INSTRUCTORS ARE POPULAR IN SECTION For the First Time in Many Years No Changes in Staff Are Contemplated—Warner’s System of Attack Upheld in Pasadena Battle. BY H.C. BYRD. OR the first time in many years, probably for the first time in the history of South Atlantic foot ball, no change is to be made in the system of coaching at any of the several institutions which make their h the Not only is this a tribute to the work being by the coaches, but it also is an indication that foot ball coaching a profess g morc stable Georgetown, Catholic University. George Washington and Gallaudet be tutored next Lall by the same men who handled their elevens scason. The Blue and gray is well satisfied with the work of Lou the Hatchetites were more than p'eased with the way Harry Crum carc of their interests, Catholic University feels that Tom Gormley just about as well as anvbody could have done under upusually diffi- fitions, while at Gallaudet no man on carth could have got more material than Teddy Hughes al ie buck at Virginla. | ford, a small contrary, | out fine teams, d with the |elevens that Nenle took | by far and section. on hecomi isd school, Bennett turned teuns which defeated were better in material better in everything ex- Do Tart at Washing- | cept that somet necessary to Riumdy (larkson at Vir- | win. Down at Sewanee this year. Zinfa Military Institute, Rill Feizer at material that one prominent North Carolina University and Ber characterized (o the writer as Cubbage at Virginia Polytechuic In-| “the worst 1 ever saw,” Bennett went ate seem to be fixtures in their | through fie season and cupped it bs for as long as they to reg|by ®Iving the great Vunderbilt team n his fst vear at & decisive beating on Thunksgiving th Carolina State, made consider. | day. Bennett as a coach has na Is progress. losing several games.|superior in Southern foot bull developing & than nted in Virginia is well gress it has sutisf ad- s to the coach Shaw, In P cleven Nl Ne matter if Netre Dame did whip Stanford last week In what probably was the most talked of foot bdall game of the vear. the game proved he truth of one clalm that always Tas been made for Goen Warner— that is one of the two or three greatest coaches of offensive foot ball nsldered something o y |[the game las ever known. Many by Folwell od af his job | ersons think he {s the greatest and SRR evervbody | that knows merc offensive foot iredsaNat b z hull and developed better offensive St DTy tactics than any other coach. Notre PR Dame has had no trouble gaining far 5 morc ground than kastern elevens in its games with them, but against Warner's system, at Stanford Notre Dume was compelied to depend on what might be termined un offensive defense against forward passes to score the lon's share of its points. Notre Dame couid not stop Warner's offense tn! the comparison of actual ground gained in offensive play shows Wurner's team to have been fur o the lead | vears | | Navy Sceking Mentor. About the W w-|‘]d that is the was relie could e due for- is s 4+ man Owsley essor, Howove Kk to Washingt en but Iwell's suve thing defnite of the job. antio = acceptance The situation in the South Atlantic ction teems to be somewhat indica- tive of the situation elsewhere us far «3 coaching job corned. In the North it seems s little tallk of changes except | Harvard, where some doubt exists as to just w be do another season Crimson foot ball au- thorities are not entirely satisfed with the way things have been going | n the lust during the the defeat by by Princeton vember bia, of course, unusual tion in that it lost by death tn whom 1t expected to continue to le ts gridiron fortunes, and there is not uch reason for believing that it will d another Haughton two coaching jobs tire South are open versity of M at Universit an excell chance c kind of man to 1 that ther 7 Anyy Ament Notre Dame's remarkable record of the'past year, the following opinion expreéssed to the writer re- cently by a prominent coach Is in- teresting: “Rockne has the fastest team as a team I've cver seen. Kvery man is fast and the team a8 a unit is fast Thae slowest man in thelr line- up is as speedy as the mun Who usu- wlly is consldered fast in foot ball. Anotlier thing. Rockne undoubtedly plays for the long runs, adopting just the opposite style to that employed by Doble. Dobie is content to gain fnis 3 or 4 yards on every play. | Rockne, on the other hand. is con- tent to be stopped dead nine times | out of ten if on the tenth one of his | backs runs 50 or 60 yards, and that is just abeut what happens in Notre Dame's games. A ttam will figure it |is golng great guns against Notre | Dame, when suddenly a Notre Dame back is '"P!c and gone and the game with him.’ 'FIVE D. C. BOYS LEAD MARYLAND U. TEAMS Former District high echool boys | have the homor of piloting five ath- Jetic teams at the University of Mary- land during the 1924-25 term. ‘4 Pugh, who carried Tech eolors on local gridirons and cinder paths | four years ago, captained the varsity foot ball squad in its campalgn last mittee be apnofnted to make a coun- (pall, and when the track and fleld ry-wide survey of the situation and | men begin their practfce for the yeport whether some means could be | Spring meets the Marylanders will found X I foot ball coaching |jook to him for leadership in this Sl o stable profes- | branch of sport alse. For several wow; ears Ed has heen ranked with the pest ball carrfers in the Black and | Gold aggregation; on the track the dashes nre his forte, . The baeket bail squad. which is |now in the midst of its second stagon | of intercollegiate competition, i{s cap- d of something that took plact in |tained by Jack Faber, a forward, who \is kame with Notre Dame at South |once starred for Bastern High. Jack Hend that ould be hard to beat It {{= a letter man and was acting cap- ® that Goorgia Tech had & guard | tain during the last court season. o throughout every g tried to| Joe Burger, who for the past four ‘eke life somewhat miserable for (years has held a line position on the 1S opponents by encoura his | Maryland foot ball combinations, last cammiates and by saying things to|season directing the team when Capt. courage hic opponets. Tn the Notre [ Pugh was out of the line-up because I game. about the middle of the of injuries, and has been an impo IR gusrise plion Not: [tant cog in Coach Burton Shipley's Lo ottty basket ball fives, will lead the 014 Line lacrosse tsam in Its coming | Spring campaign. In adgitlon te his |athletic and student activities, Burger finds time to hold down the job of | student mejor in the universtty's R. 0. T. C. battalien. Tete Schrider, a southpaw mounds- man who prepped at Emerson, is an- other Washingtonlan who pilots an athletic team at College Park. Last Spring base ball letter men elected h captain of the 1925 diamond out- fit that hepes to take the measure of some of the leading Eustern combina- tions in the coming scason John Hough, recently elected foot ball captain for next Fall, is a Tech High product. ONE-SIDED TILTS PLAYED IN SUNDAY SCHOOL LOOP Two teams ef the Sunday School Basket Ball League scored decisive victories over their oppenents Tast night, Mount Vernon winning over Unfon, 16 to 4, and Calvary Baptist taking the measure of the Priends courtmen, 21 to 10, The score Tnlon (4) » Tala: - Tomkinwon. York i last No Colum- situa- man the en- issigs ork wonder At the recent meeting of the Foot Ball Coaches’ in New icsilons discussed and specifically cago was that of at- empting to find waye and means for making the profession more stable. It was pointed out by Stagg that the average life of the foot ball coach | in any one job is only two and one- | half years, h is hardly long enough for to show just what he really is capable of accomplishing. This phase of foot ball coaching was brought out st in his talk Some Observations How to Be « Successful Foot Ball Coach.” Stazg ater offcred a resolution that a com- zoctation ma ing foot amusing any math es some ver: stories dents of the gridiron season be heard. Down at New Orleans ecently, Alexan of Gebrgia Tech of ball s in be 87 plave e no &round the this guard jumped 5t and wh matter, we 1§ their € men r us not set ve th the | Notre line-up at and was di- tha whol D ng fts gain e had tangled himsel uss and dragged himself rather dizzily, the at the ref- tim soon as the eferee, think the player was dly hurt, allowed time out, the uard turned t Notre Dame team i these wor Listen, fellows ult You By the first string air ation of the ed_or in the Notre Dame piay ammates the lett lows? Here enth stri That did men in tI At time the entra ter for 1 didn’'t mean golly, if you're vou cught to be.” to n not Bob Zuppke, responsible for Grange and other good foot ball players at ILj- 5, in New York recently told the fols ing about his center in the game th lowa last f In our game with Towa we had a N Who aspired to play in the backfleld, but really never had car- ried the ball in his life, He also had habit of giving alibis. On the very first kick-off the Jowa kicker booted the ball a mile 4 minute right at this center. Somehow or other the center managed to hang to the ball, but as as the ball struck him about six those pound Ifowa linemen burled him. Crawling up, brulsed and bieeding, the center turned to the rest of the team and yelled: ‘Where ihe hell was the interference? Certain rumors have gone around at various times in the last month or two that this might be Hugo Bezdek's | last year at PPenn State. As a matter of fact, notbing could be further from the actual state of affairs, In the P % h Retaren e Joices. Umpire—Mr. Harbin, firat placc, those in charge of foot !y t"5r ariods 10 mimutes, BASKET BALL DRIBBLE ATTACKED BY COACHES time he has been coaching there, and By the Assaciated Press. in the second place the former Chi- cago star is working at State under & 10-year contract, which still has seven years to go. 5 Athletie directo: and coaches It is somewhat of a puzzle to the ve exprexsed streug eppositios writer just why one certain foot ball | te the dribble in hasket bail goach In the South never has become The drilible, according to mev- assoclated with a much larger insti- | eral of the mentors, in one of the tution than any at which he has| mest dangerous elements fn sports coached. That coach is Mike Ben-| today, ome from which serious tn- pett of Sewanee. While at Haver- | jurles develo Positions. M. Ver. (18). Teft forward..... Right forward. Center ... LUl Left guard. Hanghawot... ... Right guard. Court goals—Talaver, new ( Foul gouls—York, 2 in 5: N)ew, | lot, T in 3: MacCarter, 1 Substitutions: C; listl for New. Braddock for W. Walglinh, New for Hogge, llogge for MacCarter. Heferes ZMr. Harbin. 'Umipire—Mr. Jones. Time perlods—10 minutos. soon of g Friends (101, Positio: _Left forward... Right forward. Center ... Left guard..... “Right guard... Court goals—Woodward, Plerce (¢), Baw- o (4)." Edington, Andrews (2), Lewman, | Foul gonle—Sawyer. 4 in 6; Edington, 1 ia | Subschintion: | Friends—Levering for Davi Calv. Bap. (21 Bdington Rawrer . Andrews ~Houton Lewman of | | Prate By CYTuoNER - HAGERSTOWN ELKS VISIT PALACE QUINTET TONIGHT A combination will face ings in each game. former Celtlc star, clent. Schmeelk and ONE PALACE CAPT. TURMAN FTER their gallant stand against the world champion Celtics in | their first home engagement here, the Palace Laundry basket ball tossers hope to break into the win column teday in the Arcade Auditorium at the expense of the sturdy Hagerstown Elks, a five that ranks with the leading professional clubs in this section. Laundryme offer its rival a battle from start to finish. will get under way at 8:30 o'clock Alyosius Club will tackle of Baltimore, a team that disposed of the City Club quint in easy ifashion. There ought to he some lively Horse Hagert will make his de- but for the Palace five pivet posttion, where he is most efli- the do- | playing the enzoni, o for- BUDDY BUSHMAN, Whe plays rd’ for the' local pro . | probably wili be in the Palace line-up Busmesr The visiting padded” and should | In a lnclimmar) game that | Newark Club 1 considerably ANNAPOL] welcome Md., January befitting the return of ‘o quering heroes will be given the Nav | husket ball squad on its return from the successful invasion of the Mid- west. ‘There will be special demon- stration when the team trots on the court Monday afternoon to meet Yale. The academy Is cnthused over the | victories of the five over Minnesota, Chicago and Michigan, and the in- tercollegiate leadership is the goml which grasp of the widshipmen The schedule for the next months brings it in oppoxition the best teams in the East Craig. the Navy's brilliant forward, | was closely watched during ~ the games, but still led the team in two out of three games. IHis record for action in one of the Aloysius intra- | the six games already played is T4 club games tomorrow night on the I | points of the 199 score \ street court. Play will start at 8:30 | The Navy team deserves alljthe o'clock. { more credit for {ts victories bechuse | it found a very different game In the | Midwest from what it has been plyaing in the East, the officials being much more liberal in regard to hecking and charging than in this section. wards, and Cooney and Bushmau, guards, also will perform against the Hagerstown aggregation. I2d Lynch, former Catholle University. tosser, n before the game is very old. Joe Deerinig, court mentor of Columbia University, will referee the main go. In meeting the Newark Club, Alo- ysiug has picked an opponent that s generally considered the cream of Baltimore. The 1 street basketers have been undergoing an arduous practice campaign in preparation for the Oriole eity quint. Coach George Colliflower has not vet announced the Aloysius line-up, but more than likely several new players will display their wares for the local five. Joe Fitz- gerald will referee this tilt, v a two to Mingox and Wonders will supply the The Carby hasket hall toxsers will mect @ palr of warthy opponents to- day in the Congress Heights gymna- sium. The Stanton Athletic Club, that has made such an Impressive showing, this season, will be en- countered in_the opener. starting at| COSTS $44.15 A YEAR Per man foot ball cost the most and | tennis the least to outfit in athletic | togs at Ohio State University, accord- |ing to a survey just completed: by G. | M. Trautman. assistant director of { athtetics. ‘Cost per man for gridiron clothes s $44.15 and for tennis only 33. Next to foot hall in costliness ranked base ball, the equipment costing 33. per man. Cost to outfit men in other branches of sport was: Basket ball, $18.90; traci and cross-country, $16. gymnastics and fencing, $13; wrestling, $13; rifie team; §10, and golf, §5. Freer Widgets, avernging 100 to 105 pounds, are on the lookout for games with teams having the use of a g¥wnasium on Friday nights. The manager may be reached at Franklin 2983 Friends Athletic Cfub won its sec- ond game from St. Joseph's, 22 to 20. Trayers, Schwarzmann, Delaney and Galler played well ! Paramount Athletic Club suffered | W its first deréut of the season, losing | to the 260th Coast Artillery toesers, 30 to 22. Colvin of the winners reg- istered nine co goals, while Free- man’ of the Paramounts accounted for three. mes with the soldier team can be arranged by cglling the manager al Main. 2152, is believed to be within the| Surekttsvill ¥y sturdy this season has bren’ elected Dent captain of { tion. | last veais men an |dy AMiddleton wards: George O, |'S~hultz, guards; a center. |~ “ric | ovtier teams durir weeks Hyattsville Charlotte Hall toams desiring games. g contests muy 33-1-22 The -girls’ team Tayman and Trene: Fippett and forwards; Helén Catherine Ripple, |, Oficers of the \'elation” are } dent; Millard 3 | Lyons, treasy e |CLUB IN BRA | | “Red™ Layton, of Nebraska foot ceived an offer f take charge as its Layton represer | 40-yard dash at | bers of the Brazi | time. | He failed Olympic aboard tryouts, {ence at sea. was petition at Paris. “UNTZ” R 1 1537 14th St N- id Joun and Alma Shaffer, Bugene to qualify the' Américan ) | and when he made known his pres- 'NAVY TOSSERS WILL | GOOD COURT TEAMS | GET WARM WELCOME' ‘AT CLINTON 3,—FEoth High Schonl aymond Schults manager and Jobn the boys' combina- The team has lost only one of nd at hand are Bud- Dent, for- Raymond gden and Ad Franklin Ripple. loéals likely Will meet among TE the next several High, Laurel High, ather 130-pound Teams wish- telephone Mariboro ineludes ‘Katherine guards: ¢ Cathreen Carrico, Parker, center, and sfde center: cho@l athietic asso- Meyer, presi- chultz, viee president: Funres Whreve < secretary, and Billy ¥ ZIL SEEKS | YANK AS ATHLETIC HEAD 3000PPIROTEOLLVPOPLLO0LTO | | former. ball rom, University star, has re- the Sao Paulo Athletic Club of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to director, ited America in the the Olympic games {in France, and met some of the mem- llan teams at that in the final stowed away ship ‘but Olymple accepted for com- R aasaasaaasaands ] BREWER GENERAL CORD to make friends.” Tel. Main 6694 SCHOOL | [EASTERN HIGH BASKETERS " APPEAR FIT FOR TOURNEY | ‘Two-Time Champions Have Fared Well in Practicé | Engagements—Formidable Quints in Making at Several Other Institutions. ITH the openijg o their final | pionship serics | Tech clashes with Bu. | Univers schoo! tomorro f prepping f Saturday. cholastic basket the beg: round o r start cham meets of the Easters ess on the floor of the new ¥ gymnasium in the inaugural program Excepting that the excellent showing of Coach Guyon { has indicated that Fastern High's competitors will k | forcing the title away from Lincoln Park, few deductions a | chances of the teams can be made from pre-scason scores. _ However, the Gonzaga courtmen, who were deieated by East Friday and are heduled to meet Western tomorrow. and the strong Catholic University freshmen combination. victors over cach of the other high schools and wa ed with the Georgetowners on the coming Sat urday. should furnish fair indications of the of Coa Dar Ahearn's squad of tossers Aslde from these one or two possible time of the h ing this week will be spent in fecting the fine points. Wes toam. Bullt around Garber, for Dulin, guard. and Lamar, center. its first action of the o serfes on Tucsday, January 13 ting 1 ern that datc Business next Central and George Washingtos ave a lively to the ¢ time uture i the final over some of tha' strong school combinations of the fon A number of the Centralltie learned hasket th the Epiphan teams that have figured so promi nently in T several easons pa Fech ¥ trom the Gonzaga fore have & few bors, the consec- | game Keasler | funiai men of 1924, in| (g, the favorite | ( two games ard practice tilts, t school ailietes dur- ;- sutrmen took def but having had s f practice since, thes rprises for their nigl graphers, in the second Suturday’s double-heade Zahn und McCormick, guards, id Werber, forwards, and ter. probably will carr on Chris wiile Central battle weeks Brace tern. champio: utive seaso Wit and Bennie, all-high its Tine-up, naturally with fans whe huve particuia holastic afliliations. Constent hol- iduy practices with their wiumni and the hgrd-fought game with Reading i High., in which (he Washing- tonlanx were defeuted by 3 polrite have given the proteges of Chif the advaniuge, in experience least, over the other quints, ers mentiened Va § he has dily th first captain practice started working st &3 nrmar Guron at another ' Brist, Ma also have Stewurd, fror In addition to the pla and Heeke and Madigun, centers, und Scruggs and Rud who huve been | performing creditably, the Eastern coach has an abund second- string material. MeAlester, Hogarth Burch, Ellot. Zler, Silverman, Bur- dine and Nicholson are leading the | collection of substitutes capable filling the places of the regulars when \ecessary nee of As the coming court s ford Business athlates | portuni srral championship, thing have failed to for the Orange a e pected to furnisk 1 some sUM p: risx will af- another op- major =p which th several years, tossers are ex- opponent > P oposition Although defeated day by heavier n New and more experienced alumni. the Central enter the titular series with high hopes. In Banta, McDonald, Moser, Harrls, Dar zansky and Abramson, Coach Coggins has @ falr quantity reserve inutc- rial, part of whic be called to fill regular beside Dean, Dezendors Hale, m of the 1924 quint that sprang the set at the University of Pennsylva tournament by fighting its NEXT TO YALE IN SPORT . FEATS IS NAVY’S CLAIM I\ only three branches af sport, making number of collegiate championshis The leadership in g fencing and rifle sh | accorded to the Midshipmen, but, apparently |and wrestling were overlooked. In swimming, it i claimed, the was clearly first among Eastern colleges, wiiile it drex first with Pennsylvania State for top honors in the mat s There Is, of course, no dlsagreement rules the with the assignment of Yale to first| Naval Acadomy place, the number and importance of | for membership the sports fn which it leads giving it | of the the undisputed premiership. would undoubtedly ever, the Navy feels that it Also, it nov rank next as to numbers of first dence rule for varsity proper figure being four and a half, Last year Penn Sta won the instead of three. championship of the Intercollegiste Overfooked In Swimming. Wrest Assoclation, but wrestled to Apparently Princeton was given first : ::"‘” WAL Lkt D “f““{,‘":’ place in swimming on account of It Lnacr (hese clrcumctances the Navs ey e Sl on Seconm. having als owen all of its otiier matches overlooked. howeéver, that the 1| the leadership for the year secims a tie Academy also defeated Yale in a dual | BetWeen Feun State and (he meet, and took first place in the final| Ao of tiie Intercollegiate Swimming As- sociation, with both Princeton and | Yale as entrants. The Navy also had | a clean record in its other duall matches, The assignment of mat dbrings up the question of the aval Academy’s exclusion from the Tnter- colleglate Wrestling Association and the general bearings of the resulis In | !eges. but was outpointed by State the Qifferent associations connected|In the final of the Intercollegiate with different sports in the settle-|BOxing Association While there is ment of the actual intercollegiate|room for a claim of a deadloak | rank. this sport also, it is probable that the It is contended here that the result | declsion would be controlied by the in the Wrestling Association cannot |result In the final and mare important possibly \settle the real intercolle- |cvent glate championship, as the Naval| T Academy has been denied member-|the {ship In that body, its actign being In | tio: {entire contrast to that of the asso-|&reat rival, was highly satisfacter. ciations connected with other sports, [It won in base ball, basket ball, lu | which have welcomed the Academy |Orosse and tennis, tied In foor ball as a member. | &nd 108t In field and track veral years sgo, however, the| This vear the Navy made a bad | Wrestling Association, on two occa-|Start by losing the foot ball game | slons, ‘declined to accept the Naval|but has excellent chances of improv- Academy us a member. At that time |ing (ts record in the sports yet to be the Naval Academiy had no eligibility | contested. Basket ball, to be ooun- | rules and this was glven as the rea- |tested hers on February 28, the son for its exclusion, though is was|next sport fn which the service perfectly willing to abide by any|s Is will meet 3 We Need the Room Startiog Jur will be played on day of each weel eduled f 10, the title gamex turday and Tue:- two gawes being asketers will berths, und other newrh school cumbination nish side attractious through ont the series J. E. Haas und eran officials. huve handle the title game B. Sablosser, vet= in been sclected to to NNAPOLIS, January 3—There is some at the Naval place it urprise Acad- writers emy over the assi of firat cond place in the inastics, g is generally 15 as to swimming ! Navy for honors The not since applied regarding the actton assoclation as but enter the 1" one-vear athletes has Near Tie in Boxing. The boxing situation was also somewhat mixed. 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