Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 43

‘THE EVENING e TR e g D. C. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 19°8% SPORTS 43 SPORTSH STAR, WASHINGTON. 1 only 2 letter men, and 9 of the 20 var- | sity players have piayed two years. In-| diana has a formidable schedule, but | may provide an upset or two. I hope | it won't be when they play Illinois, for the first time since 1914, | Last year was Glenn Thistlethwaite's first as coach at Wisconsin, and it takes| EMMITSBURG. Md. September 13. time to become adjusted. He is now | —Mount St. Mary's College foot ball more familiar with the abilities of his | tram. which will open its season at candidates and the general situation.|Washington against Georgetown Uni- The Badgers lost only a few players, but | versity on September 29. will report some of their best have gone. Although |to Coach Arthur Malloy tomorrow. It there are 17 letter men, some sophomores | iS the first time in recent years that showed better than veterans in Spring | the Mountaineers have mnot reported practice and are likely to displace them, | before the opening of the college which will mean a stronger team. classes. 4 . The Big Ten schedules are about the | In addition to 17 varsity men left same as usual, an important exception | from last season, Malloy will have more being that Michigan and Minnesota do | than a score of newcomers from the not meet for the first time in years. Chi- | freshman and prep classes. cago plays Minnesota after a long lapse. but the Tecently revived Michigan serics is halted. Intersectional games in- clude Princeton and Ohio State, at Co- lumbus; Michigan and Navy at Balti- | better off to be rid of his veterans, as the 1927 squad, through no fault of his, lacked harmony. Since Dr. Wilce will retire at the close of this season, there will prob- ably be a letup of criticism. With his mind free from worries, and with a harmonious squad, Wilce may close his Buckeye coaching in a blaze of glory. Stranger things have happened, and 1t would be ironic justice. Sees Aid in Purdue. Purdue asked me to speak at its foot ball dinner, and I repaid the courtesy, perhaps, when I asserted, “Purdue, you will win the champion- ship next year——." When the applause subsided, I added, or Illinois!” Ex- plaining that I looked to the boiler- makers to defeat Minnesota and help the Illini to the championship. Just a pleasantry? Who knows? This may be the boilermakers' year. Purdue has a real veteran team, prac- tically the same outfit which ran ram- | have for the backfield and all are ca- | pable players. “Actually we will start the season | wMth five experienced backs, three let- men for ends, two experienced N. C. State Eleven to Be Strong : Midwest Sure to Have Many Formldable Teams WALEGHLEORRS =2 MOUNT ST. MARY’S GETS A LATE START Squads Appear Best at Illinois, Notre Dame, Minnesota, Nebraska and Missouri South. That is a prospect much betier | | than we usually have and unquestion- | ably and for apparently good reason we feel decidedly optimistic over our out- look for the coming season. Lone Star Lost From 1927 | North Carolina State opens its sched- ule Friday, September 28, with Elon Aggregation That Had | G0 et fexingion the totoune: Great Season. Illinofs has lost 13 lettermen, but will have at least 14 left—Capt. Now- ack, Burdick, Gordon, Crane, McClure and Wietz, linemen; Deimling, Wolgast iand Jolley, ends: Stuessy, quarterback: ‘Timm, Mills, Walker and Humbert, backs, and perhaps Richman, center. Frosty Peters, dropkicker in 1926, will return. We will have plenty of work with the line and must develop more ends. I'ath Sorry Garland Grange will not return. He played some good foot ball last season, ‘his first. Timm will be perhaps the best all-around back in the confcrence, and we should have a good backfield. Although we have no sopho- more “phenoms,” we hope to find com- This is the first of a series of four dispatches by famous coaches surceying the college foot ball outlook throughout the country. " Bill Roper, Princeton. 1; report on the outlook in' the East: ard Jones. Southern California. will dis- cuss”the elevens of the far West, and Dan WeGrmin . o1 Vanderniit il oive the lowdown on the Southern teams. | saturday, October 6. Then comes | Clemson at Florence, S. C., on October | 12; Wake Forest, October 18: Florida at Jacksonville, October 27; North Caro- | lina, November 3, at Raleigh; Davidson at Greensboro, November 10; Duke Uni- versity at Raleigh, November 17: Michi- gan State College at East Lansing, No- vember 24, and South Carolina at Ra- leigh Thanksgiving day. BY ROBERT C. ZUPPKE, Foot Ball Coach, University of Tllinois. i ROSPECTS are never so poor BY H. C. BYRD. as when you have a veteran team,” says the old adage. ORTH CAROLINA STATE COL- Ths By b G exkiin LEGE seems to be waking in ation, but it contains consid- foot ball and may be about to erable truth. All coaches have learned take the place it once held as that to their sorrow. N a leader in that section of the For several years the Raleigh School did nothing particularly note- worthy. but last season accomplished things that indicated much for the cur- rent schedule. | Back 15 years ago Georgetown used | to go to Raleigh for a fair-week game, | and it usually came home defeated. and other schools that faced the Cherry and White usually were treated the same way; but since that good seasons have | been few and far between until 1927 | brought to view something of the | cloud's silver lining. Last year the squad started without very much in the way of prospects, but gradually came along until it whipped North Carolina _decisively, took the measure of Clemson, swamped Wake Forest, beat Florida, Duke and David- ®n and then wound up the season by whipping the daylights out of South Carolina and Michigan State College. And_the best part of that record is that the same coaching staff and the same players practically are again in the squad to meet this year's opponents. Truly the Raleigh eleven has real cause | for optimism. McDowell Is Gone. | South. W Little can afford to take no chances 6. U. SOUAD IS T BY MANY INJURIES Morriss, Leading Candidate | for Center Job, Gets Wrenched Knee. ILDWOOD, N. J., September 13.—Georgetown University foot ball squad’s injured list is mounting rather alarm- ingly, and Head Coach Lou vith the opening game with Mount St. ary's only a little more than two But the dopesters will always favor the teams which made the best show- | ings the previous season and have a| large nucleus of veterans. | The chances of the “green” teams are discounted, yet they. are likely to | be dangerous. A new team has some- thing a seasoned squad often lacks—I| might call it an elixar of life—and is! likely to kick out in all directions and | surprise everybody, including itself. | The veteran team has won its spurs and is sophisticated. Its players are prone to think they have learned all there is to know about the game. The team with a fine record the previous season carries a heavy burden—news- | paper praise—which makes the- players | conceited. There are other factors— | harmony in squads, schedules. and the way a foot ball bounces at a critical point in the deciding game! Hurts to Be Favorite. The frail basis for pre-season predic~ tions was shown last year, when hardly a writer gave Illinois a chance because we were largely a new team and were not at the top in 1926. This placed us in an advantageous position, and won- derful spirits, harmony and ' that elixir of life carried the squad to the cham- 1 ROBERT ZUPPKE. Gibson, Nagurski, Kakela and Johnson, linemen; Tanner and Haycraft, ends; and Barnhart and Pharmer, backs, all played regularly last season. Hovde, another back and a letter man, is again on the job, too. Will Be Overrated. Illinois is certain to be overrated, buc should have a good team. But every- body will be pointed for the champions. have warned the squad that gold foot balls one season do not assure cham- pionships the next, but I'll have to bat- tle a tendency to be self-satisfied. ‘The leadership and fighting spirit of petent reserve backs. Michigan has a green team, but I for |one will not make the mistake of un- | derestimating _the Michiganders' po- tential strength any year. They have |lost 17 lettermen, including Oosterbaan. » truly great athicte, whose passing will | not cause any sadness in the other camps. ‘Their roster includes only 7 lettermen. Capt. Rich is the only Wol- verine who has had more than one vear's experience. Truskowski was a | regular center, but not all the rest were first-string men. Towa Has Veterans. Jowa has a veteran team, which I expect to be the strongest the Hawk- eyes have had in several years. Coach Ingwersen has lost only six lettermen, including Nelson, his star tackle. Eight are playing their third season. There are several likely sophmores, notably Mayes McLain, fullback, 210 pounds and fast, who scored 253 points in 13 games in 1926 for Haskell Institute, and should give the Hawks some punch. Ohio State appears to be on the border line betwcen a veteran and a of the seventeen varsity men returning | gone. was more or less crippled all last season. | If the Boilermakers clear the Gopher hurdle they will probably figure in the | championship. Northwestern has lost some good men, but is in a better mental situation than last year, when Dick Hanley. starting | his first season as coach, found his| charges painted as prospective cham- | pions, which was a disadvantage. The | Wildcais had had breaks in injuries and too much publicity for some play- ers. Northwestern has lost 14 letter men, but has 13 available. Hanley's task is to build up his line, as his back- field looks fairly good. Bruder, a sophomore, was said to be the besU prep back in the State. This will be the thirty-sixth season Coach Stagg has coached Chicago. The inward prayer of all coaches is to be able to coach as long and as successfully as Mr. Stagg. The Maroons have lost heavily in the line, but expect to de- velop a better team than last year by | virtue of a more finished and versatile | backfield. with more punting and pass- | ing ability than in recent seasons. pant against Indiana in the final game | more: of 1927. Only 6 out of 27 letter men are | Chicago and Northwestern and Dart- Wilcox is a loss, but “Cotton” | mouth at Evanston. Chicago and Pennsylvania at | (Copyright. 1928, by North American News- aper Aumw FOOT BALL PLAYER KILLED. WORCESTER. Mass.. September 13 ~James Fenton, a senior at Holy Cross and a candidate for an end berth on the varsity cleven, died Tuesday of injuries sustained in scrimmage the | day previous. His spine was fractured when he tackled one of the backficld men. Fenton's home is at Lawrence, M For YOUR Goodyear Pathfinder Cords Pathfinders made and guaranteed oy Goodyear show their worth at once to the cautious buyer. We recommend them without reserve for real service at low cost. Compare these $rices. 30x3 CL. Cord Oversize . . . . . 32x48.8.Cord. .. 9.95 29x4.40 Balloon.!. 6.50 31x5.25 Balloon. .11.00 $5.65 ALFRED STIDHAM, i 1314 Fsurteenth St. ; i | weeks ancad. 0 e o e teDwely | - There are now elght first stringers on That back*was a good passer, a good the crippled roster, and Little may call man carrying the ball and a fine punt- 0? the schsdv_.lled scrimmage with 'l'ern—l er. and his like is not found every |Ple tomorrow. | day. But even with him gone, those Bill Morriss, a sophomore who came in charge at Raleigh feel ‘that plenty | to Georgetown from St. Joseph's Col- of material is available for a better team | lege, Philadelphia, is tne latest stalwart than was turned out a year ago. Thir-|to be hurt. He was carried from the teen letter men are working out now,|field vesterday with a badly wrenched and running them hard for regular|knee when the Blue and Gray gridders berths are three of four members of | were scrimmaging against Temple Uni- the 1927 freshman squad. Especially | versity for the third time recently in does the varsity line profit by acqusi- | Atlantic City. Morriss was looming as tions from the 1927 freshmen, Man-|a successor to the famed Claude Grigs- ushak, Stout, Furtado, Burdell and|by, prominently mentioned for All- 59{“:.“” h:\'lm]r the earmarks of | American honors last Fall. rst string material. 5 . The coaching staff is the same as last |, WITKOOP, mO¥ 1t the o eaned year, Gus Tebell, former Wisconsin | job" a5 Zimowski has an injured elbow man, being at the helm as head coach. |35 the result of Monday's scrimmage He is assisted by Sermon and Drennan, | with Temple. Joe Monoghan, the only formerly of Springfield; Slaughter, for-| gther center on the squad, is too green meé )}\,Mchjlgln? pIn)}rr nsl lmc( coach}.‘ for regular use. 4 an assailaigue, formerly of Sout! 0 Carolina. Incidentally, Tebell also is |, Other Airst stringers on the injured ioaa ikt Wal) loosch mn A Hone of e list are Tomaini and Provincial, ends: best in the South 5 ;{ogn;y. tgcl'{)le: ca;ro;‘l‘, guard, and 3 udak and Dwyer, backs. Tal Stafford, graduate manager of| “pomain has a cut on the knee which, athletics, paints a rather optimistic pic- however, hs to heal; Provincial ture of 'his team's possibilities. Here | IOWEVEr, has begun to heal; Provincia is what he says: and Carroll have injured ankles, “With the return of 13 letter men we | Moouey's complaint 1s a bruised hand, should be represented by a team fully | Hudak's is a bad knee and Dywer's a as strong as that which swept through | charley horse. i our season in 1927. We were not tied | With Liston and Cordovano the only and not defeated M any Conference | full-fledged first stringers in their line game, and we won our big game with | Which took the field yesterday against North Carolina by 19 to 0. I expect to| Temple University, the Hoyas did not 8ee our team uncover a hard-running, | 100k so impressive and the coaches did powerful attack built mainly around |not like the plly of the Hilltoppers in Warren, who I regard as one of the best | many respects. backs in the South. He is a brilliant| At the start the first string backfield, defensive player, and not only is a hard | consisting of Scalzi, quarter; Schmidt driving back through the line, but has|and Duplin, halves, and Barabas at full sufficient speed and versatility to run|was used. This combination, which was the ends. He also is a good kicker and | handicapped by the inexperienced line, passer and leads interference in a way | was soon withdrawn. that almost gives other backs ground. Hannigan, who pulled a run through “Warren, to my way of thinking, is | the entire Temple team; Gardner, quar- about the handiest back who has worn | terback, and Driscoll, halfback, were our colors in many moons. Against|G. U. men to show well. South Carolina and Michigan State in In two more days the Hoyas are the last two games of the season he | scheduled to break camp. Leaving here almost ran wild. Crum, Adams and | Saturday the squad is to report at the Morris are other letter men that welHilltop Field in Washington Monday. green team, having lost nine varsity players and getting eight back, while the status of Eby, halfback, is in doubt. The situation is complicated by the anti-Wilce Cabal. Wilce is probably Stagg generally moulds a strong de- fensive team. Indiana optimistically reports that more and better men will report than ever before. The Hoosiers have lost Capt. Reitsch, Muegge, Schultz and others who are gone had much to do with our success last year, and it re- mains to be seen if their torch has been handed on. pionship. Now I read that Illinois has the best prospect in the Big Ten, so I know wo will have to carry a_ heavy load. Minnesota, Illinois, Notre Dame, Ne- braska and Missouri, with some reason, wil be played up as the Middle Western teams with the best outlooks, but. don't count the green clevens out of it. Minnesota probably will be as strong in the line as last season, but I doubt if the backfield will have as much punch. For Poesting, Almquist and Ny- dahl, high-class players whose reputa- tions were based on real accomplish- ments, have passed. It is improbable that they can be replaced. ‘The Gophers lost 10 regulars in all from their strong 1927 team, but 125 players reported for Spring practice, and the Fall turnout has been fine. This is an ominous portent to the teams Minnesota meets. Eight letter men, Capt. 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