Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1928, Page 33

. SPORTS3 South Due to Produce GREAT ADVANCE IN GAME HAS BEEN MADE IN DIXIE McGugin of Vanderbilt Sees Georgia Tech Eleven as Likely Leader, But Others Will Be Very Much in Running. (This fs the last of four dispatches by famous coaches surveying ine college oot ball_outiook ohout the coun- o t s, the jar West. four coaches wiil ezclu- sively for this paper during the Joot dall season.) BY DAN E. McGUGIN, Foot Ball Coach at Vanderbilt University. HE season has come when hun- dreds of thousands of young ‘Americans in schools and_col- leges have begun preliminaiy work to make loot pall teams. As in all things worth while, this calls for hard appiication, self-denial and caacity for taking pains. : ‘There will be many disappointments by the way. One or more men on every squad will prove unsatisfactory. They will fail to do their best. ‘Lhey will Jose that vital thing, precious to a boy, the respect and aflection of teatmates. Boys are exacting in this game of foot ball. They demand from teammates the best, these teammates can do. At the end of the season there will be almost innumerable selections of all- American teams. The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance have invited Roper, coach at Princeton; Zuppke, University of Illinois; Jones, University of California, and myself to make a particular study of the teams and the individual players of our re- spective sections, and at the end of the season to agree on &n all-American eleven. We are to observe and to inquire from all reliable sources, and to note the progress of teams and the development of players week by week. From the be- ginning of the season to the end we are 1o know whether a player is consistently good, or brilliant only at intervals, whether he shows any indication of selfishness or whether he forgets himself in the spirit of team play. Even this selection, carefully made, will be im- ect and unjust to some, but it should nevertheless be reasonably just and fair. This invitation has caused me to abandon the policy I have long adhered to, that is, to refrain from writing for newspapers. It seems to me, however, that it does provide an opportunity to 5‘:‘“ teams and individual players of e Southeastern section in a place of consideration. South Has Its Stars. It is naturally the disposition of every section to think its own the best. It s my observation that men the country over have generally the same physical ability. Through the influence of cli- mate and other conditions they may be_different in type. Boys in the Middle West are inclined to be muscular, thick of chest and strong of thigh. The Southern boy is more apt to be slender, thin of face, very often thin of chest, and with the long steel-like muscle of the pioneer. The institutions of the North and East have on the average a far greater number of students. The South has not developed intramural activities as other sections, though great progress is being made. For the most part, we perhaps do not have the traditions which mare effective REAL FIVE CENT CIGAR s BACK IN TOWN ROCKY FORD @F. LortardzCo., Est. 1700 than riuscle and bone determine the outcome of a hard contest. But there is always at least one man in the South, and often a number, who deserve serious consideration for the all-Ameri- can. It is my task in this first article to give some judgment of the possibilities of the Southern teams. A trained news- paper man can reel off paragraph after paragraph without hesitation, making it fresh and interesting to the reader, but it is hard for one not accustomed to that manner of writing to make a type- writer spell out the thoughts that arise and put them in such a garb that they will be interesting and clear. ‘There are 22 colleges in the Southern Intercollegiate Conference, beginning with Maryland, and extending down to Tulane University. Numerous other colleges belong to the Southern Collegi- ate Association. A number of the lat- ter have strong teams, but as a rule not on par with those of the conference. Develop Great Teams. All these colleges at times have bril- liant games and teams. Practically every college in the conference has one or more great elevens to think about, teams which have won at least one important intersectional game. V. M. I. and Maryland have defeated Pennsyl- vania. Maryland, Georgia and Vir- ginia have won from Yale. Georgia Tech have had many brilliant inter- sectional games to look back upon. Tulane, Florida, Vanderbilt and others have all surprised opponents of other sections of reputed greater strength. Five head coaches have come into the conference, all men of fine char- acter, experience and ability. These include Laval, South Carolina; Bach- man, Florida; Cohen, Louisana State; Mehre, Georgia, and Bohler, Aubu Cody, at Clemson, is beginning his sec- ond year, having achieved much in preparation and organization during the first. Most of the members of the confer- ence have particularly large squads in training and have adequate coaching staffs. It is literally impossible for one man, or two men, to give the necessary individual instruction to a large group. Coach Wade, Alabama, has Jess Neely and James Haygood. Cody has obtained Sanders and athers, and in the main from three-to-five competent instruc- tors are engaged with respective squads. Most of the colleges have a large number of letter men. North Carclina State has 13, University of Virginia, 14; University of North Carolina, 12; Wash- ington and Lee, 10, and University of Georgia, Georgia Tech and others are well fortified with veteran material. Perhaps the strongest teams in ‘the conference the last two years have been Georgla, Georgia Tech, Tennessee, Ala- bama and Vanderbilt, though this may be the year when the better teams will be found upon the Atlantic seabosrd. Many Good Elevens. It is probable that the leaders along the Atlantic Sea Coast will be found among the Universities of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mary- land, Washington and Lee, North Caro- lina State, Furman and Virginia Mili- tary Institute, though Clemson may ad- vance to a place equal to or in advance of these. Coach Bachman of the Rockne School, with a briiliant record at Kansas Agri- cultural college, will apply his skill and organizing ability at Florida and might bring her into leadership his first year. Mehre, at the University of Georgia as first year head coach, will have the problem of replacing three exception- ally good men in Smith, guard, an Shiver and Nash, ends. Ends of this unusual skill do not grow on every bush, as I found when Wakefield and Bomar left Vanderbilt. Mehre has a large squad of experienced men, and all in- dications point to a continuance of the brilliant G v i Georgia of the last few years. Mehre has linemen sufficient to make, two teams, I am told, while his group of capable backfield men is especially large. If he is successful in_ getting ends of ability his_team will be hard to beat—hard for Yale, Georgia Tech, Alabama and all others. It has the outstanding ' fullback of the South in McCrary. The University of Alabama will al- ways have superbly coached, hard- fighting, well organized teams with Wade in charge. He has the outlook of a rugged line and a smart and fast backfield, and has prospects now, ap- parently, of a first-class punter. ‘Wade lost several fine men from last year, including that excellent tackle Pinkhard. But he was blessed with a bit of talent, and will be able to fill such holes. Alapama plays Wisconsin early in November, and it should be an outstanding_battle, with Alabama fully upholding the Southern banner. Tulane Star Back. Tulane promises to keep up her bril- liant play of two and three years ago, having a remarkable back in Bancker. Cohen will be busy building for the future during this, his first year at Louisiana State. The University of Mississippi and_ Mississippi A. & M have exceptionally large and promising squads. Coach Byrd, University of Maryland, has good material, and & very effective system of playing. Bohler, at Auburn, a substantial ad- dition to the conference coaching or- ganization, will have & good team and also will be building for the future. The University of Tennessee lost fine vet- eran players in Barnhill, Butcher, Dod- son and others, but has an unusually large squad, many brilliant men com- ing over from last year's freshman - | team. We have more men to work with at Vanderbilt than in a number of years. Only two men, however, who have had more than one year's experience. Spears, quarter; Sharp, center; Crea- son, end, and Owen, halfback, were men of remarkable skill, and we fear we will not look upon the like agan soon. 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C. «¢ Colga d | sibly play of the University of | pect have a first-class back in Armistead. For the first time in some years we are likely to have a good string of sub- stitutes for replacements. And alto- Sooa Center and & m ”a‘?”;&'w“"' : center and a man 3 we should be able to hold up our heads. We have a rather hard schedule, with ite coming early in the season pos- to throw a cog into our develop- ment. But with a little luck Vander- bilt should be able to hold her place in the sun. Sewanee is on the up-grade, her fresh- man team of last being the best in years, and variety of capable pros- ts are trying out for her freshman team of 1928, Virginia and Washing- ton and Lee, along with most of the institutions, have many veterans. This appears to be a year when none of the Southern colleges have lost most of the fine teams of 1927 through graduation. Georgia Tech Powerful. It is the opinion that Georgia Tech is likely to have the best team in the conference. She had an unususlly fine eleven last year, made up largely of sophmore material. She lost two ex- cellent men in Capt. Crowley and Tackle Hood, but she is rej have two fine men coming for the freshman team in Lumpkin and Dunlap, backs of power and speed. It is to be h(l!f)ed that Thompson and Randoloh will attain scholastic eligibility. With Fincher, an_ exceptionally fine line coach, and Miller, a veteran of the “Four Horsemen,” to aid Coach Alex- ander, no team will be furnished with a sounder system of play. In the Southwest, that is beyond the Mississipp! River, the Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas Colleges are in the South- western Conference. ~ The student bodies are large, and nearly every boy is a potential athlete. Southern Methodist University, under the brilliant and versatile coaching of Ray Morrison, has been making per- haps the most consistent record of re- cent years. A squad made up of seniors as rec- ommended by coaches of the conference was invited to play in Los Angeles, on Christmas day, & team made up of seniors of Pacific and Rocky Mountain institutions. ‘The_ Southerners selected were: Thomas, Maryland; Cardwell, Virginia; Spotts, Washington and_Lee; McDowell, North Carolina State; BEste: Georgia; Crowley and Hood, Georgia Tech: Butcher, Barnhill and Dodson, Tennessee; Thompson, Mississippl A. & M.; Cohen, Mississippi; Menville of Tulane; Bowdoin and Pickard, Ala- bama; Middlecoff, Florida, and Spears, Sharpe and Creason, Vanderbilt. 1t is doubtful whether a better squad of foot ball players was ever assembled. The boys had heads of scholars, man- 10| ners of gentlemen and spirit and bodies of the veteran athlete. They won the game and this experience has contrib- uted to a better understanding and bet- ter sportsmanship among the colleges of the section. An examination of this squad would convince any one that -American material is to be found below the Mason- Dixon Line. (Copyright. 1928. by North American Net paper_Alliance.) Notre Dame May Spring Great Grid Team as It Did in 1926 BY LAWRENCE PERRY. OUTH BEND, Ind., September 19. —Notre Dame’s outlook . for the coming foot ball season reminds one of the conditions found at this attractive seat of learning back in 1926._ At that time the eleven looked distinctly unpromising. ~ The team limped along for a month and then practically overnight snapped into brilliant form and ended the season in a cloud of star dust. Today the conditions on Cartier Field are very much the same as they were that September six years ago. There is a host of untried candidates for all the positions, just as there was then, and a perfectly splendid morale. But now, as in 1926, there is a dearth of out- standing men. Knute, in fact, sees just one ace as he looks over his squad of 150 candi- dates. He is Niemic, a backfield flash, already known to fame, about whom, as it looks now, Notre Dame’s attack will be built. But Rockne always seems to have backfield men ready to spring out of the ground, and no doubt this season more than one ball carrier of approved Notre Dame caliber will ma- terialize before the season is well under way. 7 No doubt the coach has a sneaking idea this will be the case, since his greatest concern lies in the end posi- tions. All four of the team's ends were graduated last June and the. develop- ment of wingmen to replace them is admittedly Rockne’s biggest problem. Notre Dame has to have ends of su- perior class if her attack is to function as it should. They have not yet ap- peared, but when candidates from the dormitory teams appear for practice next Saturday it is possible that out of these 300-odd aspirants Knute will be p some promising wing of last Spring Rockne worked with the interhall players with ; |\lrlew to building up his varsity this all. One thing is assured, the team will be a_heavier combination than last year. ‘There will be some sacrifice of speed, but Rockne is willing to make it, inasmuch as he believes the 1928 eleven will be better constituted to absorb hard knocks than the 1927 outfit, which was pretty well shot physically by the time of the Army game. And maybe the overnight attainment of greatness which occurred six years ago may again oc- cur. “I don't know what sort of team we will have, today. “It has possibilities, but I will say frankly that the 1929 team prom- Many Fine Teams and Clever Grid Players This Season ‘Il‘el" o:ng_ch more than this year's aggre= Asked which games he thought would be his toughest this year, Knute said: ig that the public has Army credit for the unvarying high grade of her foot ball technique year after . It's a great foot system they have up there and make no mis- take. The Navy will be strong and Southern California, too. 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