Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1928, Page 29

A S MAGOFFIN T0 AGAN HANDLE GATHERING About 50 Expected to Join in Discussions—Navy Has Two Hefty Backs. BY H. C. BYRD. OOT ball coaches and officials who make their homes in and around ‘Washington are to get together tomorrow night for a general in- terpretation meeting such as was held iast year. The meeting has been called by “Maggy” Magoffin, gen- erally regarded as the best official in the South, and is to be held in the sports department of The Star. Approximately 50 coaches of local colleges and high schools and officials attended the gather- ing a year ago and took part in the dis- eussion. It is the opinion of Magoffin that the meeting last year was very beneficial to ali who attended. Coaches and players alike not only got uniformity in their interpretations of the rules, but also profited through mutual helpfulness in all phases of the game. Scveral officials and some coaches came from down in Virginia for the meeting, though it was called as a purt ly local affair. Magoffin issued the in vitations at that time, and he again is getting cut cards notifying coaches and cficials. Does Much Good. “It seems to me,” says Megoffin, “that we all got a good deal out of that meet- ing last year. I know that few officials put any more time in studying the rules than I do, but there are many things a discussion will bring out that PORTS. one never gets from reading rules dy himself. That meeting last year did me | . a lot of good, and it occurred to me | scveral days ago that we ought to get | together again, and I'm sure that if everybody gets as much out of the dis- cussion tomorrow night as I expect 'o we will be glad that we had the oppor- tunity to thresh out our problems. “Last season in the South Atlant. scction and also right around Washin ton we had greater uniformity of ru ings and less trouble bétween coaches because of misinterpretations than in any season within my memory, and I attribute that to the fact that we got together just before the opening of the season. It seems to me the meeting to- morrow night should be just as pro- ductive. Of course, you understand that any man who is coaching, whether high &chool, college or club team, and all of- ficials, are invited and, in fact, urged to be_present.” It might be mentioned in this con- nection that coaches and officials here ought to be glad of the opportunity to take part in a general discussion led by Magoffin, as he undoubtedly is the bes informed cfficial in the South. In years no otner man has worked in games in this section who made such close studies of the rules as Magoffin, and no other man in the section has been able to in- terpret them so well, Naval Academy will have in its back- ficld this Fall two of the biggest backs in the section when Lloyd and Clifton line up for the opening kick-off against Davis Elkins Saturday at Annapolis. Not only are both big men, but they are fast. Lloyd is a hurdler and general all-round track and field man and bas- ket ball player as well as a foot ball man. He formerly end. ~Last year both men playe@ in the backfield, end Clifton, especially, in the itest with the Army, performed vflmuy. He banged the Army line consistently all during the first B And on how well these two big backs perform their duties will depend in no measure the success of the Navy eleven. Both men h more than 190 pounds. Another g back is Spring. and, had it not been for the unfortu- nate death of Miles Fox, who was ex- pected to be the brilliant man in an open field, Navy probably would have had one of the greatest quartets that | have worn its colors. Navy is king forward to the big ames on its schedule, the first of which only three weeks away. On October 13 Notre Dame is to be met in Chi- cago, which game is being looked upon in that section as one of the big inter- sectional clashes of the year. The next is with University of Pennsylvania Oc- tober 27, at Philadelphia; the third with Michigan, in Baltimore, November 10, and the last with Princeton, in Phila- | delphia, November 24. Duke University is another school ex- pecting to have a great foot ball team. The Durham school last year had splen- | did material. but for one reason or an- | other could not get going. Jimmie De | Hart,. who coached Duke, made the | statement a year ago that he had fine material and that if he did not turn out a winning team it would be his fault. This year he has back practically his whole squad of last season and sev- eral more good players who came up from the freshman squad. Navy, Georgetown and South Da- kota are the biggest games on Duke’s schedule from one point of view, but | from its own view its contests with North Carolina State College and Uni- | versity of North Carolina are the most | Important. | Duke plays here the latter part of Oc- | I tober, and it ought to put. up a fine | game against the Blue and Gray. | Mike Bennett, coach of the Sewanec | eleven, says that he will have a better | team than he turned out last season, | and here is the way he puts it: | “Our team should be much stronger | this year. We have several men who | will be far more effective than any on | the 1927 team Benton is a fine tackle and a likely candidate for 2ll-Southern | honors. Schoolfield is as good a punter and passer as there is playing and in addition an excellent defensive men. | Bean is a good plunger and defensive | player. Boyd who comes from the 1927 ! hman team ought to do us a lot of | good, as he is a very clever back. He, is the only man we have who really is a | dangerous dropkicker.” | Sewance has only a small student | body, much the smallest in the South- ern Conference, and it is remarkable that it turns out the teams it does. It always plays a difficult scheaule. Of! course, one of the reasons for its suc- | cess is the fact that Mike Bennet. is, one of the best coaches in the gam but. even with that, the school of its size, having only about 200 students eligible for its teams, that can turn out such good teams is deserving of more | than average commendation. Sewance opens its season Saturday witn Transylvania, and after that meets | the biggest in the South. Its games fol- Jow in consecutive weeks with Texas A. and M., Bryson. Cumberland, Ala- bama, Tennessee, Florida, Tulane and Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt and is about the same for that immediate section and for hose two_schools as the Penn-Cornell game at Philadelphia 1s for followers of those £chools. GRID LEAGUE MEETING WILL BE HELD TOMIGHT A meeting to reorganize the French's 135-pound class foot ball league will be held tonight at 7:30 o’clock at French's Sport Store, 424 Ninth street. Seven teams so far have made application for franchises in the loop, which probabiy will comprise eight elevens. Thursday night a meeting to reor- anize the French's 150-pound class lezgue will be held at French's Sport Store. i | man picked will be Chris Cagle, the red- | talked to his_recruits. tin preparing for the The Thanksgiving day contest is with | fight in the third athletic district of FIRST CHOICE FOR G. U. QUARTERBACK “THE - EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ' Grid Officials Hereabout Will Hold T 'Army May Have a Real Kicker With Garbisch . it arbisc By the Associated Press. EST POINT, N. Y., September 25.—The drop-kicking genius of Ed Garbisch may play a part in whatever successes the Army foot ball eleven wins on the next 10 Saturday after- " Four h ed since the ur_years have pass e great Garbisch, center of the Army team, won a Navy game entirely single- footed by booting four field goals for the only points of the game and a 12-to-0 victory. Since that day the slim young man with the accurate toe was graduated and substituted the mufti of the busi- ness man for the gray of the service school, His business allows him quite a bit of lefsure and he has placed his services at the call of Head Coach “Biff" Jones. There has been no official announce- ment about it and there probably won' be, but it would not be at all surprising to see the Cadets show some hitherto unexpected strength 1n goal-kicking from the field this year. “Biff” Jones has a pretty accurate idea of the importance of the foot in this game of foot ball. It was the good right to2 of Bruce Caldwell that cost the Army the Yale game and a clean sweep of its schedule last season. Garbisch Is Available. So since Garbisch is available there is little doubt that he will be used. He has done a bit of instruction already and as a result some of the more ob- scure members of the squad may be seen at odd moments booting away at the goal posts on their own initiative, hopeful of developing a kicking talent that will make them valuable to the team. But as Garbisch sees it, the Kkicker should be some regular member of the line-up. If so, it is not unlikely that the headed ace of the backfield. Cagel is 't | after T had made 20 yards. Doing Tutering no novice at dropkicking. He bocted over two extra points after touchdoéwn in the Navy game of last year. ‘The coaching of Garbisch might make him a kicking star. Another prospect is Char- ley Allan of Tampa, Fla., who has picked to fill the shoes of Harry Wilion. the one first-string 'back lost through graduation. “The man who does the kicking should be one who can run with the ball.” said Gerbisch. “That was where I was:not so0 good. I remember in the Notre Dame game of 1924 we might have won it if I had’ been a good ball carrier. I was called hack from center and of course everybody supposed it was to be a kick. So I got the jump and if I'd been .fast on my feet we'd have had a touchdown. We .iceded it as they beat us 13 to 7. As it was there were just two men nny- where near me, Elmer Layden, one of the Four Horsemen, brought me down “Kicking is all technique. It's like golf. Form is everything. After you get that cown it's just a case of nerves. ‘You've got to forget everything and just go through that easy motion as though you were the only person on the field.” ‘Would Add to Team. Whether or not Jones and his new voluntecr succeed in developing another osech the 1928 Army outfit will be a versatile and tricky team, as well as the pessess): of one of the mightiest pairs of tackles any eleven ever had. Nave, quarterback; Murrell, fullback, and Cugle, brilllant halfback, 1l of whom started against the Nav: last year. Capt. Mort Sprague, twice All- America, and George Perry, mike a great pair of tackles. Louis Hammack, veteran guard, will have either Walsh or Humber, promising newcomers, as_a running mate; and both Hall and Pearson, centers, who al- ternated last season, are available'again. For cnds Malloy and Messinger are showing up well. “Grand Old Man of Foot Ball” - Still Lively By the Associated Press. HICACO, September 25.—As slick and bright- as one of John “D. Rocsefeller'’s shiny dimes and with his brain buzzing with tricks, the “grand old an of American foot ball” Amos Alonzo Stagg. is whipping together his thirty-seventh foot ball eleven at the University of Chicago with as much ardor as he did back in the early nine- ties. Prospects for a winning team aren’t so bright for Staggz and his Maroon warriors this year, but the last one to admit it is the G6-year-old gray eagle himself Out on the practice field day after day, rain_or shine, stands the martial figure of Maroon gridiron lore, sans hat and with toussled locks tossing to and fro as he shouts instructions. Not a mistake cscapes his eye and he is just as dynamic as ever. “Well, I'm at it again and we are going to have another good team this year,” he beamed confidently as he “We want to win, but, you know, winning isn’t every- thing. It's winning or losing right by clean playing. We haven't as much natural talent this season as last year, gu:‘ e can make it up by speed and And that is’ what he is stressing as and Optimistic his shrill voice rises above ths thumy of scrimmage. | Time and again he grabs the. oval,| much the same as when he staried at end on Yale's championship mach.ne in 1888, and demonstrates what he 1eans. “Oh, I've plenty of tricks in my head,” he answered when he was asked:if he hadn’t run out of them. *“You ‘know that is my chief trouble. Ideas? Why. I've got so many it is hard to gut any of them across. This year I've thought | up some new ones, and if they ‘work, | if ‘they only work, we're going to' score | some touchdowns.” | ‘With his 1928 campaign opening Saturday with a doubleheader against) the University of South Carolina and | Ripon College of Wisconsin, Stagg has his men hard at work. Thirtecn of | them are fighting ineligibility while | several are hobbling with injuries, but ' most of them are working on the field. | Unlike his many teams, this year's cleven is weak in the line, but Stasg is worrying more about his backs, con- fAdent he can plug the forward wall. Asked how long he intended {o re- main in foot ball, Stagg 1aerely chuckled and then added: “Guess I'll be in this game until my teeth fall out.” ’ All Big Ten squads worked through long, hard practices yesterday amidst cold rainy weather. H GEORGE MASON GRIDDERS TO PLAY HARD SCHEDULE ALEXANDRIA, Va.. September 25.— George Mason High School will engage the Episcopal High School “scrubs” in a practice game on Hoxton Field Fri- day afternoon as one of its major steps championship Virginia. ; Manager Robert Gary has arranged | the following games: 4 October--5. Washington and Lee High School at Ballston. Va.: 12, Warrenton High School at Warrenton. Va.: 19, Alexandria High Scnool on Haydon Field: 26, Fred- II‘PI;LF‘:SIJHI‘R Hizh School on Edward Duncan November--2. Culpever High School at Culpeper. Va.: 9, Manassas High School 2t Manassas. V. Negotiations are being made for a game with Columbia High School at Columbia, S. C., on Thanksgiving day. KANSAS U. PROGRESSING. University of Kansas, at Lawrence, has a stadium now that will scat 36,000, ‘Two golf courses and 16 hand ball courts have been added to the athletic FORT MYER RIDERS TOAPPEAR IN SHOW| A riding team of officers of fhe 3d | Cavalry at Fort Myer have left to com- | pete in the Bryn Mawr, Pa., horse sho\)\" to be held the latter part of (hei week. The team consists of Capt. Jessie G. Boykin, Capt. James M. Shelton and Lieuts. John W. Wofford, Raymond B. Bosserman, Fred W. Makinney, jr., and George B. Hudson. Taking along a string of 12 officers, the Fort Myer riders will compete in the hunter, | Jjumper and military classes. Capt. Hiram E. Tuttle, Quartermas- ters' Corps, on duty in the office of | the Quartermaster General here, will compete in the show, riding the horses of Maj. Gen. B. F. Cheatham, quar- termaster general, in the various classes. Col. George Williams, War Department General Staff, and Maj. E. G. Caul- lum, chief of Remount Service. Office of the Quartermaster General, both of Washington, will act as judges. and sports equipment. I Jimmy Foxx has played outfield, first, third and caught and pitched. n D, Ci TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928. SPORTS. - .20 terpretation Meeting Tomorrow Night ALEXANDRIA ELEVEN T0 PLAY PRO TEAM ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 25.— A Thanksgiving day game with the | Cleveland, Ohio. pros, which may be played in the American League Park at Washington, will feature the Virginia Qlkllllctic Club's gridiron schedule this | Fall. The Cleveland eleven is one of the strongest professional teams in the country. Five new players are with the local club this year, including Harding, tackle, #nd Wolfgram, guard, both former stars with the Clarendon Lyons; Lavinus, end; Heberlig, who formerly starred at Blue Ridge College! and Kyle, former star with the Apache Preps. Indications are that the Virginia cleven will be the strongest and heaviest in its history. Manager Dave Corsa is preparing a | tough schedule, which will be opened October 7 in a game on Shipyard Field | with the Winton A. C. of Washington. No. 5 Motor Company will be repre- sented on the gridiron this season by a 145-pound eleven. “Coodles” Owens i3 coaching the Firefighters. Hoffman's Clothiers will hold their first basket ball practice tonight in Lyceum Hall at 8 o'clock. Hume Springs A. C. defeated Janney A. C, 14 to 5, on its home diamond. St. Mary's Lyceum A. C. has signed Jimmy Trout, former backfield man of ! the Alexandria Fire Department's un- limited team. St. Mary's Celtics and Dreadnaughts will play the second game of the three- game series in the Dreadnaught Park Sunday at 3 o'clock. The “Big D" nine won the first, 7'to 2. _______ R COUNTY PIN LOOPS LAUNCH SCHEDULES HYATTSVILLE, Md.. September 25. —American Legion, No. 1, team defeated American Legion, No. 2, combination two of three games in Section 1, and Dixie Pig, No. 2, downed Branchville two of three ,games in Section 2, in opening matches of the Prince Georges County Men's Duckpin Association. on the Arcade alleys here last night. Uni- versity Park fair bowlers, who won the championship in the Prince Georges County Women's Duckpin Association, got off to a good start by grabbing two of three from Coeds. Dr. H. T. Willis, mayor of Hyattsville, rolled the first ball down the alleys to open_competition. American Legion lost the first game to their buddies, 508 to 527, but came back to take the next two, 530 to 519, and 558 to 510. George Isemann of No. 1 team had high set at 344 and Wahlen and Ott of No. 1 and No. 2 teams, re- spectively, were tied for high game at_124. Dixie Pig, No. 2, after winning over Branchville, 512 to 504, in their first game, lost the second, 483 to 562, but grabbed the third, 505 to 472. Hilliard, . | Branchville, had high set, 344, and C. Lehman, Dixie Pig, high game, 139. University Park, led by Mrs. Frances McNamee, who had high set of the match at 300 and high game at 110, won the opening setto, 455 to 423, lost the second. 436 to 448, and bagged the iinal, 437 to 427. Improvemenis are planned on the gridiron of the Seat Pleasant Fire De- partment foot ball team. An eight-foot wooden fence is to be erected and a brick grandstand containing a dressing room is gmjbctcd. . Seat Pleasant gridders will drfll to- night at 8 o'clock on their field and a meeting will follow the practice. Seat Pleasant manager wants to hear from the Virginia A. C., Waverly A. C. and Palage A. C. elevens. Call Lincoln 2975 after 7 p.m. NAVY-NOTRE DAME GAME TO DRAW RECORD CROWD CHICAGO, September 25 (#).—Ad- vance ticket sales indicate the largest crowd tha’ ever witnessed a foot ball contest, probably 135,000, will jam giant Soldiers’ Field for the Navy-Notre Dame game October 13. More than 90,000 tickets have t* ready been sold, Norman C. Barr¥: chairman of the committee for ar- rangements, has announced, and more requests are streaming in daily. Harvard’s Method of Blocking Kicks BY SOL METZGER. The Big Green team from Han- over, Dartmouth, once came to Cam- bridge to defeat Harvard, but went home sadded but wiser. The late P. D. Haughton, master of the kick- ing game, won from a stronger rush- ing and passing aggregation by this means. Nothing is more demoralizing to a foot ball team thah to have its kicks blocked. Defeat usually fol~ lows. It did in this case. Don't forget that blocking kicks is part of the kicking game, as its most ad- vanced advocates, the late Percy Haughton and the late Andy Smith, well knew. They always saw that the opposing kicker was rushed and annoyed, even if his punts were not blocked. That prevented him from placing his kicks.. A hurried punter is of little value. In this Dartmouth-Harvard game Coach Haughton worked a new wrinkle that has been slow to spread over the country. He knew thst most teams, including Dartmouth, used the quarterback, No. 1 in the accompanying diagram, to protect the punter on his left side. This quarter always had done the same thing. He would wait behind his center, and as the right tackle and end charged across he drove himself into the side of the tackle in order to force him out to the right, thus delaying the end. Haughton's scheme was to have the Harvard right end charge straight in toward his own center as the ball was snapped, the tackle going through as wusual. Dart- mouth’s quarter came out to block the tackle, which gave the Harvard right end a straight-ahead run at the kicker. In this way he blocked punts. What to eat, how to eat, overcom- ing indigestion, are some of the questions answered in Sol Metzger's leaflet on “Diet and Training for Foot Ball.” Mr. Metzer will send this leaflet to any one sending a stamped, addressed envelope in care of this paper. (Cobyrizht. 1028.) B The | capers 10 GET -MESS' [T}, (., College Gridmen Drilling AFTER EACH GRID GAME WEST POINT, N. Y., September 25 (#).—After cach of their games this Fall Army foot ball players are to be given a special “mess” before they are out of togs. It consists of a mixture of choco- late, eggs and cream, about as much altogether as can be swallowed in one_gulp. “It's the best thing I know of {o help restore the tremendous amount of energy a_player burns up in a game,” says Frank Wandle, wise and kindly trainer of Cadet athletes. “Why, sometimes I've known a man to lose 10 or 15 pounds in a game.” The “mess,” as Wandle calls it, was concocted by him last year for some of the less burly of the squad, but now he says all the players want it and will get it. MOHAWK PREPS LOOK TO 150-POUND TITLE Mohawk Preps, 135-pound amateur champions of French's Foot Ball League last Fall, plan to succeed Northerns as 150-pound titlists this year. Northerns recently moved into unlimited circles, and Preps also moved uoward a notch. Coachcs Rice and Gates have secured several additions to their 1927 machine and are planning a hard drill on ginia avenus playgrounds tonight, 5ta ing at 7:30 o'clock. Donald D. McPher- son is manager of the club. Clarendon Lyons, who are to driil to- night at 7:30 o'clock on Lyon Village Field, are read to list games with 150- pound and unlimited teams. Call Clar- endon ©11 =nd ask for Manager Snyder. All players are to report in uniform to- night. Both Apaches and Mohawk elevens. chief rivals for the District unlimited title, which the former now holds, will practic: tonight on their respective fields. Mohawks drill on Navy Yard Field and Apaches practice at Union League Park. Notre Dame Preps are also listed to | workout tonight on Rosedale Play- grounds at 7 o'clock. A meeting is sched- uled immediately after the practice ses- sion at the home of Roger Linoak, 1214 E street northeast. Coach McCatheran plans a skull prac- tice this evening before his Winton Ath- letic Club squad drills on Virginia ave- nue playgrounds at 7:30 o'clock. All players are asked to report early. Southern Athletic Club eleven, which was scheduled to scrimmage with Yan- kees today on Plaza Field, wants games. Call Atlantic 2359-W for arrangcments. Palace Athletic Club manager is asked to call Lincoln 2975 relative to a game with Seat Pleasant Firemen. RESPECTS, DOESN’T FEAR PURDUE, STAGG ASSERTS | CHICAGO, September 25 (P).— . That old war cry, “Stagg fears Pur- due.” is just a myth. Between instructions to his squad on the practice field yesterday the veteran University of Chicago coach, Amos. Alonzo Stagg, said neither he nor his teams ever “feared anybody or any team.” “You know this cry, ‘Stagg fears Purdue,’ was framed by an imagina- tive mewspaper man years ago. I never said it or hinted it. We've al- ways had hard fights with Purdue and we respect its prowess. What the reporter should have said was that ‘Chicago respects Purdue.’” | ©OT BALL squads representing five local coileges are today in the midst of final hard prep- aration for opening games of the £225en on Saturday. Head Coach Lov Little of the George- icwn squad 1s devoting special atton- | tion to building up the Blue and Gray's defense against the forward pass. This nas been a weakness of Hova elevens during the past few seasons and has ved costly in more than one in- F | y for more than an hour Aif- ¢ Blue and Gray bucks Led on the defense while p: were being hurled in every directiod:. corgetown doubtless has a fine farst- 5 line, but Little realizes that;the forward wall must have strong reserve “:ernglh. and to this end is groouing |2 half-dozen huskies. This group' in- cludes Driscoll, a star of last sea“on's frosh: Muir, Schwartz and Gehringr, a haliback in 1927, and Murphy, Mon- | tenas and Flood. Georgetown probably will tak field in Clark Griffith Stadium S |day egainst Mount St. Mar; | Sealzi. quarterbaci: Dwyer and Sch! helfkacks and Duplin, fullback. maini, Mooney, Capt. Carrol rano. Lision and Provincial pr | will hold dos line jobs at the | <tris To- Cor | _Cathelic University gridders were fo- | day to stage a forward-pass serimmage |against St. John's College of this city and tomorrow may scrimmage the Car- |dinal freshman candidates. The C. U. . Hard for Saturday’s Openers » | Dahlgren. varsity squad wiil leave Thursday for Boston. to meet Boston College on Sat- urday. It ‘is probable that Coach Jack Mc-| Auliffe will start this C. U. line-up Saturday: Gerth’ and Zeno, ends; O'Brien and Raiche, tackles; Mullen and Menke, guards; Durso, center; Murphy. quar- terback: Capt. Schmidt and Champa. halfbacks; Malevich, fullback. McCabe and Hennessey, ends, and Cavanaugh and Smith, tackles, also will make the trip. Endeavoring to bolster his defense, Head Coach H. Watson (Maud) Crum gave his George Washington linemen plenty to do yesterday in a light scrim- mage against St. John's College of this city. Crum was not pleased with the showing of his proteges, as the prep school gridders were often able to gain substantially. However, it is felt that the new line which was working together yesterday as a unit for the first time will show decided improvement beween now gnd Saturday, when the Colonials meet Maryland, Gallaudet and American Vv squacs to be drilled ally today. The Old Liners e Kendall Greeners have about Actermined w they will start in their opsning games Saturday against Washington College and Hampden-Sid- ney, respectively, but tha Methodists | probably will not decide the combina- tion with which they will begin against Gettysburg until later in the week. Navy foot ball squad is going about its work witk anfadded zest. The Tars open thejr 1928 season on Saturday with/Davis- Elkins and some of those close’ to the Navy athletic department fear that the West Virginians may force the Navy to start the new season with a loss. Davis-Elkins defeated We Saturday, 7 to 0. Johnny Wilson, back- field coach of the Navy, scou'>d the game and brought back word t.at Da- | vis-Elkins has a mighty strong “eam. After listening to Wilson’s stofy, some of the Navy coaches said they will feel migity good next Saturday if tile Tars win_by one touchdown. Navy jopened |its 1927 schedule with a 27-to-0ivictory over the West Virginia senatore! Plenty of Material. The Navy has plenty of gre: rial on this year’s squad. Bul last week or so the players hi holes through the Navy line ning around the varsity ends.; Again, | the varsity looks mighty bad on forward | passes. | Despite the fact that there ave sev- | eral men for each position, it row ap- | pears that but two men are ‘ure of | their positions. They are Capt Eddie Burke and Moon Chapple, both :guards. However, they are being pusked for | those posts by Jack Eddy, who hss been | switched _from tackle to a guard; Koepke, Renfro, Swan and Johryon. Bill Ingram is converting Gannon from a quarterback into a halfback, Gannon was a star at quarter on tho plebe tcam last year, and it anpeared Navy Fears Davis-Elkins Team After Heailing Scout’s Report NNAPOLIS, September 2&—The|at first that he might oust Welchel t Virginia | m that position on the varsity this year. Gannon, however, has all the carmarks of a great halfback. He is | shifty, fast and a good plunger. has been doing the dropkicking, and his boots are fast and accurate. Welchel will do most of the signa! calling this season, but he also is being pushed hard for that job by Peterson. McCracken Making Bid. Lloyd made the best impression of all the backs in the workout on Saturday against the plebes. Clifton still is a great fullback, but Joe has to step more |lively, because McCracken, from last year’s outfit, is coming faster each day. | McCracken could shine on any varsity |in che country. Some here are of the | opinion that he hits the lines even | harder than Clifton. Admirers of Joe Bauer, wio shone in the Notre Dame last year, are dis- appointed with his showing Wis sea- son. He is not the shifty, surv runner | of 1927. His brother, Dale Bau v, play- ing his first year on the varsity, looks to e a comer in the backficld. He even appears to be better at broken- field running than Joe was last year. NAVY AND OHIO STATE MAY MEET ON GRIDIRON COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 25 (#).—A statement from L. W. St. John, Ohio State athletic director, published | today, says: “Ohio State and Navy are discussing the opening of foot ball relations in 1929. 1f and when they are consum- mated simultaneous annncements He | g BUSINESS ELEVEN MUST BE AEBUL. Coach Weodworth Has Goot' Backs, but Line Is Wor- rying Him. C line-up which will start agains Emerson Institute Saturday 2 the result of scrimmage sessions today and Wednesday. While the Sterogs have lost a group of star veterans by graduaiion, includit Charley May, Revelle and Bernie Joncs and others, there are several capabl” 1927 players at hand and a group of likely appearing newcomers and Coaci: Woodworth is hopeful of turning out : creditable combination. While the 1927 Stencg cleven will be without satellit of recent years it is apt to be & bettc: balanced combination. Woodworth has to rebuild his ma- chine generally, but most of the replac: ment work will have to be done alon: | the forward wail, as there are & bun: oi capable backfield performers on th | job. ¥ Letter winners around whom th team is being ceveloped are Capt. Jak Lewis, who may play guarter this sea son; Charley Rich and Eddie Duryee backs, and Bob Marks, center. Others who now seem to have a first rate chance‘of landing a regular bert!: are Bernie Phillips, Linwood Jones anc Roland Hargett, ends; Morris wennt berg and Joe Brown, tackles: Bud' Kengla, Pete Loftus and Bill Duryes guards; Al (Reds) Miller, center; Le: tor Jones, quarterback, and Jac Reichardt, Alec (Pep) Biondl an Hnbert King, backs. Realizing that if his eleven is to ha a chance in the public high schocl series this Fall it must get plenty the right sort of preparation, Cocz rth has scen to it that fc have been listed against st onnonents before the Stenogs’ fir sories game against Central on Octol 26. With the scheduling of a game wil Woodrow Wilson High School in Por: mouth, Va., for November 16 the Bu ness card embracing 10 clashes we completed today with the exception ¢ the setting of a date for a conic | which has been carded with St. John | College of tLis city. Of the contests booked 4 will. 1 played awrg. The scliédile was announced tod by_Manager Harry Hopkins as follo September 29—Emerson. October Swavely at Manassas. ¥ October 12—Washington-Lee 1Y at Baliston, Va. October 20{-York High at York, I' October 2¢—Central. '—Easiern. 3—Tech. ®—Woodrow Wilson at _Pertsmouth, Va. November 30—Western. Eastern anil Tech planned to get vigorous drill4 today in preparat! their, opening games Friday in more, the former against Calvert It and the latter against Baltimore C College. Central . was to have a br. session as was Western, and plenty activity was :to be the order for t: prep school squads. Capt. Gene Stevens of Central is o of the going'temporarily as the resu of an infected leg. 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