Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1928, Page 33

s B W, AMERICAN. - TUTORS UNCERTAIN Crum and Springston Are on “Fence” as to Jobs for Next Season. BY JOHN B. KELLER. T\ EW men are apt to be in charge of foot ball at two Washington l colleges next Fall. Althouga there have been no announce- ments from official sources, well-founded rumors indicate that Harry Watson Crum will not tutor the George Washington University squad and that American University's team will not be under the guidance of Baillie Springston after the present gridiron campaign. In Crum's case, there is likelihood that his contract as director of the de- partment of physical education for men at the downtown institution will not pe Tenewed after it expires next Septem- ber. In Springston’s case, a resigna- tion seems likely as the coach of team at the Wesley Heights school has said he is considering giving up the post that he may devote his full time to his law practice. W. C. Van Vieck, dean of the law school and chairman of the committee on men’s athletics at George Washing- ton University, said this morning that his committee had not considered any change in its foot ball policy or admin- istration. But it is no secret that the Colonials’ unsuccessful campaign on the gridiron this Fall has created dis- satisfaction in certain quarters close to the university administration and that Crum'’s scalp is sought. Poor Support Hurts at G. W. Although the athletic committee, the faculty in general and the players them- selves have supported Crum in his efforts to give George Washington a good foot ball team during the five years he has been connected with the institution, there never has been any great amount of interest displayed by the student body. The student body has supported the foot ball team, ’tis true, but virtually only through the athletic fees it pays annually. ‘The situation at American University is different. The spirit of the student body there is good, but material for a foot ball team is scant. However, the Methodists slowly but surely are devel- oping a sound athletic system and with- in a few years should be turning out capable teams in iis class. Springston, though, fecls that he cannot take time from his law practice to further this development. Several possible succes- sors to Springston have been mentioned, most prominent among them being Bruce Kessler, who has played with the Methodists and now is a student at the university. There's nothing cheerful in the foot ball situation at Washington's largest educational institution. ~Outside of those actually participating in the game at George Washington, no one seems to manifest any interest in- it. The players realize they haven't the sup- port of the student body, but they aren’t quitting. Rather they are resigned to accept the lickings they feel are in store for them—if only they can redeem themselves on Thanksgiving day. Crum Sees Ax Falling. That seems to be the way Coach Henry Watson Crum regards the sif ation, too. Crum in discussing the dif- fizulties encountered in keeping George ‘Washington in foot ball this Fall knows PORTS: ‘what probably is in store for him. “It's the ax for me,” he declares, “after the poor. showing my team has made. Only a most remarkable form reversal can make the season anything like a suc- cess, and with the little material we have at hand I can’t see any such form reversal occurring. I know what usual- 1y happens to a coach whose team has been beaten unmercifully throughout a season. It's the ax for him as a rule.” That George Washington has been able to hold its opponents as well as it has this year is rather remarkable when the many blows the foot ball squad nas sustained are recalled. To begin with, the Colonial squad included very few veteran players. It had a capable- looking backfield, but a green'line drawn from a squad that ot its maximum strength included but 30 players. There were but six backfield players at hand and the first two games of the season put three of them out of commission, one for the remainder of the year. Chalky Lopeman, captain of the team, who directed play and worked in the fullback position on defense, tore a knee Joose in the first five minutes of the Fordham game, the campaign opener. ‘The Lafayette game, the second on the Colonials’ schedule, laid low Shorty Sanders and Babe Clapper. Sanders, a little fellow, but wise in foot ball, was being groomed to relieve Lopeman as quarterback, thus permitting the cap- tain to function more as a ball carrier and defensive player. He suffered a compound fracture of the leg. Clap- per, hurt in the Fordham game, came back against Lafayette, only to have a knee so severely hurt that he will be virtually useless for two more weeks. Backfield Shot to Pieces. ‘With his backfield so shot to pieces, Coach Crum was forced to experiment with green line material shifted to po- stions behind a still weaker forward wall than the one the Colonials had at the outset of the season. And what might have been expected to happen under these circumstances has hap- pened. One can't get something from nothing. Right now Crum is endeavoring to give George Washington a foot ball team from a squad containing but 21 players. With such a small squad there can be no practice scrimmages. Not even as large a squad as the average country high school would turn out. And most high schools these days have better training facilities for foot ball teams than has George Washington. The Colonials have no field. They must do their drilling on an open lot near the Tidal Basin and they get less than two hours’ drilling daily. ‘The squad leaves the university gym- nasum in busses at 2:30 o'clock, drills from 2:45 to 4:15 or 4:30, then hustles back to the gymnasium to dress. After drills most of the plavers have to at- tend classes. After all, George Wasl ington still is largely a night course college, for numbers of its students and the majority of the foot ball squad attend night courses. Student Body No Help. Any way one views it, the making of a foot ball team at George Wash- ington University is no easy task. Ma- terial is scant, facilities for training are poor, and, above all, there’s a de- plorable lack of college spirit. The few players work faithfully enough, but the student body in general, when it does consider its college team, considers it only as a mark for jibes and jeers. After all, George Washington, per- thaps, has just the kind of foot ball team it deserves. ALL' ARMY-NOTRE DAME GAME TICKETS ARE GONE WEST POINT, N, Y., October 30 (#). —All tickets for the Army-Notre Dame oot ball battle at the Yankee Stadium, New York, November 10, have been sold. In addition, 10,000 applications for tickets have been turned down because the supply has been exhausted. F the Tech-Western public high school foot ball championship game Friday in Central High Stadium proves as close as have struggles between these elevens during the past five seasons, it will be a rousing sattle. Since 1923, when Hardell became ‘Tech coach and Ahern Western mentor, the game has never been decided by more than one’touchdown. Tech has won two of the matches and the other three have resulted in ties. In 1923 Tech triumphed, 7 to 0; in 1924 the score was 7 to 7; in 1925, 0 to 0; in 1926, 6 to 6, and last Fall Tech was victor, 6 to 0. Hardell says that Tech's material this year is not as good as it was last Fall, but that he hopes to offset this by improved teamwork. From his ob- servation the Western material appears to be better than last season. Hardell believes it will be anybody's game—a typical Tech-Western battle of recent years. If several dependables can pass tests to overcome scholastic failures, West- ern will be able to put an eleven on the field Friday markedly stronger than that which held the big Eastern team to a 6-0 victory last Friday. Should Western make a strong show- ing in the public high school series this Fall despite the handicap of starting the season with an unusually limited squad, it will be the second season in the past three in which Ahern has done well under these circumstances. It was in 1925 that Western, as was the case this Fall, started the season with just 13 players. Ahern re- ceived additional material that year af- ter the first advisory, as he hopes he will this Fall, and contrived to tic Tech for the championship at two wins and two ties each. Tech plans to start the same line- up Friday it has been using all season, but Western will be unable to deter- :nme upon its line-up until a day or WO, V. P. I. LOSES RULE, CLEVER BALL TOTER By the Assoclated Press. BLACKSBURG, Va., October 30.— With the impressive victory over King College last Saturday now foot ball history, the Pony Express of V. P. L is hard at it again this week preparing for battles that are to come and is immediately lining up for the game with Maryland at Norfolk next Sat- wersy. Not overconfident by the big score piled up against King, the Gobblers received a blow when it was announced that Rule, fast and dependable ball carrier, was out of the game for the | season because of a fractured collar bone received in the King College melee last Saturday. Hudgins, veteran fullback, is slated to replace Rule in Andy Gustafsen's second array of backs. A busy week is ahead of the squad. Looking toward the Maryland game Gustafsen sent the lads through a lony series of signal drills off by a The. sell-out for the game assures a capacity crowd of agproximately 80,000, half hour's hard scrimmage yesterday afternoon, THE - EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, . D. Two Colleges Here May Change Coaches : All Six Ele Western Tech Grid Struggles Close in Past Five Campaigns Business and Central elevens were to come to grips this afternoon in Cen- tral Stadium at 3:15 o'clock in the fourth game of the public high school title gridiron series. Both teams plan- ned a desperate stand for victory as defeat will mean elimination from the championship race. Trips to Portsmouth #hd Norfolk, Va., to meet the Woodrow Wilson and Maury High School teams, respectively, have been arranged for Business High School's basket ball team in addition to other attractive en ents, Dates for several games are still tentative. The schedule as it now stands: December 13, Fi ;14 s [tsntnlveelr ‘merson; 14, Swavely, here It is likely that Morty Wilner, former Central High School athletic star, will play quarterback for the Pennsylvania eleven when it faces Chicago Saturday in the Windy City. 10c PANETELA 10c PRESIDENT 2 for 25¢ IMPERIAL 2 for 25¢ AMBASSADOR 15¢ Standard Cigar & Tobacco Co. Distribute LARRY PINCKNEY- SIMONDINGER:- Coach OYSTER QUINT AHEAD. Oyster School basketers overcame E. V. Brown School tossers, 12'to 9, yes- terday at Happy Hollow playground. | about Tennessee’s stren; Buss C HARLIE FINNEGAN- C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1928. INK - VIRGINIA NOW AIMS TO BEAT GENERALS! UNIVERSITY, Va, October -30.— “Beat Washington and Lee” was the cry from a thousand University of Virginia students who met the Cayalier: as it returned from the” Vanderbilt game. And this same Cavalier squad h as |started training on Lambeth Field for | the game Saturday with just one pur- pose in. view, “which is to try to get into shape to beat the Generals. Defeat at “the hands of “Vanderbilt was not as discouraging as it might seem, for the Cavaliers sent a crippled team on the fleld and most of the game was between the second elevens of the two squads. Sloan, at quarter- back, and DeButts at tackle, were the only two Virginians who played through the game. Captain Luke, veteran 200-pound tackle, was not in uniform, and several other regulars were kept on the bench on account of injuries. Most of Van- derbilt’s gains were through the tackle where Luke would have played. Cap-: tain Armistead and his men were stop- ped at other points, but ngne of ths three substitute tackles on the left side of the line could check the Commodore thrusts consistently. 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Local offerings will be at Kendall Green, Américan University and Cen- tral Stadium. Gallaudet will be host to Shepherd College of Shépherds- town, W. Va, the Methodists will be opposed by Bridgewater College and George Washington will clash with Wwilllam and Mary. Catholic University will go to New Brunswick, N. J., for a match with Rutgers. Indications are that both George- town and New York University will be physically fit for the struggle in New York. Reports from the big city re- veal that all of Coach Chick Mechan's squad are in fine trim, while h Lou Little expects to have what is now tegarded the’ Georgetown regular line- up on the fleld for the first time in three weeks. John Hudak, sturdy halfback, who was injured during practice at the Hilltop shortly after participating in the Lebanon Valley engagement. will start against the Violet. This probably will mean that Johnny Bozek, who still is somewhat weak as a result of an appendicitis attack suffered during the Summer, will remain on the bench for a time at least. In all likelihood, though, this flashy halfback will break into the contest. Little is driving the Hoyas at top !geed in drills here early this week, for the squad is to leavé for New York Thursday and will get only light train- ing on the two days prior to the game. Maryland now has four of is regulars on the hospital list, but they may be well enough to face V. P. I. at Norfolk. However, the crippled Old Liners will be up against a formidable opponent, for the Blacksburg squad emerged from its last engagement in great trim and will put a fresh team on the fleld Sat- urday. Maryland has yet to win a Southern Conference game, having lost two and tied in one. On the other hand, V. P. 1. has played hut one Con- ference game. In it, the Gobblers de- feated North Carolina. V. P. I. has Jost but one game this season, that to Colga Gallaudet, which has a better foot ball ‘team than its record might seem to indicate, is expected to score over Shepherd College. star back, still is nursing injuries, he may be able to break into Saturday’s tilt. All other regulars are fit for duty. Gallaudet looks forward with:confidence to the contest. - American University has not been so Although Dyer, a |. vens in Action Saturday From Grid Camps By the Assoclated Press. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., October 30.— ‘Two regulars of the North Carolina squad will watch the game with North Carolina State at Raleigh Saturday from the sidelines, as the result of in- juries suffered in the hard scrap with Georgia Tech. Howard, veteran tackle, who lost four front teeth and suffered an injured jaw bone, was allowed to leave the hospital yesterday, while Atkins, 240-pound tackle, also will be unavailable for the fray on account of injuries. Four other players suffered lesser in- juries, but will likely be well enough to enter the game, coaches reported. RALEIGH, N. C., October 30 (#).—A lengthy practice consisting chiefly of signal work today opened the intensive training period of the North Carolina State varsity in preparation for. North Carolina here Saturday. Two changes were made by Coach ‘Tebell in the regular line-up. Silver was placed on right end and the vet- eran Goodwin sent to the second eleven. McLawhorn, sophomore, ran in Outen’s place in the backfield. CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. C., October 30 (#)—Undefeated and unscored on this season, Clemson turned to practice against the plays of the University of Mississippi, the Tigers' opponent for next Saturday. Though there were some absentees from practice yesterday the Tiger squad apparently will face Mississippl without major injuries. COLUMBIA, S. C., October 30 (#).— Hopeful that Thursday’s game against the Citadel would find all the regulars back ' in - uniform, South Carolina’s Gamecocks continued their general practice for the Orangeburg game to- day. TRACEY HURT, GORDON WILL FIGHT THOMPSON CHICAGO, October 30 (#).—Johnny Gordon, Philadelphia welterweight, has been substituted for Bobby Tracey of Buffalo in the main event against young Jack Thompson, California negro, at the Hippodrome tomorrow night. Tracey advised Promoter Jack Arta he had injured his hand in training and would be unable to fight. small, has some pretty good athletes at hand and in its class puts forth rather capable teams at times. George Washington's lot of casuals and green glxyeu seems due for another tough tussle. The Colonials have yet to win a foot ball game this season, but so has its opponent. Wil- liam and Mary, though, from reports, appears to b2 better off physically and numerically than the Washington team. 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