Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 48

48 'SPORTS. ‘THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929. SPORTS. Optimists Turn Tide in Foot Ball, Declares Zuppke, Coach of Illinois U. Team MENTOR FINDS BUOYANT BOYS VALUABLE TO TEAM MEETING THURSDAY | & Morose Type of Mechanical Player, He Says, Can- not Rise to Heights of Infectiously Spirited Lads Under Stress of Game. BY ROBERT C. ZUPPKE, Foot Ball Coach, University of Tllinois. HERE is a great difference in the attitude of players before an important game. One group will be composed of good mechanical players, with fine bodies and good minds, but an inclination to be morose. cept_healthful optimism. They have everything to make them valuable players ex- Men of this type, before a big game, are apt to be long-faced. “We're going to win sure, aren’t we?” I sald to one such player as we prepared for a big battle. “I guess s0,” e replied, so half-heartedly I knew he would never rise to the heights, although he might play a fair game. And sure enough, he never turned defeat into victory, as his physical ability warranted. Melancholy spirits cannot win foot ball games. ‘The valuable players are those who are loquacious on the'eve of a criticel contest. They have a buoyancy of spirit that spreads to their teammates. Usually & great team is a combination of physical ability and this buoyancy. Sometimes & strong team, almost in- tact, which is expeced to make another Harvard Prepared for Army’s Cagle BY SOL METZGER. Coach Arnold Horween of Har- vard is hard at work these days pre- g the Crimson eleven for the invasion of the Army foot ball eleven this Saturday, led by no less a per- sonage than Capt. “Onward” Chris- tian Cagle. Horween not only de- sires revenge for the 15-to-0 set- back of last year, but is doubly anx- s dous to put the Cambridge foot ball team across big in this, his last year of coaching. Harvard has a lateral pass that will give any team trouble. It starts with & man in motion. Thus when No. 3 back runs across, as shown in the m, the inclination is to look out for the lateral, Backs have to act fast to dope that out. §0 gl) 80 they tend to move with 0. 3. ‘The neat part of the play occurs + @8 No. 3 yuns by in'front of his fel- low back, No. 2. Two is now momen- tarily screened from the defense. ‘Then No. 2 gets the ball and is led through an opening in the middle - of the line by back No. 1, who rams into the defensive full, should the latter not be shadow -hnlnfimrv-rd‘l lateral over to his rig! (Copyright, 1929.) exceptional record the next season, slumps, to the surprise of most ob- servers. Often the chief cause has been the loss of two or three players whose infectious buoyancy had played a far greater part in the success of the team than any one knew. One coach told me the loss of threo men of this desirable type had left him a mere shell of a team, although on E:per it looked as if his squad should stronger than before. His team was strong in every mechanical detail, but that was not enough. Bob tsch, captain of the Illinols champions of 1927, was a fine leader because his spirit infected the equad. Garland Grange, younger brother of “Red,” was an asset for the same rea- son. QGarland was developing nicely as an end, and it is too bad he didn't complete his university course. Light Remarks Tonic. Even in the stress of actual competi- tion some remark with a light touch may act as a tonic to your team, Blair French, one of our quarterbacks in 1927, spoke with a quaint Southern Illinols aceent, and when on defense he ex- horted his teammates to “let 'em have it,” with a peculiar emphasis on the “it.” They chuckled wardly and fought a little bit harder as a result. A coach can sense this buoyant spirit when he assembles his players for a talk on the lessons of the game which has just been played and the problems of the coming contest. ‘They will listen intently, alertly, to the coach and follow his chalk intelli- gnny as he gives a blackboard drill. ut & “wisecrack” by the coach or a blundering answer to one of his Tul- tions by a player will send a ripple of laughter over the room. Best Teams Happy Families. ‘The best teams are happy families, enjoying jokes on each other, but united when the time for action arrives. That teamwork. The difference be- tween champions and near-champions is the ablility to play for something out- side of self. In 1927, regretfully, we would have to bench big Mitterwallner, our elephant guard, ‘n the final game at Ohio State. “Bubbles” knew all week that he was not going to get a chance in his last eollege game, but he took his medicine manfully, Jjoshed his teammates and heiped pre- serve our splendid spirit. Foot ball squads will always be com- posed of varied personalities, and many men will be of the type backward in expressing its individuality. But deliver me from one which leaven provided by spirit buoys up their companions. t ball teams should not be ‘“cocky” and complacent, but they should look on the bright side of things. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- decided we “‘Bubbles” paper Alliance.) DE A Luxe Thursday night at 636 H street north- east at 7:30 o'clock. The team will again enter the 130-pound class, in which it has shown strongly the past seasons. LUXE A. C. QUINT 3 League this season. Last season De Luxe won the unlim- ited title in the Boys’ Club League, was tion meeting of the De | runner-up in the South Atlantic cham- . C. basket ball team will be held 'pionship tournament in the 1927-28 sea~- They’ll tell you . it’s the follow-thru that counts son and won this tournament the cam- just preceding that. The team to again enter the Boys' Cl ‘These players are asked to attend the meeting tomorrow night or get in touch with Frank Mansuy at Lincoln 8333-W: Hook, Higbee, Fisher, McIn- tosh, May, Ruppert and Hall EASTERN CRIPPLES RETURN TO LINE-UP Smith and Montague, Eastern de-!lead at the half and should have won, pendables who have been out with in- according to Rauber. The work of the juries, are again ready to take the ficld for the Lincoln Parkers. Despite that Central lost-to Mount Vernon High School only by 12 to i3, Saturday, Coach Ty Rauber was by no means satisfled with the showing of the Blue and White, Central held a 12-0 Blue and White line was particularly unimpressive. St. Alban’s School eleven drubbed St. Paul's School gridders of Baltimore, 26 to 6, here yesterday. Sterrett and Chiles led the winners’ attack. Chiles, Castle, McGee and Cheslee each scored a touchdown for the winners. "DUTCH el =i e REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. 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