Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1929, Page 50

SPORTS. THE E NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, T929. SPORTS. ~ Good Pilot “Makes” Poor Team, Says Zuppke : Blick Accepts Gardner’s Challenge trip, with excellent roads all the way. | tournament two years ago in' Baltimore, +QUARTER WHO HOLDS UP ' Smart Field Leader Puts MEDIOCRE ELEVEN IDEAL Weak Outfit in Positions Where It Will Make Few Mistakes as Possible and Make Opponent Gain by Merit. BY ROBERT C. ZUPPKE, Foot Ball Coach, University of llinois. ¥ idea of a real quarterback is one who can hold up a mediocre team. 1 do not imply that it is a soft snap to be a quarterback for a great team which is sweeping everything before it. It isn’t. But it takes more gray matter to get the best results out of a poor team. The smart quarterback will put it in positions where it will make | as few mistakes as possible, and he will make his opponents gain . yardege on merit m‘s’tcad of presenting it to them by foolish ma- neuvers. On the verge of calling a certain play he will think: “If this play fails, we're in & hole,” and change it. Consider the conditions under which the quarterback must de- termine and call his plays. His players are huddled around him. An official stands close by, glanc- ing at his wrist watch every few seconds to remind the quarterback that he has only 30 seconds to call the signal. Just when our quarterback's brain 45 working the official may interrupt his mental operations by sticking his head into the huddle and urging him to hurry up. Or the other players may argue with him about the kind of play to be called. Players Argue Too Much. The worst seasons my team ever had . were 1921 and 1922, and one reason was that whenever an advantageous position on the field was reached some players would not let the quarterback do the thinking, but constantly argued with him in the huddle. Discovering this I broke up the prac- - tice by. calli the assistant quarter- backs “Mexican erals,” likening our team to a Mexican Army, in which every man was a general, but the dam- age had been e. ¥ * “Coach Stagg had this same trouble last year when Chicago was right up to the Wisconsin goal, with a good chance to score a touchdown and take the lead, as the Badgers had scored, but missed the try for goal. The Maroons * could not agree upon the play and were penalized twice for delaying the game, ‘which set them back 10 yards and sent their Jden ity glimmering. m‘%‘uumgg::km:m mind works clearly in such a short time and under such disadvantage has something deep his nature—call it intuition, habit, Instinct or selective imagination. Some have it and others haven't. I have known B‘hyen who were exceptionally bright their university classes but lacked this quality. Few Repeat Plays. ‘There is a lot of difference between theoretical and practical generalship. Strange as it may a) r it is often hard to get a quarterback to repeat a play which has worked for a gain. “Why didn't you throw to so-and-so again?” I asked one of our pilots last season. “You knew we sent him in to receive passes, for you threw to him once for a good gain.” “Well, I was going to it -ql; aut!wuunm'.heywo be on ,” our man L a A smart qm néver would have assumed 3 ents would be on to it have made had u:emplny them that they woizea Beore be g yme i by his figured coach of has it out quarterback Will say to himself, “Ill call on Jones next time” instead of le‘gl-"m"‘tmfim!wflu 0. I He will know the answer to the most important question of all, which is, “What man shall I call on in a pinch?” "l'.hn answer “yh:‘t,he best nun",‘:‘2 &t surprising some quarter! ‘will not tell you that if you ask them. Difference in Quarters. Some quarterbacks have been great kickers, runners ,Walter Eckersall and Wallie Steffen of Chicago were men of this type. “Potsy” Clark of Illinois, now coach of Butler, was the greatest quarterback we ever had. Clark was a great runner who was likely to break up a e himself. His happy, humorous tion was a marvelous factor for harmony and morale. On the other hand there have been many fine quarterbacks who had special talents as players, but worth their weight in gold because they could usually be ded on to make few mistakes and to force the other it got. of higan and Bob Fletcher of Illinois were men of this class. Fletcher, small bodied, courage- ous, had & mind for foot ball and the rsonality that is necessary for the results from your followers. Lead- ership depends upon the respect of those you lead, and quarterbacks must merit this respect. ‘The quarterback is not a mere puppet for the coach, as some persons think. After the game starts he is on his own, and unless he has been taught to express himself his team will face disaster. ‘The coach may sigh forgreat runners and strong tackles, but he knows well that to get the best out of his material there must be a real quarterback to guide it. (Copyright, 1920. by North American News- paper Alliance.) Canada claims lawn bowling as its own, but the Dutch first played it on the banks of the Hudson. It is now & popular pastime all over the Cana- dian provinces. EAST NOT BARREN OF GOOD BATTLES G. U.-Navy Contest Is One of Headliners, as Army and Harvard Go West. BY WILLIAM J. CHIPMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. < EW YORK, November 7.—The greatest expeditionary force ever groomed for an invasion of the Middle West will be in ana and Ann Arbor Saturday. vard has the a: ent of checking thrice-beaten Michigan eleven and the Army is bent upon making a come- back at the expense of Robert Zuppke and Illinois, not the easiest manner in which to spend a November afternoon. Harvard had a final drill yesterday against the plan of attack expected from Michigan on Saturday. Harvard will work out briefly upon Ferry Field at Ann Arbor tomorrow, the first ap- pearance cf a Harvard eleven on any Middle Western gridiron. The Army plans a brief brush in the Ilinois Stadium late tomorrow, if the Cadets arrive early enough. Even with these two Eastern elevens pla; out of the territory, foot ball ent ts along the Atlantic Seaboard have a choice of half a dozen fine games from Providence, R. I, to An- napolis, Md. Brown is almost an even choice against Dartmouth, whick must face the Bruins, Cornell and the Navy without Al Marsters. The game will be in Providence. Defeated early in the season by West- ern Maryland in an upset, a fine Georgetown eleven faces a chance to regain lost ground if it can level the defenses of the Navy at Annapolis. Victor over the Midshipmen last Sat- urday, Pennsylvania hopes to preserve its momentum long enough to turn back Penn State, which is mov- lnH\plul upward after & start. e ceton varsity went through a hard session in terda; danger from land this may blo “?ullod t in & unpfl:; g:l- ation year Maryland esca) m New Haven with a 6-to-0 victo: Cornell takes on Western Reserve this week as_final against Dartmouth a day. Colgate and Columbia should pro- vide a fine clash for New York fans. The clash between Georgia and New York University shares metropolitan in- terest with the Colgate-Columbia fray, with the promise of a crowd at the Yankee Stadium on Saturday. 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Yessir, Jack Elder, flashy Notre Dame halfback, beat Percy Williams in the 60-yard dash at the New York Athletic Club games in Madison uare Garden last February. Now his bursts of speed on the gridiron have helped ROANOKE AND CAPITAL ROLLERS TO RESUME FEUD Al Gets Quick Action Out of His Former Boss. Temple Stars Re-act to Razzing—Campbell Proves Greatness in Match With Lang. BY R. D. THOMAS. DUDLEY GARDNER, who left Washington to become the bowling impresario of Roanoke, Va., today flung a challenge | A pay check. to the old home town. “Pick any five men you think can really bowl,” urged the fellow, If they want more action after we moun- | tain people have done our stuff, then we'll come to Washington.” In behalf of Washington bowlers in general and the Convention | | Hall establishment in particular, Blick the Battler promptly accepted the challenge and the thing is on for the Christmas holidays. Gard- ner specified the Yuletide season, mentioning significantly that this | was a most desirable time for bank roll fattening. “and bring 'em down here. Many a Washington greenback has been left in Roanoke after a bowling battle, and they were owned by noble Romans of the mapleways. Washington was only one victory up on the mountain town when a memorable feud ceased six or seven years ago after five annual clashes. Harris, Dyer, Brown and Stonebreak- er are Roanoke names that come im- grerefiz Navy, Wisconsin and Carnegie ech. Whereas Elder is one sprinter who has made good as a foot ball player, the list of those who falled is a long one. Big Al Miller of Harvard could run 100 yards in 9 4-5, but he never amounted to much in foot ball. Neither did Locke of Nebraska, world champion at 220 yards, and many others. Perhaps it is because died- in-the-wool dash men can't get over the desire to save their precious legs. 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If Gem shaves do not convert you for life in one week—we'll refund your money. At all dealers. GEM SAFETY RAZOR CORPORATION, BROOKLYN, N. Y. It came to John 8. Blick, who used to sign Dud’s mediately to mind as those days are recalled. and some of the old boys are still up and at 'em. Ever so often comes a report of sensational doings by Stonebraker, who has been known to average a fraction less than 156 for a five-game set. Not many days ago & Roanoke bowler, shoot! under strictly cham- plonship conditi came within a pin of tying the all-time national record for a single June. ‘Taz _Epperly of the Roanoke City League had a score of 189. However, his set was only 406. bout time for the annual Veihmeyer-Donaldson fuss, this column would suggest the well known teams of brothers go afield for foes and give at least a variety of names to the nov- elty. Roanoke has a brothers’ tea which is itching for battle, according to Gardner. It is eomrd of Hey- - Marvin, Willie and Kinker ‘The Wares have issued a national challenge, but would prefer a home- and-home series with & Washington team. Roanoke is an eight-hour auto Gardner, by the way, is having his first taste of politics, having been rear- ed in the voteless Capital. “As little as I know about politics, it | has been interesting. to me,” he writes, “to read the statements of one side and then the other, the charges and coun- ter-charges and the paid political ad- vertisements in the newspapers, to one on the outside looking in it is my opinion that somcbody is one pretty big liar.” Max Rosenberg’s Northeast Temple team seems to thrive on raspberries. Anyway, after taking lots of kidding for falling to win hailf their games with a line-up replete with stars, the Temples up and knocked off the second high team in the District League, Meyer Davis. The Davismen took the first with & 620 score, but the Temples grabbed the two others. The 2-to-1 decision left the Temples with and- ing of 10 games won and 11 lost. Rosenberg has a colorful crew and one that is quite certain to create a stir in the District League before the championship is settled. An idea of | the team's possibilities was given by | its performance against the Recreation Happy Five in Baltimore when it crack- ed the five-game record for the Monu- mental City with a set of 3,071, Three Temples had sets in the 600 class and three of the team games were over that mark. A capacity gallery is assured at the Temple next Saturday night when the Happy Five come over for a return meet- ing. The Temples are 101 pins up on the series. g Why Howard Campbell is a great bowler is revealed in the strike and spare analysis of his recent match with George Lang of Baltimore at the Lucky Strike, Lang's score was 619 for five games and Campbell's 614. Lang made seven strikes against only two for Campbell, but the Washington man had 17 spares against 12. Had Lang pulled his spares as consistently as Campbell the Baltimorean might have beaten Barney Spinella's famous record of 780. Campbell missed three breaks; Lang nearly a dozen. Campbell is an indomitable competitor and it is doubtful if there is a gamer bowler. We have in mind particularly at this moment his performance in the final frame of the King Pins’ set in the National Duckpin Bowling Congress and | | When Campbell’s turn came it was known that a mark was needed to put the King Pins in first and himselt at the head of the all-events—two na- tional titles, not to speak of consider- able coin, tied up in ome box. The King Pin captain’s first ball crashed squarely into the pocket and he got a one-pin break. There were many spec- | tators more on edge than Campbell when he poised for the shot at that all- important maple, perhn%l the most im- portant stick in all the history of duck- He went after it with perfect confidence. Many another star would have been quaky. He got the pin and enough count to clinch the two titles. We saw him make five consecutive s'pcres to finish out a game in & bril- liant effort to overtake Barney Spinella in " a two game total-pin match in Brooklyn. rney gained such & lon, lead in the first string that appeared hopelessly beaten, But he came from nowhere and made it close, and that was a typical Campbell per- formance, except that as a rule the other fellow is on the short end. Lang had him down 54 pins at the end of two games, but the King Pinner whittled away this lead to 5. He figures to pick up these and then some when they fin- ish the 10-game series Saturday night in Baltimore, Last Sunday's piece by this reporter dealing with Saturday night bowling, mchd .mr;'::ge that Convention Hall's urday League was the onl, successful one of its kind, was me{ exception to ,and perhaps justly so, for there are other leagues operating on week end. 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