Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1929, Page 33

* Sports News The Fy « WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH SUNDAY MORKING EDITION ening Star. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1929, et Features and Classified PAGE 33 Catholic U. Takes No Chance With G. W. : Coaches Frown on All-High Elevens LOWLY COLONIALS HOPE TO DO WELL IN WIND.UP Annual Turkey Day Battle Will End Season Here. Yale Is Fortunate to Escape Worse Dcfeat. Detroit Defeat Comfort to Georgetown. BY H. C. BYRD. ure roles Thanksgiving day. eral years has been the high i3 HE last scenes of the year on a local college gridiron will find Catholic University and George Washington playing the feat- And, while the game that for sev- point of both schedules now seems to be little more than set-up for Catholic U., a good deal of interest nevertheless is likely to be shown. The Brooklanders will put forth every possible effort to make good what is expected of -them, while the Buff and Blue, slammed, beaten and virtually annihilated in every game it has taken part, is likely to strive desperately to salvage some- thing from a season that will go down in its gridiron history as its most dismal failure. Catholic University is getting its team back in shape for a good game of foot ball, without consideration for what George Washington may do. In other words, Catholic University is taking no chances, | ¥ in so far as it can look ahead in its preparations. The Brooklanders do not have Lc stretch their memories to any great extent to remember many instances during the last Fall of schools that have seemingly been far stronger than their opponents, only on the day of the game to find that their opponénts for one reason or another had such a lease on life that the afternoon was anything but pleasant. Coach” Jack McAuliffe and his co- horts are not very desirous of winding up a good season that way. George Washington has nothing to lose, and it has everything to gain by making a showing against the Brookland eleven. The squad has a re- spite of 10 , from its last game un- til Thanksgiving, and Buff and Blue supporters are hoping against hope that it is being used in such a way as to produce effectiveness. Anyway, followers of the eleven will go to watch their team meet the Brooklanders in the hope that their team may do some- thing worth while, . Georgetown can at least take some ecomfort for its game with Detroit this week in the fact that that school can be whipped. The Oregon Aggies, last year the nemesis of New York Univer- sity, made the journey from Oregon to Detroit and won by 2 touchdowns to 1. ‘That Georgetown's task against Detroit is anything but easy may be gauged from the fact that Detroit beal West Virginia University, 36 to 0. Bomebody sent out a press notice that the University of Maryland squad is “taki it easy” in preparation for the annual game with Hopkins in Bslti- more Thursday, but it is unlikely that the members of the squad would agree with that entirely, not when they glance back at their activities Sat. urday. The Marylanders went througl an hour of scrimmage on a fleld cov- ered with a light fall of snow and with snow falling most of the time. It was cold and . ’Imlhl! under any con- ditior€, “but "doubly so when pping around in the slush and mud on half frozen ground. Maryland players are wondering what is going to be done this week if that is taking it easy. Bad conditions Friday and Saturday faced virtually every gridiron squad in | po' the section. It rained or snowed inter- mittently and made handling of a foot ball anything but pleasant, and made just about as bad as could be. Nearly all the games of Saturday were played under these conditions, and it is lucky, indeed. that teams got through them as well as they did Sometimes it actually is a source of wonder how elevens are able to play such foot ball on muddy flelds and with a ball that at best is not easy to handle accurately. Harvard not only defeated Yale. but accounts of the game indicate ale is rather fortunate that the score was not larger. Harvard wvas prevented scoring another touchdown only by the dropping of a forward pass on Yale's goal H.n'e. Had the ball been caught, Harvard would have had at least six more points, but in muffing the ball it dropped over the Yale goal, was incom- plete and became a touchback, with Yale getting the ball on its own 20-yard mark. Harvard apparently stopped Yale's attack, although it did not find the going against the Dark Blue any- thing other than rough. It was felt that the game would be one of the greatest ever played between th universities. and evidently it wa least, every newspaper man who sent a story out of Cambridge was in agree- ment on that. Stanford’s decisive victory over Cali- fornia probably was the most surpris- ing foot ball happening of the week. It was thought by many of those who know something of Warner's methods that California would be fortunate to escape a defeat, but it is doubtful if anybody thought the game would. end in such a one-sided Stanford victory. Stanford lost to Southern California, California beat Southern California, but when the great test came it was ner's eleven that came through. Notre Dame keeps on winning. Its de- feat of Northwestern was expected, but there was interest in the game largely because Notre Damé probably is the strongest eleven in the country and be- cause every game such & team plays is interesting, bec: of the possibility of it being stopped. Possibly the only other eleven in the East that would stand an even chance with Rockne's men is Pitts- burgh, and it is too bad that they are not scheduled to play. Purdue_has won the Western Con- ference championship, and finished its season without a defeat. George Ade probably is happy and will continue to write humor; Purdue really did some- thing worth while besides win a foot ball game. Seriously, though, the season Purdue has had is & tribute to its team, to its coach and to all the people who had a part in it. Any time any eleven goes mmm a schedule so successfully it means t somebody is deserving of a lot of eredit for careful thought and planning. ‘Purdue’s final victory was simply annihilation of Indiana, its traditional rival. Tllinois rose to the peak of its 1929 wer in its final game and simply crushed Ohio State. Zuppke's men won by a margin that seldom is seen in ‘Western conference circles, when two elevens np}nrently are fairly evenly matched. Just how completely Illinois outelassed Ohio State is shown by the fact that it not only scored four touch- downs itself, but_the closest that the ]I"fi:‘ got to the Illini goal line was 27 yar University of Chicago produced a sur- fi:me inbl;n’tanl u? l;{llvermy o!t ‘Wash- gton to 6. It was pretty gen- erally the opinion that Chicago would be lucky to escape defeat. Chicago seems to have abandoned its traditional rushing game for one consisting almost entirely or forward passes. It tried 35 passes and completed 18 a total gain of 300 yards. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. O. McGEEHAN. The Mythical Champions. T is getting around to the time when the boys will be picking the all-America teams and the theoretical championship team in intercollegiate foot ball for the season of 1929. All of this is somewhat futile, but it seems to be the annual custom My notion always has been that if the all-American team could ot together and induced to play as a unit, some college team with xbx: 'lll—A¥nerlcn selections would beat the theoretical all-America team quite decisively. This intercollegiate foot ball emphatically is an inspirational game. The college team would be playing as a team and ready to die for dear old Whatsis, while the all-America team would be a collection of stars, not fully co-ordinated and playing with no particular notion, excepting to play foot ball. At that, this should be the method from one section of the country were of approaching the game, without the well known overemphasis and the hys- teria. But this is not the attitude of either the players or the spectators. From the point of view of attendance, I do not think a game involving the All-American team would draw as many spectators as, say, the Yale-Har- vard or the Notre Dame-Army game. Of course, this discussion is even more futile than the picking of an All-American team or the selection of & mythical championship college team. a rash moment some ting back 1 agreed to act as one of a jury to select the mythical cham- pions, the coach of the team to be given the Erskine award. I suppose that I will have to go through with that, but I think that immediately afterward I had better embark in- cognito for parts unknown to dodge the ire of the old grads of some of the other colleges. There are numbers of unbeaten teams in the East, the Corn Belt, the Pacific Coast and the South. There are Pitts- burgh in the East, Purdue in the Mid- dle West, Tennessee in the South and California on the Pacific Coast. There is, of course, Notre Dame, unbeaten at all point of the compass. And at Ford- ham they are pointing to the fact that the Maroon team has yet to brush the dust from the seats of its foot ball trousers. Before the season started Mr. Knute Rockne of Notre Dame, violating all the canons of foot ball coaching, an- nounced that Notre Dame would have a good foot ball team this year. It seems now that he exrr%:ed tomo mucr: repression. The Notre me team of 1929, so far, is not merely good—it is perfect. Last year, after the defeat of New York University by the Oregon Aggles and the decisive defeat of the Army by Stanford University from the Pacific Coast, there was a gen- eral notion that they bred better and bigger foot ball players on the coast than they did in any other part of the far-flung foot ball recruiting ter- ritory, and that they played better foct ball there. was the climate, quite as good as those from any other section, Superiority in foot ball seems to be largely a matter of chance. Any frank coach will tell you that in some years he gets good material and in others not 30 good. There is no really bad material for foot ball any more than there is any bad material for armies, But to 51“ down to the matter of e mythical championship team for this Erskine Award. Foot ball is the one game where the statis- ties do not count. There is no way in ch anybody can get & mathe- matical line on the strength of a foot ball team. I doubt if there would be even if the college foot ball teams, like the big league base ball teams, played 154 games a year, which would be physically impossible. ‘The argument in favor of the annual selections for the mythical All-America team is that being picked for it is in the nature of citations for the players who are named. In the crowded foot ball season there are many players who may have earned citations, but who re- main uncited, as it were, just as in the war business there are many soldlers who have earned citations, but who get nothing. Even if there were enough experts to go over all the teams, it would be hard to see some of the great work of the players who are playing only for the team and as parts of the machine. CENTRAL HIGH IS SHORT OF DIAMOND VETERANS With only three letter winners at- hand, it appears that Central will have to hustle to turn out a winning base ball team next Spring. Capt. George Brandt, third baseman; Frank Cumberland, infielder, and Ber~ nard White, outfielder, are those who wgln “C's” who are expected to be avail- able. —— TREMONTS TRIUMPH. With Brown and Pischer leading the attack the Tremonts nosed out Com- or tomething. My notion L that there is nothing in in & basket ball 1a the World War the troops| Hyatteville Armory, 20 to 1 pany F e in the INAVY SEES CHANCE TOVINLASTGAVE Hopes to Have Best Attack of Campaign to Throw Against Dartmouth. A which the Naval Academy closes its season, means much more to the latter team than the ordinary foot ball clash. ‘While the teams have no special rivalry, both stand high enough in the foot ball world to make the contest one of much interest, but the chief significance from the standpoint of the Navy is that it gives that team its final chance to win a big game this | NNAPOLIS, November 25.—The game with Dartmouth in Phila- delphia next Saturday, with ear. While the Dartmouth eleven, on the season’s record of both, appears to be stronger, Navy people are remembering the great come-back of their team against Princeton in the final contest last year, and are hoping for something of the same sort. Material Is Abundant. Further, the Navy people base their hopes on an abundance of excellent material, which for some reason, ap- pears not to have reached the height of its ability so far. A large part of the trouble with the Navy's attack has been found in the fallure of its passing game, a depart- ment in which the Middies have for some years generally been quite strong. For the past two weeks the Navy coaches have been pointing the team almost entirely for the Dartmouth game, and much attention has been given to securing greater accuracy and deception in the passing attack. As for the running game, the Navy is as strong as it has ever been, but its weakness in “passing has enabled its opponents to concentrate on stopping its runners. Not only is Spring, who has been the Navy's best runner during the season, in excellent condition, but it now looks as if Gannon, another fine back of last year both as to running and passing, will be in good fettle after hav- ing lost the first half of the season on account of injuries. Clifton, the powerful fullback, now is in better condition than he has been at any time this season. The full use of two such players as Gannon and Clifton means a great addition to the strength of the Navy backfield. Plenty of Good Backs. ‘With the Navy having the full use of such valuable backs, with the addition of Joe Bauer, Castree, Mauro, Toth, McGrocker and Antrim, all veterans, with Binns, Williams and Kirn, the season’s finds, the team should be at the peak of its offensive strength next Saturday, ‘The squad also may have the use of Kohlhas, another 'good: baek, now on the hospital list. ‘The probable make-up of the line for the Dartmouth game is: Moret, left end; Bowstrom, left ta kle; Swan, left guard; Hughes, cente Koepke or Westhofen, right guard; Crinkley or Bryan, right tackle, and Byng, right end. TEAMS IN ROCKIES END PLACE BATTLES By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo., November 25.--First, second and third places have been clinched in the Rocky Mountain Con- ference foot ball standing, with three 5"5‘” still scheduled for Thanksgiving ay. Utah University must meet Utah Aggles at Salt Lake, but the Utes clinched their claim to a second title in as many years more than a week ago. The University of Colorado closed its campaign last Saturday by flooring Colorado College, 13-7, and assured of at least a tie from second place, as well as the Colorado champlonship. Brigham Young University humbled the Wyoming Cowboys, 40-0, and won third place. Denver University meets the Colorado here Thursday and must win if it is to get a tie with Colorado. Denver has dropped one game to a Colorado team, the Colorado College Tigers. Colorado College will go to Pueblo to finish its campaign ainst Colorado Mines. Two it backfield rhen will be playing their last game there. They are Earl (Dutch) Clark, captain of the Tigers, and Floyd Carf, Mines leader. TWO CLINO.H TITLES St. Stephen's A. C. and Palace A. C. elevens boast titles in the Capital City Foot Ball League. The Saints yesterday squeezed through to a 3-0 victory over Brook- land A. C. to achieve the senior loop champlonship and the Palace eleven drubbed Janney A. C., 25 to 6, to clinch the erown in the 135-pound loop, the team’s second successive title in this class. In the other league games, both in the 135-pound loop, Mardfelts scored over Notre Dame Preps, 20 to 0, to gain a tie for third place, and Columbia de- feated Wolverines, 13 to 0. It was a nifty drop-kick from the 30-yard line by Tuck Dalglish that gave St. Stephen’s a field goal and victory over Brookland. . Scoring two touchdowns in the first half as the result of Janney fumbles and poor passes from center, Palace A. C. added two more in the second half to put the game in the bag. At the start of the second half Janney rallied to score its lone touchdown. Lay and Thompson were the aces of the Mardfelt attack in the victory over Notre Dame and Pfau and Blondi also showing well Columbias did all their scoring in the first half to trim Wolverines, Healy and ?.leter counting the touchdowns RUMOR HAS DR. S—I;EARS GOING TO WASHINGTON U. CHICAGO, November 25 (#)—Re- ports persisted today that Dr. Clarence Spears of the University of Minnesota was to succeed Enoch Bagshaw as head foot ball coach at the University of ‘Washington, effective next season. Coach Jimmy Phelan of Purdue and Pat Page of Indiana were also rumored as desirables for the Washin but 13 Dr, Spears, sald roached. Another elan, whose team won the Big Ten title this season, was due to take over the Minnesota coach- | ship if Spears went to Washington. IN CITY GRID LEAGUE ¢ Thanksgiving Day Grid Games With Scores When Teams Met Last Year. (By the Associated Press.) East. Philadelphia New Vork.... Providence New York.. Pittsburgh Morgantown Philadelphia Baltimore Elkins, W. Penn (49) vs. Cornell (0) West Virginia (14) vs. W. & J. (0) . Temple (0) vs. Villanova (0) .Johns Hopkins (6) vs. Maryland (26) . Davis-Elkins (63) vs. Salem (0) West. Indianapolis . . Butler vs. Milwaukee .. Loyola (New Orleans) .Marquette vs. Kansas Aggies Far West. Los Angeles. . .California San Francisco Pocatello ... Pueblo . Denver . Salt Lake (So. Branch) vs. Montana . St. Mary's vs. Oregon . .Idaho (So. Branch) vs. Idaho . Colorado Mines (6) vs. Colorado (28) .Denver (0) vs. Colorado Aggles (15) .Utah (20) vs. Utah Aggies (0) South, Chapel Hill... Birmingham . Jacksonville . Atlanta .. Roanoke . Oxford, Miss. Nashviile . Lexington . Baton Rouge. Clemson College Davidson .... .North Carolina (24) vs. Virginia (20) . Alabama (19) vs. Georgia (0) . Florida (60) vs. Washington and Lee (6) .Georgia Tech vs. Auburn .V.P. 1 (6) vs. V. M. L. (16) . Mississippl vs. Mississippi Aggies . Vanderbilt (13) vs. Sewanee (0) .Kentucky (0) vs. Tennessee (0) .Louisiana State (0) vs. Tulane (0) .South Carolina (27) vs. Furman (12) .Davidson (0) vs. Duke (33) Southwest. Stillwater Omaha .. College Station. Columbia .... Lincoln . Creighton .Oklahoma Aggles vs. Arkansas (20) vs. Grinnell (19) . Texas ‘Aggies (0) vs. Texas (19) . Missouri (0) vs. Oklahoma (14) .Nebraska (12) vs. Iowa State (0) Celtics Loom as Contenders For Sandlot Gridiron Crown HEN Mohawks and Apaches clasl. next Sunday after- noon in Griffith Stadium the independent foot ball champlonship of the Wash- ington area presumably will be at stake, but the fight for local laureis that for some seasons has been confined to these elevens may become a three-cornered affair before gridiron uniforms are put aside this year. A new sectional title contender en- tered the strugle yesterday when the St. Mary's Celtic eleven of Alexandria made a brilliant stand againstthe highly-tout- ed Mohawks here. Only after a gruel- ing fight were the powerful Hawks able to bag & 7-to-6 victory over the com- ’pl-ruuvcly little-known Alexandria out- t. ‘The Hawks, noted for their sports- manship, lost little time after the game in offering the Celtics another game so these teams will come to grips again in Griffith Stadium on December 8. Should the Hawks triumph over the Apaches next Sunday, this second meeting with the Alexandrians might well be recog- nized as the battle for sectional laurels. In the game yesterday, the Celtics generally outplayed the Hawks all the way and lost only through failure to a a point after touchdown. The Alexandrians began hammering at the Hawks' goal shortly after the game got under way, and kept the local aggre- mlan on the defensive much of the e The Hawks were the first to score. They drove to within a foot of the Cel- tic goal in the waning moments of the third period and in the flm"gl;y of the final quarter Abbatichio, ir qual terback, crashed through to a touch- down. Howard then rushed to the extra point that proved the big one of the fray. ‘The Celtic touchdown followed soon. ‘Williams blocked & punt by Birthright, scooped up the ball and ran 30 yards to goal. It was a poor run from center tl prevented the Celtics from getting a try for the extra point. Shortly before the game ended the Celtics be- gan ripping the Hawk line to ribbens and drove to the 6-yard line. Here the Hawks braced and a field goal try by Padgett wenty awry. While their old rivals, the Hawks, were having much trouble, the Apaches walked away with a game at Seat Pleasant. They licked the Piremen of this suburb, 32 to 0, employing little more than straight foot ball. The Firemen resisted the Apache attack stoutly in the first half, but at that were pushed back for two touchdowns. In the second half there was nothing to the.game but the Apaches. Friendship Athletic Club and Mo- hawk Preps are to clash Thanksgiving day afternoon on Gonzaga Field in a “grudge” battle which will mean the sandlot champlonship of Southeas ‘Washington to the winner. Northeast * Trojans, undefeated this season, claim the 115-pound title and are ready to defend their claim against any team in their class. They would particularly like to meet the Northeast ‘Temples. Challenges may be telephoned to Bill Pointon at Lincoln 4. Results of minor sandlot foot ball games yesterday follo Arlington Preps. 38: tomac A. C., 0. t'!u oau 0. In Chess Circles A team of 14 players from Falls Church, Va., visited the City Club last Wednesday night and played a team of B-C players in the chess unit of that | club and were beaten by the score of 117 to 2%. The individual scores were: FALLS CHURCH. 0 Dr.C. A Ransom. W. M. Di J.'F. Trabold. Rev. R. A. Castel'n Purcell. H G D. ¥ R ci M In the B-C class tournament in the chess unit of the City Club Maj. Clark is in the lead. The only game he lost was to E. J. Simmons. The standing of the p]:yern“:, . Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, I. 8. ‘Turover, former District champion and who made an enviable record this year at the tournament at Bradley Beach, N. J., will give a simultaneous chess ex- jon at the City Club. He will play ugunnul comers and there will be no charge for persons who wish to com- pete. Announcement also is made that the District Chess League will entertain a picked team from Philadelphia for a match Sunday, December 8, commenc- ing at noon. There probably will be six players on a side. The names of the Washington players have not been made public. The Philadelphia players prob- ably will include David Weiner, cap- tain, former national intercollegiate champion, and Cohen, another strong collegiate player. Two local players, F. B, Walker, Dis- trict champion, and J. W. Byler, match champion of the City Club, are engag. ing in practice games with clocks, etc. Walker won the first game, Byler the second and the third was drawn. KICKS TWO LONG GOALS, BUT MUFFS EXTRA POINT CHICAGO, November 25 (#).—Chuck Weimer, left halfback of the Buffalo Bisons, of the National Pro Foot Ball League, evidently doesn’'t like easy place-kicking jobs. After booting two of them against the Chicago Bears yesterday from the 38 and 42 yard lines, respectively, he missed his only chance at a point after touch- down from the 10-yard line. HURRY-UP BOOKING. A game for tonight is desired by the National Circle basketers, their .:::le‘ be with Potomac Boat Club having Hincoth 603 "Tne ircles canceled. ned at ave the Bolling Field gym. . - A polo tournament was played re- cently in Pe(vlw-. by more than 10 British, Ame; and French teams. BY SOL METZGER. End runs are hard to execute. Speed is a prime requisite. But with it the runner must have ability to change direction without loss of this speed. The Navy is strong at this type of play. In fact, Coach Bill In- tion was used for a touchdown against Princeton. Here's the way the Middies flanked Notre Dame.. No. 4 back, the man in motion, receives the ball from center and goes at top speed to flank the opposing left end. Backs Nos. 2 and 3 go at this end shoulder to shoulder. As they near him No, 2 drives himself across im front of him, leaving No. 3 to lead No. 4 out wide for a straight run down the sideline. One lineman, No. 8, comes out on the . End No. 11 blocks the de- fensive right tackle and then swings into the downfield area to get a de- fensive back. (Copyright, 1920.) ST. MARTIN'S CHALLENGE. Unlimited class nmnenu are sought by the St. Martin basketers. Manages. 's phone is North 2622-J. Helss, Zimmerli, Wanley, Huntt, Bar- nard, Swift and Al Harrington are re- sueeud to report for practice tonight a1, :45 o'clock at 1908 North Capitol street. PHOENIX BEATS TYPOS. Excellent teamwork won a basket ball game for the Phoenix A. C. from the Union Printers in the Eastern High i it i NS S for an for the losers with 6. 4 WANT 145-POUND FOES. ‘Teams in the 145-pound class are challenged by the utewvn.}t Bros.’ basket ball quint. Manager Messler's phone is Colushbia ‘9333, 0" Messier's phone BACKS GET CREDIT FORWORK OF LINE Hardell, Guyon Doubt Press Selections Do Youngsters Any Good—Emerson Busy. BY EDWARD A. FULLER, JR. N the selecting of an all-high foot ball team not infrequently a boy who really deserves recognition is overlooked and another who prob- ably does not deserve a place is given one and to that extent Elmer P. (Hap) Hardell, coach of the Tech eleven, the public high school cham- pion, believes the idea of picking an all-star combination is not so good. “Usually when you find a back get- ting away for gain after gain you also will find that there is some forward in there doing some great blocking, the observance of Hardell. Hardell emphasized that his views could by no means be taken as a criti- cism of all-high selections announced yesterday, but that he has long felt this way about all-high teams. He felt the selections were, on the whole, logical. “After all, foot ball is essentially a team game,” he said. “It tends to teach a boy to forget himself and to do the unselfish thing.” “The all-high selections here have become traditional and the boys look forward to them, so I guess they are allright,” the Tech mentor said. “But’ picking them is kind of tough on the newspaper fellows,” Hardell ob- served. “They are pretty sure to be criticized regardless of who they pick.” Hardell is not the ondy coach in the public high schools here who rather doubts the value of all-high teams, Charles M. (Chief) Guyon, Eastern High School director of athletics, has more than once told the writer that he believes the selection of all-high combinations among high school bl'l¥l might very well be done away with. He believes the high school boy, at an impressionable age, attaches too much importance to them. Emerson Institute's husky gridironers certainly face a big job this week. All the P Streeters are to do is to play two games in three days. After traveling to Wencmah, N. J., to engage Wenonah Military Academy ‘Thursday, Emerson will return here to stack up against the crack Baylor School eleven of Chattanooga, Tenn., in Griffith Stadium, Saturday afternoon. Central and Devitt elevens today planned to go through their final hard preparation for their battle Wednesday afternoon in the Central Stadium. It gridiron contest jponsored by the C Club of Central and will be 8 homecoming for alumni f both institutions. Play will start at 3:15 o'clock. For the past two years the C Club has been bringing out-of-town elevens here to meet Central in the C Club game and while these elevens proved highly attractive, it was decided this year to list a contest with another Washing- ton team and, judging from the interest that has been aroused, it appears that the club’s decision was wise. Both Devitt and Central have strong teams this Fall and the keen rivalry which exists between the Upton street boys and the Blue and White will add zest to the game. Each eleven boasts real stars. Central in Larry Pinckney, big fullback; Capt. George Brandt, end: Bob Eicholtz, for- ward and Frank Cumberland, quarter- back has a quartet of players who are just about as good as schoolboy grid- ironers come and has several others who are not far behind in ability. Capt. Francis (Fannie) Knott, full- back, is the big noise of the Devitt team. If there is anything this boy can't do that an all-around foot ball al,nyer should be able to do it has yet come to light. Heecan run with the ball, pass it and kick it, and he dves all three in great style. There are other cracks, too, on the Devitt team, including Tom Keefe, clever halfback, and Paul Tangora, forward. Knott will be the most versatile player on the field. It will be up to him to match the line-plunging of Pinckney, the kicking of George Brandt and the passing, probably of Frank Cumberland, sophomore quarterback. ‘That is some order, but Devitt fans be- lieve that Knott can do it. ‘We shall see, we shall see. In addition to Emerson, three school- | ! boy elevens of the District group have Thanksgiving day engagements. Georgetown Prep will entertain its old foe, Newman High School of Lake- wood, N. J., at Garrett Park, Md, at 10:30 o'clock in the only game not scheduled for enemy soil. Eestern is to travel to York, Pa. to engage the York High gridders and Tech is to travel to Staunton, Va., to meet Staunton Military eleven. High and Prep School Grid Scores This Year 26 B Mar s Pre D © o8t Jonn 28 Bwavely 0 Gonzaga 1 Western feit) . et 258 ifor- Yoy 25280 I H glanne gl Central. 13 Forest Park... 12 Mount Verno; N. Y. High. 7 0 Episcopal % 8locobad o ety 4 #2500 8loo wee St. John's. 19 George 8 Tech Soam 38 Western 46 Business 6 Central . n7 Emerson, 0 Woodbury 27 Busij 26 St. John's ‘Col. Jr. Varsit: 6C. U. Frosh Enastern William and Mary Fresh.. @. W. Presh... 3 Western. 8 Alexandria’ H. 0 Gonzaza 41 Business 85 ofis om 6 Swavely 1 rd. « s Woodwa ST A 2l ooot Bluy. o, I 2250 %l oot > H CUMBERLAND BRIGHT CENTRAL PROSPECT In Frank (Whitey) Cumberland Cen- tral High apparently has one of the best young athletes to enter a public high school here in some time. ‘Though only 16 years old and a sophomore, this boy already has given evidence of outstanding ability in both foot ball and base ball and also is ex- pected to make his mark in basket ball. Following the injury of Gene Colella, Cumberland was put at quarterback this Fall and performed in fine style. Last Spring he held forth at second base on the Blue and White base ball team. It is thought that he might be shifted to shortstop next Spring. His position in basket ball is guard, and he is said to be a good one, t00. Incidentally, Cumberland formerly attended Gonzaga. The I Street school certainly is furnishing Central some good athletes. Larry Pinckney, the big fullback on the foot ball team, also is a Gonzaga product. RINGLE’S 83 POINTS PLACES HIM SECOND Johnny Ringle's two touchdowns against Shepherd College put the Gal- laudet captain in second place behind Marsters of Dartmouth in the standing of grid point scorers in the East. Ringle has 83 points and Marsters 108. Both have finished the campaign. Hinkle's failure to penetrate the Ford- ham defense left him in a tie with Dowler of Colgate, who did not play. Each has 78 points, 1 point fewer than Niles of Lowell Textile, whose season has closed. Dowler has one game left, against Brown, which could hardly yleld him the five touchdowns he needs to tle Marsters, but there is just a possibility that Hinkle may cross the line five or six times against Dickinson in his final game Tl giving day. Standing of the leaders: Player Pos. G. TD.Pat.FG.T. i a 8 8 ] 2 [ eeamsoooSuoelSRREREES! RO SN R ERR R WEVER HAS CHANCE TO BEAT MARSTERS By the Assoclated Press. His closest rival, Gene McEver of Tennessee, held idle until Thanksgi day, Al Marsters remains at the top of the heap in the race for national foot ball individual scoring honors. 3 Although the Dartmouth star has not played for three weeks and will not play again this year, the 108 points he scored in his first six games remain as a goal for others to shoot at. McEver, with 97 points now, may surpass it when Tennessee meets Kentucky on Thursday. These two head the list in the Associated Press compilation of leading scorers in the eight major groups of conferences in the country. Worthy of mention, however, is Ray Novotny, Ashland, Ohio, halfback, who finished his season a week ago Friday with a grand total of 103 points, The sectional leaders: AT R Masters, Dartmout 3 South— e McEver, Tennessee.... HB. Sch¥arts W, Stat hwartr, W. State... FB. Leland. Tex. Christian HB. volissouri— 16 0 97 14 L1 13 . QB. 9 9 50 QB. 6 7 FB. HB. & Ten— Bergherm, N'thwestern Pharmer. ' Minnesota. . Big_Six. 000 wa 9 a0 o 8 6 6 FB. 8 4 T 4 7 4 HOW ELEVENS FINISHED IN BIG TEN CONFERENCE CHICAGO, November 25 (#).—Final standing of Big Ten foot ball teams in conference competition: Michigan Wisconsin 108 bt 60 3 20 33 21 23 33 N EAST'S GRID CARD THIS WEEK BRIGHT Army-Notre Dame Clash in New York Tops List of Important Tilt. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, November 25.— Capped by the youngest of the classics, the Notre Dame-Army game at the Yankee Stadium next Saturday, the Eastern foot ball Thanksgiving week program is also featured by holiday clashes be- tween Pennsylvania and Cornell at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Penn State at Pittsburgh and West Virginia and ‘Washington and Jefferson at Morgan= town. Pittsburgh needs to scramble over only this Penn State hurdle to finish its season undefeated. ‘The Penn-Cornell fray shapes up as clcse, with Cornell holding whatever edge there is. Cornell has bowed only to_Dartmouth. West Virginia and W. & J. will seek to avenge slaps by other teams in their annual game. 4 Another game, not so old as these others but always productive of keen foot ball, is the Colgate-Brown clash, now played annually in Providence on the morning of Thanksgiving day. Col- gate, defeated only by Wisconsin, is the favorite, Dartmouth, after a rest of two weeks, will face the Navy at Philadelphia on "s:turdny in a game of prime impor- nee. Another clash in Philadelphia on Saturday will involve Villanova and Temple. p On Saturday Boston College takes up the annual defense of its home fortifi- cations against ‘the invasion by Holy 'ROOT PUTS MEXICO ON FOOT BALL MAP By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, November 25.— “ | Having concluded his duties of coach- ing the University of Mexico foot ball team during the first full scheduled season of foot ball ever played in Mex~ ico, Reginald Root has departed for the United States. During Root’s three-and-a-half-month stay in Mexico he has developed an in- experienced team, unschooled even in the fundamentals of the great Ameri- can _sport, into a smoothly functioning outfit that held the fine Mississippi College eleven to a score of 28 to 0 in the final game, which was witnessed by _more than 15,000 3 o SRR e s age, ' one and losing two, both to American R wh tackle . who was a the Yale foot ball mmm-l; 1924 l:’; 1925, likely will return here next year to resume his coaching duties. SOUTHWESTERN LEAD AT STAKE SATURDAY By the Associated Press. DALLAS, November 25.—Four games, two of them packed with all the ele- ments ‘that make the foot ball fan thankful he is alive, will ring down the curtain this week on the most spec- tacular campaign the Southwest Con- ference has seen. will be Headlining the week the 53 | championship fray Saturday at Fort Worth between Texas Christian Uni- versity and Southern Methodist. 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