Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1929, Page 50

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1929. SPORTS. Nagurski, Little Used as Tackle, Considered Best in Foot Ball This Year GOPHER STAR BUT HALF GAME IN BIG 10 Plays Fullback Remainder of Time, but Bronko Is Unanimous Choice for All-America Forward Berth—Once Flashed as Wingman. BY CHANDLER FARMAN. INNEAPOLIS, Minn., December 12.—Bronko Nagurski is all- America tackle by acclamation of the experts—and the Bronk played exactly half of one Big Ten game as a lineman M this season. A really amazing commentary on the all-around ability of one of the greatest foot ball players tne West has ever produced. To get down to figures, Nagurski played as a tackle in Conference ames only in the Iowa contest, where he was a lineman for 28 minu- In that game, Bronk crashed straight through the Iowa team for 45 yards for Minnesota’s single touchdown. es and a fullback for 32. Two minutes at tackle in the Northwestern game completed the collegiate career as a lineman of the big fellow from International Falls, a little town on the Cana- dian border. As a fullback, the Bronk played a total of 268 minutes this season in Con- ference competition—58 minutes in the Northwestern game, 58 minutes in ihe Indiana game, 32 minutes in the Iowa game and 60 minutes each in the Wis= consin and Michigan games. Nagurski did play tackle in two non- Conference games, against Coe and ‘Vanderbilt. Never Took Time Out. The nerve and stamina of the Bronk. the power packed in his 205 pounds of speed! In 23 games of bruising, punish- ing foot ball, Minnesota did not once take time out on his account. Last season in the Iowa game, Na- gurski started at fullback. Early in the first quarter he received a painful and serious injury. Three ribs were torn at the juncture of the spine. The Bronk could not continue in the back- feld, because he could not bend over to receive the pass from center, but he played all but five minutes of the re- mainder of the game at tackle. It was such an injury as would have kept an ordinary player on the bench for weeks, but not the Bronk. The next week, at Northwestern, Nagurski, his side tightly encased in a protective brace, played virtually the entire game at tackle. The most dreaded specter in foot ball, injury, followed Bronko all last season, but_he refused to let it handicap him. At Wiscopsin, the last game of the 1928 season, Bronko, his body still heavily taped, gave one of the greatest per- formances of his career to turn in an almost single-handed victory. Starred at End. all-America tackle, a fullback ot all-America caliber—and what an end he might have been had not the foot ball fates blessed Coach Spears with such a pair of wingmen as Hay- craft and Tanner! Nagurski played one game at end as a sophomore against Indiana, and then was shifted to tackle, where he was badly needed. But he showed enough stuff at end in that one game to send the foot ball writers into superlatives. In contrast to his reputation as the roughest and toughest player in foot ball—a veritable demon on the gridiron —off the field the Bronk is mild-man- nered, modest and self-eflacing. His speech is soft, almost a drawl. He can become enthusiastic over foot ball as a me, but any mention of himself and e is reticence itself. The toughest individual opponent Na- _gurskl ever faced in college foot ball, e confesses, was Baer, right guard at Michigan in 1927, Baer, rated as an ordinary lineman until the game with Minnesota, was the youth, Nagurski, _?llylng left tackle, had to take care of. 'he Bronk admits he had his hands full. Baer, roiled by pre-game references to the weakness of his side of the Michi- gan line, played as one inspired. Calls Baer “Plenty Tough.” “Baer was the slipperiest, fastest guy of his weight I ever bumped into,” Na- gurski said. “And he was plenty tough.” Asked to name the opposing player ‘whom he believed to be outstanding de- fensively, Bronko, without hesitation, named Harold Rebholz, fullback of the ‘Wisconsin team. “Rebholz had an uncanny knack of figuring out our plays almost before they got started,” Bronko said, referring, of course, to the contest two weeks ago that brought Nagurski’s grid career and Minnesota’s season to a close. “He was a wonder at backing up the line, a dead- ly tackler and a tough guy to block out of any play. He pepped up the whole Wisconsin team with his chatter.” As an all-around back, Nagurski hands the laurels to Glassgow of Iowa, and incidentally termed the Iowa-Min- nesota game of 1929 the toughest he has ever played. (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) ALUMNI SOCCER FINALE. 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EW YORK, December 12.—Some of the leading track athletes of Europe, invited by the Amateur Athletic Union as an advance showing of 1932 Olympic talent, are expected here this Winter to add an international glamour to the big in- door events. Heading the procession is Stanislaw Piekiwicz of Poland, newest member of the “I Beat Nurmi” Club, who was not among those receiving invitations from the A. A. U, but who is rated quite a runner. A big-framed middle-distance man with plenty of endurance, Stanis- law took the measure of the old Fin- nish phantom in Stockholm a few weeks ago and, encouraged by his success, re- solved to visit the United States. He was due here today. Italy took so kindly to the A. A. U. suggestion that when one man was in- vited, three accepted. The bid was ex- tended only to Hector Tavernari, haif- miler, but apparently through a misun- derstanding the Italian Athletic Federa- tion announced that Louis Baccall, miler, and Louis Facelli, 600-meter run- ner and 400-meter hurdler, would make the trip as well, planning to leave for America in the middle of January and return at the end of March. After a look at the records, which in- dicate that all three are runners of ex- ceptional ability, the A. A. U. was in- clined to favor the idea of paying the expenses of Facelli and Baccall as well as Tavernari. Of the five nations invited, England is the only one so far to refuse. Fin- land has been asked to send its two young Olympic champions, Larva and Loukola. The Germans invited are Buchner, 400-meter champion of his homeland; Englehardt, 800-meter cham- pion; Muller, half-miler and miler, and Storz and Eldracher, sprinters. From France, Seraphin Martin, half-mile star; Ladomegue, 1,500-meter runner, and Moulines, quarter-miler, have been ex- tended bids. None of these men has appeared in the United States. — e By the Associated Press. LAFAYETTE, Ind., December 12— Seventeen foot ball stars have accepted Coach Jimmie Phelan’s invitation to compete on the Middle Western team in the annual Dixie charity foot ball game at Dallas, Tex., New Year day. Middle Western stars who have agreed to play are Welch and Woerner, Pur- due; Colrick, Gebert and Nash, Notre Dame; Wolgast and Walker, Illinois;: Westra and Meyers, Iowa; Pulkrabek and Pharmer, Minnesota; Gembis and Steinke, Michigan; Calderwood, North- western; Young and Lardner, Detroit, and Hal Rebholz, Wisconsin. ‘Three more are expected on the Mid- | dle West squad which will meet an all- | star team of Southwestern players. | ————— PRO BASKET BALL. Peterson Crescents, 23; Rochester Centrals, 17. Chicago Bruins, 25; Syracuse All- Americans, 23 (overtime TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F WELL,WHAT OF IT 2 MY RADIATOR HAS PURITAN ANTI- FREEZE IN IT AND COLD WEATHER DOESN'T WORRY ME ! MIDWEST LEADER FLAYS GOSSIPERS Present Concrete Charges or Be Silent, Maj. Grif- fith Urges. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 12.—Crit- ics of the Western Conference have been invited to produce whatever evidence they claim to have on subsidizing and proselyting of athletes, or to stop “‘whis- pering, gossiping and scandalizing.” Ma)j. John L. Griffith, athletic com- missioner of the conference, which sev- ered athletic relations with the Uni- versity of Iowa on similar charges, said his organization would investigate every charge and promised swift action if it was needed. “If any one has information that any member of the Western Conference or any alumnus of any conference school is conspiring to or violating conference rules, let him come to us with his in- formation. We will investigate it thoroughly and in confidence. ~Any one who is a friend of clean athletics will do that. Those opposed to clean ath- It's time for the gossippers to stop gossiping.” Maj. Griffith said the number of per- sons connected directly or indirectly with Western Conference schools who will cut lgorn“!l;?nhle‘p th:‘llr teams win mes is surprisingly small. n"’l‘here are about 300,000 alumni of Western Conference schools, about 100,000 students and about 300 assist- ants to athletic directors” Maj. Grif- fith said. “Yet I doubt if there are a score among them all who are willing to cut corners to help their ¥cspective teams play winning foot ball, base ball, basket ball or what the case may be. Reports of alumni Dlylnf some ath- letes' way through school are myths. Such generous-hearted persons do mnot exist as far as we know. 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By the Associated Press. —The best an Eastern foot ball team invading the Pacific Coast can expect is 20 per cent the Kerr, Colgate coach, who also has charge of organizing the East team for the annual charity game with the West Kerr, in addition to_his wide experi- ence in Eastern foot ball, put in four years at Stanford University and has tional question from both angles. “Look out there and you'll see the reason,” said Kerr pointing to Whitnall is frozen as hard as & rock and is as slippery as a mill pond. It is the same in any other section of the East or on a field like that. Why, you can't even walk on it without slipping. “On the Coast it is different. They New Year. You can work them as hard as you want without incurring any in- jury risk. 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T may interest a number of the few million foot ball fans now blocking trafic in the United States that foot ball got away to a running start—also to a kicking and passing start—in the land south of the Rio Grande ‘The team from the University of Mexico made amazing progress in a short time, and there is every indication this progress will be increased next Fall with the foundation already laid. The following comment from an observer in Mexico City is worth recording: “This year, as you know, foot ball crossed the Rio Grande. International intercollegiate foot ball got under way. There were two games with college teams from the United States—the first with Louisiana College, October 5, and the second with Mississippi College, No- vember 20. The scores of these two games tell little. The chief result was that these international games estab- lished a significant contact between American and Mexican universities—all the more significant because it was based on (and in) foot ball. 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He plays right end on the foot ball team. ‘He has many of the qualities of an unusual end. He is the fiercest_tackler on the university eleven. In the Louisiana game, covering a punt, he dropped Harkness, the Loulsiana | quarter (a back far above the average), for a 3-yard loss—dropped him flat on his back with a flying tackle. Star End. “*TF you could mention Landa among the better ends of the season, you would not only give a fine player his | due, but give foot ball in Mexico a big impetus. “Another splendid player on the elev- en was Estanol, the center. He out- played his Louisiana opponent; he gave Capt. Murphee of Mississippi, reputedly one of the best centers in the South, a fine battle. Murphee prai-:d him high- 1y to me. “You will be pleased, I know, to learn that in 1930 the University of Mexico eleven will go to the United States. It will play Mississippi College, at Jack- son, about November 20, and Spring Hill College, at Mobile, Ala., a week later. 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