Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1930, Page 42

SPORTS. Vandy Is Due to Be One of Leaders in Dixie Which Has Wealth of Good Elevens COMMODORES ALSD TO HAVE “B” TEAM - SEE NINE IN RACE McGugin, Veteran Mentor, to Test Out Plan—Reticent About Varsity. » ment of its foot ball inter- | ests by scheduling games| for a “B” team, or what might be | more commonly called a second | eleven. This has been tried by some of the big Middle Western schools, but not much enthusiasm | has been shown for it. However, | Vanderbilt seems to feel that it/ ought to be a satisfactory solution | to the question of carrying such | large squads on the varsity that‘ * many men get no chance to play in games. Dan McGugin, who has been coach- | ing at Vanderbilt for more years than | some mentors have lived, seems very | favorable to the ides. In fact, he 15‘ the one who had it adopted, at least as a temporary of Vanderbilt's | foot ball system. give the idea a good trial, Here is| what he has to say about it: | “We are experiementing with a ‘B’ team at Vanderbilt this Fall. Our male | enroliment is limited to about 1400 students and when medical, freshman | and certain other ineligible students are | eliminated we do not have large squads. However, it seemed to us that the mat- | ter of having a ‘B’ team is worth try-| ing hecause of the opportunities it gives to extend the game to greater| numbers of students. We have * team games with Ohio State, Notre Dame and Indiana. We probably shall carry a somewkat smaller varsity squad BY H. C. BYRD. ANDERBILT has initiated a | new plan in the develop- as a result of this, but it will afford op- | base portunities for games to be played by a number of faithful men who are always ready, but sometimes go through a sea- son without being able to participate in a single game.” Avoids Foot Ball Topic. About his varsity team of this year, | McGugin has little to say. Dan has| never been what might be { enthusiastic about his own pects | and usually prefers to talk about the weather or something of that nature. Maybe this " team was instituted by | him this year to give him some other team than his varsity about which to express an opinion. About all that Dan says about his varsity is that, “If these men develop by the latter part of the season we should have a better balanced team than last year.” But whatever our good friend Dan may think about his prospects there are plenty of other coaches who are looking toward Nashville and wishing | they had games scheduled elsewhere. ‘That, of course, is only figuratively true, | as Dan is such a pleasant chap and | weats his friends so well that they had | almost as lief lose to him as win from | somebody else. Virtually everybody | who knows lnythln&‘lhout foot ball | expects Vanderbilt to have a great team. Coaches in several different sections of the South have united in one opinion that Vanderbilt ought to vie with North Carolina to lead the part of the Nation that lies below the Mason-Dixon line. About the best man Vanderbilt lost last Spring by graduation was Brown, a guard. Brown was said to be one of j the best men playing the game a: where. . Several other good play 8 ished their careers, among &m %-n guard; Abernathy, tackle; Gibson, en: ‘Warner, center, and McGaughey, back. Despite the graduation of the players, some exceptionally capable per- formers are left from the varsity squad. The best now on the field are Scheffer, Swartz and Kerwin, ends; Moorehead, tackle; Plrkemuumm ‘Thomas and Leonard, cks. Had Great Frosh Team. ‘Vanderbilt undoubtedly had the great- est freshman eleven in its history. I that squad through scholastic deficien- €iss, but retained a fine nucleus. Gracey, center; Talley, guard; Hobbs, tackle, and Foster, end; for the line, with Lockett, Fortune, Roberts and Hender- son in the backfield. Vanderbilt plays a stiff schedule. It must get in shape to go through one of | its toughest games on October 4, when | it journeys to Minneapolis to face Min- nesota, The list follows: September 27—Chattanooga at Nashville. October 4—Minnesota_at Minneapolis tober 11—Virginia Polytechnic Institute .YofilAhV’ué ge! Nashville tober 18—Spring Hill November 25—Maryland 3 Vanderbilt never has an easy team to beat, but this year, if it lives up to what is predicted, it may attain almost any heights before the season's end. But, whatever Vanderb{lt may accom- | plish, there will be none to have toward Dan McGugin anything other than the | warmest congratulations, because he seems to be the one coach liked by everybody. | FOOT BALLERS TO MEET Ebenezer A. C. Grid Squad Also Is Drilling Each Day. A meeting of the Ebenezer A. C. foot ball squad, which is drilling every eve- ning at Fifth and K streets southeast at 5:30 o'clock, will be held tomorrow night at 1007 New Jersey avenue south- east at 7 o'clock. A candidates, asked to attend. new and old, are ‘B’ | complished something toward that end. | t | doing ' particularly fine bit of work THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930. SPORTS. CONFERENGE MEN Tennessee, Georgia Favored in Majority Opinion of Ten Coaches. | BY DAN McGUGIN, For 37 Years Coach at Vanderbilt. EN coaches have sent me their opinions of the best teams in the Southern Con- ference this year. These| coaches think that nine teams in | the conference have a good| chance of winning the title. The elevens include Alabama, | Kentucky, North Carolina, Flor- ida, Georgia, Tulane, Georgia Tech, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. | The majority of these coache: pick Tennessee first and Georgia | second. There are at least 10 other institu- tions in the conference which will have good teams, and out of these 10 may come the winner. The Southern IntercoMegiate Confer- ence is made up of 23 colleges and uni- | versities, beginning with Maryland on on the Southwest. Maryland, Virginia, | North and South Carolina, Florida, | Georgia, Alabama, Mhsmégpl, Louisi- | ana, Tennessee and Kentucky comprise the territory of the conference. One of the purposes of the organiza- tion is to provide uniform competitive conditions. There still is great differ- ence in scholastic requirements and standards, but, in general, the confer- ence has worked to improve standards | and competitive conditions, and has ac- | O Is Difficult Assignment. It is difficult enough in professional ball to attempt to pick a team | which at the close of the season will | stand at the top. Such a task is much | more difficult in college foot ball. Eligi- | bility, injuries, a single vital mistake | during a game are some of the condi- tions which cannot be appraised in ad- | vance. | Frequently, in the case of an eleven | which has ‘lost three games during a season, I have felt that if the season were to be played over again this team would, in all probability, come through undefeated. ago everybody seemed to feel Georgia Tech would have the best team in the conference. She had gone through a hard 1028 schedule with a | long list of victories and had wound | up by beating the University of Cali- fornia. She returned a large list of vet- | eran letter men. However, Lumpkin, a splendid interferer and a powerful run- ning back, providing a fine balance in | attack, did not return. He was partic- | ularly effective on a close, weak side play and in attacking the line at &l most any point. Thomason, Mizell, Dunlop and others | were swift, powerful runners, good at offtackle plays and reverses and wide | runs, and Lumpkin provided the bal-| ance for attack which made Tech a | great offensive team and almost as good | on_the defensive. Pund, a center of unusual physical ability and with cool, fine judgment of the opponents’ attack, had played his_allotted time and his value was perhaps not fully appreciated until he was ron:. Tech into a fine North Carolina t eam ly and lost, and thereafter suffered injuries and came | through with a very disappointing season. Kentucky Stops Tennessee. ‘Tennessee, with exceellent ends, & | first-class line and one of the best balanced backflelds in the country, rode along in brilliant fashion until nks- giving, when she was outplayed and tied by Kentucky. Tulane, not very seriously considered as & champion contender, came through as conference leager, winning all her games and in defeating Georgi® Tech and Georgia on_successive Saturdays. Florida had a magnificent season, with the exception of her rather de: cisive defeat by Georgia Tech. number of first-class teams with dif- ficult schedules lost at least one con- | ference game. In this list might be included Florida, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. A num- ber of these teams with a schedule a little less hard probably would have won all games. 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Almost all the teams in the confer- ence are abundantly provided with let- ter men and veteran material, although many brilliant men passed with the 1929 season. Some of these were Arm- | strong and Banker, Tulane, Thomas and Mizell, Georgia Tech, and Brown | and McGaughy, Vanderbilt. All the institutions lost some good men through graduation, but squads are not depend- |y ent upon stars to the same extent as in former years. Not only have the colleges grown greatly in attendance, but through the development of the intramural pro- gram more men are brought out for competition. Some of the State uni- versities have 100 candidates or more. Institutions like Vanderbilt, not sup- ported by the State and limited in en- roliment, have difficulty keeping pace with State insututions where the en- oliment is two, three and four times as E £ [cGugin proposes to | the Northeast and extending to Tulane | = = ; Schrader Valve Insides Box of B; regu- 15c lar price, 25¢..... 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Coach Alexander, Georgia Tech, whose judgment is unusually sound, in a talk over the radio some s ago is said to have stated that Vanderbilt, Tulane, Georgia and North Carolina would have the bsst teams in the conference. did not hear this taik and do not know whether the report is accurate. Alexander would doubtless have includ- ed Tennessce and perhaps others, it/ seems to me, and in his own heart also would have included Georgia Tech. I think he would have named Kentucky and Florida, too, and perhaps one or two others. Essential to Be Hopeful. Coaches must be hopeful. Each coach, regardless of his material, works on in the hope that his team may be WADE & BUTCHER @ w-SPECHAL— ¢ Curved Blades . 3for 10c These curyed razor blades are of finest steel and will fit any Gillette type razor. The regular price is ten cents each—for our Anniversary Sale—only—you can buy THREE for the price of one. | rigged up to win part or all of its im- | portant games. I do not know that I have ever heard of a coach who in ad- yance picked his team to stand at the | op. but because few teams that think they are champions fail to fall down at some | stage of the journey. The making of a | foot ball team requires effort of a most | for self and team improvement until game. T broke the rule to some extent last | year in the case of Vanderbilt, because nearly all the sports writers, in the list of contenders, did not put Vanderbilt vise their list and put us in the first five. It seems to me it is wise philoso- | phy to encourage men that they may | be good, so the team may be in the | running with proper determination and | Jrrepnnuon, but it is never wise to say| |in advance to a team that it will be| | first. | will be at or near the top, due to an| team, and due more to the fact that| Vanderbilt has scheduled games for a| “B" team, Vanderbilt “B” team will| | play the “B” teams of Indiana, Ohio State and Notre Dame. This is to en- courage more men to come out and try, and aiso to give opportunity to lads who might otherwise work ail through having a This is not because of modesty, | chance to participate in intercollegiate the season without ever competition. Fine Sportsmen Lost. Some excellent coaches This by itself is not a good reason. al fi o o B A Tetes et S | o 0008, encsllent_coaches. and._fne | . ern Conference. In some cases unsuc-| Tennessee to stand at the top of the the whistle blows at the end of the last | cessful seasons are given as the reason, | heap when the season ends. Tennessee one of Pennsylvania's great captains, will have charge at Sewanee, succeed- ing Dr. Bennett and W. H. Kirkpatrick. Wallace Wade, with a wonderful rec- ord at the University of Alabama, will finish out the season there and take | charge at Duke next Spring. Most of the expgerts are picking | has had an astonishing record for the Men leaving the conference are Dr.|last three years, and has veterans for Bennett, Hazel, Gustafson, V. P. Sewanee; Boehler, University 'of Mississippi, Auburn; and | backfields ever 1. Gustafson returns|©Of men now playing their last year, | in the first 10. I told these men to re- | to the University of Pittsburgh. Tevel, | the forward wall and one of the finest assembled, composed Tennessee has a harder schedule. North Carolina State, has joined the however, than formerly, and it would coaching staff of the University of Vir- ginia. John Floyd, assistant at Auburn 'r last year, is in charge at Citadel. John Van Lieu, Cornell, goes North Carolina State. C. R. Christian Cagle assisting him, record, Walker and Chuck Smalling. suc- | There is an impression this year | ceeds John Hancock. Wynne, a Notre around the conference that Vanderbilt| Dame product with a fine coaching | takes charge at Auburn. 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