Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1932, Page 31

[ 4 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. Classified Ads p— - WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1932. PAGE C-1 Grid Teams in North Open Throttle This Wee FIVE BIG SCHOOLS | HAVE NO CONTESTS Big Three, Penn, Penn State About Only Elevens That Will Remain Idle. BY H. C. BYRD. ALE, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Penn] State have another week to wait before opening G.W.-W.&L.Game First in 24 Years HEN George Washington's eleven invades Lexington, Va. next Saturday to play Washington and Lee in the opening game of the season for both teams, it will be the first encounter between the two in 24 years. The last time they met was in 1908, in Washington, and there were two previous clashes. In 1897 George Washington, then known as Columbian University, engaged Washington and Lee on the gridiron for the first time. The Generals won, 10 to 2. The G. W. eleven was captained by Granville Lewis. Eight years elapsed before the second game was played, on Thanks- giving morning of 1905, when the Generals, a light but extremely fast aggregation, again captured the de- their foot ball schedules but prac- | tically every other Northern col- | lege this week is to take out its team for a test in formal compe- tition against another college. True, hardly any one of the schools has an opponent strong enough to put up much of a ‘struggle. on the face of usual comparison, but the games gen-| terally should be interesting in| that they mark the real beginning of the season. Cornell begins another year under Gil Dobie’s coaching, with University of Buffalo as its opponent, at Ithaca. Un- Jess Dobie has changed a good deal there is not much danger of Cornell finishing up without a sizable score | to its credit. Colgate and Syracuse, hardly a stone’s throw away from Cronell, have contests with St. Lawrence and Clarkson. Colgate and Syracuse virtually are certain winners. University of Pittsburgh starts the ball rolling with Ohio Northern and Bucknell with St. Thomas. Lehigh is 10 entertain the Drexel cleven at South Bethlehem and may have more of a struggle on its hands than it expects. ‘West Virginia Boes up to Pittsburgh to be the play Duquesne in what may best game of the week. Columbia is the only one of the New York schools that opens Saturday. It meets Middlebury. while New York University and Fordham are idle. Up in the New England States, Dart- mouth entertains Norwich in the an- nual opening at Hanover, while Holy Cross plays New River. Vermont. Maine and Williams are other New England colleges that get under way O Northern schools that are great | rivals, Pennsylvania and Cornell, are expecting to have much better elevens than they turned out last sea-| son, notwithstanding that both played | some fine foot ball then. Dobie Whip- | ped Harmon, new Pennsylvania coach, who is one of the youngest head coaches among_the big colleges. 7 to 0, but Harmon right now is predicting that he should have a Quaker team two touchdowns better than the one of 1931, the first he coached at Penn. FOUR games in the South may de- velop some exceptionally good foot ball for the opening date. The closest to Washington is that in which Duke meets Davidson. The latter, of may not be as formidable as iL Several years under Monk now coach at Virginia Poly- technic Institute, but if it is Duke may have its hands full. Virginia Military Institute journey out to Lexington, Ky., to play Ken- tucky. The latter is said to have an even stronger outfit than that which wore its colors last season, while the former unquestionably is more formi- dable. V. M. L has its 1931 squad almost intact, and a vear of experience means a lot to & college team, espe- cially the year of sophomoore expe- Tience. Farther South, South Carolina has a | game with Sewanee, while Louisiana State, playing its first time under the coaching of “Biff” Jones, hooks up with Texas Christian in what may be a battle royal. As a matter of fact. i Jones had had anything to do with arranging his schedule. such a strong opponent would not have been listed for the opener. HE game Virginia Military Institute | played with King College Saturday was the mecca for a good many foot ball coaches. Representatives of all the colleges in Virginia and of some | outside the State were on the sidelines | in an effort to learn what they could | about a team that nearly all play. V. M. L, it is said, has an excellent | first-string line, but a second string| that does not anywhere near measure | up to the first. It is better fixed, though, for a second-string backfield. | The Cadets won from King without| much trouble. The team has an excep- tionally good forward passer in Smith, quarterback, and a good broken-field runner in Travers. Smith is the chap whose fine passing last year broke down | Virginia's defense and won a_game for | V.M. I, 18 to 0, that V. M. I. was not supposed to win. “V. M. L has potentially a 50 per cent stronger team than the one that Whipped us last year. says Tom Car- | ruthers, assistant director of athletics | et Virginia, “and I guess will give us an awful lot of trouble again. V. M. I plays about twice as hard, and with about 10 times as much determination. | against Virginia as it does against any other school.” OME good dope was brought back to Washington on the Washington and | Lee squad, and it does not particu- | larly favor the Generals. It seems that Jimmie De Hart. coach, has worked his men so hard in his effort to get them in shape for the opening game with George Washington that he has only 26 left on the field That is not much of a squad for a school that has the schedule in front of it that Washington and Lee has. Foot ball, such as De Hart has been coach- ing this Fall apparently is not for weaklings, Incidentally, this is indica- | tion that somebody else other than Coach Jim Pixlee of George Washing- ton has been taking chances of in-| juries in efforts to bring a team along fast enough to be able to play a mid- season game on the opening date. | D. C. BOYS GRID TUTORS Byng, Whelchel Aid in Coaching of All-Fleet Navy Eleven. | Two former Washington High School athletes are assisting Lieut. Tom Hamlb‘ ton in coaching the All-Fleet Navy foot | ball squad at San Pedro, Calif. They‘ are Ensigns Wes Byng and Dave Whel- chel. Both were grid mainstays at the | Naval Academy. COLUMBUS BEATS REDS. | COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 20 (). —Columbus of the American Associa- tion defeated the Cincinnati National | League Club, 7 to 3, in an_exhibition | game last night before 1500 persons. | Estel Crabtree, Red left fielder, hit & home run over the right field fence in the ninth inning. cision, 17 to 0. Morris, a tackle, was the outstanding player for George Washington. The third and last previous con- test was held on November 7, 1908, in American League Park, and in this encounter the Colonials, led by Curley Byrd, now director of ath- letics of Maryland, played a sterling brand of foot ball to garner a 38- to-6 victory. Gridiron Gossip \HE injury in Coach Tommy Mills' direc- tion yesterday with the result the Georgetown mentor today is attempting to fill the shoes of Gildo Russo, 205-pound guard, and polish up his reserve end material in the event Capt. Ray Hudson's injured hand doesn’t come around. Russo, one of the few veterans in the green Hoya line, suffered a cartilage | injury in scrimmage that will assuredly keep him out of the Mount St. Mary's game on October 1 and possibly for a much longer period. Hudson, it is feared, has a possible broken hand, or a broken bone in the member. A scrimmage between A and B squads is listed for tomorrow on the Hilltop training field. ILL PARRISH is one Colonial not likely to win a regular job. Jobs is more likely. Parrish Ongi.nllly‘ was an end, and a likely-looking pros- | pect, too. But when Lee Carlin, Joe Carter, Johnny Baker and Nig McCar- | ver, backfielders. began a procession to | the sidelines to lick their wounds, | Coach Jim Pixlee shifted PaPrrish to fullback, where he also displayed con- | siderable adeptness. | Joe Carter yesterday gave signs he would be able to play against Wash-| ington and Lee on Saturday and Pix-| lee immediately shoved Parrish into a| tackle post, where he is likely to start. | OACH DUTCH BERGMAN of Cath- | olic University will give his charges | a real taste of competitive foot ball Saturday when a practice game will be played with St. John’s of Annapolis in the Brookland Stadium. In their first meeting in years the two elevens will stage a complete game, to which no admission will be charged. Vean, former Gonzaga player. McVean has a strangle-hold on the quarterback job. ARYLAND'S coaches have not made up their minds as to a definite tentative first team, but, scrimmages today and tomorrow doubt- less will decide. ~With Washington Col- | ge, not a pushover by any means, to| be entertained Saturday. the Old Liners will need at least a couple days to work together without material changes if they are to be anything like a team. However, it appears that with the. ex- ception of the end jobs, Curley Byrd has some definite ideas. Foot Ball Tips BY JOE GLASS. RILLIANT strategy against Yale rescued Harvard's 1930 season from complete disaster. Beaten by Army, Dartmouth, Michigan and Holy Cross it faced the Bulldog un- certainly at the season's close. Huguley, six-foot-two wing back, was used by Harvard as a flying interferer. Apparently his activ- ities behind the Yale line didn’t im- press the Blue deeply. Most Crim- son passes went to White. ~Yale centered attention on him and forgot Huguley. The Blue defense was stubborn and. on the whole, effective. Barry Wood. Crimson quarterback, thought of the free-roaming and unremem- bered Huguley and detailed him to WOOD TOSSED BALL INTO BOOTH'S TERRITORY AND WON take a pass. Unmolested. he re- ceived the ball. Forty-five yard gain. Touchdown! The play itself was simple, the chief element of its success being surprise No. 1 received the ball direct from center. No. 3, starting before the ball, raced around the enemy right end and cut in back and center. No. 5 dashed out to de- coy the enemy quarter to the right. No. 6 ran straight at the deep enemy back on the left, both to decoy him and block him if neces- sary. No. 1, meantime ran right and back with the ball and, No. 3 being in position, passed to him. Not much used in 1931, the fly- ing interferer will reappear this year on_special occasions like the above. Strangely, Yale fell for the play twice and lost 0-13. Interest- ingly, Wood directed the pass into Albie Booth's territory. Albie was short and Huguley was tall, . (Copyright, 1932.) . jinx reared its head| THE MAN IN THE ANMAL COAT IS GOING 1O GET PLENTY OF THRILLS TS FALL .. Season of Swi ACTION, SPEED, TOUCHDOWNS. JOHNRY Fem.og, GRORG WASHING TON K?:L\/ e GEORGETOWA UNWERSITY HERE ARE FOUR OF THE FLEETEST BACKS IN THIS BAILIWICK ~ DEFY 17 OR £ARL WIDMYER oF U OF MARY.AND & N5 —By TOM DOERER FORINSTANCE, WHEN KELLY SETS THE BALL,HE MAY PASS, KICK OR| RUN-AND 00 EACR INTIME SO FAS'T THAT BALL WiLL SPROUT WINGS Year . N \T5 40-YARD O'cLosky “ TOUCHDOWN 5, AND NOT FIRST DOWNS, 1S WHAT THE COACHES WILL (NSIST ON THIS YEAR... : R, __ Tulane, With Hard Schedule, CRTHOLIC RIVERSTY ft Grid Backs College Squads Hereabout Have Exceptionally Fast Runners Behind Line. BY TOM DOERER. | PEED is to be the dominant motif on the gridiron here. Not just the speed that would come with another | season in a game that grows | swifter in action each year—but' | super-speed, high-power, extra- pressure flash that must be leaps ahead of what the season would | ordinarily produce. | Gentlemen, this is to be the year of swift backs in Maryland |and the District of Columbia. | 1t might also be the case in every- | body's town. I belicve it is. But right | here in_ this haven of political fire- | works, and in nearby territory, flash is |to be the high grid card. | If there are any faster backs in | the country, or, maybe even the | | city, than the long-legged sprinter, | Al Kelly of Georgetown's grid team, | or Earl Widmyer, Maryland's candi- | date for gridiron speed honors, then somebody better come along and start to advertise But I doubt that any grid club will display backs any faster than the Messrs. Kelly and Widmyer, because if | they do then this great old Autumnal | pastime will have to be played on half- | | mile tracks and the results decided with a stop-watch. | e | Neither Mr. Curley Byrd, the iron- | gray tutor of the Terrapins, nor the | rotund, genial Mr. Tom Mills | Georgetown are keeping their super- chargers’ names hidden under a bushel. | Mr. Byrd will tell you with a grin that it is going to be just too bad for the | team ‘which permits his gazelle, Wid- myer, to get loose widely around an jend.” Hon. Mr. Mills breaks into a 'chuckle when he admits that Kelly| cannot only sprint like a deer, but may | e just the kicker the school has been | looking for these many years. And| | both Kelly and Widmyer can catch and heave the leather just a little bit | better than most players. |1 aont think the gentiemen are | trying to bull the market, or Buf- falo, New York, either. They are sincere. And they are not the only coaches here, either, who are stick- ing a thumbd in their vests and orat- | | ing cn speed. | Dutch Bergman, out at Catholic Uni- ' | versity, has in Tom Whelan, his back- fleld ace, a crack runner. Tom is be- ing prepped to add a notch or two to | his last year's speed to put C. U. in | tune with the other teams boasting of | deer-footed backs. | Jim Pixlee, whose team, if he will {understa.nd me—and who does?—is just |a slight bit inclined to beef and not | speed, can lead all inquirers around to |little Johnnie Fenlon, the George | Washington back, whose motion down | the sodded boulevard always is in high gear, with a young man full of speed. It is possible that the Messrs. Kelly and Widmyer started the urge and commotion for speed this year. Then again it may have been nothing of the sort, it being, possibly, just one of those years when there are a few boys around who can dust out for the mail. But you can wager the animal coat against a toothpick that this is to be the year of the big burst of speed. There may be even less horsepower on the lines this year, figuring that horsesense is going to be much bet- ter now that the boys cannot use their fists and feet. But_as Mr. Orrell Mitchell of Gon- zaga High. laments, too much speed may cause a lot of trouble for the officials. Those speedsters in the back- field will be getting so swift that the gentlemen in the knickers will not be so sure whether there has been merely a first down or a touchdown made. “But,” Mr. Mitchell adds, “there will not be any more short gains. if you believe what you hear. Nothing less than touchdowns are going to satisfy the coaches.” And when you mention the four aces on the metropolitan teams you merely touch the surface. Mary- land’s backfield, for instance, with Poppelman, Woods and Kiernan should scare the enemy out of a few touchdoicns, even if these gazelles are not permitted to leave their feet. But what worries me is what is going v hapren when the immovable force meets the irresistible body—when a Lz 1o . your backileld tries to run away from an antelope in mine. Bring along your stop watch instead of a pernant when the grid bugle blows. | Maybe next year the rules again W be changed to permit coaches to a few pole vaulters and broad jumpers into their backfields. DIDRIKSON MUST REST Girl Star Is Near Breakdown After Too Much Athletics. women's national track mect single- | handed and starred at the Olympics, has been ordered to take a rest cure.| Physicians told her she was in dan- ger of suffering a nervous breakdown or developing an athletic heart if she continued in competition. They said she would be as good as new after a few weeks of quiet. She will not be allowed to have vis- itors, answer telephone calls, or take anv strenuous exercise for two weeks more, BAD NEWS FOR HOYAS. ‘ So there you have the four ace grid- institution. | ‘ BY l EW ORLEANS, Sept | i [ | care | DALLAS, Tex., September 20 (#).—|in | Mildred Babe Didrikson, who won the This year's foot ball squad at the because of financial difficulties, will | University of Detroit probably is the |prevent Stetson from having a varsity biggest and best in the history of thc| team this year. McQuillan said he| Georgetown plays Detroit ' hoped to develop a good freshman team, RALPH WHEATLEY. 20 P— A famous coach once said that a foot ball team only is as strong as its tackles That being the case, Tulane should come through high in the Southern | Conference this season as tackling is the thing it does best. Hard, low | tackling is on the major curricula at Tulane and the tackling dummy has | about been torn lcose from its sockets. If you can't tackle don't take up sod space, is the edict of the coaches. But the drive toward conference glory furnished by sound tackling may be more than offset by the schedule, toughest in Tulane history. The Green Wave opens with Texas A. and M. Then | comes Georgia, Vanderbilt, Auburn, | South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Ken- | tucky, Sewanee and Louisiana State With the exception of prcbably Sewanee | there is nct an easy game on the schedule. Ted Cox, head coach and successor | to Bernie Bierman, holds the belief that | | psychology plays an important part in winning foot ball games. He believes in the flying start to victory and for that reason is pointing strongly for the | Texas A. and M. game on the opinion | that if his team wins its first game, it | may be so buoyed that it may knock | down the rest of its rivals. Abundance of Talent. Take a look over the team and see what's_there. Ends—Unquestionably weaker than last year, but how can duplicates of Dalrymples and Haynes be found? Dick Harty of Hattiesburg. Miss.. and Milto Phillips of New Orieans, have shaped well for these billets with support in Delaune, last vear's varsity sub; Ashton Clarke of Macon, Ga.; Mullens and Hall, up from a New Orieans high school star team. Tackles—Cunningham, Bankston and Boasberg, last year's letier men. look- | ing better than ever, and Bob Tessier | and Cromwell Page ready for the cail. Guards—Scafide and Schroeder from last year and George Tessier, Al Pad- dock and Homer Robertson in reserve. Charles Calhoun of last year has devel- | oped into a convertible tackle and guard, a sort of spare tire to the line. Center—Lodrigues. 1951 siar; John Reed, substitute. Doyless Hill has been returned to center after a t¥y at end. The backfild does & coach’s soul 0od. B0 Quarterback—Two men, Pat Richard- son and John McDaniel, just a toss up between them, both good blockers, pass receivers and kickers. Richardson has the edge on expericnce from last year, but McDaniel is heavier and stronger. Both are wise in foot ball strategy. Halfbacks—Don Zimmerman, Francis Payne, Floyd Roberts and J. Hodgins, all last year's letter men and triple threats, with four promising sophomores Teserve. Fullback—Nollie (“Papa”) Felts (cap- tain) and Harold Lemon, line plung- ers, kickers and blockers, with Joe Lofton ready to fill in. So the Green Wave is ready to roll i —_ | NO ELEVEN AT STETSON | Material for Varsity Team Is Too | | Scarce, Coach Declares. | DELAND, Fla, September 20 (P)-= | A ‘scarcity of foot ball material, which | Coach H. R. McQuillan said was due to players being unable to return to school |iron outfits in this neighborhood, each ' in the Michigan city on October 28. - however. Has Much Seasoned Talent At Hand for Gridiron Team 1 for better or for worse. The question is, can a team hold a championship stride of being undefeated since October, 1928, with a harder schedule, the loss of a head coach and two crack ends in one season. The answer will be given on the first of the month when the Texans will shake their horns before the Wave. ‘The schedule: October 1—Texas A October 8—Georgia and M N ewanee. November 26—Louisiana State, Rouge. GRID EXAMS SEPT. 28 | D. C. Officials’ Body Will Test All | Candidates for Admission. | Examination of applicants for admis- | gion to the District of Columbia Foot | Ball Officials’ Association will be held | September 28 in Room 315, Woodward | Building. Candidates are asked to notify the secretary, 407 Mechanics’ Building Some 50 officials and their guests at- tended a meeting of the D. C. Associ- | the new rules were discussed. ARLINGTON ELEVEN * CANDIDATES DRILL | Gridders Are Coached by Joseph—Numerous Sandlot Teams Active. ANY foot ball squads already M are at work, others are plan- ning to start. and still others have called organization meet- ings, in preparation for the sandlot season. One of the most ambitious is the Ar- lington A. C. bunch, known last se as the Alcovas. They play in 150- | pound ranks, with their home games | on Arlington Field. Charley Deuter- man is managing the team, and George Joseph is doing the coaching. Candi- dates are to report this evening at o'clock at the Arlington Fire House Deuterman is booking at Adams 5983 during the day. He may be reached by mail at 3203 O street. District on Former Northern and Meridian grid- ders this year will play under the Me- ridian banner. A blackboard drill for the new combination will be held to- night at 7 o'clock in Ted Otte's home. 5213 Georgia avenue. Grid drills scheduled this evening in- clude: Maryland A. C.. Four-and-a-half and B streets southwest, 7:30 o'clock. Centennials, New York avenue North Capitol street, 7:30 o'clock Marion A. C,, 511 A street southeast T o'clock. Griffith Blue Coals, Virginia Avenue Playground. 7 o'clock Triple Tan Fraternity, Park, 7 o'clock. and MacMillan Some teams after games follow Del Ray A. C. with 150-pound foes Pete Parson, Alexandria 726 Tuesdays and Fridays between 7 and 8 pm Virginia' A. C., 125-135-pound class Alexandria 1509-J. between 5 and 6 Alexandria Pirates, 12! class. Alexandria 1196 bet 8 pm. 'JOHNNIES ARE AFTER A. U. Seeking Grid Tilt for October 1. Lacrosse List Growing. ANNAPOLIS. Md. September 20— Talbot Riggs, athletic director and foot ball coach at St. John's College. still is trying to get a game for October 1. He hopes to list American University, but if the Washington team does no accept, King College is a possibility. Riggs has announced that the annual St. John's-Maryland lacrosse game has been set for April 22. St. John's also will meet Army, Hopkins, Swarthmore and Washington College. Virginia will | be played if the Cavaliers have a team. | A trip to New England to meet Har- (vard and Dartmouth is pending., while | the locals likely will journey to New at Baloh york to oppose Union and Hobart. You Curit Get DE Luxe QuaLiTy at Cellar Brices The GEM . . . .all leathers, black or brown =8 Soles ation last night in the Lee House, when D. C. Schoolboys Facing Tests CENTRAL WILL SEE ACTION TOMORROM | To Oppose National Training School, Which Trounced Emerson Eleven. F week when Central, Tech and Eastern open their campaigns. Central, which has plenty of capable boys, will be the first team to get action. Coach Bert Coggins’ proteges will line up tomorrow against the National Training School gridders, who Saturday poiished off Emerson, 28 to 0. Central doubtless is in for a de- cidedly interesting afternoon. The game will be played on the Train- ing School field at 3:30 o'clock. | be out for its Afth i h school champion- and doubtless has a stronger than Coach Hardell would have ieve. will launch its season Baltimore City C n d OOT BALL for the District scholastic group arrives this pen formal competition High at Alexandria £o down to Orange, to meet Woodberry Forest in games Emerson Institute gridders face some attractive contests. _ Following me with Woodberry Forest, they o Charlottesville School for at Charlottesville October 1; Na- nool at Dovlestown, Pa., ilitary Academy Massanutten Military at Woodst, Va., October 22; freshmen at Annapolis, Oc- Hopkins School of New Haven vemb Gettysburg Academy er 12; Greenbrier Military czdemy at White Sulphur Springs or Lewisb W. Va. November 19, risburg Academy, December 3 me with Hopkins School will e start of a home-and-home a newcomer to the Emerson ivity will begin at Lan- and St. Alban's Schools tomorrow ng of classes NAVY FORMS B SQUAD 29 Withdrawn Frcm Main Body. Waybright Is Replaced. ANNAPOLIS, September 20.—Twen- "-nine members of the foot ball squad at the Naval Acade ‘were withdrawn from the main body yesterday after- n ~nnbrar.d> formed ons The B squadders were put to work at once. but their task was light, as they had only to receive some punt which Chung-Hoon, Baumberger, Bect and Clark booted down the field. Th longest punts were made by Clark, who punted for the plebes last Fall Peppard and Ward received the kicks for squad B. Peppard, from last year's plebes, showed a lot of speed and dodging ability. Several changes were made in the backfield, the substitution of Echt for Waybright being cne. 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