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—_ Thrills Linger on as Topsy-Turvy Foot Ball Campaign Moves Into Fade-Out lAuburn Aces Who Will Face ALL CHANPS FALL | EXCEPTING THREE Yale Victory Over Tigers Is Outstanding Upset. Navy Win a Climax. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 3.—Ex- N cept for sporadic firing in the South and Far West leading up to the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena on New Year day, the foot ball season is over, but the thrills it produced will linger on for many weeks. Navy's conquest of Army, 3-0, in the mud and rain at Philadelphia on Sat- urday—the Tars' first victory over West Point since 1921—furnished a dramatic and fitting climax to a cam- paign that saw sectional titleholders in 1933 swept from their thrones al- most without exception. The sensational upheavals of the past season saw Alabama’s Crimson Tide, Rose Bowl nominees, and Minne- sota’s Gophers alone among major schools wind up their regular sched- ules undefeated and untied. It wit- nessed, too, the collapse of such former powers as Southern California, Michi- gan, Nebraska and Utah. Three Champs Repeat. LABAMA, Stanford and the Colo- rado Aggies alone were able to negotiate the championship heights for the second year in suc- cession. Alabama’s 34-0 trouncing of Vanderbilt Thanksgiving day enabled the Tide to share the Southeastern Conference crown with Tulane’s Green ‘Wave, which eliminated Huey Long's Louisiana State Tigers, 13412, on Sat- urday. L. S. U. had been co-cham- pion with Alabama a year ago. Stanford’s Indians, who will repre- gent the Far West against Alabama in the Rose Bowl game, annexed clear claim to the Pacific Coast title this year where they had been forced to share it with Southern California and Oregon last year. The Colorado Ag- gles finished in a triple tie for the Rocky Mountain championship for the second year in succession, but their co-titlists this time are Colorado Uni- versity and Colorado Teachers. Last year the co-holders were Utah and Denver. Otherwise, the dethroning of 1933 champions was complete. Minnesota, generally ranked the most powerful eleven in the land, swept to the Big Ten crown Michigan's Wolverines held & year ago. Kansas State replaced Nebraska as Big Six king by walloping the Cornhuskers, 19-7, on Thanksgiv- ing day. J Generals Win_Title, N THE Southwest Rice buriéd Baylor, 32-0, on Saturday to win the conference championship to which Arkansas’ Razorbacks were en- titled in 1933, although they didn't get it officially, because an ineligible player was in the Arkansas line-up in several games. Washington and Lee's Gen- erals, outpointing South Carolina, 14- 7, last Thursday, ascended the South- ern Conference throne occupied jointly by Duke and South Carolina last sea- son. In the east Jock Sutherland’s Pitts- burgh Panthers, beaten only by Min- nesota and only opponent to give the Gophers a real battle, generally were regarded as the outstanding team in the section. They defeated all Eastern rivals handily and gave Nayy's fine eleven, otherwise undefeated, a 31-6 trouncing. Last year Princeton, un- defeated and untied, finished with the best record among major Eastern schools, The principal disappointments of the season were Michigan and South- ern California, Undefeated Big Ten champions in 1933, the Wolverines won only one game in eight—a 9-2 triumph over Georgia Tech's Engi- neers, themselves walloped nine times in 10 games. Trojans Have Bad Year. RIMMED by Washington, 14-7, f on Saturday, Southern Cali- fornia wound up its Pacific Coast Conference schedule with one victory, one tie and four defeats, the worst record any Trojan team has made since Howard Jones became head coach, but they'll have a chance to redeem themselves partly this Satur- day against Notre Dame. Utah's Indians, who dominated the Rocky Mountain group for six years, were beaten twice in conference com- petition this year, but had the sat- isfaction of ruining Utah State’s title bid with a 14-7 victory Thanksgiving day. Nebraska not only surrendered its Big Six crown to Kansas State, but was drubbed soundly by Minnesota and Pittsburgh, further indication that the usually powerful Huskers had struck a subnormal season. Perhaps the outstanding upset of the season was the 7-0 victory Yale's Bulldogs achieved over Princeton. Jimmy Kitts, at Rice, and Lyn Wal- dorf at Kansas State, achieved con- ference championships in their first seasons at the coaching helms of those schools. Francis Schmidt had noth- Ing with which to reproach himself after his first Ohio State team, ranked second in power only to Minnesota, dropped only one game and that a 14-13 decision to Illinois. Ducky Pond and his chief assistant, Earle (Greasy) Neale, likewise did a re- markable coaching job at Yale, which defeated Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton and Harvard in a back- breaking schedule that brought de- feats by Comumoia, Army and Geor- gia, all by one touchdown margins, Detroit Pulls Surprise. AVY'S victory over Army, N achieved before a crowd of 80,- 000 on a placement field goal by Slade Cutter, was the high light of last Saturday's program marked otherwise by Detroit's surprising 6-0 upset of Washington State; Missis- sippi’s 7-3 decision over Mississippi State; Georgia's 7-0 triumph over Georgia Tech; Duke's 32-0 rout of North Carolina State; Southern Meth- odist’s 19-0 trouncing of Texas Chris- tian, and Holy Cross’ hard-earned 7-2 decision over Boston College. This week’s slender schedule shows three Southwest Conference outfits in action—Texas Christian playing Santa Clara at Fort Worth, Texas A. and M. entertaining Michigan State at San Antonio, and Southern Methodist tackling Washington University at St. Louls. Tennessee's joust with Louis- iana State at Knoxville and the Notre Dame-Southern California tussle at r , Los Angeles complete the program. SPORTS copE Cards and Colonials Dominate All-D. C. Foot Ball Team. Y FRANCIS E. STAN, ORTIFIED by a _catcher’s mask over our delicate pan, a chest-protector over the more vulnerable section of a sparse anatomy, and a foot ball helmet on the knob, we rise today, in humble voice, and pick the country’s 30,538th all-some- thing gridiron team. The sole reason is that our public—both of them—dared muh, nay, dou- ble-dared muh. S-0-0-0-0, here is a conception of a 1934 All-District eleven—in fact, two elevens, with & few honorable men- tions thrown in. Kindly throw the su- perannuated vegetables and over-ripe hen fruit in the same spirit that this is banged out. FIRST TEAM. Fleming, Catholic Unl. Deming, G. Washington. Minion, Maryland. Yanchulis, Catholic Uni. Conter, Catholic Uni. Tackle Downer, Georgetown. End Parrish, G. Washington. Quarterback Sothoron, Maryland. Halfback Leemans, G. Washington. Halfback Parcells, Georgetown. Fullback Makofske, Catholic Unl. SECOND TEAM. Chappa, Georgetown. Karpowich, Catholic Uni. Simpson, Maryland. Andorka, Maryland. Cohen, Georgetown. Tackle Clark, G. Washington. End ‘Willis, Maryland. Quarterback Secino, Catholic Uni. Halfback Saverine, Georgetown. Halfback Guckeyson, Maryland, Fullback Meglen, Georgetown. Aiming to Please. HIS is only one gent's opinion down here, but, rest assured, not the total of our picking ca- pacity. We could muster a hundred of 'em, and probably please every- body. But, just the same, we'd like t0 see these elevens eligible and repre- senting the Washington All-Stars next Saturday at Griffith Stadium when the Alabama All-Stars invade for the Capital's final grid dish. Even that other feller in town who knows even less foot ball than yours truly couldn’t miss picking some of 'em. Red Fleming and Bill Parrish have been good ends for a couple of years. Both are big, rangy and sure pass-catchers. Bill Downer has been a Georgetown bulwark in the line for three years, and Harry Deming could play tackle on anybody’s team. Not only that, but Deming is not the world’s worst place-kicker. Ask Tulsa, West Virginia or Oklahoma. Catholic U.s Capt. Bill Conter is a great guard, offensively and defensively, and ditto for Ed Min- jon. The line could be much worse. End Tackle Guard Center Guard End Tackle Guard Center Guard Injuries Handicap Saverine. LANK Tuffy Leemans with Nor- F man Sothorn, Charlie Parcells and Bob Makofske, C. U.s sophomore, and Tuffy'd resemble two Weinstocks and a Borries rolled into one guy. Backs don’t come any faster than Sothoron and Parcells, and for your heavy-duty line denting and blocking, Makofske would prove a handy person to have around. Mr. Leemans could look after this team'’s kicking and divvy up the passing with all three running mates. We still like the team. Vic Willis and Mike Chappa have a flock of boosters for end posts, and, had the elongated Willis started Mary- land's season as a regular, he might have earned a post on everybody's District all-star eleven. Capt. Joe Saverine, injured too long this cam- paign to oust either Leemans or Par- cells as halfbacks, could hold any backfield job when right. Bill Guckey- son and Joe Meglen ought to have little trouble standing out next year. And, if anybody’s gone this far, here are a few honorable mentions to rassle with: Wright (G. W.), end; Hoffmeister (Gallaudet), back; Herron (G. U.), back; Dick (American U.), back; Babe and Tom Gearty (C. U.), backs; Rath- jen (G. W.), center; Williamson (G. U.), center; Stonebraker (Md.), back, and Gamblin (Gal- laudet), tackle. Quick, Watson, the needle! Monday Hash. DD similes (after Saturday's game in Baltimore): Like trying to get information from a Western Maryland press agent...“I wonder,” writes Heinie Miller, defending the District Boxing Commission’s judges, “if you five fellows (meaning the local boxing scribes), would hit it off with any greater degree of uniformity than do the judges and referee if you had to sit in five different parts of the house?”...First, Heinie, I'd like to know how you mean “uniformity”... If you mean could we do any better, I'd almost guarantee to do no worse And with this ego, we present our fite picks tonight: Sherman over Hughes, Quarles over Galiano, Bashara over Silas, Charles over Julian and Mackron over Hudson. Stars Saturday By the Assoclated Press. Slade Cutter, Navy—His fourth field goal of season, kicked from 19-yard line, beat Army 3 to 0. John McCauley, Rice—Scored three touchdowns as his team routed Baylor. Bill Shepherd, Western Maryland— Clinched national scoring champion- ship with 13 points against George- town. Monk Simons, Tulane—Scored one touchdown and passed to Hardy for another in 13-to-12 victory over Louis- iana State. Maurice Green and Henry Wagnon, Georgia—Completed pass in closing minutes of game for touchdown that beat Georgia Tech. Doug Nott, Detroft—His passing, running and kicking led to 6-to-0 vic- tory over Washington State. he Foening Star Hporls WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBE {9 TEAMS REMAIN BN UNBEATEN LIST ’Bama Tops Lot at Scoring, Minnesota Second—Ten of Group in Ties. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 3.—With the foot ball season virtually over, a final check-up today found 19 college teams with undefeated records, although 10 of these suffered at least one tie. ‘The past week saw the elimination from the list of Louisiana State, nosed out by Tulane, and Utah State, beaten by Utah, thus leaving only Alabama, Minnesota, Stanford, Western Mary- land and Temple among major col- leges still unbeaten. Alabama and Stanford will try to wreck one another’s record in the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena New Year day. Alabama, winding up its regular season Thanksgiving day with a 34-0 rout of Vanderbilt, leads the undefeat- ed list in scoring, with 287 points. Minnesota tallied 270, James Milliken of Illinois 228, Stanford 211 and ‘Temple 206. Ohio Northern alone finished with & perfect defensive record. Undefeated and Untied: P Undefeated but Stanford ... Howard Payne (Texas). Western Maryland. James Milliken (Illin Salle (Pennsylvania). Temple .. Penn Military Ohio Northern Washington Col ) Union College (fi’enluckn SHEPHERD NATIONAL GRID SCORE LEADER Western Maryland Star at Top With 133—O0ravec, Willamette, in Second Place. [ | CTERRS By the Assoclated Press. ILL SHEPHERD, triple-threat halfback of Western Maryland's undefeated Terrors, is the new national individual foot ball scoring champion. Shepherd scored all of his team’s 13 points against Georgetown on Satur- day to wind up his season with a total of 133 points. Second place with 120 went to Johnny Oravec of Willamette, who scored seven touchdowns against Whitman on Thanksgiving day, and third to Paul Miller of South Dakota State with 116. The scoring leader in each of the country’s major groups or conferences as compiled by the Associated Press follows: East— Shepherd. W. Md... Far West— Oravec. Willamette..HB 9 Midwest— Miller. S. D. State...HB 10 Southea: % q Pos. G. TD.Pts.Fld.Tot HB 9 18 19 2 133 20 0 120 116 Pacific— Grayson, Stanford. . FB & 80 Rocky Mt — Hardin, Colo. Teach.QB 9 g Ten— . Minnesota.. FB Southern— Cornelius. Duke.. .. HB Southwest— Wilson, S. Methodist. HB Big_Six— Neal. Towa State....QB Missouri Valley— Wagner, Wash. Univ.HB ¢ SANTA ANITA DRAWS 50 GREATS OF TURF Bad Leg Retiring Gallant Sir, Church Names Toro Nancy for $100,000 Race. 54 52 48 42 31 By the Associated Press. OS ANGELES, December 3.—Fifty thoroughbreds have been nomi- nated to compete in the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap here Feb- ruary 23. Los Angeles Turf Club officials an- nounced the total as the entry filing time expired Saturday night, but add- ed that several others may be in the mail postmarked before December 1. Norman Church, Los Angeles sports- man, entered his Toro Nancy, 2-year- old winner of the Arlington Futurity, when he learned Gallant Sir, his fa- vorite, was definitely through with racing because of a bad leg. Toro Nancy will compete in & fleld composed of such veteran aces as Equipoise, Mate, Twenty Grand, Cav- alcade and others entered in the handicap. NATIVE-SON ELEVEN. Forty-one of the 43 members of the present foot ball squad at Colorado State College of Agriculture are na- tives of the State. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR OE TINKER, manager of the Chicago Federals, has arrived in Coffeyville, Kans., and says he’s there to sign Walter Johnson, crack pitcher of the Washington club. Pitcher Jack Warhop has signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees. Joe Shugrue of Jersey City out- pointed Freddy Welsh, world light- weight boxing champion. Frank Glick of Pittsburgh has been elected captain of the 1915 Princeton foot ball team. Eddie Plank, veteran southpaw of the Athletics, has signed with the Federal League, it has been an- nounced. 8 Edward William Mahan of Natick, Mass., has been elected captain of the 1915 Harvard foot ball team. Capital rollers won all three sets from the Nationals in the Royal Arcanum Duckpin League. Repre- senting the winners were Dunn, Willis, Herman, Buckey, Scott and ‘Torbert. Nationals used Cowhick, Farquhar, Tedrow - and > Mercer, 60 | 3, BARNEY MUSGROVE, Adding greatly to the strength of & formidable forward wall that Jim Pixlee's aggregation will face Saturday at Griffith Stadium will be the pair pictured herewith. Musgrove, 182-pound center of the Alabama Polytechnic THE SPORTLIGHT Navy Wins Rating Among Select Teams, Its Speed, Skill Offsetting Lightness BY GRANTLAND EICE. “13" H0ODOO FAILS T0 TOPPLE BEARS Hurdle Jinxy Number to Enter Title Play-off With Streak Intact. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 3.—Thir- teen may be an unlucky num- ber, but the Chicago Bears will carry that number of | consecutive victories for the season into the National Professional Foot Ball League championship paly-off | York Giants next lsunday at the Polo Grounds. against the New The 1932 and 1933 champions pol- ished off their regular schedule yes- terday with a 10-to-7 triumph over the Detroit Lions, their only serious | rivals during the campaign, before 35,000 spectators at Wrigley Field. The fleld was slow and soggy, but Bronko Nagurski rammed over for a touch- down in the first period, and Manders kicked a 30-yard fleld goal in the second. Meanwhile, they held the Lions safe until the final minutes of the final frame when Glenn Presnell got away for & 33-yard touchdown gallop. Drive 77 Yards to Score. HE Giants took a 6-to-0 beat- ing from the Philadelphia Eagles. The only touchdown was accomplished on a sustained drive of 77 yards, with Jim Leonard going over. Green Bay finished with 7 vic- tories against 6 defeats by conquer- ing St. Louis, 21 to 14. Boston defeated Brooklyn, 13 to 3. Doug Wycoff passed to Cliff Battles for the first Boston touchdown, and Pug Renter intercepted a heave from Cliff Montgomery to pave the way for the second one, Harold McPhail going over. The Dodger points were achieved by Ralph Kercheval's 44-yard place- kick. ‘The final standing: Western Divisi Chicago Bears. 13’ Detroit .10 Boston Green Bay.... 7 6 Brookiyn . Chicago Ci 3 6 Philadelphi 8t. Louls 1 10 Pittsburgh F. U. M. A. GOOD ON GRID In State Title Race Until Loss to Staunton in Last:Game. FORK UNION, Va., December 3.— Fork Union Military Academy’'s 1934 foot ball team made one of the best records an eleven representing the school ever has achieved. It was in the thick of the fight for the State military prep school title until its last game Thanksgiving day, when it bowed by 6-0 to Staunton M. A FLOOR OFFICIALS MEET. A meeting of the D. C. Board of Ap- proved Basket Ball Officials will be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the office of C. A. Metzler, 1106 Ver- mont avenue, —iig BASE BALL VETS BACK. Marty Krug and Sam Crawford, two old time base ball favorites, are boss- ing S. E. R. A. base ball clubs in Southern California. PRO FOOT BALL Exhibition. Chicago Cardinals (National League), 13; Kansas City - Blues (American League), 7. Pittsburgh Pirates, 20; College All- Stars, 1, Eastern Division., i New York.. 8 8 4 4 2 l EW YORK, December &—Navy figured it had to be this time or maybe never. If a team that had Buzz Borries, Bill Clark, Slade Cutter, Dusty Dornin, Capt. Dick Burns and others couldn’t whip Army, Navy's foot ball future would have been two shades darker than indigo. Back of this Navy team there was the inspiring direction and personality of John (Babe) Brown, athletic di- rector, and one of Navy's greatest stars; Head Coach Tom Hamilton, a keen, smart, efficient leader, with Rip Miller and a strong helping staff, and at least six or seven seniors who were playing their final game. Thirteen years had passed since | the last Navy victory—and Saturday had to be the day. washed away the wide-open play Navy had worked on and gambled on since last Spring, leaving the issue to Slade Cutter’s muddy toe. “We had issued instructions,” Tom Hamilton said after the game, “not to throw any more passes after the first two periods, but the boys had to gamble once. “I'd like for you to meet these fel- lows and then you can understand the job they did this season.” After meeting many of them, it seemed incredible they could have beaten such teams as Columbia, Notre Dame and Army, but speed and skill, a pair of flying feet such as Borries carries, and Clark’s kicking toe can make up for a cluster of missing pounds. One of the remarkable features of this Army-Navy battle was that close to 80,000 spectators arrived an hour before game time and then sat in a drenching downpour with no one starting for cover or an exit. The One-Defeat Class. N BEATING a good Army team Navy joined a select list of one- defeat contestants, including Pitts- burgh, Colgate, Rice, Columbia, Ohio State, Illinois, North Carolina, Santa Clara and L. 8. U, although L. 8. U. still has Tennessee waiting down the road. It took Minnesota to stop Pitts- burgh and it took Pittsburgh to stop Navy. The power house combinations of Minnesota and Alabama finished un- tied and unbeaten. Stanford, Temple and Western Maryland, in the upper branches, were tied once, but never whipped. And these were the sole survivors among & hundred or more strong teams. “Foot ball,” Pop Warner told me, “is different from any other game. Few can understand how difficult it is to keep a team physically, men- tally and emotionally right for two months. No coach can ever know in just what game the let-down is due— and l.t is nearly always due at least once.” Bingham, Crisler and Pond. ASKED Bill Bingham, athletic director at Harvard, just how the coaching situation stood. “Nothing will be done,” he said, “until our meeting this week. I can say honestly that I don’t know what will happen or what the plans for 1935 will be.” “I know what you are going to ask,” Fritz Crisler of Princeton said. “It's about that Yale game. Well, Yale beat us with a better foot ball team that day. “And it was a good, smart team. But next year we’'ll have a better schedule and that will make quite a difference. I hope to open with a good, strong team not listed now and after that we play Rutgers, Navy, Cornell, Harvard, Yale and Dart- mouth. Rutgers will be no set-up next season, and Harvard, Yale and Dart- mouth will all be better than they were this year. And Yale this year ‘Wwas good enough for us.” . Ducky Pond Jooked out mpon the And then a rain | 1934, MIKE WELCH. Institute 1934 eleven, and Welch, the 196-pound captain and guard of the same outfit, rank with the best in their positions in Dixie this season. muddy slime of Franklin Field with a grin. “This isn't so good,” he said, “but if they think it is terrible they should have been in or at that Har- vard-Yale game of 1923. There were pools of water a foot deep. We didn’t use three good men in that game be- cause they couldn't swim.” That happened to be the game in which Pond scooped up a Har- vard fumble and paddied 60 or.70 rds to a touchdown. ‘We had a good, smart, hard-work- ing bunch at Yale this Fall,” he said. | “It was the type of team that gives you 100 per cent.” Pond and his as- sistants turned in one of the season’s leading jobs. Dick Hanley of Northwestern and Andy Kerr of Colgate, two of the best coaches in the business, were busy | lining up their Eastern-Midwest group to face the pick of the Western Coast in the annual charity game at San Francisco. If Stan Kostka is ruled ineligible for further play under the conference in- terpretation of the transfer rule, there will be no bother about a backfield that might include Kostka, Lund and Shepherd. And the two coaches won't have to look any further away than Pittsburgh for two guards in Ormiston and Hartwig—to say nothing of a cen- ter named Shotwell; provided the players can get away. Kerr and the Open Game. NDY KERR still is keen to have lateral passing given a better break in the rules to bring about more open play. He has this point in his favor: It is the type of play both the players and the public want. And they hap- pen to be the combination that makes modern foot ball. Any number of coaches want a forward pass that can be thrown from any place back of the line. The fear that foot ball will be turned into basket ball is groundless. This never will happen so long as blocking and tackling remain in the game. They are the main founda- tions of foot ball, and always will be. “How does it feel,” I asked Pop Warner, “to start your fortieth year of coaching?” “Just about the way it felt the first year,” Pop said. “Stagg probably will tell you the same, and he started six years before I did. If you coached & hundred years there would be no dif- ference. It is something that grips you and won't turn loose. I only wish you'd seen Smukler on a better day. You won't see much better.” (Copyright. 1934. by tne North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Sports Events In Local Realm TONIGHT. Boxing. Riding and Hunt Club—Main bout, Morrie Sherman, Detroit, vs. Frarkie Hughes, Cleveland, welter- weights; 10 rounds. Twenty-two other rounds. Show starts 8:30. Bowling. “Red Cross night” at Silver Spring. Men and women stars shoot at 7:30. THURSDAY. ‘Wrestling. on _Auditorium—Main dy Dusek, Omaha, vs. California, heavy- falls out of three. Show Washin, match, Vic _Christy, weights; two Three other exhibitions. starts 8:30, FRIDAY. Basket Ball. Mount Rainier High, John's, 3:30. SATURDAY. at St Basket Ball, Wilion Teachers at Lynchburg Coliegs. PRIZED “N STARS" GOTO 19 AT NAVY First Given for Grid Play Since *21—Will Be Fifth for Borries. Special Dispatch to The Star. NNAPOLIS, December 3.— Nineteen Navy men will be the first to receive the “N star” in foot ball since 1921, | this award being given only to those | who took part in a winning contest with the Army. All are members of either the graduating or next lower | class. They are Bob Dornin, Bob Mandel- korn, Dick Bull and Gordon Schecter, ends; George Lambert, Slade Cutter and Len Baird, tackles; Capt. Dick Burns, River Morrell, Dave Zabriskie, Ken Schacht, Otis Cole, and Ray Vogel, guards; Lou Robertshaw, cen- ter; Dick Pratt and Holly Lee, quar- terbacks; Tom King and Fred (Buzz) Borries, halfbacks, and Bill Clark, fullback. For the first time in the history of service school athletics, one institu- tion has won in all five sports during a year, Navy having preceded its foot ball triumph of Saturday with vic- tories in basket ball, base ball, lacrosse and track. There is reason to believe that the first four victories con- tributed to that in foot ball by raising the morale of the athletes and show- ing them that Army could be defeated by Navy. The “N star” won by Borries is his fifth, the largest number ever won by a midshipman. Before the game, he stood tied with Ira McKee. Borries now has participated in two winning basket ball games with West Point and two in base ball. He will oppose it again in these two sports. Borries also is the first midshipman and, it is believed, the first student of either service school to take part in three victories over the other in one year. ST. LOUIS BROTHER ACT. The'St. Louis Flyers, members of the American Hockey League, boast three sets of brothers on the team’s roster. All-Stars Down IM PIXLEE, coach of George Washington University, who is coaching the picked eleven of this district that will oppose the Alabama All-Stars at Grifith Stadium on Saturday, plans to get down to hard work with his charges today. Hard work will be the order until Thursday, when a long signal drill and dummy scrimmage will put the last fine edge of condition on the local warriors, This game, which will be played for the benefit of Almas Temple, should be a thriller if conditions are right. Pixlee is lgoking around for a suit- able sacrifice to propitiate the weather gods for the day. He is thinking of borrowing the now famous Buddha of Buzz Borries. If the smiling god of the Orient brought victory to Navy, it might work here against the mighty men of the cotton belt, Whelan Will Carry Mall. IXLEE is counting heavily on the P speed and cunning of Tommy ‘Whelan, the former fiyer Catholic University. Definitely com- mitted to a policy of wide-open foot Ly fi::\lfli of :‘l’l ulfll?l" e . to m‘m looss. e ALABAMA'S FORTE Rose Bowl Team Has Power to Back Varied Attack Howell Heads. This is the second of a series of three stories on the Alabama foot ball team that will invade Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif, New Year day. BY T. M. DAVENPORT, Associated Press Staff Writer, NIVERSITY, Ala, Dccember 3.—A new type of Alabama foot ball team will invade Rose Bowl at Pasadena on New Year day—an eleven that relies on speed and deception instead of the power of its three predecessors. The line is just as hefty as those previous forward walls, using its power to smother the attack and to give the fast-breaking backs a bet- ter chance to form interference and get under way. In every maneuver there is co- ordination, and the squad as a whole is one of the most willing to aid a teammate, even though it means headlines for “the other fellow.” End runs, reverses, fake reverses, triple passes, and end-around-end, long and short passes and just straight foot ball go into its repertoire of piays. Howell Takes Punishment. HE spearhead of the attack is Millard (Dixie) Howell, speedy and elusive triple-threat half- back. He is the marked man in every game, a large part of the deception that gives Jimmy Angelich, his half- back teammate, Joe Demyanovich, fullback, and Riley Smith, quarter- back, a chance to get unde: way. Howell, slender and almost fragile- looking, has taken more punishment than any other man on the squad, but so well have his teammates blocked that he has been able to maintain his average of more than six yards per try this year. Not quite so fast, but a little heftier, Angelich slants off tackles and around ends from reverses and direct plays and has developed into an excellent defensive man. Smith, a triple-threat man in his own right, was a fullback until this | year, when Coach Frank Thomas | converted him into a blocking quar- terback. When Demyanovich matriculated he had never played foot ball. He: showed natural ability and this year as a senior he is ranked as one of the best fullbacks in Dixie, Fast, Sturdy Forwards. LABAMA'S line is flanked by the best pair of ends in many years, with Don Hutson, 190-pound all-America, on one terminal, and Paul Bryant, who weighs nearly 200, at_the other. Both are fast, going down under punts well. Each has speed enough to gain ground consistently on an end-around-end play. Hutson has few equals as a pass receiver. Tackle berths are held by two big, husky fellows with tremendous strength. One is anchored by Capt. | Bill Lee and the other by Jim What | ley, almost as big as Lee, who tips | 222 pounds. As for guards, Charlie Marr has developed into one of the finest | guards in the South this year, weigh- |ing 214 pounds. He uses his heft aggressively. Bob Ed Morrow, weigh= ing 190, is faster and meets plays. Kavanaugh Francis, center, weigh- ing in at 200 pounds, is a fine man backing the line on the 6-2-2-1 de- fense. In reserve strength this year's eleven probably is better than any other. The backfield loses a little in weight in substitutions, but picks up in speed. The line loses little in weight or aggressiveness. PANTHERS AHEAD. Panther A. C. drubbed the St. Mar- s:l"]& Aces, 21-5, yesterday at basket PRO HOCKEY By the Associated Press. National League. Detroit, 3; Toronto, 0. New York Americans, 2; Chicago, 1. International League, Syracuse, 2; London, 1. Canadian-American League. New Haven, 7; Boston, 2. Providence, 5; Philadelphia, 1. American Association. 8t. Louis, 2; Oklahoma City, 1. to Hard Work; Count Heavily on Tom Whelan Despite the fact that Hurry Cain, Hubert and Holm, will be three of the Alabama backs who won all-America honors in their undergraduate years, Pixlee is not worried about the defen- sive power of his team. The George Washington defense proved itself fairly effective throughout the season. At least, there were no big parades held at the expense of the Colonials, and Pixlee thinks that this will hold true on Saturday. Cy McDonald, manager of Spald- ings, reports a brisk ticket sale. The policy decided upon to keep the price of tickets at $1.10, including the tax, has proved popular. Lou Little May Visit. " OU LITTLE, coach of Columbia University, and. former mentor at Georgetown, said at the Army- Navy game on Saturday that this game should be a sensation. “That Alabama team has some great foot ball players” said Little. “You will see some line bucking and run- ning when Cain and those others cut , and if there’s anything that Crisp and Thomas haven't taught of | those boys, it doesn't occur to me at this time. “I may get down there just to see & battle where I have nof at in