Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1935, Page 69

FEATURES he Swnday Stac SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1935. H HIGH Children’s Page Books—Music Stage — Screen Autos — Radio WASHINGTON, D. C, Part 4—10 Pages FOOT "PROMISE By Rod Thomas. ‘ fi ZASHINGTON gridiron cholia from the brown days just ahead, which is an- other way of saying that the Na- tion’s Capital is in for the big- gest foot ball season in its history. Its four major institutionms, athletically — George Washing- ton, Georgetown, Catholic Uni- versity and Maryland—for the first time will go to post, all with teams of sparkling possibilities, to battle for glory and, perhaps more than ever, for public pat- ronage. The District Foot Ball Derby of 1935 promises to be a steeple- chase with exciting jumps, And | in the background of District gridiron affairs is the Navy, about which more later. The calendar from late Sep- tember through November is ringed with half a dozen stand- out games, but overshadowing the others are two to be played by George Washington, now “in the saddle” of Capital City foot ball. In each of these battles—and battles they promise to be—the Colonials will meet a potentiai national champion. It is not too optimistic to hope that George Washington will hunch up close to the throne, for out of 600 col- lege teams in the country the Buff and Blue last season was ranked thirty-eighth and there is ample reason to believe it will be a lot stronger in the impend- ing campaign. Jot down October 5, if you’re a foot ball addict, or, better, order your seat for the George Wash- ington-Alabama game, to be played at Griffith Stadium that day. For $1.10, or if you prefer a choice chair, for $2.20 or $2.75, you may witness the novel spec- tacle of a Washington eleven knocking off a champion of the Rose Bowl. This is not far-fetched. Con- sider that six of the men who| played important parts in the University of Alabama’s conquest | of Stanford last year at Pasa- | dena no longer are with the! squad and three of them—Dixie Howell, Bill Lee and Don Hut- son—were widely chosen all- Americas. ‘The Alabama machine of 1934 has been taken apart, but in its stead the Crimson Tide may pre- sent one just as powerful; the far Southerners seem never to be without an abundancy of tempered spare parts. Not only the foot ball eyes of | Washington, but those of the | Nation will be upon the George | Washington-Alabama game. It may give the lowdown on whether the Crimson Tide again is to flood and beyond question it will determine whether the fastest climbing team of the last several years, meaning the Co- lonials, has made another big advance. '‘ROM coast to coast the news- papers are hailing Rice Insti- tute of Houston, Tex., famed for its championships in the power- ful Southwestern Conference, as one of the foremost contenders for the national title of 1935. The Owls bring forth 10 * stanch regulars from their 1934 | ‘ conference champions, bolstered | * by a bevy of tested reserves and : @ fine crop of six-foot sopho- . mores and, in the opinion of the ! Illustrated Foot Ball Annual, warriors are bent upon | blasting all the melan- | BALL COMES TO TOWN WIT teams, “the Owls will present a team that may be the best in the Southwest’s gridiron history.” And that’s a lot, considering the records of Rice, Southern Meth- odist, Texas, Texas A. and M, Baylor and Texas Christian, all highly respected names in foot ball. The Lone Star State grows its foot ball players big and bat- tering, as Washington has come to know first hand from watch- ing some of the Colonials of the last several years. G. W. will meet Rice here on November 2 and it will be the first appearance of the Owls in the Capital. (Odd slant: Rice Institute was founded by a phi- lanthropist and George Washing- ton’s gridiron splurge was made possible by an endowment.) Other major battles await the Colonials, but those with Ala- bama and Rice Institute rate among the most important ever staged in Washington, In the. course of a singular career, Harry Clifton Byrd, after more than 20 years of coaching Maryland athletic teams, today sits in the acting president’s chair, but it’s a safe guess that right now “Curley” rather would be out there on the field with | the gridders. A foot ball team is a he guy’s plaything, and one perfectly adapted to H. C. Byrd, who, for the first time in a quar- himself without one. And this is one of those rare seasons at Maryland when the Terrapins start with high-grade material which makes an authoritative ’lurvey of the country’s gridir 4 for every position. Over his long stretch at Cgl- ter century or thereabout, finds “Big Four” of Washington| Universities Grooming Mighty Gridiron Machines to Meet Magjor Contenders for Nation's Pigskin Honors. lege Park Byrd developed more individual stars and successful teams from green makings than have all the other coaches of Washington colleges put to- gether, we believe. ILE the versatile Byrd wrig- gles in his seat of high es- tate, admonished by a friendly board of regents to concentrate on things other than foot ball, Head Coach Jack Faber and his staff go about fashioning what promises to be one of the great- est teams ever to vaunt the Gold |and Black. Recently come to | Maryland from Richmond Uni- | versity is the veteran coach | | Frank Dobson, upon whom Faber has placed strong reliance. It may be well to clear up a point here. Dobson’s far greater ex- perience and thoroughly proved ability led a number of critics to believe that Dobson’s position was to be a sort of mentor to the young Faber as well as the team. “Lordy,” says Dobson, “I've had to carry responsibility for so darned long I'm glad to have a job with somebody else to do the worrying!” Jack Faber is the master of foot ball at College Park, with complete sway, and was the most | pleased fellow on the premises | when Byrd got him Dobson for | an aide. Maryland’s big game will be with Indiana, coached by the one-time redoubtable Bo McMil- lin, who humbled Harvard when little Centre College went to Cambridge unheralded in the early 1820's. The Hflfll‘l‘l snd The great In the center: 85,000 fans watching the Stanford team yield victory to the Alabamians who are coming here early this season to play George Washington. Upper, left: A tense moment in an Army-Navy classic. The Navy'’s cheering section snaps into “Bill” Guckeyson, star of the University Right: Washington University tackle. Lower, center: Edwin Karpowich, Catholic University’s 215-pound tackle. Joe Negler (left) and Walter Herron, Upper, right: action. Left: of Maryland team. Bottom, center: co-captains of Georgetown University. photos). Terrapins will collide on Novem- | Capital’s Big Four. It will tune ber 9 in Baltimore. Judging from outward appear- ances, Coach McMillin is of a different spirit than Halfback McMillin of old. Indiana has a tough schedule, and, declares the current McMillin, “I doubt if we’ll win a game.” But from other sources comes the word that Indiana is the most improved team in the West- ern Conference, that the present squad is the most promising the Hoosiers have had in many sea- sons, with five steeled veterans in the backfield, supported by ambitious sophomores, who have been a delight to their coach; in short, that Indiana may be strong enough to knock the spots from any foot ball outfit in the country. And the last is true of Maryland, which last year against Indiana, on the Hoosler’s lot, drew all the bad luck, but lost only 17 to 14. From this it would seem that the bacon on November 9 will go to the team which has improved more since 1934. Our hunch is that it's Maryland. The Indiana game will be Maryland’s big shot at intersec- tional honors, bué to a lot of Washington people its clash with Georgetown will pack a stronger punch. This battle, to be fought at Griffith Stadium on November 23, will be the only one of the season between major District teams. Maryland will play the most uniformly tough leludxla of the | year by Washington and Lee, but Pasadena Rose Bowl with (Wide World photo). Harry Deming, George (Star Staff up with the St. John’s game of September 22, then in order will meet Virginia Tech, North Car- olina, V. M. I, Florida, Virginia, Indiana, Washington and Lee, Georgetown and Syracuse. Florida and Syracuse usually are big-timers, but their outlook for this season appears to be dubious. The Old Liners are con- ceded something more than a look-in on the Southern Confer- ence championship, won last will not meet the favorite, which | is Duke, coached by a foot ball genius, Wallace Wade. ‘HE newest thing in the grid- iron world will be introduced by Catholic University, the in- vention of its brilliant coach, Ar- thur J. Bergman, who ran inter- ference for the immortal George Gipp at Notre Dame. A man prolific in ideas, Bergman comes up this time with a new kind of foot ball. It is no different from the conventional type in size, contour or air pressure, but it is jacketed in strips of corrugated rubber, four running lengthwise and two encircling the ends. Aptly, Bergman calls it the “rain- iboot,” for it was designed for | play on muddy gridirons. If Bergman’s ball ever is| adopted officially it may revolu- tionize the game. It transforms a pigskin from a cumbersome, un- natural toy into a thing sp easy to handle it’s quite amazing. The rubber grip m‘ only en- '} s SR Tt Biggest Season in Local History Forecast as Brilliant Calendar Brings Rose Bowl Champions and Other Noted Teams to the Capital City. ables the player to throw the “rainiboot” much farther than he can toss the ordinary ball, but | with almost the accuracy one | might pitch a base ball. The jacket does not interfere in the least with kicking. Although it is contrary to reg- ulations, which prescribe that the surface of the ball have no corrugations, Bergman has been given assurances that no initia- tive will be taken against it by the Foot Ball Rules Committee, governing body of the game. A number of leading coaches have announced their intentions of | using it on rainy days, if oppo- nents are agreeable. In ignoring the regulations, coaches would not be setting a precedent; far from it. Fre- quently, by mutual consent, they have violated the rules, partic- ularly the substitute rule, when teams have been short of sound players. The possibilities of Bergman’s creation are too many to go into here, but likely you will hear a lot about it in the next several months. In the meantime, Bergman and capable assistants are busy | with the finest lot of foot ball players to represent Catholic University in regent years. Any- | way, they appear to be all of that | and the critics have a hunch the] Cardinals will negotiate the sea- son without a setback. The big humps will be Duquesne, Detroit, North Carolina State and most likely, with San Antonio, which will make the long trek from Texas, of unkn%vn strength. C. U. will put a veteran team in the field, aided by better than average sophomore strength. Starting October 5, the Cardinals will play in successive weeks, La Salle, Duquesne, Detroit, San An- tonio, De Pauw, West Virginia Wesleyan, Western Maryland and North Carolina State. Cardinal rooters are in high spirits over the outlook. No big intersectional games will occupy the Georgetown eleven this season, but never will it be out of the spotlight, for a ioyal group of alumni and hun- |dreds of foot ball fans have pulled for the Blue and Gray to gain back its old plate as one of the strongest teams in the East. | Young Jack Hagerty is start- ing his second full season as coach of the Hoyas and behind him is the solid moral support of Georgetown faculty, student body, alumni—and players. This may be the first time in modern Georgetown history that support for the foot ball coach has been so uniform. The great- est broken field runner ever to grace a Hoya eleven in the mem- ory of graying Georgetown men, ‘;ngerty has sentiment on his side. For three years, from 1922 | through ’25, Jack Hagerty was year-old coach is winning his way into the hearts of George- town people as a teacher of the game, even as he did as a player. He started almost from scratch last year and produced a winner, although the caliber of opposi- tion was far from the standard of halcyon Oe‘r(ewvm years. It an idol on the Hilltop and the 32- | |1s not a pretentious schedule the | Hoyas face this Fall, but it is one in keeping with the class of foot ball in which the Blue and Gray has chosen to cast itself. There are strong indications it will move into a higher realm in an- other year or two. “NEVER has it “set well” with { Georgetown adherents that | the grand old school gave up its place as the foot ball leader of Washington. For more than half a century the Blueand Gray held | sway, then came George Wash- iington to dominate: the field. Only Georgetown and George Washington ever have occupied | this position. The Colonials, by the way, set an all-time record in 1934 for attendance at games played by a Washington team |and their total of 101,000 cus- tomers placed them among the first 20 outfits in the country in this respect. Georgetown'’s big day this sea- son will come on November 23, when it encounters Maryland, and here we have a game of 1 many angles. It will be the only contest of the year between lead- ing local schools and it may lead to the-realization of the dream of many Washington foot ball |fans—a knock-down-and-drag- out scrap among George Wash- ington, Georgetown, Catholic University and Maryland. How well the Hoya-Terrapin game draws may have much to do with the future of Dibtrict foot ball. The Maryland-George- town crowd last year was a dis- appointment to some, but not to those who have been plugging for a Metropolitan Washington championship affair. The Old Liners, after listening for years to a lot of clamor, made by not many foot ball fans, for a Hoya- Terp game, thought the thing a clean-through “natural” and in- stalled extra bleachers at College Park, which yawned when play- time came. The Maryland - Georgetown game of 1934 contained probably less lure than the George Wash- ington-C. U. battles that were ‘discontinued several years prior, |largely for want of attendance. !In those days G. W. and C. U, were minor leaguers hereabout | and their game hardly was above \the general plane of the yearly contest between American Uni- | versity and Gallaudet; and you |don’t find the stands sagging | when the Eagles and Blues have it out in what really is the hot- test foot ball joust the city knows, a “natural” from the standpoint of competition, but meaningless except to the par- ties engaged. Many a keg of water has tum- bled over the dam since George Washington and Catholic Uni- versity discontinued relations. The Colonials have moved to the front with rapid steps and Cath- (Continued on Page 4, Column 8. Guh}e ,O?‘ Readers PART FOUR Page. 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