Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-17
BY H. C. BYRD.

While it has not yet been definitely de-
cided, it is practically certain that George
town will have a new faculty athletic ad-
wiser next year 1t is very likely that
Father Emmett, who has been at the head
of athletics during the past three years
on the Hilltop. will resign at the end Of
the present school year. Father Emmett
has been project of discipline and head
of athletics at Georgetown since he en-
tered the school in 1908, and the fact that
he will resign in order to pursue work
along other lines will not be received with
satisfaction by those who have known
and have come in contact with him dur
ing that time.
1t is reported on reliable authority that
Father Creedon, who is now project or
studies at Georgetown, will succeed Faith
er Emmett as faculty adviser.
In just what light the players on the
Georgetown foot ball team have regarded
Fred Nielsen during the two years in
which he has been in charge of the poll
cies of the eleven may be shown by citing
one or two instances OF events which
have taken place. This fall when it came
time to elect foot ball captain for next
year there was great deal of canvass
ing done by the men who desired the
place. One of the men to whom Hegarty,
who won the place, was talking regarding
the election had the following to say in
reply to a query as to who he would vote
for: Il shall support you, Jack (Hegar-
ty), because I think that if you are
elected you will do your best to get Mel
sen back, and that means another WIN
ming team.
While it has been intimated that Hegar-
ty would not have been in favor of get
ting Nielsen to coach the team next year,
this is what Hegarty really thinks of
Nielsen. Just after he was elected to the
captaincy Of the team for next year
Hegarty said that he would have Nielsen
coach the team next fall If there was any
possible way to do SO. and there was no
possible chance for him to even consider
ybody else If Nielsen wanted the job
Hegarty furthermore paid a nice tribute
to Nielsen when he said that in the games
in which he had taken part since enter
ing the Blue and Gray school he had
thought of little except Nielsen and that
his playing had done great deal for him.
He made the statement that the only OBJ
ject that was in his mind in the first big
game in which he played for Georgeown
was Nielsen, because he had talked to
his players in a way that had no other
coach he had ever known He said that
Nielsen inspired respect in his men that
was remarkable.
Many foot ball and basket ball game
Is won between the halves, when the
coach impartS to the men the weak
points Of the opposing eleven. There have
been many instances in the gridiron and
court games in which teams have been
far behind, and outplayed apparently
during the first half, only to come back
in the second and display such whirl-
wind attack that its opponents were
swept off their feet. and the result OF
the game reversed from what was ex-
pected according to the manner in which
the first half was played.
During the first half of foot ball and
basket ball games coaches are on the
side lines watching the opposing teams
play, so that they may impart it to the
teams with which they are connected in
the ten or fifteen minute rest between
the two periods. Especially is this true
which. when mainly through overcon-
fidence during the first half, they are
held and outplayed. Coaches have watch
ed the play Of the other teams and know
exactly what to tell their men regarding
the style Of play to be used in the sec
ond period. There have been instances
innumerable in foot ball where coaches
have pulled the game out OF the hre ana
placed the long end Of the score on the
opposite side of the ledger from what it
was at the end of the first time of play.
Everybody remembers how Yale went
out at the end of the second half against
Princeton four years ago. with the score
IL to against it. and came back in the
1 point. Just how much of this was due
to the coaches is problematic. but it is
fairly certain that the most of 1t was ac-
complished in the dressing room and not
on the field, paradoxical as that may
SEEM An instance of what may be done
in basket ball along that line was shown
the other evening by Coach Collifio~er
in the first game on the Georgetown
schedule this year. The Baltimore Med
ical College had outplayed the Blue and
Gray during the first half. and was lead
ing by a margin of 1 point. Coach Col
lifower. though, knew what ne was
men were playing an uphill game, and
during the intermission he told them
things which benefited them immensely.
At any rate they came back in the sec
ond half and. by directing their plays a
little differently, the Blue and Gray play
ers ran up 10 points against their op-
ponents' I.
There have also been instances wherein