The Washington times., 1911-01-26
GEORGE TOWN PLANS
TO ASSIST SCRUBS
Board Would Develop All
Reserve Material In
University.
FOOTBALL SEASON
CAUSE OF ACTION
Alumni Believe Even Preps Should
Be Included In General
Scheme.
Bv THOMAS KIRBY.

The installation of a revised system
of administration, calculated to bring
about further development of material
for future university teams, is being
considered by members of the George
town Advisory Athletic Board.
The tentative plan, now under advise.
ment, is to arrange for the encourage
ment cf athletics in every form, par
ticHlarly for those who are not fast
enough for the varsity squads. but who
give promise Of making good men be-
fore graduation.
For years almost exclusive attention
has been paid to those depended upon
for the first teams with the result that
much likely timber has been totally neg
lected in practically every branch of
sport foStered
The first move in the matter will prob
ably be in officially organizing scrub
teams under the direction of assistant
managers, who will be authorized to
arrange schedules along the same lines
as those set for the varsity. The teams
will draw from the candidates not need
ed by the varsity coaches, but the train
ing of these squads will be under the
general supervision of the coaches en-
gagged for the first teams.
To Take in Preps.
1t is hoped to gradually extend the
system until it will take in the Preps
in such a manner that the future COL
legians will have the benefit of proper
instruction, and will be encouraged by
schedules that will be in keeping with
the standard of play of which the Props
are capable. The feeling among the
alumni is that the Preps should be
given every encouragement, as it is
upon the products of this institution
that Georgetown depends for the back
bone of the athletic teams.
The Props have always experienced
difficulty in getting proper dates in
football and baseball, while the coach
ing has seldom been systematic. The
graduate directors hope to improve
these conditions to such extent that
upon graduation the Prep athletes will
be primed for the varsity as they are
at other universities.
The first trial of the proposed plan will
be in the spring when Captain Sitter
ding and Coach Springman, of the base
ball team, will exercise general super
vision over the scrub line, which will
be regularly formed with a schedule.
which will not conflict with the varsity
dates. 1t is also likely that the Props
will have the benefit of the varsity
coach at least one day week.
Cox Helped Scrubs.
Last fall Charley Cox, a graduate,
voluntarily took charge of the scrubs
in football and so successful was he
that he discovered and turned over to
the varsity men who otherwise might
have been lost in the general scramble
The football squad was one of the
largest in the history of the university,
and it is believed that, by such en-
couragement as the advisory board eX-
poets to give, this same condition can
be brought about in all sports.
Last fall every Georgetown point in
the four big Cames-CarOlina A. and NJ,
Pittsburg, Virginia, and Lehigh-was
made by men who had served most of
the season on the scrubs, and it was
this fact that brought the matter most
strongly to two members of the advisory
board.
Should the contemplated movement
be put through it will mean a more
general undergraduate participation in
sport, which is one of the fOndest hopes
of all educators.