Evening star., 1912-11-23
GEORGETOWN GETS
DOWN TO HARD WORK
Coaches Give Foot Ball Team
Stiffest Practice of the
Season.

Yesterday afternoon the Georgetown
foot ball squad went through the stiffest
workout of the season. The men were
Kept on the field for two hours, darkness
bringing an end to the work. The coaches
realize that the team will necessarily have
to be In the very best OF shape in order
to meet Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Thanksgiving day. report from acks-
burg. Va, has it that Coach Bowcock Of
the v. P. I. eleven is working his team
to the limit in order to be in shape to
meet Georgetown.
The Georgetown eleven during the past
week has shown little or no improve
ment over its showing in the Virginia
game. The backs fail to pick their holes.
oftentimes running into a heap of plav
ers on the ground when this thing could
be avoided The coaches kept after the
backs. impressng upon them the neces-
sity OF picking out an opening In the line
and then going through 1t. Another fault
that the coaches are trying to remedy,
and that is the halfbacks on end runs
must cut In sooner in order to make any
gain.
habit Of trying to circle the end for
gains. 1t Is believed by all the coaches
that a back cannot circle good end. The
| coaches have drilled it into the backs all
during the season to never try and cir
Gle an end. but always to try and get
through the space which is open from
the tackle to the end. The trouble in
the Virginia game last Saturday was the
fact that the Blue and Gray backs tried
to get around the Virginia ends. whereby
they were thrown for a loss on each oc-
casion. From now on the coaches will
keep at the backfield men. impressing
upon them the necessity Of cutting In
between the tackle and end on all plays
around the end Of the line.
| The new Sc. of sienals given out by
Coach Gargan to the team has not caused
| the boys much trouble Every man on
the SQUAD was able to understand
them clearly In the practice of yesterday
| Considering the fact that the men have
| only had one day during which to learn
all the new signals. their intelligence in
getting on to them is gratifying to the
coaches.
| Coach Eddie Dennis gave out a new
play yesterday that will surely prove to
| be ground gainer against the V. p. l.
team Thanksgiving day. The play is
| forward pass. which is surely bound 10
battle most any team. The coaches work
ed with this play during the greater part
OF the practice and it proved to be very
successful.
Another fault that both of the coaches
noticed was the hackfie'd men failed to
get awav from their mark with any
speed. 1t seems that the men take two
Of three extra steps. Coach Bennis took
Dunn Kelley and Fury over in one cor
ner of the field and he had Ritch pass
the ball to these backs. The coach
showed these three backs some important
points on getting away from the mark.
Dunn took three extra steps, but before
the work was over he hit the line on two
steps only.
A big change is contemplated for the
Thanksgiving day game Coach Gar"an
seems to think that young Kelley has
shown enough ahi ity ~ warrant nlay-
ing him there THANKSGIVING. Murray in
jured his leg in the VIRGINIA game. and
since then he has not felt very well. Mur-
raw has been worked hard al during the
year, and is a little overturned. Kelley
is a great defensive player, and will help
out ba king up the line. great deal
Of attention was given to this man yes
terday, and he will surely start the V. T.
1. game in the hack1eld.
"Gad" Donnelly. who injured himself
so badly in the Virginia game. will not be
able to play Thanksgiving day. Donnely
side gives him great deal of pain every
time he moves Yesterday ne tried TO
run in the signal drill but found it i'm
possible.
Charles Bergen, the other end. is also
in poor condition. Bergen has been un-
able to report since the Virginia game be-
cause of boils Bergen has been bothered
with boils all season and the only thing
that is needed to place him in perfect
condition is rest which he will receive.
Young Martin and Campazzi at the
have been showing up very Well all
week. Martin. on account OF MS basket
ball experience handles the forward rass
better than any man on the squad. Mar
tin has worked very hard all season, and
will surely start against V. /. l. cam
pazZi also has shown class at end. Tms
is his first season at end and considering
the short time that he has worked at this
position will, with little more work,
prove to be valuable end.