Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
1912 TRACK SEASON WILL BE
INAUGURATED THIS WEEK
Colleges, Schools and Clubs Will Get First
Chance to Show Strength of Squads in
G. w. u. Meet Saturday-Gossip.

, tnan have an Offense that is not as strong
! as the defense, 1t seems from a cursory
glance at the changes that have been
made that the COACHES will have a hard
! time to build a defense to meet the Of
tenSive tactics of the teams.
The ruling which will allow q touch
down to be made by the forward pass
will cause the defense to be much weak
ened by the fact that 1t will have to stay
scattered when down under its own goal,
and not being able to close up as was the
case under the old conditions. The five
yards difference that Is to be made In
back will make but little difference, but
the adjustment Of the twenty-yard zone
will mean that the defense will have to
scatter even more than 1t did under the
twenty-yard ruling, The real factor.
more touchdowns next fall than anything
else Is the allowing of four downs In
which to make the required ten yards.
1t was generally admitted last fall that
a team could gain in the middle Of the
field. when the defense was kept scatter
ed, but that 1t was practically impossible to
do SO when 1t closed down under the goal.
This year the secondary defense will not
be able to close up under its own goal
because Of the allowing of touchdown
on forward pass. and If the defense
team could not stop the offensive one
with the three downs in which to gain
ten yards with it's open defense and
until 1t was down under it's own goal and
the halfbacks had closed up, then 1t
would appear that 1t will be an extremely
difficult matter to stop it at all next
make the distance and the defense will
have to be scattered at all times.
The trials for the Maryland Agricul-
tural College relay team which Will run
AGAINST the University of Maryland In
the George Washington meet were held
yesterday morning on the Y. NJ. c. A.
track. The four men who made the
fastest time were selected to run on the
first team. while the next four will COM
pose the second four. The time for all
the men was fairly fair. especially con-
run on the small track before. For
some unknown reason Duckett and Nor
r1s are not running this year. and there
fore did not try out for the team. Both
men were members of the team during
the past two seasons. and both were
good runners. Kemp is the only member
OF the veteran team that will represent
the Farmers. hTe other three are john
son. new man from the Frederick High
School, who played end on the foot ball
team last fa1; Augustus, who was fifth
man on the team last year, and Harrison.
another new man, are the ones who will
represent the college this year on the
first team Those who will run on the
Harris and Binder.
Kemp, who has starred on the Mary
land Aggies track and foot ball teams
during the past two years, ran the
quarter in mighty fast time on the Y. NJ.
G. A track yesterday. when the trials
were held. Notwithstanding the fact
that the big fellow is too heavy a man to
run at all on such small track and
not excepting the fact that he had never
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| travelled the distance In IS seconds fiat.
The record for the track Is but fifth Of
second better than that, and II Kemp
had been used to the banked turns he
you'd undoubtedly have lowered the
time considerably.
While none of the other men made as
good time as did Kemp they all ran the
distance in good enough time to insure
the fact that the Farmers will have a
squad this year that will come near
! trimming any team 1t may run against
in its class.
The trial for the Georgetown University
relay team will be held Tuesday after
noon on the track at Convention Hall.
Every man who has been training for the
team will be on hand to run the distance,
and the four men who cover the quarter
in the best time will be the ones sent to
Boston Saturday to run against Holy
Cross in the relay race scheduled for that
meet.
The following men Will probably go
the route in an effort to make the team:
Davis, Eller. CampaxM. Chapman, Multi
gan, Martin and Capt. Carrigan. OF
these men 1t would appear that three are
practically assured Of their positions. On
q three-lap track it Is questionable IL
I Davis is not at least the equal Of any
other The race he ran last year against
Virginia would establish that. Davis,
Chapman and Campazzi are the three
men likely to win places on the four,
with the other one in doubt, with the
chances about equal between them.
Polish Wrestler Dies.