The Washington herald., 1917-11-25
NOTED TALENT
with USAACS
Many Prominent Gridiron
Players Will Battle
Hilltoppers.

The United States Army Ambulance
football team, title-holder Of the
championship Of the enlisted service.
and scheduled to wage battle with
Georgetown University at the Amer
lean League Park here on Thanksgfv-
ing afternoon, is composed entirely of
former collegiate gridiron stars, all Of
them under that age which Grantland
Rice calls the ideal age limit for grid
iron men, Is years.
In fact. most of the forty men COM
prisiRg the "Usaac" eleven were un-
dergraduates in colleges and univer-
stiles before they Joined the service.
When the achievements Of the team
are considered. the extreme youth Of
several Of the big stars Is In q fair
way amazing. "Curley" Cramer, for
instance, the great full back from
Hamelin University of St Paul, Is but
Yale, was last year the leader of the
Eli freshman contingent.
OF most interest to local sport fans.
perhaps. will be the powerful trio
from below the Mason and Dixon line
on the Allentown team-"Untz" Brew
er. who halls from Maryland State;
pike johnson and Lindsey Moore
from Washington and Lee, These
three men have been the most out
standing players in the last several
games which the "Usaacs" have
played.
Brewer flashed into fame In the first
tussle with the Marines from Philadel-
phia. which the Ambulance men won
to the tune of 40 It was his first
game. although late in the season.
From obscurity the boy from WASH
lnSton sped so bewilderingiy down
the territory Of the cohorts of Mahan
that for the entire first part of the
game II seemed as IL the crack Nary
land state cinder path artist was
PLAYING the game entirely himself.
ms ability to judge distance, to cut
IN through the smallest hole the mo-
ment II appeared, and entirely to out
run MS opponents. put the little half
back in a class by himself from that
game TIL today, when he Is one Of the
genuine stars on the eleven.
Pike" johnson. who halls from
washington and Lee University. of
virginia, and incidentally Is All-South-
ern tackle for 1916. is a man of entire
ly different football style, and affords
an excellent contrast to the man from
Maryland. johnson Is huge. He
weighs approximately 200 pounds and
carries himself with a power and will
which have proved disastrous to every
eleven that the "Usaacs" have met
thus far. He has a long record of
sridiron achievements. from the time,
when he played with the Everett High
Sehool in Massachusetts,, captaining
MS team in the final year of his course
tnere and passing the entire season
without defeat.
The man from Washington and Lea
IS nghting player. He does not give
IN an inch, and carries even his de-
tense into the secondary line of the
enemy. He carries an enormous re-
serve force and on tackle around
plays, has scored more touchdowns
than any Of the half backs on the
eleven. 49,
Moore, the gigantic 2I0-pound guard.
and classmate of johnson from the
virginia institution, has starred in
several Of the clashes this year and
Is one Of the most deadly offensive
players in the game. He isIa very
clever hand fighter and a stratesist
from head to heel, wasting not one
ounce or energy and resembling a
sort OF individual tornado in the
scrimmage.
Matching up with Brewer is
TuhIe" Conn, the Oregon Aggies'
backf1eld star. who holds therecord
Tor the longest run ever made on
the gridiron. aS11s-yard run through
the entire U of the Oregon team
last year. '"Tuffie", like his team
mate from Dixie, has an apparently
unfathomed resource of speed to
draw upon. He raced TED Mer-
ridith and chased that nimble-heeled
gentleman into the worlds record
In the quarter mile. when the cham
pion won by a scant few inches.
runie's style of running, his
strategy and his methods of play
resemble very closely those of
Brewer. The difference between
them Is so slight. that on one oc-
casion at least, Coach Clark tossed
up penny to see which would
start the game.
Another man who will prove of
interest to the Washington foot
ball fans on the holiday afternoon,
Is Jack" Dunn. of the UNIVERSITY
Of Michigan. Hurry I'D" Yost's
clever strategist from the West, is
considered the best Quarterback d.
rector on the eleven. He can size
up an opponent in a very few min
utes and displays an uncanny power
OF planning and carrying out a susl
tanned battle, which Is quite beyond
the solving powers of the foe. His
partner in the quarterback position,
Mike Murphy. Nof Yale, is a brilliant
runner. and has already established
himself as one of the greatest drop
klckers in the game this year. His
performances at the Marine-Usaac
game in Philadelphia quite out
shone the redoubtable Eddie Mahan.
and he has to his credit a hfty-five
yard drop kick against one of the
eleyen's earlier opponents. which
drew praise from all sport critics
present.
Behind the Ambulance team. with
Its splendid personnel and its records,
stands silent Dub" Clarke, the
coach. There is not one bit of doubt
about Dud Clarke and his value to the
team in the mind OF any follower Of
Ambulance football.
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