Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-09
COLLEGE ELEVANS
SHOULD Be Strong
Gridiron Teams Ought to
Reach Highest Standards
This FaII-War Risk Wins.
BY III. G. BYRD.

Inc highest standards ever reached
in foot ball play should be attained
during the coming season on collegi-
ate Gridirons. 1t is doubtful if there
has ever been a time when coaching
systems were SO well developed and
on such sound basis, and certainly
none of the institutions has ever
faced season with better prospects
for excellent material.
Perhaps the greatest factor after all
in the DEVELOPMENT of fine foot ball
teams is material and not coaching.
Anyway, it has been noted that the
so-called great coaches have fiunked
more miserably in their work than
any OF their players did in thermody-
namics when they did not have good
men to weld into combination.
Glen Warner, for instance, the last
year he was at Carlisle got whipped
several times by scores of between
twenty and fifty to nothing; Percy
Haughten, when he was minus such
super foot ball players as Wendell,
Brickley, Hardwick and others of
that type. failed to turn out one of
his famous crushing machines. Min
neSeta perhaps has developed about
as as, consistentiy good teams as any
other institution, and it is generally
recognized that Williams has there
consistently better material than any
other coach; Sharp, at Cornell, after
whaling Penn for three years. failed
when he lost Barrett and two or
three other great players.
The first year Exendine came to
Georgetown he lost game after game.
but he has not been losing many since
he has had some real material with
which to work.
And so might other instances be
al oh of
recognized that good material is of
little value unless there is good
coaching to get the best out of it.
Good material seems to be the first
requisite and good coaching an es-
sential to that. Reports coming from
that material is going to be much
better than usual and coacing sys-
TENS nearly everywhere seem to be
well organized and more or less per-
manent
All colleges have as nuclei for
on S. A. T. c. eleyens and the stars
Of teams of 1915 and 1917 who are
returning after getting out of the
Army. Nearly every squad will be
augmented considerably by return
of stars of 1915 and 1917. Yale and
Harvard already have back several
men of this class, best known of
whom is Eddie Casey, the star Grim
son halfback. Penn state has three
former captains in uniform and West
Virginia University has four
Coaching systems at all big uni
versities in the east are on a fairly
permanent basis. Harvard. while it
will not have Haughton, will possess
what is to be CO. tinuance of the
Haughton system. Yale has obtained
AL Sharpe, and that Sharpe is perma-
nently at Yale seems as certain as
the color of the Yale jerseys. Fol-
we'll, at Penn, has long been familiar
with Penn foot ball: Roper is not a
stranger at Princeton, Warner and
Pittsburgh are ina,ienably allied, and
SO on. Bezdek, at Penn State, and
Rush. at Cornell. have new fields in
which to work. the formers short ex-
perience last fall not having been of
particular value. Rush goes from
Princeton to Ithaca.
Foot ball followers are going to see
some real foot ball this fall. More
experienced players than any that
have taken part in eombats in the
last three years, plenty of other ma
terial, and good coaching are factors
that cannot do anything other than
produce fine teams and great games.
War Risk has won the city base
ball championship. The Departmental
League nine is to meet Southern to-
day in their last appearance of the
SERIES anu VIII oSilFC W !" III
a clean slate. So far. War Risk has
won Eve games without a defeat.
Yesterday Naval Operations was de-
feated by to s, the same score by
which the navy men went down in
the first game with the Departmental
leaguers.
Operations began yesterdays con-
test as il it would win easily. scoring
three times in the opening half of the
frst inning. However. Won Herbulis
was not very hard for War Risk to
solve and in the second half of the
period the championship aggregation
got four men over, and obtained
lead that never was overcome.
Roche played fine ball at second for
Operations and got two hits out OF
four trips to the plate. Snyder,
Sweeney and Jarboe led in the bat
ting for the War Risk nine. Emil
Pfeil pitched fine ball for the winning
| team, allowing eight hits and tanning
! fourteen.
University of Virginia yesterday
| sent out about forty kilograms to
| members of its foot ball squad urg-
| ing them to report immediately for
| practice. About twenty-five men are
| working out on Lambeth Field. and II
| is expected that the squad Will gro"
| to sixty before the end of the week.
PLAYERS SKULL FRACTURED.