Evening star., 1919-09-18
C. j. GRID SQUAD
! GETS OUT TODAY
About Thirty Men Expected
to Line Up for First Prac-
tice on the Hilltop.
BY H. c. BYRD.

Georgetown will get it's foot ball
squad out today for the first actual
work of the year. Numerous con-
ferences have taken place between
graduate manager, coach and cap
tain in the last few days, but so far
the players themselves have not had
a.raa taste Of anything but moleskin
on the Hilltop will grow more and
more strenuous until the latter part
OF next week, when the grinding
scrimmages will begin.
Tne full squad is not expected back
at Georgetown today. though Charley
Cox looks for about thirty men to
| take the field. One player sure to
make regular position at tackle
who Is not going to be on hand is
the parade of the 1st Division and
| cannot report for practice at George
town until after he is mustered gu.
OF the service.
Today and tomorrow are reyist-a-
ton days at Maryland State, and by
Monday, when classes begin, and all
the old men will be back, the foot ball
biggest squad in the history Of the
| college is expected by Monday. Prob
ably forty-five or fifty men should be
out by tomorrow afternoon.
The State squad is to be split In
two sections. About tn:,ty freshmen
are to be turned over to Lyman Ober-
lin, former star tackle at State, for
the development of freshma1 eleven.
Bert Coggins, who played ha1fback in
1916. will help Oberlin.
Considerable rivalry should develop
this fall in Independent foot ball be-
tween the three clubs which propose
Nsvy TO- szd Ra.
ic Club are going to put out elevens,
and each is making great prepara-
tions to build up strong combinations
to play through good schedules.
Bob Maxwell. sporting editor of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, in a
copyrighted article. speaks rather
disparagingly of the value of excep-
tionally big men in foot ball. Max
we'll takes the position that a man
no longer is to be considered a pros
pective star simply because he has
the proportions of a mastodon. And
inasmuch as Maxwell is about as typ
ical of the mastodonic species as any
human can be, he probably is well
qualified to speak thereof in this way:
This is the open season for whales.
Not the piscatorial species. but the
uncommon or gridiron variety. which
always is pursued at this time of the
year. Whenever a big. husky gent
appears on the college campus he is
hauled out to the foot ball field, in
troduced to the coach, and the stu
dents give him three cheers. II he
can't run 100 yards IN an hour or
stoop over to get into position, he Is
hailed as a star just the same and all
the rooters will happily predict sue
ceSsful season.
This is relic Of the olden days
when beef and Drawn were needed to
win foot bali games. The big guys
were in demand then, but now they
reports before the season opens A
huge person always furnishes lots of
copy and we will get plenty Of 1t in
the next couple of weeks.
West Virginia University is the first
to break into print. They have un-
down there by the name of big Ed"
Grove, who is SO big that none of the
uniforms was large enough to fit him.
Therefore, he has to practice every
day in a pair of overalls until some
foot ball pants are built for him
Big Ed" halls from. Huntington.
w. Va and is eighteen years old.
He Is six feet three inches tall and
tips the scales at 247 pounds. He is
trying for center and is said to be a
great player. He will be until the sea-
son opens. and then probably will be
discovered among the. other eubsti-
tutes.
Big men. that is, the 250-pounders,
are gradually. dropping out of foot
ball. The game is too fast for those
heavy blokes. who usually clutter up
the plays and can't get out of their
own way. Two-hundred-pounde
who are active on. their feet make
good players, but the average is from
$50 to 100 pounds. The modern grid
iron athlete must cover lots Of terri
tory. Mass plays have been abandon
ed and In their stead are the forward
pass. onside kick and wide, sweepdne
end runs. On defense the close line
Is not played. The linemen are about
two yards apart and must do some tall
hustiing to guard their territory"
All or which does not controvert OIL
alter In the least the time-worn saw
L that a Ge.a,d hisE L. ~