Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-27
Has Slight Shade Connie
BABE GROVE REPORTS !
FOR PENN GRID TEAM
Star of Last Years Scrub Eleven Returns to d..
University Along With Hamer and Malter. 4
-Four Scrub Players Promoted

The terror of varsity football teams
is back at the University OF Pennsyl-
vania ready to get into instant action
against the first eleven or any eleven
Coach Heisman might send against the
scrubs. Not only that but Bab Grove
is out with an open def to the entire
sound. He has guaranteed that from
this afternoon on he is going to show
the coaching staff why he should be
considered for a place on the varsity
squad
Grove will be remembered as the
young man weighing around 135 pounds
and standing about 8 feet inches in
his stocking feet who last fall playing
as quarterback of first scrub eleven
made the varsity and the coaches sit up
and take notice. His playing then has
teen chronicled in these columns and
it is expected that more of his doings
will also be written of here.
Last season Tom Mcnamara took
Grove out Of the third scrub lineup one
afternoon and started him against the
varsity. Almost from the start he dis
played ability as quarterback, run
ming the team with the precision of n
veteran of many a campaign, although
he was in his first. In addition his abil-
ity to carry the pigskin against the
heavier and more experienced varsity
team earned for him the title of the
'hying engineer"
Heisman has only Rex Wray to de-
pend on for the quarterback post. Nc
AnHlly never played the signal calling
position previous to this fall, and while
he has been doing excellent work he is
more valuable without the extra duties.
With Grove as substitute quarter Nc
Anally could be used as halfback,
while Grove could be shot into the
breach as quarterback.
OF course the Woodbury. lad, meaning
Grove, must win his spurs again this
year. Past performances count for
naught, but Grove was within an ace
son and with that experience to guide
him this season should make the squad.
Mcnamara Praises Grove
Tom Mcnamara, who looks after the
coach. was delighted with the appear
nnCe of Grove. "He is one sweet little
quarterback, and expect to use him in
the scrimmages rs soon as he tells me
that he is ready. Last year he was my
maInstay behind the line and he should
be the same this year. If he shows
anything like the playing he did last
year it will be mighty hard to keep him
with the red jerscyed boys this season"
While the varsity was given an easy
afternoon yesterday, the few students
and the scribes who witnessed the prac-
tice saw strenuous scrimmage be-
tween the first and second scrub elevens
that lasted for more than an hour. Nc
Namara took them over to the north
side of the field and sent them through
as severe n drill as they have had this
season. Up and down the field the two
teams struggled for seventy minutes
with the score about even when they
concluded hostiities. AS result OF
their workout, Mcnamara expects to
select scrub team today that will
make the varsity hustle.
Last week the scrubs did not carry
the ball once, while Delaware in the
| opening game carried it four times. The
| result is that the varsity coaches are
calling for scrub backfeld quartet to
give the red and blue jerscyed varsity
n chance to show their defensive pow
ers. With Grove back to direct playing
and n chance that Tex Hamer may get
on the scrub eleven along with several
other inelgibles who are expected to
| report during this week, Mcnamara
expects to give the varsity all the op-
position in the world.
Hamer and Maher Report
Eamer. who was the star Of the
freshman eleven last year with his won
derful line plunging, and was expected
to be one Of the stars of the varsity
this season, left the University shortly
after the midyear examinations last
February. Yesterday he returned and
expects to work out with the scrub
team. II he gets into action against
the varsity they will be facing n replica
of Jim Robertson, the Dartmouth cap
tain. Hamer stands six feet in height
and weighs close to 100 pounds.