The Washington herald., 1922-01-08
Lannigan Will Use Pennsylvania
Defense For Virginia Floor Team,
"Pop" Visits Big Eastern Colleges to Get
Pointers on Basketball Coaching
Gridiron Schedule Completed.

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va, Jan.
Just before the Christmas hoIi-
days. II. II. Lannigan. associate di-
rector of athletics at the University
of Virginia. visited a number OF
big Eastern colleges. including
Pennsylvania. Princeton. Columbia.
New York University. Yale and
Harvard. with a view to picking up
pointers on the art Of basketball
coaching. The veteran trainer was
especially impressed with the team
play of the champion Quaker squad
and il is quite probable that dur
ing the approaching season he will
adopt the style Of defense in vogue
at the University Of Pennsylvania
Few men in the country are bet
ter qualified TO coach basketball
than Lanigan. He was a member
of one Of the first basketball teams
organized in the United States and
had much to do with the develop
ment Of the quints at Cornell, where
he was athletic Instructor for a pc
riod of fourteen years. He has been
a close follower OF the game in re-
cent years and has turned out a
number Of strong teams since COM
ing to Virginia. His style OF play
has impressed more than one Of the
coaches of quints at big Eastern
colleges. who have openly acknowl-
edged that they secured valuable
pointers. after clashing with the
Orange and Blue squad.
Lannigan. when interviewed to-
day. seemed in high spirits and
spoke most encouraginGly of the
prospects Of the Virginia squad.
which is hard at work daily, in
preparation for the opening OF the
court season within the next ten
days II have seventeen or eight
cen players of real promise" said
Lannigan, land among the number
are several who are. in my opinion.
just as good As the players I saw
in action at Pennsylvania and other
Eastern colleges during my recent
trip.
.Pop- Discovers New shoe.
= During his peregrinations into
the territory Of some OF the larger
Eastern colleges, Pop" claims to
have found a species OF basketball
shoe which is calculated To insure
the success Of any squad wearing
them. The chief function OF a good
basketball shoe is to keep the
wearer from slipping while he eX-
ecutes those eccentric maneuver
ings demanded by the elusive pill.
The brand of shoe in general use
has a thick rubber sole with holes
in il which act as suction caps to
take hold OF the floor. The fatal
objection to those shoes seems to
be, however. that they raise blis-
ters on the feet. a discontinue
which is indisputably detrimental
to the efficiency of a basketball
quint.
The sole of the shoe which Coach
Lannigan has discovered, and which
seems to have been in vogue in
some of the more successful coll
leges in the East. is solid and OF
complex composition containing
rubber. sulphur and other con-
stituents. Such sole will not slip
or skid on the most slippery of
waxed floors. and no blisters rise
on the feet of the wearer. who NAV
jump and cavort like the proverbial
mountain goat and yet maintain
perfect equilibrium. With his base
absolutely secure. he may guage his
shots with accuracy. and he may
take chances that the wesrer of an
inferior grade of shoe dare not take
for fear of skidding and falling.
Football Schedule Completed.
Negotiations with the football
management at the University OF
North Carolina having been con-
cluded, virginia's gridiron schedule
for! 1922, has at last been COM
pleted.. 1t provides for nine con-
tests-six on the home grounds and
three on. foreign fields.
The opening game of the season
will be with George Washington
University and not Davidson COL
lege,, of North Carolina, as was at