Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-11-29
MOTTO Of DUKE
CITY GRIDSTERS
stop DAWSON
Pass City win Start Light,
Fast Team; Portends
Open Game; Tiger Cap
tain Feared in Pass Play

Wherever Albuquerque High
school football enthusiasts have
gathered during the past two days
the cry has gone up: "Watch Stan
lev Dawson" And that same cry
will echo across the Washington
Park gridiron when the Ell Paso
Tigers and Duke City gridiron war
riors line up at three o'clock to-
morrow afternoon for their an
nual football battle.
Stanley Dawson El Paso High
school captain, will play end. Play
ing in the backtield most of the
season, he has been shifted back
TO his old position at the left wing
during the past week. That means
but one thing--that Luther Cob
lentz has prepared his charges for
an open game.
And with that fact practically
established the Duke City boys will
indeed do we'll to Watch Dawson
For Dawson is a demon when it
comes to grabbing forward passe2
out of the air. In a game only
last Saturday, playing against the
Eighth Cavalry eleven, Dawson
clutched so many forward passes
out Of the atmosphere that the sol
diers grew dizzy watching him.
With Dawson at end 1t means that
the Duke City secondary defense
will have to be on the "qui vive''
from opening to closing whistle.
Luther Coblentz, Ell Paso coach,
yesterday wired the Albuquerque
Morning Journal the names of the
men who will make the trip ana
the lineup he will probably start
The lineup to be started increases
the probability that Coblentz Will
trust largely to an open game
on top of which is the fact that
the Tigers used the open play al
most entirely in their game against
the Eighth Cavalry last Saturday.
And their success against the Fort
Bliss Horsemen would indicate
that they have come closer to per-
lection in the open game.
Coblentz has arranged his lineup
so as to match the Duke City line
up as closely as possible. He has
shifted his weight to the line and
Carlos Carter, for instance, the
burly 210 pounder who has been
used through the season to smash
down the smaller lines faced, has
been moved back 10 his old posi-
tion at guard.
Carter and Dawson were easily
the best line plungers Coblent2
possessed. His shifting indicates
that he either intends to use very
few line plunge or else expects the
bulk at the line to open up holes
for the fast backs to slide through.
And the former is the more prob
able.
FL Paso has always been often
sively on the forward passing
game. The team has also been well
developed by the cagy Coblentz in
football trickery. Thus, it will be-
lloove the Albuquerque boys to well
heed trick plays to watch them as
closely as they do forward passes.
The passing game can be smooth,
cred or very nearly smothered, i'll
the secondary defense and the ends
function properly on the deep
plays and Moore plays his part at
passes over the center of the line.
Trick plays, however, are not Sc
easily handled.
And in connection with this. Al
buquerque will do well to watch
another than Dawson. They will
need to keep a. weather eye on
"Pidgie" Scotten, Tiger quarter
back. II the slender "Pidgie"
ever gets through to the open field
it is more than doubtful that any
Duke City player will be able to
run him down.
"Pidgie" possesses the speed
which seems to run in the Scotten
strain. His Oldest brother, Frank,
who is County assessor-elect of Ell
Paso, was perhaps the fastest man
in the southwest in his day. The
other brother, Roy, not only gained
the Congressional Medal of Honor
for bravery during the world war
but also outsprinted all members
of the Atlantic fleet in track and
field meet.
The youngest scotten IS said TO be
fully as fast as either Of his broth
ers. And it is to be seriously
doubted that any player On the
Duke City eleven has sufficient
speed to have kept pace with either
Of "Pidgie's" brothers when they
were in their heydey.
There are two satisfactory fea-
lures in connection with the an
nounced FL Paso lineup. One Is
that it indicates the sort Of game
which is to be used, and "Fore-
warned is forearmed." The other