The Washington herald., 1922-09-12
|THIRTYCAtDIDATES'
REPORT FOR WORK
AT COLLEGE PARK
Byrd to Spend Much Time
In Developing New
Back Field.

COLLEGE PARK. Nd, Sept II.
About thirty members OF last
years varsity and freshman eiev-
ems reported to Coach Curly Byrd
for initial practice at the Univer-
sity of Maryland this afternoon.
The session was confined to con-
ditioning work. the men passing
and kicking the ball around for
several hours. For the hrst half
hour or 30 little was done but
pose for newspaper photographers.
Practically al members expected
out were on the field.
Coach Byrd plans to work his
proteges gingerly from this out
In an effort to get q number Of
members Of the squad in better
shape. Scrimmaging. however. will
| not begin until next Monday, when
the freshman squad is to report.
From then until the opening game.
September 80. with the Third Army
Corps Area eleven, the Black and
Gold gridmen will put in their
hardest licks.
Among those In moleskins to-
day were: Young. Branner. Ends
low. Lewis. ends: Nisbet, Burger.
Luckey, Hough. Beers. Nihiser.
tackles: Moore. J. Smith. Newiand.
Dorsett, Bromley. guards; Pollock.
Bartlett. centers; SemIer, Groves.
Wardwell. quarterbacks; Pugh.
PEBBLES. Bosley. Besley, W. Smith.
Faber. halfbacks; McQuade. Heine.
| fullbacks.
Bailey. center, and Latham.
guard. and possibly a few others.
will be out tomorrow or the next
day. Byrd will lose no time in
taking steps to rebuild his back
field. shattered by the loss of Untz
Brewer, Gilbert Paganucci, Plass-
| mig and Anderson. Pugh. Groves,
McQuade, Branner. Heine. Smith.
| Faber and PEBBLES constitute about
the best-looking material for this
department. Groves and Heine
loom as the probable successors
to the brilliant Untz Brewer on
the kicking end.
Assisting Byrd this year will be
Geary (Swede) Eppley. 1921 end.
and w. G. Country Morris. who
played halfback in 1854. Eppley
will assist in all departments. Nor
ris' work will be confined largely
to scouting. Leroy Mackert, star
1920 fullback. will work the fresh
man team. which faces a stiff
schedule.
George Washington football can
didates held their initial workout at
Potomac Park yesterday under the
direction of Coach Bill Quigley. for
mer University of Pennsylvania
backheld star.
| But two regulars of last years
eleven reported yesterday, but it is
expected that the end of the week
will see many of the old men re-
turning to Washington. giving Quig-
| ley a nucleus to work with nprepa-
ration for the first assignment of
the season, the Virginia game less
! than three weeks in the offing.
Among the newcomers to try for
positions, are: Johnson. of last
years West Point team; Rogers. a
former navy player from Califor-
beckfield for Staunton Military
Academy last fall. and Jack Daley.
of the 1920 eleven.
| OF last years squad the follow
ing are expected to return to college
and will be eligible for football:
Ptak and Shaw, ends; Altrup. Hart
and Connolly. tackles; Allen and
Mulligan, guards; Friedlander, CEN
ter: Owens, Wells, Schofield, Mason,
Crouch and Thomas, backs.
Practice will be held tomorrow at
Potomac Park at 2:30 o'clock. and
| candidates are requested to be on
deck early to receive equipment and
avoid unnecessary congestion.