The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.--Within the next two weeks the college football can- didates will begin to leave their summer occupations to assemble on their respec- tive gridirons. Your football season is a comparatively brief one and it behooves the coaches and players to make the most of it. To condition a squad for a l gridinon campaign entails no end of this reason that the college football coach must start his labors just as soon as the summer tide is on the ebb.
 There have been but few important changes in the coaching staffs of / the colleges east and west. Here in the east Bib Fisher will again be in com rnand, of the Harvard Crimsons. Fisher may hardly be said to have had a sue careful season at Cambridge last fall, but then, too, the material with which he had to work was not up to Harvard standard. All signs point to a stronger Harvard eleven this year and Crimson supporters are roofing for Bob Fisher to come through with bang.
 Tad Jones will return to New Haven and attempt to carry the Yale stalwarts on to another mythical championship. Last year the Blue established a fine record on the gridiron and since the greater part of the 1928 eleven will be intact for another season Coach Jones may well regard the future with Op- timism. Bill Roper, who. has had poor luck with the Princeton teams of the last two years, will be hack to try and regain lost prestige. It has been some time since the Orange and Black Tigers have ruled the Big Three" forces and, in view of the fact that Princeton does expect to have any great abundance of veteran material this fall, it will be in deed remarkable should Roper manage to pilot his huskies through the season unbeaten. This may or may not be Roper's last year at Tigertown.
 Hswley At Dartmouth
 In spite of rnmOrs to the contrary, Jess Hawley win be back at Hanover to boss the Big Green gridsters. Haw- ley's 1923 Dartmouth outfit was a pret- ty fair football machine. It, backfired in its game with Gil Dobie's Cornell Terrors, but came across with a grand triumph over the John Harvards. Flaw ley will have a goodly supply of vet crans to work with this fall and Dart mouth may be expected to play an i'm. portant part in the approaching grid iron drama. Ed Robinson, veteran coach at Brown, returns to direct the destin4es of the Providence Bears. Brown had some football achievements worth talk. ing about last year, including triumph over Harvard and glorious, although losing, battle with Dartmouth.
 
 with the able Frank Cavanaugh still holding the coaching reins. "Cav" has given the Newton Eagles a prominent place ill the pigskin spotlight and with the fine squad that will be on hand next month should continue to keep B. c. up with the headliners. Cleo Holy Cross. The Worcester Purples have always had strong elevens un. der O'Donnelfs regime but their fail- ures to take game from Harvard and their too frequent defeats at the hands of Boston college have been causes for regret at Nit Saint James. Holy Cross is on Harvard's schedule again this fall and O'Donnell will be afforded another opportunity to try and give the Hoyas a chance to re- sound through the stadium at Cam bridge.
 Lou Little, former all-American tackle at Pennsylvania, takes charge of the Georgetown eleven this season, while Frank Gapgan returns to direct affairs at Fordham. Hugh Bezdeck is again the big boss at Penn State.
 Bob Folwell remains to coach the Navy, MeEwen to command the West Pointers, Lou Young to lead the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and Bob Suth- erland to direct at Pittsburg. Tom Ready will again be in charge at Yer mont. Fuss" McLaughery at Am herst. Kid" Gore at the Aggies, Percy Wendell at Williams and Jack Martin at Wesleyan. Gloomy Gil' Dobie will once more point Cornell toward another grand season, while Chick" Meehan is back to show the way to Syracuse.