The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-25

That Is McEwan's Answer to
Charge He Has Ready
Made Players
BY DAVIS ]. WALSH,
international News Service sports

Editor.
WEST POINT. N. Y, Oct Is.
Look out there" Captain John
J. McEwan, head coach Of army
football, pointed with duly ira-
matte gesture at eleven young
men running through signals at
His varsity. "There are five men
On that team who wouldn't be
given i football suit at any Of
our big colleges"
John is very much exercised
over the current tendency to
charge the army with getting it's
players ready-made.
EFF those five men are ready
made, I'm a toe dancer" said the
captain In q manner that gave
one the Impression he didn't really
believe he was q toe dancer.
The identity of the nisfIt five,
psrforce he did not disclosed but
It u ASSUMED they didn't include
Garhisch, former all-American cen.
ter, or Ellinger and Farwicl, vet
cram guards, or Harry Wilson, all
American half back. Gilmore. vet
eran back ana Bill Wood, star
punter. BY the process of elm
1natiDn that left Mack and Crit
fifth tackles. Fraser and Born, ends
and Yeomans, quarterback.
To ease the obvious pain, the
writer suggested that these men .
had done rather well against
Notre Dame last week.
s'Eaa, ha,'' replied the captain
An the merry tones Of q man
who has just sustained broken
leg. ella, ha, lla. They were
boxed on every play"
McEwan shook a doleflil head.
II was the only kind he had for
that particular subject. But Army
football and Army IL his complex,
his phobia, his fetish.
'tIn student enrolment, we are
Just a small college" he continued.
s.In discipline and the demands on
the students' time we are just a
military post. Not much time for
football: three days week. in fact.
Only thirty.eight men allowed on
my varsity squad.
He licked off these melancholy
items on one finger after another.
"A football player is just another
cadet here" he added, and went
on to tell about Wilson, an idol at
Penn State last year. The latter
Is one Of several hundred plebes
with few, II any privileges. he is
hauled out Of bed In the morning
at $50 and IL buIlied at random.
by upper class men any time they
might decide that his position at
table is not sufficiently erect or
that his department is not all that
o plebe's should be.
Wilson, IL seems, wanted o MILL
tary career and he ID getting Il.
According to the story he told his
old coach, Hugo Bezdelx, Of his
ambition and IL was Bezdek who
arranged his entry into West
Point. The writer was given the
impression that Wilson may not
have been acclaimed, so to speak,
ct the Point. Tiny Hewitt, ex.
Pitt back, had something Of the
same trouble last year, but is
said to be coming splendidIy now.
They rot Hewitt down TO 192
pounds for the last Navy game:
he weighed 24O entering school
several months before.
The writer broke right into secret
practice yesterday, the present year
. being the first in which the army
has employed this system. McEwan,
II seems, discovered last year that
some Of the opposing teams were
calling the turn before his quarter
back had finished signal and that
wasn't exactly gratifying.
don't believe, however, that am
disclosing State secrets when say
that the Army already is preparing
Tor Yale, although the game at New
Haven Is week removed. They
had their second team using Yale
formations yesterday against the
varsity without notable success.
The Army second team, however, is
not the Yale varsity.
McEwan couldn't add much to the
current Princeton Notre Dame equa-
ton beyond saying that Notre Dame
may not be able to show its real
speed on Saturday. He thought the
Army game. the subsequent travel
ing back and forth and the injury
20 Walsh might dull the fine edge
Of Metre Danes speed.
He was more concerned, in fact.
with his own troubles which include
the loss OF Baxter, veteran end who
y out with q broken leg. Baxter
was the man who stood between q
Iine center trio and q pair Of in.
experienced tackles. He helped bal
ance rather unbalanced forward
/ line. Outside Of the. tackles and
ends the team Is fooI.proof.