Evening star., 1925-12-25

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OF athletics at Duke University.
Heron was engaged at that time
TO succeed DeHart and only took
charge at Duke until DeIIart could
terminate his contract with the Gen
erals. This change has been known
for year. but the information that
Cubbage would not be at Y. =. |. next
Eall comes more or less unexpectedly.
IL was thought that Cubbage was al
most as much of a fixture at Y. y. l.
as any coach could be at any place.
Harlows taking up of the reinS at
Western Maryland, which is making
\ determined drive through raising en-
dowment funds and in other ways to
put itself on the map in no unmistak-
able way. means that that college in
tends to build up its athletics just as
it intends TO build up all its other de-
partments.
Real interest in this section for
some time, though, among coaches
viii center in who is to succeed Cub
bage. Good gridiron coaches are
about as easy to get as all difficult
things are, and V. p. l. will not have
an easy time finding a man. to fit its
needs. 1t may be that Redd, former
Y. p. l. fullbaCk and now coach OF the
freshman team, will get the job.
Redd is we'll liked and many Y. T. l.
men feel he should make them the
right type of man.
With one possible exception. ii is
doubtful if any other school in the
South. especially among those that
are members of the Southern Confer
ence. will change coaches during the
coming year. One may, but il prob
ably will not.
Local coaches also seem well set.
According TO sentiments expressed at
The Georgetown alumni dinner last
week, Lou Little is a fixture for life
on the Hilltop. Maud Crum has two
more years of a three-year contract al
George Washington, and Catholic
University does not have to be told
that it can do no better than retain
NIcAuliffe, which il announced at the
beginning of the season it would.
Red Grange is the greatest car
rier OF a foot ball that ever stepped
on a gridiron." is the opinion Of Rep
resentative Hamilton Fish, former
Harvard gridiron star and member of
the eleven that Walter Camp picked
as an all-time aIl-America product.
Mr. Fish should know whereof he
speaks, as probably no man has
watched foot ball with greater inter
est nor under greater diversity or
conditions. Therefore, his opinion is
man in Oranges position is the sub
iect of it. Here is what he says OF
the former Illinois man
Yes, sir, YOU may say for me that
Red Grange is She greatest foot ball
player that ever stepped on Il grid
iron. BY that I mean he is the great
est carrier of {; ball, and probably IN
scoring ability and comparative value
10 his team has never been equaled
Nv
player that | believe ever equaled him
was Willie Heston of Michigan. !
played against Jim Thorpe, against
Ted Coy. against many other of the
greatest stars, and not one of them
was as good as Grange is today.
Thorpe could punt and drOpkick bet
ter, you say. True. and Ted Coy
could lunge into d line harder, but
did Ted Coy or Thorpe ever translate
their ability into touchdowns as
Grange has done? No matter how
much of a triple-threat a man may
be. the real test of his ability is the
translation of that threatening power
into points. When did Thorpe or Coy,
or anybody else. ever do against a big
university what Grange did against
Pennsylvania this last Fall or what
he did against Michigan year ago?
In two games. against Michigan and
Penn, two of the strongest elevens in
the country, Grange made seven
touChdownS. Whatever may be said
of him, that is real ability, no
amount of casing about what he is
doing on professional fields can ever
diSpoSsess Grange of those perform
ances, TO my mind the greatest in the
history of the gridiron."
just how differently a good coach
looks upon the performances of 4
foot ball player from the way the
average spectator views them may
lie we'll realized from statement
made by a prominent Southern coach
in relationship to the Alabama
eleven.
In the Alabama hackfield are two
stars, Hubert and Brown, who have
been given almost entire credit for
what Alabama has done on the grid
iron this year. They. according to
newspaper writer's, are to bear the
Drunt of the game. out on the Pa
citic Coast on New Year day. Yet
here is what a coach who followed
Alabama all year has to say:
Hubert and Brown get credit for
being great foot ball players. Actual
ly they the. but the most valuable
man in the Alabama backtield is
Barnes. He does not get credit for
it, but he is the key to Alabama's
success. Let him be out of that
game New Year day and you would
see all the difference in the world
in the Alabama eleven. Barnes is