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the same men that made up it's five
year ago, and then no team found the
College Psrkers easy.
c. T.. Squad Formidable.
Catholic University has O'Day and
Carney. centers; kenney, Garvin,
Keale, Foley and Harvey, forwards;
Mccarthy, Bailey. Long and oDon,
nell, guards, and several others. All
these players have had considerable
experience and some of them were
stars on the freshman five year ago,
while others did good work as mem
bers of the varsity.
University Of Mar yland not only has
back the regulars of last season, but
also has three substitutes from the
varsity squad. as we'll as some excel
lent players from the 1924-25 fresh.
man quint.
Neither Catholic University nor
Maryland has yet determined on
definite starting lineup for their open
Ing contests. In all probability all
the play will get chances to show
what they can do, irrespective of the
outcome of the games.
SuppIee. Faber, Ensor, Boyd. Ste
vens, CardweIl, Beatty and TroXell
are, eight of nine members of last
years varsity squad who are back.
from the freshman Quint are Adams,
Linkous, Woodward, Whelchell, Ste
phens and Davidson.
Regarding Red Grange.
Red" Grange seems TO be coming
in for Just little more than his share
of criticism. On the one side the col
leges are extremely regretfpl that he
entered professional foot ball, and col
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every section of the country. while
they have made no reference to
Grange, have acted with deliberate
intent to curtail professional foot ball
in every way possible.
On the other hand, because Grange
has not been able to do so we'll in pro-
fessional foot ball as he did in col
lege foot ball. many long and loud
criticisms have come forth to the ef-
feet that he is through, is not trying.
is being left in the lurch by his team
mates, who are jealous. and numer-
GUS other things of q similar nature.
The facts are these, and do not
seem TO warrant such criticism.
Grange had acquired in university a
foot bali education that was worth to
him more than 500. 900 in the short
space of a month or two. There actu-
ally Is no more reason why Grange
money than there is why any gradu-
ate in a business administration cur
riculum should not have used his
talents to earn q like amount if he
could have done SO.
The only difference is that the ave
rage college graduate usually leaves
his university to work for two or
three years for just about one fiftieth
of what Grange will make in month.
Probably no college men. probably
no other man, college or otherwise.
would have turned down an oppor-
tunity TO acquire such earnings in
such a short time.
Has Difficult Task.
Another thing, all the talk about
Grange being through and terribly
overrated just shows q plain lack of
| knowledge of what the person is talk
| ing about. Grange was a great foot
| ball player while in college and still
| is a great player. OF him one college
coach told the writer after the game
! with Pennsylvania: He is the great
est runner in a broken field 1 have
ever SEEN"
In college Grange was pointed to do
his best at stated intervals. Natur-
ally he would do better on such oc-
casions than IL he were in the game
every other day or so. Walter John
son pitched two wonderful games in
| the last world series because he had
| been rested and pointed for three
weeks to put forth his supreme ef-
fort in those contests. but when after
that he went in for a third game his
efforts were anything but what they
| had been.
Something else, in these professional
games about all opposing teams are
| trying to do is stop Grange, and in
| any foot ball game in which one team
sets out to do nothing but stop one
man, that one man is pretty likely
to be stopped. Before the recent con-
test in which Grange appeared here
the best player on the local all-star
eleven said to the writer: "Al we
want to do Is stop Grange, and were
| going to come close to doing just
| that" Grange is so much advertised
that about all opposing teams have as
their supreme aim to prevent MIN
| gaining ground.
Conditions Are Different.
Considerable comment has been
| heard tnat Grange does not DO iuuch
4 on offense when he does not carry
| the ball and does not hurt himself
| any on defense. AS a matter of fact.
| nine chances out of ten, Grange, who
| Is the real drawing power of the pro-
| fessional eleven of which he is a men,
Der, has been warned not to take any
| chances of getting hurt, and probably
| is obeying orders. The people run
ming the eleven of which he is a mem
| Der probably know full well that their
| team would not draw a corporal's
| guard were Grange not in the lineup.
Something else, Grange is mighty
| valuable to his team, even If he is not
| gaining ground. When an opposing
eleven concentrates on stopping one
| man, usually it fails to stop other
| backs.
In the recent professional game
here it seemed very much as IL the
! Bears could have beaten the local
| organization much worse II they really
had tried. The Chicago eleven fiddled
| along during the first half, but when