Evening star., 1925-08-17

OF course. the situation may
two weeks old. but right now If ther
around Lexington, except at NaShn
felt in conversations with outside p
V. NJ. is chief lament seems TO be
in the loss of its line. 1t Is unusual
that a school drops every man in its
forward wall, but graduation took
away all the five center men. Both
ends. Fain and Barkley, are to be
back for the opening of practice, but
both tackles, both guards, and the
center will be noticeable by their alb
sence And the worst of the situa-
tion is. according to V. NJ. |. people,
there is no real likely material for
these positions either from last years
substitutes or from the freshman
eleven.
Dearth of Good Men.
Kelley and Kearney. both sub
guards from 1924, are due back, and
Smith and OBerry, freshman guards,
will he available. Only two tackles
are available. unless one of the men
normally playing guard position is
shifted. MOorman, sub tackle year
ago, and kulp, from the freshman
squad. do not offer much of choice
for these positions Other linemen
are JamerSOn and Yates, end Substi-
tuteS. and Thornhill, a freshman end
of 1924. McElroy, sub center year
ago, probably win be the regular in
the position.
While V. NJ. l. is bewailing its line
prospects il seems almost certain that
its backtield will be one of the great
est in its history. Surely ii will be
fast, strong and clever. White and
Caldwell, stars of 1924, are back, and
so are Harmeling and Willis, both of
whom have done some fine work in
the back field. White and Caldwell,
of course, stand out among the best
backs in the South. Last year White
generally was picked for all-Southern
fun. From the freshman team come
several capable men, Wolfe and Far
ley, quarterbaCks, and Gfroerer and
Nabers, halfbacks, being the best.
Gfroerer is said to be certain of a
varsity position and actually ranks as
a brilliant ball carrier, if reports of
what he accomplished as a member
of the freshman team are accepted
al their face value. Everybody, even
V. NJ. l. coaches, seem to accord him
a regular job in the varsity backtield.
Doesn't Like Outlook.
BIandy Clarkson, head coach of all
athletics at V. NJ. l., is more or less
pessimistic about the outlook. His
opinion is expressed thus:
II do not see how we can possibly
be as successful as we have been for
the last two years. We lost all our
seasoned linemen, and a team which
must face a season with an absolute
" green line simply is out of luck
unless things break much better than
The circumstances call for. Probably
our baCkfield viii be stronger than "A
year ago, but right now it seems to
me that our prospects generally are
the poorest in five years"
V. NJ. l. played difficult schedule
last season, yet had a good record.
1t defeated Wofford. Emory and
Henry, Roanoke, and Hampden Sidney
by big scores, won from North Caro-
lima State and Kentucky, tied V. p. L..
and lost 8 to to Georgia Tech and
North Carolina and TO Virginia by
10 TO 0.
This year the team plays just as
difficult a schedule, meeting practi-
cally the same opponents, and " NJ. l..
will be among the first to open and
goes through until Thanksgiving day.
1t plays its first game September 10
with Wofford at Lexington; Septem-
ber 26 meets Emory and Henry at
Lexington; October 3, Tech at Atlanta;
October 10, Roanoke at Lexington;
October II, Virginia at Charlottsville;
October "a, North Carolina State at
Richmond: October 81, Lynchburg
College at Lexington; November Z,
North Carolina L. at Richmond; No
vember IA, Kentucky at Charleston;
November %, Thanksgiving day. Vir-
gnia Polytechnic Institute at Roanoke.
When the University of Maryland
squad gets out for its first practice
it will find itself under the necessity
of eleCting a new captain. John
Hough, right guard for the last three
years, who was elected to the cap
taincy, will not return to school this
Fall. He has obtained commission
in the Marine Corps, along with Joe
Burger and Ed Pugh incidentally,
with Bailey, Groves and McQuade,
former MarylanderS, already in the
Marine Corps, the Devil Dogs line
up this Fall may contain six mem
bers of the Maryland eleven that two
years ago defeated Pennsylvania and
almost turned the trick on Yale
Hough was one of the best linemen
that have worn a Maryland uniform
and no doubt win be greatly missed
from the Old Line squad.
Something of the demand for
tickets to foot ball games in the Mid
die West may be recognized when it
is stated that the three most i'm
portant games TO be played by the
University Of Michigan are to have an
allotment of only two tickets to each
person, and this includes alumni.
This situation just about puts the
games out in that section in the same
class with the Princeon- Yale Harvard,
Pennsylvania-Cornel and Penn State
Pittsburgh contests.
And in this connection, it might be
well to state that Michigan is expect
ing one of its greatest teams. Not
MI he af
last years varsity material, but has
available a wealth of material that
was not eligible a year ago.
Catholic University has sent out in
vitatiOns TO 81 men to return for foot
ball practice, the largest squad that
the Brooklanders have had for a var
sity team. The one-year rule will be
enforced, and no man on the squad
will be allowed to remain a member
of it who has not been in-the univer-
sity a full year.
Whether or not ii is better to take
a foot ball team to some training camp
for its preseason workouts or to do
the practicing at home on the field
on which it is to play its games, is a
question that has been discussed CON
siderably among coaches. Some-the
majority, in fact-hold that it is much
better to take the squad somewhere
so that when the actual grind of the
seasons workout begins the men will
not be 50 apt to get tired of their sur
roundings. Another reason for pre-
season practice elsewhere than on the
home field is because it usually is SO
hot early in September that the
coaches are anxious to take their men
TO some spot near the SeaShore or In
the mountains where the air is cool
enough to allow real workouts with