Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-29

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LOO LITTLE.
squad, but simply TO point out how
find men to replace those we lost.
I'VE have fine schedule, niue
played in years, and | hope we can
it with success. OF course, that sche
to success, in games won and lost,
schedule, even If we do not win SO
good season. but feel that the job ah
that | cannot speak i'll very opium
Gecrgetown's squad, scheduled to
get together tomorrow at Asbury
Park, will be the first in the South,
possibly in the East and Middle West,
to begin practice. Arrangements
were made some time ago to house
the players and to use the athletic
grounds CT the Asbury Park High
School.
Little and his staff of coaches al
ready are at Asbury Park completing
arrangements for the arrival of the
squad and making plans for the whole
of preliminary practice. Also Little
is discussing with his coaches the
problems attendant on the season IN
general and laying out for round
table talk the ideas the mentors IN
dividually have developed during the
Summer.
Assisting Little this season will be
Herb Koff end coach, and Mike Palm,
backfield tutor. the two men who
worked all last season with the squad.
In addition to these men Little will
have John da Grosa, former Colgate
man. az line coach. Frank Murray is
to have charge of the scrubs.
Undoubtedly Georgetown has a
schedule that would tax any team In
fact, few schools have more difficult
lists of games. and some of the
schools in the South have plenty OF
hard ones, too. Here is how the
schedule stacks up:
September 25---DreXel at Washing
ton ~
October 2-Pittsburgh at Pitts
burgh.
October 9-Washington College at
Washington.
october l6-West Virginia at Wash
ington.
October 23-Elon College at Wash
ington.
washington.
November 6-SJracuse at Syracuse.
November 13-Navy at Annapolis.
November o0--k'Ordham at New
York
November 27-Detroit at Detroit.
While in one sense there are only
four big games on this list, Pitts.
burgh, syracuse. West Virginia ana
Navy. actually there are two other
contests that will be difficult. Neither
I'ordham nor Detroit have specially
high rating because they do not play
The kind of games that give them the
opuortunity to win places in the sun.
They. are just about as tough loot
ball teams as one might wish to run
UP against.
Little, former Pennsylvania man,
has done a good job at Georgetown
In his second year he turned out
fine team and now has arranged just
what Georgetown has desired for
wears, games with schools recognized
as being out in front. In getting
games with Pittsburgh, West Nir-
GINA, syracuse and Navy. the Blue
and Gray athletic director has earned
his salary if he does nothing else
Georgetown wants contests OF TINS
kind and needs to keep them on It's
schedule in future years If it is to
attain its desired place in the grid.
iron world.
Georgetown hopes to turn out an
eleven capable of playing through
hard schedule successfully. And in
all probability it will play through
with better results than Little's semi
predictions might tend TO indicate
While good men have been lost. stih
the squad has in ito membership sew
eral players of high Caliber. 1t may
be that the squad will develop
strength in unexpected ways. so that.
while some positions may not be as
strong as last year. the team as n
-hnl no inst Ira nl%
McGrath captain. is one of the best
ends in the East. Not many better
performers are TO be found than Carl
Waite. and Mosco. Sauer and Grigsy
measure up about as we'll as any
other players.
Other members of the squad who
will go to the training camp are Car
roll. Clark. Connaughton. Cooney,
CuSincer de Long, Dennen, Donovan,
Flynn. Gilmartin, Gormeley, Hanlon,
Holloway. Jaeger. McCabe, Miller,
Maroney, AIunson. Nissi. Nork,
O'Nei!, Schwartz. Scott, Stockton,
Sullivan, Thompson, Tomani. Vuk-
manic, VIM, Higgins, Cahill and
Hines.
ID. y. Welsh of Roanoke College,
Virginia. hes Just completed an in
that institution are doing and how
their success in the business and pro-
fessional world compares with that
of non athletes. Welshs conclusion
is interesting.
II am convinced that our athletes
have been men Of many interests ana
versatile gifts. They more than hold
their own with our other alumni in
anv worthy standard by which we
Judge them There have been not
more than two or three failures in
the entire group ana the ma jority
stand cut as leaders. Our athletes
have he"n ANYTHING hut lowhrows and
men who attach first Importance to
physical proves. and am confident
that the same could he said Of other
colleges. They are practically all
doing a most useful and successful
work in many Of the most important
fields of service"