Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-05

Maryland never started a training
1or O foot ball season with a bigger
question mark hung up before it, Not
in years have the Old Liners had a
squad which seemed SO uncertain in
50 many ways. Not only in the usual
and expected ways have losses occur.
red. but unexpected departures have
caused big gaps. In all probability
the only man that has ever played in
an end position on the varsity who
Will be on the squad Is Gilbert Dent.
and he has never gone through a full
game. Only two backs have more
than one year Of college foot ball to
their credit, Capt. Mike Stevens and
Ed Tenney, and their first year con-
sisted of taking part in just two games
each. And OF the men from whom a
line will have to be built only one has
been on the squad two years, and just
three have had as much as one year
Of college foot ball, and several have
never played at all.
And yet, with all that, Maryland
may have a team that will give good
account Of itself One thing, it will be
a fighting team with plenty of physi-
cal power. And it Will be a team with
O backfeld that, though green, will
have ground.gaining ability. Many OF
the things that make up really fine
eleven are going to be lacking in the
Maryland squad, and experience is the
main one OF those things. 1t hardly
seems possible for an eleven with so
little experience to hope for much
with the kind Of schedule Maryland
is to play. but team OF that kind
sometimes makes up in aggressiveness
what it lacks in experience. Anyway,
Maryland's team Is likely to be one of
more than ordinary interest because
of the very uncertainty attached to it.
Maryland loses six members of it's
last years backheld, Whelchel, Besley,
Troxell, Faber, Parker and Reading.
In the line are lost both regular ends,
Supple and Beatty. Cardwell, who
was depended upon this year, has en-
tered George Washington Medical
School. Tonkin, the only other center
besides Bafford: Bromley and Bonnet,
who held down the guard jobs most
Of the time last season; Lanigan and
Waters. guards and tackles for the
last three years. are gone.
Maryland has five backs from last
years squad, Capt. Stevens. Thomas,
Tenney, Pueh and Linkous. From
the freshman squad 1t draws Schenck,
Parsons. Kessler. Wondrack and ySny-
der. 1t also has available Schrader,
who was not eligible last Fall.
In the line are available from the
1928 eleven only three regulars, BAT
ford, Zulick and Adams. From the
second string come Leatherman,
Granger and Winterberg; Herzog,
who was kept out last year by a
broken ankle, AMI one or two others
Of lesser abilities.
The freshman team had several
linemen who were expected to make
good, but three of them fell by the
wayside through scholastic failures,
and. unfortunately, two Of them were
ends. Keenan, is about the best Of
tho Freshman linen1en, but Wondrack
may be shifted 10 a forward position.
Wondrack was used as guard during
Spring practice and performed we'll
in scrimmages with the Navy against
older and more experienced players.
Catholic University lost five good
men from its squad-Moore and Re
gan, guards. and Adams. Garvin and
Du Four, backs. All these were capa-
BILE players, but everybody at Brook
land seems to feel that there is suf-
fcient material from which to develop
a strong combination.
Shields and McGovern, regular
tackles, are ready for the gong. and
so are three ends who held down
those positions, Moore. Mccain and
Howell. Lafond Is tho only one OF
the guards back and the other men