Evening star., 1927-09-06

CAROLINA seems better
fixed for foot ball than it has
~ been for years. Some reports
have come from Chapel I'LL
about the scarcity of veteran material,
but in reality the Tarheels are excep,
tionally fortunate in that regard.
With Is men on the field who won
their letters in the 1926 campaign, any
school ought 10 feel very much like
congratulating Itself, and surely is
in a much better position than the
great ma jority Of its opponents.
Probably the best OF last years
squad are Capr. Moorehead, tackle.
and Shuford. flillhacE. Both were
among the outstanding layers in the
section year ago and again prob
ably will take their places pretty close
to the front before the coming of
Thanksgiving day. In addition to
Moorehead and Shuford, Ferren. half.
back. has two years of varsity play
behind him.
Much Experienced Material.
All the other letter men have PLAYED
only one year of varsity foot ball, but
among them are some who proved
themselves worthy of the highest con
fldences of coaches. Schwartz. cen
ter, for instance, before he went to
North Carolina. was picked as all
southern scholastic center and in adj
dition to that has year on the North
Carolina freshman eleven and another
year on the varsity behind him, which
is not undesirable experience.
Other players who come from the
varsity with a year of freshman and
varsity experience, besides their pre-
Vious experience in scholastic ranks.
are: Shuler. guard: Warren and
Howard. tackles; Mcdaniel and Pres
son, ends; Furches, quarterback;
Block and Jenkins. fullbacks: Foard.
Lassiter. Young. Ellison and McPher-
son, halfbacks.
Mcpherson is one of the two or
three fastest sprinters in the South.
and last year caught the opening kick
off in the game with Maryland and
ran it back for a touchdown so fast
that Maryland squad seemed tied to
a post.
North Carolina had a very good
freshman eleven and from it will get
several good men. although the most
of this years undoubtedly will be
picked from the men with varsity eX-
perience. Thirty-siX members of the
freshman squad were invited to report
for practice and yesterday most of
them were on the field
Seventy men constitute the Carolina |
squad, about the same number from /
the varsity 1926 outfit and the fresh !
man squad of that year. Private state |
ments from Chapel Hill indicate that /
anything other than pessimism per
vades the practice field In fact, every
body around the Tarheel institution
send out of Chapel Hill one of its
greatest elevens.
First Game Is Tough.
Opening the schedule is the game
with Wake Forest, and the Tarheels
are giving no small amount of serious
thought to it. The last three years
Wake Forest has gone over to Chapel
Hill and carried home the bacon, to
the great delight of all the Baptists
and to the great chagrin of the Uni
versity people.
No change has been made in the
coaching system. Chuck" Collins,
former Notre Dame star, who was in
charge of the team last season, is boss
again and he viii have the same as
Bob Fetzer, athletic director.
will help out and do most of the scout
ing. /.
North Carolina, like most other
Southern schools, plays a difficult
schedule. 1t starts in on September
"a with Wake Forest and gets little
chance for a letup until after its
annual Thanksgiving day clash with |
Virginia. Here is the full list:
September 24.-Wake Forest at
Chapel Hill.
October 1.--Tennessee at Chapel
Hill.
October S.--Maryland at Chanel HilE
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October 22.-Georgia Tech at At
lanta.
October 29.-North Carolina State
at Raleigh.
November 5.-Virginia Military In
stitute at Lexington.
November 12.-DavidsOn at Chapel |
Hill.
November 24.-Virginia at Char
lOttesvills.
Yesterday marked the almost gen.
eral beginning of practice throughout |
the South and with nearly all opening |
their schedules September "a, all field |
sessions are likely to have an. intensity |
not before known. Especially is this |
true in view of the hard games that |
come right at the beginning of the |
session. Virginia. Washington and |
Lee, Virginia Military Institute, Vir- |
ginia Polytechnic Institute, North |
Carolina and North Carolina State, |
were the big schools in the South |
Atlantic to get their men on the field. |
Two more local schools begin prac-
tice tomorrow. Catholic University and |
George Washington being scheduled to |
begin preparation for what they ex
pect to be successful years. Both |
squads are to be under the direction of |
the same men who handled them
year ago, Harry Crum at George |
Washington and Jack McAuliffe at |
Catholic University.
Both schools will develop their
squads with the idea of having them |
AT top form when they face each other |
Thanksgiving day. The game between |
George Washington and Catholic Uni. |
versity has come to have great rivalry |
as its main interest, and added to that |
the two schools this year expect to
have good elevens.
George Washington has sent invita-
tions to report TO Morrison, Scott,
Rangley, Sanders, Vessy, Wineland,
Barrow, Walker, Coleman, Lopeman,
Carey. Clapper, Clements. Davis, Eng
land, Goldberg, Mitchell, Bowen, Bres-
low, FREEZER, Perry, Ingle, Morrow.
Athey, Hahn. HartZog, Smith, Mar
zula, Stehman, Greenberg, Allshouse,
Suter.
Catholic University expects to have
rs its varsity squad Long, Howell
McGovern, DuFour, Sullivan, Tierhey,
Iehrfield, Saffo. LinSky, Harvey, |
Smythe, IIeiner, Foley. Conveigh, !
Carney, Brennan, Gerth. Water, War
rem. Chenworts, Harding. Raiche, |
Howe, Zeno. McCabe. O'COnnell,
Phelan, d D'Agnostino, Mcnamara, Muir
ply. Champa, Byrne, Russo and
MalaYich.