Evening star., 1927-09-29
BY III. {. BYRD.

J Maryland at college, Park SAT
urday one of the best lookins
- elevens physically that have
stepped on a local field in many years
With the exception of one man. Wing
field at quarter, the team virtually is
group of 6-footers. The university
from the Palmetto State will have OF
the field Saturday about as good Z
= squad as could be desired.
=" One end, Holcombe. is exactly {
feet. while the other is 6 feet
inch, and both weigh close to Isl
pounds. Wolf at tackle is feet
inches and weighs 1872 pounds. Rogers
at the other tackle is feet l inch
g and is close to 1870. GuarinO. left
guard, and Bear. center, are feet
q and weigh 1S5 pounds each. Price
right guard. is short, but weighs not
far from 1S0.
Wingfield, at quarter, is a small
man ir comparison to the others,
while Hiza, at one half. and Swink,
sset full, go over 1S0 pounds, and Zobel,
star of the backtield is about 5 feet
10 and weighs around 165.
Last year South Carolina had q
good team, good enough to beat Mary.
land l. to 0, and this season it has
In its lineup eight of the regulars of
- that team. That seems sufficient TO
indicate real strength. Both Zohel
sesand Wingfield pass. kick and run with
the ball, while Hiza is an exceptional
ly good plunging back.
1t is likely that South Carolina will
play a balanced game against Mary
land-that is, depend on a mixture of
several things for its ground gaining.
1t has good forward pass plays. and,
according to report, is not afraid to
throw the ball. Last year it made
practically no mistakes in it's game
with Maryland, while the Old Liners
made several.
Maryland will place against South
Carolina team that ought to be
hard to beat. 1t has benefited consid-
erably from the practice scrimmages
it has had with Marines and should be
in pretty good physical trim. With
the exception of Thomas the team has
in it no particularly fast man, but
on the other hand there are no espe-
cially slow ones.
In all probability of the II men
who start against South Carolina will
be former Washington High School
players, and, rather strangely, all
from the same school. Adams at
tackle. Wondrack at guard. Young and
Dodson at ends and kessler and
Thomas in the backfield, got their first
4OUt Udll experience IGCn.
Whatever may be the result of the
contest, some good play should be
seen. While South Carolina will have
on the field a lot of splendid specimens
of physical manhood, Maryland's rep
resentatives are not exactly weaklings.
The game is the first of Importance
here and in all probability will take it's
place as one of the best of the season.
The South Carolina squad is due
here tomorrow, under direction of
Jimmy Driver, director of athletics,
and Head Coach Lightsey. Driver is
O former William and Mary and Vir-
gfnia man. Washington is not a new
stamping ground for him. as he for
rnerly played basket ball, foot ball and
base ball on Virginia teams against
Georgetown and also ran on the track
team. He is one of the very few men
that have ever earned four letters in
athletics at Virginia. Incidentally,
Driver is a fine fellow personally and
Is doing good job at South Carolina
Today the Marine Corps foot ball
pQuad broke camp at the University of
maryland and returned to Quantico,
where the season will be opened Sat
urday against Washington College. 1t
is useless to mention what the Marine
Corps eleven will do to the team Mary
land swamped last week, as it will
win by whatever score it decides is
best to run up, but one thing that is
well to mention is the splendid atti-
tude and conduct of the men who
make up the squad. About fifty play.
ers have been at College Park since
the first week in September, and In
that period the relationships between
Them and the university and between
Ehem and the university students have
been all that could be desired and
much better than would have resulted
had the Marines been the average col.
lege squad. Perhaps to be quiet, dig
nif1ed and gentlemanly is usual for the
Marines. usual enough not to be men,
sloned, but so much above the aver
age are they under such circum-
stances, SO much more exemplary
tnan the average college squad, that
nt is only giving them due credit to
mention the fact.
Tom Ready. coach of the Marines, is
p real character on the foot ball field.
Off the field he is jovial, talkative,
with great fund of interesting in
FORMATION and anecdotes. On the
field he becomes for the most part
quiet. easy speaking, carefully direct
ing and encouragingly and patiently
teaching as long as his men appear TO
be giving their best efforts, but let
one OF them begin to ease up or slough
along even for a second and Toms
quiet voice can fill with a sarcasm that
would do Otis Skinner proud. And
when Tom thinks his team is not
quite measuring up to what it is ca
paDte of, instead of quietly and pa.
tiently teaching and leading, he i'm.
mediately transforms into a virile. |
driving force that always is needed.
and, used at psychological moments
as Ready uses it, may accomplish
what other methods may not.
And Tom Ready gets results. He
ss a good foot ball coach and knows
how to weld gradually a group of men
into machine.
GeOrgetOwn's squad yesterday con.
centrated on plays employed by Sus-
quehanna which will be met on the
Hliitop Saturday. Frank Murray,
coach OF the Freshmen eleven. had
drilled his charges in the formation
or the Seiinsgrove, Pa, outfit. and
sent them against the varsity. Sec.
Ond and third string combinations also |
mixed with the yearlings. Steve
Barabas. who was slightly hurt. was
expected to take Hudack's place at |
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