The Washington times., 1928-12-06
FOLEY
NAMED As
QUARTER
BY George A. Simpson


BY George A. Simpson
Jack McAuliffe, head foot
. Ball coach at Catholic Univer-
sity, was faced with Difficult
ties in choosing his all-Catho-
lie University eleven for the
four years he has coached at
the Brookland school. Nc
Auliffe took up the coaching
reins at G.. u. in 1925.
The Catholic University coach
discovered that there were approx
mately Is players meriting recog-
milton. but he cut this list down to
I II stating it would be unfair to
forget these additional three. Nc
Auliffe's chief obstacle at c. U. is
that the majority of the candidates
are inexperienced upon first re.
porting and do not ARRIVE" until
their senior year.
They are developed under the
careful wing of Jack McAuliffe,
but it requires two years OF
hard work and then McAuliffe
only has their services for .
year.
IT favor Big Bill Connors for
one end with Emil Mayer or john
nv Long on the other flank" said
McAuliffe. "Connors was huge,
standing six feet, one inch and
weighing 21O pounds. He was
greatest end on cutting down the
Interference. a good forward pass
! receiver and good man on opening
up holes on account OF his weight.
His big size was threat, the OPP
ponents sending plays around the
other wing instead of trying Con-
nors.
.Maver was the best defensive
end of the lot with Long the best
receiver on passes Other good
ends were Bill Shields. who also
PLAYED at tackle, and Bill Aowen and
Oscar Gerth.
RAY DuFour and Bill McGovern
were the foremost tackles, al
though Joe Raiche, of my present
, team, has another year left. Du-
Four did not arrive until his final
year and was recognized as one of
the best college tackles in this
section. DuFour and McGovern
were big, powerful and aggressive
and almost immune to injury.
"I have chosen AL Moore and
Eddie LaFOrd, my present as
sistant coach, as the guards,
purely ON their fighting quail
ties. They were unusually
light for guards but they had
he. rs Of steel"
"In the 1925 game against Boston
College, which we lost by a 90
score, Major Frank Cayanaugh,
then coaching Boston College, adj
mitted that \. ore and LaFond both
outpIayed his yards Moore was
an exce.ent man in the open field
as an interferer ard was fast down
the field unde. Foley's punts and
quick kicks.
''For center, must give the
post to Bill Linskey, who
played the position for three
years." remarked McAuliffe." /
never knew him to be hurt or
claiming an injury while he
played throughout the entire
1926 season without a substi-
tute."
ale was a reliable, methodical and
dependable passer. Tom McCabe.
of this years eleven, is improving
and may come up to Linskey's
caIiber by next year.
Foley is my choice for quarter
back as he was the best passer, ex-
cellent quick kicker and uncanny
In placing his punts at any desired
spot. His generalship was ex-
ceptional and he was coolest under
fire. Gene Murphy, the 1927 quar-
terback, is a halfback and has al
ways wanted to play the position.
However. we had no other quarter
hack this year. so Murphy played
the position. Murphy. as is known.
Is a great pa sser and fair punter.
II couldn't leave Bill Harvey, Joe
Champa and Gene Murphy off the
team, so | have placed them as
alternate halfbacks. They couldn't
go without a substitution during
game because of their smallress,
while Champa wasn't able to show
his real form this year because Of
injuries. Harvey could alternate
with Jim Schmidt at left halfback
and Murphy alternate with Champa
at right halfback.
"Jack MaIevich gets the caE
as fulIback because of his bril-
liant defensive play for the last
two years. lie has certainly
been Indispensable to us. for he
is strong arm in our defense.
Malevich is also terrible line
smasher," McAuliffe added.
This arrangement of our back
field will permit Murphy switching
with Foley at quarterback, and
Schmidt taking Maieyich's fullback
place in case of injury.
"As an example of players devel,
oped here are Paul Saffo and George
Menke, two qua rds. Saffo nor
Menke knew anything about foot.
y ball before coming to Catholic Uni.
versity. Saffo did not come through
until his final year when he won
a regular varsity berth. Menkc
\ although senior has two more
. years Of varsity football, and !
think he viii be valuable man to
US next year"