Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-25
MAGOFF|N TO AGAIN
HANDLE GATHERING
About so Expected to Join in
DiScuSSions-Navy Has
Two Hefty Backs.
BY H. C. BYRD.
loot ball coaches and officials who
make their homes in and around

pcen calIeQ DV Maggy MdgOIllLl, gen.
orally regarded as the best official in the
South. and is to be held in the sports
department of The Star. Approximately
so coaches of local colleges and high
schools and officials attended the gather
ing a year ago and took part in the dis
cusSion.
It is the opinion of Magof1n that the
meeting last year was very beneficial to
al; who attended. Coaches and players
alike not only got uniformity in their
interpretations of the rules but also
profited through mutual helpfulness in
all phases of the game
Several officials and some coaches
came from down in Virginia for the
meeting. though it was called as pure
ly local affair. Magoffin issued the in
vitations at that time. and he again is
getting cut cards notifying coaches and
officials.
Does Much Good.
ut seems to me-" says Megoff1n, that
We all got good deal out of that meet
ing last year. know that few officials
put any more time in studying the
rules than I do, but there are many
things a discussion will bring out that
one never gets from reading rules by
himself. That meeting last year did me
lot of good, and it occurred to me
several days ago that we ought to get
together again, and I'm sure that if
everybody gets as much out of the dis
cussion tomorrow night as expect 70
We will be glad that we had the oppor-
tunity to thresh out our problems.
Last season in the South Atlant, i;
section and also right around Washing
ton We had greater uniformity of rul-
ingS and less trouble between coaches
because of neutrality-suspicious. than in
any season within my memory, and
attribute that to the fact that we got
together just before the opening of the
season. 1t seems to me the meeting to-
morrow night should be just as pro-
ductive. Of course, you understand that
any man who is coaching, whether high
school, college or club team, and all Of
f1cials, are invited and, in fact, urged to
be present"
It might be mentioned in this con-
nection that coaches and officials here
ought to be glad of the opportunity to
take part in general discussion led by
Magofin, as he undoubtedly is the best
informed cficial in the South. In years
no otner man has worked in games in
this section who made such close studies
of the rules as Magoffin, and no other
man in the section has been able to in
terpret them so well.
Naval Academy will have in its back
field this Fall two of the biggest backs
in the section when Lloyd and Clifton
line up for the opening kickoff against
Davis ElkinS Saturday at Annapolis. Not
only are both big men, but they are
fast. Lloyd is hurdler and general
all-round track and field man and bas-
ket ball player as well as foot ball
man. He formerly played end Last
year both men played in the backfield,
and Clifton. especially, in the contest
with the Army, performed vafiantly.
He banged the Army line consistently
ell during the first half.
And on how we'll these two big backs
perform their duties will depend in no
small measure the success of the Navy
eleven. Both men weigh more than 100
pounds. Another good back is Spring.
and, had it not been for the unfortu-
nate death of Miles Fox, who was ex-
pected to be the brilliant man in an
open field, Navy probably would have
had one Of the greatest quartetS that
have worn its colors.
Navy is looking forward to the big
games on its schedule. the first of which
is only three weeks away. On October
10 Notre Dame is to be met in Chi
cago. which game is being looked upon
in that section as one of the big inter-
sectional clashes of the year. The next
Is with University of Pennsylvania Oc-
tober 81, at Philadelphia; the third with
Michigan. in Baltimore, November 10,
and the last with Princeton, In Phila-
dclphia, November "a.
Duke University is another school ex-
pecting to have great foot bali team.
The Durham school last year had Splen-
did material. but for one reason or an
other could not get going. Jimmie De
Hart. who coached Duke, made the
statement year ago that he had fine
material and that if he did not turn
out a winning team it would be his
fault. This year he has back practically
his whole squad of last season and sew
eral more good players who came up
from the freshman squad.
Navy, Georgetown and South Da-
kota are the biggest games on Duke S
schedule from one point of view, but
from its own view its contests with
North Carolina State College and Uni
versity of North Carolina are the most
important.
Duke plays here the latter part of Oc-
tober, and it ought to put. up fine
game against the Blue and Gray.
Mike Bennett, coach of the Sewanee
eleven, says that he will have a better
team than he turned out last season,
and here is the way he puts it:
Our team should be much stronger
this year. We have several men who
vii! be far more effective than any on
the 1927 team Benton is fine tackle
and a likely candidate for all-Southern
honors Schoolheld is as good punter
and passer as there is playing and IN
addition an excellent defensive men
Bean is a good plunger and defensive
PLAYER. Boyd who comes from the 1927
freshman team ought to do us lot OF
good. as he is very clever back. He
is the only man we have who really is a
dangerous dropkicker."
SeWanee has only small student
body, much the smallest in the South
ern Conference, and it is remarkable
that it turns out the teams 1t does. II
always plays a difficult schedule. OF
course, one of the reasons for its sue
cess is the tact that Mike Bennett is
one of the best coaches in the game
but. even with that. the school OF its
size. having only about 200 students
eligible for its teams, that can turn out
such good teams is deserving Of more
than average communication.
Sewanee opens it's season Saturday
with Pennsylvania, and after that meets
the biggest in the South. It's games fol-
low in consecutive weeks with Texas
A. and NJ, Bryson, Cumberland, Ala
bama, Tennessee, Florida, Tulane and
Vanderbilt.
The Thanksgiving day contest is with
Vanderbilt and is about the same fol
that immediate section and for those
two schools as the Penn-Cornell game
at Philadelphia is for followers of thost