Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
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that many colleges have had tnen
players on the field, but nevertheless;
the first regularly scheduled games Oh
the year are to be played this week.
None Of the contests listed would
draw any prize for special interest, but
they are the first contests and as such
hold a real place in the seasons
scheme Of things. And, rather strangely
1t is the South which plays most games
on the early date, with the far West
second and the North falling in behind
Teams in the South begin playing in
Virginia, and right on around the Gull
Coast through Texas to California
games will take place. Several big
schools in the far West are to stage
contests. while north Of the Mason
Dixon line only two are listed, Drexel
Institute of Philadelphia having Juniata
College as an opponent, and Rhode Is
land State playing the United States
Coast Guard.
v. Nj. I. Has Game.
Virginia Military Institute opens its
season with Hampden-S Sidney as It's
opponent. Down in North Carolina
Davidson College meets Guilford. Uni
versity of South Carolina opens with
Erskine and Clemson with Newberry.
Center College meets Pennsylvania. In
Texas the Southern Methodist Uni
versity of Dallas gets in action against
Denton College and Texas A. ana M.
at College Station plays Trinity. AND
right here it is WORTH mentioning that
Army had better watch that Southern
Methodist eleven, because when the lat
ter Journeys to West Point early In Oc-
tober it will be far stronger than people
in the New York section expect.
out in the far West Stanford and
washington State College are the
biggest schools with games. The former
meets one of the Army teams OF tnat
section and the latter pays Whitman
College. Other more or less prominent
schools that are to open their seasons
are Wyoming, the southern branch OF
the University Of California, West Wiz.
sinia wesleyan, Loyola, Maryville ana
Kentucky Wesleyan.
Meet in Big Game.
Probably what will prove the hardest
played game of the day VIII De tnaC
at Morgantown between West virginia
and Davis-Elkins. West Virginia neaily
ALWAYS has a good team, while DAVIS
Elkins is said to have material for
versatile and strong combination.
Practically ali the games scheduled
are more or less of tryouts for one OF
the teams. It is In nearly every case
q strong combination testing It's mettie'
as far as it can, against rather weak
opponent. Those schools that DO not
have games regularly listed probably
will 60 through scrimmage with their
scrub elevens under conditions as nearly
as possible approximating a real game.
Local squads are not due to play for
another two weeks, their trst games
being listed September ~, but IN tne
meanwhile they are Saving WOOD Tor
dear life. Not much is being said and
not much is being predicted by those
in charge of the various squads.
Georgetown, generally speaking, gives
indications of being stronger than IL
was a year ago. Catholic University
expects to have about the same kind OF
a team that represented 1t in 1927,
Notwithstanding losses of star players
George Washington feels that 1t Is not
going to be as proficient while Mary
land Is trying to dig out OF very small
SQUAD two or three players who can NIL
fairly creditably the shoes left vacant
by several men who finished their COL
legiate foot ball last Fall.
American University and Gallaudet
are not claiming anything, but simply
say they expect to do their best.
Sometimes when one reads about
something new in the way Of foot ball
nlays one wonders if there ever is any,
thing really new in that field, A story
has lust been given wide publicity about
a multilateral pass that Zuppke is work.
Ing on, yet teams used that play Is years
ago. In fact, 1t was one OF the favorlte
last-minute methods of trying to ad-
vance a ball by team that apparently
was beaten. Last Summer a Baltimore
paper printed story about new play
that Rockne had developed, play on
which a touchdown had been scored
against Navy in the game In Baltimore
vet a former coach who watched that
game told the writer that 1t was prac-
tically the same play on which George
Washington team scored three touch
downs against Washington and Lee
here lust 10 years before last Fall.
Warner generally is given credit for
developing the plays that bring line
men out behind the line to get In in
reference, yet that was first done by a
former Princeton man at Nebraska be-
fore Warner began coaching.
A half-column was given in one paper
last season to supposedly marvellous
play that had been worked ont by q
certain coach, yet that play was used
as far back as 1900. Every once IN a
while some coach comes out with a
rather original adaptation of some old
play or old principle but as far as really
new plays are concerned not many are
ever seen.
Just what kind Of a foot ball team
the Marines are to have this season
cannot be foretold but everybody In
the squad at College Park and the
coaches as we'll feel that the year will
be fully as successful as the last two,
and in those two not game has been
lost.
Tom Ready, genial and capable coach
of the team, Is optimistic over the out
look. It would be hard to pick the real
stars of the squad, but just how good
generally the squad is may be realized
when it is stated that in all probable
fly two or three former Naval Academy
players are going to have the time OF
their young lives getting and holding
regular jobs.
Marines just now are beginning to
look toward their annual Presidents
Cup game, to be played here December
8. The squad, while it gives every pos
sible consideration to the games it plays
with colleges, nevertheless puts its real
store by that contest, In which it hopes
to win. and has won consistently, the
xsrvIce championship.
Several of the members of the squad
were on the team year ago, Shapley,
former Navy halfback, who starred for
Marines in their big Army game last
year, being one, but two or three others
who were brilliant performers then will
not play. Brougher and Wigmore, both
fine tackles. are not playing this year
though the latter is helping to coach
Duncan, one of the best backs the Ma
rines have ever had, though he never
got credit for it, also is helping to
handle the squad. The fact that the
Marines feel they can use such play
ers as coaches and not take advantage
of their ability on the field of play is
sufficient to show just how much they
think of their present material.