The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-14
STUHLDREHER
RECORD
AT VILLAN0VA
Team Unbeaten But Tied Once ;
Don Miller Goes Big at
Georgia Tech
LOST ONLY SIX GAMES
Crowley Has Bad Year at GeOr.
gia; Layden Bosses Them
at Duquesne
LOST ONLY SIX GAMES
By BOB MATHERNE


| 1t seems a difficult matter to keer
the Four Horsemen of a few year:
back at Notre Dame out of the read
ing columns. Not that anyone want.
to, but it does seem as if four fel
lows who got as much space as they
did as collegians would not be grab.
bling much these days.
Of course, all of this is unsolicited
and comes about from the fact that
these four young men are gallopine
ahead in the coaching game with
just about as much success as they
galloped to touchdowns for Knute
Rockne and the South Bend institu.
ton in 1924.
As individuals and as a group
they're doing nicely thank you, and
they probably will be doing nicely
the next time yoo bring their names
up over a cup of coffee.
Two Of them are connected with
undefeated teams, one is with team
that lost only one game in nine
played, and the fourth is Jimmy
Crowley, whose pay chsck at Geor-
gia wasn't much this season.
One of these young men is trotting
back to Pasadena this year to see
some Of his pr teges attempt to dc
what he and his mates did there in
January, 1925-beat a powerful
western team. This is Don Miller at
Georgia Tech.
Miller, Crowley Assistants
Miller and Crowley are mere as
sistant coaches in charge of the
back-field candidates at Georgia
Tech and Georgia. Elmer Layden is
the boss at Duquesne, team that
lost only one game this year, and
Harry Stuhldreher is at Villanova
and undefeated although tied team
of 1923.
Had the team with which Crowley
is connected with had as nice a sea-
son as the ones Miller, Stuhldreher
and Layden are with, the Four
Horsemen might 1--we set some sort
of record for victories this sea-
son. AS it is, counting the five
socks the Georgia boys took on the
chin, the 'our teams compiled a
record of % victories, six losses and
one tie for the year.
The record of Villanova and Du.
quesne answers any question you
may ask c,ncerning the ability OF
Stuhldreher and Layden as coaches,
and the fact that Georgia Tech and
Georgia backs as groups are consid-
cred the equal Of just about any you
name in the country are enough rec
concentrations for Miller and Crow
ley.
Georgia Tech has one of the most
v-tsatile backfields in the country
Mt just four Len, but about 10 of
them. One Of the lot is an All.
America performer, this War,..r
Mizell. Stumpy Thomasson is not
far behind in ability. You haven't
heard much about Durant, Techs
quarterback, nor about Lumpkin and
Randolph, fullbacks, nor about those
reserves-Faist, Parham, Shulman
Dunlap, Horn and Smith.
Those subs are good enough, you
hear, for many college teams.
Don Taught Them
And the man who taught them
most Of their trickery is Don Miller
Before the 1928 season got under.
way, it was said Of Georgia's back.
field that it was one of the best ir
the country with Johnson, Hooks
Dudley and McCrary running regu.
larly. Injuries stepped in, line
failed to function properly as il
should have, and as a result you
didn't hear much about those backs
as the season went on. But those
backs, behind the line they had ir
1927 with Nash and SILVER on ends
would have been heard a-plenty this
fall.
It is recognized fact that the
leaders in this coaching business are
those fellows Of long experience like
the Warmers and the Rocknes anc
the Zuppkes, but there is a tier Of
younger fellows just below that
group who are coming along-th<
I.anleys, Meehans, Wades and Bach.
mans, and there's still another group
you might term them the kids Of thu
game, that also is getting along IL
great shape.
Into this last group, along with
10. McKenny at Boston, 30 McMil
Ian at Kansas State and the numer.
Gus other young coaches throughout
the country, the Four Horsemen fall
and from the success alread,
achieved it seems only a matter q
time before their stars will shine
higher.
But, all hasn't been said about thu
success Of the Four Horsemen q,
coaches for the year. The final wore
will come on New Years Day al
Pasadena when Bill Alexander
throws his Miller-coached backfielt
against the California eleven.