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Evening star., 1928-10-15

warriors wore silken hose of violet
hue.
University of South Carolina
Gamecocks, observers say, are the
fashiest clad athletes on the Amer
to pep 'em up," declares Billy Lasal
as he describes the bright green
jersey with the red helmet that tops
this new uniform
Standing out like a danger signal
is large red diamond on the front
of the green jersey. Since garnet
and black are the university's colors
the diamond is trimmed in black
and the number on the back of the
jersey is red and black. A brilliant
red sweat shirt adds a final touch
of color to the new regalia.
Coach Wallace Wade of Alabama
sends his athletes to the field in
crimson jersies with huge white
numbers. They wear no stockings
and change uniforms frequently.
Coach AmiS of Furman University
has special footgear for his men this
season. 1t is light thing, modelled
almost like running shoe, and the
director of Furman foot ball destinies
believes it will cut fractions of sec
onds from the time of his fleet
backs.
Tulane sports green jersies and
green hose, while Vanderbilt shows
gold jersey and gold stockings.
Kentucky in blue jersies and blue
and white stockings rounds out a
trio of conservatively but nattily
dressed teams.
Georgia Tech, brilliant In gold
jersies for an opening game, prob
ably will be mud spattered and
somewhat tattered by midseason-
but after all that seems to be a way
with these hard-driving engineers.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
HERATH'S BROKEN LEG
HALTS SOCCER MATCH

Washington Soccer Leagues opening
contests yesterday were marred by an
accident in the Clan MacLennan- Con-
cord game in which Fred Herath Of Con-
cord had leg fractured in two places.
His mates refused to continue the game
and officials awarded the verdict to the
Clan although officials of the league
will decide what action shall be taken
The game may be ordered replayed.
Rosedale hooters surprised their fol-
lowers by holding British Uniteds in a
2-all deadlock. Rockville showed un-
expected power in running up 10-to-0
count against Germanias. Marlboro
Reserves also showed unexpected
strength in downing Army Medicos, 4
to o.
Soccer fans contributed 500 to
fund to help defray expenses incurred
by the injury to Herath, who is con-
fined at Providence Hospital. He will
be out for the remainder of the season.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

IRON this time forward we should
- be able to get a better line on
the abilities of the various foot
L ball elevens. With the season
three weeks DID, We already begin
to sense a certain amount of strength
and weakness.
We know that Pennsylvania. Yale,
New York University, Army, George
town, Lafayette, West Virginia, Dart
mouth and Syracuse undoubtedly are
powerful teams. We know that Har-
ward looks strong, that Columbia has
done all which has been asked of 1t.
and we feel that Princeton and Pitts
burgh are stout and lusty. in spite of
what occurred on Saturday.
Bucknell, Davis -Elkins, Tufts (un-
beaten last season., Williams. Niagara.
Carnegie Tech. Haverford, Boston Col
lege, Villanova and Duquesne all are
among the valiant of this still young
foot ball year.
Lived Up to Regulations.
Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
ONO State were touted as the big teams
OF the Western Conference and have
llVed up to their regulations. Iowa
ano indiana have done their stuff
OALAO WSoACSdH AccpS marching on.
In the Missouri Valley, Nebraska,
Missouri and Drake have shown strong
outfits. Texas, Southern Methodist.
and the Texas Aggies of the South
western Conference, have all been
beaten, but all showed fine teams.
Centenary, in the South, has started
another unbeaten season. South Caro-
lima has trimmed Chicago, Virginia
and Maryland which is a great start
Alabama. Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech
have performed valorously. Tennessee
has another fine eleven.
On the Pacific Coast Southern Cali
fornia, California. Stanford and the
University of Washington have demon
strated their ability 1t was no dis
grace for Stanford to lose its first game
to such an array Of star graduates as
the Olympic Club can show. When
California and Southern California
meet next Saturday, one question con-
cerning comparative ability will be
settled.
The results of last Saturday which
Evening star., 1928-10-15
INDIANA LOOMING
IN BIC TEN RACE
Conqueror of Michigan Has
Illinois Worried Over
Game Saturday.
BY PAUL r. NICHOLSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer,

CHICAGO, October 15.-Pat Page
and his giant Indiana eleven have cast
menacing shadow across the Big Ten
foot ball championship horizon of L.
linois.
Triumphant over Michigan after %
years, the Hoosiers will invade the H.
lini stronghold Saturday for what prom
iSes to be the outstanding Big Ten
game of the day, confident and deter
mined to kick the engine out of the
machine which Coach Robert zuppke
has assembled to defend the title won
in 1927.
All season Zuppke has been worrying
about the Indiana invasion, and the
report of his scout brought back from
the Michigan Indiana game at Ann
Arbor merely confirmed his fears
While Indiana won by only 6 to 0. the
scout reported the Hoosiers gained 308
yards by rushing as against GA by
Michigan, and should have won by 20
points or more. Furthermore, the
Hoosiers came out of the fray virtually
unbruised and with probably more ex-
perience than Illinois gained in its two
easy non-conference victories over
Bradley Tech and Coe College of Iowa.
Seventy thousand spectators are ex-
pected to jam Illinois Memorial Stadium
for the game.
Other Conference Games.
Three other conference skirmishes
are on Saturdays program, wisconsin
opening up its Big Ten season against
Purdue at Lafayette, Chicago invading
Minnesota and Michigan claShing with
Ohio State before what promises to be
a record crowd in Big Ten history.
Exhibiting its usual bruising attack,
but with trifle more speed Minnesota
Steamrolled Purdue to 15-to-O defeat
Saturday, and Is expected to have an
easy time with Chicago, which bowed
to Iowa, 13 to O.
Wisconsin showed scoring punch in
trouncing Cornell College Of Iowa, Sat-
urday 40 to 0, but whether 1t can gain
against heavier Purdue forward wall
remains to be seen. 1t will be home
coming at Purdue.
Ohio State, which almost put North
western out of the championship pic
ture by a 10-to-0 triumph Saturday.
isn't expected to have much d1fhculty
with Michigan. The wolverines were
weak in the line against Indiana.
Iowa and its star Indian fullback,
Chief Mayes McLain, will meet Ripon
College in a non-conference game Sat-
urday, while Northwestern Will meet
Kentucky at Evanston. Although de-
feated by the Buckeyes, the Purple
showed more power than many antici-
pated, and except for bad fumbles
played their opponents even.
Evening star., 1928-10-15

The most powerful plays of foot
ball sweep off tackle. Watch North
Westerns attack against Kentucky
this coming Saturday and you'll see
high-powered machine at work
breaking down the Colonies defense
at this point. Coach Dick HanleyS
off-tackle smash is as strong a run
as there is in the game. 1t starts
as an end sweep for the obvious pur-
pose of drawing the defensive end
straight across. This not only gets
him out of the direct path of the
play, but exposes his side to an in
terferer. Hanley therefore uses but
two, to dispose of this man.
The ball is snapped to the No
back, who is led by No. on a fake
toward the end. AS No. 3 side
Swipes the end, Nos. 2 and 3 cut in
off the opposing left tackle. The
latter player Is beaten down by the
right end and front back.
Good line blocking by the linemen
stops the charges of defensive line
men and enables two guards to come
up and head the interference. The
left end momentarily blocks the de-
fensive right tackle, then beats it
downfield to upend defensive back.
Speaking of powerful plays, I once
saw one with seven men in the in
reference that carried over so yards
from the goal line.
Sol Metger has prepared leafiet OF
Diet and Training for Foot Ball,
which will aid in conditioning foot bal
players. Send stamped envelope, il
'are Of this paper, and request it.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1928-10-15
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

OH1CAGo, october 15;-Back in
Chicago after some 5000 miles
of travelling to visit teams in
~ all sections of the West. Mid
die West and Southwest, the
writer is able to report foot ball we'll
standardized wherever it is played.
A decade, or even less, ago, such a
Journey would have been replete with
novel impressions concerning methods
of play. But now, so completely has
the Standardization worked, the visitor
sees no marked departure from what
may be termed a formal principle of
foot ball save in the Southwest. where
the throwing and handling of the ball
has been brought to state of develop
ment not observed in other sections.
Two great influences are almost every
where noted-Glenn Warmers wing
back formation with unbalanced line,
and the shift which Knute Rockne has
so successfully applied at Notre Dame.
1t has struck the writer that the teams
using the Warner idea of wing backs
outside the offensive ends and guar ds
heading into the interference serve
teams that employ it far better than
the Notre Dame style serves elevens
whose coaches have adopted Knute's
method The reason for this is that
few coaches have Rockne's ability to
coordinate and to rhythmatiZe their
men; at least this strikes the writer as
the reason.
Drop Kicking Is Fading.
Drop-kicking is rapidly disappearing
from foot ball in every section visited.
Ray Morrison of Southern Methodist
advises that his team tried one against
West Point, failing by a scant margin.
But this is a rare exception. A very
beautiful and spectacular scoring play
is going by the boards, thanks to the
action of the rules committee in setting
back the goal posts. Not only that
failures to kick goals after touchdowns
are increasing Saturday after Saturday.
Yet the rules committee insists upon
retaining the point after touchdown on
the ground that it encourages kick
ing" What an inconsistency is this
The drop-kick ever since foot ball
began has been picturesque and
Evening star., 1928-10-15
D. c. ELEVENS WIN
IN SANDL0T FRAyS
Mohawk, Apache and Other
Capital Teams Annex
Intercity Games.
OCAL Sandlot foot ball teams
gained the lions share in clashes
with out-of-town elevens yes

r OCAL sandlot foot ball teams
gained the lions share in clashes
with out-of-town elevenS yes
IL terday. But two of these were
gained on home soil-the Mo-
hawks and Apaches turning back their
respective rivals here, while Palace A.
c.. Winton A. c. and Northerns were
triumphant on foreign fields
Northerns gained moral triumph at
Baltimore in holding Lansdowne A. c..
huskies to a scoreless tie. Wintons
stopped Virginia A. c. at Alexandra,
safety deciding the contest. Joe
Ganey's Palacians counted three touch
downs while holding the Quantico
Marine Reserves scoreless.
Apaches Impressive.
Apaches looked impressive in downing
a powerful aggregation from Norfolk,
l3 to 0, with Joe Sweeney, little In
dian quarterback, passing and running
for big gains.
Abbottichio the former Mount st.
Mary's College gridman, figured promi-
nently in the Hawks win over Fort Leon
ard Wood Tankers at Griffith Stadium.
Dewey, Wilton. Colliere and Howard
also flashed brilliantly at intervals. The
visitors staged late rally to prevent
TimmonS tackled G. Beach behind
the Virginia A. C. goal line to give Win
tons their deciding points over Virginia
A. c. Hooley Gass, j. Childs, Price
and Benminnick starred for Northerns
at Baltimore, and Whitemore, Clark
and Mullen shone for Palace A. c. at
Ouantico The former made seven
yard run for touchdown in the first
quarter.
Seat Pleasant Firemen showed over a
touchdown in the first quarter, but were
unable to do further counting against
Seamen Gunners on the former teams
field. Roberts registered the lone
counter
Results of Yesterdays games:
Mohawks, %; Tank Corps, s.
Apaches, 13; Norfolk Blues, 0.
Palace A. c., 10; Quantico Marine
Reserves, 0.
Northerns, 0; Lansdowne A. c., 0.
WintOn A. c., s.; Virginia A. c., 6.
st. Mary Celtics, 21; Clarendon Lyons,
Seat Pleasant Firemen, 6; Seamen
Gunners, 0.
Fussell- Young Props, 1s; G. p. o.
Federals, Z.
Cardinals. 25; RosebudS, 0.
PIansky A. c., 10; Mavis A. c.. 13.
Mullen A. c., IL; EdgewOod, 0.
Southern A. G. gridmen will drill to-
night Wednesday and Friday at 6
o'clock at Sixth and streets in prep
aration for their first home clash next
Sunday with Clarendon Lyons.
Mullen A. c. eleven which celebrated
its advent to 150-pound ranks yester-
day by downing Edgewoods. will drill
tonight on St Paul's Field Sloan, Bell
and Jenkins figured prominently in the
1910 victory yesterday.
Games are being sought for the fol-
lowing teams: National Press Building
Cards, Cleveland 1881 after o'clock;
Lyon Park Lyons. 100-pounders. Clar-
endon 563-W-2; Anacostia Eagles Lin
coin 5515-W. and Columbia Stars,
Cleveland 1881.
Evening star., 1928-10-15
Plenty of Powerful Elevens
In Field in Spite of Upsets

we're the biggest surprise to me were
the scoreless Princeton Virginia game,
DuqueSne's defeat of Washington and
Jefferson, brakes slaughter of Mar
quette and the trimming Haverford gave
Amherst.
South Carolina had beaten Virginia,
"a to 13. Princetons undoubtedly pow-
erful and veteran team figured to do
even better, but the defense of Luke,
Byrd. Faulconer and the other South
erners was too good, and the ball carry
ing and passing of Close and Sloan
was extremely annoying to the Tigers.
Some of Surprises.
There was no particular reason to
believe that Drake, maSSacred last year
by Navy, Pittsburgh, Minnesota and
Notre Dame and beaten by Kansas and
Iowa State. would walk all over Mar
quette, which last year defeated Holy
Cross and Iowa State and gave the
Army good game.
Nor did it seem at all probable that
Duquesne could take Washington-Jef-
ferSon 1t is even more of an upset
when you consider that this was the
first game lost by the Presidents on
their home field in IL years. Amherst
looked better than Haverford on paper,
but not on the gridiron.
Iowa was generally favored to beat
Chicago. although certain reports from
the Middle West made me think that
the team coached by Stagg was strong
er than 1t had shown and might win.
Those reports seem to have been wrong.
Bucknell is a husky eleven and also
appears to have psychological edge on
Penn State, which fumbled at a vital
moment. But team which marches
10 yards for its touchdown deserves
only praise. Capt. Eddie Halicki and
his men deserved to win.
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State and Wis
consin ran true to form. Vanderbilt
and Texas and Centenary and the
Texas Aggies looked like even bets and
played In. the same manner. Wander
blt won Iby point and Centenary bv
l touchdown.
1t Is notable that throng unofficial-
~ estimated at $4,000 saw the Nayv
lose to Notre Dame at Chicago and
tnat Temple opened its new stadium
with a victory at Philadelphia.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1928-10-15
BY HERBERT w. BARKER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

N YEW YORK, October 15-Some
M of the East's foot ball cream al
vi ready has Soured but there's
4 one consolation for Navy. Pitt,
West Virginia, Washington and
Jefferson, Penn State, Fordham and
others. Those who already have laid
aside championship aspirations until
next year will grow ever more numer-
Gus.
A glance of next Saturdays sched-
ule reveals a fairly large group of
battles between undefeated and un-
tied teams.
Army's clash with Harvard at the
Harvard Stadium offers the high,ight
The Cadets, facing as strenuous a
schedule as any team in the country,
has taken over Boston University
Southern Methodist and Providence in
later, has trounced Springfield and
North Carolina and has hopes, albeit
none too strong, of adding Army to
its string.
Yale, which showed surprising strength
in turning back Georgia, 21-6, last Sat-
urday, meets Brown at New Haven.
Tuss McLaughrys Bears had a stiff
fight on their hands before they could
drop Dayton, 1877, over the week end
Big Job for Columbia.
Columbia, successful enough in its
first three games, will see what it can
do toward stopping AL Marsters and
the rest of the powerful Dartmouth
squad. Columbia took Wesleyan much
as she pleased and Dartmouth beat
Allegheny on Saturday, but not until
the Pennsylvanians had scored two
touchdowns.
Bucknell, which on Saturday beat
Penn State, 60, for the second year in
succession, meets the high-scoring La
fayette crew coached by Herb Nc
Cracken.
Having tuned up her offensive at
Johns Hopkins expense. $50, Syracuse
travels to Lincoln, Nebr., to tackle the
hardy Cornhuskers of Nebraska, who
turned back Montana State, 26-6.
Colgate, with her intersectional slate
showing one defeat and one victory,
meets Michigan State at Lansing. Col
last start after losing to Vanderbilt at
Nashville week ago. Michigan State
revealed considerable power in rolling
UP 38 points on Chicago "Y" College.
Penn States defeat by Bucknell will
send the Nittany lions into the battle
with Pennsylvania the underdogs, but
Princeton should be an overwhelming
favorite to defeat Lehigh despite the
Tigers surprising scoreless tie with Vir-
ginia Lehigh, trying hard to win her
way back to foot ball glory, was doWned
by Gettysburg, TO.
Having disposed of Fordham, her
metropolitan rival, "a to z, Chick Nee
hans New York University eleven meets
Evening star., 1928-10-15

through crushing line attack to Mich
iganS goal.
Right now in the Western Conference
it seems that Minnesota and Wisconsin,
with possibly Illinois and Iowa good con-
tenders, are the strongest elevens. Both
Minnesota and Wisconsin have made
good in their opening games, and so have
Iowa and Illinois. Illinois has yet to
meet Conference opponent, and neither
has Wisconsin, but Wisconsin has dis
posed of Notre Dame SO decisively as
to leave no room for doubt about its
strength. Iowa won It's opening Confer
ence battle from Chicago.
In the Southern Conference Alabama,
Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech and South
Carolina have made the best records SO
far. Vanderbilt has disposed of three
strong elevens, though it barely got a
victory Saturday over Texas by one
point Alabama has won from two
Conference teams by big scores, while
South Carolina has whipped Chicago
and two Conference elevens. Georgia
Tech also has trimmed two Conference
eleyens having beaten Tulane and Vir-
ginia Military Institute. Since Colgate's
one-sided defeat of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, Vanderbilt's win from Colgate
seems all the more impressive,
Evening star., 1928-10-15
Geogeto1n Only Unbeaten Eeuen L Greater Than Eer This lea
PERRY FINDS FOOT BALL
HAS BEEN STANDARDIZED
Also Sees an Increase in Forward Passing and
Rapid Disappearance of Drop.Kicking in
Trip to Various Grid Sectors.

highly valuable scoring medium; but
certainly it is dying in the Middle and
Far West and no doubt in the East.
The writer wishes to go on record as
saying that in legiSlating so as to bring
about this condition the rules commit
tee has done a diSservice to the Au-
tumn game.
Forward passing is advancing every
where as an art, but it has great way
to go, chiefly because lots of passers
do not know how to throw soft for
ward pass. Passes that speed like a
bullet look pretty and impress the spec
tators, but they are mighty hard to
catch. Most of the fumbling of thrown
balls is due to- the pondurous force with
which they bore into the receiver.
just why ball thrown by one passer
Is soft and easy to catch and by an
other heavy and difficult to seize is a
mystery. But the fact remains that
such Is the case. Rockne says that
Doris could throw ball that felt like
a feather and Gerald Mann of Southern
Methodist could throw one that was
heavy as lead. 1t may be accepted as
fact that the teams that score most by
forward passing have men who throw a
soft ball-which does not at all mean a
ball that does not travel swiftly. But it
travels lightly as well.
Game Extremely Popular.
Without any exception every section
OF the land is foot ball crazy. The great
cry of alumni and local boards of trade
Is for victory and the coaches who lose
too often are in a very unhappy state.
The demand for promising material
is enormous, and it is not too much to
say that no preparatory school player
OF any considerable merit escapes ap-
proach by this and that alumni group.
And this applied to every section.
Foot ball games cannot be won with
out accomplished players, and the an
nual supply of great prospects is con-
siderably below the demand.
In addition to competition for ma
terial against one another, the big fell
lows are getting to be considerably both
| cred by ambitious small colleges which
are reaching out efficiently and securing
just enough stars to limit an already
inadequate supply. Here very often is
| found the answer when some gridiron
Goliath falls before little David.
Evening star., 1928-10-15

"HE blare of a banda we'll
ing shout from host OF col
legians. a frantic waving of
L gayly colored pennants, and
as milady, dressed in rich
furs and trim tweeds, carefully
wields her crimson lipstick, a squad
of daintily-clad gridiron athletics
prane out on the playing field.
Foot ball fashions change, and
where once the long-haired hero,
slightly and unwieldy protective pads
and complicated heavy harness. was
the cynosure of all eyes, today he is
conspicuous by his absence.
In his stead there stands trim.
lightly-clad figure dressed in flash
ing silks that conform to the taper
ing lines of his body.
Perhaps the old grad snorts in dis
gust, so this is foot ball" The fact
remains, it is-and the fashion plate
warrior is dressed in his resplendent
glory not for the sartorial effect on
the grandstandS, but as a matter of
utilitarian eXpediency.
Coaches who once scorned the
pink tea uniforms" and avoided
silk stockings for fear a player
might be hampered by run in his
hose" are joining the little band of
pioneers who experimental to reduce
the bulk and weight of the players
paraphernalia to his teams ad-
vantage.
The successful teams of today are
the well dressed teams.
Knute Rockne of Notre Dame has
clad his laundering stalwarts in silk
trousers to replace the stiff canvas
togs of previous times.
Chick Meehan of New York Uni
versity brought a gasp from the
startled foot ball world when his
Evening star., 1928-10-15
SANDY SPRING BO0TERS
SETTING LEAGUE PACE

Sandy Spring High School soccer
team is leading in the Southern Zone
of the Montgomery County, Md, high
school soccer championship series with
two wins and no losses, and Damascus
and Gaithersburg are tied for first in
the Northern Zone, each with one loss
and one tie.
In the games last week. Sandy Spring
defeated Rockville, to /; Damascus
downed Poolesville, to /; Gaithersburg
blanked Dickerson, to 0, and Bethesda
squeezed out an 8-to-7 win over Ia
koma Silver Spring.