Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-05

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galaxy Of star foot ballers who
made up the aIIE,ast team In
i the game agairrs, an outfit
niscaiied all-West involves
| rather Il melancholy tale I'm all It's
asps cts II viii be recalled that the
East lost. IS to &, after entering the =
game a 4t0-I favOrite
Primarily, the all-West combination
was nisnamed. II was a nOndescript
band gathered here and there. Five
Texans played on the team and turned
out TO be the stars. You see the Pa
cifc conference would not permit is
players to participate in this San Fran.
cisco enterprise and. az a second blow,
Los Angeles entered the situation with
a rival game. securing. among others.
Enoch Bagshaw. who took the best o.
the Huskie players South.
From reports received by the writer
the inside story II the defeat Of such
an amazing galaxy Of Eastern talen.
IL this: The Eastern boys were feted 20
death If they didn't have auntS, cous-
ins. u>cles. grandparents and ether
devoted ones anxious 10 DO them honor
they were entertained by the alumni.
and when the alumni got through The
people Of California started in The
players never had time 10 train o. e.
realize the ostensible objective of their
trip.
Too Many Coaches.
"And to add to the confusion" says
Bob Shand. the eminent Oakland au-
t1ority, in a letter to the writer, Pop
Warner broke into the picture and
tried TO teach the East some OF those
intricate reverses which he had been
unable to teach his Stanford eleven In
six weeks. Other coaches volunteered,
so you may imagine the botch the
team made Of Sts practice. On the
other hand.the so-calied Western crowd
attended to business and took Coach
Ho!lingsbe-ry instruction seriously.
The East occasionally did go out 20
the field. but showed little interest III
their work. As an EaSt-WesT test !.
was a fine hippodrome. but as means
OF obtaining money for crippled chill
dren IL was WOW. And that was the
main thingi after all
In selecting three If the four win
ners in the recent carnival OF inter
collegiate and interSectionaI foot ball
on the West Coast the writer fees
that he NAV take little credit in select
ing the All-South eleven 20 defeat its
Al-Pacifc Coast opponents This be-
cause in games played by Southern
elevens on the slope not Dixie outfit
has ever met defeat
Alabama n Surprise.
It was in 1923 and 1924 that west
Coast athletic authorities began 70 be
interested in Southern foot ball. and
the writer feels that az least some o.
the responsibility for this rests upon
him.
AS result Alabama was invited 20
meet the University % Washington az
the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Jan
uary !. 1925. and the Tuscaloosa outfir
surprised the country. not by Playing
good ganle-this was expected-hur
by lowering the colors OF the powerful
Huskies, champions OF the Pacific
Coast.
On the same field on New Year dav.
1917. Alabama held tire championship
Stanford University eleven 10 a -. tie.
and on December IS last the An-SoutA
eleven defeated a team OF seniors who.
with the single exception % Morley
Drury. were the pick OF IVES. Coass
college outfits.
All the members OF tina. Dixie ou.fr
came ~ for the highest praise from
these who saw the game az Los
Angeles