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Evening star., 1929-10-17

iuries. they are sadly at a disadvan-
tage against teams which can throw
fresh men into the contest, almost, II
not quite, as competent as the men they
replace.
Foot ball is no longer game of elev-
ems: it is game OF squads. some
coaches do not even start their bsst
men, They throw in a defensive team
to wear down the opposition and do not
send out their speedy ballcarriers until
they believe that the moment has come
to strike. There always is danger OF
foot ball becoming too scientific for its
own good.
Average Squad Is SO.
That is not intended to add to the
continued lamentation over the over
emphasis of foot ball. The overem-
phasis is largely exaggerated AT any
large university the average foot ball
squad, after college opens, may be
around so men. Remember that most
of these big institutions play only eight
games, but that those boys have to keep
a certain stand in their studies during
the entire academic year or else be
barred or dropped. To the average pro-
fsssor, a foot ball man In the class
room looks the same as any other stu
dent only worse.
Now compare a squad of so with the
total enrolment of any large college and
see what per cent of the whole you get.
Make it, If you so desire, squad Of
100. OF course. many professors Will
tell you that the proportion doesn't t
count; that it isn't matter of size; that
cinder in the eye may be little, but
that it affects the whole vision.
I doubt If foot ball has any great ef-
feet on the general body Of undergrad
yates. An undergraduate who doesn't
play foot ball has his own troubles and
amusement. He may attend a rally, II
sufficiently urged, but the only time
he takes any violent interest in foot ball
is on Saturday afternoon. And that in
terest lasts only eight weekks.
Old Grad Does Wailing.
The man who is affected is the
graduate. It is the old grad who has
the college spirit which makes the de-
feat of his universitys eleven cause
for wailing, demand for blood and a
national calamity. He is the man who
waves the banner tears his hair and
loses the use of his vocal chords at the
rally and the game. He is the one who
writes the letters to the graduate man
ager, the chairman of the foot ball
committee, the coach and the news
papers.
Any one wishing to DO something
about the overemphasis on foot ball
should work on the old grad and let
the players and the undergraduates
alone.
At the same time, and by the same
have more to say about an undergradu-
(Copyright, 1929, by North American News
paper Alltance)
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py the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, october 17.-Clothes
may not make the man but
they make the Fordham Uni
4 versity foot ball team per-
haps the slipperiest to be
found anywhere.
Many of the 10000 persons who
watched Fordham upset New York
University, rs to 0, at the Polo grounds
Saturday, wondered at the ancient
aspect of the Fordham players, who
took the field garbed in canvas jackets
that were worn away back in the stone
age of the game.
The mystery was ended today by
Maj. Frank Cavanaugh himself The
picturesque head coach Of the Fordham
team explained that not esthetic but
surely utilitarian motives led TO the
resurrection of the old-fashioned garb
that other colleges threw on the scrap
heap years ago.
The other kind is prettier," OBJ
served the ma jor, but that's ALL The
women like 'em better. / don't
IT use these rough and ready uni
forms because you can't get hold OF
them There's nothing for opposing
PLAYERS to hang onto
"I'ye seen 1t happen 500 times with
the ordinary jerseys that back would
make his distance only to be hauled
back by the slack Of his shirt. I've seer
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.CAGLE IS PROBLEM
FOR FAIR HARVARD
Otherwise Crimson Appears
Able to Match Power
With West Point.
BY WILLIAM J. THAN,
Associated Press Er> Writnr.

n YEW YORK, october 17.-Three
N years ago Harvard, Princeton
and then Yale fell from the
L ' foot ball march in october.
With the passing of the fourth
october Saturday the annihilation of
the ancient triumvirate had been ac-
complished by Geneva, the Navy and
Brown. Princeton braced in 1927 and
1928, carrying its colors each time to
within one scant stride of the promised
land, only to stumble at the finish, but
the current campaign held an unkind
beginning for the founders of intercol-
legiate foot ball
With the Tigers shaded and the Ellis
trounced, Harvard will take the field
against the Army at Cambridge on the
day after tomorrow, lone defender OF
the tradition of Big Three invincibility.
Arnold Horween will present hard
charging front line defense against the
Army thrust, defense which may be
alert enough to become passive Of
fense," but the problem of stopping
eagle remains. This will be largely
problem for tacklers, ends and wing
backs, as the willy Chris is far too slip
perry to be driven into the pocket"
Prtnceton's plans for comeback at
the expense of Cornell in Ithaca may be
broken up by the same policy which
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the slow and conservative development
of the Orange and Black for perfection
in the big games of November, and not
until then. Although the Yale game
always will remain-and properly-the
Yale game to Princeton, this slow-mov-
ing charge OF the Tiger seems particu-
larly futile this season, with only an
under-par Eli eleven to be met at the
finish.
The Princeton Cornell fray is some
thing of puzzler, with the Tigers ia
vored, but with the big Red eleven dis
tinctly possessing a chance to register
its fourth victory over Princeton in 19
games, dating back to 1892.
Brown will come down to New Haven
with its greatest pre-game chance since
the afternoon In 1910 when Earl Sprack-
ling led favored Bruin eleven to its
first victory over the Blue. The defense
which held potentially strong Prince
ton attack on the one-yard mark could
easily wreak havoc upon q brand-new
sweeping assault which the Blue has
not yet begun TO master
In New York, Columbia's fanks will
be subjected to the same strain that
Harvard will feel at its extremities when
eagle begins to run. Al Marsters viii be
no simple problem for the pupils of
Charles Crowley but here again the
under dog has its chance-and it's
hewitt
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CLASH BIC FACTOR
IN CHAMPIONSHIP
These EIevens, Along With
Central, Are Leading
Contenders.

"ASTERN and Tech foot ball
l. teams were going through final
tuning-up drills this afternoon
IL in preparation for their impor-
tant public high school cham
cionship game tomorrow afternoon in
central High School Stadium. The
hrntest, which will start at $3.50 O'Clock,
SIill open the title set.
It will be an unusually important
Same for so early in the series as Tech,
91e defending champion, and Eastern
iii. In the opinion of many critics,
X-oye the outstanding contenders for
Ne crown, though CentralS chances are
receiving increasing attention and West
ern may surprise. Business alone is
generally regarded as having no chance
for the flag.
While Eastern will be presenting an
eleven made up largely of seasoned ma
terial, there are comparatively few ex-
perienced players on the Tech roster,
and the Lincoln Parkers are given the
edge by Ssost observers. However. Nc
Kinley has a hard-tackling, fighting
bunch of youngsters and Is sure to offer
the Light Blue and White the stoutest
battle of which 1t is capable.
Last Fall, Tech triumphed over East
ern, 2 to o, the touchdown being scored
in the first period when Homer Drissel
shot q deft pass to Bradley Edelblut
that netted 25 yards If tomorrow's
game is anything like that In 1928 it
will be q corker.
Techs team used mixture of passing
and off-tackle plays against Eastern
last season and may essay similar tac-
tics tomorrow.
Eastern's team, though it suffered a
rather unexpected 1870 defeat at the
hands of Dewitt last Friday, has shown
power both extensively and defensively.
Benner, left end, and Dunbar Goss,
fullback, are the only letter winners on
the Tech squad, though there are sew
eral others who have had more or less
experience.
Against Dewitt, it must be remem-
bered, Eastern was without the services
of several dependables and doubtless
was handicapped. In other games so
far this season the Lincoln Parkers have
defeated Calvert Hall and Loyola of
Baltimore.
Tech has downed Episcopal and st.
Johns, both 2 to 8, after hard-fought
games.
, Both the Eastern and Tech squads
i are in good condition physically, though
several dependables of each team are
by no means in the pink.
Here are the probable starting line
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They grow big men up Minnesota
way and they play their foot ball
under ''Tubby'' Spears, M. D., ac-,
cordingly. Clarence, that's his
Christian name, was a big, roaring
guard at Dartmouth in his under
graduate days, SO he knows how to
handle big men. Spears uses them
for smashing, following q bit of de-
ception to disconcert the defense.
For example, the bali will come to
No. back. He turns as No. swings
around behind him, as though Civ
ing the ball to No. 2. No. 6 mean
time crosses In front of No. /, who
stoops low. thus partly hiding him
from the opposition. No. smashes
the defensive right end and No.
the defensive left end, accounting
for these gentlemen immediately.
Whereupon No. finishes his spin
and goes banging his way at the
hole to the left of center, where the
linemen have been able to double
team the opposing linemen from the
path of the runner. Minnesota
backs hit hard, as Northwestern
players will learn Saturday.
(Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1929-10-17
ARMLESS GERMAN WINS
NATIONAL SPORTS MEDAL

BY the Associated Press.
Fritz Bongartz, a., who lost his arms
in an accident, has received the Ger
man silver sport medal, in recognition
of his achievement as an athlete.
Constant training enabled him to pass
the tests prescribed by the national
Olympic committee. Before he received
the medal he had to pass the following
examinations: Three hundred and TO-
900 meters swimming and 100 meters
running AS by reason of his disable
ment shotputting is ruled out, he will
have to show proficiency in skating
instead.
Sporting circles rate this achieve
nent of Bongartz much higher than
any record in light athletics.
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/. All of this has been quite obvious
Foot ball Is supposed to develop initia-
tive and quick thinking among the stu
dents who play it. How can there be
any initiative when all the moves of a
team in action are directed by a pro-
fessional coach? I have asked this
question myself many times before, and
the answers have been particularly
evasive.
Any coach will tell you that 1t
would be dangerous to leave the
initia tive in such a crucial matter as
a foot ball game to the Judgment of
a captain or mere group OF stu
dents. They would be sure to do the
wrong thing in the stress of conflict
and would forget all that they had
been taught. To which one might
retort. what of it?" which would
place one in the light of regarding
serious matter, such as intercollegiate
foot ball has become, with unseemly
levity.
I heard a discussion Of this point at
a foot ball coaches meeting some years
ago. Mr.. Tad Jones, who was then
actively engaged In coaching Yale, rose
in the meeting and said, II think that
1t would be a good idea If we would
alone once the whistle blows.
I'VE are not supposed to coach the
teams while they are in the field, but
you know that we all do it. My idea
is for us to agree to cut it out in
future"
There was an oppressive silence in
the meeting. The assembled coaches
were astonished by the frankness-or
should we say. naivete?-of Mr.. Jones
.t1z. I--~11r txwT
Mr.. Gilmour Dobie of Cornell He rose,
a fine frenzy cleaning in his eyes.
1.-THE foot ball game" said Mr..
Dobie, sis more than q mere con-
test between two teams. It Is con-
test between all the resources Of the
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Giving this team TWO goo0
pitchers, do you not think 1t would
be a formidable aggregation, with
a team batting average of 1882"
he queries, adding, Babe Ruth
could almost pitch for this team"
For sheer power that gang prob
ably never has been surpassed by
any group performing in the same
season, and it will be noted that
although FoxX and HornSby arc
designated for jobs they saw little
or no service in this year, neither
is a stranger to the position as
signed him.
For his pitchers de Sibour could
have chosen Grove, with his 1923
record of 81 wins as against 6
Losses, along with Earnshaw, %
and 8, or Root, 1915, or Malone
22-10.
Or if he wished to carry on the
big batting punch idea rather
than hurting effective he might
have picked Cvengros, 400, or
Zinn, 800.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
BERRY, CORNELL, HEADS
COLLEGE BALL LEAGUE

NEW YORK, October II R).-
Romeyn Berry of Cornell has been
elected president of the Eastern Inter-
collegiate Base Ball League.
Ellwood w. Kemp, jr., secretary
treasurer of the league, made the an
nouncement.
Berry succeeds the late Ernest B.
Cozens of Pennsylvania.
William j. Chapman of the Associated
Press was appointed official statistican
of the league.
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receive needed assistance. Foot o
There are number Of elevens which
look powerful, but whose real strength
will be known only after they have
tackled harder opposition. We shall
know pretty ~ IN, for example, just
about what is to be expected Of such
teams as Harvard. Dartmouth, Penn
sylvania, Army, Columbia, California,
Alabama, Washington and Jefferson,
Nebraska, Lafayette, Florida, Cornell
and many more.
Other Powerful Teams. -.
North Carolina, Tennessee, Purdue,
St Marys', Louisiana State, Southern
Methodist, Villanova, Ohio State, Tu-
lane, Duquesne, Holy Cross, Boston Col
lege, williams, Virginia, Penn State,
western Maryland. Fordham, Tufts.
Temple and Texas all have done well SO
far-some of them surprisingly we'll
and are among the undefeated. but 1t Is
still early in the season and there will
be few undefeated elevens month from
now.
Reserve power, as usual, will count
largely in the books which record VIC
tory or defeat. Some elevens have a fine
first string but no really capable sub
stitutes. These teams MAJ have the
luck to pull through, or they may be
ruined by injuries. Even without in
Evening star., 1929-10-17
CAMERAS ON SIDELINES
BANNED BY IRISHS' PLEA

scouts will have to do without closeup
action pictures of the Wisconsin -Notre
Dame foot ball game at Soldier Field
Saturday.
At the request Of Notre Dame, no
movie or newspaper photographers will
be permitted on the sidelines during the
contest AS soon as the game starts.
they will be stationed on temporary
platforms far away from the playing
field.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
HOLD WATER CARNIVAL
IN AMBASSADOR POOL

Star swimmers of the Capital Athletic
Club and Bay Shore Swimming Club
will be featured In a water carnival to-
morrow night In the Ambassador Hotel
tank, starting at $3.50 o'clock.
An interesting program has been ar
ranged, open to the public without
charge. Various strokes will be demon
strated by experts. There will be fancy
diving, a balloon race, candle race and
many comedy stunts, with swimming
under water with both hands and feet
tied as piece de resistance
John and Andy Bowen, well known
swimmers and boxers, and Mrs. Samuel
Burleigh Milton are Ambassador SWIM
ming instructors.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
BEATEN SERIES LEADER
GOES HOME IN STYLE

CHICAGO, October IT (Pl.-The
"home town boy" who didn't do so well
In the recent world series is going home
In elegance and comfort anyway.
Manager Joe Mccarthy of the Cubs
bought $1,000 automobile, new suit
and started back to Buffalo, N. Y,
today.
After a short visit at home, he will
start searching for new help for the
1880 edition of the Bruins
Evening star., 1929-10-17
GETS COLLEGE LETTER
AFTER 80 YEARS DELAY
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
More than 80 years after he held
down the hot sack for the varsity base
ball team, the University of Iowa has
awarded major letter to George 8.
Wright, attorney
Wright, a southpaw. played from 1898
to 1899. when there were no letters and
athletics was just beginning to feel
growing pains. An energetic director
Of athletics recently discovered Wright
had letter coming and the award was
promptly made.
Among other relics of his diamond
days, Wright recalls that at one time
there were nine southpaw batters on the
team.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
FIDEL LA BARBA PRAISED
BY WRITER'S IN BRITAIN
BY the Associated prees.

BY the Associated Press.
British sporting writer's found Fidel
La Barba quiet, cultured young man
who speaks English with scarcely q
trace of American accent" when the
former dyweight champion visited Lon
don on his European tour.
La Barba showed enthusiasm for the
monuments of English history and dis
played particular interest in the Tower
of London, where Henry VIII won his
famous ak decision over Anne Boleyn.
I've just been reading a book about
Henry VIII" he explained.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
DUKE ELEVEN TO STOP
ON WAY TO ANNAPOLIS

Duke University's foot ball squad will
arrive here tomorrow morning over the
Southern Railway at $40 en- route to
Annapolis, where the Blue Devils will
engage the Navy at foot ball Saturday.
After breakfasting at the Capital
Park Hotel, the party, which also will
include Coaches DeHart and Tflson, the
60-piece student band, and between
four and five hundred students, will
take O special w. B. & A. train to
Annapolis, arriving there just before
Evening star., 1929-10-17
PACIFIC COAST CROWDS
IN 1929 THIRD LARGEST

LOS ANGELES, October II (P).-The
Pacific Coast League base ball clubs at
tracted a total paid attendance of
1,924,196 during the 1929 season, the
third largest annual attendance in the
history Of the league.
The figures were announced today by
Harold Williams, president of the cir
cult.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
'gICHIGAN VS.. OHIO STATE
DRAWS CROWD OF $1,000

ANN ARBOR, Mich, October II (P).
"A capacity crowd of $1,000 is assured
for the Michigan-Ohio State foot ball
game here Saturday.
Business Manager Harry Tillotson of
Michigan said today all but q few of
the cheaper seats had been sold.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
Eastern Faored Beat Tech TOMORROW Opening Game of Title
DO WIN THE LINE
From the Good Old DAYS.
WITH w. o. McGEEHAN-

of the dim past Of intercollegiate foot ball.
wore laced jackets and the flying
~ of strategy comes protest against the conduct of the
today Vance Mccormick captain of the of
quite frequently it has been
Speaking through the Yale Daily News Mr. Mccormick
modern foot ball
of
qualities of leadership would be by allowing captains
players their much placed
the coach, and enough the
OF
attempted coach from the side lines substitutes
displacement of the captain the
empty title and complete responsibility resting either with
him with his team When the field
should be and nobody from should
Evening star., 1929-10-17

colleges involved. Everything that a
college has should go into the game.
!, for one, never would agree not to
use all that have to make the team
represent win the game"
The voice of MIR. Dobie became more
and more impassioned as he continued
All the other coaches maintained q
solemn silence and all of them seemed
to feel that it was a very awkward
subject to be brought up at coaches
meeting just at a time when it seemed
that pleasant time was being had
by all.
So far as I know that subject never
was brought up at subsequent coaches
meeting, and we are left to infer that
the coaches still direct the movements
of their husky marionettes in the field
Taking 1t Seriously.
IN insisting that foot ball is far toe
i important a matter to be intrusted
to the management of mere students, 1t
strikes me that the coaches are fur
nishing material to those who have been
arguing that intercollegiate foot ball Is
being emphasized to the point of dis
tortion. Far be it from me to irritate a
coach of Mr. Dobie's extreme serious
ness, but 1t does not appear that Cornell
foot ball teams under the constant di-
rection of Mr.. Dobie. of and on the
field, have been going anywhere In
particular.
If I recall correctly, have advanced
the notion that if a bootball team is
under the constant direction of a pro-
fessional coach during the progress of a
game the sport is semi-professional.
The Drawn is amateur and the brain
Is professional. To have a successful
foot ball team the college must have
not only the material, but must buy the
best coaching brains possible. I think
that the prices said to be paid for
coaching brains are exaggerated, but
they are high enough.
In the days when Vance Mccormick
in his laced canvas jacket posed for his
picture on the Yale fence for the foot
ball guide of decades ago, the game OF
intercollegiate foot ball was compare
lively simple. The coach had limited
number of plays to impart. and these
we're so elemental that no player could
get them mixed up. Mr.. Mccormick is
quite right as to the influence of the
coach in his time. Who can remember
coach of the days of Vance Nc
Cormick?
But the game has become complicated
considerably since the days of the mass
momentum playS-so complicated that
it cannot be intrusted to the mere stu-
dent. The strategy has become alto
gether too involved. The fact that stu
dents cannot be tntruSted with their
teams on the field must be attributed
by inference to one of two things
either the coaches cannot teach 1t
thoroughly or the students are too dumb
IN learn IL
Evening star., 1929-10-17
HIS FORM Is PERFECT.

Bill Lancaster, who drives a bus for
the Flossmoor Country Club of Chicago
has practically perfect form. There's a
tradition at the club that the driver
must climb the flagpole when he misses
train. Bill has never climbed 1t and
has been meeting 80 trains o day foi
1e years.
Evening star., 1929-10-17

In other games involving scholastic
elevens OF the District group tomorrow
Emerson will engage Catholic Univer-
sity Freshmen at Brcokland, Landon
and st. Johns will have 1t out in the
Eastern High Stadium, Dewitt will face
washington-Lee High at Ballston and
Business and st. Johns College Junior
Varsity are to battle at Annapolis.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
FAMILY GRID TEAM.

Foot ball is almost family sport at
the University of Iowa. The Hawkeye
roster includes three sets of brothers,
one pair being twins.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
SWIMMERS TO MEET.

Washington Swimming Club will hold
swim and business meeting at the
Ambassador Hotel tomorrow at pm.
Evening star., 1929-10-17
Prof and Coach.

ONE might apply the same theory to
" the academic side Trigonometry
is at least as intricate as modern foot
ball. The prof does his best to ground
the students In the fundamentals, as
they would say when mentioning the
more romantic subject of intercollegiate
foot ball.
But. supposing that when examina-
ton day came around the trigonometry
prof should elect to coach his trtgo-
nometry class from the side lines. 1t Is
my notion that class in trigonometry
might be much more in need Of advice
and direction at such a moment than
would any captain or quarterback OF o
foot ball team In its most crucial game.
But the trigonometry prof does not
seem to be- quite as much interested IN
q victory for his class as the foot ball
coach is for a victory for his team. You
can trust the trigonometry prof to alb
stain from coaching orally or by signal
at such a crisis. But the foot ball coach
cannot resist the temptation to attempt
ironing out any errors that might affect
the progress of the team.
1t is recognized that the trigonometry
course is merely preparatory. The
theory is that the coaching for foot ball
also is merely preparatory, and under
taken for the purpose of preparing the
players to think and act for themselves
under, the stress of action. But the
practice is altogether different and
shoots some very gaping holes in the
theory advanced for the game.
It. seems that nobody can regard 1t as
mere game, so there must be justif1-
cation