Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-27

plonsnlp This season, and foot
- ball mentors who will send
teams against his University Of
Pittsburgh Panthers are apprehensiVe.
The Panthers lost only two games last
year. being beaten, to 0, by a great
Carnegie Tech eleven and losing to a
better-than-average West Virginia COM
bination, 9 to 6. Pittsburgh beat Penn
State, Syracuse and Washington Jeffer-
son and played 0-to-o tie with
Nebraska.
On paper that record doesn't look so
good, but when 1t is considered that
Sutherland had lost such great per-
formers as Bullet" Booth and Gibby
WEIGH, the latter an All-American back;
Linn, star guard, and Kerr, a great
tackle, the Panthers' performance was
not so discouraging.
Pitts line coaches developed one of
the greatest lines in the East last sea-
son, much of it from new material.
Only seven first downs were made
through the line by West Virginia,
Carnegie Tech, Syracuse, Washington
Jefferson. Nebraska and Penn State
combined. Nebraska didn't make a
single frst down.
Has Veteran Material.
Eight members of the 1928 team are
back in harness. They are Capt. AL
Di Meolo, guard: Charles Tulley, tackle;
Ray Montgomery, center; Joe Dom
chess, All-American end, and the same
backfield-"Pug" Parkinson, fullback;
backs, and Charles Edwards, quarter.
They form the nucleus of the 1929
eleven. Sutherland also has an abun-
dance of fine material from the fresh
man team, which was one Of the
strongest in the East in 1928.
Morris, Lewis, Yentch and Milligan
are the outstanding guard candidates
to I'LL the post left open by the gradu-
alton of Capt. Alex Fox. The tackle
position vacated by Mike Getto, ALI
American tackle last year. will be taken
care of by Jess Quatse, Walter Babic or
Jim MacMurdo, all sophomore stars.
Honey" Gtiarino, star end of the
1928 eleven, was graduated. Bill Loehr,
Paul Collins, Ed Hirschberg and Joe
Timinovitch are battling for the open
wing job. There is plenty OF backf1eld
power with such reserves as Eddie
Baker, Leo Murphy, Jack Kelly and
Jimmy Clark, the latter former Ktsk
Prep star.
Pitt faces a hard schedule, meeting
Waynesburg, Duke, West Virginia, Ne
braska, Allegheny, Ohio State. Wash
ington and Jefferson, Carnegie Tech
and Penn State. Aside from Waynes-
burg, an easy opening game. there Is
not one soft spot on Pitts schedule.
But close followers of Pitt believe this
is Pitts year." and with a more ex-
perienced team to take the field, critics
look for Pitt to better the fine record
made by its neighbor, Carnegie Tech,
last season.
Rivals Have Stars.
a The fortunes Of Carnegie Tech and
West Virginia rest largely upon the
frail shoulders of Howard Eyth and
Eddie Stump. Stump, hurt last sea-
son in the Oklahoma A. and M. game,
will be called upon to pilot the Noun
taineers to victory.
Eyth, of Carnegie, while not a
quarterback. Is great ball carrier, and
Is badly needed by Coaches Steffen and
Waddell. Last year the Tartans, with
Glenn Morehead available, didn't give
but he was considered q wonderful
prospect.
Then came the day when Carnegie
took the field against the powerful New
York University eleven. Eyth was in
jured on the same complicated play
that cut down the unfortunate Al Lass
man and almost resulted In the New
York stars death. Fortunately, Eyth
was less severely hurt, but while
OCuIlpp was Operated UPON curing Lllc
Winter for q torn ligament, Eyth was
under treatment for q badly bruised
shoulder
Stumpp means even more to the
Mountaineers then Eyth does to the
Tartans. Last year. in his section, he
was second only to Howard Harpster as
a COOL competent field general. In ad-
dtion to clever foot ball brain,
Stump exhibited an uncanny ability
to forward pass. far beyond the SEEM
ing powers of his unimpressive physique.