The Washington times., 1929-10-31
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ETERAN
IN KEADY

When the Coast Guard
Bears meet the Marines for
the Presidents Cup at Crit
fifth Stadium, Saturday after
noon, the game will be a
match between teams trained
by coaches who are opposite In
almost everything.
Insofar as mentors are concerned,
it will be a contest between years
of experience and youth and en-
thusiam. Coach Tom Ready. of
the Leathernecks is in his twenty
fourth year as trainer OF college
and service teams. Opposed to him
will be Lieut.. Gg) 1. E. Baker,
with but six years of experience.
Lieutenant Baker never donned
football togs until he entered the
Coast Guard Academy and he took
to the pigskin pastime so naturally
that he rapidly became a leader OF
the Coast Guard eleven. He came
from Seattle to join the academy in
1928 and four years later he grad
uated.
Most of his service since that
time has been on Coast Guard
destrOyers, which the guardsmen
call trolling tin cans" However,
the Bears grid mentor has i'm
proved his time while ashore and
succeeded in building up
cracker jack team of ball toters
this year.
Under Bakers leadership the
Coast Guard can point to three VIC
tories and only one defeat on their
1929 schedule, while they have rolled
up a total of 157 points against IL
made by rival teams, all of the ad'
verse tallies being registered when
they suffered their sole defeat by
Canisius, of Buffalo. This Is a record
of which any team might be proud.
The services of Tom Ready as
a football leader bark back to when
he graduated at Dartmouth in l90o'
His experience began even earlier
than that year when 1t is remem
bered he played with the Dartmouth
eleven for two or three years before
his graduation.
A good many elevens have come
under his control since he decided
to become a professional coach
After he got his degree Ready both
coached and played with teams In
Massachusetts, and later went to
Bates, as coach. In 1908 he re
turned to Dartmouth as all-around
coach and remained with his alma
mater for four years.
His next coaching venture was at
Lehigh, where he remained as
coach of baseball and football teams
for seven years and for two Of those
wears coached basketball as well.
Then for five years he put
the Vermont cOllegians through
their PAGES in baseball and foot
ball, and in 1925 came to the
Marines. In addition to his
duties at Vermont. he was base
ball coach at Lehigh in 1928 and
at Fordham i'm 1929.
Keady's success with the Marines
is too we'll known to require repe
tition. In 1927 he piloted his team
through a season of 10 games with
out a defeat or a tie. Last year
they won eight, tied one and lost
one. Their sole defeat was in the
game for the Presidents Cup last
year.
So far this year the Leathernecks
record has not been so impressive
They won one and lost two, but
made such strong showing against
the undefeated st. Xavier team last
Saturday that Cincinnati sports
writers admit it looked like "any'
bodys game down to the final
whistle when the score stood 13
to Z, in favor Of st. Xavier.
1t will be two determined and
aggressive teams which get to-
gether in the Griffith Stadium Sat.
urday. 1t will be the Coast Guards
first attempt to annex the Presi,
dents Cup, while the Marines will
make a bid to reclaim the trophy
which they won three times in sue.
oaaRiny