Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
/. PHILADELPHIA, January 90
Apparently the tremor caused
by the resignation Of Bert Bell,
backfield coach, which stirred to


by the resignation of Bert Bell,
i backfield coach, which stirred to
greater activity the generally
ruffled waters of University of Pennsyl-
vania foot ball. is the forerunner of
violent shake-up, due ere the 1880 sea-
'son dawns, which may bring Lou Little,
now at Georgetown, back to his alma
mater as head coach.
Bell, in disagreement last season with
Lud Wray. line mentor, on gridiron
policy, tactily gave Head Coach Lou
Young the alternative of selecting one
or the other for the 1929 season. Young
chose Wray.
The originator of the hidden ball at
tack. however, is not out of foot ball.
He intends to coach somewhere in the
Fall and then. If Little is to sit in the
saddle at Penn, Bert Bell once more
will be back in the Quaker fold.
Much depends, to be sure, on what
happens on Franklin Field this year.
without the presence Of Bell, If the
Little faction is to be successful in sup
planting Young, whose contract termi-
mates with the Cornell game, with its
candidate.
Foot ball at Penn ever has been a
hotbed of factionalism. At this time
the group with Sidney Hutchinson,
chairman of the alumni foot ball COM
mittee, as the central figure, supported
by Bell and his father, has bowed to
the other. led by DR.. Carl Williams, Bill
Hollenbach, Charley Lovett and Billy
Morice, all old-time Penn players and
| firm believers in the old school of foot
bali as advocated by Lou Young and
Lud Wray.
FavOrs Light Scrimmage.
Bell favors light scrimmage once the
season is under way and stress ON the
attack. Wray. in particular, and Young
want plenty of Scrimnlage and lean, to
defensive rather than offensive foot
ball, waiting for the breaks to score.
Defensive tactics have been PENIS
forte in the past and it was not until
these last few seasons, due to Bell, that
the Red and Blue developed an attack
worthy of the name.
Lou Little played in the line at Penn
| sylvania before the war and on the 1919
team. which Bell captained and On
which Wray was center. He now holds
the title of director of athletics at
Georgetown, where his gridiron teams
nave won great success and wide re-
nown.
Things were going smoothly enough
with Little at Georgetown until last
year, when a new regime assumed con-
troll OF sports. Various economies were
instituted, none of which met with his
approval, especially the one which
asked him to take a cut in salary. II
is likely, indeed, that Little would not
return to the Capital in the Fall were il
not for the fact that prospects are fol
brilliant gridiron season. as most Of
his 1928 team will be available.
A rather queer situation has existed
at Penn under Young Wray directed
the line and Bell the backfield. Each
drilled his men the way he saw fl
and their views on this matter of coach
ing were Numerically opposed Bet
! believed in light work; Wray in scrim
meging and plenty Of it. II would seen
, Wray was line coach, Bell backfielt
coach and Young he was heat
! coach.
II is Of interest to note that Lawson
Robertson, Penn track msntcr and heat
: of the United States Olympic forces
} relinquished his duties as foot bal
! trainer at Franklin Field because 0
| differences with Young and Wray. Rob