Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-28

The Coast Guard is said to be
making great preparations for the
contest. as it feels that within its
organization are just as many
good foot ball players as are IN
the Marine Corps or any other
branch of the service. The Coast
Guard is making no secret of the
fact that it has high hope OIL
duplicating the feat of the Navy.
Beating the Marines, though, is not
as easy as it sounds, and nine chances
out of ten the Navy would not nave
been triumphant in that contest year
ago had it not been that the Marines
simply tried to DO something that no
foot ball team can do. The sea SOL
dicrs played a hard game at AKRON on
Thanksgiving day and. with only one
DAVIS rest. the intervening Friday, came
here Friday evening and played Navy
Saturday. No foot ball team has the
nerve force to play two hard games
with only one days rest. and the TACT
that the greater part of the intervening
time was spent on the train in sleeper
Just made the task that much more
difficult
Marines Like Game.
Mai. Dave Brewster. former Tech
High and George Washington foot ball
PLAYER. now in charge of Marine Corps
athletics, is very much pleased over
President Hoover's decision to continue
the award of a cup for the service
championship, and Mai. BrewSters teel-
ings are Just about indicative OF what
tire entire Marine Corps, from Gen
Neville down feels. The Marines lost
in the game for that cup last Fall. and
they have been looking forward Tor
whole year in anticipation Of the OPP
portunity to get it back in their head
quarters trophy room And the Ma
rines deserve that opportunity. because
better group of fellows could not pe
found on any college squad.
When the Marines started practlce
four weeks ago, it did not seem that
they would have as strong an eleven
as represented them last season. but
with the advancement of their train
ing period it is almost certain that
by the time the Coast Guard game
lcomes around they will be far harder
eleven to beat than they were last
wear. They are sure to be much more
sformidable in this contest than in the
8 Presidents Cup game last year, taking
everything into consideration.
Coach Tom Ready is building. up
big fast soI ne Th so1,v "e event Ut IS
is going to be a hard wall for any
team to make consistent Roadway
against. The line Ready probably will
have when he finally shapes up his
regular forwards is likely to average
very close to 200 pounds from end to
end The backfield does not shape
up that big, but there are in it couple
of 185-pounders and two others not so
heavy, but fast and able to tote a
foot ball." as Ready himself puts it.
DashieiI Looks Good.
When the squad first took the field
and Ready compared the men with
what he had last year and two years
ago ne was inclined to feel somewhat
discouraged but since that he has
watched a more rapid development than
he really had any right to anticipate
and he is consequently beginning TO
feel that he will have a good eleven
after all. Ready has one back of the
name of Dashiell, who two years ago
was star quarterback on the Louisiana
State University freshman eleven and
was with the team as a second stringer
last season, who will gain a lot of
ground He is not only hard to get
hold Of but strong and fast and hard
to stop under any conditions.
keadys backheld is being built
around Dashiell and Duncan, and it Is
worth while mentioning that Duncan
is q real foot ball player, not brllllant
but one of the kind whose value to
team is generalship and steady con-
sistent play cannot DC estimated. Any
college coach would weep teams of joy
to have a quarterback with Duncans
qualities.
It also is worth mentioning that
Coach Ready has a capable staff help
ing him He started with Harry Liver
sedge, commissioned officer. who
formerly was a star at California and
who was member of the great Marine
eleven that had Frank Goettge in the
backfield and zeke Bailey at center.
Incidentally, these are also assisting
Ready. Barley was a star center at
Maryland, and Goettage a crack back
at University of Ohio. and both now
are commissioned officers in the Marine
Corps.