Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
1T" GREAT ASSET
OF PANTHER TEAM
Three AII-AmeriCa Stars
Are Backbone of Well
Balanced Eleven.
BY IRWIN FLUHARTY.

~ ITTSBURGH. December Is. -
Coach Jock Sutherland, who
has forced his way into the in
ner circle of the Nations lead
ing grid coaches in the COM
paratively brief span of nine years, APP
parently has produced a real master
piece of the pigSkin art. His Pittsburgh
eleven cannot now lose game in 1929,
as it plays its last game of the season
against Southern California on January
!. 1880.
Plentifully supplied with veterans and
blessed with as fine an array of sopho-
more material as any coach ever had,
Jocks worries this season centered
largely around the difficult schedule of
the Panthers. But they trounced
Dukes Blue Devils, hurdled the bar
riers at Lincoln, Nebr., and turned back
West Virginia and Ohio State on sue
cessive Saturdays.
Carry Great Record.
Then came victories over Washing
Jefferson, Allegheny, Carnegie Tech
and Penn State. all by rather large
margins. Thus the potent PittlteS got
by a lineup of formidable foes and Will
carry the Blue and Gold colors unde-
featsd and united out to the Rose Bowl
at Pasadena for the annual lntersec-
tional classic.
The secret of Pitts success is the
painstaking Dr. Sutherland, towering,
lantern jawed Scotsman, grim and de-
tern1ined. with steel blue eyes. He says
little, but he says it in low, well
modulated voice, still bit bury from
tho-e early days in the Highlands.
Jock began his coaching career at
LAFAYETTE in 1919 after doing his bit
in the service. He started with raw
and inexperienced lot of players at
Easton. Pa, but he had the Eastern
championship array in 1921, ana La
favette was at the top of the heap from
that time until Sutherland succeeded
Pop Warner at Pitt in 1928, returning
to his alma mater after an absence OF
five years, following his graduatlon
from the Dental School in 1918.
sutherland is a builder. He lays
firm foundation of fundamentals. Ills
teams learn the A B C'S of foot ball
before they attempt more advanced
lessons. They know how to block,
tackle and charge. This is slow, 6ut
sure. method. It takes time TO develop
Pitt teams, but when they are developed
well. the present Pitt pack is an out
standing example.
It is a powerful and deceiving at
tack that Coach Sutherland has evolved
this year, with crushing line assaults,
battering off-tackle Slants and be-
wildering variety of double and triple
passes, end runs and forward passes,
starting usually from wing-back for
nation.
Jock has a squad of capable. well
balanced players, but among them are
his three l-AmericanS-Toby UanSa,
Joe Donchess and Ray Montgomery.
And Pug" Parkinson is little behind
any of these stars.
Fine Supporting Linemen.
Supporting them are Charley Tulley,
tackle: Daugherty, center; Capt. AL Di
Meolo, guard; Jim Macmurdo, tackle,
and Collins, end-all fine linemen.
In the backfield, Josh Williams,
rugged, quick-cutting ball carrier, is a
halfback who is about as good as any.
Eddie Baker, at quarter, is the pivot
man of the backfield, but he has help
in plenty from the barrel-chested Park
inson and the elusive Uansa.
They have it," these 1929 Golden
Partners, and before they are done,
they will likely splash lot more color
over the foot ball map.
So, Southern California, here they
come.
(Copyrisht 1929 by North American News
paper Alliance