Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-20
MUCH IS EXPECTED
OF NEW MATERIAL
Meehan Again to Build His
Offensive Around One
Star BaI-Toter.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

Fielding Yost has pointed cut that a
star on a freshman team does not of
necessity make good varsity material,
any more than a fine minor Lacquer is a
sure bet for the majors.
Nevertheless, several universities are
counting largely on men who played
freshman foot ball last year. Especially
is this true at universities which had
freshman teams above the average, such
as Harvard, Michigan, Yale, Dartmouth
and others.
Michigan, for example, has big, new
sophomore fullback; Dartmouth has a
whaling guard; Yale has a halfback,
who played quarter on last years fresh
man team; Harvard has a back and a
lineman. From each of these much is
expected, and the situation is the same
at many colleges.
There seems to be no reason why
Princeton should not have a grand
team. The Tigers can show fine bunch
of line material, which is largely the
answer to successful season. Many a
coach would like to have such tackles as
Barf1eld, Whyte, Hockenbury and Libby,
and backs on the order OF Wittmer,
Bennett, Lowery, Muldar and Rein
mund will not be any handicap.
At New York University, Chick Nee
han appears to be sticking to his sue
cessful system of training one man to
run with the ball and another man to
clear the way for him.
Not that the other backs are not hard
at work, both in ball toting and inter-
ference, but Meehan likes to get not one
but two backs up to the line of Scrim-
mage. using the leading man as a
Snlelo, steam roller, or whatever you
wish to call him.
This was the manner in which
Grange and Britten used to operate at
Illinois, and it was the way Strong and
Hill operated at New York In order to
get great interferer-the greatest we
ever saw was Tack Hardwick of Har-
Vard-Meehan has even experimental
with taking Myers, star guard, out of
the line, but the chances are that he
will put him back
They learned at Minnesota that IL
didn't pay to make fair back out of
star lineman. With Myers in his
natural position, New York will have a
team on which opponents will find II
mighty hard to score.
II the other team can't score. the
worst you can get is a tie. Princeton
won lot of games on that theory a
lew years ago, but now the Tigers have
developed smashing, ripping attack.
One of the finest exhibitions of inter-
ference, blocking and opening I'D q
rlvalS defense was given last season
by Stanford against the Army. Glenn
Warner had some great backs on that
team he coached, but he also had such
powerful hnemen that there were times
when the Earl of Dorrincourt on his
goutieSt day could have carried the ball
quite a distance without tripping over
anything. Even the best tacklers rarely
do their finest work while balanced on
their ear.
They certainly grow large young men
on the Pacific Coast. Several of the
Coast elevenS will be seen in the East
this season and it should be possible to
sight them as soon as the tallest players
among them stand up and poke their
heads over the Rockies.
Not that the East is a pigny country
Clarke of Harvard and LasSman of New
York University were not exactly dwarfs
and neither were number of players
you could name.
But most of these giants were con-
fined to the line. Stanford had quar-
with an admirer leaning out of tic
top window Of the Washington Monu-
ment. And he was some quarterback
They appear, by the way, to have
made a quarterback out of Marsters at
Dartmouth. Give thatNboy line tina:
will hold long enough for him to get
started and a few brother backs who
can start him down the side line with
a bit Of leeway, and he is likely to do
some considerable running.
never saw many men who liked
sideline running better than MarsterS
That is where Elmer Oliphant used to
like to scurry.
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