Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-01
BY WILLIAM H. WRANEK. Jr.

~ HARLOTTESVILLE, Va, August
31.-Since the close Of the last
foot ball season the ranks OF
~ the Southern Conference men,
bers within the South Atlantic
States has ~been increased by the ad-
mission of Duke University. The Dur
ham school is the first member that has
been taken into the conference since
Virginia Military Institute was given a
membership the second year after the
organization was 'ormed.
For a fourth season Duke will be
coached by Jimmy De Hart, former
Pitt star, who served three years at
Washington and Lee before going down
into North Carolina. And Duke IS Of
fering to the public new stadium, one
of the most beautiful jim the South,
which Is to be dedicated on october 5,
when Pittsburgh comes down to Dur
ham.
Duke is not taking advantage Of adj
mission to the conference by meeting
many fellow members. North Carolina
State, Louisiana State, and the Uni
versity of North Carolina are the only
S. C. teams to be played. Besides con-
tests with some of the lesser Tarheel
teams, the Blue Devils will be seeing
the world this Fall, for they are to meet
Mercer at Macon, Navy at Annapolis,
Villanova at Villanova and Boston COL
lege at Boston.
Two New Coaches.
Virginia and Washington and Lee,
the two hot rivals of the Old Dominion,
will both enter the campaign of '29
with a new coach. The Cavaliers will
be under the instruction Of Earl Abel.
former Colgate star who was head
coach at his alma mater last Fall.
Washington and Lee is trusting its fate
to Eugene Oberst, Rockne product
from Notre Dame.
Coach Abel, successor to GREASY"
Neale, is well known in the South. In
1922 he was line coach at Virginia,
assisting Tommy Campbell. Before that
he served as head coach at V. M. l.
and after leaving Charlottesville he was
in charge of the gridiron squads at
Sewanee and at Mississippi A. and M.
He was back at Colgate three seasons.
Cavaliers the season of 1928 was the
most disastrous in history. w. and L.
began by defeating Lynchburg, Sc to 0.
and whaled the stuffin' out of N. c.
State, SO to 6. Then something broke,
and the Lexington team lost eight
games, one after the other.
Virginia had hardly more success.
Randolph Macon was given 60-to-0
defeat, then, after losing to South
Carolina, the Virginians tied Princeton
in a game without a score. The re-
mainder of the season was one defeat
after another, the only bright spot for
Cavalier supporters being a 2O-to-l5
victory over the Generals.
w. and L. hasn't won from virginia
since the days that Jimmy De Hart
took three game in a row. But Pat
Heron, who came up from DUKE Wnen
De Hart left Lexington for Durham,
wasn't able to turn the trick. Inc re.
suit of the new deal all around VIII
appear when Virginia goes over to play
w. and l.. on November 16.
North Carolina, which will continue
the Notre Dame style OF play under
"Chuck" Collins, appears to have the
best chances for success of any Con-
ference eleven in the South Atlantic
division. The Tarheels will probably
take over the title claimed by Georgia
a season or two ago of 1.-The team with
a thousand backs"
Fenwick Aiding Byrd.
Carolina State has an ambitious
schedule and not quite so promising
a SQUAD as last Fall. But Gus Tebell
isn't given to easy encouragement, and
he may nose out ahead OF MS rivals
at Durham and Chapel Hill as ne did
"curley" Byrd, at Maryland again,