Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-01

From end to end of the Nation
college men and all those who
have ever attended college are
thinking foot ball. From lip to lip
travels the question, What kind
of a team are we going to have
this Fall?" and among coaches
and players are being formulated
the detailed plans that are part
and parcel of the work OF build
ing up a team.
The crude and awkwardly moving
SQUAD of early September is far cry
from the smoothly working piece OF
machinery that takes the field Tor COM
petition in mid-October and an even
farther cry from the synchronized
group that faces grueling tests in No
vember. And only coach and player
know Just what the building OF 1901
ball machine means, only they are
able to foresee what the next three or
four weeks means in its relationship
to the schedule Of games.
It's Year Round News.
For be it known, as it is almost
generally known, that this game OF loot
ball has grown into thing OF greaI
interest. Years ago when foot ball
closed on Thanksgiving, little was said
next Fall. but now happenings in foot
ball are news the year around, and 1t
has come to be almost as much OF a
year-round sport as base ball. Inc
making of a foot ball team requires
real effort and attention to detail dur
ing the year that begins to reach
contamination about this time. Every
school has its staff of coaches, trainers
and managers, with duties assigned TO
To H.
keeper, a man who looks after Its
equipment, doctor, whose special duty
it is to take care Of injuries, and. IN
fact, the general preparation for a
foot ball season involves getting to-
gether an organization and setting that
organization to functioning on far
greater scale than the average per-
son considers.
But of that phase of foot ball, more
at another time. Suffice for now to say
that the organization of this ma
chinery, which is foot ball, is what is
meant by the beginning of practice.
1t is the mobilization of this corps
of workers that requires the time and
effort in getting under way for a foot
ball season, the bringing back of the
squad members and the actual throwing
out of the foot ball to be kicked and
scrambled for, being almost incidental
instead of the main part of the program.
Start Early in Dixie.
It seems rather strange that in the
Southland, the hottest section of the
country, is heard the first cry of the
gridiron. Tomorrow from the Mason
Dixon line to Texas squads Will trot
out for the first time, but In the
Northern and Western sections only a
few teams will get under way until a
week later. The official time for be-
ginning practice in the Southern Con-
ference is the first Monday in Septem-
Der, and % of the biggest institutions
in the South are members. Their
squads, probably averaging rs men, are
likely to total LOO and more players.
And there are twice as many small col
leges in the South that tomorrow, or in
the next few days, will have out as
many more. So that as far as the
South is concerned foot ball is under
way.
The great majority of the Nothern
schools begin workouts anywhere from
the 10th to the 18th Of the month.
Some of them. Princeton, Harvard and
Yale, for example, have agreements
under which they start at the same
time, while other schools, which act
independently, begin as best suits their
convenience. But hardly a day will |
pass from now until the 18th that will
not see some new squad donnlng
uniforms for the first time. BY the
18th squads throughout the entire
country will be in full swing.
Best Games Played Late.
It simply is impossible for some |
schools to postpone beginning OF prac-
tice until the middle of the month. The
first game this year Is scheduled
September 20 and several are listed for |
three |
from tomorrow. Yale, Harvard and |
Princeton, and many of the Middle |
Western schools do not open their |
schedules until the first Saturday IN |
October and can well afford to start |
their practice later. 1t is usually true
also that those schools that begin prac-
tice late spend good deal OF time IN
the Winter and Spring getting their
SQUADS ready for the following year.
And for early season games Winter ana
Spring practice is a great factor.
Few games of real worth, that is,
games in which big schools met big |
schools in hard and close competition,
are scheduled before october II. ABOUT |
the only one likely to result in a battle |
on either September 81 or September |
% is that in which Vanderbilt meets |
Mississippi What may prove the hard
est fought game OF the flrst tnrse
Illed at Lincoln, Nebr., october S, be-
tween University of Nebraska and
Southern Methodist University. on
october S several Southern Conference
games are to be played. North caro-.
lima University comes here TO meeC
Maryland, Virginia Military Institute
goes to Jacksonville to play Florida ana
Georgia Tech entertains MISSISSIPPI A. |
and M. Wisconsin takes on Colgate |
1oot o0SX
for the Badgers. Tulane faces Texas
A. and M. And Georgetown may also
get all the battle it is looking for on
that date, as Western Maryland College
is to come here, and Western Maryland
games in which big schools meet big
is going to have anything but set-up
eleven. To get down to brass tacks,
Western Maryland may be a tough Jop
for any eleven to handle.
C. U. Appears at Boston.
Three local schools, Georgetown,
MARYLAND and Catholic University, open
their schedules the last Saturday In
the month. Georgetown and Maryland
plav on their home fields in games both
Should win, while Catholic U. goes to
Boston to meet Boston College, game
1t probably will lose, if the two elevens
face on anything like their relative
COMPARISONS of former seasons. George
WASHINGTON opens october 4. Gallau-
Diet plays its first game on the same
Georgetown Is the only one OF the
local schools to establish a training
camp away from its own campus. The
RIue and GRAY squad is slated to meet
Head Coach Lou Little in Philadelphia
tuesday morning, go to Ocean City,
N j.. that afternoon and begin prac-
tice the same day. Little had a meet.
ing of his coaches here last Friday, az
which plans for the preliminary Work
outs were mapped. Georgetown Is
couple of days late this year In starCng