Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-04

New orleans, and Tennessee meets
Chattanooga. Georgia, which took q
licking from Oglethorpe last week, meets
Furman.
Coast Has Big Games.
SAN FRANCISCO. October 4 P.-
Pacific Coast Conference foot ball
a,eyens, with the weaknesses which
We're in evidence in last weeks opening
games partly ironed out will advance
another step, tomorrow in their 1929
campaigns.
Three conference clashes, on widely
separated gridirons, will draw tens of
thousands Of fans, but the greatest in
terest is being shown in the clash be-
tween little st. Mary Colleges gallop-
ing Gaels and the University Of
California Bears. The game Is expected
to draw between 10000 and 10000 fans.
In the southern part Of the State.
the University of Southern California
Trojans will attempt to steamron their
way over another conference opponent,
Oregon State. Last week the Trojans
trounced the University of California
at Los Angeles, rs to o.
At Palo Alto, Stanford University will
make its 1929 conference debut against
the Orangemen of the University Of
Oregon. A crippled Cardinal, with its
chief passing threat, Bill Simkins, on
the sidelines, will battle the Northerners
and Is favored to win.
In the Far North Coach ENOUGH Bag
shaw's University of Washington team,
will take on the University of Montana
eleven. Dope points to this game being
an easy win for the Huskies Of WASH
ington. Other Conference teams meet
non-Conference opponents.
East Lacks Big Battle.
NEW YORK, october 4 (P).-Theyll
be firing foot ball shells all over the
Atlantic Seaboard tomorrow, but the
real victory will lie with the schedule
makers Just as 1t did last Saturday.
There is scarcely single game in
which the issue appears in doubt. For
the most part the battles will be just
what they were intended to be-a
means by which the larger colleges may
smooth of the rough corners in prep
aration for important games to come.
The former big three open their sea-
son. Yale meets Vermont, ITO victim
of New York University last week.
Harvard plays Bates and Princeton
tangles with Amherst. Lafayette starts
of as usual with Muhlenberg.
Pennsylvania entertains Swarthmore.
plays OIlkOl SOAACA PA0yo a
Niagara team that held Penn State to
1870 count and Dartmouth's steam
roller is ready to make mincemeat Of
Hobart.
Army takes on Gettysburg without
anxiety and Navy has done no WORRY
ing over the william and Mary contest
with the Notre Dame game only another
week away. New York University has
little hope of getting more than 80 or
IS against West Virginia Wesleyan at
the Polo Grounds.
Penn State should get no more than
workout against Lebanon Valley.
While Pittsburgh Is meeting Duke at
Durham, N. c., Carnegie Tech will do
the entertaining In the steel city. meet
ing Thiel. washington and Jefferson
West Virginia will need to show i'm
provement to down Elmer Layden's
Duquesne team. Davis and Elkins,
which conquered West Virginia, clashes
with st. Louis at st. Louis. George
town is meeting a comparatively dan
gerous foe in Western Maryland, as Is
Bucknell in Albright.
CHICAGO, October 4 (P). - Bob
Zuppke, maestro of University Of Illi-
nois foot ball, has schemed something
new In the way Of offense with which
to confound Illini gridiron adversaries.
and the University Of Kansas will get
the first look at 1t Saturday In the
initial game of the Illinois schedule.
Zuppke will not abandon the wing
back offensive system which served in
the drives that brought Big Ten cham
pionships in. 1927 and 1928, but has
evolved what he calls the fade" for
nation which, he believes, will add to
the troubles Of his opponents. He has
given no explanation Of the formation
other than that 1t Is SO named because
one backneld man either is fading out
Of the picture or is easing In just as
the play gets under way. He uses an
unbalanced line in loose formation with
the backfield maneuver with the backs
lined up behind the short side Of the
forward wall.
Scouts from the camps Of Big Ten
teams, the Army and other team which
encounter the nlini this Fall, will watch
with interest the unfolding Of the new
Work on eight other Big Ten fronts
today was reduced to smoothing out
formations and defensive plans for use
in Saturdays games. At Northwestern,
however, Coach Hanley stuck to his
promise to order scrimmage until the
eve of the Wildcat opening card with
Butler and Cornell College of Iowa.
Coach Harry Kipke, at Michigan.
planned no more scrimmage, but was
not vet settled on his starting backfield
lineup for the Michigan-State College
game. The battle between Simran and
Holland for the signal-calling JOB, and
q fight between Jack Wheeler and Alvin
Dahlem for one halfback post. Kept
Kipke from naming q starting quartet
until EFeAQv az the earliest
Wisconsin and Indiana, down for UNI
usually tough early season opposition In
Colgate and Notre Dame, continued to
work at top speed, with improvement
of their attacks being stressed. Purdue,
facing the Kansas Aggies under the
direction of DO Mcmillan, spent another
day on development of its aerial ofense,
while Iowa and Minnesota sought to
improve their defenseS against the
overhead type of attack.
Coach Sam Willaman, who will send
his Ohio State eleven against Witten-
berg al his first gesture as head
coach in the Big Ten, except for one
line position. had decided on his line.