Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-02

Maryland had flne record last year,
but was very lucky to get by as well
1t did. Any team that is successful with
very little reserve strength has got to be
favored by fortune.
Starting its season with only four
men gone out of the eleven regulars OF
last year, Maryland still is not so OPP
timistic over its prospects. From the
backfield Snyder and KeSSler have de-
parted, and everybody that read news
paper last Fall knows how valuable
Snyder was and what he meant to the
team. He was just about the cog that
measured the difference between success
and lacl. Of success. Kessler did the
forward passing, and he was exception
ally good. CrotherS and Wondrack
guards, are the other men who will be
missing when the squad lines up today
Crothers was one of the best guards in
the section, and it simply remains to be
seen whether or not the forward wall
can hold together without him. Wond-
rack also was good man.
Most of Line Left.
Both ends, Dodson, and Heagy, will
be back on the job, and if Dodson is
not bothered by an injury he received
last Spring in lacrosse and neither is
injured this year. they should make an
exceptionally good pair. Mcdonald and
Lombard will be back for the tackle
positions, but it is possible that McDon-
aid may be shifted to guard to fill the
hole left by CrotherS, and Ribnitzsk1
used in the tackle position. Rib has
been second-stringing at right tackle for
two years, and toward the end of last
season gave indications that he was
arriving at the status of regular
Madigan is back at center, and Heintz
ought to fill the guard position left
vacant by Wondrack. Actually, Heintz
played about as much in the position
last year as did Wondrack.
In the backfield Radice and Roberts
are the regulars left. Both are good
men, the former being exceptional on
defense and the latter good all-around
players Roberts is clever punter and
is dangerous at any time that he is
carrying the ball. He was bothered
some by bad leg last year, both III foot
ball and lacrosse, but it is hoped that
he will stand up better. Evans played
considerably in the backfield as under
study to Kessler, and probably will get
first choice for the quarterback'S job.
However, the varsity must depend very
considerably on the material from the
freshman squad for its bacKf1eld
strength.
G.. u. Has Big Squad.
Georgetown will start in training with
approximately SIS men in its squad.
Head Coach Lou Little plans to meet his
men in Philadelphia tomorrow morning
and go with them to ocean City, N. j.
No time will be lost, and as soon as
the players reach the Jersey coast they
will get on their toys for session OF
fundamentals. Little will have the same
coaching staff that he used year ago,
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former Penn State quarterback, will
return to tutor the backs. Herb Kopf
Is to have charge of the ends and John
DeGrossa the linemen.
Georgetown also lost four men from
its 1928 varsity Squad-tWo backs, an
end and a guard. Tomaini is gone
from one of the ends. Carroll from
guard and Duplin and Dwyer from the
backfield. Little expects to fill their
positions by shifting second-string men
of last season to their places. 1t is his
intention to give Driscoll, substitute
guard, a chance at the end job and let
him battle for it with Gehringer, who
played second-string end. Charley
Walsh, safeguard in 1928, probably will
take CAROLS job, while BoZek and
Scalzi, substitute backs a year ago,
seem the most likely candidates to take
UP the reins where Duplin and DWyer
dropped them. The seven regulars due
back are Provincial, end; Mooney and
Liston, tackles; Wynkoop, center; Cor
dovano, guard; Hudak and Barabas,
backs.
Georgetown's prospects do not seem
80 blue, because Coach Little himself
frankly states that he feels he will have
a little stronger team than last sea-
son, but goes on and says that may not
mean the team will finish with a better
record. Georgetown may be stronger
itself, and yet by facing harder compe-
tition may not be able to win as many
games. Little is very anxious to go to
New York with clean record to play
New York University. About the only
real hurdle the Blue and Gray has to
face is Western Maryland, and Western
Maryland is not likely to bring here a
weak eleven, not by any means.
When the Catholic University playees
gather Wednesday they will find that
three gridders have stolen a march on
them. Jack Malevich, fullback; George
Menke, guard. and Capt. Joe Champa
already have been working out for sew
eral days, especially devoting lot of
time to punting and handling passes
McAuliffe will have about so in his
squad.
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