Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-03
BY H. C. BYRD.
: OACH JACK McAULIFFE, whose

~OACH JACK McAULIFFE, whose
Catholic University squad gets
out tomorrow for its first prac-
~ tice, faces much more diff
cult task than any of the other
local college gridiron coaches, as far as
the month of September is concerned at
least. McAuliffe must not only develop
a strong eleven, but must do SO within
the next three weeks. The Brookland-
erS, In company with Georgetown and
Maryland, open their season September
%, but, unlike Georgetown and Mary
land, will face the hardest kind of OPP
position.
Catholic University plays Boston Col
1ege and consequently Is going to be up
against an entirely different proposition
from Georgetown and MARYLAND. Cath
Ollie University must not only have a
good team, but team good enough to
go through just about as hard game
as it is likely to have during the entire
year, and furthermore, game that
means just about as much to 1t as any
other, especially if a victory could be
achieved.
McAuliffe'S squad last season was hit
by graduations and he does not get any
too much good material from the fresh
man squad, which facts do not COM
bine to make his task any easier. And,
as plain statement of fact, McAuliffe'S
job is just about as hard as any coach
should have. No doubt, though, the
Brookland chief will get as much out
of his squad as any man could, and if
1t Is in the squad to play good foot ball
it will do just that. One foot ball
coach who attended the Harvard Sum-
mer School for Coaches and listened to
lectures by McAuliffe, who was one of
the instructors, has very high opinion
of McAuliffe's ability, expressing it,:
You need have no doubt about Nc
Auliffes ability as a coach. He knows
his stuff and can put it across. never
listened to a man lecture who had any
better grasp of the fundamentals and
finer points of the game. If Catholic
University does not have good teams it
will not be because of inferior coach
ing"
Capital Leads in Teams.
With Maryland on the field yester-
day, Georgetown due to take its first
workout this afternoon at Ocean City
N. j., and American University to be-
gin practice here this afternoon on its
own field, it only remains for George
Washington and Gallaudet to put uni
forms on their squads to make the local
list complete. Incidentally, with six
college, grl0lrOn SQUADS working out
every day and playing regular sched-
uleS, Washington has distinction pc
culiarly its own. Many other cities have
two or three college foot ball squads
about which to grow enthused, but no
other has six.
Coach Lou Little will take out about
As men today for their first amble
around a gridiron. And Lou does not
mind letting them know that he ex-
poets to have stronger team than wore
Georgetown colors year ago, although
he qualities that by saying the record
at the end of the year may not be so
good on account of the stronger oppo-
sition. Little has a good backf1eld to
begin with, Scalzi, Bozek, Hudak and
Barabas all having had at least one
year of varsity experience. He also has
back Wynkoop at center, Liston and
Mooney at tackles, Cordovano at guard
and Provincial at end. While he lost
two so-called regular backs in Duplin
and Dryer, he replaces them with
Scalzi and Bozek, both of whom played
almost as much as the men lost, so that
virtually Little begins his practice with
nine men from his 1928 team back. He