Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
VIRGINIA, v. IL.
DELAY SELECTIONS
NeaIe Would Be Part-Time
Cavalier Coach-ReCords
of Schools Poor.
BY WILLIAM II. WRANEK, JR.

two of the keenest athletic
rivals in the Southern Confer
ence, are Just now going through the
throes of making the all-important Sc
lection of a foot ball coach for next
Fall.
Pat Heron, who has been head
gridiron coach of the Generals Tor
three seasons, resigned soon after the
close of the 1928 foot ball season. and
as yet his place has not been filled.
Coach Heron came to Lexington to
succeed Jimmy De Hart, who changed
places with him at Duke University.
Herron's record at Washington and Lee
had been fairly good until this year,
when the Generals took one-sided VIC
tories from Lynchburg College and
North Carolina State mad then lost
game after game to Kentucky. West
Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, Prince
ton, Virginia Tech, Maryland and
Florida.
Earle Neale, or Greasy" as he is
more Familiarity known, came to Vir-.
ginia in 1923 from Washington and
jefferson to succeed Tommy Camp
bell, who resigned as head coach OF
the Cavaliers to become assistant
graduate treasurer at Harvard.
Wants Only Grid Work.
Recently Coach Neale asked a re-
lease from his contract, which was to
have run until 1880, that he might
accept a position as assistant manager
of the st. Louis Cardinals. But ne
asked the Virginia Athletic Council 10
allow him to continue to coach the
foot ball team. His plan was to leave
the preliminary training of the Cav
alters in the hands of his assistants
and to return to serve as head coacn
at the close of the major league base
ball season.
The athletic council at Virginia voted
to release Neale from his contract, but
the entire question of foot ball coacn
for 1929 was referred to committee
This body will take up the quallfica :
lions of new men as well as CONSIDER
the further request of Neale.
Complication has been added TO the
athletic situation at Virginia by the
acceptance of John KelliSon, who has
been assistant coach to Neale for the
past eight years, of an offer to be
vear-round assistant coach at William
and Mary. Neale and KelliSon had
worked together hand in hand for two
wears at Washington and Jefferson and
for the last six seasons at Virginia:
During his six seasons at Virginia
Coach Nellie has become most popular
with the students, and he mas en-
deared himself to the men who nave
worked with him on Lambeth Fleio
The student members of the athletlc
council are unit In wanting MN
back in 1929, but in the final decision
the alumni and faculty representatives
also have say.
From 1907 to 1921 there were nc
foot ball games between Virginia anc
washington and Lee. When athletic
relations were resumed in 1922 tne
Cavaliers were victorious, % to 6, witt
Campbell as head coach. For the mrs,
| three years of his stay at Virginia j
| seemed impossible for Coach Neale Il
| defeat the Generals. His teams were
beaten, Z to 0, 30 to Z and IL to Q.
Then came a change of coaches a.
| the Lexington school. In 1925 the Vlr'
| ginia eleven was doped to lose again
| but two touchdowns were pushed ovel
against the Generals in the first flvt
minutes of play, and the Cavaliers won
40 to 7. In 1927 Virginia again won
10 to 7. and last Fall took third game
20 to IS.
incidentally, the Cavaliers Jared little
better this season than did the Generals
Virginia defeated Randolph-Macon,
to o. at the start, then lost by touch
down to South Carolina. Princeton
was tied, 0 to 0, in the third game
Then followed defeats at the hands OF
Virginia Military Institute and Wander
bilt before the victory over Washington
and Lee. The last three games were
lost to v. P. l., Maryland and North
Carolina.
Virginia Not So Strong.
Virginia has not produced a success
ful team but once in the last 10 years.
That was in 1925, when victories over
Georgia, Maryland, v. M. I. and V. P. l.,
with three non-conference teams, were
set off against the defeat by Washing
ton and Lee and tie with North
Carolina.
During the 10 years since the war
the Virginians have had four coaches
and have played 81 games. OF these
only A have been victories, three less
than nalf This has caused many OF
the Cavalier gridiron enthusiasts to
think that the trouble Is not with the
coaches, but goes deeper
No date has been set for the meet
ing at which the Cavalier head coach
will be selected And I have just been
informed by one of the committee that
is to select the coach for Washington
and Lee that he has heard nothing as
to when the body of which he Is a
member will be called together.