Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-30
FOOT BALL ELEVEN
NOT MADE IN A DAY
Outlook for 1870 Not Good,
but Score at Boston Not
True Criterion.
BY H. C. BYRD.
fkIT will take three years to
build an athletic system at
i Catholic University which

i Catholic University which
will enable us to carry on
in good fashion against the kind of
schools we ought to play, and this
holds good for foot ball as well as
for other sports" says Dutch"
Bergman, who just short while
back took charge of athletics and
grid coaching at the Brookland
institution.
Rumors have been coming from va
fious sources at C. U. that the material
for the team was good and that this
years eleven would be strong, but Coach
optimistic vein. And nobody should
know better than Bergman what he is
talking about
I've seen a good deal in the papers,
continued Bergman, about our ex-
cellent material, but in reality we now
have available only two men from last
years eleven and the players other tnan
these two are left-overs from the re-
serve squad last season and from the
1929 freshman team. These two play
ers Ambrose and Menke, guards, took
Two others are on the squad, Oliver,
back and, Flynn, a tackle, but neither
is ready because of injuries.
Some of our people felt that we had
b good lot of material from the fresh
man squad of last season. largely, I
suppose, because the yearlings had a
fine record However, the games they
won were from high schools. which did
not prove much. In the only real loot
ball test the freshmen got last season,
that against the George Washington
Freshmen, they were trounced.
"Our outlook for the remainder of
this year is not very good. However,
the Boston College result is not cri-
terion of what is likely to happen dur
ing the rest of the season. Boston Col
lege is not as much stronger than we
are as the score seemed TO indicate, al
though believe that it could whip US
at our best by four touchdowns, per-
iaps five. We were crippled when we
went up there last week and did net
expect to get very far"
The real difficulty at Catholic Uni
versity has been for some time, and is
now, internal troubles which have come
never have been able to get together
and stay together long enough to ac-
conplish anything worth while, and
they never will accomplish the end they
seek until they learn that unity and
harmony are essential to success in any
enterprise, whether 1t be building an
entire university or just that part OF
university represented in a loot ban
team.
Coach Bergman seems to be the kind
OF fellow who can put across a good job
provided he gets support from the adj
nliuistrative authorities of the unfver-
sity. He ought to have that support,
because he cannot be expected TO do
good Job unless he gets it. He certainly
cannot do his work successfully without
that support If the Brookland institu-
tion gives Bergn1ann the kind of sup
port he ought to have, then, in all prob
ability. in the course of three years he
should work out plans that should be
productive of better things than re-
Gently have come its way.
This Saturday c. u. plays Franklin
and Marshall here, and started yester-
day to get its squad in as good condi-
ton as possible for the second test.
Franklin and Marshall is fairly strong
and the Brooklanders will have to get a
move on If they expect to win. ST.
Johns of Annapolis defeated Franklin
and Marshall last week by ID to o.
Coach Bergman is hoping to have his
best cripples Oliver and Flynn, in shape
to play. If so, they should strengthen
his team considerably. Flynn is good
tackle and Oliver great little ball
carrier.
Georgetown goes out to Chicago for
q game with Loyola Friday night under
the electric lights. The Blue and Gray,
satisfied, yet dissatisfied, with its show
ing against Mount st. Mary's, plans to
put in its time today and tomorrow in
attempt to improve its line play. The
IA in, tho
with Mount st. Mary's, but the line
failed to function as Coach Tom Mills
thinks it should.
Coach Mills is bringing his team
along Just as If the Loyola eleven was
only another hurdle in his general sea-
sons preparation.
American University also plays again
this week, being host to Shepherd Col
lege And. furthermore, the local school
realizes that it must play much better
foot ball than 1t did last Saturday II 1t
is to win. Coach Young began to put
his men through week of training
yesterday that is calculated to get them
in about as good shape as any Ameri-
can University eleven has been for its
second game in any other season.
Maryland is bringing its team along
for its clash with Yale. The Old Liners
realize they are in a difficult position
and that Yale is getting set for them
much more carefully than usual. 1t is
likely that; barring injuries this week,
Maryland viii start against the Dark
Blue an eleven heavier than the one It
had on the field last year, when 1t tied
the Eli aggregation ID TO ID.
Whether or not the team this year Is
as good as the one that tied Yale in
1929 Is something that cannot be told
until after Saturday. The Old Liners
are in far better shape than they were
this time last year, having been brought
forward a little more rapidly.
All Yale teams are good teams, but
for one reason or another Maryland
seems to have enjoyed unusual success
in the Y Bowl. Whether or not Yale's
determination to wipe up the Old
Liners will make any difference remains
to be seen.
Both Gallaudet and George Washing
ton face fairly strong opposition in
their opening games this week. The
former in meeting the Fort Meade Tank
Corps will be against about as husky an
aggregation as can be found anywhere,
although for the most part the men are
green.
THE Tank Corps outfit has on it some
Good foot ball players, but for the most
part is made up of Just big soldiers.
Capt. Steele is molding them into a
compact unit
George Washington's opponent, Rut-
gers, seldom is weak and probably is
not this year, though it lost its game
last week to Providence College. George
Washington is likely TO hit stiff opposi-
: ton and team made up of just about
IS big men as wear the local schools
celors.
kWlLL WRESTLE AGAIN