Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
BIGGEST PROBLEM
|. FACED BY COACHES
BackfieId Material Is Good.
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Greatly Missed. at
BY H. c. BYRD.

M ball squad today to begin
preparation for what prob
ably is comparatively the
most difficult schedule to be
played anywhere in the whole
country. The Old Line squad as
Sembled for the first time this
morning at College Park, where 1t
is to carry on its training. Unlike
Georgetown, which leaves tomors
row morning for Point Lookout TO
begin workouts in the afternoon,
the MarylanderS take their pre-
season practice on their home
field.
Forty-five men, members of the varsity
and freshman squads of last year, have
been invited back, and 1t is likely that
pretty near all of them will be on hand
today. Members of the squad realize as
well as the coaches the task that con-
fronts them to get in shape to meet
Yale at New Haven October 4 and
North Carolina the following Saturday
at Chapel Hill. Incidentally, Mary
lands squad strongly SllSpectS that
Yale moved the Maryland game UP to
October 4 so as to have a bigger adj
vantage. In the last four years at
Yale Maryland has been whipped only
once, and that does not seem TO be an
especially popular outcome around New
Haven.
Center Must Be Developed. sa
The greatest difficulty that seems 10
confront the Old Liners right at this
time is the development of a center.
Parker Faber and Owens we're the SUBJ
stitutes for that position last year, but
the latter has left school. If the Old
Liners can find a center capable az
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the. last two years they should be able
10 build up fairly good line, despite
heaVy losses from graduation. -
In the backfield it will be extremely
difficult to find any man to play the
kind of defensive foot ball that Radice
old. He was about as good in that de-
| partment or play as any man anyWherAs
and to fill his shoes is going to be anys
thing but easy, If his shoes are flIed at
all. Leaving out the defensive ability
of Radice, the back field seems to have
more possibilities than the one Of q year
ago.
However, from the 1880 varsity SQUAD
a total OF only seven letter men are
PACK. The biggest losses are from the
line. Heagy and Dodson, ends; RIB
nitzski and Lombard, tackles: Heinf4
and Mcdonald, guards, and MadiTSn.
center, who graduated, and with the ex4
cept1on of DodSon, who was hurt part
OF last season, all played three years.
Madigan's loss will be felt more than
to be no man capable of filling his
az
Some of the Leaders.
Joining the varsity squad from the
1929 freshmen are several men, the best
OF whom are Al Woods, John Mitchell
and Ray Poppelman in the backneld
and Charlie keenan,, tackle, and Bill
Wood, end. The men who played more
or less regularly on the varsity who are
due today are Bill Evans, Charlie Nav.
Louis Berger, George Chalmers and
Buck Miller in the backfield and Al
Pease, Bill Fisher, Jess Krajcoyic, Ernie
Carlis and Jock Norris in the line.
| The othes due to return are:
From last years squad-Pat Rooney,
Jim Loughran, Morris Nicholson, Joe
Deckman, Ralph Sterling, Henry Nc
Donald, Courtney Hayden, Joe Sanford,
Ray koeIle, George Norris, Henry Butx,
Harry Ferguson, Tom Duley, Parker
Faber and Bob Wilson, linemen, and
Joe Settino. Paul Cronin and Fred
| Stieber, backs.
From last years freshmen-Frank
Hines, Dan Galotta, George Cole, JeA
rome Feldman, Harold Norwood, John
Scott and Joe Baker. linemen, and
Paul Kiernan, George Hockensmith and
Larry Plumley, backs.
Maryland ought to have at least Cos
| good team as it had last year. not
Withstanding it lost many men by
graduation. 1t started in poor fashion
in 1929 but came rapidly in the last
half of the season. Much of what It
may do depends on how the center,
| guard and one end position turn out,
as 1t seems that greater offensive
strength in the backfield should recon-
! penSe for the lack of defensive ability
that conferred in Radice.
After it meets Washington College
the last Saturday in September, the
Maryland schedule gets tough and stays
that way until the end. Meeting Yale
and North Carolina the first two Satur-
days in October Is a real task, especial
ly as the Old Liners never seem to get
started very well in their early games.
| Here is a full list of the contests:
September 27-Washington College
at College Park -
| october 4-Yale at New Haven -
October 11-North Carolina at Chapel
october 1s-st. Johns at College
Park
October 25-Virginia Military Insti-
tute at Richmond
November Virginia at Charlottes.
vile.
| November s-Washington and Lee
/ at College Park.
November 15-Virginia Polytechnic
Institute at Norfolk. =
November 22-Navy at Annapolis.
| Baltimore. =
vile.
December 6-Western Maryland sk
| Baltimore.
That proposition of playing Nayx
| Hopkins and Vanderbilt on the Sat,irx
day before Thanksgiving, THANKSGIVING
and the Saturday after Thanksciv;n&
three games in eight days, is SonnethinS
that Maryland stepped into deliberatelk
in order to help Vanderbilt out Of Is
hole. Vanderbilt comes to MARYLAND
next year in return for IL.