Evening star., 1930-12-04
PUBLIC HIGH TITLE
TEAM IS FAVOR|TE
Purple, Though, Apt to Prove
Sturdy Foe-Landon viii
Honor GridderS.

T<ECH is a top-heavy favorite
to down Gonzaga tomorrow
/ afternoon in their foot ball
game in the Central Stadi-
UNI, but the Purple is all set for
a desperate stand against the pub
lie high champions. Play viii
start at 3:15 o'clock.
Both teams use a highly deceptive
attack and the game is expected to pro-
vide plenty of thrills. It being the
last contest of the season, each win
shoot all it has. Tech has put in just
but Gonzaga has been toiling hard. The
Purple has given much attention to
strengthening its forward pass defense,
as it expects the Gray to make liberal
use of aerials.
Both elevens are in fine condition and
each will start its strongest team.
nHYSICAL condition-thats what
L counts.
Those in charge of athletics at
Landon School attribute the creditable
showing that the institutions combina-
tionS have made in various sports since
y
largely to the fact that squads always
have been in the well known pink.
Every day the boys are put through q
bunch Of Snappy exercises.
As result not single Landon foot
ball player has been. severely injured
during the two seasons. It had to be
that way, as the squads were so small
that the loss of player or two would
have necessitated discontinuance of
al &C. - T. \
its entire schedule without making a
single substitution. During the cam
paign just closed Landon had a squad
of only Is, and of this number just Is
figured in games. In several tits not
a change was made in the starting
lineup.
Despite all this the team won four
out of seven games. It was licked de-
ciSively in only one game. Woodward,
Charlotte Hall, Episcopal High Reserves
and Severn School B squad were elevens
that went down before Landon.
ST. A1bans conquered the Massachu-
sets Avenue scholastics after stubborn
battling, and Eastern was furnished
stout competition. Gonzaga drubbed
London, IS to 0, in the latter's final
game, but the Purple did not have such
an easy time as the score would indi-
cate.
Milly Price, former Tech and Univer-
sity of Maryland athlete, coached the
Landon eleven during the campaign just
ended. He succeeded Gordon KeSsler,
who tutored the various teams in
1929-30.
Both Price and Kessler received valu-
able aid from p. L. Banfield. headmas-
ter of the school, and Edward H. Water
house, member of the faculty, who
coaches the junior eleven. Mrs. Ban
field, wife of the headmaster, also has
been real factor in the success of the
schools team. She has fine grasp Of
sports for a woman. She takes in all
the games. at home and away. Though
she is not given to offering advice as
to how the teams should be run, her
judgment Is highly respected.
7 ANDON Is looking for even better
IL things on the grid next season, as
only three members of the 1880
eleven are listed to graduate. They are
Harrison Prindle, halfback; Gordon
Boucher, tackle, and Danny Kessler,
former Eastern High athlete, center.
Prindle probably will enter Yale,
Boucher either the Naval Academy or
st. Johns College, Annapolis, and Kess-
Ter the University of Maryland. All
three also play base ball, and Boucher
Mainstays who are scheduled to be
in school again next Autumn are AL
Seccombe, fullback; Bill Baker, half
back, and Bill Quinn, quarterback; Don
Crandall, Barry Hopper, Jimmy Sands
and Rene Martinez, ends; Bob Riley,
tackle; Hanford Gillis, end or guard,
and Bill Bride, Alfred Hopkins and
Bill Heron, guards.
Letters will be awarded and q cap
tain for 1881 elected at q dinner Sat-
urday night at the school at $3.50
o'clock.
business High gridders were to elect
- 1881 captain today. The Stenogs
probably will be the only eleven Of
the public high group to have an ALL
season leader next year. Other coaches
believe that such a captain is not so
good for team morale, but Woodwork
figures that the players are strong for
the all-season leader plan and it is of
little moment whether a captain is
picked for the whole campaign or for
each game
Though Business has not yet COM
pleted its 1881 grid schedule the List
again will include Gonzaga and Swavely