Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-22
MILLS AND P|XLEE
APPEAR SATISFIED
Both Squads Likely to Take
Workouts Today on
Home Fields.
BY H. C. BYRD.

VIGIL OWAA OOudg
after what they feel has been
very productive three weeks in
training camps.
It Is expected the Hoyas and
Colonials will be in readiness by
this afternoon for a workout. 1t
Is not likely that either of the
two coaches, Tom Mills of George
town or Jim Pixlee of George
Washington, has any intention of
losing a day on the field if he can
help it.
From frequent reports that have come
here. both Georgetown and George
Washington are pretty well satisfied
with their advancement. The former
seems to have an excellent array OF
backs hardly knowing which of three
sets form the strongest varsity combi-
nation, but is not completely satisfied
by any means with the forwards. The
linemen have not been working as
smoothly as Mills expected, nor as
smoothly as he expects to have them
working when the opening game is
played Saturday. Possibly they have
Just not been at it long enough to get
that knack of working together on diff
ferent men at different times according
to the way the defense is playing.
No note of peSsimism seems to en-
anate from the George Washington
squad Apparently with plenty of ma
tertal for all positions, with good staff
OF coaches, the Colonials have about
everything that goes to make UP q good
T. OF ball squad. The outlook for a
successful season is bright, and it may
be that the team will go through its
schedule with even greater success than
its supporters anticipate.
AS far as the development of their
squads Is concerned, neither Mills nor
Ptxlee has made q single complaint
about the situation. They feel that they
have made about as great advancement
as possible in the time they have been
working, unless they had even better
material to work with, and, that being
true, neither feels that there is any rea-
son TO be other than fairly well salts
fed over the results attained.
FOOT BALL games so far have gone
i about as expected. Not one of the
smaller schools in the opening
games made much trouble for its bigger
opponent. Perhaps the best game played
was that at Clemson between Glenn
son and Presbyterian College, the for
n1er winning by touchdowns to /.
South Carolina took its contest from
Erskine rather easily, by touchdowns
North Carolina State also was victor
by big margin.
However, perhaps Of greatest interest !
20 local people was the showing of both |
washington and Lee and Virginia. The |
former took Randolph-Macon into |
camp, and the latter Roanoke by big |
counts; Each had slashing attack
that the smaller team in front of it /
could not stop and backed that up with !
q defense against which its opponent |
was practically helpless. Virginia espe- |
cia1iy Is said to have shown an attack /
far and away better than anything it |
has had at this period of the season /
for many years.
It really is surprising, as q matter Of |
fact, that any team could develop in |
such q short time an offense to go as |
both Washington and Lee and Virginia |
went Saturday. OF course, they prob |
ably did not have very strong oppo- |
sition, but even so, q weak defense can
stop an offense that Is not sufficiently
varied to give 1t q reasonably wide
striking latitude.
TOACH RUSS COHEN at Louisiana
- State University said some time ago
that he expected to have q much better
foot ball team than last year, and what
he did IN his opening game Saturday
Just what he was talking about. Bouisi-
ana State gave South Dakota Wesleyan
q beating by 81 to o, which means that
II must have some odense for only three
weeks OF work, or that the Dakota
eleven had nothing.
PREDICTIONS from Charlottesville
q that Bryant and Thomas probably
would form the keystone of the Vir-
ginia attack this year seems TO be borne
out by results of the opening gam@
Both big fellows, fast and agile as they
are. simply ran wild the whole time they
were In the play. Bryant and Thomas
are likely TO develop into just about as
valuable q pair of backs as may be
found on any one team In the South.
IT Is said that there is a chap of the
i name of Green playing halfback on
the Presbyterian College eleven in South
Carolina who could make any team In |
the country. Tom Scaffe, former Naval
Academy man, who is coaching Wofford
College. says this about him:
This man Green, playing halfback
Tor Presbyterian, is the best back I've
ever seen, barring none. say that
with all due regard for the fact that
while I was line coach at Navy we
played lot Of big teams and saw lot
OF good backs. I've never seen any
man on foot ball field who could do
all the things this chap can and do
them well. He is about feet, weighs
perhaps $50 and no 145-pounder ever
was quicker or more slippery in carry
3ng the ball You ought to see him
play II he were at Yale, Navy, or
some school like that he would be all
America hands down.
T1HE All-Marine eleven started out
i Friday as If it will have another
OF those almost unbeatable COM
binations such as represented it for
three or four years consecutively. II
John Carroll University, which Ma
rines defeated by two touchdowns, is
as strong as it usually is, then the Ma
rines are good enough to hold their own
with almost any eleven In the game
Friday night at Cleveland, Tom Keady's
men not only won by two touchdowns,
but played one of those games that the
score might have been twice as large
and still not show anything except
true comparison Of the strength of
the contending teams. Incidentally.
the Marines were not as strong in that
game as they will be later. as neither
Pressly. all-Southern center at Clemson
two years ago, nor Lloyd. one of Nays
stars last ear. was able to play.