Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
SELECTING LEADER
IS DIFFICULT TASK
Several Appear About Equal
in PoWer-Champion Pitt
Team Well Fixed.
BY w. w. (BILL) ROPER,
Princeton Foot Ball Coach.

IRON all information at hand
r Eastern foot ball starts the
4 Fall with great promise. It
/ looks as if there are several
/ teams of almost equal strength
which in itself gives indication OF
an exciting season, to say moth
ing of the schedules, which are
exacting and varied.
Last Fall the University Of Pitts
burgh, under Jock Sutherland's MASTER
full coaching was clearly entitled to
supremacy in Eastern foot ball. Pitt
started hard work at Camp Hamilton
some time ago. Fortunately the
Panthers begin the season with four
veterans in their backfeld. The versa :
tile Eddie Baker, captain, will again
play quarterback. In addition to this
splendid backfield material Pitt is
fortunate in having Franklin Hood, for
merly of Bellefonte Academy, and said
to be one of the longest forward paSsers
in the country.
Sutherland is fortunate also in having
some excellent line material. Missing
from last years team are Uansa, half
back; Montgomery and DimeolS, guards;
Donchers, end. and Parkinson, full
back. The two players last named were
stars whose positions are hard to fill.
For the first time since 1912, Pitt
meets Notre Dame in what has every
promise of being one of the most excit-
ing games of the season.
THE University of Pennsylvania
i progress will be watched with real
interest by every fan in the East.
PENIS new head coach, Lud Wray, has
already shown he means buEiness by
the NAV ha has taken hold
The Quakers started practice at Cape
May, N. j., Immediately after Labor
day, and from all accounts should have
strong team. Penn plays back
breaking schedule, including Notre
Dame, University of Kansas and Wis
consin, ending December 6 with the
Navy on Franklin Field. The Penn
backfield should be particularly strong,
with Capt. Gentle, Masters and Charley
Greene as a nucleus. Gentle is being
tried at quarterback.
T GU LITTLE, very successful coach
~ at Georgetown, opens his first year
at Columbia. His material, while
young, is promising. Seven of last
years team have returned, but from all
accounts several of the regulars are
having to fight hard to retain their po-
sitions. Little is assisted by Arthur
Sampson, head coach at Tufts for the
last three years.
THE prospects at Harvard are en-
L couraging. The Crimson has done
more with the lateral pass than any
team in the East in the last two years
and this style of attack will no doubt
play an important part in Harvard's
offense this Fall. It is rIlmored Harvard
has even better backfleld prospects than
at this time last season, though it will
be difficult to find better defensive
and interfering back than Wally Harper.
Wood doubtless will fill his old position
at quarterback. Last Fall he was the
best forward-passer in the East.
The Harvard coaches have a line
problem, however. Dick O'Connell and
Jim Douglass, regular ends of last year,
are through, and 1t is doubtful If Vic
Harding will play any more foot ball be-
cause of the injury he received in the
Yale game last year. Jim Barrett and
Bill Ticknor, the regular tackles, are
gone Capt. Ben Ticknor should be a
tower of strength in the line. Last Fall
he was one of the best centers in the
several years, again makes It's appear
ance at the Harvard Stadium.
A N exceptionally large squad is al
IA work at New Haven. For the first
time in several years Yale plays q
nine-game schedule, opening with Maine
September 81. At Yale prospects look
better behind the line than in the line
Booth, whose fine play featured last
years victories over Brown, Dartmouth
and Army, will be a great strength in
the backfleld. Parker, from last years
freshman backfield, should show to adj
vantage. Other veterans in the back
field who will return are Don McLennan
Kempton Dunn and Charley Snead.
In the line Capt. Vincent will be at