Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-23
c. v. COACH BEARS
OUT MISSOURI REP
President of University Is
Taking Keen Interest
in Foot Ball Team.
By r. ID. THOMAS.

~ l. Postum" Pixlee. as they
called him in Missouri,
~ is bent upon duplicat-
ing at George Washing
ton University the record he
made at Westminster College.
Three years after Pixlee took
charge of athletics at Westmin-
ster he had an undefeated foot
ball team. When he went there
the number of trained athletes
was negligible.
In MS second year Westminster
won half its grid games, and the
third year it cleaned up.
In the meantime, Pixlee had devel-
oped a crack basket ball team. Incl
dentally, one of his basket ball players
of more recent years was H. Fraser
Saunders, who recently won the horse
shoe pitching championship of Wash
tngton, Maryland and Virginia.
Saunders came to Washington three
months ago to do job for his brother
in-law, REPRESENTATIVE David Hopkins
he has decided to remain.
Today he said of Pixlee. you can
gamble your right eye that OF Possumu
give George Washington some darned
good foot ball and basket ball teams.
That G. w. job was made to order for
him.
How did he get the nickname? Well,
out there in Missouri, he had way
of slipping over something big just when
the other fellows thought he was asleep"
Has Pixlee borne out his reputation
here? When he signed on at George
Washington his task to some appeared
hopeless. 1t was predicted he would
make a stab, encounter difficulties that
disheartened predecessors and look else
where for work.
But Pixlee did the opposite. In one
year he has put George Washington on
the road to big things in foot ball. No
one who has seen his squad, has noted
the spirit Of his players and. In fact, the
spirit of the entire school can doubt
this. George Washington has become
foot ball minded
EvEN the president Of George WASH
- ington, DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, is
steamed up over prospects for this
season. DR.. Marvin is keeping in closer
touch with the foot ball situation than
college heads usually do. He made
three trips to Camp Let's to look over
the boys. On Sunday he took movies
of them.
When Pixlee was hired or Postum
was promised every reasonable assist
ence that DR.. Marvin could give him,
and 1t is quite apparent that the big
chief has kept his word.
TT would be unfair to expect the new
j coach to put out big winner this
EN@I~ aaaI- L.
he will have accomplished more than
anybody at q. w. hoped for when he
came.
CEoRGE WASHINGTON win have
~ the largest team hereabouts, with
a line averaging better than 100
pounds and generally heavy backs.
Pixlee wants more than anything else
q big, tough filllback, a lad with lots
Of foot ball sense and one than can
take a pounding. Such q fullback Is
essential in the system Of play EN-
ployed by Piyiee.
THE Colonials have sharp wit in
i Dippy Walsh from Duluth, q line
man. Walsh kept the gang laugh
ing throughout the stay at Camp Let's.
When the marathon dance craziness
was on. Walsh and a girl partner shut
fed for about four -and-a-half days.
1.-THE reason we finally quit says
Dippy, was that the girl got water on
the knee and we couldn't find plum
ber''
The Minnesotan, by the way. is any
thing but funny in scrimmage.
Tor a while the Colonial gridders re-
J. sembled a gathering of the House of
David. Nearly all allowed their
whiskers to sprout.
Barney Hale, o 1s5-pound Texan,
grew a droopin mustache.
When 1t gets long enough" he
drawled, I'm going back to Texas and