Evening star., 1931-12-01
HE'S IN WRONG SPOT
FOR ALL AMERICA
Bio Threat Against Marines
Saturday Suffers Same
Fate as Goettge.
BY r. ID. THOMAS.

IF ever foot ball player de-
served a place in the all
America lineup it was Frank
Goettge, when he played
fullback for the Marines, but no
body saw fit to set a precedent by
naming a man outside the college
fold.
For this reason you've heard
little about Les Maynard, who
next Saturday will ply his trade
on the sod of Griffith Stadium,
when the Coast Guard and GUAM
tico Marine elevens play for the
Eastern service championship and
the Presidents Cup.
Maynard is outstanding in the loot
ball branch of Uncle Sans Coast
Guard, and coaches of teams hes
were beaten, by the way-will tell you
he's stanuout on the American grlo-
lron, taken by and large.
That's putting it strong In this Gay
Of great ball carriers. but foot ball folK
who have seen him perform are SO
unanimous in their high estimate OF
Maynard there can be little doubt the
Guard from st. Francis College.
ITTHIS paragraph is lifted from an ac-
i count of the Coast Guard-Canlslus
game:
beginning with Les Maynard's 30
ward run for a touchdown on the first
lineup following the kickoff, the Bears
tore and slasheo through Canisius with
a high-powered offense that must have
been sweet Solace to the Sailors after
their previous defeat by the Colleglans.
MAYNARD gave Buffalo fans one o. the
greatest exhibitions Of open-felo run
ming and line plunging they hao ever
seen"
words to similar effect concerning
MAYNARD have followed every game
played this year BY the Coast Guard,
which is one of the few unbeaten and
united teams in the country, and be-
yond question among the best in the
East. Its record talks out loud.
While none of its opponents has been
a topnotcher, several have been strong
enough to comm and the respect OF any
opposition, and except in two games the
Coast Guard r. :. scored i've or more
touch Gowns ark probably could have
sco~-i more. Against Langley Fields
8cr. v. team, which held the Marines IN
a ! ereless .tie,. the Bears crossed tne
goal line only twice and they were held
to three touchdowns by New River
State. In mostof isss games the Guard
swas undeEF wraps, and fi-particularly ll.y
Ma. 9lard. X IS,
THERE'LIsb be,no wraps on either team
i Saturday. Neither the Coast
Guard nor Marines ever cleared
decks for any sort OF action more com
pletely than they have for this battle.
For two straight years the Bears have
been beatenshy the Devil Dogs, but the
Bruins last gear and the season before
had no Mayhard. There are variety
of f1rst-caasE foot ball players on the
1881 Coast Guard team, same as ever,
but with Les in there at halfback It's
a far more formidable eleven than the
Laathernecks have been CALEB upon 20
face in the history OF the Presidents
Cup game, For that reason the Marines
look forward to it with more zest than
any other.
For a final word about Maynard, who
weights 100 pounds, is bullet for speed
and withal a physiological piece OF art,
we turn to Lieut.. Eddie Rowland, half
back, who won the prize last year as
the most valuable player in the Presl-
dents Cup contest. Says he: :.
Maynard not only is a great pan
carrier. When he's making interfer-
ence it's almost like having clear f1eld
in front of you."
THE background of the service clash
i is supplied by Maj. Harvey L.
Miller, facile editor OF the United
States Coast Guard:
when the Marines defend the Presi-
dents Cup against the undefeated Coast
Guard team Saturday it will mark the
seventh game for the honor. Since
1924 the Marines have won the cup five
times, the Navy twice, the Army once.
'The clash between the Marines and
O nOI1fpct hatWppn
the two oldest Federal service .organiza-
tions of the United States. Before the
Army and the Navy were Federallzed
the Marines and the Coast Guard en-
toyed that distinction. The Marines
were founded in IT'S. However, they
ceased to exist for some IL years. The
Coast Guard was founded in 1890 upon
the recommendation of Alexander Ham
tlton. The first sea-going commission
ever handed to a United States officer
was one to Capt. Hopley Yeaton Of the
Coast Guard. 1t was signed By George
Washington.
S.TTHE major mission of the all-Coast
l. Guard foot ball team is to bring
before the American public the
true picture of a hcary and tried sea
service, willing to engage in any activ-
ity enjoyed by Army, Navy or Marine
Corps. This to dispel the false picture
of those who connect the Coast Guard
only with its 142-year-old duties of pro-
tecting the customs revenue, which
through no fault of the Guard, now
happens to involve booze.
"The mascot of the Marine Corps is
the bulldog, the closest American equiv
alent of the famed 'teufel hund
wished on the Marines by the Germans
at Chateau ThierTy. The 'teufel hund
of Teutonic saga is f1re-breathing
all-destroying fighting cog, straight UP
from the neither regions.
THE animal mascot of the Coas;
Guard is the bear, chosen in honor Of
the Coast Guard cutter Bear, recently
retired from service after some 60 year,
of duty in the Arctic regions, protect
ing the seal industry, carrying nedi-
cine, doctors and food to the Eskimos.'