Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-10

Nj in preparation for a 1ooI
Y ball season that he has
picked his regular lineup,
but out at Catholic University yes
terday Dutch Bergman sent a
team through an hour and nan
of scrimmage that is pretty likely
to bear the brunt of competition
for him this year. Bergman ten
tatively picked his team several
days ago, but it was not until yes
terday, when he put his comblna-
ton to serious test, that he gave
any intimation that he might not
change any place in it without a
moments notice.
OF course, that is the prerogative OF
a coach all during the season, but tne
chances are that the IL young men
who carried the burdens of regulars IN
yesterdays hard workout Will continue
their roles, barring injuries or otner
setbacks, throughout most OF the year.
Only four Of last years regulars
we're in the line, while three held down
Iobs in the backfield. The other
places were filled from the ranks of the
freshman IL of 1880. Ambrose again
is holding down the job of center, and
is doing a real good job of 1t, too.
Monaco at left guard is holdover from
the same position, while Fraatz at lett
end and Johnny Lyons at right played
the same positions a year ago All
played good foot ball then and are do
ing even better now.
TROSS and Nally are the tackles and
" Jimmy Lyons the other guard
Nally is the only local boy on the
team, but he bids fair to hold up his
end of things in way that should
make up for the absence of others from
local high schools Nally weighs over
200 pounds and has back of him, be-
sides his freshman year at G. u, three
years of good play at Eastern High.
The three men from last years back
field are Johnny Oliver at quarterback
Whelan at halfback and Sheary at full
back. Whelan and Sheary both paved
brilliant foot ball in two of G. US big
gest games. The other hafback is jan
kowski, and, while he lacks the expert
ence of his running mates, has every
appearance of being a conner.
Another chap who seems to be eX-
ceptionally promising is Flynn. a tackle
who broke his leg the early part of the
1880 season. However, Bergman has
shifted Flynn to the backfield and the
former tackle is doing well in his new
assignment. He will get in lot OF
games and may come rapidly enough to
win a regular job, although to beat
out Sheary will be quite a task.
BERGMAN plans to work his team
- hard, very hard between now and
the opening game with Boston Col
1ege ON September g. The c. U.
coach realizes he will have to send his
eleven against a seasoned and far
o,.ir ~ 70 ,oIr
kind of showing must have his men
in good enough shape to stand the gaf
of a grueling game. For G.. U. to go
through the contest with Boston College
as it would like to it must be in shape
to battle through what is likely to be,
as far as it is concerned, nothing more
nor less than midseason test.
we shall not have a great team.
says Bergman in response to a query
eS 70 what he thinks of his prospects,
but it should be a far better team
than last year. 1t will be light, it is
light, much too light for really strong
university eleven, but it is a fighting
group of boys who will do their best
And that is all I ask, because their
best is pretty sure to give us a creditable
season. Anyway. we shall play good
foot ball, no matter what happens, and
probably will win few games, too"
CEORGETOWN is the only other
~ squad as far advanced in its train
ing as Catholic University. The
Blue and Gray also is beginning to drive
its men so as to be in shape to put
forth its best efforts on October 3,
when it plays Western Maryland
Coach Mills has a week longer to
prepare for his first hard test than
Bergman has at Catholic u, but is
leaving no stone unturned to get his
men ready at the earliest moment. A
man who watched the Hilltoppers work
out two days ago said, THAT George
town squad is real group Of foot ball
players and you needn't doubt for a
minute that Georgetown will come
through with one of the strongest
elevenS It has ever had"
GEORGE WASHINGTON yesterday
NJ went into its second day of prac-
tice at Camp Let's on the CheSa-
peake Bay. 1t also got down to bust
ness, throwing on regular uniforms,
pads, ct cetera, for roughing it up in
real gridiron fashion.
Coach John PiXlee intends to let no
grass grow under his feet this Fall He
says that George Washington is not
likely to have as good a team as every
body expected it to have last year, but
that he will have s. better team than
George Washington actually turned
out, which is not half-hearted COM
nitment, after all, as the Colonials
were far from weak in 1890.
N"CHORTY" CHALMERS, Ted keenan,
~ and Ray Poppleman, halfback
tackle and fullback, respectively,
of the 1880 University of Maryland
eleven showed up yesterday for their
first workouts, completing the quota of
those playing most of the time on last
years team due to return, with the
exception of one. The one player not
yet on hand is Ray Koelle, guard,
who Is in his senior year and has
played in one Of the two guard positions
In the great ma jority of games the last