Evening star., 1931-12-22
TR0JANS ARDENTLY
G|RD FOR STRUGGLE
Coast Solid in Support Of
Jones' Great Eleven to
Dent Tulane Record,
BY FRANCIS ]. POWERS.

OS ANGELES, December o.
Southern California's powerful
squad resumed work Monday.
after a full weeks rest in prepa-
ration for the New Years days game
with Tulane in Pasadenas S Rose Bowl In
the first workout for the Tulane battle
the Trojans gave indications of needing
only few practices to reach the same
form they showed in beating Notre
Dame and the best of the Pacific Coast
elevens.
The Troians are veteran team and
eight OF Howard Jones greatest war
riors will be playing their last game
against Tulane. Such teams often
become weary of the game, particularly
after a hard season. and react slowly
to a coach's enthusiasm. But the Tro-
jams are not that sort. They dashed
through Mondays drill with all the en-
thusiasm of group Of sophomores and
still show an ardent love for the game.
THE Trojans are tremendously eager
i to defeat Tulane A victory in the
Rose Bowl would climax one of the
greatest seasons in the history Of South
ern California foot ball. Howard Jones
has called this his greatest Trojan
eleven, and his men want to make good
on that encomium against Tulane. the
unbeaten champion of the South.
The Pacific Coast is unanimous in its
belief that Southern California will beat
Tulane. OF certainty the team that
defeated Notre Dame should win from
the Green Wave But the Trojans have
n1o = hn
way They lost to st. MaryS and
barely defeated California. so their ad-
herents are not bombastic in their pre-
dictionS.
If Southern California should be hot
when it faces Tulane coast authorities
extend these reasons for believing Troy
will win rather easily.
First, because the Trojans have the
greatest manpoWer squad the Pacific
Coast ever has seen. Jones has players
two and three deep for every position.
In some instances players on the sec
ond row actually increase the strength
Of the team when put into the game.
THE Trojans, as squad, are better
i grounded in fundamentals than
almost any team outside of Notre
Dame, the writer has seen in several
ycdlS. 1lOWdIu JOlltS Is d SIlCkltI lOl
fundamentals and attends to that por-
ton of the coaching detail himself.
Jones new style of attack that
functicned so brilliantly throughout No.
vember, has included smooth-running
reverse plays. Those, coupled with the
regular and terrific inside power attack
from the old Jones formations, have
made the Trojans' offensive unstop-
pable. The Southern California Of
fense, which. unfortunately, the East
and South never has seen, is well di-
yersified and each play makes the
others stronger by its own power.
The Trojan most likely to wreck
Tulane is Ernie Pinckert, whom Jones
calls the greatest player he ever saw.
Pinckert is one of the greatest blockers
ever produced, and that goes for Tack
Hardwick of Harvard, Charlie Cassidy
Of Cornell or Marty Brill of Metre Dame.
Pinckert loves the rough work of the
game and Is the snow shovel that cleans
the roads for Mohler and Shaver.
Pinckert also is tremendous defensive
player and If he plays against Tulane
as he did against Pacific Coast teams
the Green Wave may believe the entire
Pinckert family is waging a personal
war against 1t.
Tulane will arrive in Pasadena We'd
nesday morning and start immediate
preparations for the game.