Evening star., 1931-12-21
TOWNS DEVOTION
IS GIVEN BL|NDLY
Dixie Coaches Remarkably
Divided in Views on Clash
With Trojans.
BY H. c. BYRD.


versity and Southern California.
Notwithstanding the remarkable
record Southern California has
made, Tulane players, coaches
and everybody in New Orleans, al
most to the last child, believes i'm
plicitly that Tulane should win by
two or three touchdoWnS.
Tulane and its followers brush aside
the Southern California victory over
Notre Dame, give little consideration
to the 60-to-0 rout of Georgia and
stand steadfaSt in holding that the
South Will score another triumph in
the Tournament of Roses game.
Tulane finished its practice here Sat-
urday and left for the Coast late at
night. 1t plans to make two stops en-
route, one at Ell PaSo and the other
at Tucson. Long practice sessions will
take place at each stop. 1t is planned
to remain in Tucson two days, with
hard workouts under the broiling sun
each day.
OPINION of coaches in the far South
~ is partly favorable to Tulane and
partly against. Bob Neyland of
two Or three touchdoWns, supporting
almost exactly the Tulane view. Ney-
lands opinion:
Il don't see how Southern California
can penetrate that Tulane defense. If
it does, it will break down a defense
that no other eleven has been able to
dent They talk a let about South
ern California power, but l don't see
how Southern California rates much
tl,ot n
on which the two guards average about
215 pounds, one tackle weighs 220 and
the other 208, one end tips the scales
over 200 and the other ITO. the center
goes over 100, the quarterback ITO and
the other three backs over 100. When
l think of that and hear somebody
talk about the other teams power, it
Just sounds amusing"
A opposite view is taken by Harry
~ Mehre, Georgia coach. Says
Tulane hasn't got a chance against
Southern California, if the latter plays
anything like the foot ball it played
AGAINST us. 1t is true that Tulane is
lust about as big as Southern Califor-
MIA. but its big men are not as good
foot ball players as those California
men. We are just about as strong as
Tulane, but we just did not have
chance out there. Tulane met us in
the course OF the terrific schedule we
played, the Saturday after We went
through a bruising contest with New
York University, yet would have
whipped us only two touchdowns to
one had 1 not sent in word in the
closing minutes to take desperate
chances to score. BY taking those des-
parate chances we gave Tulane its 9TH
er touchdown. With that comparison
between us and Tulane. 1 hardly see
how Tulane stands much chance to
whip an eleven that beat us so to 0,
when We were in better shape than
when we played Tulane"
Charley Bachman. coach of Florida
has about the same view that Mehre
has, and the other coaches have vary
ing opinions. Neyland is about the only
one who supports entirely the Tulane
view. The situation here in New Or
leans simply sums itself up in the fact
that so consistently successful has Tu-
lane been all season that people think
1t is absolutely impregnable. outside of
New Orleans, those that feel Southern
California will win are far in the ma
jority.
Asst week when Georgias team came
- through here on its way to Atlanta,
Harry Mehre stopped off for the
ton meeting. The writer asked him
point blank what was wrong out on
the Coast and how it was that his
team was whipped by such an over
Whelmlng score as 60 to 0. Mehres
reply was:
Well, you know these close decisions
IN tne last couple of minutes will wreck
you once in awhile
- FERRY DALRYMPLE, though he
weighs only ITO pounds, is one of
the best ends I have ever SEEN"
says Bill Alexander, coach of Georgia
Tech. No team ever turns his flank,
and he does everything that a good end
ought to do. He is just one of those
athletes that. despite his highly active
and aggressive play. seldom gets hurt
There isn't any doubt about the iudg-
ment of those that have picked him
and Catfish" Smith of Georgia as the
Two alI-Amer!ca ends. They would
make an unbeatable combination.
Smith IS one of the greatest competi-
tive players that ever lived"
A BOUT this chap Smith of Georgia
"A they tell story that illustrates
his fighting qualities about as we'll
as anything could be illustrated Up
at New York University it seems that
on the first play Smith hit one of the
N. Y. U. backs terrific jolt. On the
next play three N. Y U. men went to
take smith out of play. and thew al
most buried him, literally as we'll as
f1guratively. The referee, apparently
thinking that somebody might get hurt,
called the three N Y. U. men and
Smith together and told them that he
thought they were about even and they
ought to call it off for the remainder
OF the game. Before the N. Y U. men
could say anything, Smith replied, I'm
out here to play foot ball, and I'm
going to give those three birds the
best I've got"
And he did, so effectively that his
play in that game gave him the almost
unanimous declaration of sports writer's
and others of being the best end who
played in the North all year.
1t Is said, however, that despite his
brilliant play, Smith took real beat
ing in that N. Y. U. game and actually
had not recovered from it entirely when
his team met Tulane the following
week. That may have been the reason
why Dalrymple showed up better than
Smith in the Tulane-Georgia contest. !
A foot ball player can recover his ply
slcal strength in a week, but not his
nerve force, and it is this latter which |
makes good foot ball player great.
THE pressure to win foot ball games |
l. IS stronger in this section along the |
gulf coast than anywhere else in the |
United States. Not even in the Middle |
West, where during the Fall people eat,
drink and sleep. foot ball, is the win
spirit so predominant. And if a coach
cannot win he is fired, which, at that,
is not far from what happens in the
Middle West and other places. And,
under such conditions, it is little Won
der that coach , motivated to take
steps to build up lis team, to get mate
rial, that hardly measure up to the
ethical cton5or5e