Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-23
MATERIAL ON PAR
WITH 'BAMA'S IN 80
Satisfied With Change, He
Hopes to Do as Well as
With Crimson Tide.
BY II. C. BYRD.

"A Wallace Wade, who recent
ly left Alabama to become
athletic director and head grid
iron coach at Duke, has formed
one conclusion that is likely to
surprise people in this section,
namely, that the material at Duke
is just about as COED as he had at
Alabama and that he expects to
make just about as strong a team
out of it as he developed down at
Tuscaloosa.
Such a statement is surprising, be-
cause 1t generally has been accepted
that schools in this section do not have
as good material for foot ball as the
schools farther South. However, Wade S
conclusion certainly should go a long
way toward dispelling that opinion.
Since you have been having Spring
practice at Duke, what do you think of
your material now as compared to what
you had at Alabama" was the question
put to Wade.
II don't see much difference in it,"
came back from Wade without hesita-
ton. THE material have out for
Spring practice seems to me to be just
as good as that at Alabama, and I see
no reason why I should not have just
about as good a team next Fall as !
had last. Also we will have at Duke
q team just as big as Alabamas team
was last season, and 1t may be little
bigger.
measured up to my Alabama eleven of
last Fan that is in having one real
good ball-carrying back. I doubt If We
have now any man as fast as one or
two of the backs at Alabama, but in
other things we now have some SUI
pericrity, so that, all in all, the situa-
ton pretty well evens itself up"
VXTADE has been at Duke only since
w January /, but seems to have be-
come thoroughly acclimated and
Is we'll satisfied with his change.
In reality, to hear Wade express his
opinions, one would gather that the
change from Alabama to Duke is work.
ing out so well that he is more than
glad he took the new job. One thing
that helped Wade to feel at home in
his new place is the fact that he knows
personally and well every man manag-
ing athletics and coaching foot ball IN
this section. He has been coming In
contact with tlTem Tor years at Southern
Conference meetings and Is well liked
by all.
SAYS the former Alabama coach, and !
like my new Job. Not for single Sec
ond have 1 regretted making the change,
and I feel that we shall be able to de-
velop some real teams and put across a
good program Of general athletics. I've
never been In school IN which people
Anar.aa
I've found the folks at Duke"
TTHE University Of Maryland is max
i ing an effort to bring the Uniyer-
sity Of Kentucky here for q basket
ball game next Winter It would seem
thats@tlls two teams that fought out
the NAL contest in the Southern Con-
ference tournament ought to make an
exceptionally attractive struggle for q
local floor Kentucky is trying to shift
its schedule in order to make the trip,
but is having some difi1culty doing So
Kentucky plays here next Fall In foot
ball, being due at College Park on
October ~.
None Of the I'VE local colleges con-
Quoting Spring foot ban practice has
done anything yet other than funda-
mentals. It seems that all the coaches
teach their men how to do q good job
tackling. blocking and charging and
after all those three things constitute
not small part Of the game. Tom
Mills Of Georgetown said this morning
that he does not expect to do any
scrimmaging until after Easter and that
then he will have not more than three
or four good ones.
Virginia has discontinued its Spring
foot ball practice already. The Cav
alters got out their men for only 10
days, for nothing other than to give
their new coach, Fred Dawson, an OPP
portunity to get q lire on the men he
win have to work with next Fall. Vir-
gInia had out. though, for the first
time in its history, representative
squad, actually having on the field
more letter men than were on the var
sity squad last season
Because Of unfaYorable weather,
GeoFgetown's opening base ball game
with Washington and Lee, scheduled
today at Lexington, was called on.
Should conditions improve the Hoyas
will start activities tomorrow against
Virginia Military Institute, also at Lex
ington, and remain there to play the
washington and Lee game Wednesday.
Louis (Bozie) Berger, Washington
. boy and crack University Of Maryland
basket ball player, has been picked on
an All-America intercollegiate quint by
Johnny Murray, q prominent court CT
fetal The work Of Berger, running
guard, was largely responsible for
Magylands triumph in the recent
Southern Conference tournament at
Atlanta.
REVIVE WILLS SUIT