Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
DISARMAMENT SAID
/ TO Be TEMPORARY
False Impression Is Given
by Scattering of Squad
After 1890 Season.
BY III. C. BYRD.
w YHILE the all-Marine foot
W. ball team, which was
V ' assembled for three

assembled Tor three
months at the League
Island Navy Yard last year, has
been disbanded and players, man
ayers and coaches sent to various
Marine Corps posts, this is not
taken to mean that the Marine
Corps will be without a strong
foot ball team. On the contrary,
when the 1881 season gets under
way, one of the strongest elevenS
that have carried the colors of the
corps in years may be assembled.
Some years ago the Marine Corps be-
gan to inaugurate policy in athletics
under which it was intended that at
Quantico would be developed teams
somewhat along the lines of Annapo
lis and West Point. 1t was felt that in
athletics, as well as other lines of work.
Quantico should become to the Marine
Corps what Annapolis and West Point
are to the Navy and Army-the great
training ground for the whole organi-
cation.
This policy was developed for time,
Dub ~ SCcitlo IIldb III 4dIC years Ildo
been departed from considerably.
Therefore, while an impression has been
created, probably without intention,
that there will be no more Marine
Corps foot ball and base ball teams,
the actual situation when it redeYel-
ops, in all likelihood will result in even
stronger and, if anything, better or
gained teams. Practically all those
responsible for the activities of the
Fnali7n tho vol of 9TH
letics, foot ball especially, in main
tanning high morale and in retaining
that keen interest in the corps which
makes every man in it feel that it is
something that belongs to him, that its
honor is in his individual keeping.
Just what plan may be worked out
In foot ball for next Fall is not known,
but the chances are that when it comes.
time to call out candidates for the
teams that represent Quantico, Paris
Island and San Diego, the three Ma
rine Corps posts that regularly turn
out elevens, the candidates for the
teams, located in different parts of the
world, will be given their choice of the
post to which they desire to be as
signed. 1t would in that case be only
human for them to ask to be sent to
Quantico. Virtually in the National
Capital, Quantico has advantages over
both the others and from the viewpoint
OF the corps, is far more strategically
located. Officers charged with the
responsibility of directing all activi-
ties, both work and play, naturally
should see the advantages in having
the best eleven possible representing
the post that is so located.
This, then, being the situation, it
seems fairly certain to develop that the
most important athletic activities, in
Guiding foot ball, of the Marine Corps
VIII build up at Quantico and GUAM
tico will actually become the one big
center of Marine Corps sports. This
would not mean that other Marine
Corps posts would be without teams, but
simply that the big teams would be at
Quantico This would seem to be the
logical outcome of the present situa-
ton, and, instead of being a deterrent
to Marine Corps athletics at other
places, probably would exert Stimulat-
ing influence on them. Before long, If
conditions build up as seem logical, the
teams that make their home at Guam
tico should become generally known
throughout the country as the Marine
Corps teams, the best the corps pro-
duceS in the way Of manhood.
COME time back there was sent to
~ this column by a woman teacher in
local university an excerpt from a
statement by Hamilton Holt, president
of Rollins College, in Florida, in which
President Holt came out f1atfoOted with
the assertion that the foot ball coach
does the best teaching on the college
campus. As an aftermath of this, day
or so ago the writer received, with a
brief suggestion that the other side of
the question ought to be printed, the
following:
You recently sustained a severe
eprain Of the right arm in patting
yourself and your fellow coaches on the
back by giving widespread publicity to
an editorial by a college president stat
ing that the foot ball coach does the
most effective teaching on the campus
This prexy may be right. but recently
read of another one who eliminated in
tercollegiate foot ball and the coach
from his campus at one punt I opine
that If faculty members could pick
their classes as coaches select material
for their squads more of them would
develop into Knute Rocknes of the
classroom. Also 1 remind you that if a
college professor draws a few dumb
Dummies the said dumbbunnies must be
endured as pains in the neck for at
least one full semester. but if coach
finds one Of his gridders lacking the
essentials Of skull practice he will tie
can 10 the misf1t and forget him.
Furthermore, If a professor expressed
his feelings over poor presentation of
classwork as a coach does over FUN
bic, he would be considered a fit sub
ject for cuckoo ward. And If a teacher
of defunct languages used the same
methods Of drilling a strange lingo
into the ivory Of his pupils that a coach
does in popping up his team. the COL
lege physician would be kept busy
treating nervous prostrations. II the
pref. who teaches the young idea how
to juggle the English language employed
the same line Of cxpletivcs that a coach
always has on tap. there would never
be a complaint about limited vocabu-
laries. However as a foot ball coach
recently expressed the opinion that he
would prefer to coach the charges Of
an orphan asylum or a State peniten-
tiary than a varsity squad. I suppose
beds of roses on which We professors
think the coaches lie also have few
thorns."
The writer strongly suspects that his
good friend DR.. I x. Anterior. a pro-
fessor in the College of Agriculture of
the University of Maryland has per
petrated the above. And. anyway, in
presenting his view of De Hollis edi-
torisl, the writer Of tHat letter has al
most made out better case for DR.
Holt than DR.. Holt made out fer him
self