Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
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tically all Otner ScHooIS, dpiuAiS W
Southern Conference rules az they do,
60 out the same day.
OF course, it is too early to say what
Is going to happen in the way OF VIC
tories and defeats. Too many factors
enter into the development Of foot
ball SQUAD, and the margin between re-
1narkable success and unlocked for de-
teats is too much of a hairline for
that; but right now some three or four
schools seem situated well enough to
warrant a prediction that they should
have about as strong teams as have
ever trod a gridiron under their colors.
DERHAPs no other university begins
practice with better prospects than
Vanderbilt and Georgia. Both had
big fast teams last year and both have
back practically their whole squads. AS
far as material is concerned, 1t seems
that these schools start with a bit CT
an advantage over their rivals. Geor-
gia had a wonderful team in 1880, and
tomorrow it is to trot out that team
almost intact And the same Is true
of Vanderbilt. Both schools have eX-
cepionally big lines and almost as big
backs, and both lines and backs are
fast.
Georgia Tech is expected to be
that Louisiana State may prove some
thing of a dark horse. Alabama is not
expected to be quite so good, as 1t lost
heavily by graduation from the eleven
that swept things in the South and
then cleaned up at Pasadena. Nortn
Carolina and Kentucky will have big
teams and are likely to do much bet
ter than anybody expects especially
Kentucky. In fact, for the last three
years Kentucky has been one OF the
toughest elevens in the South to whip.
Tennessee may not be so good, while
South Carolina rs likely to be much
stronger than usual. Florida Is not
expecting to have quite as capable an
eleven as represented it last season.
Both the Mississippi schools, the A.
and M. College and the State UnlVer-
sitv. seem to be a little below the con-
ference average, and so does Sewanee.
A1oRTH CAROLINA, of the schools
IN in the upper end of the Confer
ence. already has been mentioned
as having the same good prospects II
has enioved the last four or five years,
hut it also is true that Duke probably
viii have a fine eleven. Wallace WADE,
former Alabama coach VINO taxes
charge there for his first season, SAID
last Spring that Duke had just ABOUT as
the team ought not be far from as good.
Which really means something. North
Carolina State may do something
toward pulling out of the rut in whlch
1t has been flounderlng for quite aWIlle'
University of Virginia is to be watch
ed as this Fall it will match gooo
coaching with the excellent material IL
has. and the combination SHOULD pro-
duce results. Virginia Polytecnnlc IN
Ill - hotter hYpd ma
terial than any of the four schools IN
Virginia, while Maryland has back the
bulk of its 1880 squad. ,.
washington and Lee. and Virginia
Military Institute are sure to enjoy
lot of Improvement over last year. ~
M. I. is not likely to show as much oil,
ference, though, as washington ana
Lee, as complete metamorphosS may
take place there.
CEVERAL of the schools send their
y SQUADS out tomorrow under new
coaching systems. Most prominent
of these changes are at virginia ana
Duke. At the former Fred Dawson,
who once coached at Princeton, whose
Nebraska teams whipped Notre Dame at
its best and who last year coached In
Colorado, is in charge. Dawson is an
exceptionally good man. h. would have
remained in the East or Middle West
had 1t not been for his health. 1t IS
understood that he has fully recovered.
Virginia under him should be an entire
" different Virginia from the last three
years.
There is not much doubt that Duke
people expect Wallace Wade to do
Just about the same stunts at Dur
ham that he put across at Tuscaloosa.
Wade succeeds Jimmie De Hart, who
has gone to Washington and Lee De
Hart is not stranger to washington
and Lee. as he spent several years
there before taking the job at Duke.
He will greatly improve Washington
and Lee foot ball, and probably will
bring it back to the high plane 1T held
under him some five years back.
Chef Wynne is at Alabama Poly
technic Institute for the first time,
going there from st. Louis, and Josh
Cody, who has coached Clemson for
three years. is back at Vanderbilt to
help Dan McGugin. Jess Nicely has
succeeded Cody at Clemson. Frank
Thomas. former Notre Dame back who
has been assisting Harry Mehre at
Georgia has taken up the reinS drop
ped by Wallace Wade at Alabama.
Clipper Smith, who helped Tom Mills
at Georgetown last year. also is new to
the Southern Conference in his role as
head mentor at North Carolina State.
His outlook. though, probably is not SO
bright as the other new coaches.
GENERAL of the Southern schools
y play their first genes only two
weeks after they begin practice.
being scheduled on either Friday Sep
TENDER Is. or Saturday. September 10.
Three Virginia institutions have
games SEP, September 49, 49,, University diversity
to open the season at Charlottes-
vile. Virginia Military Institute plays
its first gene on that date with Hamp-
Sidney, while William and Mary
meets the Langley Field eleven. David
son. Mercer University, Mississippi Col
lege and Sewanee have games Septem-
Der 10 with rather weak opponents.
Loyola University against Louisiana
College at New orleans on September
Is is the first game scheduled in the
South.
One of the features Of the 1891 sea.
son will be the opening OF the new
stadium at the University of Virginia
on Thursday October Is. with the Vir-
Ninia Military Institute game. The
S.adium Is to seat 81 900 and structur-