Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-02
BULK Of MATERIAL
OF 1880 AVAILABLE
Gridders Gather at End of
Week to Open Toll at Camp
Let's Monday.

Ky YELL net have as good
W. a team as everybody
Y thought we'd have last
year, but We'll have
better team than we actually had
last year." is the rather naive way
in which Head Coach John PiXlee
gives his view of foot ball pros
poets at George Washington for
the coming season. And what
Pixlee says probably hits the nail
on the head just about as square
ly as anything could, because
there's not the least doubt that
people expected more of the Co.
lonials than they were able to de-
liver, and, to go Just a lit further
it certainly is only reasonable to
suppose that, with the bulk of last
years material again on hand, the
team ought to be stronger than it
was then.
Pixlee does not talk a good deal
about his work, and seldom does he
give out much in the way of opinions.
In all that he says he is conservative,
and his statement that well have
better team than We actually had last
year, really means that George WASH
ington'S supporters have some right to
feel optimistic, because, after all,
George Washington in 1880 was far
from weak. True, the Colonials did
not measure up to the heights set for
them by overenthuSiaStic students and
alumni, but they did play good foot
ball and turned in several good games,
though the big end of the score was
on the wrong side by small margin
What George Washington people
may look for this year, apparently. is
a team that should give its foes a battle
all the way, no matter what the re-
suits in points And that, in the last
analysis, constitutes good foot ball
season, as the time has gone when any
team may walk rough-Shod through its
schedule. There are too many good
teams everywhere for that.
CEoRCE wAsHINGToN's squad is
NJ to gather here next Saturday and
Sunday. and on Monday will leave
for Camp Let's. where it will again go
through its training period Coach
PiXlee expects to spend between two
and three weeks in the preliminary
Rorkouts before he brings the squad
back to Washington. Camp Let's is
the same place the squad trained last
Fall. and is run during the Summer by
the Y M. c. A. for its boys department.
Coach PiXlee is busy with his aides
mapping out plans for the season and
in arranging details for the training
camp stay. And. incidentally. there are
plenty of details to be arranged. from
being sure OF correct sizes of shoes for
feet of all shapes and sizes to deter
mining what mornings beefsteek will
be served instead of allowing the young
men to work out with no more solid
bedrock than scrambled eggs and
bacon.
George Washington has a good break
at the beginning of its schedule. in that
1t does not have a heavy game that
might force the training period more
rapidly than is desired. The opener
with Shenandoah College September 26
Is sure to be set-up, and the second
with Elon College is not likely to be
much more difficult. However, on Oc-
tober Is the team will have to meet a
strong foe in Tulsa University, which
plays a night game here. Tulsa
at Tulsa, Okla, by small marg n
All in all, it seems that George Wash
1ngton's followers have more to look
forward to this year than last although
they probably are not so optimistic.
However there is no reason for them to
expect to clean up the earth, and it is
far from fair to Coach Pixlee for them
10 expect that AS Tom Mills said in
talking Of his Georgetown squad, no
man can build better or bigger house
than he has mortar and r-cKs and
lumber to blild with.
HUTCH BERGMAN got out the Cath
H. Ole University squad yesterday for
two workouts. There wasn't a
whole lot of real work on the program,
but the players we're put through long
series of drills to develop them gen.
orally. Today Bergman plans to begin
to get them down to real work, to begin
the long series of painStaking efforts
so necessary to bring about mechanical
proficiency in the type of foot ball he
teaches.
Incidentally, Bergman is planning an
innovation as far as coaching of local
teams Is concerned in that he IS going
TO introduce SOW movies in his de-
velopment OF the squad Lest Spring
while Metzger, the all-American .Notie
Dame guard of last year, was helping
coach the c. U. squad in Spring prac-
tlce, Bergman bought motion picture
OUTFIT and took sow movies of guard
play as demonstrated by Metzgar; and
IneTe is not tne least doubt ABOUT the
value of such Instruction. One showing
OF the reel that Bergman has should
convince anybody of that Bergman
also has slow movies of George Vlk
demonstrating end play. just as val
liable in helping him teach his ends as
the movies of MetZgers guard work
in that department. incidentally, the
use of slow movies in scouting
would be invaluable, and it is not to
be wondered that many schools that
can well afford financially an outlay
for that purpose avail themselves of
the possibilities therein.
HEORGETOWN'S squad began its
~ workouts yesterday at Rehoboth
Beach. Del The Blue and Gray
squad reported there instead of coming
by Washington, and Coach Mills left
here early yesterday morning to meet
his men. Mills WIS on hand yesterday
afternoon for the first practice.
GeorgetoUns practice during the
training camp season will be just about
what it was last year, long and coil
slant effort to build up the mechanical
proficiency so absolutely necessary to
Eridiron success. i
Mills plans to keep the Georgetown
squad at camp for ;.lree weeks. He
will come back here September % to
have four days of workouts on the local
field before he opens his season Sep
fennher 06 with Lebanon VALLEY