Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
GALLAUDET ALONE
TO FOREGO DRILLS
Foot Ball Training to Start
March 1---Week's Basket
Card Well Filled.
BY III. C. BYRD.

gin Spring foot ball prac-
~ tice as soon after March ]
as the weather may per-
nit. Five of the six schools that
carry on foot ball expect to get
their men out to begin prepara-
ton for next Falls campaign,
Gallaudet being the only one not
scheduled to have at least a few
weeks Of training.
Georgetown and Catholic University,
following along Notre Dame lines, are
due to go through just about as strenu-
Gus practice as they have in the Fall,
while George Washington, American
University and Maryland will not run
so long nor so strenuously.
Out at Catholic University Coach
Dutch" Bergman intends to send the
candidates for his 1881 team through
some long and arduous workouts. He
will not let any of the practice sessions
| interfere in the least with school work,
but in his opinion and the opinion Of
practically all his squad, the gridiron
| training this Spring should be very
valuable for the individuals to be en-
gagged in 1t.
Similar Program at G. u.
Up at Georgetown about the same
| type of practice INDUCED in at Catholic
University viii be carried out. Tom
Mills, the Blue and Gray mentor, and
Bergman trained under the same
colors and have pretty much the same
| ideas about how to build foot ball
team However, Mills does have two
or three Spring sports to consider and
probably some few Of the foot BAH men
will take part in them and not turn
out for gridiron practice at all. Berg
mann has only track to consider and
very few of his foot ball men are
likely to be involved.
| Jim Pixlee, coach at George WASH
ington, has some rather different ideas
about Spring practice. Pixlee uses his
Spring workouts to get q line on what
he wants to do the next Fan IN the way
of plays, shifts and positions in which
to use his men. The same is about
true Of Walter Young at American Uni"
versity, and at both these schools the
Spring workouts may not last longer
| than four weeks. Georgetown and
Catholic University expect to run eight
| or ten weeks.
| Maryland uses no men IN Spring
practice who are wanted by the coaches
| for places on teams in other sports
The result Is, that with the exception
of one year, the Old Liners have hardly
ever had a Spring practice worthy
of the name. BY working with indi-
viduals and trying out plays, though,
they have accomplished something
worthwhile. Most Of the practice this
year will be with members of last
Falls freshman eleven, with few men
from the varsity squad not out FOR
other sports.
In UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND's
~ double bill with the Naval Acad-
| envy Saturday Is pretty sure 70
be the high spot OF local college basket
ball this week. Maryland's varsity and
Freshman quints both 60 to Annapolis
to meet the Midshipmen, the varsit.
game being listed at O'Clock and the
| freshman at 4. For several years Navy
Maryland basket ball games have been
one Of the features Of indoor sports 81
the Academy. Hardly any game has
seen either of the teams o victor bg
more than 8 or points, with the COM
petition about as, keen as could be, and
this years contest does not give any
indications of being much different.
John Wilson, basket bail coach at
Navy, has . good deal Of respect for
Maryland's system Of play. He always
has said that 1t is the hardest system
| for him to beat, and the other evening,
while sitting in the Maryland gym get
ting a line ON the Maryland team, re-
marked. well, that zone system is
tough to beat, the toughest we meet,
and if we don't whip Maryland this
year, by jingoes, I'm going to adopt 1t
myself"
Catholic University plays at home To-
| morrow night, Loyola College being
scheduled. The Ba1timoreans have an
exceptional team and ought to whip the
Brookland five. They are just about
making Q clean sweep among the col
leges In Maryland.
TUESDAY night st. Johns visits
J. here for a game with Maryland.
| The Annapolis school has a good
team that may give Maryland terrible
evening, especially If the latter lets
down as 1t did against Washington Col
lege. st. Johns, like all the other
schools In Maryland, has as its sole aim
in athletics the making of things mis-
cradle for the State University.
Catholic University plays its second
| game of the week In It's own gym
nasium Thursday night when Balti-
more University comes over here. The
BaltimOreafs have q strong Quint that
should compete on even, If not better,
terms with the local schools The fresh
man teams of these schools also meet
the same evening, while the George
| town freshman go out to play the
Maryland first year five.
Maryland State Normal comes over
| to Gallaudet Friday evening for what
is likely to be Its third drubbing Of the
year from local five. American Uni
| versity was first to set the Toswon
quint down and then Gallaudet ran
| up q big count against it.
| American u. Is scheduled to play
Pennsylvania Military Institute at Ches-
ter on Friday.
lTEoRGETowN's only game Of the
" week is listed Saturday with the
Knights of Columbus five at
Brooklyn, N. Y. While Georgetown Is
playing In Brooklyn another New York
team will be down here, the 10th Regi-
ment five being listed to play George
washington In the &c" street gym
nasfllm.
Two boxing matches are listed for
local ring squads In the next six days,
Maryland at Washington and Lee on
Tuesday and Catholic University at
home with st. Johns on Thursday.
Maryland lost to Washington and Lee
| by 6 bouts to while this is st. Johns
| first experience In this sport.
SsDozIE" BERGER, guard on the
| - Maryland basket ball team, must
| have created quite an impression
at @. U. in the basket ball game there