Evening star., 1932-12-11
BY 4. ID. THOMAS.

BY 4. d. THOMAS.
w yE rise to remark in SUBJ
Nh/ dued tones that the
Y Y most finished foot ball
player in Metropolitan
Washington ranks this season
was AL Woods of Maryland, a
back who seldom carried the ball
The most valuable player to his
team was Bus Sheary of Catholic
University, fullback and captain;
the most brilliant broken field
runner, Tom Whelan of C. u, OF
course; the most versatile back
Johnny Fenlon of George Wash
ington, and the best lineman, Wal
ter Slaird, Colonial tackle.
These are impressions that lingel
from the grandest foot bail season
washington has had.
Thinking hard, we can't recall 9
backfield player in the last decade or
. team in this section VINO blocked anc
tackled in class with Woods. Oi
visiting players in the last several years
Judge from a single performance, was
Ish Pilkington of Tulsa who beat G
w. in 1881 although the glory went tc
the nimble-fo footed Keeling and Boehm
out at Brookland folk who have
~ been about the place a long time
viii tell you that Bus Sheary, as a
captain, probably has had no peer in
Catholic University gridiron history
You may have noticed his blocking and
line plunging, but in estimating his
value to the team attribute to him in
no small measure the spirit of the
Three Musketeers that pervaded tn.
Cardinals; like Woods. Sheary was a
hard working. efficient, self-efTacine
team player.
With Hudson and Carolan Of George
town having an off-year the an-star
team pickers have been up against ii
to choose pair of ends. Fraatz of C.
U. was the best of q mediocre crop
but you can argue lot over the second
best.
Jim Lyons played bank-rp foot ball
all the way for c. U. at guard but the
most conspicuous guard OF the year
was ZuZu Stewart Of G. w.
THE years best played game, re-
L garded from the standpoint OF
fundamentals, was between Cath
olic University and Duquesne. The
handing of a wet bal by the Cards
and Dukes was remarkable.
CECOND guessers may have criticized
~ Coach Bergman for keeping Whelan
out Of q large portion of the game
but 1t world be fairer to commend him
for the courage to risk such criticisms
by sticking to well thought out plan
of battle. With the warriors fighting
mud as well as manpower, 1t was Berg
mans plan to keep his scoring ace
fresh for touchdown opportunities.
Had Whelan been abe to break the
sccreless tie Bergman would have been
praised as n strategist. Many a mill
tary leaoe- has withheld his crack unit
for fnich.nJ punch.
When George washington played
Alabama, Fenlon outshone the famous
Cain as a ground gamer. although Cain
collected far more vardage. It was the
difference CT swimming with and
against the tide.
whelans Judgment of pace and
ability to start, stop and change di-
rection quickly made him reminiscent
Of Jack Hagerty when the present
Georgetown coach played halfback on
the Hilltop. Some Of Whelan's runs
got seriously under way at moments
when o fairly capable back would have
been tackled.
CEoRGETowN's switch of coaches
4~~ e
tough On the players. 1t took
from them any reasonable chance for
q comeback
A victory in any of their last several
games would have Zoomed the Hoyas'
hopes for next season and salved the
wounds of earlier defeats Did not
Carnegie Techs smashing triumph over
the Hoyas set Skibo hearts a-singing?
And the Plaid, even as the Blue and
Gray, was much in the dumps this
season.
The Georgetown change was costly
ht the gate. When the school SEEM
angly gave up in mid-season, the Gus
toners got sulky.
The recent cornerstone laying for
another big building on the Hilltop
devoted to educa ation-makes its foot
ball trouble seem very trifiing matter.
But we know some Georgetown guys
who'd put the buildings $500, 900 into
q foot ball fund!
Got to thinking about the new build
ing and some other fine works Of recent
years on the Hilltop while watching
Father Nevis, Georgetown's dis
tinguished president, laugh heartily
over the antics of colored youngsters
scrambling for pennies thrown from
Q runway OF Grifith stadium.
Georgetown had just taken q Sic
beating from Carnegie Tech.
CHOULD auld acquaintance be for
~ got? Never! never! Yet were
hearing mighty little about Tom
Mills these days.
Mills is friend we're proud to own
but it is without sentiment that we re-
feet that no word of criticism Of him
as coach or man, either before or after
2 his resignation at Georgetown, has ap-
peared in the public prints; nor has
this reporter heard a single derogatory
word spoken of him in private.
So the contrary, Mills has been
extraordinarily praised as a personality
and you will find foot ball men who
esteem him most highly as a coach.
Mills has been the victim Of singular
chain of misfortunes. Hard luck has
dogged him ever since Wilmer Bradley
broke a collar bone on the eve of the
New York University game last year
Even today the jinx persists, for Tom
is in poor health.
Examine the matter closely and one
will discover that Georgetown never
has recovered from the walloping II
took last season from the nom -blushine
Violets.
TEORGE WASHINGTON gambled
" got the breaks and won, If you ac-
cept public favor as q goal. 1t!
policy in booking expensive inter.
sectional games was daring and it.
team played that kind Of foot ball
Every one Of George Washington!
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