Evening star., 1932-01-29

" foot ball practice this year,
if its present plans are not
changed. 1t is the intention to
hold the squad together only five
weeks, whereas last year the work.
outs extended over 10. Coach
Bergman expects to get his men
out a little earlier, too, probably
the latter part of February, so
that the workouts will not last
so far into the warm-weather
period.
Our squad is in better shape now
than 1t was this time last year" said
one of the c. U. coaches this morning,
land Coach Bergman says he does not
feel that as much time will be required
to cover the same ground that year
ago took 10 weeks. We have back
nearly all our 1881 squad although we
lose four or five good individuals, and,
with the squad already fairly well
drilled, we can make considerably more
progress in much less time"
Catholic U. will not have base ball.
nor any other Spring sports besides
track, and consequently is likely to have
out for the practice sessions virtually
the whole squad on which it depends
for team next Fall This also ought
to make Spring practice much more
valuable than in some other schools,
where the majority of players take part
IN regular varsity sports. Coach Berg
man is a firm believer in Spring work
outs and says that then the founda-
tions of the team for the following
season are laid.
COLLEGE lacrosse teams are girding
~ themselves for the coming season
in the hope that a trip to the
OlympicS will be their reward. And
the players have little more incentive
than they had the last time, because
more Of them will make the journey.
Not only will a championship team be
selected to play exhibition games in the
Olympics, after a play-of for which
six or eight of the strongest teams are
to be selected, but an all-star twelve,
selected from the other teams that fail
to win, also will be sent to Los Angeles.
This regular twelve and the all-star
combination are to play a series of
games in various cities on the way to
the coast and then play the exhibition
games on the Olympic card.
THERE is no other small section of
i the country where the Olympic la
crosse interest is so keenly devel-
oped as in Maryland Four of the best
teams are located in the Old Line
State-Navy, Hopkins, st. Johns and
Maryland-and it is fairly certain that
II the whole Of the remainder of the
country we're gone over four better
teams could not be selected. Naturally,
with the strong possibility that one of
these four may win the playoff and
that players Of the three other teams
may win positions on the all-star
twelve, Maryland lacrosse interests are
very much agog over the outlook.
The United States Lacrosse Associa-
ton, which virtually controls the game
in this country, has abolished its Rank
ing Committee, which in previous years
has drawn considerable fire by its Sc
lectiOnS at the end Of each season. So
much criticism was noted in the last
two or three seasons that it was felt it
were fer better to do away with the
ranking altogether than to rank the
teams in an arbitrary way that met with
the approval of not more than the one
placed at the head of the list.
A LII foot ball coaching jobs through
"A out the South seem to be filled
with the exception of the one at
was to place Tex Tilson, assistant to
Monk Younger the last few years, at
the head of the squad, but Tilson'S de-
Cision to join the coaching staff at Vir-
ginia Polytechnic institute, his alma
mater, left Davidson without a man
That school now is casting about in an
endeavor to find some one it feels can
be depended on to manage its foot ball
interests successfully
The only college basket ball games
scheduled here this week end are be-
tween Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
Maryland, George Washington and
Lynchburg tomorrow night. George
town and Gallaudet have games, but
the two that each is to play are on
other floors. Georgetown meets
knights of Columbus tonight, at Brook
1yn, and Army at West Point tomorrow.
Gallaudet plays both its contests in
Philadelphia, tonight with Temple Col
lege of Pharmacy and tomorrow with
Col