Evening star., 1932-11-23
UNBEATEN ELEVEN
LATEST SUCCESS
McLaughry's Re arkab | e
Business Versatility Is
EquaIed on Gridiron.
, a STAFF Correspondent of The Star


HROVIDENCE, r. L, November
r. 23.-Lumberman, stockman,
/ lecturer, famous college and
professional foot ball play
er, Barrister, student of psychol-
ogy and successful college foot
ball coach-that'S De Ormond
'Tuss" McLa' .glry, Browns 39-
year-old exponent of the triple
wingback formation, whose team
meets Colgate tomorrow for the
Eastern championship. Both
teams are undefeated this season.
"A T Westminster he brought the team
n from obscurity to a leader in its
class, and he surprised the gridiron
world a decade ago by taking an Am
herst team to New York, where it held
Percy Haughton's big Columbia team,
90. Then he confounded the experts
by matching Bill Ropers pre-game
statement by starting his Lord JEFF
second team against Roper's second
combination at Princeton. The half
found the score Princeton 0, Amherst 0.
That the Princeton first team was
good enough to get out ahead of Am
herst in the last half was to be eX-
pected, but McLaughry's flare for the
dramatic is more often than not backed
by sound foot ball sense.
Born at Sharon, Pa, the son of Judge
and Mrs. James A. McLaughry, the lad
with a Scotch family name and the
French Christian name, De Ormond,
early picked up the nickname "Tuss,
by which he is known throughout the
gTidiron world. He doesn't know how
he acquired the name. One of his
brothers told him it came when he was
very small because he was such
tussler.
McLAUGHRY played tackle and full
&s1 back in high school; guard, tackle
and offensive end at Michigan and
fullback at Westminster. So he's at
home in dealing with every department
of his eleven.
The idea of the triple wing-back
formation came like a bolt out of the
blue. One afternoon in 1923, midway
through a Brown season that held all
sorts of promise, reserve end, Bob
Carton, was wreaking havoc with a
sweep from double wing-back forma-
tion, with Dick Marson carrying, by
ig6bLlIlB lIlIO Lie DdCkll6lQ DS1OIG
play developed.
why not put a back out there to
worry and haraSs that end, give him
something to think about besides crash
ing into the apex of a play before 1t
unfol6ed?
McLaughry has had a varied career
on his way dp to the peersge of grid
iron cocehcs, his path leading through
playing experience in two colleges and
through the co5l AMI steel sections of
Western Pennsylvania. He was team
mate CT Knute Eockne on the famous
Massilon, Ohio, pro team Of almost two
decades ago, roommate Of Cornell's
Gilmour Dobie in coaching school, pupil
of Roclne in two coaching schools,
coach Of DOZENS of players who have
become successful foot ball coaches, and
is the holder Of two college degrees.
LIE is a constant student of Rlack-
L i stone and Coke when he isn't in
the midst of e foot ball season,
but he is first, last and always close
student Of gridiron tactics. Perhaps
that's why he was able to outmaneuver
even canny old Pop Warner himself in
the use of wingbacks, for McLaughry
has made three grow where Warner had
but two.
Two backs outfianking the defensive
tackles and one outside the defensive
end might seem to be carrying it bit
too far, but McLaughry's Brown eleven
has shot an assortment of double and
triple passes, reverses, fake reverses and
sweeps into the nidrift of a brace of
highly rated Eastern opponents to be-
come the current sensation of the East,
and all that remains before chalking
up an Eastern title and possible trip
to the Rose Bowl tournament is a vic
tory over Colgate.
McLaughry came to Brown after
coaching at Westminster College and
Amherst, and in seven years at the
Providence institution he has turned
out one undefeated team, one team
that lost only to Yale, and the 1882
team, that is still undefeated and united,
with one more gone to go.
He spent the remainder Of that year
experimenting with the idea. He played
along with 1t, testing it, proving and
disproving its potentialities until 1881,
when he installed it as his basic forma-
ton for all plays except kicks, even
giving it quick kick for good measure.
AFcLAUGHRY makes his home in
VI Providence. He has three chill
dren, Jane, John and Robert, and
the two boys are carrying on in the
foot ball heritage the father has handed
down. John, Is, is the regular fullback
on the Moses Brown School varsity,
that is undefeated in this seasons play;
Robert, II, is man OF all work in the
backfield of the Moses Brown lower
school team.
"Tuss" stands feet 2, weighs 2OS
pounds, has a bold forehead which Is
beginning to attain Gladstonian aspects
as the hair recedes, and square-cleft
chin that adds credence to that boyhood
nickname story. He spends most Of his
time at home.
Right now he's spending about 16
hours day figuring how to beat Col
gate, team that has scored 242 points
to opponents 0 this year.
He has ordered his telephone discon-
nected until after Thanksgiving to free
himself from calls for tickets and from
other interruptions while he works out
a few new tricks for Colgate's Andy
Kerr.
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