Evening star., 1932-11-03
.DOOSE'S GAMENESS
|. STRIKING EXAMPLE
Collapse Against Opposing
Player Is Mistaken for
Holding by Official.
BY r. ID. THOMAS.

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I George Washington back
~ field sub, will be a gloomy
spectator tomorrow night
when the Colonials NEE. the un-
defeated North Dakota State team
at Griffith Stadium. Speaking
almost literally, he might give his
right eye to be in that battle.
For reasons, harken back to the
clash with Iowa.
Let's review 1t bit. G. w had the
ball on the enemys 2O-yard line. Mig
McCarver, making his first sp,urge as a
star, got off 12-yard gain, and the
Colonials were knocking at the door for
a touchdown and their first big-time
victory.
But no. The ball is brought back
and 15-yard penalty slapped on the
ColonialS. GooG-by touchdown!
GroanS from the Colonial rooters. A
razz from the opposition, directed chiefly
at Chris DCose. II was he who drew
the penalty-for holding. b. all and
sunGgy he was seen to clutch an enemy
in f2grant violation of the rules.
But
DOOsE entered the game with an
- infected heel He also had a
broken nose, not to speak of a head
wound. Things happened to him a
week previous IN the game with Tulsa.
During the contest with Iowa Doose
tore some muscles in his back. Nobody
knew anything about this, however,
until after the game, for Doose, with a
chance to become regular. refused to
let things like broken noses sore feet,
torn scalps and agoniZing backs cheat
him out Of the opportunity.
That Is. Docses spirit wouldn't permit
1t. But you know about flesh.
Wei. they've forgiven Doose for that
damaging penalty, which. after all,
turned out TO be urimportant, consider
ing that G, w finally Won decisively.
You see, it has been revealed since
= that Chris wasn't 10 blame. He
didn't hClG-in foot ball sense
What he cid was collapse. and arms
atop fell against an opposing player,
plumb done in.
They hied Christopher Doose, from
Texas, to hospital after the game, and
an inventory Of his troubles indicated a
long stay there.
But he put up a suuawk that got him
out in two DAYS, and this morning he
was pestering Coach PiXlee for a prom
ise to let him play tomorrow night
Us all very interesting about DooSe,
hut also mighty significant.
The fight he made to stay in the
game was typical example OF the new
foot bail spirit at George Washington
To quote PiXlee al yesterdays prac-
tice: Say. Len meaning his first
assistant. Len walsh. have we foot
ball players or are they wildcats?"
WHEN Pixlee came to George Wash
w ington four seasons back his
problem was to scare up enough
trained men to make team. In fact,
he didn't try. He looked a year ahead
and went to work on a freshman group.
The team he nodded from this material
wasn't anything to get excited over,
largely for the reason the players them
selves didn't see anything to excite
them.
Last year, however. promising signs
appeared. The school was becoming
foot ball conscious. The players got
some encouragement from the student
body and also from the public. They
actually perked up.
PiXlee. as athletic director as well as
coach, helped a lot by booking attrac-
tive games With Washington and Lee.
Alabama, Tulsa, Iowa, North Dakota
State and William and Mary on this
years list. the players entered training
with the feeling that something big was
expected of them.
A ND they went to work accordingly.
"A They struggled so f1ercely for places
that casualties became alarming.
Even the freshmen got the fighting
spirit and some of those yearling var
sity affairs at Camp Let's were DOWN
right brutal. If you're a G. w. fan
looking to the future, it will interest you
to know that the training camp scraps
also were close. and that last week,
helping the varsity prepare for Iowa,
the freshmen gained more ground. US
ing Iowa plays. than did the Hawkeyes
1t al comes under the heading Of
clean competition, but the George
Washington gridironers are battling
among Misunderstanding, as Pixlee
observed, like wildcats. Let one leave
the game and his sub is in there with
will to DO or bust
For instance. when Johnny FenIon
was hurt in the Alabama game and
JOIlllIly BAKER look MS place at quarter,
Baker surprised everybody with his
flercely shown excellence When Fen
Ion was permitted to play for a few
minutes against Iowa he never showed
more running power.
A FTER DooSe was removed from the
n Iowa contest, Kriemelmeyer re-
Sumed his old post, and it was his
inspired play that turned the tide the
ColOnials' way Kriemelmeyer demo-
ton, which gave Doose a chance. was
the result of errors in the Tulsa game.
His pass defense against Tulsa was
weak. On the first aerial defense op-
portunity that came to him against
Iowa he intercepted a pass and ran 25
yards. On the ensuing kickoff he
MADE the kick and then the tackle
Two days before the game last week
Zuzu Stewart. star lineman, severely
injured leg, but insisted on taking his
post. He played nearly through the