Evening star., 1932-03-01
FLORIDA IS CARDED
FOR 1888 AND 1884
Georgia Tech and Louisiana
State Due to Be Added
by old Liners.
BY III. C. BYRD.

A C11CNbCo a 4OOV beNAA eNAAAeAAASN
with the University of Flor
ida that will take the Old Line
team to Florida on December 2
1888, and bring the Gators tc
Washington in 1884, The Florida
athletic board will have to ratify
the agreement before it becomes
effective, but it is understood that
such affirmative action ID almost
certain.
The only time Maryland has met
Florida in foot ball was in 1927, when
the two schools battled in a tropical
rainsterm at Jacksonville to 7-to-6
Florida victory,
If it can effect a shift in Its sehed-
ule to clear up a date, Maryland prob
ably will bring Louisiana State Uni
versity to Washington for game in
1888, A date for the game has been
agreed on, provided the Old Line school
can get q team 1t already has listed
to shift, Under the same arrange
ment Maryland has been invited TO
play in Louisiana If 1t cares to make
that trip.
Another alliance due for Maryland in
foot ball is with Georgia Tech. The
present situation makes it almost GER
tain that the Old Line school will meet
the Atlanta institution in two-year
arrangement for games in Atlanta and
Washington, the first to be played
in 1884,
THE present Southern Conference
l. basket ball tournament Ia setting Q
record for attendance, At last
nights contests between Georgia and
Duke and between North Carolina and
Auburn more than $500 persons were
in the stands, the largest number that
has attended any of the games since
they were first inaugurated In 1921, It
is expected that just as many will be
present tonight to watch North Caro-
lima and Georgia fight 1t out for the
championship. Incidentally, this Georgia
five is q better combination than 1t
has been given credit for. 1t is rough
hard-playing aggregation in which are
two or three stars. Duke was wiped
UP last night, largely because 1t was
not rugged enough to go through
against such combination as repre-
sented the Athens university. In
Strickland, at center, Georgia has a
real star and Catfish" Smith OF foot
ball fame is an exceptionally good
guard.
North Carolina and Georgia have
basket ball of the whole tournament
tinnally good team and showed more
finish in its contest with Tulane on the
opening day of the tournament than
any other five has, but wore itself out
running up big score on the New
Orleans school, North Carolina is q
slight favorite to win the title, largely
because 1t is a more finished team
Georgia has Just as good individuals
as Carolina, but does not seem to be so
much together as a unit,
Auburn, which was looked upon o
something of dark horse, got two mel
hurt in its game Saturday and the sec
and string players were hardly UP to
the standard of the regulars, At that
awhile. Had it not been for some ex-
eeptienaliy brilliant work by Hines
Auburn might have won.
TsRANK THOMAS, Alabama foot ball
l. coach, Ia his Spring practice
has been trying out the kickoff
under the new rule and says it is going
to be just too bad fer the team reeeiv-
ing. Thomas says that in Spring
practice his men seldom have been able
to get the ball back as far as the 20
backs were able in regular games tc
bring it back on an average to the as
yard mark
Thomas says that his experience with
the play this Spring has convinced
him that any school that receives
kickoff if it can avoid II will use very
poor judgment,
CEoRGIA'S basket ball team Is te
~ come North next Winter. 1t In te
play at Maryland on February
and at Virginia on February o. There
is a possibility that on the way up II
may schedule another contest with
either Washington and Lee or North
Carolina.
Ten per cent of the income from the
basket ball tournament is TO be donated
by the Southern Conference. to the
Olympic fund, The conference passed
that as a formal resolution at its meet
ing Friday, and Athletic Director Stege-
man of Georgia, chairman OF the COM
mittee in charge Of the tournament,
says that the Olympic committee may
over to the conference to be included
in the donation the conference has
pledged toward raising the $4,000 the
colleges and universities Of the country
have accepted a. their share OF the ex'
penaes of the Olympic team.
LARRY MEHRE Georgia foot bal
i j coach, has invented an attach
ment for tackling dummy that Is
about the best mechanical contrivance
for the purpose ever put out. 1t vir-
tually eliminates danger OF using the
dummy and undoubtedly will turn
dummy taekling practice into rather ar
advantageous form of work for greer
players instead of the rather dangerou.
one 1t has been heretofore, Every foot
ball coach who has seen the contri-
vaHce-and o lot Of them have In the
last few days-proao II as the best
thing of It's kind ever developed,