Evening star., 1933-03-14
|AAGERTY COUNTING
| ON f. WILLIAMSON
Needs Tackles Badly, WIN.
Try to Convert Center
IN Spring Drills.
BY 4 d. THOMAA

0x - H. VhOmAA
1T isn't easy to be cheerful over
Georgetown University's foot
i ball prospects. but young
Jack Hagerty, new head
coach, is not definitely among the
pessimists.
Today Hagerty was to trot out
for their first bit of serious Spring
training the most unimpressive
array Of gridders to represent the
Blue and Gray in many years.
"Well just work along and see what
happens" said Hagerty when it was
pointed out that few of last years fresh
men are likely to be Of any use to him.
although IA members of the 1882 var
slty squad, including half dozen reg
ulars, will be graduated in June.
Yes" continued Jack "a little
dreamily, 1t seemed), eff We work hard
enough. why we may not be so bad
next Fall"
RUT not even the most enthusiastic
- Georgetown supporter. and among
the Blue and Gray alumni are some
OF the worlds staunchest loyalists. can
see much to be happy over 1t is the
general thought that II Hagerty turns
out moderately successful team he
VIII have accomplished more than rea-
Sonably could be expected.
ACCORDING to the coach, the morale
OF the players Is on the pickup which
Is most encouraging sign considering
the spirit Of the squad toward the
lnlsn OF last season which bordered on
oesponoency. Not few of the Hoyas
are putting real effort into their work.
Several OF the reserves of last Fall ap-
pear bent upon making names for
themselves this year.
Notable among these is big Frank
Williamson, Washingtonian who hun
gered for action but saw next to no
service at all at center until the last
two or three games. In these he showed
lots of promise. In fact, at times
Williamson was the most effective
player on the Georgetown team.
WILLIAMSON may 90 a long vay
w toward solving Hagerty's most
harrassing problem. He has no
tackles Of proved ability. Both of the
1882 regulars are lost through gradual
ton and the only reserve holdover is
Bill Downer.
1AA6SAey pAdiio W lily Williamson
at tackle. He is quite the type. feet
2 and rangy. with an abundance of
spirit. His aggressiveness won the at
tention of the new coach shortly after
Hagerty took over the reigns in mid
season and Jack Immediately rewarded
him with chance in the West Vir-
glnla game. The big youngster made
so many tackles in that contest he was
almost a sensation.
Hagerty has couple Of holdover
centers besides Williamson. Callahan
and Carpenter ought to be experienced
enough to handle the position this year
and Bill Pearson, formerly a center but
now guard. can be shifted back.
Our biggest worry" says Hagerty,
is the tackles
JACK OBRIEN of New York and Leo
J Curley of Boston, sons of the mayors
OF those cities, have yet to report
for Spring practice. though both seemed
ambitious as members of the freshman
team. O'Brien is an end and Curley
tackle
About 80 candidates have been work.
ing out daily and the squad likely will
be augmented by 8 or 10 this week.
Hagerty has been given another as
sistant and most welcome one in
George Murtagh. who was a lineman
on the team that Jack starred with at
Georgetown, which reached its peak in
1925. Murtagh also played with Hag-
erty on the New York Giants profeS-
sional eleven.