Evening star., 1933-09-12
CONFERENCE TRIO
SURE TO Be GOOD
N. c. State, University and
Duke All Well Supplied With
Material.
BY H. C. BYRD.

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BY H. c. BYRD.
A LII three of the Southern
~ Conference schools in North
E41 Carolina-Duke, North Car
olina State College and
North Carolina University-will
bid for high ranking on the grid
iron this Fall if the optimism of
their supporters is borne out in
quality of material and results of
games. Every one of these schools
looks forward to a successful
eleven. and each is looking some
what aSkance at the other two,
great rivals as each is of the
other.
North Carolina State indicated just
short while back that it would have
difficulty with its line because it lost
virtually its whole forward wall, but the
fact of the situation is that the seniors
of that 1882 line were beaten out of
tfleir jobs by sophomores and juniors
before the end of that season and con-
Sequently the line of this Fall is pretty
ssfre to be better.
With this question of the line SEEM
ingly settled to the satisfaction of every
body at the Raleigh school, attention
naturally turns to the backheld, and
one man there recently said: Our
backfeld talent is excellent, with nine
seasoned n1QUprc n lynifnrr,
Over at Duke there is little
worrying about anything. In the
first place, Coach Wallace Wade
is not the kind to worry very
much, and then in this particu-
lar case he does not have much
to worry about.
He has IL letter men for his seven
line positions, as he did not lose a man
from last years forwards on whom he
really depended Wade does have one
position in his backfleld to bolster up
somewhat, but outside Of that apparent
ly has readymade team, which he
developed last year, already well ad-
vanced in its training
North Cafolina University also has
at work about so men who have good
average of experience, and the best
men from its varsity squad of last year
to fill vacancies in his line, but reports
indicate that he anticipates little trou-
Bile doing thAt. 1t is said that North
Carolina has much better outlook
than when it began practice last Sep
tember and that it is due to make a
much better showing against its strong
est opponents;
North Carolina, North Carolina
State and Duke hold positions at
the three angles of triangle that
roughly has two legs each 80
miles and base II miles long.
Naturally a good deal more rivalry
Is shown in games among them than
in the average contest between schools
much more widely separated There is
nothing more disastrous for North
Carolina than to lose to Duke in foot
ball. and hardly anything could have
hurt Duke last season more than to
meet defeat at the hands OF North
Carolina State, yet both these things
have happened.
4 T Duke and at North Carolina are
n two tackles said to be among the
best in the South. One Of them,
Crawford of Duke, Is rated among the
most capable in the country. Craw-
ford generally was picked last year on
all-Southern elevens and was named on
some second all-American teams.
Collins at North Carolina University
is the other man, q brother Of the head
coach at Carolina, though not quite so
good as Crawford.
Vx1ALLAcE WADE gives almost his
wv whole coaching attention to the
development Of accurate me-
ehanical play.
Wade never has spectacular teams
and usually his men when they 20 on
the field and begin play seem rather
prosaic, but have a deadly efficiency in
everything they do, as many opposing
elevens have found out.
HDUTCH" BERGMAN, Catholic
University coach. says that he
is better supplied with tackles
than at any previous time in his coach
ing career
He has Gross and Tom Nally. Stat
ford and Lennon and Karpowich, all
over feet and all weighing over 200
pounds. Nally is the heaviest, with his
215 pounds.
And Bergman admits they are all
good foot alleplayers.
Z INCENT and Mayhem, tackle and
" end, reported for the first time
yesterday at Maryland, and with
the anticipated arrival of Snyder today,
the Old Line squad will be intact as
far as the men expected to return are
concerned.
incidentally. the Old Liners have done
lot of rough work, but so far have
only one injury, Minion having broken
a small bone in his hand He is likely
to be back in shape to play before the
first game. Minion was one of the fresh
man tackles last ar and seems certain
to be a regular i this seasons varsity.
DICK HARLOW, coach at Western
Maryland College, looks ahead
to the coming season with some
misgiving. Harlow knows that he has
good material, especially in the back
field. but says that he usually has had
his best teams when prospects did not
seem to be so good.
In Dunn and Shepherd West
ern Maryland has two exceptional
backs. and some of the other
material is not far behind them.
And to add to this, Harlow is one
of the best of all foot ball coaches.
When Harlow has good material he has
good teams, and sometimes he has good
teams when he does not have such good
material.
ROOKIE BREWER, former Univer-
sity of Maryland halfback. now
doing considerable officiating, said
that he is to. work in one game this
Fall that should be one of the best
In the South all year, South Carolina
VS.. Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Probably Brewer is not far from right,
as both schools have excellent material.
North Carolina State College is one
of the few institutions that this year
have added to their athletic plant.
1t has under construction new con-
crete stands to seat approximately 1000
persons.
GRIDDERS TO GATHER