Evening star., 1933-09-27
DEFENSE REGARDED
AS WELL ADVANCED.
Hoyas See Need of Stronger
Offense for Game With
Mount St. Mary's.
BY H. c. BYRD.


" the fine points of its OF
fense. The Blue and Gray
is fairly we'll satisfied as to its de-
fense, but feels that it must have
more accurate offensive play II 1t
is to attain effectiveness In its
opening game with Mount st.
Marys Saturday in the Western
High School Stadium.
you've got to get points to win foot
ball games, I don't care who you're
playing against" said Coach JACK
Hagerty this morning in talking about
his nrogram for the weeks practice. I'm
not one of those coaches who believe
YOU can depend on an alright defense
tn clean I'D the other fellow That may
keep him from cleaning you up, but II
doesn't get you touchdowns, ana touch-
downs bring home the bacon.
I'm fairly well satisfied with the de-
tense we have been putting up put ho'
at all satisfied with our orense. ..,;.,,
Our men are showing too little ability
IN switch their tactics when opposed 10
a seven-man line or a siX-man line, ana
vo1 can never tell what is going 10 pe
in front of YOU these days until you get
ont on the field and see them line up
And even then you can't be TOO sure, ~
varied are the formations on oe1ense.
wye have put in some gooo nchs
w the last two days brushing up
our plays by trying to instlii
into our players what TO DO under al
kinds of circumstances and have mace
some progress. Just how much l can
not tell until we line up against Mount
St Mary's.
Get foot ball squad in gooo phySlcal
condition, teach the men the plays
build a fairly good defense and the
average fan thinks you have team.
Well. do all this and your work mas only
lust begun, if you expect to be succ -sslui
in the kind of foot ball our sche@u-e
calls for this Fall
What Hdgerty is dong probably
tells TIE St1ry f1r most oI lhe
other coaches OF local eteUenS'
Catholic Unircrcity erccpted to
certain degree.
With a team of veterans, and the pest
Spring practice behind them, the BrcoA-
landers are considerably aheao OF .ns
other schools in the c~mpactneSs anu
accuracy of their Cferse.
In few former seasons have local
coaches worked SO hard in opening
games. because in few former seasons
have they been 50 much in doubt as 10
the kind of opposition they would nave
to face.
~NE factor that may have figured
~ strongly in the setback suHereo req
by Virginia Military Institute last
&c iy,o hilitU cnond the nOurS
in practice in the first three weeks OF
workouts that most other schools have.
The v. M l. opened two days after
Labor day and the gridiron squad was
able to get only two days OF workouts
involving what generally is termed
"three-a-day," which means morning
and afternoon practice and skull
practice at night.
After that it was able to work out
only an hour and half day, while
1t may be that Emory and Henry spent
two weeks or more in tWlce-a-day or
three-times-a-day workouts.
II this was the situation, then
it is rather remarkable that
V.M.I. was not whipped worse
than il was.
This matter of the amount OF early
practice a team gets counts heavily
In the opening contests, in all up to
at least the middle of October. This
same factor may work against both
American University and Gallaudet in
their first games, as both began late
and both must meet teams that began
shortly after September l.
TYP at Western Maryland College it
Is said that Frank Cumberland,
former Central High School foot
ball player, has just about displaced
one Of the veteran backs and is certain
of a regular job. Last Fall it was
claimed up there that Cumberland
would develop into one of the best backs
at Western Maryland, and now it seems
that he is making good the prediction.
Cumberland is stocky, fast,
yeiohs something oDer 40 pounds
and looks the part OF the athlete.
~ VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC IN
". STITUTE has one of the best
= foot ball squads I've ever seen
any school in this part of the country
send on a field" said a man today who
watched the Gobblers beat Roanoke
College only to last week. ut won
from Roanoke only by small score,
but could have won by almost anything
1t wanted. as it used its best back only
a few minutes in the first half and
after it got one touchdown played un-
der wraps. as four Tennessee men were
on the sidelines picking up what they
could for the battle their school stages
with the Blacksburg eleven at Knoxville
Saturday. And that will be scme battle.