Evening star., 1934-01-16
TWO MONTHS TOLL
FOR MOST SQUADS
G. w. Will Join in Serious
Work-G. U. Quint Visits
Navy Tomorrow.
BY H. c. BYRD.
YF PLANS of coaches count for
anything, Spring foot ball this
/ wear will mean more than it

YF PLANS OF c0acheS count 1Or
anything, Spring foot ball this
year will mean more than it
ever has before. Practically
all the men in charge of gridiron
work at institutions, here and
elsewhere in this section, have
indicated that they expect to get
their men on the field earlier and
keep them out longer. Two
months of practice that should
have every element of the most
serious preparation is contem-
plated.
Down in North and South Carolina
coaches expect their squads to get on
the field next week, while in Virginia
and in this immediate section they are
to be got out just as soon as weather
conditions permit Hunk Anderson,
already at North Carolina State Col
lege, has announced his intention to
have the candidates for his 1884 team
on the field Immediately for more
Spring foot ball than they have ever
known here"
North Carolina University has not as
vet selected a coach, though 1t Is on
The verge of doing SO, but that Is not
exnected to delay practice, as there are
nlentv of men there fully capaple OF
getting things started pelore liz al
rival of new mentor. -... so SIC
Navy is laying out actlVltleS lol l.e
SQUAD to extend over two molltllS,
though it is not likely to begin much
before March Is. Long Spring pro-
Grams are to be in order at George
foun George Washington, and Catho-
lie University In fact. long programs
have been carried out at c. U. LOT ,Illee
years and serious ones at GeorseCoSIi
hut George Washington mas hdlu!y
ever been anything more tnan na.i- Tll;-
hearted in its Spring eIortS. .,,.o !ri.o
vear Coach Jim PiXlee says that we
are Going to make real attempt 10
mt on a Spring practice worth Whlle
puG apuJ ont of which we should get some
real value" ~ .oo. hou rioht
,,ou seems to be that the development
Of team is an all-year propositlon
more than a mere matter Oh uIiise
months in the Fall. AS Walace Waue
. of Duke says. IF you're gong 10 d tuaG
out foot ball team these Gays sTUe ,,'e
enough to stay IN compettCloil, yTu ass
i,,st got to think and act foot pau 800
days out of every year
EoRGETOWN'S basket ball game
with Navy tomorrow is about tile
~ most important of its season.
The Blue and Gray, despite It's mem-
bership in the Eastern lntercoiIegla.v
Ieague would rather win from Navy
than from any other opponent. ana
RIGHTLY so Navy long has been rival
of the local schools and time was When
regularly great migratlonS OF Geois
town students took place every ran W
Annapolis to watch a basket pan, loo'
hall. base ball game or track meet.
The Blue and Gray's test tomorrow
at Navy should be one of the oesI
Games local folks get chance to Watch
this wear. Georgetown has gooo 1lVe
and NAVY also is capable, though not
as good as it's great quint of last sea-
son.
CONSIDERABLE talk has gone the
rounds among foot ball ofhclals
the last few months as 10 tne
probable fate of the Southern Assoc1a-
fion of Foot Ball Officials. Many con-
lectures have been heard as to whether
or not the officials association Woulo
split, as did the Southern Conference
little over a year ago. However, ap-
parently nothing of the kind IS IN.
tended. In all likelihood the officials
organization will remain as at present
organized, unless some big change IN
sentiment takes place. Especially Is
this true, inasmuch as the colleges put
I'D large share of the funds to flnance
the association.
~NE of the big universities now in
the market for a foot ball coach
had occasion to get in touch with
the writer over long-distance telephone.
with the result the writer cleaned from
the ensuing conversation that picking a
grid mentor was about the hardest as
signment that any institution could
have. Said the representative of the
university in question: We're up
against, don't know what to do, and
feel that whatever We do is just as
likely to be wrong as right; no worse
proposition could confront college
president than filling a job as head
coach of foot ball" Which probably
is not far from true.