The Washington times., 1934-12-08
M|DD|ES POINT
TOF|NEFROSH
GRID SEASON

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 8.-"What of
next year?" is the question that
Navy people are asking. now that
the feverish exuberance of the
victory in the Army game cools
enough to permit consideration of
other matters.
The answer is that there is no
reason to worry over next year
in spite of the graduation of the
large part of the fine team which
won eight of it's nine games
against powerful opposition. and
ended its season with the first
victory in 13 seasons over its serv.
ice rivals.
For one thing, Babe" Brown
and Tom Hamilton will again be
the shippers of Navy football, with
a large part of their efficient
helpers of the season just closed.
For another, there will be a fair
nucleus of old players and, prob
ably, the best plebe squad the
Navy has ever had from which to
draw recruits.
Berries To Depart
Among the graduates will be
the brilliant and unique back,
Buzz Berries. and the great kick.
ing, running and defensive full
back, Bill Clark; the powerful
and fiery tackles, Slade Cutter
and George Lambert; three of
the four ends classed as first
string-Bob Dornin, Bob Mandel-
korn and Jim Mini, the first two
reaching unexpected heights of
efficiency in the Army game, and
the doughty captain and guard,
Dick Burns.
These men will not be re-
placed-a Berries, a Clark and q
Cutter do not appear every sea-
Son-but alrea the football
mentors are thinking over next
year and planning to apportion
the work done by these and the
other players in such a way that
the team of 1888 will be a strong,
capable eleven, with offensive
play that will take it along just
as the team of 1884 carried
things before it.
Tom King and Dick Pratt were
good, dependable backs this sea-
son and they should be better
next year. They will be the
nucleus of the backfield. How
ever. runners, paSsers and kickers
must be found. Two outstanding
prospects are Snead Schmidt and
Ned Thomas. They did not get
much playing this season, but
the coaches are impressed with
them. One or both of them may
be fine running backs next year.
Schmidt can also pass and punt.
Ingram on Hand
Then there is young Bill In.
gram, scion of the Navy's famous
football family. He made a repu-
tation as a running, passing back
at LaWrenceville. Unfortunately,
injuries kept him out of most Of
the playing this season, but he
may be good enough to get a
varsity berth from the start. An.
trim, Case, Watson, Rankin, EN-
rich and Sooy are some more good
backfield prospects in the plebe
squad of last year.
A number of the younger backs
of the varsity squad showed great
Improvement during the season
and at its end we're going strong.
Among them we're Carl Fellows,
Fay WillSie. Joe Evans, Arsh1e
Soucek, George Whitmyre, Charley
Manning and Dwight Wrigley.
They should be better next year.
1t looks as if the Navy will have
plenty of backfield reserves.
Frank Lynch, 215-pound tackle,
who played as a freshman at the
University of Kansas. and Dave
Sloan, 200 pounds, who had a year
of varsity football at Penn State,
are likely to step right into the
tackle job. with Fleps and Player.
1913 and 100 pounds, as understud-
les. Gunderson, Woodhead and
Dubois are big, powerful guards:
Soballe. Fincher, Giffin and Treth.
away are centers, larger than most
that the Navy has had, and there
are reserve line players in plenty.