The Washington times., 1934-01-05

AL Barabas over for the touch,
down, Capt. Cliff Montgomery
prepared the way two or three
times by sending Barabas wide
without the ball and with the
Stanford end coming in to tackle
Brominski with the ball. Finally
with the stage well set, Mont
gomery ran his play with Bara-
bas carrying wide off the STAN
ford right end and the defense
was caught flat-footed with the
end drawn in and Hamilton, the
right wingback, pulled out Of
position.
AS a matter of fact, the play
had been run once earlier in the
game and this time Barabas was
caught by one leg by Bob Maentz,
the Stanford safety man, per-
haps because he had cut to the
outside past the Scrimmage line
instead Of in.
Quick Thinking
Right here I'd like to point out
an instance of quick thinking
which should be told. On this
first play of which I just spoke,
Mcdowell had cut Hamilton down
as the Stanford right defensive
wingback, slightly pulled out Of
position by the fake, was recov.
ering.
Mcdowell, however, noting that
the safety man had nailed Bara-
bas changed tactics. When the
play was next called, Mcdowell
told Pinckney, the shortoside
guard, to take Hamilton while he
(McDowelD would go down and
get the safety man.
It worked perfectly. Barabas
hardly had to hurry. 1t was an
instance of the thinking kind of
football which I like to see in q
squad. Barabas, incidentally, has
worked hour after hour during the
season in learning to execute this
play. I think he'll agree now that
the drudgery was worth while. This
lad is a deceptive runner, able to
hide the ball effectively and with
all kinds of competitive spirit
which was the thing marking the
whole eleven. You'll hear a great
deal more Of Barabas in the next
two years.
BRAINY MANEUVER
I liked the manner in which
Montgomery paved the way for his
pass to Natal which put us in
position for the touchdown play.
He had succeeded in drawing the
secondary defense up, not great
deal, but just enough to make the
play work.
Note has been made Of the
fact that Stanford fumbled several
times, but in justice to GraySon.
Hamilton and these other fine
Stanford backs, I think it should
be pointed out that the Cardinals
were being hit harder than ex-
pected. That, along with the wet
ball. made their job less than easy.
This Bobby Grayson is a great
back, one destined to hang his
name high in football history in
the next two years. And he's an
exceptional lad personally, one
against whom Columbia enjoyed
playing. I've never seen a game
in which the feeling was better,
and Grayson's fine spirit was
typical. Not many people, how
ever, knew that when Barabas was
throwing his body at Grayson in
the open field, it was because
Barbaras went into the game with
a bad shoulder, which made tack
ling difficult. We had to cut the
shirt off Barabas' shoulders after
the game.
EXTOLS BILL CORBUS
Bill Corbus? He's a great guard,
greater, I believe, than most of the
crowd realized. He didn't play a
snowy game, didn't attempt to go
roaming around for spectacular
tackles. But he was in there TAX
ing care of his position and max
ing it tough to go anywhere
through the center. The Colum-
bia boys came away with re-
markably high opinion of Mr..
Corbus.
I've been asked why, with all
the interference Stanford was
throwing ahead Of the ball on
Grayson's sweep, couldn't Stan
ford break away for scoring run.
I think probably the answer is
that the Columbia backs were
coming up so fast that they were
hitting this interference while it
was still running laterally before