Evening star., 1935-11-13
V|LLARREAL STAR
OF INVADING TEAM
AmeriCan.Trained Youth Is
Rated on Par With D. c.
Boy for Game Here.

n \ EXICO CITY'S schoolboy foot
M ball forces, preparing to
v sweep up from across the
Rio Grande for the first such
intersectional gridiron game in history.
will concede weight and experience
to Washington's interhigh champions
in their November 29 clash, but In
presenting an individual scoring
threat the Mexican All-Stars are pre-
pared to flash an ace on q par with
any Of the local stars.
He Is Capt. Ernesto Villarreal, who
is almost certain to match individual
brilliance in an interesting sidelight
with Centrals Billy Richardson,
Eastern's Hawk" Shaw, or possibly
Techs Francis Crimmins.
One of the seven members of the
Mexico City squad who have had pre-
vious foot ball experience In the
United States. Villarreal is heralded
as one of the classiest scholastic backs
in the Southwest and Is certain to be
marked by the local eleven which
captures the interhigh crown.
Learned Game in u. S.
VLLARREAL received his first taste
of foot ball when his family lived
1T Yonkers, N. Y. There he played
with Yonkers High School and when
his parents moved to Texas he re-
sumed his gridiron career at Cathe-
dral High in El Paso. Again the Viii
larreal family moved, this time to
Mexico City, where Ernesto donned a
third uniform and was elected captain
of the Mexican Technical High School
All-Stars.
The youthful Mexican. only 19 years
old, stands 165 pounds and is one OF
the fastest runners on the squad of 80
He plays quarterback and directs the
eleven, which features an aerial at
tack of which Villarreal does much
of the pass heaving. His chief
catcher" is Enrique Cortez, left half
back.
Villarreals duties do not end with
bearing the burden of the ball carry
ing and throwing the majority OF
passes, however. A deadly marks.
man with placement kicks, the Latin
American captain figures to be a con-
slant field goal threat as well as a
good bet to make good on his tries for
extra points.
Two Previous Tits Listed.
THE Mexican eleven plans to play
two games between now and the
afternoon of November 30. when II
lines up for the kickoff in Grifith
Stadium against the cream Of the local
crop, but Coach Robert p. Martin plans
to take no chances with Villarreal, ac-
cording to advices from below the
border.
Villarreal probably will see only q
few minutes of action on November
Is, when the Mexican All-Stars face
another Mexico City combination, and
1t Is doubtful II the crack quarterback
will play at all when the Latin
Americans stop of at San Antonio en-
route to the Capital on November 23.
The 70-piece Tipica Orchestra, &C.
eompanying the team to washington
for the intersectional schoolboy classic,
is scheduled to give a performance on
the night Of November 23 and present
plans call for game to be played
that afternoon between the picked
Mexican squad and a San Antonio
High School team.
Coach Martin. however, plans to
withhold his stars with the Washing.
ton game so near at hand and VIII
larreal, Of course, is one Of those who
probably will sit on the bench.
Mexico, making its first bid for foot
ball recognition in the United States,
plans to take no chances with the
player who is regarded by many below
the border as q possible difference be-
tween victory and defeat.