Evening star., 1935-04-03
SPIRITED EFFORTS
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Optimism for 1895 Gridiron
Campaign Grows From
Spring Practice.
BY HI. c. BYRD.

mate achievement, and if will
ingness to work hard eventually
enables one or group to reach
. goal, then Georgetown teams are in
a fair way to go farther and do more
than they have for several years.
This is true not only of base ball,
golf, tennis and track athletics, but
also of foot ball. in which the Blue
and Gray is really saving wood.
Tomorrow the Georgetown base ball
team gets on the field with Harvard,
the opposing nine. There is not so
much optimism for the diamond sport
for this year, but the members of the
squad are hustling just as hard as If
all the material in the world were
available.
The golf team also opens its sched-
ule this week, having Rollins College
of Florida here Saturday. The match
is to be played at the Congressional
Country Club.
Tennis begins next week, but it is
hardly likely that the track men will
appear in competition before the last
Friday in the month at the Penn
relays.
Both Coach Jack Hegarty and
Graduate Manager Murphy are enthu-
Siastic over the workouts of the foot
ball squad.
Both Jack and I are exceedingly
pleased over the situation in Spring
foot ball. said Murphy. THE boys
are making some real headway, and
if the present state of affairs is
criterion, as compared to the last two
or three years, then Georgetown will
be heard from next season"
1.-TWO Harvard teams come here to-
morrow, the nine for the game
at Georgetown and the lacrosse
ten to meet Maryland. The Crimson
probably will have squads of its usual
standard, which means about as good
as one usually sees on college fields.
The Crimson lacrosse team will
have 10 be good to whip Maryland.
There is not much doubt that the
latter has pretty close to its best at
tacking forces since it took up the
game, and if it can build its defense
into something fairly resilient and at
the same time solid and consistent,
1t should be strong enough to take
care of itself against all comers.
~ORNELL'S base ball team visits
Maryland today and tomorrow
for two games. The Ithacans
played two contests at College Park
last year, with an even split as their
reward
Today's will be CornelPs first game,
as we'll as Maryland's. and not much
can be said about either Maryland,
though, it is thought, will be much
stronger than when it took the field
last Spring.
A THLETES all over the United
~ States are beginning to look
ahead to the Olympics next year
as the ultimate goal for which they
now are striving. One hardly ever
hears from good college or amateur
boxer, from an exceptional track man,
a pistol or rife shot, a skater or any
one in any other sport field without
some remark being passed about be-
ginning to get in shape for the
Olympic tryouts.
With the preparation now being
made by athletes in all branches of
competition, it will be a great sur
prise if the United States fails to
send to Berlin next year the greatest
galaxy ever gathered in a single COM
bination to represent any nation or
group of nations.
TT is doubtful if any branch of
coaching in any intercollegiate
sport finds as much variation as
to procedure as the handling of
Spring foot ball squads. Some coaches
spend practically their entire time
teaching fundamentals, in order to
make sure, as far as they can, that
the young men they expect to depend
on the following Fall will know how
to charge, block and tackle.
Other coaches go to the other ex-
treme and teach largely the plays
and general teamwork to be used in
the Fall, holding that the blocking,
charging and tackling have to be
taught all over again in September
anyway. Other men adopt neither of
these views, but try to strike happy
medium, giving of their time both to
W Ucdul pidy,
pretty much as if they were training
their squads with a view to opening
the schedule within a month or five
weeks.
All three viewpoints have their ad-
vantages, and possibly depend a good
deal for their efficacy on what kind
of squads the coaches have to work
with. A veteran team for instance
would not get much in the way of
fundamental work, but almost en-
tirely be groomed in team play. A
green squad might be given a large
dose of tackling, blocking and
charging.
Suiting their teaching to the kind
of material available may be the
reason for the wide variation in the
work given.
1.-THE Southern Conference boxing
tournament will be held a week
later next year. it being the in
tentiou to have them take place the
same week end as the basket ball
tournament.
This arrangement was sought last
year by several schools but too late
to make the readjusYent,
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