Evening star., 1936-09-08
BAN0N TOUGHFOE
FOR START LIFTED
Many Follow New Schedule
Trend-Michigan Hopes
for More Speed.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

BY LAWhENCE fEhhI.
FOOT BALL game late this
~ month between Minnesota and
~ Washington at Seattle marks
4 with great emphasis the mod
ern trend in schedule making, which
sees gridiron leaders risking their
prestige at the very outset of the sea-
son. The Huskies have been prepar-
ing for this contest since last Winter
and now the cry goes from Snohomish
to Yakima, BEAT the Gophers."
Which may happen: stranger
things have occurred Wisconsin
plays South Dakota State the same
day, a meeting which assumes signifl-
canoe when it Is recalled that the Dust
Bowl foot ballers beat the Badgers,
13-6, last Fall and how about
Duke and Colgate this last Saturday
in September. and Oregon State and
Southern California, not forgetting
Louisiana State and Rice?
One thing that Minnesota accom-
plished besides winning all her games
last year was to give the art Of de-
tense a tremendous impulse through
out the midlands. Every coach that
opposed Bernie Bierman's machine
devised a special defense to check the
Gopher machine. The stuff ranged
from eight and even nine man lines
to overbalanced secondaries and other
wierd arrangements.
CriSler Sees Yale Strong.
ERITz CRISLER thinks Yale will
be about as difficult as any OF
the Tiger assignments next Fall. Any
way. it is the game that Old Nassau
wants. above all, to win Going
back TO the year 1888, Princeton has
won Is out of 26 games Fritz
thinks it is less worrisome to climb
to the top than to try to stay there.
Bernie Bierman went to Minnesota
four years ago: he has not lost game
since his third year and in the last
two years the Mortimer have not
even been tied Harry Kipke, who
has been a Summer yacht racer, has
come ashore full Of hope concerning
Michigan prospects.
To overcome a slowness which
caused the Wolverines to be out
flashed by such elevens as Ohio State
and Minnesota. he had a number OF
his key men work out with the track
squad in the Spring and Summer
You have no idea, he says, how the
boys have learned to pick up their
feet Aug and Ellis. returning
letter men, have decided to give up
foot ball. Which means that they
are ambitious to enter upon some
calling other than foot ball coaching
upon graduation.
What Ex-Gridders Do.
"A 8 TO the effect Of foot ball upon
the careers of those who play it,
q curious person has looked into the
present occupations of the great
Southern California 1881 champion
ship team Williamson is coach
and teacher Of physical education at
Kansas State Teachers College; Larry
Stevens is about to take his bar ex-
ans; Johnny Baker is head coach at
Omaha University; Ernie Smith plays
pro foot ball while working up an
insurance business between seasons;
Ray Brown is coaching at the Univer-
sity of Cincinnati; Garry Arbelbide
will coach at State Teachers this Fall;
Ray Sparling is working in the en-
gineering profession; Orv Mohler is
in the oil business; Gaius Shaver is
holding down State job; Tom NAL
lory is coaching Classon High. Okla
homa City; Ernie Pinckert plays pro
foot ball and of seasons is a sport
ing goods salesman; Jim Musick is in
the sheriff's office at Santa Anna.
Woodrod Wilson Strobe is giant
colored boy. who promises to be a
great end on the U. c. L. A. outfit
Some close observing Southerners
say that Auburn might clean up the
South this year.