The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-18
OPENING.
CRIDIRON WARS.
ON SATURDAY.
Sharply Opposed Plans
Afoot to Solve Dollar
Sign Athletics
By THOM REYNOLDS
United Press Staff Correspondent


United Press Staff Correspondent
ATLANTA, Sept. Is. (UP).-
Seeking to solve the question of
dollar sign athletics through
sharply opposed plans, the South
ern and Southeastern conferences,
perennial producers of power
teams, open the 1886 gridiron
wars in Dixie Saturday.
Anticipating one Of the most
prosperous seasons in years with
wide-open races forecast, 10 of
the Southern's 16 teams swing in
to action and two of the SEC S
10 teams open their first warmup
games.
Six new members, swelling con-
ference personnel to 16 and plan
to ensure absolute purity of col
legiate amateurism headlined the
Southern conference as the season
began. Striking liberalization of
rules to permit athletic scholar
ships and new gridiron coaching
regimes were the order in the
Southeastern circuit.
The Southern's six new men,
bers-Richmond, Hampden Sid
ney, Davidson, Wake Forest,
Citadel and Presbyterian - APP
parently were to have little bear
ing on the conference race.
Hunk Anderson's North Caro-
lima tate Wolfpack, Raymond
VOLTS North Carolina Tarheels
and Wallace Wade's Duke Blue
Devils looked like the teams to
beat.
Anderson's 1885 Wolfpack is
back virtually intact, led by Cow
boy Robinson and Eddie Berlinskl,
two great backs. Clarence lace"
Parker, a 1885 all-American, and
Elmore Hackney, another great
back, will form the spearhead of
Duke attack, but Wade has been
troubled with the problem of find
ing line requirements to clear the
way for a strong running attack.
jim Hutchins and Andy Ber-
shak, who won all-south honors
last year at fullback and end,
form the nucleus of North Caro-
lina's machine. Much of the pow
er that made the tarheels a posi-
bility for the Rose Bowl until
their final game last year was lost
by graduation, however.
Maryland has the greet Bill
Guckeyson and Bill Stonebreaker|
back for their running attack and
V.P.I. with 16 lettermen return
ing and Herman Dickerson, all
Southern fullback, looks danger
Gus. The others look like also
rams in the conference race.
It's anybody's race in the Sc.
C. with defending champion
Louisiana State backed equally
with Kentucky, Mississippi, Mis-,
sissippi State, Georgia. Tech and
Auburn. However, Georgia, Ala
bama and Tulane have some back
ing to finish near the top.
L.S.U. lost heavily by gradua-
ton, but Coach Bernie Moore has
heaby supplies of experienced re-
serves ready to make the Bayou
Tigers a menace this year. Chef
Wynne at Kentucky is stalking his
hopes on an Inexperienced line
and two of the greatest running
backs in the south-Bert "Man
o. War" Johnson and Bob
"Twenty Grand Davis. Down on
the delta, Ole Miss and Mississippi
State are organizing the strongest
teams developed there in 20 years;
The same team that defeated
Army and Alabama in 1885 isl
back in uniform at Mississippi
State. Ole Miss has an all-veteran
team, headed by Ray Hapes, high |
scorer of the Southeastern con-
ference last year. Asuicide sched-
ule of IL games including IL ,OO0
miles of travel for intersections
hit Ole Miss hopes of dominance,
however.
With brilliant sophomores who
turned in a good record last year
and now are experienced, Bill AL
exander at Georgia Tech believes
he has the most powerful machine
since the 1928 Golden Tornado
that stormed into the Rose Bowl
Auburn's plainsmen will be all
veterans this year and will rep
resent formidable opposition Tor
the best the conference can OTTER.
Only Tennessee, being reorgan-
lied under a new coach - MAJ.
Bob Neyland, and Florida, under
similar reorganization with josh
Cody, former Vanderbilt coach,
at the helm, appear definitely out
of the conference races.
Ray Morrison's Vanderbilt aer-
ial circus, great team being tu-
tored by Frank Thomas at Ala
bama and a vetern Tulne team are
not favored for the top, but any
one might become a dark horse.
The question of dollar-sign ath-
letics divided Dixie into two
schools of thought this year-Just
five years after divorce of the
schools of thought this year-Just
five years after divroce of the S.
&c. from the Southern. The
Graham plan,' adopted this year
in the Southern circuit, makes
anv form of financial aid or in