The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-02
1000 iGRIDIRON
.HOPEFULSHO
WORKOUT
Word in Southern Confer
ence, Lookout for Duke
and the Wolfpack"
By TOM REYNOLDS
United Press Staff Correspondent

schools after the first workout OF
the 1886 season.
Facing one of the most prosper
Gus seasons in years with added
conference personnel and new
football dynasties in the making,
coaches of the two great confer
ences of the South drove their
proteges hard into their initial
practice.
Numbering six new schools and
sponsoring an experimental bull
wark for pure amateurism - the
Graham Plan" - the Southern
Conference faced a ding-dong
race. The six new conference
members are Richmond University
and Hampden-Sydney in Virginia
Davidson and Wake Forest in
North Carolina, and Presbyterian
and Citadel in South Carolina.
Down around the conference
last night, the boys were warning
the teams to ''look out for Duke
and Hunk Anderson's North Caro-
lima State Wolfpack."
Anderson is making no predlc-
tions on his prospects, but the
football fans believed his 1886
machine will be stronger than last
years team which won six games
| lost three and tied one.
The Wolfpack last year was
comprised almost entirely of jun
iors who will be back in uniform
this year. strengthened by the. ad-
ditional year of experience and
greater Drawn. Cowboy" Robin
SON in the bacllfeld and Captain
McCara in the line will form the
nucleus of the machine.
Wallace Wade's Duke "Blue
Devils" have to be counted in the
race, although they lost heavily by
graduation - including their ALI
| South back, Clarence Parker.
Down in the S. E. c. where
Mississippi>and Kentucky blow the
lid off the season in three weeks,
it looked like defending champs
Louisiana State, Auburn, Georgia
/ Tech, Kentucky and Mississippi
are the standouts. But football
followers couldn't count Missis-
sippi State, Vandy, Georgia, Ala
bama and Tulane out of the
money-any one of them poten-
TALLY may spill the conference ap-
pie cart, given an even break.
The powerful Bayou Tigers
from L. S. U. lost II lettermen,
including every first-stringer on
the championship team. But Coach
Bernie Moore is reported to have
a great reservoir of reserves.
Auburn's team this year will be
almost entirely comproised of vet
Grams, although their great tackle,
Haygood Patterson, and the f1ashy
backfeld man, Joe Bob Mitchell
have been lost by graduation and
baseball contract. Auburn,
pointing toward an ambitious In
tersectional schedule, may be the
team to beat this year.
Down on the Mississippi Delta,
Ole Miss was mixing its medicine
with Ray Hapes, S. E. C.'s leading
scorer last year, as the chief in
gredient, with his brother Clar-
ence Hapes as an auxiliary. Vlr.
tually the same team which sockeo
/ it to the Army and Alabama last
year for surprise victories was
back in uniform for Mississippi
! State, serving notice the MaroonE
can't be counted out of early pre-
dictions. "Red" Dawson, new III
lane coach, surveyed his materia
Tuesday. and found hope for glory
in % lettermen reporting back fol
the Green Wave.
Several other teams in the two
conferences carry potential dyna
mite for the championship ant
Rose Bowl dreams of the stand
outs. But the greater strength o:
the early favorites should proven
the others from developing int
| full-hedged dark horses.
Alabama and Georgia face ne
cessity of finding heavy replace
ments; Vanderbilt has seven big
holes to fill in the line and back
field. Tennessee lost heavily b.
! graduation and is in the process
of reorganization as Major Bol
Neyland takes over as new coach
Sewanee again is the "toothles
tiger of Tennessee" Florida i
reorganizing under Josh Cody.
Two dark-horses in the South
ern Conference which may rise tt
make a bid for the championship
are Clemson and North Carolina
5 Clemson yesterday brought bacl
; its 1885 team virtually intact AM
needs only to develop reserves t,
/ become a factor.
: The Tarheels of North Caro-
: lima, almost contenders for tn
Rose Bowl last year, lost tire
great backs-Harry Montgomery
Don Jackson and Herman Snyde
but repeatedly has reserv
strength ready to move up to tn
firing line. ....
The great Bill Guckeyson an
: Bill Stonebreaker are back a
!; Maryland to form a strong nucle
! us for the Terrapin team. V:P.l
= with line busting Herman Dickel
son leading 16 lettermen, may be
come a threat. V. M. l. will bas
it's hopes on sophomores. Flee
Wilburn Clary, sparkplug of Sout
Carolina last year, is gone and tn
Gamecocks give little indication G
becoming championship materia
K The six new teams look little be
: ter than warmup material for tn