The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-30
SOUTHEASTS
CRIDDERS ON
JOB this WEEK
Will Be Called Wednes-
day; Breaking L.S.U.
Domination Goal
By TOM REYNOLDS .
United Press Staff Correspondent

ATLANTA, Ia, Aug. oV' WI
Southeastern Conference coache:
sound a gridiron call 20 arms We'd
nesday, summoning 500 football
stalwarts of the southlands tC
break the two-year conference
domination of the Bayou Bengal'
of L.S.U.
And the Tigers looked like the
team to beat.
Hit even harder by graduation
than last year when his men
swept to an undisputed conference
title, Bernie Moore still can stack
them four deep for almost any
position. Anyway the other IL
coaches of the S. E. c. view the
situation, it carries potential head
aches.
Most football prognosticators,
on the eve OF. the opening of the
Sept. | training season, shook
down the l3 teams in the 5. +. Z.
into two divisions. 5. u, Ala
bama, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and
the field. Of the three other po-
tential conference contenders, the
Batin Rouge gridiron machine
rolls into only one in a six-game
list of conference foes-Ray Nor
rison's Flying Circus from Vandy,
Moore has just rs days to whip
his machine into shape before l..
S. U. gets the acid test of confer
ence fighting-with Florida under
the lights down on the Delta on
Sept. 25.
But he has plenty of material
with which to work. There's a
veteran backfeld of Cotton Mil
ner, 190-pounder; Pinky Rohm,
one of the flashiest backs in the
conference last year; and veter-
ans Barrett Booth for quarter and
Charlie Lemak for the fullback
spot. Gaynell Tinsley is gone, but
Jack Gormley and Bernie Dumas
are good enough to hold down the
wings on almost any coach's team.
And there's beef in the line: Ed
die Gatta. 210, Red Farmer, ZIG,
and Ben Friend, 245, tackles
John Smith, Gordon Lester and
Matlock, guards; and Dick CORN
ley for the pivot. ;,
Moore won't be the only coach
starting a Sept. 25 deadline In
the face when he looks over his
stalwarts Wednesday. Black-haired
Chef Wynne of Kentucky's Wild
cats is talking in his sleep about
a little engagement on that date
with Vandy's Commodore-and
Vanderbilt this year is supposed
to be loaded for bear.
Two years have passed since
Ray Morrison came to the S. +. G.
This third season should give him
the opportunity to open up the
Flying Circus game he made IA
nous during his days at Southern
Methodist. Morrison will have
solid granite in Carl Hinkle at
guard and Ed Merlin. 202, and
Bill Hayes, 1913, at guards. They're
heavy, fast and dynamite, and be-
hind that wall Morrison should be
able to concoct all manner OF
gridiron magic.
Frank Thomas lost eight of his
regulars at Alabama, but reports
from Tuscaloosa Bay say the
replacements are plentiful and
promising. In Joe Kilgrow, the
flashy back who can cover the
100 in lO.1, the Crimson Tide has
one of the finest backs in the con-
ference. and Vic Bradford and
Charlie Holm show plenty of
promise. The Tide, however, suf-
fered a bloc when Blackie Cald-
well signed a baseball contract
recently and made himself ineligi-
BILE for further football.
Seven regular first stringers
will report to Maj. Bob Neyland
at Tennessee. And that tells the
story. He lost only four, just four,
of the great team that was begin
ming to find itself as the season
ended last year. One of those lost
was Phil Dickens, the All-America
back but the Volunteers from
Knoxville figure in the money any
way the Cards are shuffled.
That's the way the wise ones
figured it. But there's plenty of
dynamite in the field. Tennessee
came out of nowhere last year to
sock it to Duke and crush Geor-
gia, and some team figured out
of the money probably will do it
again this year.
Hec Clark, who shepherded his
Toothless Tigers from Sewanee to
lots of grief and little glory last
year, summe dit up this week as
he surveyed the schedule:
They're all tough to u.s." he