Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
By LEWIS r. ATCHISON.

All-America selections are begin
ming to bloom on sports pages, but
we'll wager one of the most deserv-
ing will be completely overlooked.
He wasn't mentioned on the first
crop of all-stars harvested last Sat-
urday.
Our candidate is an agile, quick
witted Stanford quarterback answer
ing to the name of Frankie Albert,
a 14-karat triple-threater. He won't
be mentioned in the same breath
with Tom Harmon, Paul Christman,
Jim Kimbrough, Charley O'Rourke,
Jim Lalanne, Jim Thomson and
others of their ilk, but he belongs,
just the same.
Albert has played second fiddle to
Fullback Norm Standlee. Stanford's
regular punter-regular at least I'M
til the Indians 28-14 victory over
Oregon States Beavers. If any man
ever clinched an assignment with
genuinely brilliant performance
Albert did in that game. Standlee,
incidentally, has been hobbled by
injuries, but managed to get him
self picked on the third team of
the first A.-A. batch.
Here's All He Did.
AL Albert did against Oregon
State was (a) direct an attack that
scored four touchdowns: (b) punt
IS, 70, IS, So and so yards-in addi-
ton to the usual number of out-of-
bound kicks, one for IA yards, for
an average of 53.8; (c) kick four out
of four extra points, (d) average 5.4
yards on five trips with the ball,
(e) intercept two Oregon State
passes to halt potential touchdown
marches and 20 complete one of
four passes for 43 yards without
having any intercepted.
Stanford, If you've noticed, has
won most Of its games with second
half drives, sweeping everything be-
fore it with masterful 11th-hour
strategical strokes and unbelievable
driving power. Another check re-
veals that Albert has been the gent
in the pilots cab when the Indians
pulled open the throttle. let out a
couple of war whoops and roared on
to victory.
He is not disciple of orthodox
football, which is all right with
Coach Clark Shaughnessy, but eager
to match wits and luck with those
who play by hard, fast rules. A
glowing example of his daring was
the fourth-down line plunge he
pulled on Oregon State on the
Beavers 40-yard line without so
much as taking a kick. And he
made the necessary 2 yards for a
first down.
Pros Are Scouting Him.
Albert. a southpaw, is not big,
but will be grade-A pro timber
when he receives his diploma. Lii
Davey O'Brien has proved you don't
have to be big and bulky to twinkle
among paid stars. Albert isn't any
smaller than O'Brien and more
than one pair of scouting eyes have
been following his movements this
season.
Oregon State came up with a new
defense designed to stop Stanford's
pass plays and f1ankers+a 4-4-2-1
defense-and 1t worked all right for
two periods until Albert sized up
the situation.
The four men Immediately be-
hind the four-man line shifted con-
tinuously to keep stanford's linemen
from sighting definite blocking
assignment and when certain no
pass was coming moved in fanwise
from the TANKS, forming a cup in
which the ball carrier easily was
trapped.
Albert solved this preplexing prob
lem with a simple end run. He
sent Pete Kmetovic around the wing
for 80 yards and touchdown after
discovering the widely spaced Ore
gon defense became even wider on
such runs and presented a perfect
foil for stanford's bulrs-eye block
ing.
Joe McFadden, Georgetown's ca
pable quarterback, thought George
Washington was a cinch to tie the
score last Saturday when Tom
Grady caught that pass and headed
for the end zone. Unfortunately
for G. W.-Grady was in a groove
patrolled by Jack Doolan, fastest
man on the Hilltop squad.
Even so, he was beginning to move
away from Doolan until the Hoya
soph, sizing up desperate situation