Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-09
Talent Scarce, Tigers
Still Hope 10 Have
Best Team Ever
Facing Tough Schedule
In High Series, Work
Will Be Intensified
BY GEORGE HUBER.

Coach Carl Heintel regards with
both hope and fear the practice
schedule arranged this week for
Wilson High Schools football team.
A lot OF questions will be answered,
most important of which Is whether
the Tigers will have a good. strong
outfit or be just another team.
AS things now stand it is hard to
tell what will happen. 1t may be
that the so boys out for training
can be shaped into a surprisingly
good team. Or they may turn out
to be no better than the three pre-
vious Wilson elevens which have
not been noted for the number of
games they won.
This week probably will tell the
story as the candidates begin con-
tact work and scrimmage sessions.
Little Material Available.
The same is true at most other
local public highs where the first
week of practice has been devoted
to fundamentals, calisthenics and
signal drills with only bit of light
blocking toward the finish. All
schools but Anacostia have been
working since last Tuesday and the
Indians were scheduled to hold their
first drills today.
This will be Wilson's fourth year
in the interhigh series and it should
be its best, all things considered. But
Coach Heintel to some degree is no
better off than he has been In the
matter of material available. Fifty
boys are practicing daily-not as
many as at most other schools-and
most of these are green.
The Tigers expected to have four
letter men from last years team
around which to build their new
eleven, but so far only two have
been out Of the missing, Robert
Barrett definitely will not be out,
the report being that he will go to
prep school this year. The ether
boy who Unexpectedly failed to az
rive is Buddy Hack, and Coach
Heintel doesn't know whether ne
will be in school at all.
Divisional Program Rugged.
Letter earners from last years
outfit are Frank Morrison and Joe
Tanney. With them Heintel has
hopes of going places, but he really
won't know how the team shapes
UP until he runs it through some
tough scrimmage sessions later this
week.
Wilson, with its young squad, has
the misfortune, it might be said,
of being the lowest ranking team
at this time in the western division,
considered the toughest of the two
into which the city public schools
are divided.
In its own division it must play
Western, interhigh champion last
year and with good prospects for
another strong outfit; Central,
which probably will come up with
its perennially good team. and
Roosevelt, which, under Coach Artie
Boyd, believes it has a chance of
doing big things in football.
In its lone series game outside
the western loop, takes on Ana
costa, newest team in the eastern
division.
Two More Games Sought.
Thus the Tigers face a tough as
signment in the championship race.
1t will take a good team to cope
with their schedule. For compe-
tition outside the local public
school series, Wilson has booked
games with st. Adams and George
town Prep, and has tentative game
against Randolph set for late
in the season.
Coach Heintel is anxious to get
other games on September 81 or
% and October 10 or 10. Coaches
of schools in nearby Maryland or
Virginia interested in filing these
dates should communicate with
Heintel at Emerson 1904.