Evening star., 1942-05-21
Big.1ime Competition
Being Lined Up for
Corps Schools
Swimming Given Second
Place in Curriculum
Fixed by Hamilton
This is the last OF q series on
the NaDy's relD aviation physical
training progran..)
BY GAYLE TALBOT,

Associated Press Sports Writer.
Because football Is, in the words
Of 1t. Comdr. Tom Hamilton, the
closest thing to war" the sport
will receive a great deal of emphasis
on the training of naval and marine
flyers at the four revolutionary pre-
fight schools set up by the former
Annapolis gridiron hero.
Air fighting nowadays requires q
high degree of teamwork and a
spirit of ggression-much more so
than in the other war" pointed out
Hamilton, himself a naval pilot Of
13years' experience. Football, in my
opinion, is the nearly perfect means
of giving a cadet those qualities
while at the same time making q
real man out of him physically"
Practically all of the 1900 boys
at each school will play some foot
ball, though not at the neglect of
their swimming, boxing. wrestling,
military track and other required
training. Eeach squadron will have
its regular schedule OF games
against other squadrons.
Will Play Major Football.
Finally, each of the four schools
will have a picked varsity" team
to play against colleges and univer-
sites in its section. The schedule
Of these games is not quite COM
plete, but enough so, it can be re-
vealed, that the boys are going to
play big league" football and lots
of it. Starting September 10, each
cadet team will play 13 games
against major opposition, most Of
them away from home"
Frankly" Hamilton said, I'VE
have planned these games mainly as
window dressing, or as recruiting
trips. But let no one think there
Is anything frivolous about them.
1t is pure training for aviators."
Jim Crowley will be the head
football coach at the Eastern"
school, the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, N. c., with
Havey Harman, from Rutgers, head
of the entire sports program there.
Double Job for Bierman.
Bernie Bierman, coach of great
Minnesota teams, will be both foot
ball coach and athletic director at
the University of Iowa school. Tex
Oliver from the University OF
Oregon is head football coach at
the st. Mary's California branch
and Sam Barry of Southern Cali
fornia the athletic director. Of
ficials of the Southern" school,
the University of Georgia, at Ath-
ems, Ga, have not been announced.
It is doubtful that the cadet
teams will be anything special, Tor
the personnel of each pre-f1ight
school will change completely every
three months. For instance, those
who start their training when the
schools open on May % and on
June II will have gone on to the
next three month stage by the
time the college football season be-
gins, and the coaches will have to
start on a new crop about Septem-
ber l.
Bierman is going to face the
toughest assignment. He must put
together a team to play not only
nearly every school in the Big Ten,
but few from the Big Six as well.
Swimming Next m Importance.
After football swimming will re-
eeive the greatest emphasis at the
schools, and after that probably
hand-to-hand or rough-and-tum-
BILE fighting One instructor in this
latter method of mayhem is Ed
Don George, the Well-known wres-
tier. Another is Wesley Brown, VINO
for many years has taught Chicago
police how to deal with thugs.
In all, 2 hours and 25 minutes
of each siX-day week will be de-
voted to the physical aspect Of
the cadets training. Every candi-
date will have one week of what
Comdr. Hamilton calls labor"
which means building roads and
generally bending his back over a
shovel. In addition to all this, Of
course, the cadet will receive the
customary academic and military
training, including plenty Of in
fantry drill.
Yes, it's hard course-as hard
and as thorough as we know how
to make it, says Hamilton. But we
are at war, and it is necessary.
Without doubt many a boy will not
make it through the first three
months. That is so much the bet
ter-to find out as quickly as pos
sible whether a boy is brighter
material.
The ones who do come out of it,
though, will be the most aggressive,
fearless, resourceful and skillful air