The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-07-30
GRID COACHING
RANKS GET DENT
BY WAR SERVICE
Wide World Features

college tOOJDall teams nave pcSH
harder hit by wartime calls for
coaches than by loss of players.
Comparatively few of the play
ers who would have been eligible
for football next fall have enlisted
or been drafted. Most collegians are
either under 81 or are in advanced
college military classes with in
structions to complete their courses.
However, such top-flight men
tors as Wallace Wade of Duke, Ber-
ME Bierman of Minnesota, Jim
Crowley of Fordham. Matty Bell
of Southern Methodist, Sam Berry
of Southern California, and Bob
Neyland of Tennessee, just to men
ton few, are in service.
Stats Wiped Out
washington and Lee and North
Carolina had their coaching staffs
virtually wiped out Eddie Cameron
has taken over at Duke. w. & L.
gRiley Smith and his four aides are
in the Navy. Jim Tatum has Sue
ceeded Ray Wolf, also in the Navy,
at North Carolina. Alabama has
! lost five coaches, Florida, Auburn
and Georgia three each and almost
every other team in the South
eastern loop at least two.
Georgia has lost six linemen and
two blocking backs to the Army.
Alabama has lost half dozen and
! Tennessee reports 10 will be miss
ing Hardest hit in the Southeast
has been Mississippi, which lost 10
by graduation and Is others to
military service. The Rebels expect
seven more to go by fall, including
the No. / back-Doug Kenna, who
won a West PoPint appointment.
Baylor Hit Hard
Baylor will feel the blow more
than others in the Southwest. 1t
expects to lose a half dozen, in
Guiding Milton Grain, one of the
sections best backfielders. Ford
ham has lost several, including its
end and captain, Jim Lansing. Mayo
Donelli, perhaps Duquesne's best
back, was drafted and the Dukes
lost four others Columbia lost four
regulars, two tackles and two backs,
One of the tackles was Capt. Herb
Mack
1t took World War II to get
freshmen back on the varsity foot
ball teams.
For the first time in many years,
since conference units agreed that
college neophytes should restrict
their sports to drilling against the
varsity or competition with new
| corners on other campuses, first
year men will be eligible-as war
time measure-for varsity teams at
some major institutions.
In Big Three
The revered Big Three Har-
ward, Yale and Princeton are
among the traditional foot b l.
powers who have made freshmen
eligible. Others include Carnegie
Tech, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Viii
lanova and Fardham. Columbia and
Duquesne are considering. The
Mountain Six conference out in
the Rockies has okayed freshmen.
The Southwest conference will
make a decision in August. Most
Southeastern schools would like
to play freshmen but conference
authorities have not yet flashed the
green light.
The Southern conference and
Big Ten have refused to waive the
freshmen rule. Likewise, none of the
Pacific coast conference schools,
nor the big independents which
adhere to conference rules, will
permit freshmen to- play ON var
sity clubs.
Summer favorites in the various
sections are: Rocky Mountain,
Utah; Southwest, Texas A & M;
Pacific Coast, Southern Cal, STAN
ford, California and Oregon; South
ern, Duke; Southeastern, Georgia ;
Western Conference, Minnesota,
and Eastern, Fordham.