Evening star., 1942-08-30
More Than 100 Terps
Are Due 10 Report
To 5haughnessy
Baker to Have About 40
Coloniols Out; Hoyos
To Get Advanced Work

College football teams here step
out in high gear this week, with
George Washington and Maryland
starting fall gridiron practice on
Tuesday afternoon. Georgetown al
ready has two weeks of intensive
drilling behind it and will continue
the heavy contact and scrimmage
work begun late last week.
Neither American u. nor Catholic
u. will have football teams this fall,
so the beginning of G. w. and Mary
land drilling completes the local pic
ture. American U. was forced to
cancel its football program because
of the war, and Catholic u also be-
cause of the war, found it necessary
to drop tentative plans for re-
sumption of the sport which 1t
halted two seasons ago.
More than 100 candidates are ex-
pected to report to Head Coach
Clark Shaughnessy and Assistants
AL Heagy, Jack Manders and AL
Woods at Maryland. Shaughnessy,
who had been helping the Chicago
Bears pro eleven prepare for its
campaign, is expected back at Col
lege Park today, and Manders ar
rives tomorrow. Heagy and Woods
already are on the scene.
Terps Have IA Lettermen.
In this group of 100 or more are
IA lettermen, including Bob James
and Jack Gilmore, ends; Jack Ditt-
mar and Reggy Vincent, tackles;
Eddie Chovanes and Luther Conrad,
guards; George Jarmoska, center;
Tom Mont, Jack Brenner and
George Barnes, quarterbacks; Jack
Meir, Elmer Rigby and Joe Hoopen-
gardner, halfbacks, and Jack Wright,
fullback.
There are numerous outstanding
players in this group. Among the
seniors Gilmore perhaps is the
leader and the only four letter man
at the university. Also powerful
player is Conrad, all-State end last
year, who in the spring drills shifted
to the guard position, for which he
appears better suited. Hoopengard-
ner is another senior of whom much
Is expected. A letterman on the
1910 squad he was out most of last
season with a bad knee, which ap-
parently has been cured by an oper-
alton
Mont, Wright are Standouts.
Shaughnessy is banking on Tom
Mont, triple-threat junior for
much of the work in Maryland's
key quarterback position under the
T formation. He likely will be the
leading kicker and also will do much
of the passing. Also a junior stand
out is Jack Wright. big, fast-driv-
ing runner and about the best full
back Maryland has had in the job
for many years. He tosses passes
with ease and accuracy and last
season received the Touchdown Club
Trophy as the outstanding gridder
around the District.
- Not all Of the 100 players will be
carried on the varsity. After the
initial drilling period is finished
some will be shifted to the B varsity
squad and others will 60 with the
commando" group. There also will
be freshman team at Maryland
this year, along with the usual
ROTC company elevens.
G. w. to Rely on Sophs.
Johnny Baker, starting his first
season as head coach at George
Washington, expects about 40 foot
ball candidates for Tuesdays initial
drill on the Potomac Park gridiron.
1t will be young team with %
sophomores in the group. There will
be II lettermen, though, SO G. w.
Is not IN such bad shape as might
be expected of team so heavily
supplied with inexperienced players.
There are some good players in
that soph group, including Maurice
Hurley, 240-pound tackle; Ed
Czekaj, end; Bill Hicks and Reno
Continetti, guards; Nick Bubono-
vich, center, and Frank Seno and
Frank Kley, backs.
G. w. last season won only one
game, tied another and dropped the
rest OF a nine-game schedule. Baker
Of course expects, or hopes, to do
better this season and to that end
will introduce more open attack
with a lot of passing and perhaps
bring back the spread play.
The college football season here
opens late next month when Con-
necticut plays Maryland at College
Park on September 26. Mississippi
plays Georgetown at Griffith
Stadium in a night game on Octo-
Der 2 for the Hoyas' home opener