Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-05
No Soft Spot in Eight
Ti|ts for Hoya Band
Bereff Of Stars
Spring Drills to Start
April J; Hughes Likely
c. U.-Terp Ring Referee
By LEWIS F. ATCAISON.'

BY LEWIS F. ATCAISON.'
With an attractive-not to say
tough - eight-game 1912 football
schedule on its hands, all George
town needs now is a squad to play it
The list handed out today in high
glee by Graduate Manager Rome
Schwagel is not calculated to ce-
ment the bond of friendship between
himself and Head Coach Jack
Hagerty, who trusted Schwagel i'm
plicitly. 1t was akin to handing
q thirsty pal a jigger of cyanide
on a warm day, times being what
they are in the football mart, and
Schwagel has taken pains that
Hagerty will match wits with the
best In the North, South, East and
Midwest.
The Hoyas will begin spring prac-
tice April 7, or about month after
Frank Geiger is indicted into the
Army. We can vouch that Schwagel
is absolutely innocent in this, but
1t still doesn't help Hagerty. Geiger
is Georgetown's one and only. but
good; talent scout and the Hoyas
won't miss him any more than you'd
miss your right arm.
Tougher Schedules to Follow.
But conditions could be worse.
Hagerty emphatically denies that
either he or Assistants "Mush" Du-
bofsky and George Murtagh will be
playing coaches next autumn. He
insists the Hilltoppers will carry on
without resorting to six-man foot
ball and even hits happy note OF
optimism with the observation that
the boys may even with a game.
Schwagel, even though seemingly
IN category with prize fight man
ayers who below, Bring on any
body-they can't holt us" can't be
accused of using rabbit punch. He
arrived on the scene last September
as enthused as new floor walker
in the home furnishings depart
ment, letting it be known he was
cunning for big game, let the small
fry fall where it would. This AZ
program is bad enough, but only
sample of what his fertile brain is
cooking up for '43 and "A. All, to
be a coach at Georgetown!
Among college men there is a
growing belief that freshmen will
be permitted to play versity ball
next year and every year hereafter
far the duration, but Schwagel
couldn't be counting on aid from this
source to see the Hoyas through.
Freshmen, the best of them, will be
of scant value.
Freshmen Wouldn't Help.
The difference between high school
and freshman football isn't great,
but it's a big jump from school to
varsity. Put youngster against a
mature senior who knows all the
holds and you burden him with a
terrific handicap. The element of
time is involved in molding raw
high school recruit into polished
varsity man and it Is questionable
II the keenest coaching mind can
circumvent this problem. Growing
Is a tedious but natural phenomena
that can't be fastened or retarded
by scholarship.
Georgetown undoubtedly will use
freshmen if everybody else does, but
1t is last years freshmen, not the
incoming group, to whom Hagerty
looks for support. Remember Charley
Miller, the jig-footed halfback, and
Lenny Bonifort, his running mate?
They're the boys to watch. It's hard
to lose AL Blozis, Angelo Paternoster,
Ed Mcmahon, Jack Doolan and the
others, but all schools will be hit
equally hard and maybe the others
don't have a couple of kids like
Miller and Bonifort coming up.
Hagerty hopes not.
The schedule:
September 25-At Temple (night).
October mississippi might 10,
Manhattan; Is, Auburn might;
"a, at Detroit; 81, at Boston College.
November 7-Open; IA, North
Carolina State; 81, George Wash
ington.
Hughes Likely C. U. Referee.
Denny Hughes probably will referee
the Catholic U.-Maryland fights
Saturday night at Brookland, al
though the matter still is sky-high.
Charley Short, who has handled
all Of Maryland's home matches.
originally was selected by Coach
Eddie La Fond OF G. u, who thought
he would be acceptable to the Terps.
But Charley has fallen from grace
with the Old Liners, who objected
to couple of his decisions and will
be excused this week.
Charley Reynolds was suggested as
an alternate and the howl from
Maryland sounded like a Chesapeake
Bay foghorn because he was the
third man in two of the stormiest
sessions between the rivals. Mary
land isn't beef1ng, you understand,
but merely trying to guard against
an untoward incident that might
mar the match
Catholic U. hesitated to suggest
Hughes because he officiates most
of its home bouts, but if Maryland
is agreeable he'll do the honors.
Denny is a capable official and re-
gardless of who likes his decisions
he'll call them as he sees them.
Cady Was Sweet Singer.
When Shirley Povich of a neigh
boring sheet and Ed Brockman of
Baltimore sat in on the Maryland
Virginia fights last Saturday it was
the first time Maryland employed
judges since its first year in the ring.
Frank Cady, the 200-pound Char
lotte Hall Academy heavyweight, is
the same youngster who sang So
prano with Joe E. Browns kids
troupe some six or eight years ago.
Any wisecracks strictly at the
readers own risk.